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John Pitt

John Pitt may refer to:

Politicians

 * John Pitt (MP for Bridgwater), 1421 – 1435, MP for Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)
 * John Pitt (of Crow Hall) (c.1673 – 1731), British Member of Parliament for St Ives and Stockbridge, probably son of George Pitt of Strathfieldsaye (d. 1694)
 * John Pitt (colonel) (c.1698 – 1754), British Member of Parliament and Governor of Bermuda
 * John Pitt (of Encombe) (1704 – 1787), British Member of Parliament for Dorchester and Wareham and Lord of Trade and the Admiralty
 * John Pitt (attorney) (c.1727 – 1805), British Member of Parliament for Gloucester
 * John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (1756 – 1835) British statesman, brother of William Pitt the Younger
 * John R. Pitt (1885–1971), Canadian politician

Others

 * John Pitt (warden), Warden of Wadham College, Oxford 16??-1648, see John Wilkins
 * John Pitt (cricketer) (born 1939), English cricketer
 * Jack Pitt, footballer
 * John I. Pitt (1937–2022), Australian mycologist

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Dick Celeste

Richard Frank Celeste (born November 11, 1937) is an American former diplomat, university administrator and politician from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 64th governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991.

Early life and career
Celeste was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, the son of Margaret Louis and Frank Palm Celeste. His father was born in Cerisano, Italy. He graduated from Lakewood High School in 1955. In 1959, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Celeste then received a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Exeter College at Oxford University, where he is an Honorary Fellow. There he met Dagmar Ingrid Braun, whom he married in Austria in 1962. After returning to the United States, Celeste served as staff liaison office in the Peace Corps and as special assistant to Chester Bowles.

Celeste was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives from Cuyahoga County in 1970. His Ohio House District included western Cleveland and Lakewood, where his father Frank, had once served as mayor. He was subsequently elected the 55th lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1974 (defeating Republican John W. Brown, serving under the Republican James A. Rhodes—at the time, Ohio's lieutenant governor was elected separately from the governor, so the victors could be of different parties). In 1978, Celeste ran for governor, but lost to incumbent Rhodes. President Carter appointed Celeste Director of the Peace Corps from 1979 to 1981, where he was responsible for programs in 53 countries.

Governor of Ohio
In 1982, Celeste defeated Attorney General William J. Brown and former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer in the primary, and then the Republican candidate Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr., to become governor of Ohio. In 1986, Celeste was re-elected, defeating the Republican candidate, former governor James Rhodes who had served four prior terms (1962–70 and 1974–82). Thus Celeste served as governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991. In 1988 he served as the Chairman of the Midwestern Governors Association.

As governor, Celeste increased support for human services, mental health & addiction recovery services, funding for education and children services including providing onsite daycare for state employees. Before the Celeste era, Ohio ranked near the bottom among states in funding for these programs. Celeste and the Democratic-controlled legislature increased the state income tax by approximately 40% while also retaining a temporary tax of 50% instituted by the Republican predecessors. Celeste is noted for opening many government positions to African Americans and women—he hired more women to cabinet positions than all previous governors combined. Celeste also allowed state employee unions to negotiate wages and benefits, rather than just working conditions. At the end of his last term he commuted several Ohio prisoners death sentences to life terms. Among them was Debra Brown's along with the sentences of most alleged battered women serving sentences at Marysville state prison for murdering their alleged aggressors. He also commuted Donald Lee Maurer to life in prison. Maurer had been convicted of raping and killing his 8 year old Massillon neighbor Dawn Marie Hendershot in the early 1980s. He opposed nuclear power in Ohio over evacuation plans.

Under the Celestes, the Governor's art exhibits, chamber music concerts and First Lady's spiritual retreats and theology gatherings as well as Christmas and Hanukkah parties for neighborhood kids became regular seasonal events. The Residence Gardens, especially the rose garden, one of the oldest in the nation, were reconstituted and The Friends of the Residence were formed, with Les Wexner as their first president, to help raise private funds to defray the cost of those improvements.

Post-gubernatorial political career
Celeste then established the consulting firm Celeste & Sabety Ltd. in Columbus. After he served as the director of the DNC's healthcare campaign in 1993, President Clinton appointed him as United States Ambassador to India, a position he served in from 1997 to 2001.

Celeste is a member of the advisory board of the Roosevelt Institution, a student think tank. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Celeste, along with Thomas Kean who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, co-chairs the Homeland Security Project for The Century Foundation. He also sits on the board of the Independent Strategic Assessment Group, United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which is the military command over the USA established in the wake of the attacks of September 11. Celeste joined the board of Directors of Glimcher Realty Trust in September 2007. Celeste has also been a member of the CHF International Board of Trustees since January 2012.

He is currently on the board of directors for Battelle for Kids, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to moving education forward for students by supporting the educators who work with them every day.

In 2020, Celeste, with another former governor Bob Taft were appointed to establish and lead a task force to help expand COVID-19 testing in Ohio during the pandemic.

President of Colorado College
Celeste was inaugurated as the 12th President of Colorado College in 2002.

During his tenure as president, Celeste raised $200 million for such things as capital improvements and scholarships to help disadvantaged and minority students. His other accomplishments included Addition of 20 tenure-track faculty positions, a large increase in the size of the student applicant pool, from 3,533 in 2003 to 4,455 in 2010, and an increase in selectivity, with 55.9 percent of applicants accepted in 2003 to 33.3 percent accepted in 2010.

Celeste oversaw major renovations of campus buildings, including Palmer Hall, Cossitt Hall and Packard Hall; construction of the interdisciplinary Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center.

In 2004, a Jewish group called for Celeste's resignation after he invited a high-profile Palestinian to give a lecture.

Celeste was known for bringing the community and the college together. He was the president of the Colorado Springs Downtown Partnership, the Colorado Economics Future Panel, the NCAA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics, and the Colorado Forum, which tackles public policy issues.

Celeste has since retired as President of Colorado College. He started serving as president in 2002, and was replaced in July 2011 by Jill Tiefenthaler, provost and economics professor at Wake Forest University.

Personal life
Celeste had six children with his first wife, Dagmar. The couple divorced in 1995. Celeste is currently married to Jacqueline Lundquist. Celeste and Lundquist have one child, Sam. Celeste has 13 grandchildren, including two who were students at Colorado College and one who is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University.

His brother, Theodore S. Celeste, successfully ran as a Democratic Party candidate for the Ohio House in 2006.

In 2022, Celeste's autobiography, In the Heart of it All: An Unvarnished Account of My Life in Public Service (ISBN 9781606354452), was published.

Legacy
The Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center and State Fair in Columbus, Ohio, is named in honor of Celeste. The Richard F. Celeste Laboratory of Chemistry on the Columbus Campus of the Ohio State University is named in honor of the former Governor. In addition, the Richard F. Celeste Theater at the Cornerstone Arts Center of Colorado College is named in honor of his tenure as president.

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Plastic.com

Plastic.com (2001–2011) was a general-interest internet forum running under the motto 'Recycling the Web in Real Time'.

The website was community-driven, with readers moderating discussions, submitting stories, and participating in their selection.

The site
Plastic was launched in January 2001 by Automatic Media, a conglomerate that included the pioneering webzines Feed and Suck.com. In keeping with Automatic's model of small, low-cost websites, Plastic launched with a staff of only four, amongst them Suck co-founder Joey Anuff as editor-in-chief. When Automatic Media folded in June of that year, several of the editors stayed on, working for free. On November 2, 2001, the site was sold for $30,000 to Suck co-founder Carl Steadman, who became its sole owner. Steadman took the site offline for two weeks and relaunched it on December 16, 2001, after falling out with Anuff, who no longer contributed to Plastic after the relaunch.

Plastic did not feature any advertising, and was supported entirely by user donations. The site used a modified version of Slash, the content management system developed and distributed by Slashdot, and it was almost entirely member-driven. As of November 11, 2008, there were 50,218 accounts, with several thousand being active members. For a while, Plastic offered email accounts.

Plastic closed permanently in February 2011, about a month after its ten-year anniversary.

Plastic was briefly succeeded by Trees and Things, although that website has been defunct since 2014.

Content
The site's topics included "etcetera", "filmtv", "media", "music", "politics", "scitech", and "work". Topics covered on the board were primarily related to current events. Plastic's content was entirely driven by user-submitted stories. A typical Plastic story selected a topic based around a story found on an external link, with the Plastic user providing a larger context for that article with supporting links and some editorial comment. The stories were often written in a way that frames a discussion for the other readers to post comments within. Readers are invited to post their comments in the stories, which can be moderated by other users. New submissions will appear in the Submissions Queue (subQ), which is visible to all users, and can be voted on by users with 50 "karma" or higher. Each voter can give the sub 0, .5, or 1 points, and high-ranking subs will eventually become full-fledged stories that can be commented upon. In addition to voting on the submissions, users are given a 255 character text field to suggest changes to the story, post helpful links to exterior sites or previous Plastic stories, or suggest alternate headlines for the story itself. One of Plastic's volunteer editors will then properly format the story for running on "the front page".

Karma and moderation
Plastic's moderation system was modeled on the one established by Slashdot, and very similar to it. Commenting plastic members were randomly awarded moderation points which could be given out as they saw fit. In any discussion thread, a person with moderation points was able to moderate a post up or down, based on the content, with a descriptive tag, such as 'compelling', 'scholarly', 'astute', 'disingenuous', 'obnoxious', etc. It cost one point to moderate a post up, and two to mod a post down. A given comment could have a score between –1 and 5 inclusive at half point intervals, and Plastic users were able to set a personal threshold where no comments with a lesser score were displayed. (For example, a person with a score threshold of 1 would not see comments with a score of –1 or 0 but would see all others.) Non-registered users were allowed to post anonymously. Plastic members had the option to block anonymous postings. Additionally, anonymous posts started with a karma score of 0, below the default moderation threshold of 1. Registered Plastic members also had the option to post anonymously, which allowed them to make controversial or offensive comments without fear of losing karma. This practice was generally frowned upon.

 * 0 karma or higher was required to post comments in stories and submit stories to the subQ
 * 5 karma or higher was required to post QuickLinks
 * 50 karma or higher was required to vote in the subQ
 * The members with the highest karma had access to other tools, including the list of all other users in the "Top Karma" group and a list of all members currently logged in. The "Top Karma" page stated that this list was limited to the top 250 members, "give or take", but in reality the list contained 566 members as of 12 August 2005. The minimum karma required to be on this list was 120.5. At 120.5, members were able to see the list of all members currently logged in, and at 121, members had access to the "Top Karma" list. Previously the list showed the karma totals for all members on the list, but at some point this was changed so that karma details are accessible only in "bands"—higher-karma members can see details of all lower scoring members' karma scores, but lower-scoring members were able to see higher rankings only in bands such as +1500, +2500, +5000, etc.

As with the story submission queue, some Plastic members complained that many comments were moderated (especially down) based on political motivations, usually to aid liberal posts or downgrade conservative posts. As with most member-moderated sites, many downmods were motivated by personal feuds. The moderation system did not encourage these practices, and the top karma bands typically included several self-described conservative members.

QuickLinks
A member with at least 5 karma points could also post QuickLinks (a "QL"), which appeared on the sidebar. No designated place existed on the site for discussion of these links, but users frequently responded directly to the poster of the QL through private messages. As with comments, Quicklinks could be modded up or down, although the system was different—any registered user with a minimum karma score of 1 could vote a Quicklink up or down. If a link received at least six more up votes than down votes, the submitter would automatically receive 1.5 karma. If a link was modded down with six more down votes than up votes, the submitter would be docked 1.5 karma and the QL would disappear from the site (but still be available in the archive). QuickLinks were used for breaking news, follow-ups to previously discussed items, or humorous stories with little discussion potential.

Plastic Chat
Plastic used to have an online chat server at irc://chat.plastic.com, port 6667. It also was previously available through a modified CGI:IRC client at https://web.archive.org/web/20050406191329/http://chat.plastic.com/. The chat server has been inexplicably down for an extended period of time.

Awards

 * In 2001, Plastic won a Webby award in the category of "Print + Zines", beating out its parent Feed Magazine, as well as Mother Jones Magazine, Nerve, and The Position.com.

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Colleges of the University of Oxford, England.


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Disambiguation needed:
"Black Beauty" is the primary title of a Miles Davis live record from 1970.
 * You can add that information on the existing disambiguation page: Black_Beauty_(disambiguation). GiuseppeMassimo (talk) 23:15, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Banned

 * It has been banned from certain places, probably for personifying an animal, which is against certain religions and beliefs.

