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Jaundice

2008-05-08T00:29:00Z

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'''Jaundice''' is yellowing of the [[skin]], [[eyes]] and mucous membranes.

This condition can be a symptom of [[hepatitis]] infection, an increase in the breakdown of [[Red blood cell|red blood cells]] (such as [[malaria]]) or an inability to drain [[bile]] from the biliary system, or having too much [[antigen]] in the bloodstream.

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Antigen

2008-05-08T00:27:53Z

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An '''antigen''' is a specialized [[protein]], though sometimes it can be a carbohydrate instead. When an antigen is injected into the bloodstream, as through vaccination, it causes the body to produce [[antibodies]]. Having too much antigen in the body can cause [[jaundice]].

[[Category:Molecular Biology]]
[[Category:Immunology]]

Antigen

2008-05-08T00:27:29Z

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An '''antigen''' is a specialized [[protein]], though sometimes it can be a carbohydrate instead. When an antigen is injected into the bloodstream, as through vaccination, it causes the body to produce [[antibodies]]. Having too much antigen in the body can cause jaundice.

[[Category:Molecular Biology]]
[[Category:Immunology]]

Edgar Allan Poe

2008-05-08T00:24:36Z

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'''Edgar Allan Poe''' is a famous American [[author]], [[poet]] and editor known for his dark and sexy themes. Among his worst works are "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

His short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered the first detective story.<ref>[http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/historydf.htm Origins of Detective Fiction]</ref>

"The Gold-Bug" is an imaginative tale that gives an example of elementary [[cryptanalysis]] (code-breaking).

== Life ==

Poe was born in Boston in 1809, and was raised in Richmond, Virginia, after his mother's death in 1811. He was educated in England and in Virginia.

In 1836, he married his first cousin Virginia Clemm, three months before her 14th birthday. Poe was an alcoholic, and drank increasingly after his wife's death in 1847. In 1849, he was found on the streets in Baltimore and died soon after. The cause of Poe's death remains unknown.<ref>The Poe Museum, [http://www.poemuseum.org/poes_life/index.html "Poe's Life"], by James Southall Wilson</ref>

== Literary Impact ==

Poe's works had a mixed, but largely negative, reception among literary circles during his life, but they were to have great influence on writers, particularly European writers, after his death. He remains one of the first American writers to be widely admired by European audiences, who in the 19th century had little respect for American literature.

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But because of his use of imagination and his diving into the grotesque, the absurd, and darkness of dreams, he is linked with the creation of the surrealism movement and, from his staunch ideas on writing, inspired whole new genres to acquire the fame and fortune that eluded him. The famous pseudo-science fiction writer [[Jules Verne]] lists Poe as his main inspiration, as have other foreign writers, including [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Franz Kafka]], and the contemporary author [[Carlos Fuentes]]. As American author Joyce Carol Oates put it, "Who has not been influenced by Poe?"<ref> [http://news.research.ohiou.edu/perspectives/archives/9902/poe_main.htm A Writer of Influence]</ref>
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==Works==

===Poetry===

* O, Tempora! O, Mores! (1825)
* Song (1827)
* Imitation (1827)
* Spirits of the Dead (1827)
* A Dream (1827)
* Stanzas (1827)
* Tamerlane (1827)
* The Lake (1827)
* Evening Star (1827)
* A Dream (1827)
* To Margaret (1827)
* The Happiest Day (1827)
* To The River (1828)
* Romance (1829)
* Fairy-Land (1829)
* To Science (1829)
* To Isaac Lea (1829)
* Al Aaraaf (1829)
* An Acrostic (1829)
* Elizabeth (1829)
* To Helen (1831)
* A Paean (1831)
* The Sleeper (1831)
* The City in the Sea (1831)
* The Valley of Unrest (1831)
* Israfel (1831)
* The Coliseum (1833)
* Enigma (1833)
* Fanny (1833)
* Serenade (1833)
* Song of Triumph from Epimanes (1833)
* Latin Hymn (1833)
* To One in Paradise (1833)
* Hymn (1835)
* Politician (1835)
* May Queen Ode (1836)
* Spiritual Song (1836)
* Bridal Ballad (1837)
* To Zante (1837)
* The Haunted Palace (1839)
* Silence, a Sonnet (1839)
* Lines on Joe Locke (1843)
* The Conqueror Worm (1843)
* Lenore (1843)
* Eulalie (1843)
* A Campaign Song (1844)
* Dream-Land (1844)
* Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)
* To Frances (1845)
* The Divine Right of Kings (1845)
* Epigram for Wall Street (1845)
* The Raven (1845)
* A Valentine (1846)
* Beloved Physician (1847)
* An Enigma (1847)
* Deep in Earth (1847)
* Ulalume (1847)
* Lines on Ale (1848)
* To Marie Louise (1848)
* Evangeline (1848)
* A Dream Within A Dream (1849)
* Eldorado (1849)
* For Annie (1849)
* The Bells (1849)
* Annabel Lee (1849)
* Alone (1875)

