Annie Dillard

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}}Annie Dillard' (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

Early life and An American Childhood
Annie Dillard was the eldest of three daughters in her family. Early childhood details can be drawn from Annie Dillard's autobiography, An American Childhood (1987), about growing up in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It starts in 1950 when she was five. Dillard's memoir An American Childhood focuses on "waking up" from a self-absorbed childhood, and becoming immersed in the present moment of the larger world. She grew up in Pittsburgh in the 50s in "a house full of comedians." She describes her mother as an energetic non-conformist. Her father taught her many useful subjects such as plumbing, economics, and the intricacies of the novel On the Road, though by the end of her adolescence she begins to realize neither of her parents is infallible.

In her autobiography, Dillard describes reading a wide variety of subjects including geology, natural history, entomology, epidemiology, and poetry, among others. Among the influential books from her youth were The Natural Way to Draw and Field Book of Ponds and Streams because they allowed her a way to interact with the present moment and a way of escape, respectively. Her days were filled with exploring, piano and dance classes, rock collecting, bug collecting, drawing, and reading books from the public library including natural history and military history such as World War II.

As a child, Dillard attended the Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, though her parents did not attend. She spent four summers at the First Presbyterian Church (FPC) Camp in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. As an adolescent, she quit attending church because of "hypocrisy". When she told her minister of her decision, she was given four volumes of C. S. Lewis's broadcast talks, from which she appreciated that author's philosophy on suffering, but elsewhere found the topic inadequately addressed.

She attended Pittsburgh Public Schools until fifth grade, and then The Ellis School until college.

College and writing career
Dillard attended Hollins College (now Hollins University), in Roanoke, Virginia, where she studied literature and creative writing. She married her writing teacher, the poet R. H. W. Dillard, eight years her senior. Dillard stated: "In college I learned how to learn from other people. As far as I was concerned, writing in college didn't consist of what little Annie had to say, but what Wallace Stevens had to say. I didn't come to college to think my own thoughts, I came to learn what had been thought." In 1968 she earned an MA in English. Her thesis on Henry David Thoreau showed how Walden Pond functioned as "the central image and focal point for Thoreau's narrative movement between heaven and earth." Dillard spent the first few years after graduation oil painting, writing, and keeping a journal. Several of her poems and short stories were published, and during this time she also worked for Johnson's Anti-Poverty Program.

Dillard's works have been compared to those by Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and John Donne, and she cites Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Graham Greene, George Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway among her favorite authors.

Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
In her first book of poems, Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974), Dillard first articulated themes that she would later explore in other works of prose.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dillard's journals served as a source for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), a nonfiction narrative about the natural world near her home in Roanoke, Virginia. Although the book contains named chapters, it is not (as some critics assumed) a collection of essays. Early chapters were published in The Atlantic, Harpers, and Sports Illustrated. The book describes God by studying creation, leading one critic to call her "one of the foremost horror writers of the 20th Century." In The New York Times, Eudora Welty said the work was "admirable writing" that reveals "a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled... [an] intensity of experience that she seems to live in order to declare," but "I honestly don't know what [Dillard] is talking about at... times."

The book won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Dillard was 29.

Holy the Firm
One day, Dillard decided to begin a project in which she would write about whatever happened on Lummi Island within a three-day time period. When a plane crashed on the second day, Dillard began to contemplate the problem of pain and God's allowance of "natural evil to happen". Although Holy the Firm (1977) was only 66 pages long, it took her 14 months, writing full-time, to complete the manuscript. In The New York Times Book Review novelist Frederick Buechner called it "a rare and precious book." Some critics wondered whether Dillard was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs while writing the book. Dillard replied that she was not.

Teaching a Stone to TalkTeaching a Stone to Talk (1982) is a book of 14 short nonfiction narrative and travel essays. The essay "Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos" won the New York Women's Press Club award, and "Total Eclipse" was chosen for Best American Essays of the [20th] Century (2000). As Dillard herself notes, "'The Weasel is lots of fun; the much-botched church service is (I think) hilarious." Following the first hardcover edition of the book, the order of essays was changed. Initially "Living Like Weasels" was first, followed by "An Expedition to the Pole." "Total Eclipse" was found between "On a Hill Far Away" and "Lenses."

The essays in Teaching a Stone to Talk:
"Total Eclipse"
"An Expedition to the Pole"
"In the Jungle"
”Living Like Weasels”
"The Deer at Providencia"
"Teaching a Stone to Talk"
"On a Hill Far Away"
"Lenses"
"Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos"
"A Field of Silence"
"God in the Doorway"
"Mirages"
"Sojourner"
"Aces and Eights"

Living by Fiction
In Living by Fiction (1982), Dillard produced her "theory about why flattening of character and narrative cannot happen in literature as it did when the visual arts rejected deep space for the picture plane." She later said that, in the process of writing this book, she talked herself into writing an old-fashioned novel.

Encounters with Chinese WritersEncounters with Chinese Writers (1984) is a work of journalism. One part takes place in China, where Dillard was a member of a delegation of six American writers and publishers, following the fall of the Gang of Four. In the second half, Dillard hosts a group of Chinese writers, whom she takes to Disneyland along with Allen Ginsberg. Dillard describes it as "hilarious."

The Writing LifeThe Writing Life (1989) is a collection of short essays in which Dillard "discusses with clear eye and wry wit how, where and why she writes". The Boston Globe called it "a kind of spiritual Strunk & White, a small and brilliant guidebook to the landscape of a writer's task." The Chicago Tribune wrote that, "For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." The Detroit News called it "a spare volume...that has the power and force of a detonating bomb." According to a biography of Dillard written by her husband Robert D. Richardson and posted on her official website, Dillard "repudiates The Writing Life, except for the last chapter, the true story of stunt pilot Dave Rahm."

The Living
Dillard's first novel, The Living (1992), centers around the first European settlers of the Pacific Northwest coast. While writing the book, she never allowed herself to read works that postdated the year she was writing about, nor did she use anachronistic words.

Mornings Like ThisMornings Like This (1995) is a book dedicated to found poetry. Dillard took and arranged phrases from various old books, creating poems that are often ironic in tone. The poems are not related to the original books' themes. "A good trick should look hard and be easy," said Dillard. "These poems were a bad trick. They look easy and are really hard."

For the Time BeingFor the Time Being (1999) is a work of narrative nonfiction. Its topics mirror the various chapters of the book and include "birth, sand, China, clouds, numbers, Israel, encounters, thinker, evil, and now." In her own words on this book, she writes, "I quit the Catholic Church and Christianity; I stay near Christianity and Hasidism."

The MaytreesThe Maytrees (2007) is Dillard's second novel. The story begins after World War II and tells of a lifelong love between a husband and wife who live in Provincetown, Cape Cod. It was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2008.

Awards
Dillard's books have been translated into at least 10 languages. Her 1975 Pulitzer-winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, made Random House's survey of the century's 100 best nonfiction books. The LA Times' survey of the century's 100 best Western novels includes The Living. The century's 100 best spiritual books (ed. Philip Zaleski) also includes Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The 100 best essays (ed. Joyce Carol Oates) includes "Total Eclipse," from Teaching a Stone to Talk. Two of Dillard's books have won Maurice-Edgar Cointreau Prizes for Best Translation in English. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won in 1999 and For the Time Being in 2002. Both were translated by Sabine Porte.

In 2000, Dillard's For the Time Being received the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

To celebrate its city's centennial in 1984, the Boston Symphony commissioned Sir Michael Tippett to compose a symphony. He based part of its text on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

In 2005, artist Jenny Holzer used An American Childhood, along with three other books, in her light-based 'scrolling' artwork "For Pittsburgh", installed at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.

On September 10, 2015, Dillard was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

Personal life

Relationships

In 1965, Annie (who was then Annie Doak) married her creative writing professor, Richard Dillard. In 1975, they divorced amicably and she moved from Roanoke to Lummi Island near Bellingham, Washington. She taught at Western Washington University part-time as a writer-in-residence. She later married Gary Clevidence, an anthropology professor at WWU's Fairhaven College, and they have a child, Cody Rose. Dillard has been married for over two decades to the historical biographer Robert D. Richardson, whom she met after sending him a fan letter about his book Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.Teaching
In 1975, Dillard moved to the Pacific Northwest and taught for four years at Fairhaven College and Western Washington University. In 1980, she began what would become a 21-year teaching career in the English department of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Religion
After college Dillard says she became "spiritually promiscuous." Her first prose book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, makes references not only to Christ and the Bible, but also to Islam, and Judaism, Buddhism, and Inuit spirituality. Dillard for a while converted to Roman Catholicism around 1988. This was described in detail in a New York Times overview of her work in 1992.
In 1994 she won the Campion Award, given to a Catholic writer every year by the editors of America. In her 1999 book, For the Time Being, she describes her abandonment of Christianity, describing the supposed absurdity of some Christian doctrines, while stating she still stays near Christianity, and continuing to valorize Catholic writer Teilhard de Chardin. Her personal website lists her religion as "none."

Philanthropy
Sales of Dillard's paintings benefit Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit international health organization founded by Dr. Paul Farmer. Dillard's art is available on her website.

Major works

 1974 Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
 1977 Holy The Firm
 1982 Living By Fiction
 1982 Teaching a Stone To Talk
 1984 Encounters with Chinese Writers
 1987 An American Childhood
 1989 The Writing Life
 1992 The Living
 1995 Mornings Like This: Found Poems
 1999 For the Time Being
 2007 The Maytrees
 2016 The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old & New''

References

Further reading

External links

 NPR: Tsunami Commentary: Dots In Blue Water (Audio)
 Washington Post: In Conversation With Annie Dillard
 NPR: Excerpt: The Maytrees, read by Annie Dillard
 New York Times review of The Maytrees
 Slate review of The Maytrees
 Open Letters review of 'The Maytrees''
 Wonder Woman – The Epiphanies of Annie Dillard (Literary essay)

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List of newspaper comic strips P–Z

