Turks and Caicos Islands: History: The PNP’s leader, Rufus Ewing, became premier. After the December 2016 election, power shifted as the PDM won 10 of the 15 directly elected seats to the PNP’s five. The PDM’s Sharlene Cartwright Robinson became premier; she was the first woman to hold the position.

Sir Alfred Ewing was a British physicist who discovered and named hysteresis, the resistance of magnetic materials to change in magnetic force. Ewing was professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Tokyo (1878–83) and professor of mechanism and applied mechanics at King’s College,

Sir Alfred Ewing was a British physicist who discovered and named hysteresis, the resistance of magnetic materials to change in magnetic force. Ewing was professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Tokyo (1878–83) and professor of mechanism and applied mechanics at King’s College,

William Tecumseh Sherman: Early life and career: Thomas Ewing, a family friend and a Whig political force in Ohio, adopted the boy, and his foster mother added William to his name. When Sherman was 16, Ewing obtained an appointment to West Point for him. Sherman graduated near the head of his class…

Maurice Ewing was a U.S. geophysicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding of marine sediments and ocean basins, using seismic methods. Studying the structure of the Earth’s crust and mantle and making seismic refraction measurements in the Atlantic basins, along the Mid-Atlantic

Yaunde, a Bantu-speaking people of the hilly area of south-central Cameroon who live in and around the capital city of Yaoundé. The Yaunde and a closely related people, the Eton, comprise the two main subgroups of the Beti, which in turn constitute one of the three major subdivisions of the cluster

Ewostatewos was an Ethiopian saint and founder of one of the two great Ethiopian monastic communities. Ewostatewos and his disciples respected the traditional Judaic customs of the Ethiopian Church concerning the sabbath and impure meats and held the view that the anointing of Jesus after his death

Ray C. Ewry was an American track athlete, the only Olympic athlete to win eight gold medals in individual events. As a boy, Ewry contracted polio and was expected never to walk again. He began his career as a jumper in a successful attempt to regain the use of his legs. Lean and tall at 1.9 metres

Benin: …under the most famous oba, Ewuare the Great (reigned c. 1440–80), who was described as a great warrior and magician. He established a hereditary succession to the throne and vastly expanded the territory of the Benin kingdom, which by the mid-16th century extended from the Niger River delta in the…

paddlefish: …Polyodontidae before it was declared extinct by ecologists in 2020. It was larger and possessed a more slender snout. It inhabited the Yangtze River basin. The largest Chinese paddlefish grew up to 3 metres (9.8 feet) in length and weighed 300 kg (661.4 pounds).

papal infallibility: Declaration as dogma: …to have spoken infallibly, or ex cathedra (“from his chair” as supreme teacher). It is a prerequisite that the pope intend to demand irrevocable assent from the entire church in some aspect of faith or morals.

dividend: …stock is said to sell ex dividend, or “without dividend.” When a stock sells ex dividend, its price is usually reduced by the amount of the dividend.

Robert Lepage: Ex Machina: …found a new theatre company, Ex Machina, having left his position at the National Arts Centre the previous year. The company’s first production, The Seven Streams of the River Ota (1994), used the bombing of Hiroshima as a metaphor for contemporary problems such as AIDS. The play, set in the…

A24: Films: In 2014 A24 released Ex Machina, a sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Garland and starring Alicia Vikander as the film’s eerily human robot character and Oscar Isaac as the robot’s creator, a reclusive tech entrepreneur. The film was praised for its atmospheric tension and thought-provoking themes and garnered A24…

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: …property without notice upon an ex parte application of probable cause that the property is associated with criminal activity. In this case, criminal charges need not be provided against a defendant. In contrast to criminal prosecutions, where the burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt, only the lesser standard…

Japanese American internment: Life in the camps: …decision, in its ruling on Ex parte Endo, the Supreme Court skirted the constitutionality of internment as a policy but determined that the government could not detain a U.S. citizen whose loyalty was recognized by the U.S. government.

ex post facto law, law that retroactively makes criminal conduct that was not criminal when performed, increases the punishment for crimes already committed, or changes the rules of procedure in force at the time an alleged crime was committed in a way substantially disadvantageous to the accused.

