Word: manitoba
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...year’s excellent “The Milk of Human Kindness,” which provided a blueprint for extended improvisation. Caribou has often been slapped with the “Intelligent Dance Music” (IDM) label, more justifiably for their Warp Records-killer debut as Manitoba than for Snaith’s more recent pastoral glitch. But instead of the timid knob-twiddling and reclusive laptopping characteristic of the genre, Caribou played like a real live band. In fact, there were no computers in sight: the album’s dense programming was accurately reproduced with...
...Nuclear Physics of the American Physical society for his “pioneering work” in the development of nuclear astrophysics. Cameron’s wife Elizabeth passed away in 2001. Cameron is survived by his sister who still resides in Cameron’s hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. “[He] will be missed by us all,” Field said...
...trends, after an aborted fictional project that featured dialogue written in gibberish, Brown turned to "Louis Riel," yet another audience-challenging work. "Riel" is Brown's interpretive biography of Louis Riel, a real-life 19th-century French-Indian mystic who defied the Canadian government's annexation of what became Manitoba. Crystallizing many of Brown's themes of religion, anti-authoritarianism and madness, "Riel" has become a critical and commercial hit, selling out of its first printing in two months. This past weekend, the 2004 Eisner Awards have nominated it for both "Best Graphic Album - Reprint" and "Best Publication Design." Chester...
...extinction by rampant fur trapping and forest clearing, beavers are colonizing large swaths of North America where people don't remember seeing them. Since Massachusetts banned lethal leg-hold traps in 1996, the state's beaver population has tripled, to 70,000. North Carolina may have half a million, Manitoba twice as many. From Maine to Alaska, California to the Carolinas, the beaver's numbers are exploding...
This veteran Liberal member of parliament from Manitoba may wear his Crimson colors proudly, but he is not an actual descendant of John Harvard himself. In fact, he’s named after an airplane...