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Official Great Works Draft (3 Viewers)

Whoa, surprised to see this movie still available. One of the best comedy movies ever.

32.09 - Modern Times, Movie

Wanted to go with the other movie because of its great ending, but I like this one better. Directed by, written by, and starring Charlie Chaplin ... composed most of the music too I think.

 
Mister CIA said:
Whoa, surprised to see this movie still available. One of the best comedy movies ever.

32.09 - Modern Times, Movie

Wanted to go with the other movie because of its great ending, but I like this one better. Directed by, written by, and starring Charlie Chaplin ... composed most of the music too I think.
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There are a couple of other ones, IMO. Great pick here though :rolleyes:
 
Mister CIA said:
Whoa, surprised to see this movie still available. One of the best comedy movies ever.

32.09 - Modern Times, Movie

Wanted to go with the other movie because of its great ending, but I like this one better. Directed by, written by, and starring Charlie Chaplin ... composed most of the music too I think.
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Big-time value here.
 
BobbyLayne said:
Thanks, Abrantes - I just don't want to hold the draft up, will be out for a few hours.

Will come back later with my fancy smancy fonts and writeup.
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33.07 - Heart of Darkness - Novel(la)Joseph Conrad

A novella, Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad’s most famous work and a foundational text on the subject of colonialism. Heart of Darkness is based in part on a trip that Conrad took through modern-day Congo during his years as a sailor. He captained a ship that sailed down the Congo River. Conrad gave up this mission because an illness forced him to return to England, where he worked on his novella almost a decade later.

The presence of ill characters in the novella illustrates the fact that Heart of Darkness is, at least in part, autobiographical. Many speculations have been made about the identity of various characters, such as the Manager, or Kurtz, most recently and perhaps most accurately in Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost. But the geographical, as well as biographical, vagueness of the novel--which is one of its most artistic, haunting characteristics--make it almost impossible to pin down these details for sure.

Heart of Darkness first appeared in a three-part series in Blackwood Magazine in 1899. It was published as a complete novella in 1904. It has since been referred to by many authors and poets. Its most famous lines are both from Kurtz: “exterminate the brutes,” and Kurtz's deathbed utterance, “the horror! The horror!”

Francis Ford Coppola directed the film version, Apocalypse Now, in which the action occurs in Vietnam in 1979

 
Mister CIA said:
Whoa, surprised to see this movie still available. One of the best comedy movies ever.

32.09 - Modern Times, Movie

Wanted to go with the other movie because of its great ending, but I like this one better. Directed by, written by, and starring Charlie Chaplin ... composed most of the music too I think.
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I am sad to say I thought of another film originally. The one with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. Nevermind!!
 
Mister CIA said:
Whoa, surprised to see this movie still available. One of the best comedy movies ever.

32.09 - Modern Times, Movie

Wanted to go with the other movie because of its great ending, but I like this one better. Directed by, written by, and starring Charlie Chaplin ... composed most of the music too I think.
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Great pick.
 
Wow. Things getting mighty dusty in here.

It might be time for the cherry on top of this finished cake: a Studs post.

 
Tides timed out at :08. Big Rocks OTC. Let's get this rolling again....

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31.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not around)

32.02 - Tirnan (autoskip if not around)

32.09 - Team CIA (autoskip)

32.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

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33.08 - Tides of War (timed out)

33.09 - Big Rocks - OTC until :08

33.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

33.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15)

33.12 - Team CIA (autoskip)

33.13 - Uncle Humuna

33.14 - MisfitBlondes

33.15 - Bob Lee Swagger

33.16 - Scott Norwood

33.17 - DC Thunder

 
I would like to get some picks in today!!! I hope this gets moving. I have both Uncle Humana and my picks staged up and ready to post so Swagger and Norwood can be ready.

 
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:shrug:
 
Wow - was not expecting it to get back to me that fast, guess I did not realize the large number of skips going on yesterday

Please skip me if I am on the clock now, and I will pick shortly

 
33.09 Metallica (The Black Album) by Metallica, Album

Songs on the album:

1 Enter Sandman

2 Sad but True

3 Holier Than Thou

4 The Unforgiven

5 Wherever I May Roam

6 Don't Tread on Me

7 Through the Never

8 Nothing Else Matters

9 Of Wolf and Man

10 The God That Failed

11 My Friend of Misery

12 The Struggle Within

Wiki link

 
We've had lots of inventions revolving around electricity... Uncle Hummus swiped what I thought was the most important (dynamo) as a means of generating it (reason I took it as Faraday's Discovery). I'm going to take one that's just about as important IMO- generating it is one thing, but disseminating it to the public is massive.

33.11 Invention, Electrical Grid- Edison, Tesla

Main article: History of electric power transmission-

Besides telegraph lines, multiple electric lines were required for each class of device requiring different voltages.In the early days of commercial use of electric power, transmission of electric power at the same voltage as used by lighting and mechanical loads restricted the distance between generating plant and consumers. In 1882 generation was with direct current, which could not easily be increased in voltage for long-distance transmission. Different classes of loads – for example, lighting, fixed motors, and traction (railway) systems – required different voltages, and so used different generators and circuits. [8]

Due to this specialization of lines and because transmission was so inefficient that generators needed to be close by their loads, it seemed at the time that the industry would develop into what is now known as a distributed generation system with large numbers of small generators located nearby their loads. [9]

In 1886 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a 1kV AC distribution system was installed. That same year, AC power at 2kV, transmitted 30 km, was installed at Cerchi, Italy. At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888, Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture entitled A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers, describing the equipment which allowed efficient generation and use of polyphase alternating currents. The transformer, and Tesla's polyphase and single-phase induction motors, were essential for a combined AC distribution system for both lighting and machinery. Ownership of the rights to the Tesla patents was a key commercial advantage to the Westinghouse Company in offering a complete alternating current power system for both lighting and power.

Nikola Tesla's Alternating current polyphase generators on display at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Tesla's polyphase innovations revolutionized transmission.Regarded as one of the most influential innovations for the use of electricity, the "universal system" used transformers to step-up voltage from generators to high-voltage transmission lines, and then to step-down voltage to local distribution circuits or industrial customers[10]. By a suitable choice of utility frequency, both lighting and motor loads could be served. Rotary converters and later mercury-arc valves and other rectifier equipment allowed DC load to be served by local conversion where needed. Even generating stations and loads using different frequencies could be interconnected using rotary converters. By using common generating plants for every type of load, important economies of scale were achieved, lower overall capital investment was required, load factor on each plant was increased allowing for higher efficiency, a lower cost for the consumer and increased overall use of electric power.

By allowing multiple generating plants to be interconnected over a wide area, electricity production cost was reduced. The most efficient available plants could be used to supply the varying loads during the day. Reliability was improved and capital investment cost was reduced, since stand-by generating capacity could be shared over many more customers and a wider geographic area. Remote and low-cost sources of energy, such as hydroelectric power or mine-mouth coal, could be exploited to lower energy production cost. [10]

The first transmission of three-phase alternating current using high voltage took place in 1891 during the international electricity exhibition in Frankfurt. A 25 kV transmission line, approximately 175 kilometers long, connected Lauffen on the Neckar and Frankfurt.

Voltages used for electric power transmission increased throughout the 20th century. By 1914 fifty-five transmission systems each operating at more than 70 kV were in service. The highest voltage then used was 150 kV. [11]

The rapid industrialization in the 20th century made electrical transmission lines and grids a critical part of the economic infrastructure in most industrialized nations. Interconnection of local generation plants and small distribution networks was greatly spurred by the requirements of World War I, where large electrical generating plants were built by governments to provide power to munitions factories; later these plants were connected to supply civil load through long-distance transmission. [12]
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Uncle Humuna's Pick

33.13 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Novel)

Write up later . . .

 
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MisfitBlondes' Pick

33.14 The Guinness Book of World Records (Non-fiction)

On 4 May 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party in North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the koshin golden plover or the grouse. That evening at Castlebridge House he realized that it was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird.

Beaver thought that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs in Britain and Ireland, but there was no book with which to settle arguments about records. He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular.

Beaver’s idea became reality when Guinness employee Christopher Chataway recommended student twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The brothers were commissioned to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records in August 1954. One thousand copies were printed and given away.

After founding the Guinness Book of Records at 107 Fleet Street, the first 197-page edition was bound on 27 August 1955 and went to the top of the British bestseller lists by Christmas. "It was a marketing give away—it wasn't supposed to be a money maker," said Beaver. The following year it launched in the U.S., and it sold 70,000 copies.
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It made me happy to learn this likely all began as drunk debating. I love drunk debating.
 
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You're up.

 
Once again I will try to find a way to fit this into my attempted theme - in whatever desperate way I can contrive, but I cannot pass on such value. I checked the lists twice to make sure this has not been picked, and am shocked to not see it.

33.08 - Statue of Zeus at Olympia - Wild Card

One of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World

Link to Artists rendering

from wikki.....................

The seated statue, some 12 meters (39 feet) tall, occupied the whole width of the aisle of the temple built to house it. "It seems that if Zeus were to stand up," the geographer Strabo noted early in the first century BC, "he would unroof the temple."[2] Zeus was a chryselephantine sculpture, made of ivory and gold-plated bronze. No copy, in marble or bronze, has survived, though there are recognizable but approximate versions on coins of nearby Elis and Roman coins and engraved gems[3] A very detailed description of the sculpture and its throne was recorded by the traveller Pausanias, in the second century AD. The sculpture, was wreathed with shoots of olive and seated on a magnificent throne of cedarwood, inlaid with ivory, gold, ebony, and precious stones. In Zeus' right hand there was a small statue of crowned Nike, goddess of victory, also chryselephantine, and in his left hand, a sceptre inlaid with gold, on which an eagle perched.[4] Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person,” while the Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.[5]

The date of the statue, in the third quarter of the fifth century BC, long a subject of debate, was confirmed archaeologically by the rediscovery and excavation of Phidias' workshop.

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him -- whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him -- the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 - 530 of Homer´s Iliad [6]:

ἦ καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ' ὀφρύσι νεῦσε Κρονίων

ἀμβρόσιαι δ' ἄρα χαῖται ἐπερρώσαντο ἄνακτος

κρατὸς ἀπ' ἀθανάτοιο μέγαν δ' ἐλέλιξεν Ὄλυμπον.

He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows,

and the immortally anointed hair of the great god

swept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken. [7]

The sculptor also was reputed to have immortalized his eromenos, Pantarkes, by carving "Pantarkes kalos" into the god's little finger, and placing a relief of the boy crowning himself at the feet of the statue.[8]
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The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece

The massive gold statue of the king of the Greek gods was built in honor of the original Olympic games, which began in the ancient city of Olympia.

The statue, completed by the classical sculptor Phidias around 432 B.C., sat on a jewel-encrusted wooden throne inside a temple overlooking the city. The 40-foot-tall (12-meter-tall) figure held a scepter in one hand and a small statue of the goddess of victory, Nike, in the other—both made from ivory and precious metals.

The temple was closed when the Olympics were banned as a pagan practice in A.D. 391, after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

The statue was eventually destroyed, although historians debate whether it perished with the temple or was moved to Constantinople (now Istanbul) in Turkey and burned in a fire.
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