Please say where it was banned from, and by whom; and which religions or beliefs it violated. Then put the "it has been banned" sentence back into the article. --Uncle Ed 16:03, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Even though it regularly gets on to banned books listings, it looks a trifle apocryphal. Many sources, including US university department sites, preface the usual claim - that it was banned because of the title in 1955 in South Africa - with "reportedly" . When a Times correspondent mentioned this story in 1961 (White Women In South Africa, The Times, Monday, Feb 20, 1961; pg. 13) it was soon followed by a retraction (The Times, Monday, Mar 06, 1961; pg. 8;) "This is not correct" (even so, the Times Diary opinion column repeated the story in 1968 and 1972). Tearlach 04:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

"banned in the USA"
In all of the USA? Or in some states at some times? Anthony Appleyard 05:37, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Film split
Disagree with proposal to split article. Unless the material is lengthy enough to warrant a split, it is more helpful to see it all in one article. -- Stbalbach 00:17, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. PrinceCharming 13:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Animated Black Beauty?
Wasn't there an animated film of Black Beauty I remember watching it as a child. Mizi 01:31, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There have been at least two animated adaptations, and probably more. 81.158.3.105 03:47, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Which one is exactly copied to real book? 2405:201:A418:F9C1:F9E8:AC36:180A:7E2 (talk) 08:50, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Its a great book!

Television series
LWT (London Weekend Television) produced a series, "The Adventures of Black Beauty" in 1972. It was one of the great television series loved by adults and children alike. Best of all was its theme music, in my view the best theme music of any television show in history. The music has entered the consciousness ofgenerations, with it played automatically for any images involving horses on British or Irish television. An amazing book, turned into an amazing television series, with an extraordinary theme music - quite a combination. FearÉIREANN \(caint) 20:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

==Blinders= In Chapter 10, A Talk in the Orchard, Black Beauty asks his companion horses "Can any one tell me the use of blinkers (blinders)?" and an excellent discussion occupies the last two pages of the chapter. At the time that I recently reread this book, I had been working on my own family history which included my grandmother being severely injured, before the days of automobiles, by her horses and wagon (including her) overturning at night due to missing the corner. That is, they went off the edge of the road in the dark when the horses turned too late at the corner. I questioned how that could happen when horses can see so well at night (as I knew from growing up on a farm). I believe that Anna Sewell provides the answer, namely, that horses do have good night vision but "that many an accident would never have happened if horses had had the full use of their eyes." The blinders do not obstruct horses' vision straight ahead, but still their vision IS interfered with -- why do we humans take this risk of causing such accidents (if we still do)? I should add that in my childhood in Minnesota our bridles did have blinders on them; perhaps no workhorse bridles were available without blinders. Black Beauty is set in England just prior to 1877 with blinders used on workhorses but not "on riding horses, especially on ladies' horses." The author further states that in some foreign countries all colts are broken in without blinkers. The web seems to have blinders on, on this topic: I did not find information about current usage of blinders around the world for workhorses or riding horses. Anyway, I feel that Anna Sewell answered my question -- she tells about a very similar accident. For7thGen (talk) 21:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

='Pony book'?=

I was very surprised to see Black Beauty referred to as a forerunner of the 'pony book' genre that became important in juvenile literature from the 1930s. This seems to me to be really misleading, and to trivialise the book. In fact, the reference cited itself implicitly rejects the connection. The comparison with Uncle Tom's Cabin, also made in the article, is far more germane than comparisons with novels for horse-loving children.

Anna Sewell's extraordinary book was not written for children, a fact correctly noted in the lead paragraph here. Though its simple style makes it easy for children to read, most of the themes are specifically targeted at adults, and concern not only cruelty to animals, but also issues such as employment law and the temperance movement, matters integral to the thinking of Victorian social reformers. From the early 19th century, these predominantly Nonconformist thinkers and activists campaigned against slavery and a wide range of the other social injustices and ills that they saw in the rigidly stratified society around them. Cruelty to animals was always one of their targets: the first formal legislation against the abuse of animals goes back in the UK to 1822 and 1835.

The novel remains unique, but if it belongs to a genre at all, then surely it is much closer to the Victorian 'Evangelical' fiction tradition, works like Jessica's First Prayer, than it is to 20th-century pony books for children. It is an improving moral tract in the form of a novel.

The author's Quaker sensibilities and her views about religion, warfare, politics, class and society are quite subtly conveyed, but they are part of the very fabric of the book: they are its raison d'être. Delicate understatement, employing a faux-naivety justified by the fact that the narrator is a horse, is typical: on the Crimean War:

'Do you know what they fought about?' said I.

'No', he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.'

The 'pony book' genre is specifically targeted at young readers, and the protagonists are children and young adolescents who own horses and ride. Such books usually include a good deal of useful material about caring for horses and ponies, but none of those that I read in my youth dealt with anything remotely resembling the very serious social polemic of Black Beauty. If the original author of the article is reading this, would you mind if I removed the reference to pony books, or, better, explained briefly why this book does not belong to that genre? AgTigress (talk) 11:07, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

 * I notice the citation for "forerunner to the pony book" isn't really a reliable source in Wikipedia's terms. More particularly, it's asymmetric. A discussion of twentieth-century pony books briefly looks back to "Black Beauty", but we have no sources that think that remote realtive, twentieth-century pony books, particularly relevant to "Black Beauty". If it is indeed relevant, then per WP:LEDE it needs first to be in the body of the article before competing for a place in the lede. I'll remove it. On the other hand, we can't put an unsourced argument, even one as strong as the above; that would be WP:OR. NebY (talk) 20:24, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

 * That reflects my thoughts in a nutshell; AgTigress' comments strike me as being derived from genuinely educated insight on the topics at hand, but without appropriate sourcing I'm afraid it must go to waste (aside from our fortunate elucidation!). At the same time the previous genre label was clearly just as poorly sourced.  I should like to see if there isn't something in scholarship speaking as to the themes and literary context of the book though and wouldn't be surprised if many of Tigress' observations were borne out within them.  S n o w  talk 13:55, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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I recently read the book Black Beauty and went to look on the Wiki page, and noticed that there is no mention of the horse Lady Bird, which is mentioned when Black Beauty is being purchased before going to his final home. I just wanted to point this out.Felicity The Cat (talk) 19:06, 15 March 2017 (UTC) Felicity The Cat (talk) 19:06, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
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 * I assume it's a request to add the horse Lady Bird to the list of characters. This is the horse which Willie reminds Farmer Thoroughgood improved its value by rest and good treatment, and is given as an example of why he should buy Black Beauty.  2.31.128.220 (talk) 14:42, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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Locked???
Really? This is such a controversial page it can't be edited by the hoi polloi? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.11.228.247 (talk) 05:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Add to Literary characters introduced in 1877
Black Beauty should be in the category. 2600:1012:B15D:B12E:4138:7E54:F322:569D (talk) 09:00, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Clarification needed
I'm not sure what is meant by "demonization" in the Arizona Quarterly citation at the end of Analysis. The sentence structure is also a bit odd. I only have access to the magazine in-library, can someone with easier access to this article refine this point? Publicly Visible (talk) 13:51, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

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Garden City, Iowa

Garden City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 89.

History
Garden City got its start in the year 1901, following construction of the railroad through that territory.

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The Horse Whisperer (film)

The Horse Whisperer is a 1998 American neo-western drama film directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans. Redford plays the title role, a talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses, who is hired to help an injured teenager (played by Scarlett Johansson) and her horse back to health following a tragic accident.

The film was released on May 15, 1998. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed nearly $187 million worldwide.

Plot
In Lake Luzerne, New York, teenager Grace MacLean and her best friend Judith go out early one winter's morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver. As they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim. Both horses fall, dragging the girls onto a road, and get hit by a tractor-trailer. Judith and Gulliver are killed, while Grace and Pilgrim are both severely injured.

Grace, left with a partially amputated right leg, is bitter and withdrawn after the accident. Meanwhile, Pilgrim is traumatized and uncontrollable to the extent that it is suggested he be put down. Grace's mother Annie, a strong-minded and workaholic magazine editor, refuses to allow it, sensing that somehow Grace's recovery is linked with Pilgrim's.

Desperate for a way to heal both Grace and Pilgrim, Annie tracks down a "horse whisperer", Tom Booker, in the remote Montana mountains. Tom agrees to help, but only if Grace also takes part in the process. Grace reluctantly agrees, and she and Annie go to stay at the Booker ranch where Tom lives with his brother and his brother's family.

As Pilgrim and Grace slowly overcome their trauma, Annie and Tom begin to develop a mutual attraction. However, they are both reluctant to act on these feelings – Annie is married and Tom had his heart broken before (his wife left him because she belonged in the city). Tom also asks Grace to tell him what happened with her and Pilgrim to understand what Pilgrim is feeling. At first, Grace is reluctant, but eventually gathers up her courage, and tearfully describes the accident.

The status quo between Annie and Tom is broken when Robert MacLean, Grace's father and Annie's husband, unexpectedly shows up at the ranch. Annie is increasingly torn between her feelings for Tom and her love for her family. Soon, with Tom's help, Grace finally takes the last step to heal herself and Pilgrim – riding Pilgrim again. As the MacLeans get ready to leave the ranch, Robert tells Annie that he knows he loved her more than she loved him, and that if he could be a better father, husband, or lawyer then it didn't matter, he did it all for the love he had for her. He felt that he didn't need more, he knew she was not sure how she felt about him, and now he wants her to make a choice, and not to come home until she is sure.

Although Annie wishes she could stay with Tom on the ranch, she also knows that she belongs to the city, just like Tom's wife. Annie departs, driving away from the ranch, while Tom watches her go from the top of a hill.

Background
Although he had already directed several films, this was the first time Robert Redford directed a film that he also starred in.

The main character, according to writer Nicholas Evans, is modeled after horse whisperers Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and, in particular, their younger disciple Buck Brannaman. Brannaman also doubled for Robert Redford in the film and served as the consultant. Redford likewise assisted in the production of the documentary Buck. Evans said, "Others have claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding, and gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world."

Horse training methods and controversies
The schooling administered to the traumatized horse is faithful to a number of basic natural horsemanship techniques, although the portrayal in the film does not follow the specific method of any one practitioner. Nicholas Evans writes: "I spent many weeks traveling across the West and met three amazing horsemen: Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman."

The horse training methods shown are not entirely without controversy. While Brannaman was the on-site technical consultant, he did not have creative control. The constraints of film-making required several sequences to be edited for length, thus not showing some critical training elements that would normally be used. A few basic safety problems in the film include Redford kneeling in front of a horse known to charge humans in one scene, and wearing a large ring on his finger while training in another, a risky practice in the real world when simultaneously handling a dangerous horse and a rope.

A fundamental literary device used that goes against basic horse psychology was that of having Pilgrim, apparently a well-trained horse, suddenly become a vicious rogue following a single traumatic event. A horse may have a strong reaction after an accident if the elements that preceded the trauma are repeated at a future time (for example, it would be reasonable for Pilgrim to have developed a fear of vehicles, of crossing a road, or of climbing a steep slope), but not generally a complete change in personality, manner, and outlook in the way that can occur in traumatized humans. Such behavioral changes in a horse would normally be the result of sustained, long-term animal abuse.

A practitioner of natural horsemanship, John Lyons, provided an equestrian's critique of the film, noting that while there were many positive messages, there was also the potential for people to get some dangerous messages about horse training from certain sequences. He first noted that the multiple horses that played Pilgrim were all well-trained animals and that the movie did not represent a real-life time frame for training a single real-life animal. He pointed out that the film made the rehabilitation of the horse appear to be a one-session event when in reality it would take considerable time for such a change to occur. Lyons criticized a number of dangerous practices shown in the movie, and was particularly critical of the scene where Booker hobbles, ropes, and lays the exhausted horse on the ground, then has Grace get on the recumbent horse, which is then allowed to rise, and the horse and girl miraculously are both cured of their fears and once again a horse and rider team. He argued that the actual real-life practical risk of injury to horse and human in such a method is considerable, that a horse pushed to exhaustion is not "trained", and pushing a fearful rider in such a fashion is ill-advised. However, Lyons' critique also recognized the limitations of Hollywood film-making, stating, "In order to tell a story, things are often done that would be imprudent for horse owners to attempt."

Box office
The Horse Whisperer grossed $74.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $111.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $186.9 million.

In its opening weekend, the film made $13.7 million and finished in second, then made $14.5 million and $7.5 million the following two weekends.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 73% based on 63 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "It might be a bit too eager to tug the heartstrings, but The Horse Whisperer is typically graceful, well-crafted Redford—on both sides of the camera." At Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.

