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"All-Time Quarterback (stylized ¡All-Time Quarterback!) was a solo side-project of Ben Gibbard, best known as the singer/guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie and as one third of The Postal Service. Gibbard started the project in the spring of 1997, and a series of songs resulted in two lo-fi EPs, ¡All-Time Quarterback! and The Envelope Sessions, released in 1999 on Elsinor Records, which was documenting the Bellingham, Washington music scene. Gibbard had also started Death Cab for Cutie in 1997, a second side-project which eventually grew into a full band. A small tour occurred in 1999 to support the releases, but afterwards Gibbard went back to Death Cab for Cutie to record their second album. The song "Underwater!" from The Envelope Sessions was later re-recorded by Death Cab for Cutie for a 7" single on Sub Pop Records. In 2002, with both original releases out-of-print, Barsuk Records released an album on CD titled ¡All-Time Quarterback!. The album contains songs from both releases, along with an outtake from the original EP sessions and a video for "Plans Get Complex", which was shot in a variety of locations across London, including Regent Street and a London Underground train. Discography * ¡All-Time Quarterback! (CD EP, 1999) * The Envelope Sessions (Cassette EP, 1999) * ¡All- Time Quarterback! (CD album, 2002) External links * All-Time Quarterback / Barsuk Records Category:Death Cab for Cutie Category:Musical groups from Washington (state) Category:Musical groups established in 1997 "
"Manis is a genus of South Asian and East Asian pangolins. Species Known fossil species: *Asian giant pangolin †M. paleojavanica Extant species: *Subgenus Manis **Indian pangolin, M. crassicaudata **Chinese pangolin, M. pentadactyla *Subgenus Paramanis **Sunda pangolin, M. javanica **Philippine pangolin, M. culionensis Taxonomy The genus has had many names. *Pholidotus Brisson, 1762 or Storr, 1780 *Quaggelo Frisch, 1775 *Pangolinus Rafinesque, 1821 *Pangolin Gray, 1873 *Paramanis Pocock, 1924 *Phatages Sundevall, 1843 References Category:Mammal genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Category:Mammals of Asia "
"Lieutenant Boyd Alexander (16 January 1873 – 2 April 1910) was an English British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist. Boyd was the oldest son (with a twin brother) of Lt Colonel Boyd Francis Alexander. On his mother's side he was the grandson of David Wilson the founder of the Great Eastern Hotel in Calcutta. He was born at Swifts Park at Cranbrook in Kent and educated at Radley and Sandhurst. Alexander was commissioned in a Militia battalion of the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), and in October 1900 took up a commission in a regular battalion of that regiment. Promotion to lieutenant followed on 22 January 1902. During 1902 he visited the Gold Coast Colony, where he made an ornithological survey of that colony, and in September that year he left for the Bonin Islands to investigate their avifauna. Lieutenant Alexander was a member of an expedition which travelled across Africa from the Niger to the Nile, exploring the Lake Chad area. Alexander was accompanied by his brother Claud, Captain G. B. Gosling and Portuguese collector José Lopes. In February 1904 they set off from the mouth of the Niger, travelling upriver to Lokoja. Claud died in October of enteric fever after making a survey of the Murchison Range. Boyd and Gosling explored the area around Lake Chad. Gosling died in June 1906 at Niangara of blackwater fever. Boyd then followed the River Kibali, reaching the Nile late in the year and returning to England in February 1907. Alexander's account From The Niger To The Nile was published later that year. In 1908 he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society "for his three years' journey across Africa from the Niger to the Nile." He described Willcocks's honeyguide on the basis of a specimen obtained on his 1901 expedition along the Volta river. His enthusiasm for Lake Chad was such that he and his twin brother Robert had an exact replica of Lake Chad made alongside their family home The Swifts at Cranbrook. Alexander and Lopes sailed back to Africa in 1909. They visited Claud's grave at Maifoni in Bornu and then continued to Ouadai. Boyd was killed in a dispute with locals near Nyeri. His body was recovered by French soldiers and buried next to his brother in Maifoni. References External links * * Category:1873 births Category:1910 deaths Category:Rifle Brigade officers Category:English explorers Category:Explorers of Africa Category:English ornithologists Category:Fellows of the Zoological Society of London Boyd Category:Twin people from England "