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A colorful, historically accurate biography of William B. Gill, a famous musical-comedy playwright and comedy performer of the late-19th-century who is now mostly forgotten, but who changed the course of American musical theater. Gill began his career as a comedic actor in the coalfields of Australia, then performed in India and England, before finally coming to the U.S. Achieving fame as one of the most popular playwrights of his days, Gill's works appeared for years on Broadway and in the repertories of touring troupes. For years, theater historians have wondered about the facts behind his life; now master theater maven Kurt Gänzl has uncovered a wealth of new information about this influential and colorful character. A must-read for all fans of the musical theater.
Contains the names of the members of the diplomatic staffs of all foreign missions to the U.S. and their spouses, listed in alphabetical order by country. Members of the diplomatic staff are the members of the staff of the mission having diplomatic rank. The report also includes a chronological list of national holidays around the world; a list of diplomats in order of precedence and date of presentation of credentials; and web site and e-mail addresses of embassies.
This study of the optical effects of atmospheric turbulence concentrates on the stellar observation problem. When an infinite plane wave from an incoherent stellar source is sampled by an earth-based telescope, the resultant stellar image exhibits random fluctuations in intensity, position, and size due to turbulence-induced scattering in the intervening atmosphere. One familiar aspect of this problem is the scintillation of starlight apparent to the naked eye. The central aim is to express optical statistics in terms of refractive-index structure constant which pertains to strength of turbulence along the optical path. Data is presented on stellar and meteorological observations made between fall 1968 and spring 1969 with a 0.152-meter diameter refracting telescope. Data was recorded simultaneously on the three parameters of image intensity, motion, and size. The data is interpreted in terms of the theory and used to estimate strength of turbulence. The central result is a series of profiles for refractive-index structure constant along the vertical path. These are constructed using stellar data to calculate parameters of a model.
List of members in each volume.
Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.