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Three goats escape from their pen and visit a fair, but they run back home after they seem to encounter an ogre.
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(THE LACK OF) FAN FICTION LITIGATION: WHY DO CREATORS REFRAIN FROM SUIT?
772/5 Note explores the status of contemporary fan fiction under United States copyright law. It begins by tracing the historical development of fan fiction and then examines fan fiction 's legal treatment in the internet age, with a focus on the potential application of the fair use doctrine. It surveys relevant case law and considers the notable absence of litigation by content creators against fan fiction authors. Finally, it offers a number of possible explanations for this reluctance to pursue legal action.
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Humphrey's school fair surprise
\"The students of Room 26 are so excited for Longfellow School's big school fair! Pet hamster Humphrey is too--but will he be allowed to march in the parade with his classmates?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Why did the farmer cross the road?
While Donkey tries to convince Farmer that all the other animals have left the farm, chickens, goats, and even a cow are enjoying rides and contests at a fair.
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A Symbolic Project
Defined by its double hyperbolic arches, the building looks like an alien spaceship and brings to mind similarly shaped structures in sci-fi flicks or at equally iconic contemporary sites, such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis (1963), the Trans World Airlines (twa) terminal in New York (1962), or the Sydney Opera House (1959). A professor of veterinary medicine who became the director of the state fair in 1937 (soon after the fair's move to its current location in west Raleigh in 1927), Dorton called on his colleague Henry L. Kamphoefner, the recently appointed dean of the new School ofDesign at North Carolina State College, to help him select the right architect to design a visionary arena and modern fairgrounds that would showcase North Carolina's agricultural and industrial products on a year-round basis. Following World War II, state fairs across the country quickly followed suit to light the beacon ofmodernization, progress, and technology in every citizen and state in the Union.2 Fittingly, this symbolic project came at the very beginning of Kamphoefner's twenty-five-year career as the dean of the College of Design-a test for him and the school. Among these were the new NC State Student Union, the Chavis Heights and Halifax Court low-income housing developments, the clubhouse of the Raleigh Country Club, and the master plan for the new capital city, Chandigarh, India.
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The Switch to Black: Revisiting Early Supreme Court Robes
“Did they really wear robes like that?” is usually the first question a visitor to the Supreme Court Building asks when gazing upon the portrait of Chief Justice John Jay in an elaborate robe, black overflowing with red sleeves and stole trimmed with white. Despite its appeal, there is little documentation to support this claim, and as will be explored, what evidence there is suggests the change occurred before Marshall became chief justice.2 What follows is an attempt to sort the facts from the fiction to come to a better understanding of the Court’s early judicial attire. A period newspaper reported, The special occasion of the exhibition of this historic robe to the court now is to settle a much-controverted point as to whether the members of the court ever did wear a black robe with pink facing, as exhibited in the portrait which was suspended upon the walls of the robing chamber. The exhibition of the actual robe worn by Chief Justice Jay when he sat upon the bench settles this question to the satisfaction of the entire court.19 In an apparently unanimous decision, the Waite Court justices deemed the robe to be the one worn by Jay “on the Bench” and discounted the story of its being borrowed from Livingston.
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Blue ribbon blues
When Tooter Pepperday and her family move to her aunt's farm, she decides to show everyone and win a blue ribbon at the county fair.
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Animating the Technocratic Utopia
[...]it soon became apparent that those promises came at some consequence. [...]Segal describes how, due to what many perceived as \"fanatical and fascist\" tendencies that seemed to be fundamentally embedded in its programs-perhaps too much of the element of \"control\" that Eisenstein admired-and to various challenges to many of its statistical arguments, Technocracy as a serious political and social movement would be \"widely dismissed\" by the late 1930s (Future 129). Scott's theory that \"energy valuation\" (4) might prove a new and more rational sort of currency also offered a different approach to what seemed to many to be the arcane science of economics.1 As a result, Technocracy lingered in the popular consciousness, and continued to be publicized and debated in a wide variety of texts: in dedicated journals such as The Technocrat and Technocracy Review (the latter founded by famed science fiction pulp editor Hugo Gernsback), but also in films like Just Imagine and Transatlantic Tunnel (1935), in numerous science fiction stories that were widely circulated in such pulp magazines as Amaying Stories, Astounding Stories, and Wonder Stories (their very titles suggesting the almost magical or amaying appeal of the ideas contained therein), and even, as we began by suggesting, in many popular cartoons. Yet almost from its 1910s start-and certainly throughout the 1930s-the animated cartoon was presented as an integral part of the \"full bill\" of any theatrical presentation, and thus as something that generally addressed the wide range of those in attendance, most of whom were adults. [...]the subject matter of cartoons in the pre-World War II period ran the gamut of popular culture, commonly incorporating topical issues that were part of the ongoing cultural discussion.
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