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Journal articles on the topic "Famous guests"
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Paul, Rik. "Taj: I will prevail. Exemplifying customer service in times of crisis." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 2, no. 8 (2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20450621211304289.
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Subject area Marketing Study level/applicability The case is suitable for MBA/MS students. Case overview The famous Taj Mahal Palace and Towers became the centre of one of the most deadly terrorist attacks in the Indian sub continent on the night of 26 November 2008, which became famous as “26/11”. Terrorists created havoc shooting guests on sight and throwing grenades. The attacks lasted for three days but all of the four terrorists who entered Taj were killed. The terrorists had killed 160 people across Mumbai. Of these, 36 died at the Taj Mahal Palace and Towers, Mumbai. The dead included 14 guests, most of whom were foreign nationals. However, due to the selfless and extraordinary behavior of the employees and the staff of Taj, many guests were saved. They put forth an extraordinary example justifying the Indian code of conduct towards guests, “Atithi Devo Bhav” meaning “Guest is God”. In spite of knowing back exits and hiding spots, the employees did not flee, instead helping guests. The employees' behavior during the crisis saved the lives of nearly300 guests. This gesture of Taj employees was much talked about, but it was amusing even for the management to explain why they behaved in that manner. The condition of Taj after the attacks was so disastrous that it would have been profitable to leave the hotel as it was rather than reopening it. This, however, would have dented the Taj brand as a whole, as well as the spirit of all employees and staff who had behaved bravely. Taj started its restoration and reopened a part of the Taj Mahal Palace and Towers on 21 December 2008. It became operational by August 2010. The case provides an opportunity to closely examine employee behavior in an extreme crisis situation, and the possible reasons and motivation behind such exceptional behavior which ultimately helped to sustain the Taj brand. However, the scope of the case can also be extended to illustrate recovery efforts typical to service industries. Expected learning outcomes The case is designed to enable students to understand: the employees role in service delivery; the service profit chain; the relationship between profitability, customer loyalty, employee satisfaction and loyalty, and productivity; service failure; service recovery; and the service recovery paradox. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available. Please consult your librarian for access.
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Cooke, Glenn R. "Vida Lahey: Beyond Monday Morning." Queensland Review 17, no. 2 (2010): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600005419.
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Some of the guests at the opening of the Queensland Art Gallery's exhibition Vida Lahey: Colour and Modernism on 16 October 2010 expressed their consternation when Lahey's most famous work, Monday Morning, was not included. Despite it being one of the icons of the Gallery's collection, it remained on display in the permanent collection galleries – a choice that was quite deliberate.
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Zhu, Pan Pan, and Jin Lian Luo. "The Types of Major Life Setback and its Affecting Process and Effect on Female Talent Growth - Based on the Interview Cases of “Date with Lu Yu”." Advanced Materials Research 403-408 (November 2011): 2490–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.403-408.2490.
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As a kind of inevitable problems in life, setback has attracted many scholars' attention. Based on 12 guests’ interview cases in “Date with Lu Yu”, a very famous talk show, this paper aims to preliminary discuss the direct influence of major life setbacks on female talent growth. In addition to traditional direct influence factors, we make a two-stage division of affecting process and effect. Finally we put forward conclusions and recommendations.
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Kaluđerović, Marija. "Interaction and Conditionality of Hotel Business and Maritime Tourism, as a Significant Factor in Increasing Revenues in Tourism." ECONOMICS 7, no. 1 (2019): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2019-0002.
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Abstract The manner how to increase the revenues in tourism, is the question that can be answerd on different ways. One of the ways that may contribute that is the interaction and conditionality of hotel business and maritime tourism. Destination and the region development are the main facts, so when the guest come by yacht or by ship, usualy the first impression are the port facilities and a nearby of the hotel, as the recepting factor of the offer. It is very important and useful in development of maritime tourism. All the expences can be improved, when the offer is wide and guests can spend a lot of money. The service in the hotel should be quite well and also the quality of the food and other facilities. Montenegro facilities are very wide and this region is very famous in maritime tourism at recent years. The connection betwen hotel business and maritime tourism can improve increasing revenues in tourism of this region.
