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Elaine Mellencamp: Well, I’m not good with math and I’m really not 29, but I’m going with it. [2]

She’s been jet-setting lately, on tour now with Mellencamp, his first big tour in a long time. [3]

On the other end, John Mellencamp, calling me to ask if I would consider doing something special on the show for an entire week in conjunction with the release of his new record. [2]

In 1992 she married the rock star John “Cougar” Mellencamp. [4]

Elaine Irwin Mellencamp (born August 16, 1969) is an American model, and currently works as a spokeswoman for Almay Cosmetics. [5]

Tavis Smiley Report: Full Week of Videos Posted! [...] Mellencamp: My wife, Elaine - the Dalai Lama has come to Indiana a couple times because the center is there, and my wife Elaine is always his - oh, I don’t know - escort. [2]

On December 30, 2010 it was announced that she and John Mellencamp were separating, but both were choosing to stay in Indiana to raise their two children. [5]

Mellencamp: Well, the idea - Bob Dylan and I were on tour together and I had written this song called “Save Some Time to Dream,” and I thought, well, this is an awfully good song for me; I’ll just play it live. [2]

After a few years she signed a contract with Ford Model Agency and became famous with the appearences in Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Self and Elite Magazines. [4]

I met John Mellencamp when I was just a kid, a student at Indiana University down in Bloomington, and whenever he would show up anywhere around town where he lives, I was there in the front row, rocking with Mellencamp. [2]

Irwin-Mellencamp doesn’t have any of these problems. [...] Even with all these beautiful people, no one is more beautiful than Irwin-Mellencamp. [3]

She was a supermodel and now(2006) she is working for Almay Cosmetics. [4]

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[1] Photo Gallery Sites
[2] John Mellencamp - Official Website :: News Articles
[3] John Mellencamp | Club Cherry Bomb BBS Elaine Mellencamp …
[4] Elaine Irwin Mellencamp Biography, Pictures, Videos, Movies …
[5] Elaine Irwin Mellencamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Table Numeral Systems Roman numerals are a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. [1]

Roman numerals stem from the numeral system of ancient Rome. [2]

Roman numerals are a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. [3]

For more information on Roman numerals, visit Britannica.com. [4]

It is a cousin of the Etruscan numerals, and the letters derive from earlier non-alphabetical symbols; over time the Romans came to identify the symbols with letters of the Latin alphabet. [2]

The system used in classical antiquity was slightly modified in the Middle Ages to produce the system we use today. [3]

Any of the numerical symbols formed with the Roman letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M, representing respectively the numbers 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1000, used by the ancient Romans and still used today in certain formal contexts. [...] System of representing numbers devised by the ancient Romans. [4]

In music theory, while scale degrees are typically represented with Arabic numerals, often modified with a caret or circumflex, the triads that have these degrees as their roots are often identified by Roman numerals (as in chord symbols). [...] Roman numerals are commonly used today in numbered lists (in outline format), clockfaces, pages preceding the main body of a book, chord triads in music analysis, the numbering of movie and video game sequels, book publication dates, successive political leaders or children with identical names, and the numbering of some sport events, such as the Olympic Games or the Super Bowls. [1]

The system was modified slightly during the Middle Ages to produce the system used today. [2]

For very large numbers (five million and above), there is no standard format, although sometimes a double bar or underline is used to indicate multiplication by 1,000,000. [1]

Roman numerals are commonly used today in numbered lists (in outline format), clockfaces, pages preceding the main body of a book, chord triads in music analysis, the numbering of movie publication dates, successive political leaders or children with identical names, and the numbering of some sport events, such as the Olympic Games or the Super Bowl. [...] Likewise, on some buildings it is possible to see MDCCCCX, for example, representing 1910 instead of MCMX - notably Admiralty Arch in London. [3]

In general, the number zero did not have its own Roman numeral, but a primitive form (nulla) was known by medieval computists (responsible for calculating the date of Easter). [2]

