Founders/Employees: Daisy Dodderidge,Tom the bartender Established: The pub was built by Daisy Dodderidge around 1500 "to serve as a gateway between the non-wizarding world and Diagon Alley". Sells: Food, drinks, rents rooms Description: An inn for wizards. Location: The rear of the The Leaky Cauldron opens onto a "chilly little courtyard" just off of Diagon Alley , but the pub faces onto Charing Cross Road. As such, it is a means of p ...

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Diagon Alley, Diagon Alley - Borgin and Burkes, Diagon Alley - Cauldron Shop Unnamed, Diagon Alley - Daily Prophet, Diagon Alley - Eeylops Owl Emporium, Diagon Alley - Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Diagon Alley - Flourish & Blotts, Diagon Alley - Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, Diagon Alley - Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley - External links, Diagon Alley - Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, Diagon Alley - Magical Menagerie, Diagon Alley - Ollivander's, Diagon Alley - References, Diagon Alley - Quality Quidditch Supplies, Diagon Alley - Slug & Jiggers Apothecary, Diagon Alley - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Diagon Alley - Items Developed or Sold, Diagon Alley - Minor Shops, Diagon Alley - WhizzHard Books, Diagon Alley - Terrortours, Diagon Alley - Twilfitt and Tatting's, Diagon Alley - Obscurus Books, Diagon Alley - Junk shop

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Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes is a fictional joke shop in the Harry Potter books. It is owned by Fred and George Weasley, who founded it in 1996 (between Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince). It is located in 93, Diagon Alley, London. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes was conceptualized by Fred and George Weasley, who started using the name in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for mail orders. To run their own joke shop had always been their life's ambition, and this ambition was finally ...

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Diagon Alley, Diagon Alley - Borgin and Burkes, Diagon Alley - Cauldron Shop Unnamed, Diagon Alley - Daily Prophet, Diagon Alley - Eeylops Owl Emporium, Diagon Alley - Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Diagon Alley - Flourish & Blotts, Diagon Alley - Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, Diagon Alley - Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley - External links, Diagon Alley - Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, Diagon Alley - Magical Menagerie, Diagon Alley - Ollivander's, Diagon Alley - References, Diagon Alley - Quality Quidditch Supplies, Diagon Alley - Slug & Jiggers Apothecary, Diagon Alley - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Diagon Alley - Items Developed or Sold, Diagon Alley - Minor Shops, Diagon Alley - WhizzHard Books, Diagon Alley - Terrortours, Diagon Alley - Twilfitt and Tatting's, Diagon Alley - Obscurus Books, Diagon Alley - Junk shop

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Founders/Employees: Daisy Dodderidge,Tom the bartender and innkeeper Established: The pub was built by Daisy Dodderidge around 1500 "to serve as a gateway between the non-wizarding world and Diagon Alley". Sells: Food, drinks, rents rooms Description: The Leaky Cauldron is an inn for wizards. There are a number of rooms available; Harry has stayed in Room 11, which has a talking mirror and windows that allow him to look out onto Charing Cross Road. The inn also has a bar, several private parlo ...

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Diagon Alley, Diagon Alley - Borgin and Burkes, Diagon Alley - Cauldron Shop Unnamed, Diagon Alley - Daily Prophet, Diagon Alley - Eeylops Owl Emporium, Diagon Alley - Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Diagon Alley - Flourish & Blotts, Diagon Alley - Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, Diagon Alley - Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley - External links, Diagon Alley - Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, Diagon Alley - Magical Menagerie, Diagon Alley - Ollivander's, Diagon Alley - References, Diagon Alley - Quality Quidditch Supplies, Diagon Alley - Slug & Jiggers Apothecary, Diagon Alley - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Diagon Alley - Items Developed or Sold, Diagon Alley - Minor Shops, Diagon Alley - WhizzHard Books, Diagon Alley - Terrortours, Diagon Alley - Twilfitt and Tatting's, Diagon Alley - Obscurus Books, Diagon Alley - Junk shop

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Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes is a fictional joke shop in the Harry Potter books. It is owned by Fred and George Weasley, who founded it in 1996 (between Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince). It is located in 93 Diagon Alley, London. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes was conceptualized by Fred and George Weasley, who started using the name in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for mail orders. To run their own joke shop had always been their life's ambition, and this ambition was finally r ...