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Marano, Gina, Tony Henthorne, and Babu George. "Ch’ulel Mendoza, the spa with a difference: a case study of new product development in the wellness industry." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 7, no. 3 (2017): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-09-2016-0197.
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Subject area Hospitality and Tourism. Study level/applicability Senior undergraduate level and graduate level. Case overview This case study charts out the development of a business plan for Ch’ulel Mendoza, a hypothetical all-villa resort nestled against the Andes Mountains, where guests enjoy luxurious wine-infused spa treatments. The business plan has to be comprehensive because it should become the basis of a turnkey project for potential investors. Ch’ulel Mendoza is surrounded by the lush vineyards of some of the most famous wine estates in Argentina. The spa, facilities and services pay homage to the wine-growing heritage of the region, promoting wine to its guests as both pleasurable for consumption and conducive to healthy living. The architectural design speaks directly to the vines themselves: the earth-covered spa is where guests soak up the healing nutrients in the vinotherapy and water treatments, much like the roots are nourished by the elements and water in the soil; the resort area embraces the outdoors with decks, open patios and pools where guests can bask in the sun and enjoy other natural elements, just like the grape plants themselves. Once it becomes operational, Ch’ulel Mendoza will symbolize a blend of wellness, recreation and the charm of the Latin American culture. Expected learning outcomes Develop a comprehensive business plan for a new business, understand the business environment, prepare a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and weaknesses analysis, develop functional (marketing, finance, human resources, operations, etc.) plans and understand the opportunities and challenges in the new product development process. Subject code CSS: 12: Tourism and Hospitality.
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Neal, Jocelyn R. "Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall. Gaylord Entertainment Company DVD, 2006." Journal of the Society for American Music 1, no. 2 (2007): 293–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752196307071118.
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Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry is one of my favorite places in Nashville. After checking in at the security desk, guests are free to wander the maze of hallways that connect the historic dressing rooms. Onstage, guests crowd into seats between the musicians and the red country-barn backdrop, watching the bustle of the show as the curtain rises and falls between segments. Announcers read famous slogans in advertising copy; legendary singers in sequins and rhinestones chat with up-and-coming performers in the wings; the Carol Lee Singers and house band keep the music humming along. Headliners take the stage and crack jokes with the audience, who, in turn, applaud their approval at the beginning of favorite songs. Square dancers kick up their heels while fans gather at the footlights to snap scrapbook pictures. The live broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry on WSM, on the air continuously since 1925, represent a collision of country's past and present in a beloved, nostalgic, and slightly chaotic performance tradition.
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mciver, katherine a. "Banqueting at the Lord's Table in Sixteenth-Century Venice." Gastronomica 8, no. 3 (2008): 8–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2008.8.3.8.
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Paolo Veronese's Marriage Feast at Cana (1562––62; Muséée du Louvre, Paris) reflects the dining experience of the Benedictine monks whose tables continued along the walls of the monastery's refectory as an extension of the painting. In effect, the monks shared the meal, becoming part of the miracle portrayed in Veronese's grand banquet. Moreover, the sumptuousness and decadence of late-sixteenth-century Venice, reflects the dining practices and sociability of the time. Feasting scenes, like the one depicted here, often did not emphasize food; rather, the focus was on the conspicuous display of material goods for which the Venetians were famous. The opulence of the environment, the table settings, and service rival the sumptuous dress of the wedding guests.
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Kencana, Eka N., and Trisna Darmayanti. "Causality between Frequency of Visit with Tourists Satisfaction: a Multi-group Analysis." Udayana Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (UJoSSH) 1, no. 2 (2017): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ujossh.2017.v01.i02.p01.