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[1] Roman numerals - WikiPilipinas: The Hip ‘n Free Philippine …
[2] Roman numerals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Roman numerals
[4] Roman numeral: Definition from Answers.com

Hy Brasil (also known as Brasil, Brazil, Hi Brasil, Hy-Breasail, Hy Brazil, and Isle of Brazil) is another far-off island, this one circular, placed by knowing geographers in various parts of the Atlantic—sometimes attached to the Azores group in the North Atlantic, west of Portugal, where it was known as the Isle de Brazi (shown as such in the Venetian map of Andrea Bianco in 1436), at other times located hundreds of miles due west of Ireland. [1]

Although perhaps of Irish origin, the concept of Hy Brasil clearly owes much to the older European myth of the lost Atlantis. [2]

Brazil, also known as Hy-Brazil or several other variants, is a phantom island which features in many Irish myths. [3]

Hy Brasil was the brainchild of Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23–79), Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer. [1]

This story has a happy ending, because Dermot found his Hy Brasil. [4]

Sidony Redruth is a young English woman who, after fraudulently winning a writing competition, is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. [5]

Mysterious island, an earthly paradise, once thought to lie at the same latitude as Ireland but far out to sea. [2]

The names Brazil and Hy-Brazil are thought to come from the Irish U? Breasail (meaning “descendants (i.e., clan) of Breasal “), one of the ancient clans of northeastern Ireland. [...] A Catalan map of about 1480 labels two islands “Illa de brasil”, one to the south west of Ireland (where the mythical place was supposed to be) and one south of “Illa verde” or Greenland. [3]

The island Hy Brasil appears, under many different names, on medieval maps, and was the subject of cartographer Angelinus Dalorto’s thesis L’Isola Brazil (Genoa, 1325). [2]

Dermot was such a soul, and, as we have said, he found Hy Brasil- but it took him thirty years to do it, and cost him a great deal in terms of sorrow and patience. [...] A little of her beauty is in these things, and a little of her majesty and her mystery, but only a little; for they cannot compare to Hy Brasil across the western sea, whose gardens and lemon groves are watered by sweet-scented fountains fed by softly singing streams, and whose many golden temples are lit by constant and curious flames that do not so much as flicker in the rough Atlantic winds. [...] And looking closer he saw that the priest was not waving at all, but beckoning; beckoning Dermot over the sea to Hy Brasil, where, as we have said, only dreams and lost ships may go. [4]

By signing into QuakerBooks using your TypeKey account, we can authorize you to post comments and have them appear immediately. [5]

When the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral (about 1467–1520) discovered a large “island” in the southwest Atlantic on April 22 in the year 1500, he named it Tierra da Vera Cruz but this was later changed to Brasil, no doubt because cartographers thought that he had discovered the elusive island of that name (and, in any event, “Brazil” had long become familiar as a geographical place-name). [1]

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[1] Unsolved Mysteries In The World: Hy Brasil
[2] Hy Brasil: Information from Answers.com
[3] Brazil (mythical island) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Hy Brasil
[5] Hy Brasil (QuakerBooks)

WhiteHouse.org, the “Officious Website of President George W. Bush,” has posted “Foreign Policy 101 with Secretary-Doctor-Professor Condoleezza Rice”, complete with documentation links. [1]

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. [2]

Condoleezza Rice was U.S. Secretary of State from 2005 until 2009 under President George W. Bush, after serving four years as National Security Advisor (2001-05). [3]

Dr. Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is the increasingly impotent current U.S. Secretary of State. [4]

Condoleezza Rice is the second woman to be US Secretary of State, after Madeleine Albright during the Clinton administration. [5]

Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, professor of political economy in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and professor of political science at Stanford University. [6]

For Condoleezza Rice, the negotiations in Annapolis, Md., reflect her evolution from passive participant to activist diplomat. [7]

