query: What award earned by athletes at a university and some schools did Charles Hooman earn?

pos: Charles Hooman Charles Victor Lisle Hooman (3 October 1887 – 20 November 1969) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club between 1907 and 1910. He won a Blue for golf and rackets and later represented the Great Britain and Ireland golf team in the Walker Cup in 1922 and 1923. He was born at Ditton, Kent and died at Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America.

pos: Blue (university sport) A blue is an award earned by athletes at a university and some schools for competition at the highest level. The awarding of blues began at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England. It is awarded at British, Australian and New Zealand universities.

neg: James N. Ashmore James Newton Ashmore (November 11, 1878 – April 27, 1944) was an American football, basketball and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science—now known as Washington State University—(1903), Millikin University (1904–1906, 1909–1913), Western Maryland College—now known as McDaniel College–(1907–1908), and DePauw University (1922–1924), compiling a career college football record of 61–46–9. Ashmore was also the head basketball coach at Washington Agricultural (1904–1905), Millikin (1905–1907, 1909–1914), the University of Colorado at Boulder (1914–1917), the University of Iowa (1920–1922), DePauw (1923–1924) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1926–1931), tallying a career college basketball mark of 178–117. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Washington Agricultural (1904), Millikin (1905–1906, 1910–1914, 1940), Colorado, (1915–1917), Iowa (1920–1922), DePauw (1923–1924) and North Carolina (1927–1931).

neg: Lefty Driesell Charles Grice "Lefty" Driesell (born December 25, 1931) is an American retired college basketball coach and former Duke University basketball player. The first coach to win more than 100 games at four different Division I schools, Driesell led the programs of Davidson College, the University of Maryland, James Madison University, and Georgia State University. Driesell earned a reputation as "the greatest program builder in the history of basketball."

neg: 1926 NCAA Track and Field Championships The 1926 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the fifth NCAA track and field championship. Athletes representing 65 universities participated in the event, which was held at Soldier's Field in Chicago, Illinois in June 1926. The meet was called "the college Olympics of America."

neg: Maryland Crab Bowl The Maryland Crab Bowl is an annual high school football postseason all-star game that features some of the most outstanding players in the state of Maryland. The game is played at McDaniel College, between a team composed of players from Washington, D.C. area schools (the "Washington" squad) and one of players from Baltimore and elsewhere in the state (the "Baltimore" squad). As an all-star game, it provides high-school players with an additional opportunity to impress college football scouts and may increase their chances of being awarded a university athletic scholarship. The Washington team draws from schools in Montgomery County, Prince George's County, and the Southern Maryland Athletic Conference, which includes schools in Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties. The Baltimore team draws from schools located elsewhere in the state, primarily in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

neg: Miami Hurricanes The Miami Hurricanes (known informally as UM or UMiami or The U) are the varsity sports teams of the University of Miami, located in the Coral Gables suburb of Miami, Florida. They compete in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The university fields 15 athletic teams for 17 varsity sports. Men's teams compete in baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, football, tennis, and track and field. Women's teams compete in basketball, cross-country, swimming and diving, golf, rowing, soccer, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. UM has approximately equal participation by male and female varsity athletes in these sports.

neg: Florida A&M University Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as FAMU, is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Florida A&M University was founded on the highest of seven hills in Tallahassee, Florida on October 3, 1887. It is one of the largest historically black universities in the United States by enrollment and the only public historically black university in Florida. It is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, as well as one of the state's land grant universities, and is accredited to award baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

neg: Charlie Schmaus Charles F. Schmaus (born April 29, 1944) is an American retired college basketball coach and player. After a three-sport career at the Virginia Military Institute, Schmaus was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals (now the Sacramento Kings) in the fourth round of the 1966 NBA draft. Following a brief stint in the Air Force, Schmaus returned to VMI for six years as head basketball coach in which he most famously led the 1976–77 team to a 26–4 season which included a Southern Conference regular season and tournament championship as well as a trip to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

neg: Wahoos Wahoos, or Hoos for short, is an unofficial nickname for sports teams of the University of Virginia, officially referred to as the Cavaliers. The terms are both also used in a more general context by students and alumni to refer to themselves as fans and alumni of the University. While there is no evidence that the nickname stems from the wahoo fish, it is often claimed by students that a "wahoo is a type of bass fish that is capable [of] drinking twice its weight."

neg: W. C. Riddick Wallace Carl Riddick, Jr. (August 4, 1864 – June 9, 1942) was an American football coach and college administrator. Riddick received his A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his degree in civil engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He served as a consultant for several water projects and for the Seaboard Railroad. Riddick was also a member of the Board of Visitors for the United States Naval Academy and of several state boards and committees. Because of his advocacy on the students' behalf, Riddick was awarded with the Officer's Cross of the Order of St. Sava by King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1931.

neg: Chic Harley Charles William "Chic" Harley (September 15, 1895 – April 21, 1974) was one of the outstanding American football players of the first half of the 20th century and the player who first brought The Ohio State University football program to national attention. Harley was Ohio State's first consensus first-team All-America selection and first three-time All-America selection. In 1951, he became a charter inductee in the College Football Hall of Fame.

neg: Today's Top 10 Award The Today's Top 10 Award is given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to honor ten outstanding senior student-athletes of the preceding calendar year. The award was previously known by three different names, each reflecting the number of recipients:

neg: Shenandoah Hornets The Shenandoah Hornets are the athletic teams that represent Shenandoah University, located in Winchester, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Hornets compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. Altogether, Shenandoah sponsors 19 sports: 9 for men and 10 for women. Previously, the Hornets were members of the USA South Athletic Conference.

neg: Harlon Hill Trophy The Harlon Hill Trophy is an award in American college football given to the individual selected as the most valuable player in NCAA Division II. The award is named for former University of North Alabama and National Football League player Harlon Hill. It was first given in 1986 to Jeff Bentrim of North Dakota State University. It is often considered to be the Division II equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.

neg: Charlie Honaker Charles Franklin "Honey" Honaker (October 11, 1899 – April 21, 1974) was a professional American football player, who played in 5 games, in the early National Football League for the Cleveland Bulldogs in 1924. He was a member of the Bulldogs 1924 NFL Championship team. Prior to his professional career, he played at the college level for Virginia Military Institute and the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he lettered for the team in 1921, 1922 and 1923. In 1921, he was given the nickname "Honey" by the Buckeyes fans. According to an October 7, 1922 game program between Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan University, Honaker's hometown was Russell, Kentucky.

neg: Charley Pell Charles Byron Pell (February 17, 1941 – May 29, 2001) was an American college football player and coach. Pell was an Alabama native and an alumnus of the University of Alabama, where he played college football. He is most notably remembered as the head coach of the Clemson University and the University of Florida football teams. Pell was credited with laying the foundation for the later success of both programs, but his coaching career was tainted by National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules violations.

neg: Duke Blue Devils The Duke Blue Devils are the athletic teams that represent Duke University. Its 26 varsity teams compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils," which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry battalion.

neg: Hardy Trophy The Hardy Trophy is a Canadian sport trophy, presented annually to the winner of the Canada West Universities Athletic Association Football Conference of U Sports, the country's governing body for university athletics. It is named for Evan Hardy, the former head of the agricultural engineering department at the University of Saskatchewan, who had played for the Huskies for its first five years before a rule that only students could play. Hardy continued on as coach and created a western university league. The original trophy was replaced in 1997 after it fell apart during an on-field celebration of the Huskies win in 1996 at home at Griffiths Stadium. The original Hardy trophy still resides at the University of Saskatchewan, having been forgotten until it was unearthed beneath a pile of storage boxes in 2008.

neg: Houston Cougars Houston Cougars are the athletic teams that represent the University of Houston. Informally, the Houston Cougars have also been referred to as the Coogs, UH, or simply Houston. Houston's nickname was created by early physical education instructor of the university and former head football coach of the Washington State Cougars John R. Bender, as he had grown fond of the name during his time there. The teams compete in the NCAA's Division I and the Football Bowl Subdivision as members of the American Athletic Conference.

neg: Charles Jenkins Sr. Charles Lamont "Charlie" Jenkins (born January 7, 1934) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

neg: Charles Jock Charles Jock (born 23 November 1989) is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 meter discipline. He ran collegiately at UC Irvine. He is currently the NACAC U23 record holder for the 800 meter race. Jock represented the United States at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.


query: Broken Sun is partly based on what attempted escape from a POW camp?

pos: Broken Sun Broken Sun is a 2008 Australian film set in the 1940s about a World War I veteran who meets an escaped Japanese POW. The story is partly based on the Cowra breakout of 1944. The film was the debut feature from Brad Haynes.

pos: Cowra breakout The Cowra breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when at least 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape from a prisoner of war camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia. It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest. During the escape and ensuing manhunt, four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed. The remaining escapees were captured and imprisoned.

