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Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.
In comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin. Bronze does not necessarily contain tin, and a variety of alloys of copper, including alloys with arsenic, phosphorus, aluminium, manganese, and silicon, are commonly termed "bronze". The term is applied to a variety of brasses and the distinction is largely historical.
Brass is a substitutional alloy. It is used for decoration for its bright gold-like appearance; for applications where low friction is required such as locks, gears, bearings, doorknobs, ammunition, and valves; for plumbing and electrical applications; and extensively in musical instruments such as horns and bells for its acoustic properties. It is also used in zippers. Because it is softer than most other metals in general use, brass is often used in situations where it is important that sparks not be struck, as in fittings and tools around explosive gases.
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
Actors: Gunnar Hansen (actor), Trent Haaga (actor), Billy Garberina (actor), Billy Garberina (producer), Matt Pizzolo (producer), Kenneth J. Hall (actor), Jera Sky (miscellaneous crew), Elske McCain (actress), Don Adams (actor), Scott Phillips (director), Scott Phillips (writer), Scott Phillips (editor), Jeremy Owen (actor), D. Ryan Mowry (actor), D. Ryan Mowry (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Tony Mabesa (actor), Original Thunder Stuntmen (actor), Rufa Mae Quinto (actress), Joko Diaz (actor), Toto Natividad (director), Vic del Rosario Jr. (producer), Zandro Zamora (actor), Cris Aguilar (actor), Ramon Christopher (actor), Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia (actor), Eva Darren (actress), Kier Legaspi (actor), Evangeline Pascual (actress), Donita Rose (actress), Brando Legaspi (actor),
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Berton Churchill (actor), Bill Wolfe (actor), Frank M. Thomas (actor), Willie Best (actor), Harry Carey (actor), Victor Potel (actor), Ronald R. Rondell (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Paul Kruger (actor), George Magrill (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), David Newell (actor), Bud Jamison (actor), Helen Dickson (actress),
Plot: In a film advertised and sold as a Damon Runyon story, but actually combined elements from his "All Scarlet" and another story written by J. Robert Bren and Norman Houston called "Odds Are Even", horse breeder Tom Martin, in a streak of bad luck, is persuaded by his daughter Doris to enter a mare in the feature race at the county fair. There, Martin rejects a tout's proposition to throw the race, and he also meets his old friends, the "Judge" and the "Warbler". The race starts and the mare, just short of reaching the wire and winning the race, is crowded into the rail and ruined as a racer. The Martins return home, where Ruth busies herself in training a colt, Katydid. She enters the horse in a claiming race at Santa Anita, where she gets lots of publicity as a novelty girl trainer.Wealthy, amateur horseman Steve Wendall offers her a job as trainer of his stable, but she refuses. Katydid wins but is claimed by Bradford, Wendall's trainer, on behalf of Wendall, who has done so simply to get Ruth to accept his job offer. She does, and goes East and then to Europe, winning time and again with the Wendall horses she has trained. But there is a falling out between Ruth and Wendall, who doesn't think Katydid can win the Santa Anita, and Ruth who thinks Wendall has had the horse kidnapped to keep it out of the race.
Keywords: acceptance, accident, african-american, amateur, argument, automobile-manufacturer, b-movie, bet, bribery, californiaAutumn's back and it's cool again.
And, the better things that you feel set into the cold.
Grab your jacket, fix your hat, and face the snow.
Throw your pack across your back before you go.
A slow goodbye and the batt'ry dies
'Fore your breathe your last is your second life. You're alive.
Pay your pleasantries to all the passers by.
Say the words to them, but never beg the why.
Sleeping in to save your cold goodbye.
Slipping down the same old rope. Goodbye.
The blink of an eye and the tears you cry.
Carry luggage along the electric line this time.
Swear your heart out yours won't intersect with mine.
Unwrap your silverware as you prepare to dine.
And you're carried away to the nearest place.
Yeah, you've seen it before, the familiar face, this town.
Jason's chomping at his bit to send your 'round.
Hanging upside like a spider spin you down.
You're sleeping to beat of the real thing.
'Cause you got and cold and unescapable feeling, yeah.
You put the horse before the car.
You got a mark on your head and a battle scar.
Take the title to escape your past.