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Down East, The Magazine of Maine explains the origin of the term in New England: " When ships sailed from Boston to ports in Maine ( which were to the east of Boston ), the wind was at their backs, so they were sailing downwind, hence the term ' Down East.
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His next role, in War Brides opposite Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms ( 1919 ) and Way Down East ( 1920 ).
The region is home to fictional places found in well-known novels such as Watership Down, Hampshire, and Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, the site of Hundred Acre Wood in Winnie the Pooh.
Crumb often plays mandolin with Eden and John's East River String Band and has drawn three covers for them: 2009's " Drunken Barrel House Blues ," 2008's " Some Cold Rainy Day ," and 2011's " Be Kind To A Man When He's Down " which he also plays mandolin on.
In 2011 he drew his third album cover for Eden and John's East River String Band " Be Kind To A Man When He's Down ", on which he also plays mandolin.
The town also has its own tennis club Downpatrick Tennis Club Downpatrick has several other clubs that use the facilities of the Down Leisure Centre ( run by Down District Council ) such as the Lecale Amateur Swimming Club, the Downpatrick School of Lifesaving and the East Down Athletics Club.
Archeological evidence, such as the so-called Giant's Hedge and the stone circle at Bin Down ( from the Cornish " Bin Dun ", meaning " hill fort ") on a hill above East Looe, indicates that the area around Looe was inhabited as early as 1000 BC.
Lead singer of the rock band 3 Doors Down, Brad Arnold, graduated from East Central High School in 1996.
White River Junction served as the location for the filming of director D. W. Griffith's film Way Down East, in part filmed on the ice floes of the Connecticut and White rivers, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess.
On his return to Ireland, having received a £ 100, 000 legacy from his father's will, he turned to politics, serving as Member of Parliament for East Down from 1906 to 1918.
Lillian went on to star in many of Griffith's most acclaimed films, including The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), Broken Blossoms ( 1919 ), Way Down East ( 1920 ) and Orphans of the Storm ( 1921 ).
One of the enduring images of Gish's silent film years is the climax of the melodramatic Way Down East, in which Gish's character floats unconscious on an ice floe towards a raging waterfall, her long hair trailing in the water.
The Star of David at least since the 20th century remains associated with the number seven and thus with the Menorah, and popular accounts associate it with the six directions of space plus the center ( under the influence of the description of space found in the Sefer Yetsira: Up, Down, East, West, South, North, and Center ), or the Six Sefirot of the Male ( Zeir Anpin ) united with the Seventh Sefirot of the Female ( Nukva ).
Though he never fully embraced the free jazz of the 1960s, he appeared on two of its landmark albums: Coleman's Free Jazz and Coltrane's Ascension, as well as on Sonny Rollins ' 1966 ' New Thing ' track East Broadway Run Down with Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison.
The RSPB owns and manages a large nature reserve at Arne and the Dorset Wildlife Trust has two reserves at East Creech and also manages the unique Purbeck Marine Wildlife Reserve at Kimmeridge The National Trust also owns the great chalk grassland ridge of Ballard Down to the south of Studland, and manages it as a nature reserve.
" They have been extremely clever and very, very effective in their propaganda and lobbying of members of Congress ," says Gary Sick, a Persian Gulf expert at Columbia University's Middle East Institute and the author of All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran.
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Subsequent Baldwin articles on the movement appeared in Mademoiselle, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Yorker, where in 1962 he published the essay he called " Down at the Cross " and the New Yorker called " Letter from a Region of My Mind ".
Down Beat Magazine, the internationally recognized industry standard trade publication for jazz music, recognized the work of the 2010 UNLV Jazz Ensemble as " Outstanding Large Jazz Ensemble Performance " among graduate college-level jazz bands in their annual Student Music Award issue of that year.
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A 2003 New York Times Magazine cover story on the Down Low phenomenon explains that the black community sees " homosexuality as a white man's perversion.
Then in August 2003 the New York Times Magazine ran a cover story called " Double Lives on the Down Low ", written by Benoit Denizet-Lewis.
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He continues to be the subject of articles in national publications, such as Down Beat and Jazz Times Magazine, and his work is documented in The Encyclopedia of Jazz and many Jazz Record Guides.
In the Sept., 1988 " Down Beat Magazine " interview with Chick Corea by Joesf Woodward, Joesf says ( page 19 ), " There is this general view ... that ...
The UNF Jazz Ensemble 1 is internationally renowned, having performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, a two week tour of China, and was twice named the top collegiate jazz band in the nation by Down Beat Magazine.
He has produced many national and international award-winning saxophonists, including first place winners and finalists in the North American Saxophone Alliance Young Artist Competition, semifinalists in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition ( Luis Hernandez 2002 ; Dave Pietro 1991 & 1996 ), and winners in Down Beat Magazine Student Music Solo Awards.
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