Parent article: List of comic strips; Siblings: A–F • G–O • P–Z

P
 Pääkaupunki (1997– ) by Tarmo Koivisto (Finland)
 Padded Cell (1915–1918) by A. E. Hayward (US)
 The Pajama Diaries (2006–2020) by Terri Libenson (US)
 Pam (1929–1942) by A. W. Brewerton and later S. L. Huntley
 Panda (1946–1991) by Marten Toonder (NL)
 Pardon Our Planet (1996– ), first titled I Need Help, then Pardon My Planet, by Vic Lee (US)
 Pa's Son-in-Law (1924–1941) by Charles H. Wellington
 Patrick (1965–1969) by Malcolm Hancock (US)
 Pauline McPeril (1966–1969) by Jack Rickard and Mell Lazarus (US)
 Paul Temple (1951–1971) by Francis Durbridge, Alfred Sindall, Bill Bailey and John McNamara (UK)
 Pavlov (1979– ) by Ted Martin
 PC & Pixel (1998– ) by Tak Bui (CAN)
 Peaches, Queen of the Universe, see Eyebeam
 Peanuts (1950–2000) by Charles M. Schulz (US)
 Pearls Before Swine (1999– ) by Stephan Pastis (US)
 Pee Wee (1938–1986) nominally by Jerry Iger
 Pee Wee Harris (1952– ) from Percy Keese Fitzhugh's 1915 series, drawn by Alfred B. Stenzel, then Mike Adair
 Peggy (1946–1960) by Chuck Thurston, and later Art Sansom, Marilyn Troyer, and Elmarine Howard
 Penmen (1996– ) by Gary Blehm (US) – webcomic since 2001
 Penny (1943–1970) by Harry Haenigsen (US)
 Pep (2008–2009) by Curtis Kilfoy
  (1953–1986), original title Alfredo, by  (Denmark)
 Percy and Ferdie (1906–1924), first titled The Hall-Room Boys, by H. A. MacGill
 The Perishers (1958–2006) originally by Dennis Collins and Maurice Dodd (UK)
 The Perils of Submarine Boating by C. W. Kahles
 Perkins (1969–1980) by John Miles
 Perky & Beanz (1985–1987) by Russell Myers (US)
 Perry Mason (1950–1952) by Mel Keefer and Charles Lofgren (US)
 The Pet Set (1977–1978) by Doug Borgstedt and Jean Borgstedt
 Peter Panic (1973– ) by Lo Linkert
 Peter Piltdown (1935–1946) by Mel Eaton
 Peter Rabbit (1924–1955) by Harrison Cady, and others later, including Vincent Fago
 Peter Scratch (1965–1967) by Lou Fine (US)
 Pete the Tramp (1933–1963) by Clarence D. Russell
 Petey Dink, first named Gink and Dink (1908–1930) by Charles Voight
 Petting Patty (1929–1930) by Jefferson Machamer
 The Phantom (1936– ) originally by Lee Falk and Ray Moore, currently by Tony DePaul (US)
 Phillip's Flock (1968–1985) by Doc Goodwin
 Phoebe and Her Unicorn (2012– ) by Dana Simpson (originally a webcomic called Heavenly Nostrils before moving to the newspapers in 2015)
 Phoebe's Place (1990–1991) by Bill Schorr (US)
 Pickles (1990– ) by Brian Crane (US)
 Pic-Trix by (1947–1958) by Morrie Brickman
 Pier-Oddities (1953–1962) by Johnny Pierotti
 Pigeon Culture (2011– ) unattributed (US)
Pigtails (~1921–1923) by Mildred Burleigh (US)
 Pip, Squeak and Wilfred (1919–1955) by Bertram Lamb and Austin Payne (UK)
 Piranha Club (1988–2018), first titled Ernie, by Bud Grace (US)
 PIXies (1966–1987) by Jack Wohl
 Plain Jane (1969–1974) by Frank Baginski (US)
 Play-Funnies (1963–1973) not attributed initially, later by Becky
 Pluggers (1993– ) by Gary Brookins; originally by Jeff MacNelly (US)
 Pluribus (1971–1973) by Bill Rechin (US)
 Pocket Cartoons (1946–1957) by Ajay, Cull, Churchill, Phillips, and later Bert Lancaster
  (1950–2004) by  (Denmark)
 Pogo (1948–1975, 1989–1993) originally by Walt Kelly (US)
 Pokey the Penguin (1998– ) by Steve Havelka – webcomic
 The Politician by David Fletcher
 Polly and Her Pals (1912–1958), first titled Positive Polly, by Cliff Sterrett (US)
 Pondus (1996– ) by Frode Øverli (Norway)
 Ponytail (1961–1988) by Lee Holley
 Pooch Café (2001– ) by Paul Gilligan (Canada)
 Poor Arnold's Almanac (1959–61, 1989–90) by Arnold Roth (US)
 Poor Pa (1927–1955) by Claude Callan and later Robert Quillen
 Pop (1921–1960) originally by John Millar Watt (UK)
 Popeye (Thimble Theatre) (1929– ) originally by E.C. Segar (US)
 Pops (1962–1978) by George Wolfe
 Pop's Place (1986–2001) by Sam C. Rawls
 Pot-Shots (1975– ) by Ashleigh Brilliant
 The Potts (1920– ), first titled You and Me, originally by Stan Cross (Australia)
 Pottsy (1958–1972) by Jay Irving
 PreTeena (2001–2008), by Allison Barrows (US)
 Prickly City (2004– ) by Scott Stantis (US)
 Prince (1986) by Winthrop Prince (US)
 Prince of the Palace (1980s–2000s) by Mike Atkinson (UK – Daily Record (Scotland) newspaper)
 Prince Valiant (1937– ) originally by Hal Foster (US)
 Priscilla's Pop (1946–1983) by Al Vermeer, and later Edmund R. "Ed" Sullivan (US)
 Professor Doodle's (1987– ) by Steve Sack and Craig MacIntosh
  (1934–1991) originally by  (France)
 Professor Phumble (1960–1978) by Bill Yates
 Professor Pi (1959–1972) by V. T. Born and later George O. Swanson
 Pssst (1977– ) by J. Maddox
 Pud (1984– ) by Steve Nease (Canada)
 Puffy the Pig (1930–c.1935) originally by Don Flowers
 Pugad Baboy (1988– ) by Apolonio Medina Jr. (Philippines)
 Punaniska (1990s) by Harri Vaalio (Finland)
 Pussycat Princess (1935–1946) by Grace Drayton and Ed Anthony, and later Ruth Carroll
 PvP (1998– ) by Scott Kurtz – webcomic
 Psycops (1995–1999) by Pete Nash, John Cooper and John M Burns. (UK)

Q
 Quality Time (1991–1998) by Gail Machlis
 Queen of the Universe, see Eyebeam
 Queen of Wands (2002–2005) by Aeire – webcomic
 Queenie (1966–1985) by Phil Interlandi
 Queens Counsel (1993– ) by Graham Francis Defries and Alexander Williams (UK)
 The Quigmans (1986–2011) by Buddy Hickerson (US)
 Quincy (1970–1986) by Ted Shearer (US)
 Quirksmith (2006– ) by Grant Woolard – webcomic

R
 Radio Patrol (1934–1950) by Charlie Schmidt and Ed Sullivan
 Radio Raymond (1924) by V. R. Shoemaker
 Raising Duncan (2000–2005) by Chris Browne (US)
 Rasmus Klump (1951–1992) in English entitled Bruin and Barnaby Bear, by C. & V. Hansen (Denmark)
 Real Life (1999– ) by Greg Dean (US) – webcomic
 Real Life Adventures (1991– ) by Lance Aldrich and Gary Wise (US)
 Reality Check (1995– ) by Dave Whamond (US)
 Red and Rover (2000– ) by Brian Basset (US)
 Red Barry (1934–1939) by Will Gould
 Red Knight (1940–1943) by John Welch and Jack McGuire (US)
 Red Meat (1989– ) by Max Cannon (US)
 Red Oasis (2007– ) by multiple authors (US)
 Red Ryder (1938–1964) by Fred Harman (US)
 Redeye (1967–2008) by Gordon Bess, and later Bill Yates and Mel Casson (US)
 Reg'lar Fellers (1917–1949) by Gene Byrnes (US)
 Retail (2006– ) by Norm Feuti (US)
 Retro Geek (2008) by Steve Dickenson and Todd Clark (US)
 Rex Morgan, M.D. (1948– ) created by Nicholas P. Dallis (US)
 Reynolds Unwrapped (1989– ) created by Dan Reynolds (US)
 Rhymes With Orange (1994– ) by Hilary Price (US)
 Ribbons and Haywire (1982–1985) by Steve Carpenter and Ed Wallerstein (US)
 Rick Kane, Space Marshal (1951) by Walter Gibson and Elmer Stoner (US)
 Rick O'Shay (1958–1981) originally by Stan Lynde (US)
 Right Around Home (1938–1964), later entitled Right Around Home with Myrtle, by Dudley Fisher, and later Bob Vittur
 Rink Brody (1946) by H. D. Williams (US)
 Rip Kirby (1946–1999) originally by Alex Raymond (US)
 Ripley's Believe It or Not (1918– ) originally by Robert Ripley (US)
 The Ripples (see The Neighbors)
 Rip Tide (1959–1970) by Grandetti and Ed Herron
 Rivets (1953–1988) by George Sixta
 Robin Malone (1967–1970) by Bob Lubbers
 Robotman (see Monty)
 Rocky (1998– ) by Martin Kellerman (Sweden)
 Rocky the Stone-Age Kid (1940–1943) by Frank Engli (US)
 De Rode Ridder (1959– ) by Willy Vandersteen (Belgium)
 Rollo Rollingstone (1930–1933) originally by Bruce Barr
 Romeo Brown (1954–1963) by Alfred Mazure, Peter O'Donnell and Jim Holdaway (UK)
 Romulus of Rome (1961–1963) by Mike Wong and J. P. Cahn (US)
 Ronaldinho Gaucho (2006–c. 2011) by Mauricio de Sousa (Brazil)
 Rooftop O'Toole (1976–1980) by Jerry Fearing and Bill Farmer (US)
 Room and Board (1936–1958) by Gene Ahern (US)
 Rose Is Rose (1983– ) by Pat Brady (US)
 Rosie's Beau (1930–1943) by George McManus
 Roy Powers, Eagle Scout (c. 1937–1942) by "Paul Powell," Jimmy Thompson, Kemp Starrett, and Charles Coll (US)
 Roy Rogers (1949–1961) by Charles McKimson (US)
 Rubes (1986– ) by Leigh Rubin
 Rudy (1983–1985) by William Overgard (US)
 Rudy Park (2001– ) by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir (US)
 Rufus M'Goofus (1922–1924) by Joe Cunningham (US)
 Ruggles (1935–1957) by Steve Dowling (UK)
 Rugrats (2000–2005) nominally by Nickelodeon (US)
 Running on Empty (2003– ) by Dan Beadle (US)
 Rupert Bear (1920– ) originally by Mary Tourtel (UK)
 Rural Delivery (1951– ) by Paul Gringle, and later Al Smith
 Rural Route (1959–1967, 1979) by Walter Neil Ball
 Rusty Riley (1948–1959) by Frank Godwin and later Rod Reed
 The Ryatts (1955–1994) by Cal Alley and later Jack Elrod (US)
 Rymy-Eetu (1930–1970s) by Erkki Tanttu (Finland)

