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Featured article: November 10, 2005

Dogpatch USA is a defunct theme park located on Arkansas State Highway 7 between the cities of Harrison and Jasper in the state of Arkansas, USA, an area known today as Marble Falls. It was opened to the public in 1968 and was based on the popular comic strip Li'l Abner, which was created by cartoonist Al Capp and set in a fictional town called "Dogpatch". Dogpatch USA was a commercial success in its early years, and investors, buoyed with optimism about the park's future, decided to pursue extensive and heavily financed expansion in the form of a sister park, "Marble Falls", designed as a ski resort and convention center. But the following years would see a combination of characters and unforeseen events transform the high hopes of investors into a financial roller coaster ride which eventually ended in the park's demise. Ownership of the park changed hands many times throughout its history, and it was finally closed in 1993. Since that time much of the property of the twin parks has been neglected and frequently vandalized, and portions of the acreage are either entangled in legal issues, in a state of redevelopment, or for sale once again.

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A male Mallard in mid-flight. The fundamentals of bird flight are similar to those of aircraft. Lift force is produced by the action of air-flow on the wing, which is an airfoil. This occurs because the air has a lower air pressure just above the wing and higher pressure below. When a bird flaps its wings they continue to develop lift but they also create an additional forward and upward force, thrust, to counteract its weight and drag.

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Featured list: List of major opera composers

This list provides a guide to the most important opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the "Lists Consulted" section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri, who wrote the first ever opera in late 16th century Italy, to John Adams, one of the leading figures in the contemporary operatic world. The brief accompanying notes offer an explanation as to why each composer has been considered major. Also included is a section about major women opera composers, compiled from the same lists. For an introduction to operatic history, see Opera. The organisation of the list is by birthdate.

Jacopo Peri (1561-1633). A Florentine who composed both the first opera ever, Dafne (1598), and the first surviving opera, Euridice (1600).^[1]
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is generally regarded as the first major opera composer.^[2] In Orfeo (1607) he blended Peri's experiments in opera with the lavish spectacle of the intermedi.^[3] Later, in Venice in the 1640s, he helped make opera a commercially viable form with Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea, one of the earliest operas in the present-day operatic repertoire..
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676). Amongst the most important of Monteverdi's successors, Cavalli was a major force in spreading opera throughout Italy and also helped introduce it to France. His Giasone was " the most popular opera of the 17th century".^[4]
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687). In close collaboration with the librettist Philippe Quinault, Lully founded the tradition of tragédie en musique,^[5] combining singing, dance and visual spectacle, which would remain the most prestigious French operatic genre for almost a hundred years.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695). Purcell was the first English operatic composer of significance. His masterwork is Dido and Aeneas.^[6]
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725). A key figure in the development of opera seria, Scarlatti claimed to have composed over 100 operas, of which La Griselda is a notable example.^[7]
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