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Diagon Alley, Diagon Alley - Borgin and Burkes, Diagon Alley - Cauldron Shop Unnamed, Diagon Alley - Daily Prophet, Diagon Alley - Eeylops Owl Emporium, Diagon Alley - Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Diagon Alley - Flourish & Blotts, Diagon Alley - Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, Diagon Alley - Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley - External links, Diagon Alley - Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, Diagon Alley - Magical Menagerie, Diagon Alley - Ollivander's, Diagon Alley - References, Diagon Alley - Quality Quidditch Supplies, Diagon Alley - Slug & Jiggers Apothecary, Diagon Alley - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Diagon Alley - Items Developed or Sold, Diagon Alley - Minor Shops, Diagon Alley - WhizzHard Books, Diagon Alley - Terrortours, Diagon Alley - Twilfitt and Tatting's, Diagon Alley - Obscurus Books, Diagon Alley - Junk shop

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Employees: Goblins including Griphook PS Ch.5, the only modern-age goblin known by name, and Ragnok, who may or may not be the President; Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour Descriptions: This snowy-white building towers over neighbouring shops. Customers pass through a set of bronze doors and then silver ones before entering the lobby. The main floor is paved with marble and has long counters stretching along its length. Th ...

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Diagon Alley, Diagon Alley - Borgin and Burkes, Diagon Alley - Cauldron Shop Unnamed, Diagon Alley - Daily Prophet, Diagon Alley - Eeylops Owl Emporium, Diagon Alley - Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Diagon Alley - Flourish & Blotts, Diagon Alley - Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, Diagon Alley - Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley - External links, Diagon Alley - Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, Diagon Alley - Magical Menagerie, Diagon Alley - Ollivander's, Diagon Alley - References, Diagon Alley - Quality Quidditch Supplies, Diagon Alley - Slug & Jiggers Apothecary, Diagon Alley - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Diagon Alley - Items Developed or Sold, Diagon Alley - Minor Shops, Diagon Alley - WhizzHard Books, Diagon Alley - Terrortours, Diagon Alley - Twilfitt and Tatting's, Diagon Alley - Obscurus Books, Diagon Alley - Junk shop

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The Alley Viper action figure was first released in 1989 as part of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line. The figure has been released in ten different iterations between 1989 and 2004. While the figure has drastically changed in appearance over time, Alley Vipers are generally recognizable by their fanged masks and armored shields. The figure is frequently armed with a submachine gun or laser pistol. From 1989 through 2003, the Alley Viper used similar molds for seven figures. The eighth version of the figure, released in 2004 ...

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Alley Viper, Alley Viper - Action Figure, Alley Viper - Comic Apperances

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The long-run success of the strip made the character a pop culture icon referenced in both fiction and pop music. An educated Neanderthal known as Alley Oop is a character in Clifford D. Simak's witty, Hugo-nominated science fiction novel The Goblin Reservation (1968). The cover story for the June, 1959, issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction was Philip José Farmer's The Alley Man, with a thinly disguised Alley Oop as the central figure in a novella about the last Neanderthal who has survived into t ...

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Alley Oop, Alley Oop - Characters and settings, Alley Oop - Oop in pop culture, Alley Oop - Reprints

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In the mid 19th century copyright control on melodies was poorly regulated in the United States, and many competing publishers would often print their own versions of whatever songs were popular at the time. Stephen Foster's songs probably generated millions of dollars in sheet music sales, but Foster saw little of it and died in poverty. With better copyright protection laws late in the century, songwriters, composers, lyricists, and publishers started working tog ...

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Tin Pan Alley, Tin Pan Alley - Origins, Tin Pan Alley - Prime, Tin Pan Alley - Influence on Law and Business, Tin Pan Alley - Composers, Tin Pan Alley - Publishing houses, Tin Pan Alley - Biggest hits

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The music houses in lower Manhattan were lively places, with a steady stream of songwriters, Vaudeville and Broadway performers, musicians, and song pluggers coming and going. Aspiring songwriters came to demonstrate tunes they hoped to sell. When tunes were purchased from unknowns with no previous hits, the name of someone with the firm was often added as co-composer (in order to keep a higher percentage of royalties within the firm), or all rights to the song were purchased outright for a flat fee (including rights to put som ...

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Tin Pan Alley, Tin Pan Alley - Origins, Tin Pan Alley - Prime, Tin Pan Alley - Influence on Law and Business, Tin Pan Alley - Composers, Tin Pan Alley - Publishing houses, Tin Pan Alley - Biggest hits

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The character's name derived from the "let's go" phrase allez oup, used as a cue by French gymnasts and trapeze artists. Alley Oop was a sturdy citizen of the prehistoric kingdom of Moo who rode his pet dinosaur, Dinny, carried a stone war hammer, dressed in nothing but a pair of fur shorts, and obviously would rather fight dinosaurs in the jungle than deal with his fellow countrymen in Moo's capital (and only) cave-town. In spite of these exotic settings, the stories were mostly satires of American suburban life. The first stories ce ...