S
 Sabrina Online (1996–2016) by Eric W. Schwartz – webcomic
 Sad Sack (1946–1958) by George Baker
 Safe Havens (1988– ) by Bill Holbrook (US)
 The Saint (1948–1962) originally by Leslie Charteris and Mike Roy (US)
 Salesman Sam (1925–1936) by George O. Swanson, and later Charles D. Small and Gladys Parker
 Sally Bananas (1969–1973) by Charles Barsotti (US)
 Sally Forth (1968–1974) by Wally Wood (US)
 Sally Forth (1982– ) by Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe; originally by Greg Howard (US)
 Sally's Sallies (1927–1966) by R. J. Scott
 Salt Chuck (1988– ) by Chuck Sharman
 Sam and Fuzzy (2002– ) by Sam Logan – webcomic
 Sam and Silo (1977– ) by Jerry Dumas and Mort Walker (US)
 Sam's Strip (1961–1963) by Jerry Dumas and Mort Walker (US)
 Sandy (1962–1989) by June Unwin, and later George W. Crane and Jim Unwin
 Sandy Highflyer, the Airship Man by C. W. Kahles
 Sappo (1924–1945) by E. C. Segar, and later Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly
 Savvie and Lacey – webcomic
 Sazae-san (1946–1974) by Machiko Hasegawa (Japan)
 Scamp (1955–1988) nominally by Walt Disney (US)
 Scarth A.D. 2195 (1969–circa 1974) by Luis Roca and Jo Addams (UK)
 Scary Gary (2008– ) by Mark Buford
 Scary Go Round (2002– ) by John Allison (UK) – webcomic
 School Days (1917–1932) by Clare Victor Dwiggins (US)
 Scorchy Smith (1930–1961) originally by John Terry (US)
 Scorer (1989–2011) by Barrie Tomlinson, David Sque and David Pugh (UK)
 Screen Girl (1945–1948) by Jim Pabian
 Scroll of Fame (1951–1961) by Arthur S. Curtis
 Scroogie (1975–1976) by Tug McGraw and Mike Witte (US)
 Sea Rations (1974) by Jim Estes
 Second Chances (1997–2000) by Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds (US)
 Secret Agent X-9 (1934–1996), also titled Secret Agent Corrigan, originally by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond (US)
 Secret Asian Man (2007– ) by Tak Toyoshima (US)
 See for Yourself (1946) by George Wunder (US)
 The Seekers (1966–1971) by John M. Burns, Les Lilley, Phillip Douglas and Dick O’Neil (UK)
 Seems Like Yesterday (1939–1947), also titled Home Town Echoes, by Camillus Kesler
 Selling Short (1975–1987) by Don Raden and Ken Ross
 Senator Caucus (1959–1968) by George Levine, and later Pete Wyma
 Sennin Buraku (1956– ) by Kō Kojima (Japan)
 Sentinel Louie (1934–1943) by Otto Soglow
 Service Smiles (1956–1958) by Art Gates (US)
 Seven-O-Heaven (2009– ) by Andrew Goff and Will Startare
 Seventeen (1956–1973) by Arthur Erenberg and Bernie Lansky
 The Shadow (1940–1942) by Walter B. Gibson and Vernon Greene (US)
 Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955) by Edith Meiser and Frank Giacoia (US)
 Sherman on the Mount (1986–1988) by Walt Lee and Michael Fruchey (US)
 Sherman's Alley (1992–1996) by Toby Gibbs and Jerry Voigt (US)
 Sherman's Lagoon (1991– ) by Jim Toomey (US)
 Shirley and Son (2000–2003) by Jerry Bittle (US)
 Shoe (1977– ) originally by Jeff MacNelly (US)
 Shoecabbage (2001– ) by Teresa Burritt and David Stanford (US)
 Shopping Around (1960–1963) by Rolfe Mason
 Short Ribs (1958–1982) by Frank O'Neal, and later Frank Hill (US)
 Shuggie and Duggie (1990s– ) by Bullimore and Anderson (Daily Record (Scotland)) (UK)
 Sibling Revelry (1989–1995) by Man Martin (US)
 Side Glances (1930–1985) by George Clark, and later Gill Fox (US)
 Sidewalk Bubblegum (1993–2002) by Clay Butler
 Sign-O-Rama (1970–1979) by M. W. Martin
 Sigmund (1994-...) by Peter de Wit (Netherlands).
 Silent Sam (1920–1945) originally Adamson, by Oscar Jacobsson (Sweden)
 Silly Milly (1938–1951) by Stan MacGovern
 Silly Philly (1947–1960) by Bil Keane (US)
 Silly Symphony (1932–1945) originally by Earl Duvall and Al Taliaferro (US)
 Simon's Cat (2011–2013) by Simon Tofield (UK)
 Simpkins (1971–1980) originally by George Crenshaw (US)
 Sinfest (2000– ) by Tatsuya Ishida – webcomic S1NGLE (2001– ) by Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit (Netherlands)
 Single and Looking, formerly Out of the Gene Pool (2002–2008) by Matt Janz (US)
 Single Slices (1987–2001) by Peter Kohlsaat (US)
 Sir Bagby (1959–1965) by Rick Hackney and Bill Hackney (US)
 Six Chix (2000– ) by Isabella Bannerman, Margaret Shulock, Rina Piccolo, Anne Gibbons, Kathryn LeMieux, and Stephanie Piro (US)
 Skeets (1932–1951) by Dow O. Walling
 Skippy (1923–1945) by Percy Crosby (US)
 Sky Masters (1958–1961) by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Dick and Dave Wood (US)
 Skyroads (1930–1943) by Lester J. Maitland, and later Dick Calkins, Russell Keaton, and William Winston
 Slim Jim (1924–1942) by Stanley E. Armstrong and others later
 Slow Wave (1995– ) by Jesse Reklaw (US)
 Slowpoke (1998– ) by Jen Sorensen (US)
 Sluggy Freelance (1997– ) by Pete Abrams – webcomic Slylock Fox (1987– ) by Bob Weber Jr. (US)
 Small Fry Diary (1961–1975) by Nonnee Coan
 Small Saves (2000– ) by J. DeMarco (US)
 the small society (1966–1999) by Morrie Brickman and later Bill Yates
 Small Talk (1955–1964) by Samuel R. Gornbein; (1972) by Becky; (1983– ) by Allen H. Kelly, Jr.
 Smart Alex (1995–1996) by Charlie Podrebarac (US)
 Smart Chart (1970–1983) by Herb Stansbury
 S'Matter Pop? (1910–1940) by C. M. Payne (US)
 Smidgens (1962–1974) by Bob Cordray (US)
 Smiles (1924–1939) by Frank Chapman and various others later
 The Smith Family (1951–1994) by Virginia Smith, George Smith, and later Robert Baldwin
 Smitty (1922–1973) by Walter Berndt (US)
 Smokey Stover (1935–1973) by Bill Holman (US)
 The Smythes (1930–1936) by Rea Irvin (US)
 SNAFU (see Beattie Blvd.)
 Snake Tales (1974– ) by Sols (Allan Salisbury) (Australia)
 Sniffy (1964–1973) by George Fett
 Snoodles (1913–1925) by Cy Hungerford
 Snoopy (see Peanuts)
 Snuffy Smith (see Barney Google and Snuffy Smith)
 Somebody's Stenog (1918–1941) by A. E. Hayward, and later Ray Thompson, various others, and Sam Nichols
 Something Positive (2001– ) by R. K. Milholland – webcomic Sonny Boy (1982– ) by Bill Murray
 Sonny Pew (1984) by Jim Estes
 Sonny South (1953–1972) by Court Alderson
 Sonnysayings (1926–1939) by Fanny Cory
 The Sons of Liberty (1975– ) by Richard Lynn
 Soup to Nutz (2000– ) by Rick Stromoski (US)
 Sovereign State of Affairs (1976– ) by Wood and R. David Boyd
 Space Moose (1989–1999) by Adam Thrasher (Canada)
 The Spacers (1978–1992) by Emil V. Abrahamian
 Sparks (1952–1967) by Willis Forbes
 Sparky (1953–1966) by Mel Casson
 Sparky Watts (1940–1942) by Boody Rogers
 Speed Bump (1994– ) by Dave Coverly (US)
 Speed Walker, Private Eye (1972?–?) by Cris Hammond (US)
 Spider-Man (The Amazing Spider-man) (1977– ) by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber (US)
 The Spirit (1940–1952) by Will Eisner (US)
 Spooky (1935–1971) by Bill Holman
 Spooner (2000–2002) by Ted Dawson (US)
 Sport Slants (1942–1955) by Tom Paprocki (US)
 Sports Cartoon (1940–1967) by Tom Paprocki
 The Sports File (1978– ) by Emil V. Abrahamian
 Sport Side-Lights (c. 1920–c. 1930s) by Jack Sords (US)
 Spot the Frog (2004–2008) by Mark Heath (US)
 Spur Line (1954-1955) by Bud Sagendorf
 Squeegee (1980– ) by Ken Muse
 Stacy (1981– ) by Randy Bisson
 Stampede (1974– ) by Jerry Palen
 Starbirds (1995–1996) by Graham Hey (UK)
 Star Hawks (1977–1981) originally by Gil Kane and Ron Goulart (US)
 Star Trek (1979–1982) originally by Thomas Warkentin (US)
 Star Wars (1979–1984) originally by Russ Manning (US)
 Stark Impressions by Bruce Stark (US)
  (1982– ) by Carsten Graabaek (Denmark)
 Stees Sees (1958–1969) by John Stees
 Steve Canyon (1947–1988) by Milton Caniff (US)
 Steve Roper and Mike Nomad (1936–2004), first titled Big Chief Wahoo, originally by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon (US)
 Still Life by Jerry Robinson (US)
 Stoker the Broker (1960–1985) by Henry Boltinoff (US)
 Stone Soup (1995– ) by Jan Eliot (US)
 The Story of Martha Wayne (1953–1962) by Wilson Scruggs
 Strange As It Seems (1928–1970) by John Hix, and later Ernest Hix, Elsie Hix, Ernest Hix Jr., and Phyllis Hix
 Strange Brew by John Deering
 The Strange World of Mr. Mum (1958–1970) by Irving Phillips
 Streaky (1933–1935) by Gus Edson (US)
 Streamer Kelly (1940–1943, 1946–1950) by Jack Ryan (US)
 Strictly Business (1941–1984) by Dale McFeatters (US)
 Strictly Private, later Peter Plink (1940–1948) by Quin Hall
 Strictly Richter (1945–1963) by Mischa Richter
 Striker 3D (The Sun) by Pete Nash (1985– ) (UK)
 Striptease (2000– ) by Chris Daily
  (2002–2010) by  (Germany)
 Student Ghetto (1996–2000) by Adam Miller (US)
 Stumpy Stumbler (1983– ) by Emil V. Abrahamian
 Sturmtruppen (1969–1995) originally by Bonvi (Franco Bonvicini) (Italy)
 Suburbia (1976–1985) by Don Raden
 Such Is Life (1928–1939) by Walt Munson, and later Charles Sughroe, Bo Brown and Kemp Starrett
 Sue to Lou (1928–1938) by Clarence R. Gettier
 Sugar (1949–1961) by Jack Fitch; (1975– ) by Robert L. Gill
 Sunday Laughs Male Cartoons (1980–1993) by Paul Swede
 Sunflower Street (1935–1949) by Tom Little and Tom Sims
 Sunny Sue (1950–1961) by Edna Markham and later Jack Fitch
 The Sunshine Club (2003–2007) by Howie Schneider (US)
 Superandom (2009– ) by Nathan Bowler (Canada)
 Superman (1939–1966) originally by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (US)
 Supermegatopia (1995– ) by Brian Burke and Stuart Burke – webcomic Supernatural Law (1979– ), originally Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, by Batton Lash.
 Susie Q. Smith (1945–1959) by Linda Walter and Jerry Walter
 Suske en Wiske (1945– ), titled Spike and Suzy or Willy and Wanda in English, originally by Willy Vandersteen (Belgium)
 Suzie View (2004– ) by Tauhid Bondia and Erik McCurdy – webcomic Swamp (1981– ) by Gary Clark (Australia)
 Swamp Brats (1981– ) by Warren Sattler
 Sweeney & Son (1934–1960) by Al Posen
 Sweetie Pie (1954–1967) by Nadine Seltzer
 Sydney (1985–1986) by Scott Stantis (US)
 Sykes’ Cartoons (1925–1941) by Bill Sykes
 Sylvia (1978–2012) by Nicole Hollander (US)
 Flightoons (1996–2016 ) by Shujaat Ali (Aviation Cartoonist)  – Flight Safety Newsletter P.A.F. , ( Pakistan )