Janet Maslin in The New York Times says that the film "sustains great visual intensity thanks to Robert Richardson's majestic cinematography" but its "rock-solid values" are diluted by "a misconceived ending", whereas CNN in a rather sarcastic review complains that the storytelling was "all done very, very slowly" and mentions the film's length. Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the film "two thumbs up" on their weekly TV show At the Movies. Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars out of a possible four, and called the film an "exquisite rendering of Evans' novel".

The song "A Soft Place to Fall" by Allison Moorer and Gwil Owen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Moorer performs the song in the movie. The film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Redford for Best Director at the 56th Golden Globe Awards.

In popular culture
The movie's popularity led to the word "whisperer" being used as a slang term for anyone with a strong affinity for a particular animal or being.

In the 2015 biographical feature film Steve Jobs, Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels) has a talk with Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) because Jobs is perceived to be difficult to communicate with, and Sculley is perceived to be a "Steve whisperer".

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Wilson Álvarez

Wilson Eduardo Álvarez Fuenmayor (born March 24, 1970) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher. During a thirteen-year baseball career, he pitched for the Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Career
Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Alvarez represented his hometown in the 1982 Little League World Series, where they finished with a 2–1 record. Alvarez was signed by the Texas Rangers as an amateur free agent on September 23, 1986. He made his major league debut at the age of nineteen on July 24, 1989, the first player born in the 1970s to debut in MLB. Five days later, he was traded with Scott Fletcher and Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox for Harold Baines and Fred Manrique. Alvarez provided one of the highlights of the 1991 Chicago White Sox season on August 11, pitching a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium in his second Major League start. In his previous appearance, with the Rangers, he faced five batters and gave up two walks, a single and two home runs without retiring a batter, giving him an undefined career ERA prior to his no-hitter.

Between the majors, minors and winter league play, Alvarez pitched close to 300 innings in 1991; an extremely heavy workload. In 1993 he managed to break into the Sox starting pitching rotation permanently. That season, Alvarez won 15 games and finished second in the league in earned run average, but he experienced control problems and led the league with 122 walks.

In 1994, Alvarez went 12–8 and made the American League All-Star team. After a disappointing 8–11 in 1995, he had 15 wins and 181 strikeouts in 1996.

During the season, the White Sox traded Álvarez, Danny Darwin, and Roberto Hernández to the San Francisco Giants for six prospects (Keith Foulke, Bob Howry, Lorenzo Barceló, Mike Caruso, Ken Vining, and Brian Manning) in what became known as the White Flag Trade. A free agent after 1997, he signed a five-year contract with Tampa Bay. He was first in the team's starting rotation, and started Opening Day on March 31, 1998, throwing the Devil Rays' first ever pitch (a ball to Detroit's Brian L. Hunter).

In his first season with the Devil Rays Alvarez missed two months with tendonitis in his shoulder, eventually losing 14 games during the season. The following year he made two trips to the disabled list. Finally, he had arthroscopic shoulder surgery and missed the next two seasons. After finishing his contract with Tampa Bay, Álvarez signed with the Dodgers. He began the 2003 season as a starter for Triple-A Las Vegas. After going 5–1 with a 1.15 ERA, he filled the long relief role for the Dodgers at mid-season. Later he got a chance to start, collecting a 5–0 record and 1.06 ERA over a stretch of nine games. In 2004, he went 7–6 in 40 games (15 as a starter).

On August 1, 2005, Alvarez announced he would retire after the season. He compiled a career 102–92 record with 1330 strikeouts and a 3.96 ERA in 1747.2 innings.

In 2010, Álvarez was inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.

After a brief stint as the pitching coach of the State College Spikes, Álvarez joined the Baltimore Orioles organization when he was named pitching coach of the Gulf Coast League Orioles in 2013. In June 2019, he was replaced as Orioles pitching coach.

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ACSL

ACSL may refer to:

 * American Computer Science League, a computer science competition primarily among US high school students
 * Advanced Continuous Simulation Language, a computer language
 * ANSI/ISO C Specification Language, a formal specification language for C programs
 * Association of School and College Leaders, a British professional association
 * Human genes encoding Acyl-CoA synthetase long-chain enzymes:
 * ACSL1
 * ACSL3
 * ACSL4
 * ACSL5
 * ACSL6
 * SLC27A2

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Bill Keller

Bill Keller (born January 18, 1949) is an American journalist. He was the founding editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit that reports on criminal justice in the United States. Previously, he was a columnist for The New York Times, and served as the paper's executive editor from July 2003 until September 2011. On June 2, 2011, he announced that he would step down from the position to become a full-time writer. Jill Abramson replaced him as executive editor.

Keller worked in the Times Moscow bureau from 1986 to 1991, eventually as bureau chief, spanning the final years of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. For his reporting during 1988 he won a Pulitzer Prize.

Early life
Keller is the son of former chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation, George M. Keller. He attended the Roman Catholic schools St. Matthews and Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, and graduated in 1970 from Pomona College, where he began his journalistic career as a reporter for a campus newspaper called The Collegian. From July 1970 to March 1979, he was a reporter in Portland with The Oregonian, followed by stints with the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and the Dallas Times Herald. He is married to Emma Gilbey Keller and has three children.

The New York Times
Keller joined The New York Times in April 1984, and served in the following capacities:
 * Reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau (1984–1986)
 * Reporter in the Moscow bureau (1986–1988)
 * Bureau chief in the Moscow bureau (1988–1991)
 * Bureau chief in the Johannesburg bureau (1992–1995)
 * Foreign editor (1995–1997)
 * Managing editor (1997–2001)
 * Op-ed columnist and senior writer (2001–2003)
 * Executive editor (July 2003 to September 2011)

He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his "resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R." during 1988. That is, in the Soviet Union during the year it established its Congress of People's Deputies, the last year before the revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.

Bush Adminstation
Keller and The Times also published a story on another classified program to monitor terrorist-related financial transactions through the Brussels, Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) on June 23, 2006. Many commentators, as well as some elected officials such as U.S. Congressman Peter T. King, called for the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute The New York Times and the confidential sources who leaked the existence of this counter-terrorism program despite relevant statutes that forbid revealing classified information that could threaten national security, especially in a time of war.

In an attempt to respond to criticism stemming from the disclosure of the classified Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, the NSA program's official name, Keller stated in a published letter that President Bush himself had acknowledged as early as September 2001 that efforts were underway "to identify and investigate the financial infrastructure of the international terrorist networks" and "to follow the money as a trail to the terrorists." In an Op-ed column in The Times, Keller, together with Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet wrote that "Our job, especially in times like these, is to bring our readers information that will enable them to judge how well their elected leaders are fighting on their behalf and at what price." Keller's critics, including U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, responded to Keller's letter by pointing out that there is a vast difference between stating general intentions to track terrorist finances and the exact means employed to achieve those goals. But, as Keller wrote, this was the same Secretary Snow who invited a group of reporters to a 6-day trip on a military aircraft "to show off the department's efforts to track terrorist financing."

Keller was a leading supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, explaining his backing for military action in his article 'The I-Can't-Believe-I'm-A-Hawk Club'. Two days after the invasion, Keller wrote the column 'Why Colin Powell Should Go', arguing for US Secretary of State's resignation because his strategy of diplomacy at the UN had failed. In contrast, Keller was much more sympathetic to Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, describing him as the 'Sunshine Warrior'.

On July 6, 2005, Keller spoke in defense of Judith Miller and her refusal to give up documents relating to the Valerie Plame case.

NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program
Keller was reported to have refused to answer questions from The Times public editor, Byron Calame, on the timing of the December 16, 2005 article on the classified National Security Agency (NSA) Terrorist Surveillance Program. Keller's delay of the paper's reporting about NSA overreach until after Bush's close reelection was controversial. The Times's series of articles on this topic won a Pulitzer Prize. The source of the disclosure of this NSA program was investigated by the United States Justice Department. The NSA program itself was reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee as to whether it sidesteps the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and after The Times articles, the Administration changed its procedures, allowing for more safeguards and more Congressional and judicial oversight.

Keller discussed the deliberations behind the Times' decision to publish the story in a July 5, 2006 PBS interview with Jeffrey Brown that included a discussion of the issues involved with former National Security Agency Director Admiral Bobby Ray Inman.

Catholic Church sex abuse crisis
Keller widely reported on the Catholic sex abuse cases and flatly put the blame on John Paul II himself : "The uncomfortable and largely unspoken truth is that the current turmoil in the Roman Catholic Church is not just a sad footnote to the life of a beloved figure. This is a crisis of the pope's making."

Nelson Mandela
Keller wrote a 128-page juvenile biography of Nelson Mandela published by Kingfisher Books in 2008, Tree Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandela. He had served as the Times bureau chief in Johannesburg from April 1992 to May 1995 —spanning the end of apartheid in South Africa and election of Mandela's African National Congress as the governing party in 1994.

Keller's wife since 1999, Emma Gilbey, wrote a full biography of Winnie Mandela published in 1993, The Lady: The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela (Jonathan Cape).

Lisa Bonchek Adams column
In January 2014, two articles by Keller and his wife about cancer blogger Lisa Bonchek Adams generated substantial controversy about the nature of social media, digital journalism and terminal illness. The incident came to be known in social media as KellerGate.

On January 8, 2014, Keller's wife Emma had written an article about Lisa Adams in The Guardian about whether people with terminal illness should be so public on social media. She wrote, "Should there be boundaries in this kind of experience? Is there such a thing as TMI? Are her tweets a grim equivalent of deathbed selfies? Why am I so obsessed?" The article was subsequently retracted by the editor, in part due to complaints by Adams and her family that the article "completely misrepresented the nature of her illness and her reasons for tweeting, was riddled with inaccuracies, and quoted from a private direct message to Keller through Twitter published without permission."

A week later, Bill Keller published his own article about Lisa Adams called "Heroic Measures," this time questioning whether Lisa's efforts to prolong her life were worth the effort and cost, and suggesting those who "accept their inevitable fate with grace and courage" should be worthy of equal praise.

The article ignited a backlash in many media channels. Articles appeared in The Nation ("Bill Keller Bullies Cancer Patient"), and The New Yorker among dozens of others.

The Times' public editor, Margaret Sullivan, responded to the criticism in a public column. The response included Keller's responses defending the column. Sullivan wrote that it is not her practice to comment on whether she agrees with columnists, but did cite "issues here of tone and sensitivity." She also pointed out factual inaccuracies which were subsequently corrected.

The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit nonpartisan online journalism organization covering criminal justice in the United States. The project was originally conceived by former hedge fund manager, filmmaker and journalist Neil Barsky, who announced it in his byline in an unrelated New York Times article in November 2013. In February 2014, The New York Times reported that Keller was going to work for the Marshall Project. The Marshall Project formally launched in November 2014. Keller was editor in chief of the Marshall Project from 2014 until his retirement in 2019.

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Gründerzeit

Gründerzeit (lit. 'founders' period') was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873.

Economy
The so-called Gründerzeit or age of the founders lasted for just six years, from 1867 to 1873. The term refers to a short-lived economic boom and the economic rise of the German Empire, when hundreds of new businesses, banks and railways were founded. German writers of the late 19th century used the term Gründerzeit as a pejorative, because the cultural output of that movement is associated with materialism and nationalistic triumphalism. Cultural historian Egon Friedell complained that fraud in the stock market had not been the only swindle of the Gründerzeit.

Design and architecture
The need for housing rose in consequence of industrialization. Complete housing developments in the so-called Founding Epoch Architecture style arose in previously green fields, and even today, Central European cities have many buildings from the time together along a single road or even in complete districts. The buildings have four to six stories and were often built by private property developers. They often sported richly-decorated façades in the form of Historicism such as Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival, German Renaissance and Baroque Revival. Magnificent palaces for nouveau-riche citizens but also infamous rental housing for the expanding urban lower classes were built.

The period was also important for the integration of new technologies in architecture and design. A determining factor was the development of the Bessemer process in steel production, which made possible the construction of steel façades. A classical example of the new form is the steel and glass construction of the Crystal Palace, completed in 1851, which was then revolutionary and inspired subsequent decades.

Gründerzeit districts, called Gründerzeitviertel, were built all over Germany, Austria and even in Hungary.

In Austria
In Austria, the Gründerzeit began after 1840 with the industrialisation of Vienna, as well as the regions of Bohemia and Moravia. Liberalism reached its zenith in Austria in 1867 in Austria-Hungary and remained dominant until the mid-1870s.

Vienna, the imperial capital and the residence of Emperor Franz Joseph, after the failed uprising of 1848 became the fourth-largest city in the world with the inclusion of suburbs and an influx of new residents from other regions of Austria. Where the city wall had once stood, a ring road was built, and ambitious civic buildings, including the Opera House, Town Hall, and Parliament, were also built. In contrast to agricultural workers and urban labourers, an increasingly-wealthy upper-middle class installed monuments and mansions. That occurred on a smaller scale in other cities such as Graz but on the periphery, which preserved the old city from destructive redevelopment.