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 This work is aimed to study the causal relationship between frequencies of visit to Bali with tourists’ satisfaction regarding the quality of destination. An instrument with five Likert-scale options was designed to measure visitors’ perception. The respondents in this study are 150 tourists who visited Kuta and Nusa Dua areas in September— October 2016, two famous tourist destinations in Bali; consists of 75 foreign and domestic tourists, respectively. The respondents were asked for their satisfaction and quality of destination had been visited. By applying structural equation modeling with multi-group analysis (MGA-SEM), the result shows the quality of destination significantly affects their satisfaction. In addition, satisfaction level for repeater guests is smaller compared to tourists’ who visited the destination for the first time.
 
 
 
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Tucker, Sherrie. "Swing: From Time to Torque (Dance Floor Democracy at the Hollywood Canteen)." Daedalus 142, no. 4 (2013): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00243.
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The Hollywood Canteen (1942–1945) was the most famous of the USO and USO-like patriotic nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations during World War II. It is also the subject of much U.S. national nostalgia about the “Good War” and “Greatest Generation.” Drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the Hollywood Canteen, this article focuses on the ways that interviewees navigated the forceful narrative terrain of national nostalgia, sometimes supporting it, sometimes pulling away from or pushing it in critical ways, and usually a little of each. This article posits a new interpretative method for analyzing struggles over “democracy” for jazz and swing studies through a focus on “torque” that brings together oral history, improvisation studies, and dance studies to bear on engaging interviewees' embodied narratives on ideologically loaded ground, improvising on the past in the present.
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Berkey, Jonathan P. "Circumcision Circumscribed: Female Excision and Cultural Accommodation in the Medieval Near East." International Journal of Middle East Studies 28, no. 1 (1996): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743800062760.
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In a famous passage in his Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, E. W. Lane described the ceremonies commonly held to celebrate the circumcision of a young boy in 19th-century Cairo. Family and friends of the boy, his schoolteacher, the barber who performed the operation and his assistant, musicians, and other retainers all participated in a celebration of an overtly public character. Dressed in fancy clothes and feted with song and dance, the boy, aged five or six or slightly older, was paraded through the streets of his neighborhood, often on horseback, to his parents' house, where the operation was performed. Cups of coffee might be distributed to passersby while guests and relations were, of course, treated to a celebratory feast. Modes of celebration may have changed, but festivities surrounding the circumcision of a young boy are still common in the Muslim countries of the Near East.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Famous guests"
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Hrajnohová, Jana. "Mariánské Lázně a jejich hosté. Místo setkávání kulturních a politických elit střední Evropy." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-305712.
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This thesis deals with the phenomenon of attendance of Marienbad and its region in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, when travelling for health and progress of tourism in spas became an inseparable part of social, economic and political life. The thesis shows everyday spa life in this period from the point of view of spa visitors, at the same time emphasizes social and economic aspect of given problems of history, as well as progress of tourism and travelling in this area. The thesis is regionally focused, but it has also more general overlap to the question of balneology and health resorts in European benchmark. The thesis shows Marienbad as a cosmopolitan place - meeting point of cultural, political, economic and territorial elite.
Books on the topic "Famous guests"
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Dolmetsch, Carl. "Our famous guest": Mark Twain in Vienna. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Kugler, Georg Johannes. Staatskanzler Metternich und seine Gäste: Die wiedergefundenen Miniaturen von Moritz Michael Daffinger, Josef Kriehuber und anderen Meistern aus dem Gästealbum der Fürstin Melanie Metternich = Chancellor Metternich and his guests : the rediscovered miniatures by Moritz Michael Daffinger, Josef Kriehuber and other famous painters from the visitors album of Princess Melanie Metternich. Styria, 1991.
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Ventures, Nostalgia. Old Time Radio- Famous Guest Stars: Famous Guest Stars. Nostalgia Ventures, 2006.
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Ventures, Nostalgia. Pulse Audio OTR Volume 4 - Famous Guest Stars. GDL Multimedia, 2006.
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Ramon, Juan Lopez. Adivina, Adivinanza...: Famosas adivinanzas del idioma castellano. Susaeta, 2001.
