Walter Brown ("Brownie") McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. Life and career Brownie McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. As a child he had polio, which incapacitated his leg. His brother Granville "Sticks" or "Stick" McGhee was nicknamed for pushing young Brownie around in a cart. His father, George McGhee, was a factory worker known around University Avenue for playing guitar and singing. Brownie's uncle made him a ...

Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name. The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Richard Flournoy. This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. When the Blondie film series came to an end with Beware of Blondie in 1950, it was announced that it would be replaced with a series of Gasoline Alley movies. However, only two such films were made, Gasoline Alley (1951) and Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951). Columbia then reissued t...

A blondie (also known as a "blond[e] brownie" or "blondie bar") is a rich, sweet dessert bar. It is made from flour, brown sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, and vanilla, and may also contain walnuts or pecans. Chocolate chip blondies may contain white or dark chocolate chips. A blondie may have a taste reminiscent of butterscotch. Blondies resemble the traditional chocolate brownie, but are based on brown sugar instead of cocoa; they are sometimes referred to as blonde brownies. They are baked in a pan in the oven similar to how traditional brownies are baked, then cut into rectangul...

The subjunctive is a grammatical mood found in many languages. Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or action that has not yet occurred – the precise situations in which they are used vary from language to language. The subjunctive is an irrealis mood (one that does not refer directly to what is necessarily real) – it is often contrasted with the indicative, which is a realis mood. Subjunctives occur most often, although not exclusively, in subordinate clauses, particularly th...

De kwadratuur van de cirkel is een wiskundig vraagstuk, dat voor het eerst is geformuleerd door meetkundigen in het oude Griekenland, onder meer Anaxagoras, Hippocrates, Archimedes en Dinostratos. De vraag is of het mogelijk is om, met behulp van alleen passer en liniaal in een eindig aantal stappen een vierkant te construeren met exact dezelfde oppervlakte als een gegeven cirkel. De Griek Oenopides is wellicht de eerste geweest die de restricties omschreef van de toegestane middelen. Onmogelijkheid Het vraagstuk dateert uit de tijd van de uitvinding van de meetkunde, en heeft duizende...

Als Stuck (von ital. stucco) wird die plastische Ausformung von Mörteln aller Art, im Allgemeinen auf verputzten Wänden, Gewölben und Decken bezeichnet. Seit der Antike bis heute ist Stuck eine wichtige Technik für die Gestaltung von Innenräumen und Fassaden. Eine besondere Stucktechnik ist das Sgraffito. Die Bezeichnung „Stuck“ umfasst alle Arbeiten mit Mörteln, von einer einfachen Fassadengestaltung mit Gesimsen bis hin zu großflächigen, plastischen Wand- und Deckengestaltungen mit opulenten, plastischen Formen des Barock und Rokoko. Seit der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert werden F...