neg: The Cowra Breakout (miniseries) The Cowra Breakout is a 1985 Australian mini series based on the Cowra breakout, focusing on the friendship between an Australian soldier and Japanese prisoner.

neg: Attempts to escape Oflag IV-C Prisoners made numerous attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, one of the most famous German Army prisoner-of-war camps for officers in World War II. Between 30–36 (German/Allied figures) men succeeded in their attempts. The camp was in Colditz Castle, perched on a cliff overlooking the town of Colditz in Saxony.

neg: William G. Farrow William Glover Farrow (24 September 1918 – 15 October 1942) was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps who participated in the Doolittle Raid. Born to Isaac and Jessie Farrow, he graduated from high school in 1935 and attended the University of South Carolina. Farrow joined the Air Corps training program in November 1940, and was commissioned in July 1941. In February 1942, he volunteered to participate in the Doolittle Raid, which took place in April of that year. Farrow was captured by the Japanese after the completion of his bombing mission. He was tried and, along with two other crew members, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad. His ashes were recovered and interred in the Arlington National Cemetery in 1946, and he posthumously received multiple awards.

neg: Three Came Home Three Came Home is a 1950 American post-war film directed by Jean Negulesco, based on the memoirs of the same name by writer Agnes Newton Keith. It depicts Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island near Sandakan, North Borneo (today's Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September 1945.

neg: Escape from Davao Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War, is a non-fiction, military history book written by John D. Lukacs. The book is the story of the only large-scale group of American prisoners of war to escape from a Japanese prison camp in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The ten escaped POWs were the first to break the news of the infamous Bataan Death March and other atrocities committed by the Japanese to the world.

neg: Broken Blossoms Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D.W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919. It stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Donald Crisp, and tells the story of young girl, Lucy Burrows, who is abused by her alcoholic prizefighting father, Battling Burrows, and meets Cheng Huan, a kind-hearted Chinese man who falls in love with her. It was the second film released by United Artists. It is based on Thomas Burke's short story "The Chink and the Child" from the 1916 collection "Limehouse Nights".

neg: Moorook West Wood Camp Moorook West (Wood Camp) was a short lived World War II prisoner of war camp in the Australian state of South Australia, located in Loveday near the River Murray, in the state's Riverland. It was officially part of the Loveday POW Camp complex, and housed Japanese prisoners of war. They were employed as wood cutters for the Allied war effort. It was similar to wood camps throughout South Australia at the time, including two others attached to the Loveday POW camps - Woolenook (Wood Camp) and Katarapko (Wood Camp). The camp was officially closed on 21 February 1943.

neg: List of prisoner-of-war escapes This list of prisoner-of-war escapes includes successful and unsuccessful attempts in chronological order, where possible.

neg: San Quentin Six The San Quentin Six were six inmates at San Quentin State Prison in the U.S. state of California (Hugo Pinell, Willie Tate, Johnny Larry Spain, David Johnson, Fleeta Drumgo and Luis Talamantez), who were accused of participating in an August 21, 1971 escape attempt that left six people dead, including George Jackson, a co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family.

neg: Dieter Dengler Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 – February 7, 2001) was a German-born United States Navy aviator during the Vietnam War and later a private aircraft test pilot and commercial airline pilot. He was one of two survivors, the other being Phisit Intharathat, out of seven prisoners of war (POWs) who escaped from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos. He was rescued after 23 days on the run following six months of torture and imprisonment and was the first captured U.S. airman to escape enemy captivity during the Vietnam war.

neg: Mutsuhiro Watanabe Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Japanese: 渡邊睦裕 , January 1, 1918 – April 1, 2003) was an Imperial Japanese Army sergeant in World War II who served at POW camps in Omori, Naoetsu (present day Jōetsu), Niigata, Mitsushima (present day Hiraoka) and at the Civilian POW Camp at Yamakita. After Japan's defeat, the US Occupation authorities classified Watanabe as a war criminal for his mistreatment of prisoners of war (POWs), but he managed to evade arrest and was never tried in court.

neg: Jenny Wiley Jenny Wiley (born Jean "Jenny" Sellards in 1760 in Pennsylvania – 1831) was a legendary pioneer woman who was taken captive by Native Americans in 1789. Wiley endured the slaying of her brother and children and then escaped after 11 months of captivity. Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in Prestonsburg, Kentucky is named in her honor.

neg: Escape Attempt Escape Attempt (Russian: Попытка к бегству, "Popytka k begstvu") is a 1962 science fiction novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe. The English translation was published in a single volume with the other Noon universe stories "Space Mowgli" and "The Kid from Hell".

neg: William H. Steele Former Lieutenant Colonel William H. Steele (born "circa" 1955) is a former U.S. Army Reservist from Prince George, Virginia. He was charged with aiding the enemy and other breaches of military law, mostly in connection with his role as commander of the 451st Military Police Detachment and Camp Cropper, a holding facility for security detainees in Iraq. He was acquitted of aiding the enemy, but sentenced to 2 years confinement on other charges and was dismissed from the military. He was confined at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Steele was only the second officer to be charged with aiding the enemy during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the other being Captain James Yee. William H. Steele was the only field-grade officer to be charged with aiding the enemy during all of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

neg: Soldiers and Slaves Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble is a 2005 history of World War II by "New York Times" reporter Roger Cohen. It recounts the ordeals suffered by the 550 American prisoners of war shipped into eastern Germany during the winter of 1944–1945.

neg: Trail of Broken Treaties The Trail of Broken Treaties (also known as the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan and the Pan American Native Quest for Justice ) was a cross-country protest, that was staged in the autumn of 1972 in the United States by American Indian and First Nations organizations. Designed to bring national attention to American Indian issues, such as treaty rights, living standards, and inadequate housing, it brought to the national capital the largest gathering ever of American Indians presenting their hopes.

neg: Hannah Szenes Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; Hebrew: חנה סנש ; Hungarian: Szenes Anikó; July 17, 1921November 7, 1944) was a poet and Special Operations Executive (SOE) paratrooper. She was one of 37 Jewish parachutists of Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British Army into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.

neg: Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1971 on the CBS network. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the incompetent commandant of the camp, and John Banner played the bungling sergeant-of-the-guard, Sergeant Schultz.

neg: Eddy Wynschenk Eddy Wynschenk (July 18, 1927, Amsterdam, the Netherlands – December 16, 2003) was a Holocaust survivor who became renowned throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for sharing his story, frequently, at schools throughout Northern California. Before the Russian Army liberated Holocaust survivors from the Auschwitz death camp in January, 1945, he was forced to go on a death march. During the march he suffered frostbite. Using scissors, nurses cut off his numb, frostbitten toes to save his life at the Dora-Nordhausen camp. Speaking to students, he got angry often, and often cried as well. But sharing his Holocaust story with students became his mission in life.

neg: The Broken Bridge The Broken Bridge is a 1990 young adult novel by Philip Pullman. Set in Wales around Cardigan Bay, it tells the story of Ginny Howard, a young mixed-race girl, an aspiring artist, who discovers she has a half-brother and that her mother may still be alive.


query: Ora Blanchard House, is located in what village that is part of Eustis, Maine?

pos: Ora Blanchard House The Ora Blanchard House is an historic house at the junction of Maine State Routes 16 and 27 in the center of Stratton, Maine, United States. Also known as Widow's Walk, this wood frame house, built in 1892, is by far the most distinctive house in the small community, exhibiting a creative collection of Queen Anne features in a remote rural area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

pos: Eustis, Maine Eustis is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 618 at the 2010 census. Eustis, which includes the village of Stratton, is a popular recreation area.

neg: Starks, Maine Starks is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The town was named after General John Stark of the Revolutionary War. The population was 640 at the 2010 census.

neg: Woodstock, Maine Woodstock is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,277 at the 2010 census. The village of Bryant Pond, on State Route 26 in the northern part of Woodstock, is the town's urban center and largest settlement.

neg: McCobb–Hill–Minott House The McCobb–Hill–Minott House is a historic house at 44 Parker Head Road in Phippsburg, Maine. Built in 1774, it is a high quality example of late Georgian architecture, notable for its architecture and its prominent residents, who included Mark Langdon Hill, Maine's first United States Congressman. The house is now the 1774 Inn, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

neg: South Sanford, Maine South Sanford is a former census-designated place (CDP) in the city of Sanford in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,536 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area. The CDP was abolished when the town of Sanford re-incorporated as a city.

neg: Old Town House (Parsonsfield, Maine) The Old Town House is the town hall of Parsonsfield, Maine. Located on Merrill Hill Road, the 1834 Greek Revival building has served as the town's main civic building for more than 150 years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

neg: Houlton (CDP), Maine Houlton is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the main village within the town of Houlton in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population of the CDP was 4,856 at the 2010 census, out of a population of 6,123 for the entire town. Houlton is the county seat of Aroostook County. The northern terminus of Interstate 95 and eastern terminus of U.S. Route 2 are just east of the CDP at the Canada–United States border.