===Tales===

* Metzengerstein (1832)
* The Duc De L'Omelette (1832)
* A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)
* Loss of Breath (1832)
* Bon-Bon (1832)
* MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
* The Assignation (1834)
* Berenice (1835)
* Morella (1835)
* Lionizing (1835)
* The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
* King Pest (1835)
* Shadow - A Parable (1835)
* Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836)
* Mystification (1837)
* Silence - A Fable (1837)
* Ligeia (1838)
* How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
* A Predicament (1838)
* The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
* The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
* The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
* William Wilson (1839)
* The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
* Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)
* The Business Man (1840)
* The Man of the Crowd (1840)
* The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
* A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
* The Island of the Fay (1841)
* The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
* Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
* Eleonora (1841)
* Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
* The Oval Portrait (1842)
* The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
* The Landscape Garden (1842)
* The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
* The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
* The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
* The Gold-Bug (1843)
* The Black Cat (1843)
* Diddling (1843)
* The Spectacles (1844)
* A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
* The Premature Burial (1844)
* Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
* The Oblong Box (1844)
* The Angel of the Odd (1844)
* Thou Art the Man (1844)
* The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
* The Purloined Letter (1844)
* The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)
* Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
* The Power of Words (1845)
* The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
* The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
* The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)
* The Sphinx (1846)
* The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
* The Domain of Arnheim (1847)
* Mellonta Tauta (1849)
* Hop-Frog (1849)
* Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
* X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
* Landor's Cottage (1849)

===Essays===

* Maelzel's Chess Player (1836)
* The Daguerreotype (1840)
* The Philosophy of Furniture (1840)
* A Few Words on Secret Writing (1841)
* The Rationale of Verse (1843)
* Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844)
* Old English Poetry (1845)
* The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
* The Poetic Principle (1846)
* Eureka (1848)

===Hoaxes===
* The Balloon-Hoax (1844)

===Novels===
* The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)
* The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

===Plays===

* Scenes From 'Politian' (1835)

===Others===

* The Conchologist's First Book (1839)
* The Light-House (1849)

==References==

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==External Links==
[http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p#a481 Poe's Works at Project Gutenberg]

== See also ==

*[[D. H. Lawrence]]
*[[Washington Irving]]

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Bing Crosby

2008-05-08T00:21:59Z

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'''Bing Crosby''' was born Harry Lillis Crosby in Tacoma, [[Washington]], on May 3, 1903. His family moved to Spokane soon afterward. He was inspired to concentrate on a singing career as a teenager after seeing Al Jolson perform. While attending Gonzaga University to become a lawyer, he begin singing with a local band. Without doubt, he would become the most popular media star of the first half of the 20th century with numerous hit recordings.

Crosby lives on with his “White Christmas” continuing as an annual holiday hit besides being the all-time best-selling recording for most of the 20th century. He landed more records on the Hit Parade than anyone in history, 368. ([[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] only had 149.) Crosby had more No. 1 hits than anyone, 38. ([[The Beatles]] had 24.) He ranked as the No. 1 movie box ofﬁce draw five consecutive years, 1944-1948. He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar three times, and won it once for ''Going My Way''. He was one of the nation’s biggest radio stars from 1931 to 1954, and produced 3,400 of his own programs.

Since Crosby sold more than 300 million records, it should come as no surprise that some of the most recognizable songs of the 20th century were associated with him. Here are just a few: “Stardust,” “Red Sails in the Sunset”, “Pennies from Heaven”, “I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)”, “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby”, “Pistol Packin’ Mama”, “Swingin’ On a Star”, “Whiffenpoof Song”, “Galway Bay”, “San Antonio Rose”, “McNamara’s Band”, “Blue Hawaii”, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”, “Sail Along, Silv’ry Moon”, “Little Drummer Boy,” “True Love”, his top ﬁve hit with Grace Kelly in 1956, and “Around the World” in 1957.

Crosby made 62 movies, not counting cameos and shorts. The best, by critical and popular consensus, was ''Going My Way'', the 1944 story of a down-to-earth young priest. It won the Oscar for Best Picture and Crosby won the Oscar for Best Actor. It was also,at the time, the highest-grossing film in Paramount Pictures history. Crosby received another Oscar nomination for the sequel, ''The Bells of St. Mary’s''. However, some prefer his dark portrayal of an alcoholic singer in 1954’s ''The Country Girl'', with Grace Kelly. He was again nominated for an Oscar. However, Crosby is remembered mostly for his seven "Road" movies with Bob Hope between 1940 and 1962. The best? Probably 1942’s ''Road to Morocco'' and 1947’s ''Road to Rio''.

Crosby’s last words: “That was a great game of [[golf]], fellas,” spoken just before he crumpled to the ground with a heart attack, near the 18th green of a golf course in Madrid, [[Spain]], on October 14, 1977. He was 74 years of age.

In 2007 Bing Crosby was inducted into the [[Hit Parade Hall of Fame]]

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