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Swansea University (Welsh: Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, [4] as the fourth college of the University of Wales.
Night of January 16th is a play by Ayn Rand inspired by the death of Ivar Kreuger, an industrialist and accused swindler known as the Match King.The play is set in a courtroom during a murder trial and audience members are chosen to play the jury.
Body to Body, Job to Job (stylized on the cover as Body To Body Job To Job.) is the third compilation album by the American experimental rock band Swans.It was released simultaneously on LP, CD and audio cassette in 1991.
In a 2009 interview, Gira hinted at the prospect of resurrecting the Swans project. [3] Later that year, many of the tracks that would appear on My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky were released in demo and acoustic form on I Am Not Insane and sold in order to fund the recording process for this album.
The genus Cygnus was introduced in 1764 by the French naturalist François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault. [6] [7] The English word swan, akin to the German Schwan, Dutch zwaan and Swedish svan, is derived from the Indo-European root *swen (H) (' to sound, to sing ').
Woodcut by Robert Elliot Bewick of the swan named in memory of his father by William Yarrell. 1847 edition of Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds.. C. columbianus is the smallest of the Holarctic swans, at 115–150 cm (45–59 in) in length, 168–211 cm (66–83 in) in wingspan and a weight range of 3.4–9.6 kg (7.5–21.2 lb).
The trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) is a species of swan found in North America.The heaviest living bird native to North America, it is also the largest extant species of waterfowl, with a wingspan of 185 to 304.8 cm (6 ft 2 in to 10 ft 2 in).
Is There Really a Mind? is a 2022 limited-edition fundraiser album by American experimental rock band Swans. [1] The album was released in February 2022 on band leader Michael Gira's Young God Records.