neg: Clifford House (Eustis, Florida) The Clifford House (also known as the Clifford-Taylor House) is a historic home in Eustis, Florida, United States. It is located at 536 North Bay Street. On April 4, 1975, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was owned by G.D. Clifford, an early settler and local merchandiser.

neg: Hollis, New Hampshire Hollis is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 7,684 at the 2010 census. The town center village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Hollis Village Historic District.

neg: Gilmore House (Calais, Maine) The Gilmore House is a historic house at 764 River Road in Calais, Maine. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was designed by New Brunswick architect Matthew Stead and built c. 1850, probably for Alexander Gilmore, an Irish immigrant and local merchant. The house is a remarkably sophisticated execution of Gothic Revival styling, given that at the time of its construction, Calais was essentially a frontier town. It is the most sophisticated of a trio of Gothic Revival houses. It is, like one of its neighbors, the George Washburn House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, although its address has changed since its listing.

neg: Stacyville, Maine Stacyville is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 396 at the 2010 census.

neg: The Blaine House The Blaine House, also known as James G. Blaine House, is the official residence of the Governor of Maine and his or her family. The Executive Mansion was officially declared the residence of the Governor in 1919 with the name "The Blaine House." It is located at Capitol and State Streets in Augusta, Maine, United States, across the street from the Maine State House.

neg: Island Falls, Maine Island Falls is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 837 at the 2010 census. Island Falls took its name from an island in the stream at the verge of a waterfall.

neg: Corinth Village Corinth Village, also known as the Skinner Settlement Historic District and West Corinth, is an early 19th-century rural crossroads village in the small town of Corinth, Maine. Centered at the junction of Ledge Hill and West Corinth Roads, the village includes a number of buildings constructed before 1850, one of which may have been the first frame structure built in the area. The village was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

neg: Salsbury Cove, Maine Salsbury Cove is an unincorporated village in the town of Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, United States. The community is located along Maine State Route 3 10.3 mi southeast of Ellsworth. Salsbury Cove has a post office with ZIP code 04672.

neg: Elizabeth Blanchard (New Hampshire politician) Elizabeth D. Blanchard was a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Merrimack 10th District from 2002 to 2010.

neg: Newfields, New Hampshire Newfields is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,680 at the 2010 census. The primary village in town, where 301 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Newfields census-designated place (CDP), and is located along New Hampshire Route 85 and the Squamscott River. It is a quaint village of handsome old houses.

neg: Hustisford, Wisconsin Hustisford is a village in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,123 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the town of Hustisford.

neg: Maine, Outagamie County, Wisconsin Maine is a town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 831 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Leeman is located in the town.

neg: LaRoe Family Homestead Historic District LaRoe Family Homestead Historic District is a historic district in Eustis, Florida, near the corner of West County Road 44 and East Orange Avenue. It consists of a complex of buildings, nine of which (constructed between 1880 and 1949) are contributing properties to the district. They include the primary residence and various farm buildings. The architecture in the district is a combination of Late 19th and 20th Century Revival and Colonial Revival. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 2009.

neg: Reed Plantation, Maine Reed Plantation is a plantation in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 161 at the 2010 census.


query: Which airport was named after an american humorist after their death in a airplane crash happened in 1935, Lafayette Regional Airport or  Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport?

pos: Lafayette Regional Airport Lafayette Regional Airport (IATA: LFT, ICAO: KLFT, FAA LID: LFT) is a public airport two miles (4 km) southeast of Lafayette, in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is independently owned and operated.

pos: Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, (IATA: BRW, ICAO: PABR, FAA LID: BRW) often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial is a public airport located in Utqiaġvik, a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the state. Situated on the Chukchi Sea at a latitude of 71.29°N, the airport is the farthest north of any in US territory. The airport is named after American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post, both of whom died about 9 mi away at Point Barrow in a 1935 airplane crash.

neg: Washington Airport Washington Airport was the second major airport to serve the city of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Located in Arlington, Virginia, near the intersection of the Highway Bridge and the Mount Vernon Parkway (where The Pentagon's south parking lots, Metrobus bus bays, and a portion of Interstate-395 now exist). The first airport to serve the city was Hoover Field, a private airfield constructed in 1925. Washington Airport, a private airport triple the size of Hoover Field, was built literally across the road in late 1927. The airfield suffered from short and unpaved runways, numerous life-threatening obstructions around the field, poor visibility (due to a burning garbage dump adjacent to each field), and poor drainage. Washington Airport nearly went bankrupt in 1933, and it was auctioned off to a new owner. The new owner also owned Hoover Field, and merged the two into a single airfield, Washington-Hoover Airport.

neg: Emilio Carranza Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez (December 9, 1905 – July 12, 1928) was a noted Mexican aviator and national hero, nicknamed the "Lindbergh of Mexico". He was killed on the return part of a historic goodwill flight from Mexico City to the United States. He crashed in New Jersey shortly after take-off from New York.

neg: Wooster and Davis Wooster and Davis-- Lieutenant Stanton Hall Wooster (April 1, 1895 Connecticut - April 26, 1927) and Lieutenant Commander Noel Guy Davis (December 25, 1891 Salt Lake City, Utah - April 26, 1927) were two United States Navy (USN) airmen who made an attempt to fly the Atlantic Ocean from New York-to-Paris in the spring of 1927. The men were trying to win the $25,000 dollar Orteig Prize offered by New York hotelier Raymond Orteig for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris. Competitors for the prize were French World War One ace Rene Fonck and his crew of three, USN Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Clarence Chamberlain and a young airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh. On the Paris side of the Atlantic their competitors were another World War One French ace, Charles Nungesser, and his navigator Francois Coli.

neg: Rogers Executive Airport Rogers Municipal Airport (IATA: ROG, ICAO: KROG, FAA LID: ROG) , also known as Carter Field, is a city owned public use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) north of the central business district of Rogers, a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a "general aviation" facility.

neg: James Heathman James Easter Heathman (April 7, 1917 – January 29, 2008), also known as J. E. Heathman, was an American former farmer and U.S. Army veteran, who, as a teenager in 1931, witnessed and discovered the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air airliner, which killed eight people, most notably University of Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne. Heathman, who was 13 years old at the time he discovered the plane crash with his father on March 31, 1931, was the last living witness to the plane crash. Heathman later became a Knute Rockne historian and often led free tours of Notre Dame fans to the site of the crash, especially during the last 20 years of his life.

neg: Herb Shriner Herbert Arthur "Herb" Shriner (May 29, 1918 – April 23, 1970) was an American humorist, radio personality and television host. Shriner was known for his homespun monologues, usually about his home state of Indiana. He was frequently compared to humorist Will Rogers.

neg: Great Pershing Balloon Derby The Great Pershing Balloon Derby is a hot air balloon festival held each Labor Day weekend near Brookfield, Missouri. The three-day festival draws balloonists from the midwest and as far away as Florida and the Pacific Northwest. It is named in honor of General John J. Pershing, leader of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and a native of nearby Laclede, Missouri. The Great Pershing Balloon Derby (GPBD) has been recognized as the longest running continually sanctioned ballooning event in the U.S. by the Balloon Federation of America.

neg: William Norris III William Wiley Norris III also known as Bill Norris (October 17, 1936 – July 13, 2016), was an American judge from West Monroe, Louisiana, who served at the municipal, district, and circuit court levels.

neg: Roy C. Kirtland Roy Carrington Kirtland (14 May 1874 - 2 May 1941) was a United States Army soldier, officer and aviator. Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico was named for him. He was among the first American military aviators and he recommended Henry "Hap" Arnold for aviation training.

neg: Cornelia Fort Cornelia Clark Fort (February 5, 1919 – March 21, 1943) was a US aviator who became famous for two aviation-related events. While conducting a civilian training flight at Pearl Harbor, she was the first US pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and narrowly escaped a strafing attack after landing. The next year, Fort became the second member of what became the Women Airforce Service Pilots, and was working as a ferry pilot when she became the first female pilot in American history to die on active duty.

neg: Henry W. Marshall Henry Wright Marshall Sr. (January 29, 1865 – January 31, 1951) was an American businessperson and politician. He is known for being the founder of the Lafayette (Indiana) "Journal & Courier", Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, and acting president of Purdue University.

neg: Dwane Wallace Dwane Leon Wallace (October 29, 1911 – December 21, 1989) was the President and/or Chairman of the Board of the Cessna Aircraft Company from 1935 until the 1970s, having then continued on the board as a director and consultant into the 1980s. He is generally credited with leading the company from a minor role in the aviation industry to overwhelming dominance—ultimately the world's largest and most diverse general aviation manufacturer with the highest volume of aircraft production. He later became known as the "Quiet Giant of Aviation", and was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2012.

neg: Miles City Airport Miles City Airport or Frank Wiley Field (IATA: MLS, ICAO: KMLS, FAA LID: MLS) is a city-owned airport two miles northwest of Miles City, in Custer County, Montana. The airport was served by one airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. EAS subsidies ended July 15, 2013 due to subsidy per passenger exceeding $1000, leaving Miles City without scheduled air service.

