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A gadfly is a person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at authorities. The term has a modern use but it was originally associated with the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates , as portrayed in Plato 's Apology when Socrates was on trial for his life .
The Gadfly, a 1958 Russian opera by Antonio Spadavecchia; Gadfly Online, an online and print magazine; The Gadfly, a 1906–1909 Australian literary magazine produced by C. J. Dennis; The Gadfly, a 2003 album by LPG; The Gadfly, a fictional play in the novels of Geoffrey Trease, see The Hills of Varna
Gadfly Magazine was a periodical that was created in February 1997 and launched as a full-size print publication in January 1998. [1] The publisher is the Rutherford Institute. [2] The magazine is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the Utne Reader's Eleventh Annual Alternative Press Awards, in 1999, it won for best Cultural Coverage. [3] [4]
The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged by Levon Atovmyan from Dmitri Shostakovich's score for the 1955 Soviet film The Gadfly, based on the novel of the same name by Ethel Lilian Voynich. [1]
The Gadfly or the Son of the Cardinal by George Bernard Shaw. This version was created at Voynich's request to forestall other dramatisations. [9] 1899. The Gadfly by Edward E. Rose, commissioned by Stuart Robson. Voynich described this version as an "illiterate melodrama", and tried to get an injunction to stop it being performed. [10] 1906.
Gadfly runs wherever Python runs and supports client/server on any platform that supports the standard Python socket interface. The file formats used by Gadfly for storage are cross-platform—a gadfly database directory can be moved from Windows 95 to Linux using a binary copying mechanism and gadfly will read and run the database.
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters.This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses and the storm petrels.
Aaron Smith is the founder of The Magic Depot, [7] [8] [9] a magic trick retailer in Oklahoma, and Gadfly Magic, [10] the production company for his more than one-hundred products currently distributed to magicians worldwide.