At a dinner party while Rice was National Security Advisor, she referred to President George W. Bush as “my husband” before abruptly correcting herself. [...] She skipped first and seventh grades, entered college at 15, holds three degrees including a doctorate in political science, and earned her Master’s in just one year’s study. [5]

Rice was President Bush’s National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position. [8]

Rice was President Bush’s National Security Advisor during his first term, but before joining the Bush administration, she was a Professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. [2]

She served as a mid- to upper-level member of the National Security staff during the first Bush presidency, and as National Security Advisor during the second Bush presidency, before succeeding Colin Powell as Secretary of State in 2005. [...] She was a professor of Political Science at Stanford from 1981-99, and from 1993-99 she was also Stanford’s provost, responsible for overseeing the school’s budget and academic programs. [5]

After Iraq delivered its declaration of weapons of mass destruction to the United Nations on December 8, 2002, it was Rice who wrote and submitted a column to the New York Times claiming that it “fails to account for or explain Iraq’s efforts to get uranium from abroad, its manufacture of specific fuel for ballistic missiles it claims not to have, and the gaps previously identified by the United Nations in Iraq’s accounting for more than two tons of the raw materials needed to produce thousands of gallons of anthrax and other biological weapons.” [1]

Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, wrote a memoir about her family and her life before working for former President George W. Bush. [7]

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[1] Condoleezza Rice - SourceWatch
[2] Condoleezza Rice
[3] Condoleezza Rice: Biography from Answers.com
[4] Condoleezza Rice - dKosopedia
[5] Condoleezza Rice
[6] Condoleezza Rice | Hoover Institution
[7] Condoleezza Rice News - The New York Times
[8] Condoleezza Rice - Wikipedia

On the dashboard of Burt and Vicki’s car is a copy of Night Shift, the Stephen King short story collection in which Children of the Corn originally appeared. [1]

For high gross-out fun, look no further than the next installment — Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest — or even the star-studded, though equally terrible, follow-ups. [2]

For the fourth entry in the seemingly unending Children of the Corn series, a young Naomi Watts slums her way through a mid-90shorror flick full of flash cuts, Exorcist-styled possessions, and other yawn-inducing fright flick clich?s. [3]

Children of the Corn is a 2009 made-for-television supernatural horror film directed, written and produced by Donald P. Borchers and based on the 1977 short story of the same name by Stephen King. [4]

His short story Children of the Corn was no exception. [5]

Children of the Corn [Blu-ray] The enduring classic, finally available in high definition. [6]

Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin Itt in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999’s Children of the Corn 666. [7]

“Children of the Corn” is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in King’s 1978 collection Night Shift. [8]

Just 578 featured ’80s movies with the best info on the web. [5]

Upon examination of the body, ignoring Vicky’s pleas, Burt discovers the boys throat had been slit and he was bleeding to death before he was hit. [8]

The scenario of the first film is recreated here — albeit with slight variations and more imaginative death scenes — with little explanation given regarding the true source of the kids’ demonic power. [2]

This fourth installment in the horror saga bears little resemblance to Stephen King ’s original tale. [3]

During the 70’s Stephen King became a household name writing some of the scariest novels ever. [5]

Set primarily in 1975 in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film centers around traveling couple Burt and Vicky as they fight to survive a cult of murderous children who worship an entity known as He Who Walks Behind The Rows, which had years earlier manipulated the children into killing every adult in town. [4]

Based on some of these gnarly sequences alone, the flick earns somewhat of a passable entry status in what would turn out to be one of the longest horror franchises in movie history, even if it’s not all that good when it comes down to it. [2]

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[1] Children of the Corn (1984) - IMDb
[2] Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice: Information …
[3] Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering: Information from …
[4] Children of the Corn (2009 film) - Wikipedia, the free …
[5] Children of the Corn Movie - The 80s Movies Rewind
[6] Children of the Corn (1984) | Moviefone.com
[7] Children of the Corn Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
[8] Children of the Corn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia