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Charles Amadon Moody (January 18, 1863 - November 15, 1910) was an American author and book reviewer. He co-edited Out West with Charles Fletcher Lummis for several years in the 1900s.

Moody was the son of Lucius W. Moody and Mary Blair Moody.[1] He grew up in Binghamton, New York and graduated from the University of Rochester in 1881, and worked as a newspaper editor. Due to poor health, he moved to Denver in 1888. He moved back to New York after suffering financial losses in the Panic of 1891, but later relocated to California. He was hired on by Out West in early 1900.[2] Moody was also a participant in various good government movements in Los Angeles and San Francisco.[2][3][4]

His ashes are buried in Spring Forest Cemetery in Binghamton.[5][6]

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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a B.S. degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan. The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.[a]

Trump entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated 16 other candidates in the primaries. His political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. He was elected in a surprise victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, although he lost the popular vote.[b] He became the oldest first-term U.S. president,[c] and the first one without prior military or government service. His election and policies have sparked numerous protests. Trump has made many false or misleading statements during his campaign and presidency. The statements have been documented by fact-checkers, and the media have widely described the phenomenon as unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have also been characterized as racially charged or racist.

During his presidency, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; after legal challenges, the Supreme Court upheld the policy's third revision. He enacted a tax-cut package for individuals and businesses, rescinding the individual health insurance mandate. He appointed Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. In foreign policy, Trump has pursued an America First agenda, withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. He recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imposed import tariffs triggering a trade war with China, and started negotiations with North Korea toward their denuclearization.

A special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller found that Trump and his campaign welcomed and encouraged Russian foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election under the belief that it would be politically advantageous, but did not find sufficient evidence to press charges of criminal conspiracy or coordination[1] with Russia. Mueller also investigated Trump for obstruction of justice, and his report neither indicted nor exonerated Trump on that score. The House of Representatives launched an impeachment inquiry following a September 2019 report that Trump had abused his presidential power by pressuring the president of Ukraine to undertake actions which would have the effect of helping Trump's 2020 re-election campaign. Among other inducements, Trump ordered congressionally-mandated military aid for Ukraine to be withheld. Witnesses subsequently testified that Trump and his surrogates had been carrying out that pressure campaign for months.

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Alice in Wonderland is a 2007 operatic adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.[1] It is the first opera of Korean composer Unsuk Chin, who co-wrote the English libretto with the Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang. It had its world premiere on 30 June 2007.[2] However, the jacket and notice of the DVD of the World Premiere indicates that the recording was made on 27 June at the Bavarian State Opera as part of the 2007 Munich Opera Festival.[3] Conducted by Kent Nagano and featuring Sally Matthews in the title role and Dame Gwyneth Jones as the Queen of Hearts, the production was hailed as "World Premiere of the Year" by the German opera magazine Opernwelt.[4] A DVD was subsequently released by Euroarts.

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DVD (an abbreviation of digital versatile disc)[7][8] is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed in 1995. The medium can store any kind of digital data and is widely used for software and other computer files as well as video programs watched using DVD players. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions.

Prerecorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD. Such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs (DVD-R and DVD+R) can be recorded once using a DVD recorder and then function as a DVD-ROM. Rewritable DVDs (DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM) can be recorded and erased many times.

DVDs are used in DVD-Video consumer digital video format and in DVD-Audio consumer digital audio format as well as for authoring DVD discs written in a special AVCHD format to hold high definition material (often in conjunction with AVCHD format camcorders). DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs.

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Deer (singular and plural) are the hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the fallow deer, and the chital; and the Capreolinae, including the reindeer (caribou), the roe deer, and the moose. Female reindeer, and male deer of all species except the Chinese water deer, grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned antelope, which are part of a different family (Bovidae) within the same order of even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla).

The musk deer (Moschidae) of Asia and chevrotains (Tragulidae) of tropical African and Asian forests are separate families within the ruminant clade (Ruminantia). They are no more closely related to deer than are other even-toed ungulates.

Deer appear in art from Paleolithic cave paintings onwards, and they have played a role in mythology, religion, and literature throughout history, as well as in heraldry. Their economic importance includes the use of their meat as venison, their skins as soft, strong buckskin, and their antlers as handles for knives. Deer hunting has been a popular activity since at least the Middle Ages and remains a resource for many families today.

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7 Up (stylized as 7up outside the U.S.) is a brand of lemon-lime-flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Keurig Dr Pepper in the United States and by 7 Up international in the rest of the world. The U.S. version of the 7 Up logo includes a red circle between the "7" and "Up"; this red circle has been animated and used as a mascot for the brand as Cool Spot. Before that, the mascot was a fictional character named Fido Dido created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. He is still used for outside the U.S. for the limited time only 7 Up retro cups.