neg: Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery is a 12-episode 1935 Universal movie serial based on the Tailspin Tommy comic strip by Hal Forrest and starring Clark Williams, Jean Rogers and Noah Beery, Jr.. The picture was the 96th of the 137 serials released by the studio (the 28th of which to be made with sound).

neg: Wilfred Yackey Wilfred Anthony (Tony) Yackey, Jr. (August 27, 1890 – October 4, 1927), known professionally as W.A. Yackey, was an airplane pioneer of the 1920s. A veteran pilot of World War I, he flew for both the United States and Italian Air Force, and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre by the French government for acts of heroism against the enemy. Returning to the United States, he settled outside of Chicago and operated the Checkerboard Aviation Field in Maywood, Illinois. From this area he would start a flying school, advertised as one of the oldest flying schools in the United States at the time. He would also start the Yackey Aircraft Company, first modifying surplus World War I planes for civilian private and commercial use, and later manufacturing planes of his own design. On October 4, 1927, Tony Yackey died while he was testing one of his planes over the air field when a wing collapsed, causing the plane to crash into the grounds.

neg: Curt Michel Frank Curtis "Curt" Michel, Ph.D. (June 5, 1934 – February 26, 2015) was an American astrophysicist; a professor of astrophysics at Rice University in Houston, Texas; a former United States Air Force pilot; and a NASA astronaut.

neg: Art Scholl Arthur Everett Scholl (December 24, 1931 – September 16, 1985) was an American aerobatic pilot, aerial cameraman, flight instructor and educator based in Southern California. He died during the filming of "Top Gun" when his Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a flat spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Scholl, 53, had entered the spin intentionally in order to capture it on film using onboard cameras. Observers watched the plane continue to spin as it descended past the planned recovery altitude. Scholl's last words over the radio were "I have a problem — I have a real problem", after which the plane impacted the ocean. The exact cause of the crash was never determined. Neither the aircraft nor Scholl's body were ever recovered.

neg: Brown Field Municipal Airport Brown Field Municipal Airport (IATA: SDM, ICAO: KSDM, FAA LID: SDM) is in the Otay Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, California, 13 mi southeast of Downtown San Diego and named in honor of Commander Melville S. Brown, USN, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1936. Its main runway is 7972 ft long.

neg: Craven C. Rogers Jr. Craven C. Rogers Jr. (September 16, 1934 – August 4, 2016) was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force who served as deputy commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. The command was tasked with achieving United States national objectives in Southwest Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa.

neg: Will Rogers Memorial The Will Rogers Memorial Museum is a 19052 sqft museum in Claremore, Oklahoma that memorializes entertainer Will Rogers. The museum houses artifacts, memorabilia, photographs, and manuscripts pertaining to Rogers' life, and documentaries, speeches, and movies starring Rogers are shown in a theater. Rogers' tomb is located on its 20 acre grounds overlooking Claremore and Rogers State University.


query: Which opera seria by Handel was created first, Orlando or Alcina?

pos: Orlando (opera) Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's "L'Orlando" after Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", which was also the source of Handel's operas "Alcina" and "Ariodante". More an artistic than a popular success at its first performances, "Orlando" is today recognised as a masterpiece.

pos: Alcina Alcina (HWV 34) is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of "L'isola di Alcina", an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after during his travels in Italy. Partly altered for better conformity, the story was originally taken from Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando furioso" (like those of the Handel operas "Orlando" and "Ariodante"), an epic poem. The opera contains several musical sequences with opportunity for dance: these were composed for dancer Marie Sallé.

neg: Alceste (Gluck) Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. The libretto (in Italian) was written by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and based on the play "Alcestis" by Euripides. The premiere took place on 26 December 1767 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

neg: Nicola Francesco Haym Nicola Francesco Haym (6 July 1678 – 31 July 1729) was an Italian opera librettist, composer, theatre manager and performer, and numismatist. He is best remembered for adapting texts into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini. Libretti that he provided for Handel included those for "Giulio Cesare", "Ottone", "Flavio", "Tamerlano", "Rodelinda", and several others; for Bononcini, he produced two, "Calfurnia" and "Astianatte".

neg: Gloria (opera) Gloria is a tragic opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea with an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti. A variation on the Romeo and Juliet story and set in 14th century Siena, the libretto is based on Victorien Sardou's 1874 play "La Haine" ("Hatred"). The opera premiered on 15 April 1907 at La Scala conducted by Arturo Toscanini with Salomea Krusceniski in the title role. "Gloria" was a failure at its premiere when it was withdrawn after two performances and fared little better in the 1932 revised version, although there have been two late 20th century revivals. It proved to be Cilea's last staged opera. In the 43 years following the premiere of "Gloria" he worked on two or three further operas which were never performed and continued to compose chamber and orchestral music.

neg: L'Ipermestra L'Ipermestra is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio first produced in 1744. This opera (and all the rest of Mysliveček's operas) belong to the serious type in Italian language referred to as "opera seria".

neg: Alessandro Severo Alessandro Severo (Alexander Severus, HWV A13) is an opera by George Frideric Handel composed in 1738. It is one of Handel's three pasticcio works, made up of the music and arias of his previous operas "Giustino", "Berenice" and "Arminio". Only the overture and recitatives (as well as the words) were new. The impresario Johann Jacob Heidegger probably selected the 1717 libretto by Apostolo Zeno, originally written for Antonio Lotti and re-used by many composers thereafter.

neg: Margot (opera) Margot is an opera in three acts (later reduced to two) composed by Joaquín Turina to a Spanish-language libretto by Gregorio Martínez Sierra. It premiered at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid on 10 October 1914. Set in Paris and Seville, the opera's story involves a love triangle between José Manuel, a young Spaniard; Margot, a Parisian courtesan with whom he has an affair; and Amparo, José Manuel's sweetheart in Andalucía.

neg: Abele (Alfieri) Abele is an Italian opera inspired on the first Bible's chapters by Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) which he described as a tramelogedia. It was written in 1786 and first published after Alfieri's death in 1804 in London. The play's characters can be divided in two groups:

neg: Frances Alda Frances Alda (31 May 1879– 18 September 1952) was a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic soprano. She achieved fame during the first three decades of the 20th century due to her outstanding singing voice, fine technique and colourful personality, as well as her frequent onstage partnerships at the New York Metropolitan Opera with Enrico Caruso.

neg: The Italian Girl in London The Italian Girl in London ("L'italiana in Londra") is one of eight comic operas, termed intermezzi, which Domenico Cimarosa wrote between 1777 and 1784 for the Teatro Valle, a handsome neo-classical Roman theatre built in 1726, which still stands today.

neg: Isabella Girardeau Isabella Girardeau (née Calliari?; ? – ?) was an Italian operatic soprano who flourished in London, England from 1709 to 1712. Commonly referred to by the opera going public in London as "La Isabella", she is best remembered today for creating the role of Almirena in the momentous premiere of George Frideric Handel's "Rinaldo" on 24 February 1711 at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket (it later became the "King's Theatre" after King George I's accession in 1714) in which she introduced the famous aria "Lascia ch'io pianga". She had succeeded Joanna Maria Lindelheim, "The Baroness", as one of the leading sopranos at that theatre. She is said to have had a bitter rivalry with the Queen's other prima donna, the soprano Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti.

neg: Alessandro (opera) Alessandro (HWV 21), is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli's libretto is based on the story of Ortensio Mauro's "La superbia d'Alessandro". This was the first time the famous singers Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni appeared together in one of Handel's operas. The original cast also included Francesco Bernardi who was known as Senesino.

neg: Engaged (play) Engaged is a three-act farcical comic play by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on 3 October 1877, the same year as "The Sorcerer", one of Gilbert's comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the collaborators' great success in "H.M.S. Pinafore". "Engaged" was well received on the London stage and then in New York City, where the first production of the play opened in February 1879. The work then enjoyed many revivals on both sides of the Atlantic and continues to be produced today.

neg: Il campiello Il campiello ("The Little Square") is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. The Italian-language libretto was by Mario Ghisalberti, after the famous comedy of the same name written for the 1756 Venetian Carnival by the great Venetian playwright, Carlo Goldoni.

neg: Zazà Zazà ] is an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, with the libretto by the composer. Its première at the Teatro Lirico di Milano on 10 November 1900, starring Rosina Storchio as Zazà, Edoardo Garbin as Milio, Mario Sammarco as Cascart and Clorinda Pini-Corsi as Anaide, and conducted by Arturo Toscanini, began its triumphant run of performances in opera houses around the world.

neg: Euridice (Caccini) Euridice is an opera in a prologue and one act by the Italian composer Giulio Caccini. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini, had already been set by Caccini's rival Jacopo Peri in 1600. Caccini's version of "Euridice" was first performed at the Pitti Palace, Florence on 5 December 1602. Caccini hurriedly prepared the score for the press and published it six weeks before Peri's version appeared.