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di Leonardo, Micaela. Black Radio/Black Resistance. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190870195.001.0001.
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Black Radio is a window into the most famous radio show you never heard of. The Tom Joyner Morning Show is a quarter-century-old syndicated black morning radio show reaching more than eight million adult, largely working-class listeners. It offers progressive political talk, soul music, humor, advice, philanthropy, and celebrity gossip. But the TJMS is not just an adult “old-school music” radio show: it is an on-air organizer, fusing progressive politics and aesthetics. It focuses on specific political issues affecting and enraging African Americans. Black Radio analyzes the TJMS’s rise in the Clinton era, and its coverage of key events—9/11, Hurricane Katrina, President Obama’s elections and terms, the murders of unarmed black Americans and the rise of Black Lives Matter, and the shocking 2016 Donald Trump electoral triumph. It showcases the varied, contentious, and blackly humorous voices of anchors, guests, and audience members. Finally, it investigates the new synergistic set of cross-medium ties and political connections now affecting print, broadcast, and online politics in anti-racist directions. Despite the dismal present, this new multiracial progressive public sphere has extraordinary potential for shaping future American politics. Black Radio, then, is more than the project of making the invisible visible, bringing to light a major counterpublic phenomenon unjustly ignored for reasons of color, class, generation, and medium. It tunes us in to an alternative understanding of the black public sphere in the digital age. Like the show itself, Black Radio is politically progressive, music-drenched, angry, and blisteringly funny.
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Myrtle Allen's Cooking at Ballymaloe House: Featuring 100 Recipes from Ireland's Most Famous Guest House. Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2000.
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"Modern Cave Animals and Guests." In Famous Planet Earth Caves, edited by Cajus G. Diedrich. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/9781681080000115010014.
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"Another Ute Uprising and Famous Guests." In Beckoning Frontiers. Bison Books, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv104t9ws.28.
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Hellman, Lillian. "“Futile Souls Adrift on a Yacht”." In The Dixie Limited. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496803382.003.0003.
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This chapter is an essay which reviews William Faulkner's novel, Mosquitoes, which takes place on a yacht. Mrs. Maurier, a collector of famous people in her own home town of New Orleans, arranges a boating party for the more artistic of her friends. Among her guests are a sculptor, a young niece and the niece's mechanically inclined brother, a Jew and his sister, and a poet. The text praises the humor of Faulkner's writing, claiming that it approaches a brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few men. It also suggests that certain portions of Mosquitoes are “overwritten, certain Joycean passages that have no direct place or bearing, parts that are heavy and dull with overloaded description”.
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Flaherty, George F. "Gestures of Hospitality." In Hotel Mexico. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291065.003.0005.
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In Chapter 4 the unfinished mega Hotel de México (started in 1966) performs as the double to the nation-state. The hotel—archetypal building of modernity—conceals its operations and administrative apparatus, very much like the ruling PRI. By extension, the metaphor of hospitality illuminates how this self-proclaimed host treated its citizens, “limiting” or “conditioning” their status as perpetual guests. The analysis of the late major mural by the famous Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros The March of Humanity on Earth and Towards the Cosmos (1964–71), housed in the cultural center adjacent to the Hotel, reveals contradictions that parallel the challenge of reconciling the revolutionary rhetoric with capitalist modernization faced by the regime and its elites. The chapter argues that militant Siqueiros contradicted the official vision of “cosmic communion” proposed by the architect Guillermo Rossel de la Lama by crafting the mural whose story lines and gestures, especially the motif of hands, contested Mexico’s political status quo, echoing the unruliness of the 68 Movement after the Tlatelolco massacre.
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Kämpchen, Martin. "Rabindranath Tagore Meets Paul and Edith Geheeb." In Indo-German Exchanges in Education. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190126278.003.0002.