 T
 Tailspin Tommy (1928–1942) by Glen Chaffin and Hal Forrest (US)
 Tales from the Great Book (1954–1971) by John Lehti
 Tales of the Green Beret (1965–1968) originally by Robin Moore, Joe Kubert and Howard Liss (US)
 Tank McNamara (1974– ) by Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds (US)
 Tar Pit (1993–1994) by Steve Dickenson (US)
 Tarzan (1929–2002) originally by Hal Foster, later by Burne Hogarth, Russ Manning, and others (US)
 Tee Vee Laughs (1975–1985), also known as TV Laffs, by Cliff Rogerson and others
 Teech (1983– ) by Aaron Bacall
 Teena (1945–1963) by Hilda Terry
 Teenage Mum (1994–1996) by Graham Hey (UK)
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990–1997) (US)
 The Teenie Weenies (1924, 1934, 1941–1970) by William Donahey
 Tell It Like It Is (see Dunagin's People)
 The Tenderloiner (1947–1961) by Jack Fitch
 The Terrors of the Tiny Tads (1905–1914) by Gustave Verbeek (US)
 Terry and the Pirates (1934–1973) originally by Milton Caniff (US); (1995) by Michael Uslan and the Brothers Hildebrandt
 Tex Austin (1949–1950) originally by Sam Robins & Tom Fanning (US)
 Tex Benson (1980–1989) originally by Chuck Roblin
 Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton (1925–1958) by Ferd Johnson (US)
 Thatch (1994–1998) by Jeff Shesol (US)
 That Little Game (1917–1927) by Bert Link
 That'll Be the Day (1951–1962) by Fritz Wilkinson
 That's Jake (1986–ended) by Jake Vest
 That's Life (1999–2005) by Mark Twohy (US)
 That's Not the Half of It by Elmer Messner (1926–1927)
 Then – Now (1952–1971) by Fred Fox
 Theophilus (1966–2002) by Bob West (US)
 There Oughta Be a Law! (1944–1984) by Al Fagaly and Harry Shorten, and later Frank Borth, Warren Whipple and Mort Gerberg (US)
 These Women (1946–1963) by Gregory D’Alessio
 They'll Do It Every Time (1929–2008) originally by Jimmy Hatlo (US)
 Thimble Theatre (1919–1966), also titled Thimble Theatre starring Popeye , by E. C. Segar (US)
 Things to Come (1942–1954) by Hank Barrow and later Jim Bresnan
 This and That (1945–1958) by various, including Henry Boltinoff
 This Curious World (1931–1951) by William Ferguson and later George Clark
 This Funny World (1944–1985), gag cartoons by Henry Boltinoff, Ted Key, Don Orehek, Mort Walker and others
 This Is Sport? (1958–1978) by Court Alderson
 This Modern World (1990– ) by Tom Tomorrow (US)
 Thorn McBride (1960–1962) by Frank Giacoia and later Mel Keefer
 Those Browns (1976– ) by Bill Murray (www.billmurrays.com)
 Those Were the Days (1951–1983) by Art Beeman
 Tickle Box (1974–1994) by Ted Trogdon
 Ticklers (1945–1960) by George Scarbo
 Tiffany Jones (1964–1972) by Pat Tourret and Jenny Butterworth (UK)
 Tiger (1965–2003) by Bud Blake (US)
 The Tillers (1945–1960) by Les Carroll
 Tillie the Toiler (1921–1959) by Russ Westover and later Bob Gustafson (US)
 Timbertoes (1946– ) by John Gee (cartoonist) by Marileta Robinson and Judith Hunt (1992–2002)
 Time Out! (1936–1984) by Chet Smith and later Jeff Keate
 The Timid Soul (1924–1953) by H. T. Webster (US)
 Timmy (1948–1960) by Howard Sparber
 Tim Tyler's Luck (1928–1996) by Lyman Young (US)
 Tina (1983–1994) by D. Lucas
 Tina's Groove (2002–2017) by Rina Piccolo (Canada-USA)
 Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin) (1929–1944) by Hergé (Georges Remi) (Belgium)
 Tiny Sepuku (1997– ) by Ken Cursoe (US)
 Tiny Tim (1932–1958) by Stanley Link
 Tippie (see Cap Stubbs and Tippie)
 Tizzy (1957–1970) by Kate Osann (US)
 Toadstools (1983–1992) by Leonard Bruce and Charles Durck
 Tobias Seicherl (1930–1940) by
 TOBY, Robot Satan (2008– ) by Corey Pandolph
 Today's Laugh (1948–1973) by Tom Henderson and William King, and later Jeff Machamer, Frank Owen, Rodney de Sarro, Reamer Keller, Jeff Keate, Cathy Joachim, Bill Yates, Joe Zeis and Betty Swords
 Today's World (1932–1957) by David Brown
 Todd the Dinosaur (2001– ) by Patrick Roberts
 Tom and Jerry (1950s–1991) (US)
 Tom Corbett — Space Cadet (1951–1953) by  (US)
 Tom Puss (Dutch original Tom Poes) (1941–1986) by Marten Toonder (Netherlands)
 Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1918) by Clare Victor Dwiggins (US); see also Dwig's Huckleberry Finn strip from 1940
 Tom the Dancing Bug (1990– ) by Ruben Bolling (US)
 Tom Trick (1951–1969) by Dale Goss, and later Stan Maays and Mary Goss
 Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler (US)
 The Toodles (1945–1961) by Betsy Baer and Stanley F. Baer
 Toonerville Folks (1908–1955) by Fontaine Fox (sometimes called Toonerville Trolley) (US)
 Toots and Casper (1918–1956) by Jimmy Murphy (US)
 Top Dog (1918–1956) by created by Lennie Herman (writer) and Warren Kremer (artist) (US)
 Top of the World (1985-1987) by Mark Tonra (US)
  (1991– ) by  (Germany)
 Traveling Light (1959–1968) by Bob Sloane, Jim Weakley, and Shirley Sloane, and later Ron Butler and Peter Porges
 Travels with Farley (see Farley)
 The Treadwells (1974–1979), first titled The New Neighbors, by Bob Bugg (US)
 The Trendy's (1983– ) by Jim Horan
 Trevor! by Piper and Lee (Australia)
 Triangle and Robert (1999–2007) by Patrick Shaughnessy – webcomic The Tricky Ones (1983–1993) by Magila
 Trim's Arena (1973–1983) by Hal Trim and later Wayne Stayskal
 Triple Take (2005–2007) by Todd Clark and Scott Nickel
 Troubletown (1988– ) by Lloyd Dangle (US)
 Trudy (1963–2005) by Jerry Marcus (US)
 True Life Adventures (1955–1971) nominally by Walt Disney
 Tuffy (1932–1957) by Syd Hoff
 Tug Transom (1954–1968) by Peter O'Donnell and Alfred Sindall (UK)
 Tumbleweeds (1965–2007) by Tom K. Ryan (US)
 Tundra (1992– ) by Chad Carpenter
 The Turners (2004– ) by Eric Turner (US)
 Turning Back the Times (1947–1961) by Jack Winter
 Tutelandia by Tute (2004–present) (Argentina)
 TV Tee-Hees (1957–1975) by Henry Scarpelli
 Twin Earths (1952–1962) by Alden McWilliams and Oskar Lebeck
 Twitch (1973– ) by Howard Rands
 The World's Greatest Superheroes (1978–1985) originally by Martin Pasko (US)

 U
 The Umbrella Man by John "Dok" Hager
 Uncle Art's Funland (1933– ) by Art Nugent, Jr.
 Uncle Charlie (1959–1978) by Peter Laing
 Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit (1945–1972) nominally by Walt Disney
 Unshelved (2002– ) by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum – webcomic Up Anchor (1968–1972) by Kreigh Collins (US)
 Up Front (1944–1945) by Bill Mauldin (US)
 The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo (1903–1905) by Gustave Verbeek (US)
 U.S. Acres (1986–1989) by Jim Davis (US)
 User Friendly (1997– ) by J. D. Frazer – webcomic V
 The Van Swaggers (1930–1943) by Russ Westover
 Vanhat herrat (1982–2002) by Pauli Heikkilä and Markku Paretskoi
 Varoomshka (1969–1979) by John Kent
 Vater und Sohn (1934–1937) by E. O. Plauen (Erich Ohser) (Germany)
 Vic Flint (1945–1964) by Ralph Lane and Michael O’Malley, and later Dean Miller, Jay Heavilin, Art Sansom, and Russ Winterbotham
 Video Cartoons (1983– ) by various
 Viewpoint (1949–1953) by Dave Gerard
 Vignettes of Life (1925–1960) by Frank Godwin, and later J. Norman Lynd, Leonard Starr and Harry Weinart
 Viivi & Wagner (1996– ) by Jussi Tuomola (Finland)
 Village Square (1966– ) by Chuck Stiles
 Virgil (1943–1960) by Leonard Kleis

 W
 Wallace and Gromit (2010– ) by Mychailo Kazybrid (UK)
 Walnut Cove (1991–1999) by Mark Cullum (US)
 Walt Disney's Donald Duck (1983– ) nominally by Walt Disney
 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (1983– ) nominally by Walt Disney
 Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales (1952–1987) by various artists, including Jesse Marsh and Jack Kirby (US)
 Wapsi Square (2001– ) by Paul "Pablo" Taylor
 War on Crime (1936–1938) by Frank Godwin and Jimmy Thompson (US)
 Wash Tubbs (1924–1988) by Roy Crane, merged with Captain Easy in 1949 (US)
 Watch Your Head (2006– ) by Cory Thomas (US)
 Wayout (1964–1970) by Ken Muse (US)
 Weather Comics (1946–1970) by George Scarbo
 Webster Classics (1954–1980) by H. T. Webster
 Wee Pals (1965–2014) by Morrie Turner (US)
 Wee Willie Winkie's World (1906–1907) by Lyonel Feininger (US)
 Wee Women (1957–1994) by Mell Lazarus and later Jim Whiting (US)
 Welcome To The Jungle (2007– ) by Michael Pohrer (US)
 Werebears and Only Children (2007–2010) by Jennifer Barrett (CA)
 Wes Slade (1960–1982) by George Stokes (UK)
 What a Guy! (1987–1996) by Bill Hoest and later Bunny Hoest (US)
 When I Was Short (1989–1992) by Michael Fry and Guy Vasilovich (US)
 Where I'm Coming From (1989–2004) by Barbara Brandon-Croft
 White Boy (1933–1936) by Garrett Price (US)
 Wildwood (1999–2002) by Dan Wright and Tom Spurgeon (US)
 Williams Cartoons (1928–1942) by Gluyas Williams
 Willie (1948–1963) by Leonard Sansone (US)
 Willie and Joe (1940–1945, special reappearance in 1988 Steve Canyon farewell) by Bill Mauldin (US)
 Willie Dee by Vic Green
 Willie Lumpkin (1959–1961) by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo (US)
 Willie Willis (1925–1948) by Robert Quillen
 Willy 'n Ethel (1981– ) by Joe Martin (US)
 Will-Yum (1953–1966) by Dave Gerard
 Win, Lose & Draw (1985– ) by Drew Litton
 Windy Riley (1927–1932) by Ken Kling
 Winky Ryatt (see The Ryatts)
 Winnie the Pooh (1978–1988) by Disney
 Winnie Winkle (1920–1996) by Martin Branner, and later Max VanBibber, Henry Raduta, J.K.S., and Frank Bolle (US)
 Winthrop, first titled Morty Meekle (1956–1993) by Dick Cavalli
 Witty Kitty (1929–1946) by Nina Wilcox Putnam, and later Walt Spouse, L. Frank, and Carl Kuhn
 The Wizard of Id (1964– ) by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker (US)
 Wonder Woman (1945) by Charles Moulton and H.G. Peter (US)
 Woody's World (1963–1979) by John Holm, and later Bill Potter
 Word-a-Day (1946–1979) by Mickey Bach
 Wordsmith (1976–1978) by Tim Menees
 Working Daze (2001– ) by John Zakour; illustrated originally by Andre Noel, later by Kyle Miller, and currently by Scott Roberts
 Working It Out (2001– ) by Charlos Gary (US)
 The World Museum (1937) by Holling C. Holling (US)
 The World of Lily Wong (1986–2001) by Larry Feign (Hong Kong)
 The World of the Bible (1983– ) by C. Cassel and Fred Cassel
 The World's Greatest Superheroes (1978–1985) originally by George Tuska, Vince Colletta and Marty Pasko (US)
 Wright Angles (1977–1990) by Larry Wright (US)
 Wulffmorgenthaler by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler (2000– ) (Denmark)

