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"Lancers is a brand of medium-sweet, lightly sparkling wine produced by the J. M. da Fonseca winery in Portugal. The brand was created in 1944, when Vintage Wines of New York predicted that wine consumption in the United States would increase after World War II. A sparkling Lancers, made by the continuous method, was introduced in the late 1980s. It was originally sold in distinctive squat bottles made of rust-colored, opaque crockery rather than clear glass. See also *Mateus (wine) Further reading *Robinson, Jancis (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Wine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1999. External links *José Maria da Fonseca homepage (in Portuguese) (in English) Category:Portuguese wine Category:Food and drink companies established in 1944 Category:Drink companies of Portugal Category:Portuguese companies established in 1944 "
"Richard Douglas Heffner (August 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was the creator and host of The Open Mind, a public affairs television show first broadcast in 1956. He was a University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University and also taught an honors seminar at New York University. He was the author of A Documentary History of the United States, a verbatim anthology of important public documents in American history, among them the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. Heffner collaborated with Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel on the publication of Conversations With Elie Wiesel, released by Schocken books in 2001. Career A protégé of Edward R. Murrow, Heffner helped establish what is now WNET (Channel 13) in New York City and was its first general manager, from 1961–63. From 1974–94 Heffner was chairman of the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).University of Wisconsin-Madison News reference to Heffner , January 31, 2006. Heffner earned his BA (1946) and MA (1947) degrees in history from Columbia University. He taught two courses at Rutgers University. "Mass Communications and the American Image" is taught through the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, while "Communication and Human Values" is an honors undergraduate seminar taught through the School of Arts and Sciences. He also taught the same honors undergraduate course, "Communication and Human Values", at New York University. Death Heffner died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 17, 2013, aged 88.Richard Heffner, Historian, Teacher, Pioneer of Public Television, is Dead at 88 See also *MPAA film rating system References External sources * Rutgers University: Richard D. Heffner * Richard Heffner, The Gilded Age (1952) Category:1925 births Category:2013 deaths Category:American television personalities Category:American humanities academics Category:Rutgers University faculty Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni Category:Place of birth missing Category:Place of death missing "
"Jacqueline Simpson (born 1930) is a British researcher and author on folklore and legends.Jacqueline Simpson , Penguin Books Career Simpson studied English Literature and Medieval Icelandic at Bedford College, University of London. She has been, at various times, Editor, Secretary, and President of the Folklore Society. She was awarded the Society's Coote Lake Research Medal in 2008. In 2010 she was appointed Visiting Professor of Folklore at the Sussex Centre of Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy at the University of Chichester, West Sussex. She has a particular interest in local legends (as opposed to international fairy tales), and has published collections of this genre from Iceland, Scandinavia in general, and England (the latter in collaboration with the late Jennifer Westwood). She has also written on the folklore of various English regions, and was co-author with Steve Roud of the Penguin Dictionary of English Folklore. She has been a point of reference for Terry Pratchett since he met her at a book signing in 1997. Pratchett, who was then researching his novel Carpe Jugulum, was asking everyone in the queue how many "magpie" rhymes they knew; and while most people gave one answer – the theme from the TV series Magpie – Simpson was able to supply considerably more. According to Pratchett's version of their conversation, there were "about nineteen", but she suspects this is creative embroidery. Their encounter eventually led to collaboration.Pratchett, T. & Simpson, J. The Folklore of Discworld, Introduction by Terry Pratchett. Transworld Publishers, 2008 Personal life Simpson lives in West Sussex, England. Works *A Dictionary of English Folklore (with Steve Roud) *Everyday Life in the Viking Age *British Dragons * Elves: Nasty or Nice?, Foreword by Terry Pratchett, Discworld Emporium, Wincanton (2010) *European Mythology *Folklore of Sussex *Folklore of the Welsh Border *Green Men and White Swans: the Folklore of British Pub Names, Random House Books (2010) *The Lore of the Land: a Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys (with Jennifer Westwood) Penguin (2005; reissued 2006) ; *The Northmen Talk. A Choice of Tales from Iceland, Phoenix House/Dent, & University of Wisconsin Press (1965) Foreword by Eric Linklater *Scandinavian Folktales (Penguin Folklore Library / Puffin) with Caroline Gowdy (1989) *A Dictionary of Historical Slang (with Eric Partridge) *Beowulf and Its Analogues (with George Norman Garmonsway and Hilda Ellis Davidson) *Icelandic Folktales and Legends (Revealing History) 2nd ed., NPI Media Group, (2004) *The Folklore of Discworld (with Terry Pratchett), Doubleday (2008) . 2nd, enlarged edition. Corgi 2009 . 3rd enlarged edition, Corgi (2014) (same ISBN as 2nd edition) References External links *Repentant soul or walking corpse? Debatable apparitions in Medieval England by Jacqueline Simpson Category:1930 births Category:Living people Category:Folklore writers Category:English folklorists Category:Women folklorists Category:Alumni of Bedford College, London Category:Old Norse studies scholars Category:Germanic studies scholars Category:Writers on Germanic paganism "