Joe South (February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden". Career Born Joseph Alfred Souter, South started his pop career in July 1958 with the NRC Records novelty hit "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor". After this hit, South's music grew increasingly serious. In 1959, South wrote two songs which were recorded by Gene Vincent: "I Might Have Known", which...

May East (also known as Maria Elisa Capparelli Pinheiro) is a Brazilian musician and an activist. As a musician, East started her career as a singer in the band Gang 90 & Absurdettes in 1981. In 1984 she released her first single, "Fire in the jungle/Índio", in Brazil and The Netherlands and some months later, her first album, Remota Batucada. The music was an original brand of electronica, folk music, and new wave pop. East also released the albums Tabapora and Charites. She moved to England and then to the Scottish community of Findhorn, where she focused on ecological activism and st...

Allen Upward (1863 – 12 November 1926) was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914. Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin). While living in Dublin, he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Irish Home Rule. Upward later worked for the British Foreign Office in Kenya as a judge. Back in Britain, he defended Havelock Wilson and other labour leaders and ran for ...

Downes is a surname of Irish and English origin, and may refer to: * Aidan Downes, Irish footballer * Andrew Downes (composer) * Andrew Downes (scholar) * Danny Downes, fighter * David Downes (Irish composer) * Doris Downes, American artist * Edward Downes (1911–2001), American musicologist, critic and quizmaster for the Metropolitan Opera * Sir Edward Downes (1924-2009), British conductor * Geoff Downes, English musician * John Downes (disambiguation) * Jonathan Downes * Katie Downes * Lorraine Downes, New Zealand beauty queen * Melissa Downes, Australian news presenter * Olin Downes, Ame...

The Star Sisters were a female Dance/Pop trio from The Netherlands that were very popular during the 1980s, most notably as the ladies who performed the chorus as members of Jaap Eggermont's studio act Stars on 45 and in a spinoff in which they performed as The Andrews Sisters in a medley that charted internationally in 1984. The members were Sylvana van Veen (B. 1950), Patricia Paay (B. April 7, 1949) and Yvonne Keeley (B. September 6, 1952). Paay and Keeley are sisters in real life. In 1984, they performed a song (during the film's end credits) on the Japanese film The Return of Godzill...

The Star Sisters were a female Dance/Pop trio from The Netherlands that were very popular during the 1980s, most notably as the ladies who performed the chorus as members of Jaap Eggermont's studio act Stars on 45 and in a spinoff in which they performed as The Andrews Sisters in a medley that charted internationally in 1984. The members were Sylvana van Veen (B. 1950), Patricia Paay (B. April 7, 1949) and Yvonne Keeley (B. September 6, 1952). Paay and Keeley are sisters in real life. In 1984, they performed a song (during the film's end credits) on the Japanese film The Return of Godzill...

Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde (written in 1981) is a book dedicated to peculiarities of the Dutch language. It was written by 'Battus', one of many pseudonyms of Hugo Brandt Corstius. The title means "Upperlandic Language and Linguistics", where "Upperlandic" is word play on "Netherlandic". The book has ten chapters, numbered 0 through 9, that humoristically use the Dutch language. Chapters are interleaved, with all odd pages belonging to different chapters than the adjacent even pages. This confusion is, of course, intentional. Different fonts are used for both sets of pages. Chapter ...

Edinburgh (; ) is the capital city of Scotland, situated on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. With a population of 482,640 in 2012, it is the largest settlement in Lothian and lies at the centre of a Larger Urban Zone with a population of 817,800 {{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919. During its most successful period in the 1920s and 1930s, it dominated the civil aviation market. Fokker went into bankruptcy in 1996, and its operations were sold to competitors. History At age 20, Anthony Fokker built his initial aircraft, the Spin (Spider)—the first Dutch-built plane to fly in his home country. Taking advantage of better opportunities in Germany, he mov...

{| |} The Denney Kitfox is a series of small personal kit aircraft with folding wings that was originally designed and manufactured by Dan Denney and his company Denney Aerocraft of Boise, Idaho. The Kitfox is unique in that it was one of the first designs to make popular a quickly folding wing that greatly eased transportation and storage. The aircraft is amateur-built and not type certified and was originally designed to accommodate a Rotax engine. The large appeal of the aircraft was in large part due to the fact it could be built by any handyman in a two car garage and the...

Gaston is a comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. The series focuses on the every-day life of Gaston Lagaffe (whose surname means "the blunder"), a lazy and accident-prone office junior. Gaston is very popular in large parts of Europe (especially in Belgium and France), but except for a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 90s (as Gomer Goof), there is no published English translation. Gaston Lagaffe goes by different names in various languages and countries: Guust Flater in Dutch, Tomás el Gafe in Spanish, S...