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 Y
 Yankee Doodles (1973–1977) by Ben Templeton, Don Kracke, and Fred W. Martin (US)
 The Yellow Kid (see Hogan's Alley)
 Yenny (1988– ) by David Alvarez (Puerto Rico)
 Yo, Matías (1993– ) by Fernando Sendra (Argentina)
 Yogi Bear (1961–1980) by Hanna-Barbera Productions
 You Know Me Al (1922–1925) by Ring Lardner (US)
 Young Hobby Club by Cappy Dick

 Z
 Zack Hill (2003– ) by John Deering and John Newcombe (US)
 Zanies (1977– ) by J. Maddox
 Ze General (1945–1955) by Bob Leffingwell
 Zeus! (1979) by Corky Trinidad (US)
 Ziggy (1971– ) by Tom Wilson (US)
 Zimmie (1912–1913)
 Zippy (1976– ) by Bill Griffith (US)
 Zits'' (1997– ) by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman (US)

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Make Something Up

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread is a collection of short stories published on May 26, 2015 and written by Chuck Palahniuk.

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Dorian Auguiste

Dorian Craig Auguiste (born 28 October 1980) is a Dominican-born former British Virgin Islands cricketer. Auguiste was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break.

In February 2008, the British Virgin Islands were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official Twenty20 status. Auguiste made a single appearance in the tournament against Dominica in a preliminary round defeat, with Auguiste being dismissed for 5 runs by Liam Sebastien.

References

External links
Dorian Auguiste at ESPNcricinfo
Dorian Auguiste at CricketArchive

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Eleven Members

In 1647 eleven Presbyterian Members of the House of Commons of England were singled out by the Grandees of the New Model Army as their principle opponents in the House of Commons. They were accused by the Grandees and their supporters in Parliament of plots to destabilise the kingdom. The Army supporters in Parliament demanded their suspension. They were:

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D.D. Williamson

DDW, The Color House (D.D. Williamson) is a global, privately held corporation providing caramel color, burnt sugar & natural colorings for the food and beverage industry. In 1865, Dutch immigrant Douw Ditmars Williamson founded D.D. Williamson in New York to manufacture burnt sugars for the brewing industry. The caramel industry moved into coloring cola and many other foods following Prohibition and the Great Depression.

Now headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, DDW has nine manufacturing sites for naturally derived coloring on five continents with customers in 100 countries. The company is an emerging leader for natural coloring in yellow, orange and brown hues. Every day more than 2 billion servings of food and beverages containing DDW coloring are consumed around the globe.

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Robert B. Hargraves

Robert B. Hargraves (August 11, 1928 – March 21, 2003) was an American geologist who worked as a professor at Princeton University.

Career
Hargraves was born in Durban, South Africa. He started in his career as mining geologist in 1948, after receiving his BS from Natal University. In 1952, he emigrated to the United States, and after service in the United States Army he went to graduate school at Princeton. After completion of his Ph.D. in 1959, he first worked at University of the Witwatersrand and then at Princeton.

Achievements
Hargraves was a specialists in rock magnetism and petrology. In his career he discovered many impact features on Earth by studying the effects of the impact event on the local rock strata. He was actively involved in the study of rocks from the Moon, returned to Earth by the Apollo missions. He also worked on the Viking program and Pathfinder mission to the planet Mars.

Honors
A crater on Mars is named in his honor.

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Mary Williams (professor)

Mary Williams (1883-1977) was a distinguished Welsh academic of modern languages. Known by her peers as a pioneer in the field of comparative medieval literature, more especially the origin and rise of the Arthurian Romances, she was awarded the Officier d’Academie and Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur by the French government in 1934.

Early life and education
Mary Williams was the elder daughter of Revd. John Williams and Mrs Jane Williams of Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. She was the sister of Jennie Williams (Mrs R. Ruggles Gates) and was brought up in a Welsh Presbyterian household. Her great aunt joe died of cancer at the age of ten when she was only 3. Williams attended Aberystwyth Elementary School and then in 1895, at the age of twelve, was enrolled at Camden School for Girls and then the North London Collegiate School for Girls (Frances Mary Buss Foundation), having obtained the Platt Endowment Scholarship to study. She obtained a first-class certificate in the London Matriculation Examination in 1901.

Academic career and research
Williams attended University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she graduated with First Class Honours in French (1904) and German (1905). Following this, Williams spent two years (1905 to 1907) as a secondary school teacher in Portsmouth and Llandeilo. During this period, Williams studied towards and obtained an M.A.(Wales) by thesis on Wolfram von Eschenbach’s German epic poem "Parzival".

During 1907 - 1910 Mary Williams held a Research Fellowship in the University of Wales. This enabled her to undertake a period of study at the National University of Ireland at Dublin which contributed to the success of her research into the origin of the Arthurian Romances. At the same time, she enrolled at the Sorbonne where in 1910 she obtained a doctorate from the University of Paris, D.es l (D.Lit), producing a thesis dealing with the relation of the Welsh story of Peredur to the French and German versions. The work focused on the influence of Welsh literature and tradition on French Arthurian Romances. With an extensive knowledge of French, Welsh, Medieval Welsh, German language and Literature, this scholarship became her passion and shaped her lifelong career.
 1912-13 University of Manchester, Assistant Lecturer in French.
 1913-18 University of London, King’s College. Lecturer in French Language and Literature.
 1919-20 University of London, King’s College. Reader in French Language and Literature, Reader in Romance Philology, (Head of Department 1920).

During the First World War, Mary Williams also held numerous responsibilities in addition to her full-time academic post at King's College. She taught French and German at London schools, delivered lectures for students reading for the new degree in Commerce in the University of London, and read with students preparing for the Honours B.Sc. degree in Economics and for the Diploma in Engineering. In 1915, the Academic Council of King's College recommended that she be appointed a Reader of the University, but, owing to delay caused by the war, the Readership was not conferred by the Senate until January 1919.

In 1921 Williams was appointed to the newly created post of Professor of French Language and Literature in the Department of Modern Languages at University College Swansea, an early example of a woman achieving a professorial title. This was despite some opposition from established members of the College Council, in the face of gender inequality.  In fact, one of her prominent contemporary supporters Victor Spiers said, "She possesses in an astonishing degree in the power of grasping detail, without losing the due sense of proportion - as women are apt to do - in fact hers is a man’s mind in the best sense of the word". With Williams at the helm, modern language studies were able to thrive and grow into a separate German department in 1932. Williams continued to occupy the Chair of French until 1948.

In 1948 Williams was appointed Professor of French and Acting Head of Department at the University of Durham, a post she held until her retirement in 1952. She subsequently moved to London for a short period, before returning to Aberystwyth. Until 1975 Williams continued her association with University College Swansea as a member of the Court of Governors. The expanding university named a Hall of Residence in her honour in 1967.

Williams was a keen supporter of the National Library of Wales, depositing her research notes and papers in their archive. She died on 17 October 1977 in her ninety-fifth year.

Notable achievements
Her personal achievements included the award of Officier d’Academie and Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. The investiture was held at the Hotel Metropole, Swansea in 1934 for promoting French language and literature to the Welsh nation. It was reported that Williams felt these were "not so much as being personal distinctions but rather as France’s tributes to Wales and to the Welsh contribution to our European cultural heritage".

Mary Williams had initiated a novel student exchange programme with French Universities whilst at UCL. The intended purpose here was to enable students to pursue their studies in France for one or two terms before final examinations. Furthermore, as part of her engagement with the political and civic society of Swansea, along with her husband Dr. George Arbour Stephens, Williams organised the performance of annual French plays for the benefit of the people of Swansea.

Her enthusiasm for her native country of Wales and its advancement and material prosperity contributed to the high esteem in which she was held by her colleagues and the wider community. Described by those who knew her as a great favourite, Williams "was a notable organiser who in a quiet and business-like way demonstrated sterling qualities and a zest for research". Her vitality, wit and sense of fun have been remarked upon by those who have written about her life, although she was known for being an exacting taskmaster to her students.
 First President of University of London Welsh Society
 President of the London Society of Old Aberystwythians
 President of the Folklore Society 1961-1963
 Vice President of the Swansea Liberal Association
 President and Founder of the South Wales Branch of the Modern Language Association

Legacy

There is an active Mary Williams Group at Swansea University whose members share good practice, support the University’s equality agenda and act as role models to individuals at the institution. The network hold regular seminars around the theme of gender equality in academia, inviting notable speakers from the UK and beyond. The group also host an annual Mary Williams Award. This is given to an individual associated with Swansea University who has made an outstanding contribution to the culture and community of the institution.

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Franz Ignaz von Streber

Franz Ignaz von Streber (11 February 1758 – 26 April 1841) was a German numismatist and theologian from Reisbach, Lower Bavaria.

In 1770 he went to the Kolleg der Bartholomäer in Ingolstadt where he began to study Philosophy and Theology, earning the titles Master of Philosophy (1776) and Master of Theology (1779).  In 1780 he was appointed Private secretary to Johann Goswin von Widder (1734–1800) in Munich, remaining there for ten year.  In 1783 he was made court chaplain, in 1803 director of the Court chapel, in 1821 auxiliary bishop, in 1822 cathedral provost of Munich and Freising. In 1782 he was appointed curator of the cabinet of coins of the elector, as assistant to the diplomat Johann Casimir Häffelin.  Supported by Häffelin and his successors, in 1785 he was appointed Director of the numismatic collection.

His work was to unite the Mannheim or the Palatinate collection with the Munich or Bavarian collection of the Wittelsbach line, which had been in disorder since the Thirty Years' War, and to arrange the combined collection in scientific order. On account of the disturbances caused by war he was obliged to carry off and conceal the cabinet of coins five times, each time re-arranging it anew. He wrote a history of the royal Bavarian cabinet of coins, and several treatises on Bavarian and Greek numismatics, most of which appeared in the transactions of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, of which institution he became a member in 1822.