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Alley Oop, Alley Oop - Characters and settings, Alley Oop - Oop in pop culture, Alley Oop - Reprints

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A group of Tin Pan Alley music houses formed the Music Publishers Association of the United States on June 11, 1895, and successfully lobbied the United States Federal Government to extend the term of copyright for published music to 40 years, renewable for an additional 20. The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) was founded in 1914 as an organization to mutually aid and protect the interests of established publishers and composers. New members were only admitted with sponsorship of existing members. By the end of the 1910s, it was estimated that over 90% of the sheet music ...

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Tin Pan Alley, Tin Pan Alley - Origins, Tin Pan Alley - Prime, Tin Pan Alley - Influence on Law and Business, Tin Pan Alley - Composers, Tin Pan Alley - Publishing houses, Tin Pan Alley - Biggest hits

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Alley cropping is a strategy used by farmers to combat soil erosion. In this method, several crops are planted together in strips or alleys between trees and shrubs. This design provides shade (reducing water loss from evaporation), ensures retention of soil moisture, and can also produce fruit, fuelwood, or trimmings to be made into mulch. ...

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Agroforestry, Agroforestry - Alley cropping

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Shop keepers: Unnamed bookstore manager and assistant PA Ch.4 Sells: A great variety of books, including textbooks for Hogwarts courses PS Ch.5 and other books of general magical interest PS Ch.5 See also:

Diagon Alley, Diagon Alley - Borgin and Burkes, Diagon Alley - Cauldron Shop Unnamed, Diagon Alley - Daily Prophet, Diagon Alley - Eeylops Owl Emporium, Diagon Alley - Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Diagon Alley - Flourish & Blotts, Diagon Alley - Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, Diagon Alley - Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley - External links, Diagon Alley - Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, Diagon Alley - Magical Menagerie, Diagon Alley - Ollivander's, Diagon Alley - References, Diagon Alley - Quality Quidditch Supplies, Diagon Alley - Slug & Jiggers Apothecary, Diagon Alley - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Diagon Alley - Items Developed or Sold, Diagon Alley - Minor Shops, Diagon Alley - WhizzHard Books, Diagon Alley - Terrortours, Diagon Alley - Twilfitt and Tatting's, Diagon Alley - Obscurus Books, Diagon Alley - Junk shop

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Most Tin Pan Alley songs consisted of a verse or "sectional verse", and a refrain or "sectional refrain", often in thirty-two-bar form. The sectional verse is often omitted from modern performances and thus the refrain is often the only section remembered and heard. Perhaps the most recognizable example, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", however, consists of a full AABA scheme and a reprise of two verses and an ending based on the bridge material. (Covach 2005, p.70) One example is "Down in Mexico Way", in which, "the A sections...are doubled in length, to sixteen bars - but this ...

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Thirty-two-bar form, Thirty-two-bar form - Tin Pan Alley, Thirty-two-bar form - Later rock and pop, Thirty-two-bar form - Sources

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In 1998, the Phillies and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League joined their western Pennsylvania counterparts, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Steelers in making requests to replace both "The Vet" and Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh with separate stadiums. The state legislature approved funding for all four stadiums. While Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh approved the pacts rather swiftly, typical bickering in Philadelphia's political arena and debate carried on as Pittsburgh opened their stadia — ...

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Citizens Bank Park, Citizens Bank Park - History, Citizens Bank Park - Ballpark Attractions, Citizens Bank Park - Ashburn Alley, Citizens Bank Park - Other attractions

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Thirty-two-bar form was often used in rock in the 1950s and 60s, afterwhich verse-chorus form became more prevalent. Examples (ibid, 71) include: Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire" (1957) The Everly Brothers' "All I have to Do Is Dream" (1958) The Shirelles' "Will You Still Love Me" (1960) The Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl" (1963), and The Beatles' "From Me to You" (1963) and "Hey Jude" (1968). The Brill Building and other songwriters, such as Lennon-McCartney, often used modifie ...

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Thirty-two-bar form, Thirty-two-bar form - Tin Pan Alley, Thirty-two-bar form - Later rock and pop, Thirty-two-bar form - Sources

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Fred Allen's first taste of radio came while he and Portland Hoffa waited for a promised slot in a new Arthur Hammerstein musical. In the interim, they appeared on a Chicago station's program, WLS Showboat, into which, Allen recalled, "Portland and I were presented . . . to inject a little class into it." Their success in these appearances helped their theater reception; live audiences in the Midwest liked to see their radio favorites in person, even if Allen and Hoffa would be replaced by Bob Hope when the radi ...