Benedict XIV: In his bulls Ex quo singulari (1742) and Omnium sollicitudinum (1744), he prohibited certain traditional practices that the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain in China and India. This ban set back the winning of converts in Asia and was partially reversed in 1939, when the church allowed…

Kanha National Park: Flora and fauna: Ex situ (from Latin, meaning “out of place”) conservation, on the other hand, involves preserving biodiversity (a species or genetic resource) outside the natural habitat. This is usually done in artificial environments such as zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and seed banks, either because the species’…

Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), fair held annually since 1879 in Toronto. Generally lasting 18 days and ending on Labour Day (the first Monday in September), the event has historically showcased Canadian commercial and technological innovations, in addition to providing a wide variety of

Fred Armisen: Portlandia and other work: …Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), The Ex (2006), Easy A (2010), The Dictator (2012), and The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017). In 2018 he released the Netflix comedy special Fred Armisen: Standup for Drummers.

Export-Import Bank of the United States, one of the principal agencies of the U.S. government in international finance, originally incorporated as the Export-Import Bank of Washington on February 12, 1934, to assist in financing the export of American-made goods and services. Its name was changed

folk art: Painting: …notably as the ex-voto, or votive offering, hung in churches and chapels, and in America, where portraits and local scenes were executed in oil, pastel, or watercolour. More typically, the painted depictions that occur in folk art are incorporated into other objects; for example, the American clock faces bearing local…

exact equation, type of differential equation that can be solved directly without the use of any of the special techniques in the subject. A first-order differential equation (of one variable) is called exact, or an exact differential, if it is the result of a simple differentiation. The equation

exact equation, type of differential equation that can be solved directly without the use of any of the special techniques in the subject. A first-order differential equation (of one variable) is called exact, or an exact differential, if it is the result of a simple differentiation. The equation

horse racing: Wagers: …of the first two races), perfecta (win and place winners in order in one race), quiniela (as in the perfecta but not in order), and trifecta (win, place, and show winners in order in one race). Other specialty wagers, sometimes offering extremely high payouts, require the bettor to select multiple…

Gentianaceae: Major genera and species: …with blue star-shaped flowers, and Exacum, a tropical indoor ornamental, are other attractive members of the family.

spectroscopy: Applications: In extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS), interference effects generated by near neighbours of an atom that has absorbed an X-ray, and the resulting oscillation frequencies, are analyzed so that distances to the near-neighbour atoms can be accurately determined. The technique is sensitive enough to…

Hébertist, any of the group of extremists of the French Revolution, followers of Jacques-René Hébert, who demanded a Revolutionary government that was anti-Christian and dedicated to the eradication of Girondists and other moderates. The faction arose during the violence of August 1792, when Louis

Latin American dance: Folk and popular dances: …of the dances was the exaltación, which included spins and turns by the dancers, who remained separate. The Spanish seguidilla ended with a turn and a bien parado (final pose) with the couple side-by-side or facing each other.

Spain: The failure of liberalism: Thus, the extreme radicals (exaltados) gained control by means of demonstrations in the streets, organized by clubs run on the lines of the Jacobins of the French Revolution. The conservative reaction developed in the north around the regency set up at Seo de Urgel. Without French help, the movement…

astrology: Astrology in the Hellenistic period (3rd century bce to 3rd century ce): …are the planets’ degrees of exaltation (high influence), opposite to which are their degrees of dejection (low influence). Various arcs of the zodiac, then, are either primarily or secondarily subject to each planet, whose strength and influence in an individual’s birth chart depend partially on the planet’s position relative to…

Gemma Chan: Early roles on television, stage, and film: …cast in such movies as Exam (2009) and Submarine (2010).

Voltaire: Life with Mme du Châtelet: …du Châtelet herself wrote an Examen, highly critical of the two Testaments. It was at Cirey that Voltaire, rounding out his scientific knowledge, acquired the encyclopaedic culture that was one of the outstanding facets of his genius.

Martin Chemnitz: …(1570); Examen concilii tridentini (1565–73; Examination of the Council of Trent), the standard Lutheran analysis of the doctrinal decisions of the Council of Trent (1545–63); and a partial presentation of his theology in the form of a commentary on Melanchthon’s Loci communes (1591).

pedagogy: Foreknowledge about students and objectives: Numerous agencies produce test material for those purposes, and in many countries the idea has been widely applied to selection for entry to secondary and higher schools; one of the purposes of so-called leaving examinations is to grade students as to their suitability for further stages of education.…

examination, in law, the interrogation of a witness by attorneys or by a judge. In Anglo-American proceedings an examination usually begins with direct examination (called examination in chief in England) by the party who called the witness. After direct examination the attorney for the other party

Thomas Hart Benton: He produced a learned Examination of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision in 1858 (which reaffirmed that the status of slaves, as property, could not be affected by federal legislation), and his 16-volume Abridgement of the Debates of Congress through 1850 is still useful.

