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The standard CD version of Christmas Portrait, first issued in 1984, is a "Special Edition" compendium of selected tracks from the Carpenters' two Christmas albums into one 70-minute program, with tracks from each interspersed in the running order; "Ave Maria" was remixed at this time in order to include a choral track that vanished in 1978 and was later found.
Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The works were inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's 1941 State of the Union Address , known as Four Freedoms .
Fir wood is shown to have been used in the Upper and Middle Rhine, Augsburg, Nuremberg, and Saxony. Pinewood was used mainly in Tirol and beech wood only in Saxony. However, in general, oak was the most common substrate used for panel making in the Low Countries, northern Germany, and the Rhineland around Cologne. In France, until the ...
Today's featured picture Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage . The screenplay was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's 1939 novel Detour , and the film was released by the Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the so-called Poverty Row film ...
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Lakota: Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota, with a small portion extending into Nebraska.
Wakeman dedicated August 2019 to record Christmas Portraits. [3] Wakeman arrived at the studio on the first day of recording to find it decorated with "a moth-eaten Christmas tree" with presents and tinsel. [4] The album was recorded with Wakeman's longtime engineer Erik Jordan, who is also credited as a co-producer.
Gaspode the Wonder Dog first appears in the tenth Discworld novel, Moving Pictures. Named for the Gaspode who faithfully stayed by his master's grave and whined, he and a number of other animals gain self-awareness and the ability to speak when the Holy Wood Dream escapes, and is compelled to travel to Holy Wood to break into the nascent film ...
The Lion is an official national animal of England. In the Middle Ages, the lions kept in the menagerie at the Tower of London were Barbary lions. [6] English medieval warrior rulers with a reputation for bravery attracted the nickname "the Lion": the most famous example is Richard I of England, known as Richard the Lionheart. [7]