Highly successful in England before its transfer to New York, most of `` Roots '' is as relentlessly dour as the trappings of the small new theater are gaudy.

Bacon and Sedgwick learned in 2011 via their appearance on the PBS TV show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates that he and Sedgwick are 10th cousins, once removed.

Roots are fibrous and matted.

In recent years the festival became so popular that there are now several such large summer festivals near the Connecticut-Rhode Island border: The Great Connecticut Cajun and Zydeco Music & Arts Festival, The Blast From The Bayou Cajun and Zydeco Festival, Rhythm & Roots Festival also in California the Cajun / Zydeco Festival ; Bay Area Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont, Calif. and The Simi Valley Cajun, Creole Music Festival.

Three others are notable: Albert Höllerer, a pilot in World War II, appeared briefly and had his story summarized in Swamp Thing # 47 ( May 1986 ), and Aaron Hayley appeared in the Swamp Thing: Roots graphic novel ( 1998 ) set in the 1940s, and Alan Hallman, the Swamp Thing of the 1950s and 1960s, introduced in Vol.

In 2008, the philosopher Maxine Sheets-Johnstone published The Roots of Morality ( Pennsylvania State University Press ), which contains an analysis of Rank's argument that " immortality ideologies " are an abiding human response to the painful riddle of death.

Roots of soaptree yucca ( Yucca elata ) are high in saponins and are used as a shampoo in Native American rituals.

Some designs use a mechanically driven Roots blower, whilst marine diesel engines normally use exhaust-driven turbochargers, with electrically-driven auxiliary blowers for low-speed operation when exhaust turbochargers are unable to deliver enough air.

The massive sculpture entitled If VI Was IX: Roots and Branches was conceived by UK exhibit designer Neal Potter and developed by Trimpin and made largely out of musical instruments, especially guitars, which are played by electronically controlled devices.

Referenced in Ken Burns ' monumental documentary The Civil War ; Knight's rebellion was also dramatized in the 1948 motion picture Tap Roots ( based on the book of the same name ), where in a few exterior scenes there are prominent mountains in the background – which do not exist in Mississippi.

Documentary series and mini-series are also eligible for this award, as shown by the consecutive awards to Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots, and 60 Minutes.

Among the artists for the set are The Roots (" Star ", which samples " Everybody is a Star "), Maroon 5 and Ciara (" Everyday People "), John Legend, Joss Stone & Van Hunt (" Family Affair "), The Black Eyed Peas ' will. i. am (" Dance to the Music "), and Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Robert Randolph (" I Want to Take You Higher ").

In mathematics, a root of unity, or de Moivre number, is any complex number that equals 1 when raised to some integer power n. Roots of unity are used in many branches of mathematics, and are especially important in number theory, the theory of group characters, field theory, and the discrete Fourier transform.

* Roots revival performers will often come from very different social and economic backgrounds compared to the people whose style of music they are popularizing.

There are several features mountain bikers can look out for when riding on the chase, such as Kitbag Hill, Rabbit Hill, Quagmire Bridge, Roots Hall and Brocton Shorts to name a few.

Simone Weil who fought for the French resistance ( the Maquis ) argued in her final book The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind that for society to become more just and protective of liberty, obligations should take precedence over rights in moral and political philosophy and a spiritual awakening should occur in the conscience of most citizens, so that social obligations are viewed as fundamentally having a transcendent origin and a beneficent impact on human character when fulfilled.

Centrifugal superchargers are much more efficient than the more conspicuous Roots type, but they deliver high pressure only at high RPM.

Musicians of note are Mombasa Roots, Safari Sounds, Them Mushrooms, Anwar Juma Bhalo and Princess Farida.

The current members of The Roots are Black Thought ( MC ), Questlove ( drums ), Frank Knuckles ( percussion ) ( also a former Protégé of Questlove ), and Cap ' n Kirk ( guitar ).

The Roots are featured on the Men in Black Original Soundtrack ( 1997 ) with the song " The Notic " with neo-soul singer D ' Angelo.

Roots blowers are commonly referred to as air blowers or PD ( positive displacement ) blowers.

Roots blowers are typically used in applications where a large volume of air must be moved across a relatively small pressure differential.

* Coarse roots: Roots that have undergone secondary thickening and have a woody structure.

The mall was defunct, which is the reason the production used it ; the movie crew completely renovated the structure, and stocked it with fictitious stores after Starbucks and numerous other corporations refused to let their names be used ( two exceptions to this are Roots and Panasonic ).

Three further singles were released from the album including the Top 75 hit " True Skool " with Roots Manuva.

Genealogy received a boost in the late 1970s with the television broadcast of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley's account of his family line.

On April 14, 2012 he along with Travis McCoy, Black Thought,? uestlove and The Roots performed a medley of Beastie Boys classics at the 2012 Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony.

Artists with releases on this label include Roots Manuva, cLOUDDEAD, Juice Aleem, DELS, Wiley, Speech Debelle and Spank Rock.

It was also announced that Simmons and McDaniels will perform with The Roots at their annual " picnic " show on June 5, 2010.

Damon " Tuba Gooding Jr ." Bryson from The Roots plays a Sousaphone on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Jane Goodall in 2009 with Hungarian Roots & Shoots group members.

Its global youth program, Roots & Shoots began in 1991 when a group of 16 local teenagers met with Goodall on her back porch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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At this time, the band was invited to play with the Area 1 Festival, which featured Moby, Outkast, The Roots, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, and Nelly Furtado.

Lance was quietly replaced by former The Roots guitarist Ben Kenney, who began working with Einziger on new songs for a psychedelic jazz-funk project called Time Lapse Consortium.

Though Geffen had been substantially a pop-rock label, its absorption of MCA ( and its back catalogues ) led to a more diverse roster ; with former MCA artists such as Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Blink-182, Rise Against, and Common now featured on the label.

The guru therefore appears with the yidam and dakini in the Three Roots refuge formulation of the three factors essential for tantric attainments.

Combined with ratings for its regular weekly series, Roots propelled ABC to a first-place finish in the national Nielsen ratings for the 1976 – 1977 season — this was a first in the then thirty-year history of the network.

Both of Hay's albums, 2007's Kiss The Sky and 2010s Deep Fried Satisfied were recorded in Katoomba, with the latter earning Hay critical acclaim and a # 1 on the Roots Music Report Australian chart and # 21 for airplay worldwide in October 2010.

A three-issue miniseries entitled The Krypton Chronicles, published in 1981, tells of Superman researching his roots when, as Clark Kent, he was assigned to write an article about Superman's family by an assignment editor impressed with the television miniseries Roots.

With advanced angle exhaust timing, uniflow engines can be supercharged with a crankshaft-driven ( piston or Roots ) blower.

Daugherty is also one of the founding members of the Roots music supergroup Lost Dogs with Terry Scott Taylor, Michael Roe and Gene Eugene.

A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers, whose Roots album ( 1968 ) is usually considered some of their finest work ; former teen idol Rick Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band ; John Fogerty, who left Creedence Clearwater Revival behind for the country sounds of The Blue Ridge Rangers ; Mike Nesmith, who had experimented with country sounds while with The Monkees, formed the First National Band ; and Neil Young who moved in and out of the genre throughout his career.

* A Living Tree: The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law ( with Arthur Rosett ): State University of New York Press, 1988.

During July 2010 the boys recorded a special series of songs with Roots Manuva the project dubbed Criminal Manuvas was recorded at Maida Vale studios for BBC Radio 6 Music ; songs included a reggae Scooby Snacks and a re-version of Witness.