Octopus (disambiguation)

An octopus is a sea animal with eight limbs.

Octopus may also refer to:

Biology

People and animals

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Film and television

The Octopus (album)

The Octopus is the third studio album of the Manchester progressive rock band Amplifier. The format of the album is double CD. It was released to fans online in December 2010 and was commercially released in January 2011. The album can be listened to online at a mini-site set up by the band.

Track listing

CD 1

CD 2

Credits

References

External links

Spirit (comics)

The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940 as the main feature of a 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book insert distributed in the Sunday edition of Register and Tribune Syndicate newspapers; it was ultimately carried by 20 Sunday newspapers, with a combined circulation of five million copies during the 1940s. "The Spirit Section", as the insert was popularly known, continued until October 5, 1952. It generally included two other, four-page strips (initially Mr. Mystic and Lady Luck), plus filler material. Eisner was the editor, but also wrote and drew most entries—after the first few months, he had the uncredited assistance of writer Jules Feiffer and artists Jack Cole and Wally Wood, though Eisner's singular vision for the character was a unifying factor.

From the 1960s to 1980s, a handful of new Eisner Spirit stories appeared in Harvey Comics and elsewhere, and Warren Publishing and Kitchen Sink Press variously reprinted the newspaper feature in black-and-white comics magazines and in color comic books. In the 1990s and 2000s, Kitchen Sink Press and DC Comics also published new Spirit stories by other writers and artists.

Ship's bell

A ship's bell is used to indicate the time aboard a ship and hence to regulate the sailors' duty watches. The bell itself is usually made of brass or bronze and normally has the ship's name engraved or cast on it.

Timing of duty periods

Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of the bell do not accord to the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. In the age of sailing, watches were timed with a 30-minute hourglass. Bells would be struck every time the glass was turned, and in a pattern of pairs for easier counting, with any odd bells at the end of the sequence.

The classical system was:

At midnight on New Year's Eve sixteen bells would be struck – eight bells for the old year and eight bells for the new.

Most of the crew of a ship would be divided up into between two and four groups called watches. Each watch would take its turn with the essential activities of manning the helm, navigating, trimming sails, and keeping a lookout.

Watch (Seatrain album)

Watch is the fourth and final album of the band Seatrain, recorded in 1973. It is marked with departure of Peter Rowan and Richard Greene (they formed band Muleskinner) and the use of more session musicians on instruments like vibraphone, cello, accordion, tuba and oboe.

Reception

In a brief retrospective review, Allmusic called Watch "A strange, but intriguing release."

Track listing

Personnel

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List of 90210 episodes

The following is an episode list of The CW series, 90210 — a spin-off to Beverly Hills, 90210, and the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 continuity. The show premiered September 2, 2008 in the U.S. on The CW and in Canada on Global. 90210 is available on the United States iTunes Store in HD and SD quality for purchase.

A total of 114 episodes of 90210 were aired over five seasons.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2008–09)

Season 2 (2009–10)

Season 3 (2010–11)

Season 4 (2011–12)

Season 5 (2012–13)

Specials

A retrospective of the entire series titled "90210 4ever" aired on May 13, 2013, before the series finale.

References

External links

List of 90210 episodes at the Internet Movie Database

100 episodes

In the U.S. television industry, 100 episodes is the traditional threshold for a television series to become viable for syndication. One hundred episodes are advantageous for stripped syndication because it allows for 20 weeks of weekday reruns (depending on the number of episodes produced once the program debuts in syndication) without repeating an episode, and such shows can be sold for higher per episode pricing.

It is unclear when conventional wisdom came to decide that 100 episodes was the ideal. One of the first series made specifically for syndication, the 1953-55 sitcom Life with Elizabeth, purposely ended its run after only 65 episodes, concerned that producing more would saturate the market and reduce the syndication package's value. In recent years, the minimum number of episodes for off-network, stripped syndication has been set at 88 (typically four seasons of 22 episodes), although some programs have been relatively successful in syndication with fewer episodes.