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Nathaniel Ian Wynter (born 30 September 1954), also known as Natty Wailer, is a Jamaican-born musician and Rastafarian, best known for his work with Bob Marley and the Wailers, Aston Barrett and King Tubby. He is credited on recordings as Natty Wailer, Ian Winter, Ian Wynter, or Brother Ian.
Early life
Wynter was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. His father was a psychiatric nurse and his mother a housekeeper and day labourer. He developed an interest in music while still at school, playing keyboards, guitar. In 1972, soon after finishing high school, Wynter met Wailers bass player Aston "Family Man" Barrett at the home of Robert Shakespeare, one of Barrett's students.[1] Wynter had become interested in the bass guitar, and told Barrett he wanted to improve his playing. Barrett invited him to spend some time at 56 Hope Road (now the Bob Marley Museum), where Marley lived and recorded.[2]
Career with Bob Marley and the Wailers
The house at 56 Hope Road (aka Island House) was open for rastas to come and go as they pleased,[3] and Wynter was one of those who took up residence.[4] Family Man Barrett introduced Wynter to Marley, and told him he was a keyboard player who would be staying at the house for a while.[2] Over the next several years, Wynter became a part of the Wailers' entourage and a contributing member of the group. "He was always in the music room [the band's demo studio at Island House] with us," recalls Barrett.[5] Wynter played (usually keyboards) during rehearsals, toured with the band as both an assistant chef and musician, and served as an alternate keyboard player on tour.[6]
Wynter's first appearances on Marley's studio releases were on "Who the Cap Fit" and "War" from the Rastaman Vibration album.[7] He would go on to be a regular session musician with the band, credited on 18 songs on the Songs of Freedom Bob Marley box set, including the 12" mixes of "Exodus" and "Jammin'" as well as "Rat Race", "Crazy Baldheads" and a live version of "No Woman No Cry".[8]Tyrone Downie and Earl Lindo (aka "Wire" or "Wya") were the Wailers' main keyboard players. But because the band's sound relied so heavily on keyboards, Wynter was on standby and would fill in on tour for either Downie or Lindo, as required.[2] He first performed on stage with the Wailers during a 1979 Trinidad show[9] that followed the band's residency at the Apollo Theater.[10] Wynter went on to appear on stage with the Wailers in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.[2] He was the band's keyboard player during Bob Marley's final performance, at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, on 23 September 1980.[11] Of the final show, Wynter says, "Lindo decided not to play for reasons beyond my knowledge... Bob called me in to fill his position that night at his last show in Pittsburgh."[12]
Songwriting Process and Aston Barrett Lawsuit
Wynter has described the collaborative process through which Marley wrote, and how he and other musicians at times helped shape them. For instance, for "Them Belly Full" Wynter "and another Hope Road regular, Legon Coghill, a.k.a. Leghorn, an artist who used to help distribute records for Tuff Gong, contributed to the song’s basic outline as the Barrett brothers began to jam, while Carly [Barrett] kept repeating the phrase, ‘Them belly full, but we hungry'".[13] Wynter says he would often pick along while Marley was composing songs, so that he could then share the tunes with the other musicians. "I remember after one of these sessions again he called me to the rehearsal room and asked me to show the bass player Familyman [Aston Barrett] the line I was picking while he was jamming the song "Could You Be Loved" earlier in the day."[14]

Recollections such as these would later play a role in the lawsuit brought by Barrett against Island Records and the Marley family over authorship of a number of Bob Marley's songs.[15] Barrett claimed that the label owed him and his late brother Carlton Barrett £60 million worth of unpaid royalties from six songs they had written,[16] as well as royalties flowing from a contract the Barretts had signed in 1974, but which the Marley family and Island Records claimed was superseded by a subsequent agreement.[17]

Wynter testified in Barrett's favour, and while the judge found him to be a credible witness, he would ultimately rule against Barrett, barring him from further legal action on the matter.[15]

Personal Life and Career Beyond the Wailers
After Marley's death, Wynter drifted out of the music business, returning to The Wailers and touring with them in 1999 and 2000.[18]

During the years that Wynter was involved with the Wailers, he also recorded with numerous other Jamaican musicians, including Aston Barrett, Peter Tosh, Linval Thompson, King Tubby and Dennis Brown.[19]

In 2000, after falling in love with an Irish woman, Wynter moved to Ireland, where he currently lives.[20] He tours and records with his band the Reggae Vibes, with whom he has released two albums, Lifted (2000) and Destiny (2013).[21]

As Natty Wailer, Wynter has also collaborated with local Irish acts such as Sean Agus Noa, the Henry Girls, and Mark Black and his Roots Band as well as the Northern Irish reggae group Breag, and Australian dub/reggae act Secret Masters.[21]