His nephew, Franz Seraph Streber, followed him into the same field. Streber died in Munich.

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Martin Oliver (author)

Martin Oliver is a British author of children's books. He recently gained notoriety online via the Huffington Post, after an 8-year-old girl had his books "Girls Only: How to Survive Anything" and "Boys Only: How to Survive Anything" pulled from bookstore shelves for claims of sexism.

Bibliography

Usborne Puzzle Adventure series
 The Intergalactic Bus Trip (1987)
 Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey (1988)
 Search for the Sunken City (1989)
 Agent Arthur's Arctic Adventure (1990)
 Agent Arthur on the Stormy Seas (1991)
 Agent Arthur's Desert Challenge (1994)
 Agent Arthur's Mountain Mission (1996)

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles series
 Indiana Jones Puzzle Adventure Storybooks: II (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)  (1994)

Usborne Whodunnit series
 The Deckchair Detectives (1995)

Young Hippo Adventure series
 Attack of the Vampirates (1995)
 Revenge of the Vampirates (1995)

Hippo Ghost series
 The House at the End of Ferry Road (1995)

You Should See My... series
 You Should See My Dog (1995)
 You Should See My Cat (1996)
 You Should See My Mum (1998)

What's Wrong Mum? series
 Seaside (1997)
 Garden (1998)
 Shopping (1998)
 The Fletcher Family's Picnic Puzzle (1997)

Sparks series
 The Winner's Wreath: Ancient Greek Olympics (1999)

The Knowledge series
 Dead Dinosaurs (2000)
 Groovy Movies (2004)

Spilling the Beans on series
 Spilling the Beans on Making It in the Movies (2001, )
 Spilling the Beans on Blackbeard (2000, )

Other books
 McKricken's Christmas  (1991)
 Giggle Mirths of Waggle-down Derry (1991)
 "Flintstone's" Mystery Puzzle Book (1994)
 Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1999)

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WSVM

WSVM (1490 AM 96.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult hits format, Licensed to Valdese, North Carolina, United States, it serves Burke, Caldwell, Lincoln, Catawba, Alexander, Cleveland and Gaston counties.  The station is owned by Mainstreet Broadcasting.

History
WSVM signed on October 6, 1961.

The station's call letters are said to stand for "We Serve Valdese Merchants". Another popular belief is the letters mean "We Serve Valdese, Morganton" and since its arrival on the FM dial, it means "We Serve a Variety of Music".

During most of the first decade of the 21st century, WSVM aired the Timeless format, and was owned by Burke County Broadcasting, principals being
Robert R. Hilker, William R. Rollins & various Valdese merchants.  Both Hilker & Rollins were both past President of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasting and in the North Carolina Broadcasting Hall of Fame!  WSVM was part of Suburban Radio Group, owned by Hilker & Rollins. Charlie Hicks worked at the station from 1969 to 1970 before taking the helm at another Suburban Radio Group affiliate.

Later on, the station was sold to GHB Broadcasting Company.

In August 2008, GHB Broadcasting sold WSVM to Radio Emmanuel, and the format was to be changed to Christian music, with most of the programming in Spanish. This did not happen.

In later years, local programming on WSVM included Clegg and Company, hosted by Jerry Clegg, and The Trading Post.

WSVM ceased operations May 31, 2010 for the "immediate future." The last song was "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You" by Jim Reeves.

The station came back on the air September 1, 2010 by Bannon Broadcasting Company of Hudson operates and manages the day-to-day operation.  Jim Bannon operated WSVM with classic hits of the decades of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (rock oldies), plus high school sports.  WSVM calls itself V-radio for Valdese. The station is automated except for the "Breakfast Club" morning show. and a few other local programs.

After Bannon Broadcasting Company decided to allow its lease on WSVM to expire on January 2, 2012, GHB of Waxhaw reached a deal to sell the station to the town of Valdese, which planned to use the property for an expansion of a neighboring cemetery. Bert Lindsay bought the WSVM broadcast license from GHB and began running the station prior to the sale's becoming finalized on September 27, 2012 at a purchase price of $12,000. He continued the station's format, including The Trading Post from 10 to 11 six mornings a week, as well as Draughn High School sports; East Burke High School sports will be added. Also being considered are beach music and doo-wop programs, and the return of the Beatles Brunch. The town of Valdese sold the WSVM broadcast equipment to Main Street Broadcasting and is no longer affiliated with the station. The Praley street studios have been listed as "residential" since Main Street Broadcasting bought the station.
WSVM operated from a satellite studio in Baton, NC while construction on the new studio building at 225 west main street Valdese was being completed.
Bert Lindsay sold WSVM to Mainstreet Broadcasting effective October 20, 2016 for $9,000.
Vance Patterson and Eddie Jolly's company Main Street Broadcasting bought the station equipment from the Town of Valdese and vacated the Praley Street location. WSVM received authorization from the fcc to operate a translator for the Valdese area at 96.5 FM and has been broadcasting since February 3, 2017.

In September 2018,  WSVM moved into their new modern 21St Century studios designed by broadcast engineer Michael Griffin and located at 225 Main Street, Valdese, NC.  WSVM began broadcasting live shows from the new studios.  Mornings with local personality Max Boom at the window to the World, Live and Local from Main Street Valdese. The station started getting nationwide attention after a video by Tony Lee Glenn showcases Vice President Eddie Jolly and the station on YouTube.

WSVM is now the exclusive provider of SAC Champion Lenoir Rhyne Bears Football! Go Bears!

References

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WSVM on Facebook

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A.E. Kifisia F.C.

A.E. Kifisia F.C. is a Greek football club, based in Kifisia, Athens.

The club was founded in 2012 after the merger of A.O. Kifisia and A.O.K. Elpidoforos. They will play in the Fourth Division for the season 2019-20.

Current squad

Honours

Domestic
 Athens FCA League Champions: 1
 2018–19
 Athens FCA Cup Winners: 3
 1990–91, 2012–13, 2017–18

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Kings Point, New South Wales

Kings Point is a village in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The village forms part of the Milton Ulladulla urban area in the southern Shoalhaven. Kings Point is predominantly a residential suburb on the shores of Burrill Lake. A small light industrial area to the east separates the village from Ulladulla. At the , Kings Point had a population of 553. The lakeside location makes Kings Point popular for fishing and water sports - the Ulladulla Water Ski Club and public boat ramp facilities allow locals and visitors to take full advantage.

Kings Point is served six days per week by Ulladulla Bus Lines Route 740, connecting to the neighbouring towns of Ulladulla and Burrill Lake.

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Abdelghani Mouaoui

Abdelghani Mouaoui (born 22 February 1989) is a Moroccan footballer who plays as a forward for Ittihad Tanger.

International career

International goals
Scores and results list Morocco's goal tally first.

Honours
Wydad Casablanca
Winner
 Botola: 2014–15

Runner-up
 CAF Champions League: 2011

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Melbournopterus

Melbournopterus is a genus of prehistoric chelicerate or brachiopod, known from the Upper Silurian of Australia. It is of uncertain taxonomic placement within the subphylum Chelicerata. Lamsdell, Percival and Poschmann (2013) argued that Melbournopterus crossotus is not a chelicerate at all, and interpreted its type specimen as the dorsal valve of a craniate brachiopod.

Description
If Melbournopterus is a chelicerate, it is distinguished by its prosoma (head), which is bell-shaped and emarginate in front, with subrectangular compound eyes located posteriorly on the prosoma, which strongly converge anteriorly.  It was small in size, and its abdomen and appendages are unknown.

Species
Melbournopterus Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1953
M. crossotus, Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1953, Upper Silurian, Australia

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Scout Radio

Scout Radio is a National Scout Active Support Unit (NASU) of The Scout Association with the aim of supporting broadcast radio within scouting. It was initially formed in 2009 following the founding members running Wings FM at the WINGS Jamboree, and received formal status as an NASU in 2012.

Since then the team has gone on to run many successful event radio stations, for Jamborees mainly under the Jam FM brand, be a source for news and interviews for senior members of Scouting, and provide resources to enable scouts to do radio to earn badges.

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Narelle Jubelin

Narelle Jubelin (born 1960) is an Australian artist who has lived and practiced in Madrid since 1996. Jubelin's often collaborative work spans across media such as sculpture, printmaking, multi-media installation and is especially focused on single thread petit point stitching. She has been exhibiting her work internationally for over 30 years and exhibited work in the 1990 Venice Biennale. Her work is held in the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, and she is represented by Mori Gallery, Sydney and The Commercial Gallery, Sydney. Her work brings attention to themes of cultural exchange, feminine labour, modernism and Australian feminism, architecture and colonialism.

Early life and education
Born in Sydney in 1960, Jubelin attended the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education where she received a Bachelor of Education in Art in 1982. She received a Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies from the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts in 1983.

Career

Jubelin's artworks deal with the reduction of architectural paintings and photographs to miniature petit point works – fine needlework that consists of coloured cotton thread and silk mesh. It has been stated that her reduction of artworks into petit point stitching draws attention to women’s labour, and the overlooked slow processes of feminine labour.

It has been said that Jubelin's use of petit point needlework to recreate architectural forms and landscapes responds to the non-expressive typologies of late Modernism, particularly to the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Working at a time in Australian history shaped by post colonialist, technological and multicultural concerns, Jubelin's work often responds to the globalisation concerns of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the interest in the exploration of Modernist practices.

In 1985, Jubelin co-founded Firstdraft Gallery in Sydney.

One of Jubelin's earliest works, The Unforeseen (1989), features petit point works encased in a found wooden frames to highlight the central stitched panel of a man entering a mining cave. This central panel forms the pupil of the eye, and is said to comment on colonial male enterprise, and the historical devaluing of women's achievements. The use of women's hobby and domestic craft is central to this artwork and most of Jubelin's other works, as it is said to reject the traditional hierarchical value system of art mediums and instead centres women’s labour in a gallery space. The shape of the eye is central to the meaning of this work as it appears to observe viewers, engaging with ideas of psychoanalytic identification and the male gaze. The vaginal imagery of the cave in the work adds to the unconscious psychoanalytic identification.

Jubelin was brought to public attention by her work Trade Delivers People, which was shown at the 1990 Venice Biennale, where she represented Australia. Trade Delivers People addresses cultural exchange and colonialism, and the way signs and symbols of local cultures are globally exploited, rendering them foreign.

Soft Shoulder, (1997) responds to similar ideas addressed in Trade Delivers People. Soft Shoulder was Jubelin's debut work in the United States, at the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. The work was said to explore "the inter-relatedness of people and places the inter-relatedness of people and places as they occur by way of fate, coincidence or deliberate migration and exchange." Using petit point works that seek to connect Chicago and Australia, Soft Shoulder addresses issues of identity at the heart of cultural production and questions what a universal sense of belonging and home actually is.

Case No. T961301 was first exhibited at the Tate Liverpool Gallery in 1998. The work consisted of two suspended stainless steel, round tables, set with textual transcripts, cutlery, petit points and photographs. The transcripts and other objects directly link to four English women activists, known as the "Ploughshares Four", who destroyed an aircraft that was set to be deployed in East Timor. As a peacekeeping effort, the women attacked the plane with cutlery and other mundane implements. It is suggested that this exhibition consisting of the readymade seeks to address colonialism and cultural exchange like many of Jubelin's work. The work has been criticised by author Sean Cubitt for its lack of tactility in response to the tactical work of the Ploughshares Four. Cubitt states that "Jubelin’s problem is to make a work that is as successful as that, [The Ploughshares Four] and she fails." He says that the physicality of the Ploughshares Four is not present in the work, and that a gallery space can never equal the "urgency of the tactician". However, it is stated that the work can help to remember the achievements of the past.