In Germany
In the mindset of many Germans, the epoch is intrinsically linked with Kaiser Wilhelm I and Chancellor Bismarck, but it did not end with them (in 1888 and 1890, respectively) but continued well into the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was a Golden Age for Germany in which the disasters of the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars were remedied, and the country competed internationally in the areas of science, technology, industry and commerce. Particularly, the German middle class rapidly increased its standard of living, buying modern furniture, kitchen fittings and household machines.

In German-speaking areas, a huge number of publications were produced that was comparable, on a per-capita basis, to modern levels. Most were academic papers or scientific and technical publications, often practical instruction manuals on topics such as dike construction. There was no copyright law in most countries except in the United Kingdom. Since popular works were immediately republished by competitors, publishers needed a constant stream of new material. Fees paid to authors for new works were high and significantly supplemented the incomes of many academics. The prices of reprints were low and so publications could be bought by poorer people. A widespread public obsession with reading led to the rapid autodidactic dissemination of new knowledge to a broader audience. After copyright law gradually became established in the 1840s, the low-price mass market vanished, and fewer but more expensive editions were published.

The social effects of industrialisation were the same as in other European nations. Increased agricultural efficiency and introduction of new agricultural machines led to a polarized distribution of income in the countryside. The landowners won out to the disadvantage of the agrarian unpropertied workforce. Emigration, most of it to America, and urbanisation were consequences.

In the rapidly-growing industrial cities, new workers' dwellings were erected, lacking in comfort by today's standards but criticised even then as unhealthy by physicians: "without light, air and sun", they were quite contrary to the prevailing ideas on town planning. The dark, cramped flats took much of the blame for the marked increase in tuberculosis, which spread also to wealthier neighbourhoods.

Nevertheless, the working class also saw improvements of living standards and other conditions, such as social security through laws on workers' health insurance and accident insurance introduced by Bismarck in 1883–1884, and in the long run also through the foundation of a social democracy that would remain the model for the European sister parties until Hitler's Machtübernahme in 1933. Even today, the model of social care developed by Bismarck in 1873 (Reichsversicherungsordnung) remains the contractual basis for health insurance in Germany.

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Maryville College

Maryville College is a private liberal arts college in Maryville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1819 by Presbyterian minister Isaac L. Anderson for the purpose of furthering education and enlightenment into the West. The college is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the United States and the 12th-oldest institution in the South. It is associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and enrolls about 1,100 students. Its mascot is the Scots, and sports teams compete in NCAA Division III athletics in the Collegiate Conference of the South.

Academics
As a liberal arts school, the college promotes a well-rounded education. The school requires numerous general education courses to achieve this. The courses are taken through the conclusion of the student's education, contributing to the graduating student's becoming knowledgeable in a number of fields.

Maryville College is one of the few colleges in the nation that requires graduating students to complete a comprehensive exam in their major and conduct an extensive senior thesis.

U.S. News & World Report in its Best Colleges ranks Maryville #3 in Regional Colleges South, #1 in Best Colleges for Veterans, and #2 in Best Undergraduate Teaching.

Founding
Maryville College was founded as the Southern and Western Theological Seminary in 1819 by Isaac L. Anderson, a Presbyterian minister. Anderson had founded a school, Union Academy, in nearby Knox County, before becoming minister at New Providence Presbyterian Church in Maryville. He expressed to his fellow clergy the need for more ministers in the community, including a request to the Home Missionary Society and an appeal to divinity students at Princeton University in 1819. The new seminary was intended to help fill this need for ministers. It opened with a class of five men, and the new school was adopted by the Synod of Tennessee and formally named the Southern and Western Theological Seminary in October 1819.

After receiving its charter from the Tennessee General Assembly in 1842, the school adopted its current name: Maryville College.

Integration
In 2004, Maryville College was recognized by the Race Relations Center of East Tennessee for its history of "contributing to improving the quality of life for all in East Tennessee". Maryville College was racially integrated from its earliest days. An ex-slave named George Erskine studied there in 1819, sponsored by the Manumission Society of Tennessee. Erskine went on to preach during the 1820s and was formally ordained by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1829.

Maryville College was closed during the Civil War, but, upon reopening, it again admitted students regardless of race, assisted by the Freedmen's Bureau.

When the State of Tennessee forced Maryville College to segregate in 1901, the college gave $25,000—a little more than a tenth of its endowment at the time—to Swift Memorial Institute, the college's sister school. Swift was founded by William Henderson Franklin, the first African American to graduate from Maryville College (1880). His institute educated black students during the era of imposed segregation.

After the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, Maryville College immediately re-enrolled African Americans.

In 1875, Maryville College conferred the first college degree to a woman in the state of Tennessee. The recipient was Mary T. Wilson, the older sister of Samuel T. Wilson, who later served as president of the college from 1901 until 1930.

Campus
Maryville College is located in the City of Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee. Its current campus was established in 1869 on a 60 acre that was then on the city's outskirts. Several campus buildings were completed over the next five decades, with financial help from major institutions and philanthropists. The college's historic buildings comprise the Maryville College Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982; Anderson Hall is also separately listed on the National Register.