neg: Didone abbandonata (Hasse) Didone abbandonata is a 1742 opera by Johann Adolph Hasse setting the libretto "Didone abbandonata" by Metastasio, which was first performed at Hubertusburg palace, near Dresden.

neg: Hercules (Handel) Hercules (HWV 60) is a "Musical Drama" in three acts by George Frideric Handel, composed in July and August 1744. The English language libretto was by the Reverend Thomas Broughton, based on Sophocles's "Women of Trachis" and the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

neg: Orlando generoso Orlando Generoso is the 1691 fourth opera of Agostino Steffani to a libretto by Ortensio Mauro after Ariosto's "Orlando furioso". It was written for the Duchy of Hanover.

neg: Tamerlano Tamerlano ("Tamerlane", HWV 18) is an opera seria in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music theatre company, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's "Tamerlano" together with another libretto entitled "Bajazet" after Nicolas Pradon's "Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet".

neg: Teseo Teseo ("Theseus", HWV 9; ] ) is an opera seria with music by George Frideric Handel, the only Handel opera that is in five acts. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Philippe Quinault's "Thésée". It was Handel's third London opera, intended to follow the success of "Rinaldo" after the unpopular "Il pastor fido".


query: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield, is an innovative American player, of which instrument, in the bluegrass music style, Wakefield is known for his collaborations with a number of important and well-known bands, including The Stanley Brothers?

pos: Frank Wakefield Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield (born June 26, 1934) is an innovative American mandolin player in the bluegrass music style. Wakefield is known for his collaborations with a number of important and well-known bands, including Red Allen, Don Reno, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, The Stanley Brothers, and the Greenbriar Boys.

pos: The Stanley Brothers The Stanley Brothers were an American bluegrass duo made up of brothers Carter Stanley (1925–1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927–2016). Ralph and Carter performed as The Stanley Brothers with their band, The Clinch Mountain Boys, from 1946 to 1966. Ralph kept the band name when he continued as a solo after Carter's death, from 1967 until his own death in 2016.

neg: Leonard Kwan Leonard Kwan (1931-2000) was one of the most influential Hawaiian slack-key guitarists to emerge in the period immediately preceding the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance of the 1970s. He made the first LP of slack key instrumentals, co-wrote the second slack key instruction book, and composed a number of pieces that have become part of the standard repertory. Most players will include Kwan, along with Gabby Pahinui, Sonny Chillingworth, and Atta Isaacs, on a list of the most significant players of the older generation.

neg: Bill Monroe William Smith Monroe ( ; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who helped to create the style of music known as bluegrass. Because of this he is commonly referred to as the "Father of Bluegrass". The genre takes its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys, named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 69 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader.

neg: Greensky Bluegrass Greensky Bluegrass is a five-piece American bluegrass/rock band founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2000. The band has evolved over the years, growing from 3 to 5 members, adding electric effects and touring with a full light show. "The whole notion of “traditional bluegrass” strangely remains a sticking point for plenty of the genre's faithful. Partly because of their name, every article written about the band addresses the fact that what Greensky does is “not quite” bluegrass. These depths have been plumbed. In fact, in their own promotional material, GSBG describes their sound as “their own version of bluegrass music, mixing the acoustic stomp of a stringband with the rule-breaking spirit of rock & roll.” Greensky Bluegrass is known for their improvisation, multiple set shows, and open audience recording policy (akin to Phish and The Grateful Dead) and have broken through to a multi genre fanbase covering songs from Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, John Hartford, Dawes, Phish, The Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Prince and more.

neg: Mandola The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C-G-D-A low-to-high), a fifth lower than a mandolin. The mandola, although now rarer, is the ancestor of the mandolin, the name of which means simply "little mandola".

neg: Curly Ray Cline Curly Ray Cline (January 10, 1923 – August 19, 1997) was an American bluegrass fiddler from West Virginia known for his work with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers and Ralph Stanley.

neg: The Spampinato Brothers The Spampinato Brothers are a rock band from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They play music combining a variety of styles including rockabilly, jazz rock, power pop, garage rock, alternative country, Americana music, country rock and folk rock.

neg: Alan Munde Alan Munde (pronounced "mun-dee") (born November 4, 1946) is an American five-string banjo player and bluegrass musician.

neg: Sonny Osborne Sonny Osborne (born October 29, 1937 in Hyden, Kentucky) is a bluegrass singer and five-string banjo player. A master of the style developed by Earl Scruggs, called the "Scruggs style", he is best known for his collaboration with his brother Bobby Osborne as the Osborne Brothers.

neg: The Islanders (American band) The Islanders were an American group which included Frank Metis (accordion) and Randy Starr (guitar), in addition to using special sound effects by Ralph F. Curtiss.

neg: James Tyler (music) James Tyler (August 3, 1940 Hartford, Connecticut, USA– November 23, 2010 Los Angeles, California, USA) was a 20th-century American lutenist, banjoist, guitarist, composer, musicologist and author, who helped pioneer an early music revival with more than 60 recordings.

neg: Steel guitar Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use of a bar or slide called a steel (generally made of metal, but also of glass or other materials). The earliest use of an electrified steel guitar was first made in the early 1930s by Bob Dunn of Milton Brown and His Brownies, a western swing band from Fort Worth, Texas; the instrument was perfected in the mid to late 1930s by Fort Worth's Leon McAluff, who played for western swing band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Nashville later picked up the use of the steel guitar in the early days of the late 1940s and early 1950s "Honky Tonk" country & western music with a number of fine steel guitarists backing names like :Hank Williams, Lefty Frizell and Webb Pierce. The term steel guitar is often mistakenly used to describe any metal body resophonic guitar.

neg: The Delmore Brothers Alton Delmore (December 25, 1908 – June 8, 1964) and Rabon Delmore (December 3, 1916 – December 4, 1952), billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneers and stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s. The Delmore Brothers, together with other brother duos such as the Louvin Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, the Monroe Brothers (Birch, Charlie and Bill Monroe), the McGee Brothers, and The Stanley Brothers, had a profound impact on the history of country music and American popular music.

neg: Bruce Kimmell Bruce Kimmell is a live touring guitarist and musician. His performances include a fusion of Country Music, Bluegrass, and Jazz. He has performed at a variety of public and private venues including shows with The Neville Brothers at the Majestic Ventura Theater.

neg: Al Hopkins Albert Green Hopkins (1889 – October 21, 1932) (Al Hopkins) was an American musician, a pioneer of what later came to be called country music; in 1925 he originated the earlier designation of this music as "hillbilly music", though not without qualms about its pejorative connotation.

neg: Steve Masakowski Steve Masakowski (born September 2, 1954) is jazz guitarist, educator, and inventor. He invented the guitar-based keytar and the switch pick and has designed three, custom-built seven-string guitars. He developed an approach to playing the guitar by using his pick design, allowing him to switch from fingerpicking to flatpicking.

neg: BMG movement The Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar (BMG) movement is a music genre based on the family of stringed instruments played with a plectrum, including the banjo, mandolin and guitar. This became popular in the USA in the late 19th century and into the 20th century. It fell from favour in the 1930s but there is still an organised movement in the UK where the "BMG Magazine", founded in 1903, is the country's oldest music periodical still publishing.

neg: The Wilburn Brothers The Wilburn Brothers were a popular American country music duo from the 1950s to the 1970s consisting of brothers Virgil Doyle Wilburn (July 7, 1930 – October 16, 1982) and Thurman Theodore "Teddy" Wilburn (November 30, 1931 – November 24, 2003).

neg: The SteelDrivers The SteelDrivers are a bluegrass band from Nashville, Tennessee. Members include fiddler Tammy Rogers, bassist Mike Fleming, guitarist Gary Nichols, mandolinist Brent Truitt, and banjoist Richard Bailey. The band has recorded two albums on the Rounder Records label and one independent live album recorded at The Station Inn.

neg: Clarence Remus Wilson Clarence Remus Wilson was a Rosine, Kentucky farmer who also played the fiddle and five-string banjo. He has been called one of the "greats" of hillbilly music, along with James "Uncle Pen" Vandiver, Kennedy Jones, and Bill Monroe. He also played with Blues musician Arnold Schultz, when Schultz was in town. There is a photo of Schultz and Wilson sitting outside on folding chairs, posing with their instruments, Schultz with his guitar and Wilson with his fiddle.

neg: Resonator guitar A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by carrying string vibration through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the sound board (guitar top). Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than regular acoustic guitars, which were overwhelmed by horns and percussion instruments in dance orchestras. They became prized for their distinctive sound, however, and found life with several musical styles (most notably bluegrass and the blues) well after electric amplification solved the issue of inadequate guitar sound levels.


query: which magazine focuses on more fields, The Watchtower or GQ?

pos: The Watchtower The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published monthly by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Along with its companion magazine, "Awake!", Jehovah's Witnesses distribute "The Watchtower—Public Edition" in their door-to-door ministry.