The first major retrospective of Jubelin's work occurred in 2012, entitled Vision in Motion. The exhibition showcased Jubelin's petit point, collaborative and video-based works across three major Australian university museums — The University of Sydney, Monash University and the University of South Australia. Focusing on architectural and environmental forms, these works address the history of Australian Modernist art through feminine craft and needlework, using "subversive stitch" to incorporate feminist, sexual and phallic signifiers.

Jubelin's exhibition The Housing Question showed at Penrith Regional Gallery in 2019 in collaboration with Helen Grace. The Housing Question incorporates text, video and needlework to addresses notions of home, safety and security in an era of homelessness, mass housing and refugee displacement. Jubelin's petit point works in the exhibition are said to directly reference her father's photographs of her family home.

Jubelin's work is currently held in many major public collections, including the Albertina Print Museum, Vienna, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Her work has been shown globally, in places such as José Guerrero Center, Granada, Artists' Space, Jerusalem and the Marlborough Contemporary, London. Since 1987, the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art has collected many of Jubelin's works.

Solo exhibitions
2016

Primitive Flamenco, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney

Primitive Flamenco, Marlborough Contemporary, London

2013

Vision in Motion, Samstag Museum, University of South Australia, Adelaide

2012

Afterimage, La Casa Encendida, Madrid

Vision in Motion, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Vision in Motion, University of Sydney, Sydney

2008

Hairy Hair, Luis Serpa Projects Gallery, Lisbon

2006

Ungrammatical Landscape, José Guerrero Center, Granada

2003

Duration Houses, Mori Gallery, Sydney

1999

Case No: T961301, Mori Gallery, Sydney

1997

Soft Shoulder, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

1995

Soft Shoulder, Gray Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York

1994

Soft Shoulder, The Renaissance Society, the University of Chicago, Chicago

1993

Estate, Galerie Knoll, Budapest

1992

Dead Slow, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow

1990

Trade Delivers People, Venice Biennale, Venice

1987

Re-presenting His Story, Institute of Technology, Architecture Faculty Gallery, Sydney

1986

His Story, Mori Gallery, Sydney

References

Further reading
 Parker, Luke and Ann Stephen. Narelle Jubelin, Vision In Motion. Sydney. University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney. 2012.
 Jubelin, Narelle. Afterimage. Madrid: La Casa Ecendida. 2012.
 Jubelin, Narelle. Soft Shoulder. Chicago: University of Chicago, Renaissance Society. 1994.
 King, Natalie, Narelle Jubelin and Jacky Redgate. Soft and Slow. Victoria: Monash University Gallery. 1995.
 Stephen, Ann and Narelle Jubelin. Cannibal Tours. Victoria: Heide Museum of Modern Art. 2009.
 Nolan, Sydney. Early Experiments With Narelle Jubelin. Victoria: Heide Museum of Modern Art. 2012.
 Conroy, Diana Wood. Fabrics of Change, Changing Identities: An Exhibition with Artists Narelle Jubelin, Osmond Kantilla, Kay Lawrence, Nadia Myre, John Dule. New South Wales: University of Wollongong. 2004.

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Klein quartic

In hyperbolic geometry, the Klein quartic, named after Felix Klein, is a compact Riemann surface of genus  with the highest possible order automorphism group for this genus, namely order  orientation-preserving automorphisms, and  automorphisms if orientation may be reversed.  As such, the Klein quartic is the Hurwitz surface of lowest possible genus; see Hurwitz's automorphisms theorem.  Its (orientation-preserving) automorphism group is isomorphic to , the second-smallest non-abelian simple group. The quartic was first described in .

Klein's quartic occurs in many branches of mathematics, in contexts including representation theory, homology theory, octonion multiplication, Fermat's last theorem, and the Stark-Heegner theorem on imaginary quadratic number fields of class number one; see  for a survey of properties.

Originally, the "Klein quartic" referred specifically to the subset of the complex projective plane  defined by an algebraic equation. This has a specific Riemannian metric (that makes it a minimal surface in ), under which its Gaussian curvature is not constant. But more commonly (as in this article) it is now thought of as any Riemann surface that is conformally equivalent to this algebraic curve, and especially the one that is a quotient of the hyperbolic plane  by a certain cocompact group  that acts freely on  by isometries. This gives the Klein quartic a Riemannian metric of constant curvature  that it inherits from . This set of conformally equivalent Riemannian surfaces is precisely the same as all compact Riemannian surfaces of genus 3 whose conformal automorphism group is isomorphic to the unique simple group of order 168. This group is also known as , and also as the isomorphic group . By covering space theory, the group  mentioned above is isomorphic to the fundamental group of the compact surface of genus .

Closed and open forms
It is important to distinguish two different forms of the quartic. The closed quartic is what is generally meant in geometry; topologically it has genus 3 and is a compact space. The open or "punctured" quartic is of interest in number theory; topologically it is a genus 3 surface with 24 punctures, and geometrically these punctures are cusps. The open quartic may be obtained (topologically) from the closed quartic by puncturing at the 24 centers of the tiling by regular heptagons, as discussed below. The open and closed quartics have different metrics, though they are both hyperbolic and complete – geometrically, the cusps are "points at infinity", not holes, hence the open quartic is still complete.

As an algebraic curve
The Klein quartic can be viewed as a projective algebraic curve over the complex numbers , defined by the following quartic equation in homogeneous coordinates  on :

The locus of this equation in  is the original Riemannian surface that Klein described.

Quaternion algebra construction
The compact Klein quartic can be constructed as the quotient of the hyperbolic plane by the action of a suitable Fuchsian group  which is the principal congruence subgroup associated with the ideal  in the ring of algebraic integers  of the field  where .  Note the identity

exhibiting  as a prime factor of 7 in the ring of algebraic integers.

The group  is a subgroup of the (2,3,7) hyperbolic triangle group.  Namely,  is a subgroup of the group of elements of unit norm in the quaternion algebra generated as an associative algebra by the generators  and relations

One chooses a suitable Hurwitz quaternion order  in the quaternion algebra,  is then the group of norm 1 elements in .  The least absolute value of a trace of a hyperbolic element in  is , corresponding the value 3.936 for the systole of the Klein quartic, one of the highest in this genus.

Tiling

The Klein quartic admits tilings connected with the symmetry group (a "regular map"), and these are used in understanding the symmetry group, dating back to Klein's original paper. Given a fundamental domain for the group action (for the full, orientation-reversing symmetry group, a (2,3,7) triangle), the reflection domains (images of this domain under the group) give a tiling of the quartic such that the automorphism group of the tiling equals the automorphism group of the surface – reflections in the lines of the tiling correspond to the reflections in the group (reflections in the lines of a given fundamental triangle give a set of 3 generating reflections). This tiling is a quotient of the order-3 bisected heptagonal tiling of the hyperbolic plane (the universal cover of the quartic), and all Hurwitz surfaces are tiled in the same way, as quotients.

This tiling is uniform but not regular (it is by scalene triangles), and often regular tilings are used instead. A quotient of any tiling in the (2,3,7) family can be used (and will have the same automorphism group); of these, the two regular tilings are the tiling by 24 regular hyperbolic heptagons, each of degree 3 (meeting at 56 vertices), and the dual tiling by 56 equilateral triangles, each of degree 7 (meeting at 24 vertices). The order of the automorphism group is related, being the number of polygons times the number of edges in the polygon in both cases.
24 × 7 = 168
56 × 3 = 168
The covering tilings on the hyperbolic plane are the order-3 heptagonal tiling and the order-7 triangular tiling.

The automorphism group can be augmented (by a symmetry which is not realized by a symmetry of the tiling) to yield the Mathieu group M24.

Corresponding to each tiling of the quartic (partition of the quartic variety into subsets) is an abstract polyhedron, which abstracts from the geometry and only reflects the combinatorics of the tiling (this is a general way of obtaining an abstract polytope from a tiling) – the vertices, edges, and faces of the polyhedron are equal as sets to the vertices, edges, and faces of the tiling, with the same incidence relations, and the (combinatorial) automorphism group of the abstract polyhedron equals the (geometric) automorphism group of the quartic. In this way the geometry reduces to combinatorics.

Affine quartic
The above is a tiling of the projective quartic (a closed manifold); the affine quartic has 24 cusps (topologically, punctures), which correspond to the 24 vertices of the regular triangular tiling, or equivalently the centers of the 24 heptagons in the heptagonal tiling, and can be realized as follows.

Considering the action of  on the upper half-plane model  of the hyperbolic plane by Möbius transformations, the affine Klein quartic can be realized as the quotient . (Here  is the congruence subgroup of  consisting of matrices that are congruent to the identity matrix when all entries are taken modulo 7.)

Fundamental domain and pants decomposition
The Klein quartic can be obtained as the quotient of the hyperbolic plane by the action of a Fuchsian group. The fundamental domain is a regular 14-gon, which has area  by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. This can be seen in the adjoining figure, which also includes the 336 (2,3,7) triangles that tessellate the surface and generate its group of symmetries.

Within the tessellation by (2,3,7) triangles is a tessellation by 24 regular heptagons. The systole of the surface passes though the midpoints of 8 heptagon sides; for this reason it has been referred to as an "eight step geodesic" in the literature, and is the reason for the title of the book in the section below. All the coloured curves in the figure showing the pants decomposition are systoles, however, this is just a subset; there are 21 in total. The length of the systole is

An equivalent closed formula is

Whilst the Klein quartic maximises the symmetry group for surfaces of genus 3, it does not maximise the systole length. The conjectured maximiser is the surface referred to as "M3" . M3 comes from a tessellation of (2,3,12) triangles, and its systole has multiplicity 24 and length

The Klein quartic can be decomposed into four pairs of pants by cutting along six of its systoles. This decomposition gives a symmetric set of Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates, where the length parameters are all equal to the length of the systole, and the twist parameters are all equal to  of the length of the systole. In particular, taking  to be the systole length, the coordinates are

The cubic graph corresponding to this pants decomposition is the tetrahedral graph, that is, the graph of 4 nodes, each connected to the other 3. The tetrahedral graph is similar to the graph for the projective Fano plane; indeed, the automorphism group of the Klein quartic is isomorphic to that of the Fano plane.

Spectral theory

Little has been proved about the spectral theory of the Klein quartic, however, it has been conjectured that the it maximises the first positive eigenvalue of the Laplace operator among all compact Riemann surfaces of genus 3 with constant negative curvature. This conjecture comes from the fact that the Klein quartic has the largest symmetry group of surfaces in its topological class, much like the Bolza surface in genus 2. Eigenvalues of the Klein quartic have been calculated to varying degrees of accuracy. The first 15 distinct positive eigenvalues are shown in the following table, along with their multiplicities.

3-dimensional models
The Klein quartic cannot be realized as a 3-dimensional figure, in the sense that no 3-dimensional figure has (rotational) symmetries equal to , since  does not embed as a subgroup of  (or ) – it does not have a (non-trivial) 3-dimensional linear representation over the real numbers.

