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The publisher of the book's first paperback edition, Sphere, gambled on real-life events such as the 1976 defection of the Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, to risk a 250,000-copy printing. The background material for Firefox was a result of meticulous research, and provided by friends formerly with the RAF, and the Russian setting was derived from ...
Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator.He is most widely known for developing with his high school students the Foxfire Project, a writing project consisting of interviews and stories about Appalachia.
In 1966, Eliot Wigginton and his students in an English class at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School initiated a project to engage students in writing. [1] [2] The class decided to publish a magazine over the course of the semester. Its articles were the product of the students' interviewing their relatives and local citizens about how lifestyles ...
In 2011, CliffsNotes announced a joint venture with Mark Burnett, a TV producer, to create a series of 60-second video study guides of literary works. [4] In 2012, CliffsNotes was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [1] In 2021, CliffsNotes was acquired by Course Hero. [5]
Firefox Down is a 1983 novel by author Craig Thomas. It is a sequel to his novel Firefox . Craig Thomas dedicated the first edition of the novel to actor/director/producer Clint Eastwood , who starred as Mitchell Gant in the film adaptation of the first novel , stating, "For Clint Eastwood — pilot of the Firefox".
Early in its history SLJ published nine issues each year, dated September to May and released on the fifteenth of each month. It now publishes monthly. It now publishes monthly. In 2008 School Library Journal launched Series Made Simple , a twice-annual supplement which features reviews of series nonfiction books.
Video synopsis is a method for automatically synthesizing a short, informative summary of a video. Unlike traditional video summarization, the synopsis is not just composed of frames from the original video. [1] The algorithm detects, tracks and analyzes moving objects (also called events) in a database of objects and activities. [2]
For example, the set cover problem is a special case of submodular optimization, since the set cover function is submodular. The set cover function attempts to find a subset of objects which cover a given set of concepts. For example, in document summarization, one would like the summary to cover all important and relevant concepts in the document.