pos: GQ GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City. The publication focuses on fashion, style, and culture for men, though articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books are also featured.

neg: Mother Earth (magazine) Mother Earth was an anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature", initially edited by Emma Goldman.

neg: Awake! Awake! is an illustrated religious magazine published every second month by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. It is considered to be a companion magazine of "The Watchtower", and is distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses in their door-to-door ministry.

neg: Boxer (magazine) Boxer is a Turkish men's magazine, it was being published in print between July 2004 and December 2013. It was the highest selling and most respectable men's magazine in the country for a while, followed by Turkish editions of "FHM, GQ" and "Esquire" magazines. The last issue published in print was in December 2013. It was later bought by Emir Ekşioğlu, who used to write for the magazine for a brief period, from The Nikkei in January 2016. Ekşioğlu has also assumed the role of Editor in Chief. The magazine has become digital only in September 2016 and it is now a part of Boxer MG. The magazine is known for its interviews and photo shootings.

neg: Jim Nelson (editor) Jim Nelson (born March 8, 1963) is the current editor-in-chief of the magazine "GQ".

neg: Yale Journal of Medicine and Law The Yale Journal of Medicine & Law is a magazine based at Yale University that explores the intersection of law and medicine, covering topics like healthcare policy, bioethics, healthcare economics, biomedical research, and global health care. The magazine was established in 2003 and is written, edited, and published by Yale University students. Each issue of the "The Yale Journal of Medicine & Law" focuses on a central theme. Some examples of past themes include international health care, disease control, alternative medicine, healthcare economics, and military health care.

neg: The Guardian Weekly The Guardian Weekly is an internationally focused English-language newspaper based in London, UK. It is one of the world's oldest international newspapers and has readers in more than 170 countries. Editorial content is drawn from its sister publications, the British daily newspaper "the Guardian" and Sunday newspaper "the Observer", and all three are published by the Guardian Media Group and owned by The Scott Trust Limited. The "Guardian Weekly" also contains articles from "the Washington Post".

neg: GamesMaster (magazine) GamesMaster is a monthly multi-format computer and video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom. It is the biggest selling multi-format video games magazine in the United Kingdom, outselling its sister publication "Edge".

neg: Tufts Magazine Tufts Magazine is a quarterly magazine published by the Trustees of Tufts University.

neg: SmartMoney SmartMoney was the "Wall Street Journal"'s magazine of personal business. The finance magazine launched in 1992 by Hearst Corporation and Dow Jones & Company. Its first editor was Norman Pearlstine. In 2010, Hearst sold its stake to Dow Jones. The September 2012 edition was the last paper edition. Its content was merged into MarketWatch in 2013.

neg: Jason Fagone Jason Fagone is an American journalist and author. His work has appeared in GQ Magazine, Esquire Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and "the New York Times", among other places. In 2002, Columbia Journalism Review named him among the “Ten Young Writers on the Rise”.

neg: Quo (magazine) Quo is a monthly Spanish-language pop-science magazine that informs about science through thinking and entertainment. It contains articles pertaining to health, sex, ecology, technology, nutrition, psychology and human life. Its content has the capability to answer all the basic doubts a person might have about the world they live in. The magazine was created in Spain by the Hachette Filipacchi publisher. It was released in Spain in 1995. Its first director was Oscar Becerra and the art director was Pancho Guijarro. Aside from Becerra and Guijarro, Juan Caño, vice president editor of Hachette, was highly involved in the creative development of the publication. A few months later Grupo Zeta released CNR in Spain, a magazine whose similarities to Quo were extraordinary. "Hearst Magazines" bought Hachette Filipacchi's Spanish magazines in 2011.

neg: Skyscraper (magazine) Skyscraper was an independent music magazine dedicated to coverage of a wide range of progressive and underground music. It was founded by Peter Bottomley and Andrew Bottomley in 1997 and published its first issue in 1998. Its headquarters was in Boulder, Colorado. The magazine covers various genres of music and is often likened to an American version of "Mojo". Its format includes in-depth interviews, music reviews, and articles covering books, film, comics, and social and political issues. The quarterly print edition of "Skyscraper" discontinued after the Spring 2009 issue. The founders started an online magazine in 2010.

neg: American Quarterly American Quarterly is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association. The journal covers topics of both domestic and international concern in the United States and is considered a leading resource in the field of American studies. The current editor-in-chief is Mari Yoshihara (University of Hawaiʻi). The journal is published quarterly by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

neg: Glänta Glänta is a Swedish quarterly cultural magazine published in Sweden. "Glänta" was established by Göran Dahlberg in 1993. He is also the editor of the magazine which publishes articles about philosophy, politics, aesthetics, literature, art, and history. The editorial office is situated in Göteborg, Sweden.

neg: Gay Times Gay Times (also known as GT) is one of the United Kingdom's leading gay magazines for gay and bisexual men. Originally published as "Gay Times", from March 2007 it re-labeled itself as "GT" until reclaiming the name in May 2017.

neg: Queen's Quarterly Queen's Quarterly is a Canadian quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of cultural studies that was established in 1893 by, among others, George Munro Grant, Sanford Fleming, and John Watson, all of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The journal publishes articles, essays, reviews, short stories and poetry. It is abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents, MLA International Bibliography, and Abstracts of English Studies.

neg: The Field (magazine) The Field is the world's oldest country and field sports magazine, having been published continuously since 1853. Its current publisher is Time Inc. UK.

neg: Glenn O'Brien Glenn O'Brien (March 2, 1947 – April 7, 2017) was an American writer who focused largely on the subjects of art, music and fashion. He was featured for many years as "The Style Guy" in "GQ" magazine, and published a book with that title.

neg: QX (British magazine) QX Magazine (stylized as qx) also known as QX International is a free gay weekly magazine distributed at most gay bars, gay clubs and other gay venues across London and the UK. The magazine is based in London. As a free magazine, it has a high proportion of advertising space for revenue. The magazine includes news articles, club and bar reviews and back pages that are dominated by adverts for male escorts.

neg: The Washington Quarterly The Washington Quarterly, often abbreviated "TWQ", is a quarterly magazine of international affairs, analyzing global strategic changes and their public policy implications, hosted by the Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University) and published by Taylor & Francis. Prior to the Spring 2014 issue, the journal was published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Routledge. It addresses topics such as the U.S. role in the world, the emerging great powers, missile defenses and weapons of mass destruction, global perspectives to reduce terrorism, regional issues and flash points, the implications of global political change, views from the U.S. Congress. Essays are written for the international affairs generalist.


query: Who was an American dancer, singer, and actor who hosted the anthology series "Alcoa Premiere"?

pos: Flashing Spikes "Flashing Spikes" is a 1962 television play directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart, with a lengthy surprise appearance by John Wayne, billed in the credits as "Michael Morris" (apparently based on Wayne's birth name "Marion Michael Morrison"). The hour-long drama revolving around a disgraced ex-baseball player (Stewart) was broadcast as an episode of the anthology series "Alcoa Premiere" hosted by Fred Astaire.

pos: Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.

neg: Al Martino Al Martino (born Jasper Cini; October 7, 1927 – October 13, 2009) was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and also became well known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather".

neg: Peggy Ryan Margaret O'Rene "Peggy" Ryan (August 28, 1924 – October 30, 2004) was an American dancer, best known for starring in a series of movie musicals at Universal Pictures with Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean.

neg: Donny Osmond Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American singer, actor, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as "Go Away Little Girl" and "Puppy Love".

neg: Anthony Marciona Anthony Marciona (born September 27, 1961) is an American film, Broadway and television actor, singer and dancer from New York City. Marciona began his acting career at the age of five playing Kirk Douglas' godson in "The Brotherhood".

neg: Austin Miller Austin Miller is an American actor, dancer, and singer, known for television and stage performances. He played the part of Hawk in the soap opera "Days of Our Lives", performed in the "Hairspray" musical in both a national tour and a Las Vegas production, and in 2007 was on the televised competition "", "Trip of Love" the multimillion-dollar stage spectacular in New York City, and has subsequently become a television and film writer and producer, while building a lifestyle brand "The Gentleman Caller".

neg: The Donald O'Connor Show The Donald O'Connor Show (also known as Here Comes Donald) is an American musical situation comedy television series starring singer/dancer Donald O'Connor. It appeared on NBC from October 9, 1954, to September 10, 1955, alternating on the Saturday evening schedule with "The Jimmy Durante Show"; both were sponsored by Texaco.

neg: Flip Wilson Clerow "Flip" Wilson Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor, best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. In the early 1970s, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series, "The Flip Wilson Show". The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, and at one point was the second highest rated show on network television. Wilson also won a Grammy Award in 1970 for his comedy album "The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress".

neg: Joe Langworth Joe Langworth (born July 19, 1966) is an American choreographer, casting director, singer and dancer.

neg: The Joey Bishop Show (talk show) The Joey Bishop Show is an American talk show that had its first broadcast on ABC on April 17, 1967, hosted by Joey Bishop and featuring Regis Philbin in his first ongoing role with national television exposure, as Bishop's sidekick/announcer (similar to Ed McMahon's job with Johnny Carson). Created to challenge "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", the show lasted 33 months, with the last show airing on December 26, 1969.

neg: Alyson Reed Alyson Reed (born January 11, 1958) is an American dancer and actress.

neg: Robert Nichols (actor) Robert Nichols (July 20, 1924 – March 21, 2013) was an American character actor, singer, and dancer. His television, theater and film career spanned more than seventy years.

neg: Jane Frazee Mary Jane Frehse (July 18, 1918 – September 6, 1985), known as Jane Frazee, was an American actress, singer, and dancer.

neg: Cissy King Claire Yvonne “Cissy” King (born January 3, 1946) is an American-born singer and dancer best known as a featured performer on "The Lawrence Welk Show" television program.

neg: Steve Alaimo Steve Alaimo (born December 6, 1939) is an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s. He later became record producer and label owner, but he is perhaps best known for hosting and co-producing Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is" in the late 1960s. He had nine singles to chart in the "Billboard" Hot 100 without once reaching the Top 40 in his career, the most by any artist.

neg: Aljur Abrenica Aljur Mikael Guiang Abrenica (born March 24, 1990) is a Filipino actor, dancer, model and singer. He appeared on the fourth season of "StarStruck".

neg: Joseph Wagstaff Joseph Wagstaff (1903–2001, commonly known as Joe Wagstaff) was an American actor, musician, singer and dancer.

neg: John Dimes John Dimes is an author, artist, singer, actor and award-winning comedian. He is best known as the Horror Host Dr. Sarcofiguy, the first (and still only) African-American Horror Host.

neg: Betsy Struxness Betsy Struxness is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on the Broadway stage.

neg: Helen Gamboa Helen Albent Gamboa-Sotto (born May 7, 1948) is a veteran Filipina actress, singer, dancer and former beauty queen.

neg: Anita Elson Anita Elson (1898–1985) was an American dancer and singer who appeared in revues in New York City and London, England, in the early 20th century.


query: What societal critic contributed to the anthology "Excursions"?

pos: Excursions (anthology) Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction entitled "Biographical Sketch" in which fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a description of Thoreau.

pos: Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

neg: Politics (essay) "Politics" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is part of his "Essays: Second Series", published in 1844. A premier philosopher, poet and leader of American transcendentalism, he used this essay to belie his feelings on government, specifically American government. His impact on New England thought and his views on pragmatism influenced the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, and Frederich Nietzsche, among others.

neg: Critic (disambiguation) A critic is a person who criticizes, i.e., offers reasoned judgement or analysis, value judgement, interpretation, or observation, while critique, is a systematic inquiry into the conditions and consequences of a concept or set of concepts, and an attempt to understand its limitations.

neg: Jay Clayton (critic) Jay Clayton (born July 11, 1951 in Dallas, Texas, as John B. Clayton, IV) is an American literary critic who specializes in contemporary American fiction and Victorian literature. He has written on literature and digital technology, the representation of genetics in fiction and film, and literary theory. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

neg: Genre criticism Genre criticism is a method within rhetorical criticism for analyzing texts in terms of their genre: the set of generic expectations, conventions, and constraints that guide their production and interpretation. In rhetoric, the theory of genre provides a means to classify and compare artifacts in terms of their formal, substantive and contextual features. By grouping artifacts with others of similar formal features or rhetorical exigencies, rhetorical critics can shed light on how authors use or flout conventions in order to meet their needs. Genre criticism has thus become one of the main methodologies within rhetorical criticism.

neg: Darwinism, Design and Public Education Darwinism, Design and Public Education is a 2003 anthology, consisting largely of rewritten versions of essays from a 1998 issue of Michigan State University Press's journal, "Rhetoric and Public Affairs", edited by intelligent design activists John Angus Campbell (who serves on the journal's editorial board) and Stephen C. Meyer, neither of whom are scientists. The book is promoted as being a "peer-reviewed science book", however in reviewing it Barbara Forrest notes that:

neg: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", as well as the major prose work "Biographia Literaria". His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism.

neg: Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer.

neg: Laurence Hutton Laurence Hutton (1843 – June 10, 1904) was an American essayist and critic.

neg: James Huneker James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time.

neg: William Dean Howells William Dean Howells ( ; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of "The Atlantic Monthly", as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels "The Rise of Silas Lapham" and "A Traveler from Altruria".

neg: Excursion An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other (typically work-related) purposes.

neg: Francis Turner Palgrave Francis Turner Palgrave (28 September 1824 – 24 October 1897) was a British critic, anthologist and poet.

neg: James Agate James Evershed Agate (9 September 1877 – 6 June 1947) was an English diarist and one of Britain's most influential theatre critics between the two world wars. He found his way into journalism in his late twenties, on the staff of "The Manchester Guardian" (1907–14) and as a drama critic for "The Saturday Review" (1921–23), and "The Sunday Times" (1923–47). He also reviewed drama for the BBC (1925–32). The nine volumes of Agate's diaries and letters, entitled "Ego", record the British theatre of his era and his non-theatrical interests, including sports, social gossip and his private preoccupations with his health and precarious finances. He also wrote film and literary criticism for London newspapers, published three novels, translated a play that was staged in London, albeit briefly, and regularly brought out collections of his theatre essays and reviews.

neg: Cultural critic A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis. There is significant overlap with social and cultural theory.

neg: Mores Mores ( sometimes ; from Latin "mōrēs", ] , plural form of singular "mōs", meaning "manner", "custom", "usage", "habit") was introduced from English into American English by William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), an early U.S. sociologist, to refer to social norms that are widely observed and are considered to have greater moral significance than others. Mores include an aversion for societal taboos, such as incest. The mores of a society usually predicate legislation prohibiting their taboos. Often, countries will employ specialized vice squads or vice police engaged in suppressing specific crimes offending the societal mores.

neg: Critical and Historical Essays (Macaulay) Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review (1843) is a collection of articles by Thomas Babington Macaulay, later Lord Macaulay. They have been acclaimed for their readability, but criticized for their inflexible attachment to the attitudes of the Whig school of history.

neg: Political fiction Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction, such as political novels, often "directly criticize an existing society or present an alternative, even fantastic, reality". It overlaps with the social novel, proletarian novel and social science fiction. Highly influential earlier works include "Gulliver's Travels" (1726), "Candide" (1759), and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852).

neg: Kenneth Burke Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who had a powerful impact on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based on the nature of knowledge. Furthermore, he was one of the first individuals to stray away from more traditional rhetoric and view literature as "symbolic action."

neg: Anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche The relation between anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche has been ambiguous. Even though Nietzsche criticized anarchism, his thought proved influential for many thinkers within what can be characterized as the anarchist movement. As such "[t]here were many things that drew anarchists to Nietzsche: his hatred of the state; his disgust for the mindless social behavior of 'herds'; his anti-Christianity; his distrust of the effect of both the market and the State on cultural production; his desire for an 'übermensch'—that is, for a new human who was to be neither master nor slave".

neg: J. Hillis Miller Joseph Hillis Miller Jr. (born March 5, 1928) is an American literary critic who has been heavily influenced by—and who has heavily influenced—deconstruction.


query: "Mucho gusto" is an instrumental piece originally recorded by a composer born in which year ?

pos: Mucho Gusto "Mucho gusto" is an instrumental piece originally recorded by Percy Faith for the 1961 album "Mucho Gusto! More Music of Mexico". The piece is, like the rest of the album, influenced by Mexican music. It has a high, galloping tempo and an advanced arrangement, where the melody is played by alternating strings, brass and percussion. The piece is known for its use of whistles and whips, as well as instruments that are typical of Mexican music, like guitars, maracas and trumpets.

pos: Percy Faith Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. Faith became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, Faith refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s.

neg: Danilo Pérez Danilo Pérez (born 29 December 1965) is a Panamanian pianist and composer.

neg: David Granadino David Granadino (June 13, 1876 – August 22, 1933) was a Salvadoran composer and musician, one of the most celebrated of the country.

neg: Jesús Rodríguez Picó Jesús Rodríguez Picó (born Barcelona, Spain, 12 July 1953) is a composer of contemporary classical music, a clarinet player and a pedagogue. He studied at the Conservatori del Liceu where he obtained a certificate as a clarinet teacher, completing his training in France. He collaborated with many ensembles specialized in the contemporary repertoire, like the Grup Instrumental Català (GIC) and Solars Vortices, as well as forming a duo with the pianist Manuel Cabero. As a performer, he has strived to promote clarinet music and contemporary music, in addition to working in musical pedagogy and in various fields relating to cultural management.

neg: Roberto Valera Roberto Valera Chamizo (b. Havana, 1938) is a Cuban composer and pedagogue that has a made a substantial contribution to the development of music in Cuba.