Examination of Country Magistrates, watercolor painting that was created by an unknown artist during the Qing dynasty in China and that dates from about 1700–20. It is held by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The Qing dynasty, which was established in 1644, retained all the protocols

Leo Tolstoy: Conversion and religious beliefs: …Issledovaniye dogmaticheskogo bogosloviya (written 1880; An Examination of Dogmatic Theology), Soyedineniye i perevod chetyrokh yevangeliy (written 1881; Union and Translation of the Four Gospels), and V chyom moya vera? (written 1884; What I Believe); he later added Tsarstvo bozhiye vnutri vas (1893; The Kingdom of God Is Within You) and…

John Stuart Mill: The later years of John Stuart Mill: …1865 he published both his Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and his Auguste Comte and Positivism, but in both writings his motives were largely political. It was because he regarded the writings and sayings of Sir William Hamilton as the great fortress of intuitional philosophy in Great Britain that…

Martin Chemnitz: …(1570); Examen concilii tridentini (1565–73; Examination of the Council of Trent), the standard Lutheran analysis of the doctrinal decisions of the Council of Trent (1545–63); and a partial presentation of his theology in the form of a commentary on Melanchthon’s Loci communes (1591).

English literature: Discursive prose: …outspoken journalism, particularly in his Examiner (begun 1808), was of wide influence, and by William Cobbett, whose Rural Rides (collected in 1830 from his Political Register) gives a telling picture, in forceful and clear prose, of the English countryside of his day.

John Forster: …he was editor of The Examiner (1847–55). In 1855 he became secretary to the lunacy commissioners and in 1861 became a commissioner. Apart from his Dickens study, Forster’s Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith (1848; expanded into The Life and Times . . . , 1854), his Walter Savage Landor…

magistrates’ court: …the magistrates sit as “examining justices,” whereby they carry out inquiries preliminary to trial in serious matters that may require committal of the accused to a higher court for trial. All criminal charges are initially brought before magistrates’ courts. More serious charges are subsequently committed for trial at the…

magistrates’ court: …the magistrates sit as “examining justices,” whereby they carry out inquiries preliminary to trial in serious matters that may require committal of the accused to a higher court for trial. All criminal charges are initially brought before magistrates’ courts. More serious charges are subsequently committed for trial at the…

roseola infantum, infectious disease of early childhood marked by rapidly developing high fever (to 106° F) lasting about three days and then subsiding completely. A few hours after the temperature returns to normal, a mildly itchy rash develops suddenly on the trunk, neck, and behind the ears but

childhood disease and disorder: Classic infectious diseases of childhood: …diseases of childhood include the exanthematous viral infections (i.e., measles, chicken pox, German measles, and other viral infections that produce skin eruptions) and mumps. The incidence of these diseases, which were once endemic among childhood populations throughout much of the world, now varies markedly. Smallpox, the most serious of the…

insect: Types of larvae: …less glued to the body; exarate, with the appendages free and not glued to the body; and coarctate, which is essentially exarate but remaining covered by the cast skins (exuviae) of the next to the last larval instar (name given to the form of an insect between molts).

Italy: Lombards and Byzantines: …appointed from Constantinople and called exarch from about 590. Exarchs were changed quite frequently, probably because military figures far from the center of the empire who developed a local following might revolt (as happened in 619 and 651) or else turn themselves into autonomous rulers. But the impermanence of the…

galliform: Size range and diversity of structure: …the order are the sparrow-sized painted quail (Excalfactoria), about 13 cm (5 inches) long and about 45 grams (about 1.5 ounces) in weight. The heaviest galliform is the common, or wild, turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), wild specimens of which may weigh up to 11 kg (about 24 pounds); the longest is…

Excalibur, in Arthurian legend, King Arthur’s sword. As a boy, Arthur alone was able to draw the sword out of a stone in which it had been magically fixed. This account is contained in Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th-century prose rendering of the Arthurian legend, but another story in the same work

John Boorman: From Deliverance to Hope and Glory: …commercial and critical success with Excalibur (1981), an ambitious production that featured breathtaking cinematography and a top-notch cast: Nicol Williamson, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, and Liam Neeson. Just as visually distinctive—and oddly mystical—was The Emerald Forest (1985), the story of a boy (Charley Boorman, John’s son, in a strong

protozoan: Annotated classification: Excavata Predominantly heterotrophic organisms possessing a distinctive suspension feeding groove (ventral cytostome) and a recurrent flagellum (often beats over cytostome with a slow undulating motion). Placement of Heterolobosea and Euglenozoa within Excavata remains a source of debate, due to confounding morphological and genetic evidence. Fornicata…

excavating machine, any machine, usually self-powered, that is used in digging or earth-moving operations of some kind; the power shovel, bulldozer, and grader (qq.v.) are

tunnels and underground excavations: excavations, horizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature’s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such as limestone. A vertical opening is usually called a shaft. Tunnels have many uses: for mining ores, for transportation—including road vehicles, trains,

Willem de Kooning: Early life and work: …Asheville (1948–49), Attic (1949), and Excavation (1950), which reintroduced colour and seem to sum up with taut decisiveness the problems of free-associative composition he had struggled with for many years.

excavation, in archaeology, the exposure, recording, and recovery of buried material remains. In a sense, excavation is the surgical aspect of archaeology: it is surgery of the buried landscape and is carried out with all the skilled craftsmanship that has been built up in the era since

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company: …the company permission to market Excedrin Migraine, the first migraine headache pain medication available to consumers without a prescription. Following its sale of the hair-products company Clairol to Procter & Gamble Co., Bristol-Myers acquired the DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company from the DuPont Company in 2001.

Excelsior diamond, until the discovery of the Cullinan diamond in 1905, the world’s largest-known uncut diamond. When found by a worker loading a truck in the De Beers mine at Jagersfontein, Orange Free State, on June 30, 1893, the blue-white stone weighed about 995 carats. After long study the

Excelsior Springs, city, astride the Ray-Clay county line, western Missouri, U.S., 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Kansas City. Founded in 1880, it developed as a health resort noted for its mineral waters. Today, while mainly residential, it still maintains ties with its past through its Hall of

St. Clement of Alexandria: Early life and career: …gnostic), with commentary by Clement, Excerpta ex Theodoto; the Eclogae Propheticae (or Extracts), in the form of notes; and a few fragments of his biblical commentary Hypotyposeis (Outlines).

liquid: Activity coefficients and excess functions: …designated by GE, called the excess Gibbs (or free) energy. The significance of the word excess lies in the fact that GE is the Gibbs energy of a solution in excess of what it would be if it were ideal.

dating: Thorium-230 dating: This is defined as excess thorium-230 because its abundance exceeds the equilibrium amount that should be present. With time, the excess decays away and the age of any horizon in a core sample can be estimated from the observed thorium-230-to-thorium-232 ratio in the seawater-derived component of the core. Sedimentation…

dating: Thorium-230 dating: This is defined as excess thorium-230 because its abundance exceeds the equilibrium amount that should be present. With time, the excess decays away and the age of any horizon in a core sample can be estimated from the observed thorium-230-to-thorium-232 ratio in the seawater-derived component of the core. Sedimentation…

hydrosphere: The early hydrosphere: …water vapour, have been called excess volatiles because their masses cannot be accounted for simply by rock weathering. These volatiles are thought to have formed the early atmosphere of Earth. At an initial crustal temperature of about 600 °C (about 1,100 °F), almost all of these compounds, including water (H2O),…

insurance: Reinsurance: …of treaties exist—pro rata and excess-of-loss treaties. In the former, all premiums and losses may be divided according to stated percentages. In the latter, the originating insurer accepts the risk of loss up to a stated amount, and above this amount the reinsurers divide any losses. Reinsurance is also frequently…

excess-profits tax, a tax levied on profits in excess of a stipulated standard of “normal” income. There are two principles governing the determination of excess profits. One, known as the war-profits principle, is designed to recapture wartime increases in income over normal peacetime profits of

international payment and exchange: exchange, respectively, any payment made by one country to another and the market in which national currencies are bought and sold by those who require them for such payments. Countries may make payments in settlement of a trade debt, for capital investment, or for other…