However, many 3-dimensional models of the Klein quartic have been given, starting in Klein's original paper, which seek to demonstrate features of the quartic and preserve the symmetries topologically, though not all geometrically. The resulting models most often have either tetrahedral (order 12) or octahedral (order 24) symmetries; the remaining order 7 symmetry cannot be as easily visualized, and in fact is the title of Klein's paper.

Most often, the quartic is modeled either by a smooth genus 3 surface with tetrahedral symmetry (replacing the edges of a regular tetrahedron with tubes/handles yields such a shape), which have been dubbed "tetruses", or by polyhedral approximations, which have been dubbed "tetroids"; in both cases this is an embedding of the shape in 3 dimensions. The most notable smooth model (tetrus) is the sculpture The Eightfold Way by Helaman Ferguson at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, made of marble and serpentine, and unveiled on November 14, 1993. The title refers to the fact that starting at any vertex of the triangulated surface and moving along any edge, if you alternately turn left and right when reaching a vertex, you always return to the original point after eight edges.  The acquisition of the sculpture led in due course to the publication of a book of papers , detailing properties of the quartic and containing the first English translation of Klein's paper. Polyhedral models with tetrahedral symmetry most often have convex hull a truncated tetrahedron – see  and  for examples and illustrations. Some of these models consist of 20 triangles or 56 triangles (abstractly, the regular skew polyhedron {3,7|,4}, with 56 faces, 84 edges, and 24 vertices), which cannot be realized as equilateral, with twists in the arms of the tetrahedron; while others have 24 heptagons – these heptagons can be taken to be planar, though non-convex, and the models are more complex than the triangular ones because the complexity is reflected in the shapes of the (non-flexible) heptagonal faces, rather than in the (flexible) vertices.

Alternatively, the quartic can be modeled by a polyhedron with octahedral symmetry: Klein modeled the quartic by a shape with octahedral symmetries and with points at infinity (an "open polyhedron"), namely three hyperboloids meeting on orthogonal axes, while it can also be modeled as a closed polyhedron which must be immersed (have self-intersections), not embedded. Such polyhedra may have various convex hulls, including the truncated cube, the snub cube, or the rhombicuboctahedron, as in the small cubicuboctahedron at right. The small cubicuboctahedron immersion is obtained by joining some of the triangles (2 triangles form a square, 6 form an octagon), which can be visualized by coloring the triangles (the corresponding tiling is topologically but not geometrically the 3 4 | 4 tiling). This immersion can also be used to geometrically construct the Mathieu group M24 by adding to PSL(2,7) the permutation which interchanges opposite points of the bisecting lines of the squares and octagons.

Dessin d'enfants
The dessin d'enfant on the Klein quartic associated with the quotient map by its automorphism group (with quotient the Riemann sphere) is precisely the 1-skeleton of the order-3 heptagonal tiling. That is, the quotient map is ramified over the points , and ; dividing by 1728 yields a Belyi function (ramified at , and ), where the 56 vertices (black points in dessin) lie over 0, the midpoints of the 84 edges (white points in dessin) lie over 1, and the centers of the 24 heptagons lie over infinity. The resulting dessin is a "platonic" dessin, meaning edge-transitive and "clean" (each white point has valence 2).

Related surfaces
The Klein quartic is related to various other surfaces.

Geometrically, it is the smallest Hurwitz surface (lowest genus); the next is the Macbeath surface (genus 7), and the following is the First Hurwitz triplet (3 surfaces of genus 14). More generally, it is the most symmetric surface of a given genus (being a Hurwitz surface); in this class, the Bolza surface is the most symmetric genus 2 surface, while Bring's surface is a highly symmetric genus 4 surface – see isometries of Riemann surfaces for further discussion.

Algebraically, the (affine) Klein quartic is the modular curve X(7) and the projective Klein quartic is its compactification, just as the dodecahedron (with a cusp in the center of each face) is the modular curve X(5); this explains the relevance for number theory.

More subtly, the (projective) Klein quartic is a Shimura curve (as are the Hurwitz surfaces of genus 7 and 14), and as such parametrizes principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension 6.

There are also other quartic surfaces of interest – see special quartic surfaces.

More exceptionally, the Klein quartic forms part of a "trinity" in the sense of Vladimir Arnold, which can also be described as a McKay correspondence. In this collection, the projective special linear groups PSL(2,5), PSL(2,7), and PSL(2,11) (orders 60, 168, 660) are analogous, corresponding to icosahedral symmetry (genus 0), the symmetries of the Klein quartic (genus 3), and the buckyball surface (genus 70). These are further connected to many other exceptional phenomena, which is elaborated at "trinities".

See also
Grünbaum–Rigby configuration
Shimura curve
Hurwitz surface
Bolza surface
Bring's curve
Macbeath surface
First Hurwitz triplet

References

Literature

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. Paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, 2001, . Read This: The Eightfold Way, reviewed by Ruth I. Michler.

External links
 Klein's Quartic Curve, John Baez, July 28, 2006
 Klein's Quartic Curve, by Greg Egan – illustrations
 Klein's Quartic Equations, by Greg Egan – illustrations

Category:Algebraic curves
Category:Riemann surfaces
Category:Differential geometry of surfaces
Category:Systolic geometry


Fortress of São Mateus da Calheta

Fortress of São Mateus da Calheta () is a fort in the civil parish of São Mateus da Calheta, in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, island of Terceira, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

History

Construction of the fort of São Mateus began in 1581, after the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580, under the determination of the Corregidor of the Azores, Ciprião de Figueiredo e Vasconcelos. This fort was part of a larger plan for the defense of the island drawn out by engineer Tommaso Benedetto de Pesaro, in 1567, after an attack by the French corsair Pierre Bertrand de Montluc in Funchal (October 1566), and attempt/failure by pirates to seize Angra in the same year.

It was in the shadow of the fort, that the carracks from Indian trade routes would appear, making landfall for the first time.

With the installation of the Captaincy General of the Azores, its state was described in the following terms (1767):
Fort of Prainha of São Mateus. This is the largest (of the redoubt fortresses) that are on the west of the city of Angra and remodeled anew. It has six canons and requires another two and another six...another two with its emplacements and to garrison eight artillerymen and two auxiliaries.

It was referred to as Forte da Praya de S. Matheus, in the report Revista aos fortes que defendem a costa da ilha Terceira, by adjutant Manoel Correa Branco (1776), who indicated, ...it is the best on the coast. This fort was rebuilt, and does not require reconstruction.

In 1767, in his Revista dos Fortes (Review of Forts), engineer/sergeant major João António Júdice, conducted a review and expansion under orders from the Captain-General of the Azores; in his plans he referred to the fort as the largest located to the west of the city of Angra. At that time, the fort was protected by between six and eight artillery pieces and 32 auxiliaries; it had six canons, equipped with pieces in steel, all in good condition. He concluded that the fort's artillery should be reinforced with two cannons and their respective equipment.

By the beginning of the 19th century, José Rodrigo de Almeida, developed a plan that included six cannons, each three in directed to the sea.

Between 1828 and 1834, the fort took on a great importance during the defense of the island, owing to the Civil War, when Terceira became the headquarters of the Regency supporting Queen Maria II. During this time (1830), the fort's plan was reinforced by José Rodrigo de Almeida.

The Baron of Basto, writing on the fort's condition, described it In good state. It is likely conserved owing to it being the more important along the coast; there are five canon emplacements, an area of five fathom squared, lodging for 20 squares, magazine and storehouse.

By 1871, the fort was at the disposition of the Ministry of War () and summarily given to a veteran, so that he could reside with his family. Later, it was used to house the needy. Yet, by 1881, an area of approximately 483 meters squared was added to the fort, likely by the Ministry of War.

The fort, under little need, was given over to the Junta Freguesia of São Mateus, in order to stage open-air concerts and cinema in the 20th century. It was during this century that the first remodeling was attempted, with work carried out by the municipal council of Angra do Heroísmo. In 2010, the area around the land-side portion of the fort was remodeled in order to appeal to tourism.

Architecture

A maritime fort, it is located approximately  west of the city of Angra do Heroísmo, along the Prainha de São Mateus, the most important southerly port on the island, as well as the principal commercial fishing port. The fort is located on a cliff formation, almost at the level of the sea, and adapted to the accented relief. To its north is the principal roadway.

The strong fortification is integrated into a wider system, located along the southern coast, consisting of six redoubts that protected the parish. Constructed to defend the harbor, the fort created a crossfire zone with Fort of Biscoitinho and the Fort of Má Ferramenta. Structurally, the fort consisted of a triangle pointing towards the sea, and two half bastions facing uneven ground. Of these bastions, one was very acute and the other almost rectangular, with the internal battery.

Contiguous with the fort, to the west, is a small defensive curtain, that some authors consider to be the remains of the fabled Reduto do Poço, still referenced by the end of the 18th century.

References

Notes

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Sao Mateus
Fortress Sao Mateus


Dildo Run Provincial Park

Dildo Run Provincial Park is a provincial park located on New World Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was opened to the public in 1967. The nearest major town is Twillingate. There are 55 campsites, each with a picnic table, fireplace, garbage can, and room for a vehicle. Fifteen picnic sites offer a view of the ocean. There is also a 1.3 km hiking trail through the forest.

See also
List of protected areas of Newfoundland and Labrador
List of Canadian provincial parks
List of National Parks of Canada

References

External links
Dildo Run Park - Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Parks

Category:Provincial parks of Newfoundland and Labrador


Poculum

Poculum is a genus of fungi within the Rutstroemiaceae family.

References

External links
Index Fungorum

Category:Helotiales


Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer

The Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer, also known as the Western Mountain Aquifer of Israel/Palestine, is the western and larger part of the Mountain Aquifer, which also contains the Eastern and the smaller North-Eastern (Mountain) Aquifers. The Mountain Aquifer and the Coastal Aquifer are the main aquifers shared by Israel in its pre-1967 borders, and Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip).

It is a limestone aquifer, located under the foothills in the centre of the country. It is used by Israel for roughly 340 million cubic meters of water every year and for Palestine at a rate of approximately 20 million cubic meters a year. The aquifer goes down to the Mediterranean Sea, beginning in the south and descending towards north-western Israel. The water recharges in the West Bank mountains and ends in the springs of the Yarkon River at Antipatris, and Taninim Springs on the coastal plain of the Mediterranean.

The model adding the Beer Sheva region aquifer to the direct sources of the Yarkon springs was laid down by Samuel Mandel in 1961 and has since been contradicted by work published in 2001.

Salinisation problem
The aquifer faces the problem of a gradual salinisation process, derived from the presence of a saline water body with a salinity level close to that of the Mediterranean and located at the north-western edge of the aquifer. The freshwater and the saltwater are in direct contact, with no rock formations separating them, with just a relatively thin transition zone interposed between the freshwater body from the saltwater body beneath it.

See also
 Water Rights in Israel-Palestine

References

Category:Aquifers


Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The 500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday, 31 January 1948. Forty-two speed skaters from 15 nations competed.

Medalists

Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1948 Winter Olympics.

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

(**) This time was set in pack-style format, having all competitors skate at the same time.

Five speed skaters were faster than the standing Olympic record. Finn Helgesen set a time of 43.1 seconds.

Results

References

External links
Official Olympic Report

Category:Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics