Falconer

Falconer or The Falconer may refer to:

People:

  • A person skilled in the art of falconry
  • Falconer (surname), a family name
  • Falconer Larkworthy (1833–1928), New Zealand banker and financier
  • Falconer Madan (1851—1935), librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University
  • Places:

  • Falconer, New York, United States, a village
  • Mount Falconer, Victoria Land, Antarctica
  • In arts and entertainment:

  • The Falconer (Simonds), a bronze sculpture in Central Park, New York City
  • The Falconer (Hansen), a bronze sculpture in Portland, Oregon
  • Falconer (band), a power metal band from Sweden
  • Falconer (album), an album by the band
  • Falconer (novel), a novel by John Cheever
  • "The Falconer", a recurring sketch on the TV program Saturday Night Live
  • In the military:

  • Air Operations Center, AN/USQ-163 Falconer, a U.S. Air Force weapon system
  • Australian contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, codenamed Operation Falconer
  • MQM-57 Falconer, a target drone in the Radioplane BTT family
  • Other uses:

  • Falconer School, a boys school in Hertfordshire, England
  • Falconer (surname)

    Falconer is a Scottish surname and an Anglicized version of the French surname "Fauconnier". In both cases, the name is derived from the occupational name for a trainer of falcons.

    People with the surname Falconer:

  • Alex Falconer, Scottish Labour Party politician, Member of the European Parliament 19841999
  • Brian Falconer (born 1933), Australian rules footballer
  • Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton (born 1951), British lawyer and politician
  • Claire Falconer, Northern Irish actress and painter
  • Colin Falconer (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Daniel Falconer, movie weapon and armour designer
  • Sir David Falconer (1640–1685), Scottish judge
  • Deborah Falconer (born 1965), American actress and musician
  • Delia Falconer (born 1966), Australian novelist
  • Doug Falconer (Canadian football) (born 1952), Canadian professional football player
  • Douglas Scott Falconer, British quantitative geneticist
  • Duncan Falconer, British SBS commando and author
  • Earl Falconer (born 1959), British bass player, member of UB40
  • Falconer (novel)

    Falconer is a 1977 novel by American short-story writer and novelist John Cheever. It tells the story of Ezekiel Farragut, a university professor and drug addict who is serving time in Falconer State Prison for the murder of his brother. Farragut struggles to retain his humanity in the prison environment, and begins an affair with a fellow prisoner.

    Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

    Adaptations

    In 2009, Audible.com produced an audio version of Falconer, narrated by Jay Snyder, as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks.

    In Pop Culture

    Falconer is the novel George Costanza reads in the 1992 Seinfeld episode The Cheever Letters .

    References


    Ruins

    Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once complete, as time went by, have fallen into a state of partial or complete disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction. Natural disaster, war and depopulation are the most common root causes, with many structures becoming progressively derelict over time due to long-term weathering and scavenging.

    There are famous ruins all over the world, from ancient sites in China, the Indus valley and Judea to Zimbabwe in Africa, ancient Greek, Egyptian and Roman sites in the Mediterranean basin, and Incan and Mayan sites in the Americas. Ruins are of great importance to historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, whether they were once individual fortifications, places of worship, houses and utility buildings, or entire villages, towns and cities. Many ruins have become UNESCO World Heritage Sites in recent years, to identify and preserve them as areas of outstanding value to humanity.

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    Ruins (Australian band)

    Ruins is an Australian black metal band, based in Hobart, Tasmania. The band was formed somewhere between 2000 and 2002 by Alex Pope, (formerly of the Sea Scouts,) and Dave Haley (The Amenta, Blood Duster and Psycroptic).

    Recording

    Ruins began as a recording project, featuring Pope supplying vocals, guitar and bass, with Haley on drums. It has been incorrectly reported that Haley is merely a session player in the band, and he has publicly dismissed such views as nonsense. The band consists of two core-members used on recordings, with extra live members added for shows, similar to Norwegian black metal band, Satyricon. Initial recordings were intended for demo purposes only, but were decided later to be of sufficient quality for public use. Their first recording, Atom and Time, was released in 2004 by Blacktalon Media.

    Their debut full length album Spun Forth as Dark Nets was engineered by Joe Haley, Dave's brother and member of the live Ruins line-up. From the response to their recordings, Ruins decided to recruit session musicians to play live.

    Ruins (comics)

    Ruins is a two-issue comic book mini-series, written by Warren Ellis with painted artwork by Terese Nielsen, her husband Cliff Nielsen, and Chris Moeller, who took over for the last seventeen pages of the second issue.

    The series, conceived by Ellis as a parody of the Marvels series by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross is set in a dystopian version of the Marvel Universe. Like Marvels, the comic features reporter Phil Sheldon as the main character and was published in prestige format, with fully painted artwork and acetate covers, further creating the impression that it is a more twisted companion piece.

    In the Marvel Multiverse, Earth of the Ruins universe is listed as Earth-9591.

    Plot summary

    Ruins follows former Daily Bugle reporter Phil Sheldon as he explores a dystopian alternate Marvel Universe where, in his words, "everything that can go wrong will go wrong"; a world where the myriad experiments and accidents which led to the creation of superheroes in the mainstream Marvel Universe instead resulted in horrible deformities and painful deaths. Sheldon tours the country investigating the after-effects of these events, researching a book about the strange phenomena in order to prove that the world has taken a wrong turn somewhere.

    Podcasts:

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    In Ruins

    by: Ikuinen Kaamos

    He sits in a corner
    Awaiting for his second death
    Life is just a phantasmagoria
    Failing gods
    Emerging scars
    He is still waiting for the dawn
    Ghastly shapes in the ceiling
    Enduring visions of torment
    Burned to retinas
    Cacophony behind the eyes
    Never ceases its song
    Hell is all about repetition
    Eternity in seconds
    And for a brief moment
    Purgatory around him was silent
    Calm before the storm
    She ascends
    Her laughter is a rope
    An iconoclast
    Suffocating truth
    Happiness was the cyanide
    She grabs him
    Holds him tight
    Like he did
    Whispers his sentence
    Nowhere to run
    Nowhere to hide
    Face the judgement
    Embrace the cold
    He quenches his thirst with pain
    By a cold blade to the gut
    Grabs the handle with a smile
    A twist of a knife




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