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The focus of Chapter 1 is on Paul and Edith Geheeb and their first foundation, the Odenwaldschule (1910–34). The chapter begins with a summary of the Reformpädagogik Movement, of which Paul Geheeb was a major exponent. From a modest background his life progressed—through a decade of university studies and several attempts to join alternative schools, to prominence as an educator. By contrast, Edith Geheeb, hailing from a wealthy Jewish business family, was, as a woman, denied higher education. Her family’s generosity made the Odenwaldschule possible. Among the early contacts with Indian guests at the Odenwaldschule were Ananth Nath Basu, Premchand Lal, Aurobindo Mohan Bose (the great-nephew of the famous scientist Jagadis Chandra Bose), and the Gujarati dancer Shrimati Hutheesing. All of them were associates of Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan. Emma von Pelet and especially Alwine von Keller where two teachers at the Odenwaldschule with close contacts to India, especially to the Ramakrishna Mission. The only Indian teacher was V.N. Sharma who introduced Sanskrit studies and theosophy to the school. The most far-reaching Indo-German event, described here in detail, was Tagore’s three-day-visit to the Odenwaldschule in 1930. It has repercussions until this day.
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Seymour, Mark. "Arena of Desire." In Emotional Arenas. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198743590.003.0003.
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The arrival of a circus in Raffaella Saraceni’s home town in Calabria forms the basis of this chapter, which investigates the intense emotional experiences, particularly desire, evoked within this distinctive social and cultural arena. The circus arts represented by this small provincial troupe, based around an extended family, are contextualized within the broader history of the circus, mostly in the nineteenth century but also reaching back to ancient Roman arenas. Personal testimonies give surprising evidence about the degree of desire experienced and expressed in this arena, particularly by women towards the leading performer, Pietro Cardinali. It appears that Cardinali was the provincial version of more famous contemporary practitioners of the circus arts such as Jules Léotard. The chapter explores evidence about the way Cardinali’s circus performers participated in the social life of a small Calabrian town during their month-long visit, which provides means to think more generally about the cultural and social dynamics of southern Italian provincial life in the 1870s. Forensic evidence also supports exploration of the emotional ‘regime’ within the circus family, in which male desire and female fear were central. Cardinali and his sister Antonietta were favoured guests at soirées held in Raffaella Saraceni’s family home, and it was not long before the town’s gossip mill, or voce pubblica (public voice), became firmly convinced that Raffaella, now estranged from her husband, had herself embarked upon a love affair with Pietro Cardinali.
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Fagan, Brian. "Tourists Along the Nile." In From Stonehenge to Samarkand. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195160918.003.0011.
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Until 1830, the traveler to India faced a long, and often stormy, passage around the Cape of Good Hope. The advent of the steamship changed everything. Now you could take a steamer from England or Marseilles to Alexandria, then spend a few days or weeks in Cairo waiting for news that the ship for India was approaching Suez. You then took a camel, horse, or wagon across the desert to meet the vessel at what was then a small village. Hotels opened in Suez and Cairo to accommodate transit passengers. The British Hotel in Cairo, soon to be renamed Shepheard’s Hotel after its manager, welcomed its first guests in 1841. This magnificent Victorian institution became world famous, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, when it became the hotel of choice for the British Raj on its way to and from India. The hotel also catered to a new breed, the archaeological tourist. Bubonic plague epidemics periodically claimed thousands of lives in Egypt until 1844, when it suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Cholera arrived from India to take its place, but despite this scourge, Egypt became a recommended destination for travelers wishing to escape damp European winters. By this time, a journey up the Nile to the First Cataract was routine, although one had to endure long quarantines on account of the plague. Nile travel became so popular that the London publisher John Murray commissioned the Egyptologist John Gardner Wilkinson to write a guide, one of a series aimed at a new audience of middle-class tourists.Wilkinson traveled in style, his baggage requiring a small army of porters. The contents of his baggage included an iron bedstead, a sword and other oddities, and “much more,” including a chicken coop, ample biscuits (cookies), and potted meats. He lamented the high cost of living in Egypt and the changes brought by a rising tide of visitors. “The travelers who go up the Nile will I fear soon be like Rhine tourists. & Cheapside will pour out its Legions upon Egypt.” His Handbook for Travellers in Egypt first appeared in 1847, went through multiple editions until 1873, and was still in common use half a century after its first appearance.