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Fred Allen, Fred Allen - Growing Up, Fred Allen - The Vaudevillian, Fred Allen - Between Vaudeville and Broadway, Fred Allen - From Stage to Radio, Fred Allen - At Home on the Air, Fred Allen - It's Town Hall Tonight!, Fred Allen - From Town Hall to Allen's Alley, Fred Allen - The Swing of the Rapier, Fred Allen - Closing the Alley, Fred Allen - The Feud, Fred Allen - Censorship, Fred Allen - The Final Years, Fred Allen - Listen to, Fred Allen - Quotations From Chairman Fred, Fred Allen - Source material

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Polly never succeeded in spite of several retoolings, but Allen did go on to successful shows like The Little Show and Three's a Crowd, which eventually led to his full-time entry to radio in 1932. Fred Allen - It's Town Hall Tonight!. Allen first hosted The Linit Bath Club Revue on CBS, moving the show to NBC and becoming The Salad Bowl Revue (in a nod to new sponsor Hellmann's Mayonnaise) later in the year. The show became The Sal Hepatica Revue (1933-34), ...

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Fred Allen, Fred Allen - Growing Up, Fred Allen - The Vaudevillian, Fred Allen - Between Vaudeville and Broadway, Fred Allen - From Stage to Radio, Fred Allen - At Home on the Air, Fred Allen - It's Town Hall Tonight!, Fred Allen - From Town Hall to Allen's Alley, Fred Allen - The Swing of the Rapier, Fred Allen - Closing the Alley, Fred Allen - The Feud, Fred Allen - Censorship, Fred Allen - The Final Years, Fred Allen - Listen to, Fred Allen - Quotations From Chairman Fred, Fred Allen - Source material

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After his own show ended, Allen became a regular attraction on NBC's The Big Show (1950-1952), hosted by Tallulah Bankhead. He appeared on 24 of the show's 57 installments, including the landmark premiere, and showed he hadn't lost his trademark ad-lib skill or his rapier wit. In some ways, The Big Show was an offspring of the old Allen show: his one-time Texaco Star Theater announcer, Jimmy Wallington, was one of The Big Show's announcers, and Portland Ho ...

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Fred Allen, Fred Allen - Growing Up, Fred Allen - The Vaudevillian, Fred Allen - Between Vaudeville and Broadway, Fred Allen - From Stage to Radio, Fred Allen - At Home on the Air, Fred Allen - It's Town Hall Tonight!, Fred Allen - From Town Hall to Allen's Alley, Fred Allen - The Swing of the Rapier, Fred Allen - Closing the Alley, Fred Allen - The Feud, Fred Allen - Censorship, Fred Allen - The Final Years, Fred Allen - Listen to, Fred Allen - Quotations From Chairman Fred, Fred Allen - Source material

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The Irish Sea has been subject to heavy radioactive contamination by the first British weapons grade 239Pu nuclear production plant and power station at Sellafield, also known as Windscale. (See the Sellafield page about the naming of this site.) An estimated 250 kg of plutonium have been deposited in marine sediments during the first decades of production. Another source of radioactive pollution may be the Dundrennan Range on the Solway Firth. Further north are the Holy Loch (now closed) and Faslane bases, where nuclear submarine ...

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Irish Sea, Irish Sea - Shipping, Irish Sea - Origin, Irish Sea - Environment, Irish Sea - U-boat Alley, Irish Sea - Oil and gas exploration, Irish Sea - Proposed tunnel projects, Irish Sea - Wind power, Irish Sea - Footnotes

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Discussions of linking Britain to Ireland began in 1895, with an application £15,000 towards the cost of carrying out borings and soundings in the North Channel to see if a tunnel between Ireland and Scotland was viable. Sixty years later Montgomery Hyde, Unionist MP for North Belfast, called for the building of such a tunnel. Irish Times, Feb 2004 (subscription required). Several potential Irish Sea tunnel projects have been proposed, most recently the "Tusker Tunnel" between the ports of Rosslare and Fishguard proposed by The Insti ...

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Irish Sea, Irish Sea - Shipping, Irish Sea - Origin, Irish Sea - Environment, Irish Sea - U-boat Alley, Irish Sea - Oil and gas exploration, Irish Sea - Proposed tunnel projects, Irish Sea - Wind power, Irish Sea - Footnotes

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