Buildings on campus

 * Anderson Hall: The oldest building on campus, Anderson Hall houses the Humanities and Education departments. Donations for its construction came from the Freedmen's Bureau and philanthropists William Thaw, a Pittsburgh industrialist, and John C. Baldwin of New York.
 * Thaw Hall: Thaw Hall was completed in 1923 with donations from Mary Thaw of Pittsburgh. It functions as the campus library, as well as housing the Academic Support Center, Social Sciences, and Environmental Studies departments.
 * Cooper Athletics Center: This building currently houses the Athletics department, as well as the Cooper Success Center.
 * Fayerweather Hall: Originally a science building, this building is named for Daniel B. Fayerweather of New York, who provided funds for its construction. It was designed by Baumann Brothers of Knoxville and completed in 1898. Fayerweather now houses most of the administrative offices of Maryville College, as well as the AJB Financial Aid office.
 * Bartlett Hall: Built by Kin Takahashi and many other students, this building houses the offices of Student Development, Student Involvement, Resident Life, Center for Calling and Careers, The Learning center, Security, the book store, the Post Office, Multicultural Center, and Isaac's Cafe.
 * Pearsons Hall: This building houses the main dining hall and two floors of residential housing.
 * Sutton Science Center: The building houses the departments of Math, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, American Sign Language, and Deaf Studies.
 * Clayton Center for the Arts: This building is the newest building at MC. It houses the music department and has live acts, plays, and local and national productions.
 * Willard House: This building houses the office of Advancement.
 * The House in the Woods: This building is used for the meeting space at MC. This building was previously used to house the campus minister.
 * Alexander House: This building houses some Advancement offices, Church Relations, Youth Leadership Blount, and Keep Blount Beautiful.
 * Crawford House: This building houses Mountain Challenge, LLC.
 * Ruby Tuesday (RT) Lodge: Since 1997, this building has been used as a private corporate retreat for the company Ruby Tuesday.
 * Alumni Gym: This building is used to house campus events.
 * Physical Plant: This is where all campus maintenance offices are located.
 * Center for Campus Ministry: This building houses the campus chapel and is the office of the campus Minister, Volunteer relations, and several other "volunteer" related officers.

Campus housing
The vast majority of Maryville College students reside in one of the many on-campus residence halls, which are: All residence halls besides Copeland, Davis, Gamble, Gibson, and Pearsons allow alcohol to those of age.
 * Gamble Hall: Co-ed; typically first-year housing. Rooms are available as both doubles and singles. Also features communal bathrooms.
 * Davis Hall: Co-ed; typically first-year housing. Rooms are available as both doubles and singles. Also features communal bathrooms.
 * Copeland Hall: Co-ed; typically first-year housing. Rooms are available as both doubles and singles. Also features communal bathrooms.
 * Pearsons Hall: renovated for residential use on the second level in 2015.
 * Lloyd Hall: Lloyd Hall offers suite-style living primarily to upperclassmen. These rooms are composed of a living room, two bathrooms, and either two doubles or a double and two singles. Some rooms also contain kitchens.
 * Carnegie Hall: Carnegie hall offers suite-style rooms primarily for upperclassmen. Most rooms are quad-suite in which two double rooms share a kitchen and bathroom. Carnegie hall also offers single rooms in which a bathroom is shared by three residents.
 * Beeson Village: Beeson Village offers apartment style living for primarily upperclassmen and is one of the newer campus living accommodations.
 * Court Street Apartments: Located just off campus, Court Street Apartments offer single bedroom apartments shared by two students.
 * Gibson Hall: Gibson Hall offers suite-style living primarily to upperclassmen. The newest residence hall at Maryville College, which offers suite style living almost identical to that of Lloyd Hall. Gibson Hall is a "wellness hall", which means that students must refrain from drinking, smoking, and drug use within the building.

Campus improvement plan
In 2010 Maryville College finished the construction of the Clayton Center for the Arts. This new CCA building is home to a large theatre, a flex theatre, and also classrooms and offices for professors of Maryville College. There are also plans to renovate Anderson Hall beginning June 2013. The renovations will focus on the interior and are estimated to be completed by August 2014.

Features of the college
The college's heating system started as an experiment by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Department of Energy and the college in 1982. Coinciding with the World's Fair in Knoxville, the experiment tested the efficiency of burning wood waste as an energy source. Tours of the plant and demonstrations were held at the college.

The college's oldest building, Anderson Hall, built in 1870, is currently used as a classroom building. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Crawford House is an LEED Gold certified building, and it is the oldest of 5 existing buildings to be made so in Tennessee.

Athletics
Maryville College sponsors 16 varsity sports under the guidelines of NCAA Division III. Varsity sports include football, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's golf, men's and women's tennis, baseball, softball, and the newest sports of men's and women's outdoor track and field effective in 2022–23. Maryville also sponsors a varsity women's equestrian team; while that sport is recognized by the NCAA as part of its Emerging Sports for Women program, Division III has yet to incorporate equestrian into the Emerging Sports program. Finally, Maryville lists its female cheerleaders (but not its male cheerleaders) and all-female dance team as varsity teams on its athletic website.

Maryville previously competed in the Great South Athletic Conference, with football competing in the USA South Athletic Conference. All teams began competing in the USA South in fall 2012.

At the end of the 2021–22 school year, the USA South underwent an amicable split. Ten of the then 19 members remained in the USA South, and eight members, including Maryville, formed the new Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS). (One other member left for a third conference.) With football and women's golf not being sponsored by CCS, Maryville continues to house those sports in the USA South.

Football
The Maryville Scots football team was the second sponsored sport at Maryville, started in 1889 by Maryville Scots Athletics Hall of Fame member, Kin Takahashi, who served as team captain, quarterback, and head coach from 1892 to 1897.

In football, Maryville played in the 1947 Tangerine Bowl – the inaugural playing of what is now the Citrus Bowl – losing 31–6 to Catawba College.

Weekend programs
The East Tennessee Japanese School (イーストテネシー補習授業校 Īsuto Teneshī Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a weekend Japanese education program, holds its classes at the college. It opened in August 1989, as the Blount County (ブラントカウンティ ) Japanese School. In 1990 the school used Maryville students as volunteer instructors; according to Kumiko Franklin, the principal, there were 40 such volunteers applying for four positions.

Notable alumni

 * Frank Moore Cross, a Professor Emeritus of the Harvard Divinity School, notable for both his work in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as his analysis of the Deuteronomistic History (DH).
 * Edwin Cunningham, United States Consul General in Shanghai (1920–1935)
 * Donald West Harward, President of Bates College.
 * Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis, The 33rd Treasurer of the United States (1969–1971), appointed by President Richard Nixon.
 * Sen Katayama, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party
 * Roy Kramer, former Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.
 * Katherine O. Musgrave (1920–2015), Professor Emerita of food and nutrition, University of Maine
 * Wiley Blount Rutledge (did not graduate; transferred elsewhere), Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court from 1943 to 1949.
 * Tom Saffell, Major League Baseball player from 1949 to 1959.
 * Richard B. Sellars (1915–2010), Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
 * Kirtanananda Swami, prominent guru in the Hare Krishna movement
 * Roy Arthur Taylor, U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1960–1977
 * George Verwer, Evangelist and founder of Operation Mobilisation
 * Ron Wolf, former General Manager of the NFL's Green Bay Packers
 * Kin Takahashi (1866/67-1902), football player and missionary who fundraised and built the third YMCA in the South on the Maryville campus.

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