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Michie, Helena, and Robyn Warhol. "Reading for romance: the marriage plot." In Love Among the Archives. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474406635.003.0002.
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So far we have structured the story of this project around an originary narrative and, indeed, a moment of origin– our encounter with George Scharf’s album of menus and invitations that served as our introduction to him (see Fig. 1.1). Certainly that origin shaped our initial sense of George as a guest, a diner out. If we had not always had before us the glowing after-image of the menus, the gilded names of country houses and the calling cards of the rich and famous, we would perhaps have read the diaries differently: we might have read George not only or primarily as a guest but also as a host. Although, as we describe in the introduction, we found traces of Scharf as a host in the album and in the nightmare of hospitality we construed from those traces, the album resolutely and snobbishly tied him to country estates and their social rituals. The diaries, however, show Scharf as an almost obsessive giver of dinners, small and large, and as the centre of what one guest called ‘The Ashley Place Circle’, a group of male friends defined by the address of the lodgings Scharf rented for the last two and a half decades of his life.
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Dixon, Wheeler Winston. "The Gothic Impulse – Frankenstein." In The Films of Terence Fisher. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325345.003.0005.
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This chapter cites The Curse of Frankenstein, which was a ground-breaking film that was brought together for the first time by the key members of the Hammer horror team. It recounts how Terrence Fisher paired for the first time Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in The Curse of Frankenstein, which would become the most famous team of horror stars since Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the 1930s. It also describes Fisher's enormous benefit of having an excellent screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, superb camerawork by Jack Asher, James Bernard's melancholy and evocative music, Bernard Robinson's effortlessly realistic production design, and Philip Leakey's startlingly revisionist work for the makeup of the Frankenstein monster itself. The chapter points out how The Curse of Frankenstein established the careers of nearly everyone involved in its production. It mentions Val Guest's The Quatermass Xperiment, as the film that started Hammer on its horror cycle.
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Oppenheimer, Clive, and David Pyle. "Volcanoes." In The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199268030.003.0029.
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The historical record of Mediterranean volcanism is arguably the richest available for any region of the world. Documentary records date back to the Classical period, and archaeological records date back further still (Stothers and Rampino 1983; Chester et al. 2000). The Mediterranean is also home to some of the most famous, or indeed infamous, volcanoes on Earth, several of which still present major threats to society today (Kilburn and McGuire 2001; Chester et al. 2002; Guest et al. 2003). A number, for example Santorini, Etna, and Vesuvius, have menaced human populations since Antiquity, and the human response and risk perception today are strongly shaped by a culture, which itself owes much to the volcanic landscapes and eruptions (Chester et al. 2008). The science of volcanology was born, and has since flourished, in the cradle of the Mediterranean. It began, arguably, with the careful descriptions by Pliny the Younger of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii, and developed through the scientific investigations of Sir William Hamilton in the eighteenth century. The region was the playground of the pioneers of modern volcanological studies in the nineteenth century (e.g. Fouqué 1879), and today it boasts a number of state of the art volcano observatories such as that which monitors Vesuvius. Several volcanoes, eruption styles, geothermal manifestations, and rock types have inspired nomenclature now widely used within the volcanological community: plinian, vulcanian, and strombolian eruptions; low temperature gas emanations known as solfataras; rocks known as pantellerites. The very word ‘volcano’ comes from the Aeolian island Vulcano, where Vulcan’s forge was situated. The sea-filled crater of Santorini was one of the first volcanic ‘calderas’ to be described, by Ferdinand Fouqué in the 1870s. The Mediterranean basin tracks the geological suture between the African plate to the south, and the Eurasian tectonic plate to the north (Chapters 1, 13, and 16). Many regions along this suture have experienced volcanic activity within the past 10–20 Myr (million years), most of it related to the continuing process of subduction that has consumed the northern margin of the African plate.