neg: Giorgio Nottoli Giorgio Nottoli (born 1945) is an Italian composer, musician and academic.

neg: Octavio Brunetti Octavio Brunetti (May 12, 1975 – August 29, 2014) was a pianist, arranger and composer from Argentina. He was best known for his participation in the album "Te amo tango" (Soundbrush Records SR 1009) by Raul Jaurena, which won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album in 2007, and was one of the most sought after tango pianists.

neg: Fausto Bordalo Dias Fausto (] ), , born Carlos Fausto Bordalo Gomes Dias; 26 November 1948 in Atlantic Ocean, registered as Trancoso, ), is a Portuguese composer and singer.

neg: Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and instrumentalist. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. Among the instruments he plays are the sopranino, soprano, C-melody, F mezzo-soprano, E-flat alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones; the E-flat, B-flat, and contrabass clarinets; and the piano. He used to play flute and alto flute as well, but has since discontinued his use of these instruments.

neg: Agustín Barrios Agustín Pío Barrios (also known as Agustín Barrios Mangoré and Nitsuga—Agustin spelled backwards—Mangoré; May 5, 1885 – August 7, 1944) was a Paraguayan virtuoso classical guitarist and composer, largely regarded as one of the greatest performers and most prolific composers for the guitar.

neg: Edgar Palacios Rodriguez Edgar Palacios Rodriguez (born October 7, 1940, Loja), known as Edgar Palacios, is an Ecuadorian music composer.

neg: Rafael Solano Rafael Solano Sánchez (born April 10, 1931 in San Felipe de Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic) is a Dominican pianist, songwriter, composer, arranger, author, and former Dominican ambassador to UNESCO. He is credited with writing over a hundred songs of various genres that include romantic, folk, as well as choral, religious, and merengue music. His most famous love song, "Por Amor", has been translated into several languages and performed by renowned artists, such as Marco Antonio Muñiz, Vicki Carr, Jon Secada, the Mariachi Vargas, and Plácido Domingo.

neg: Enzo Camporeale Enzo (Vincenzo) Camporeale (born July 27, 1966 in Giovinazzo (Ba), Italy) is an Italian composer, musician, pianist, and arranger.

neg: Julio de Caro Julio de Caro (December 11, 1899March 11, 1980) was an Argentine composer, musician and conductor prominent in the Tango genre.

neg: Luigi Nono Luigi Nono (] ; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.

neg: Alex Conrado Álex Conrado (born 29 March 1969) is a Spanish soundtrack composer for TV and cinema.

neg: Ronaldo Cadeu Ronaldo Cadeu (born 3 November 1977) is a Brazilian composer, conductor and classical guitarist.

neg: Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer.

neg: Julio César Brero Julio César Brero "(also spelled" Giulio Cesare; 20 December 1908 Milan – 8 December 1973 Milan) was an Italian-born Argentine composer, music educator, and lawyer.

neg: José Bragato José Bragato (12 October 1915 – 18 July 2017) was an Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor, arranger and musical archivist who, in his early career, was principal cellist in the Colón Theatre orchestra in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Apart from his involvement in classical music he also performed for many years in a number of Ástor Piazzolla's "Nuevo tango" (New tango) ensembles where his cello solos, which had never before featured in tango, put him in the vanguard of "Nuevo tango" from its birth in the 1950s. Since then he has done numerous and varied arrangements of Piazzolla's compositions.

neg: Cristóbal Oudrid Cristóbal (Carlos Domingo Romualdo y Ricardo) Oudrid y Segura (] , 7 February 1825 – 13 March 1877) was a Spanish pianist, conductor, and composer. He is noted for his many contributions to the formation and development of the zarzuela genre in Spain during the second half of the 19th century. He was a gifted musician—but with little technical knowledge, which he bragged about to receive more credit from others with relation to his creations. This habit earned him the scathing criticism of people like Antonio Peña y Goñi who, nevertheless, praised the bright, sensual and cheerful ease with which Oudrid used to bring to life the true meaning of the Spanish song.


query: Who wrote the 2007 British television film "Coming Down The Mountain" and authored a 2003 mystery novel based on Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "Silver Blaze"?

pos: Coming Down the Mountain Coming Down the Mountain is a 2007 British television film which was shown on BBC One, written by Mark Haddon (author of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time") and directed by Julie Anne Robinson. The television film was based on a radio play also written by Haddon.

pos: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Silver Blaze". Haddon and "The Curious Incident" won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children.

neg: Reichenbach Falls (film) Reichenbach Falls is a 2007 British thriller television film directed by John McKay and starring Alec Newman, Alastair Mackenzie and Nina Sosanya. The script was adapted by James Mavor from a short story by Ian Rankin.

neg: Caledonia Mills It is well known as the community of the Mary-Ellen spook farm, also known as the fire spook. It was alleged that the community experienced mysterious fires and poltergeist effects between 1899 and 1922. The case drew attention of Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes. Mary-Ellen's biological parents were John and Annie (Duggan) MacDonald and she was later adopted by Alexander and Janet MacDonald of Caledonia Mills.

neg: Half Moon Investigations (TV series) Half Moon Investigations is a children's crime/comedy drama television series created by the BBC and based upon the novel of the same name by the author Eoin Colfer. It concerns a schoolboy, Fletcher Moon, who spends much of his spare time solving petty crimes around his school, St Jerome's. 13 episodes were first broadcast between January and March 2009. The series was filmed in and around a disused secondary school as well as a Centre for adults with special needs located in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.

neg: The Scroll of the Dead The Scroll of the Dead is a 1998 adventure mystery pastiche novel written by David Stuart Davies, featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they investigate a theft from the British Museum with ties to the Black Arts.

neg: The Curse of the Bronze Lamp The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (also published as "Lord of the Sorcerers") is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery or, more properly, a subset of that category known as an "impossible crime", and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale. Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.

neg: The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator. The story was published in the 1954 collection, "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes".

neg: The Adventure of the Resident Patient "The Adventure of the Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

neg: The Club-Footed Grocer "The Clubfooted Grocer" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in "The Strand Magazine". It is a nineteenth-century short story about a man who goes to help his wealthy uncle, once a grocer and trader of jewelry and expensive artifacts. The narrator doesn’t know why he is called to help his uncle until he arrives and finds that his uncle has a death threat from someone who wants something the uncle possesses.

neg: The Leopard Man's Story "The Leopard Man's Story" is a short mystery story by Jack London. It was first published in the August 1903 issue of "Leslie's Weekly" and, in 1906, included in "Moon-Face and Other Stories".

neg: In the Woods In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl. The novel won several awards such as the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, the 2008 Barry Award for Best First Novel, the 2008 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and the 2008 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

neg: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film) Dracula is a 1973 British television movie adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula" written by Richard Matheson and directed by "Dark Shadows" creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

neg: Silver Bears (film) Silver Bears is a 1978 joint British- and American-produced comedy thriller film based on a novel by Paul Erdman, directed by Ivan Passer and starring Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan and Joss Ackland. Caine portrays mob accountant "Doc" Fletcher who acquires a Swiss bank and a silver mine but must fight a complex struggle in order to keep hold of them.

neg: List of Sherlock characters The following is a list and description of the characters of "Sherlock", a British television series that started airing on BBC One in July 2010. The series is a contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.

neg: Tiger by the Tail Tiger by the Tail, also known as Cross-Up, is a 1955 British crime film directed by John Gilling and starring Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Lisa Daniely and Donald Stewart. It is an adaptation of the novel "Never Come Back" by John Mair. Larry Parks, a memorable Al Jolson in The Jolson Story, had fallen foul of America's House Un-American Activities Committee, and had his first film role for four years starring in this British low budgeter.

neg: The Mount Marunga Mystery The Mount Marunga Mystery is a murder mystery first published in 1919 by Australian author Harrison Owen about the mysterious death of a fraudulent businessman in a rural township's five-star hotel. In June 2008, the novel was re-issued by Kessinger Publishing.

neg: Norman Partridge Norman Partridge (born May 28, 1958) is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, "Saguaro Riptide" and "The Ten Ounce Siesta". He is also the author of a Crow novel, "", which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow movie, bearing the same name.

neg: Whistle and I'll Come to You Whistle and I'll Come to You is the title of two BBC television drama adaptations based on the ghost story "" by the writer M. R. James. The story tells the tale of an introverted academic who happens upon a strange whistle while exploring a Knights Templar cemetery on the East Anglian coast. When blown, the whistle unleashes a supernatural force that terrorises its discoverer.

neg: Edgar Lustgarten Edgar Marcus Lustgarten (3 May 1907 – 15 December 1978) was a British broadcaster and noted crime writer.

neg: Mountain (TV series) Mountain is a British television series written and presented by Griff Rhys Jones that was originally broadcast 29 July–26 August 2007 on BBC One.

neg: The Adventure of Foulkes Rath The Adventure of Foulkes Rath is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.