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The Bees (US Garage Band)
The Bees may refer to: Sports * Barnet F.C., an English football club * Boston Bees, the 1936–1941 name of the Boston (later Atlanta) Braves Major League Baseball franchise * Bracknell Bees, an English ice hockey team * Brentford F.C., an English football club * Burlington Bees, a Class A minor league baseball team * Coventry Bees, an English motorcycle speedway team * New Britain Bees, a baseball team * Salt Lake Bees, a minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League * Werribee Football Club, an Australian rules football club often unofficially referred to as the Bees Bands * The Bees (band), an indie group from the Isle of Wight, known in the US as A Band of Bees * The Bees (American band), a 1960s garage rock band * The Silver Seas, a Nashville band formerly called The Bees Other uses * The Bees Army, an opposition movement is Saudi Arabia. * ''The Bees'' (film), the 1978 film * Las Abejas, a Mexican pacifist civil society organization * ''The Bees'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnet F
Barnet may refer to: People *Barnet (surname) *Barnet (given name) Places United Kingdom *Chipping Barnet or High Barnet, commonly known as Barnet, one of three focal towns of the borough below. *East Barnet, a district of the borough below; ancient parish. *New Barnet, a district of the borough below. *Friern Barnet, a district of the borough below. ;Administrative and religious units: **London Borough of Barnet, in Greater London, England, UK **Parliamentary seat of Barnet (1945–1974), altered in 1974 to become Chipping Barnet **Ecclesiastical parishes in the Church of England and Catholic Church ;Historic units: **Barnet, East Barnet (early medieval) and Barnet Vale (from 1894) parishes (see vestry); church/civil split in 19th century; civil parishes abolished before 1974 ** Barnet Urban District (1863–1965) in Hertfordshire; abolished; became part of the London borough **East Barnet Urban District neighbour with same status/lifetime as above **Barnet Rural District was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bees (American Band)
The Bees was an American garage rock and psychedelic band from Covina, California, that was active in the mid-1960s, and was best known for the 1966 paranoiac anthem "Voices Green and Purple". The song has been mentioned as an innovative example of early protopunk. The Bees, who recorded "Voices Green and Purple" are not to be confused with another band of the same name who were also active in the Los Angeles area at the time, who recorded on the Mira and Mirwood labels. The group who recorded "Voices Green and Purple" released it as a single on the Liverpool label backed with "Trip to New Orleans" in October, 1966.- "Optical Sound: The Technicolor Tales Behind the Various Nuggets" (track-by-track liner notes). Rhino Records R2 75466 "Voices Green and Purple" has been cited by rock historian Mike Stax as an influential example of "acid punk". The song begins at a medium tempo, but then speeds up into a fast-paced thrash in the refrains. As Stax describes: "...when the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laline Paull
Laline Paull FRSL is a British novelist. Her debut novel, ''The Bees'', was nominated for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Her 2017 cli-fi novel is titled ''The Ice''. Her 2022 novel ''Pod'' was nominated for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction and made the shortlist. Biography Laline Paull was born in London, UK. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants. She won a scholarship to the University of Oxford. In 2023, Paull was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, th .... Bibliography * 2014 — ''The Bees'' * 2017 — ''The Ice'' * 2022 — ''Pod'' References External links * Living people 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British women writers Alumni of the University of Oxford Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarmoung Brotherhood
The Sarmoung Brotherhood was an alleged esoteric Sufi brotherhood based in Asia. The reputed existence of the brotherhood was brought to light in the writings of George Gurdjieff, a Greek- Armenian spiritual teacher. Some contemporary Sufi-related sources also claim to have made contact with the group although the earliest and primary source is Gurdjieff himself, leading most scholars to conclude the group was fictional. Name According to the author John G. Bennett, a student and aide of George Gurdjieff who first mentioned the concept, the word ''sarmoung'' uses the Armenian pronunciation of the Persian term ''sarman'', which may mean either "he who preserves the doctrine of Zoroaster" or "bee".Bennett, John G., ''Gurdjieff: Making of A New World'', pp 56-57, Bennett Pub. Co., 1992. . Regarding the meaning, Bennett writes: "The word can be interpreted in three ways. It is the word for bee, which has always been a symbol of those who collect the precious 'honey' of tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |