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Naozumi Yamamoto

Summary: {{Template}} '''Naozumi Yamamoto''' ([[Japans]]: 山本直純, ''Yamamoto Naozumi'') ([[Tokio]], [[16 december]] [[1932]] – [[18 juni]] [[2002]]) was een [[Japan]]s [[componist]] en [[dirigent]]. ==...

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Atsushi Yamatoya

Summary: {{Template}} '''Atsushi Yamatoya''' (19 June 1937 - 16 January 1993) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. ==Life and career== Atsushi Yamatoya was best known as the screenwriter for...

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Japanese erotic film

Summary: {{Template}} In the years since the end of [[World War II]], eroticism had been gradually making its way into [[Japanese cinema]]. The first kiss to be seen in Japanese film—discreetly...

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Nepeta

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Nepeta''''' is a [[genus]], with the common name '''catmints''', of about 250 [[species]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Lamiaceae]]. The genus...

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Nepeta cataria

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Nepeta cataria''''', commonly known as '''catnip''', or '''catswort''' or '''catmint''', is a [[species]] of the [[genus]] ''[[Nepeta]]'' in the [[Lamiaceae]] [[family...

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Branwell Brontë

Summary: {{Template}} [[Map of Angria]] (c. 1830–1831).jpg|thumb|right|Branwell Brontë, Map of Angria, ca. 1830–1831 '''Patrick Branwell Brontë''' (26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was a painter, and...

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Francis Thompson

Summary: {{Template}} '''Francis Thompson''' (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an [[England|English]] poet and [[ascetic]]. After attending college, he moved to [[London]] to become a writer,...

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Noctes Ambrosianae

Summary: {{Template}} The '''''Noctes Ambrosianae''''', a series of 71 imaginary [[colloquy|colloquies]], appeared in ''[[Blackwood's Magazine]]'' from 1822 to 1835. The earlier ones had several...

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Map of Angria

Summary: {{Template}} [[Map of Angria]] (c. 1830–1831)[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Branwell_Bront%C3%AB,_Map_of_Angria_(c._1830%E2%80%931831).jpg] by [[Branwell Brontë]] and [[Charlotte...

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Gondal (fictional country)

Summary: {{Template}} '''Gondal''' is an [[imaginary world]] or [[paracosm]] created by [[Emily Brontë]] and [[Anne Brontë]] in their youth. Gondal is an island in the [[Pacific Ocean|South Pacific]],...

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Chestnut Lodge

Summary: {{Template}} '''Chestnut Lodge''' (formerly known as '''Woodlawn Hotel''') was a historic building in [[Rockville, Maryland]], [[United States]], well known as a [[Lunatic asylum|psychiatric...

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Abolished monarchy

Summary: [[Image:Les Poires.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The [[anti-royalist]] cartoon ''[[Les Poires]]'' by [[Daumier]] after [[Philipon]].]] {{Template}} Throughout history, [[Monarchy|monarchies]] have...

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Strip search prank call scam

Summary: {{Template}} The '''strip search prank call scam''' was a series of incidents occurring for roughly a decade before an arrest was made in 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a...

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Fast food

Summary: {{Template}} '''Fast food ''' is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the...

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Compliance (film)

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Compliance''''' is a 2012 American [[Thriller (genre)|thriller film]] written and directed by [[Craig Zobel]], and starring [[Ann Dowd]], [[Dreama Walker]], and Pat Healy....

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Pranknet

Summary: {{Template}} '''Pranknet''', also known as '''Prank University''' or '''Prank U''', is a [[Canada|Canadian-based]] anonymous [[prank call]]ing [[virtual community]] responsible for damage to...

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Interrogation scene

Summary: {{Template}} An '''interrogation scene''' is a form of [[BDSM]] [[roleplay]] in which the participants act out the parts of torturer and victim. As in real life [[torture]] chambers throughout...

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Grocery store

Summary: {{Template}} A '''grocery store''' is a store that [[retail]]s [[food]]. A [[grocer]], the owner of a grocery store, stocks different kinds of foods from assorted places and cultures, and...

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Hofling hospital experiment

Summary: {{Template}} In 1966, the [[psychiatrist]] '''Charles K. Hofling''' conducted a [[field experiment]] on obedience in the nurse-physician relationship. In the natural hospital setting, nurses...

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Moral disengagement

Summary: {{Template}} '''Moral disengagement''' is a term from [[social psychology]] for the process of convincing the self that [[ethical standards]] do not apply to oneself in a particular context,...

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