Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
Odditorium or Warlords of Mars is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was recorded from April 2004 to January 2005 and released on September 13, 2005 by record label Capitol.
The album features a return to the psychedelic, guitar-based sound of ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, following their foray into synthpop with 2003's Welcome to the Monkey House. The album received a mixed response from critics.
Background and production
The album's title is a reference to the novel The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Odditorium or Warlords of Mars was recorded at the band's Portland, Oregon pad The Odditorium between April 2004 and January 2005. It was produced by Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Gregg Williams.
Release
The first single from the album, "Smoke It", was released on August 29, 2005. It peaked at No. 59 on the UK Singles Chart.The Guardian praised the song, saying it "reeks of rock's decadent best". The song was featured in "Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang", an episode of Veronica Mars.
Gée
Gée is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Beaufort-en-Anjou.
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References
General Electric
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In 2011, GE ranked among the Fortune 500 as the 6th-largest firm in the U.S. by gross revenue, and the 14th most profitable.As of 2012 the company was listed the fourth-largest in the world among the Forbes Global 2000, further metrics being taken into account. The Nobel Prize has twice been awarded to employees of General Electric: Irving Langmuir in 1932 and Ivar Giaever in 1973.
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List of Latin-script trigraphs
A number of trigraphs are found in the Latin script, most of these used especially in Irish orthography.
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⟨aai⟩ is used in Dutch to write the sound /aːi̯/.
⟨abh⟩ is used in Irish to write the sound /əu̯/, or in Donegal, /oː/, between broad consonants.
⟨adh⟩ is used in Irish to write the sound /əi̯/, or in Donegal, /eː/, between broad consonants, or an unstressed /ə/ at the end of a word.
⟨aei⟩ is used in Irish to write the sound /eː/ between a broad and a slender consonant.
⟨agh⟩ is used in Irish to write the sound /əi̯/, or in Donegal, /eː/, between broad consonants.
⟨aim⟩ is used in French to write the sound /ɛ̃/ (/ɛm/ before a vowel).
⟨ain⟩ is used in French to write the sound /ɛ̃/ (/ɛn/ before a vowel). It also represents /ɛ̃/ in Tibetan Pinyin, where it is alternatively written än.
⟨aío⟩ is used in Irish to write the sound /iː/ between broad consonants.
⟨amh⟩ is used in Irish to write the sound /əu̯/, or in Donegal, /oː/, between broad consonants.