barter, the direct exchange of goods or services—without an intervening medium of exchange or money—either according to established rates of exchange or by bargaining. It is considered the oldest form of commerce. Barter is common among traditional societies, particularly in those communities with

bank: Specialization: …be divided into two classes: exchange banks and banks of deposit. The last were banks that, besides receiving deposits, made loans and thus associated themselves with the trade and industries of a country. The exchange banks included in former years institutions such as the Bank of Hamburg and the Bank…

austausch coefficient, in fluid mechanics, particularly in its applications to meteorology and oceanography, the proportionality between the rate of transport of a component of a turbulent fluid and the rate of change of density of the component. In this context, the term component signifies not

exchange control, governmental restrictions on private transactions in foreign exchange (foreign money or claims on foreign money). The chief function of most systems of exchange control is to prevent or redress an adverse balance of payments by limiting foreign-exchange purchases to an amount not

security: Trading procedures: In an exchange distribution a member firm accumulates the necessary buy orders and then crosses them on the floor. This is distinguished from an ordinary “cross” because the selling broker may provide extra compensation to his own registered representatives and to other participating firms. A special offering…

barter, the direct exchange of goods or services—without an intervening medium of exchange or money—either according to established rates of exchange or by bargaining. It is considered the oldest form of commerce. Barter is common among traditional societies, particularly in those communities with

crystal: Antiferromagnetic materials: The exchange interaction between ions in this case has the opposite sign and favours the alternate arrangements of spins. The sign of the exchange interaction between ions depends on the length of the covalent bond and the bonding angles; it may have either orientation. The characteristic…

crystal: Antiferromagnetic materials: The exchange interaction between ions in this case has the opposite sign and favours the alternate arrangements of spins. The sign of the exchange interaction between ions depends on the length of the covalent bond and the bonding angles; it may have either orientation. The characteristic…

exchange marriage, form of marriage involving an arranged and reciprocal exchange of spouses between two groups. Exchange marriage is most common in societies that have a unilineal descent system emphasizing the male line (patrilineality) and a consistent expectation of postmarital residence with

biogeochemical cycle: …slow-moving, usually abiotic portion—and an exchange (cycling) pool—a smaller but more-active portion concerned with the rapid exchange between the biotic and abiotic aspects of an ecosystem.

exchange rate, the price of a country’s money in relation to another country’s money. An exchange rate is “fixed” when countries use gold or another agreed-upon standard, and each currency is worth a specific measure of the metal or other standard. An exchange rate is “floating” when supply and

isotope: Chemical effects of isotopic substitution: The exchange reaction H2 + D2 → 2HDprovides an example of random behaviour at high temperature and isotope-specific behaviour at lower ones. If two volumes of gas consisting, respectively, of H2 and D2 only, are mixed, the hydrogen–hydrogen and deuterium–deuterium bonds will gradually break and new…

blood transfusion: Transfusion procedures and blood storage: Exchange transfusion is a procedure in which much or all of a patient’s blood is gradually removed and replaced with donor blood. It is used for specialized clinical situations, particularly severe cases of hemolytic disease of the newborn (erythroblastosis fetalis), and certain poisonings or disorders…

Carl Menger: …disprove the Aristotelian view that exchange involves a transaction of equal value for equal value. In exchange, Menger pointed out, people will give up what they value less in return for what they value more, which is why both sides can gain from an exchange. That led him to the…

bill of exchange, short-term negotiable financial instrument consisting of an order in writing addressed by one person (the seller of goods) to another (the buyer) requiring the latter to pay on demand (a sight draft) or at a fixed or determinable future time (a time draft) a certain sum of money

monetarism: …the monetarist theory is the equation of exchange, which is expressed as MV = PQ. Here M is the supply of money, and V is the velocity of turnover of money (i.e., the number of times per year that the average dollar in the money supply is spent for goods…

international payment and exchange: exchange, respectively, any payment made by one country to another and the market in which national currencies are bought and sold by those who require them for such payments. Countries may make payments in settlement of a trade debt, for capital investment, or for other…

money: …that sustains money as a medium of exchange breaks down, people will then seek substitutes—like the cigarettes and cognac that for a time served as the medium of exchange in Germany after World War II. New money may substitute for old under less extreme conditions. In many countries with a…

gift exchange, the transfer of goods or services that, although regarded as voluntary by the people involved, is part of the expected social behaviour. Gift exchange may be distinguished from other types of exchange in several respects: the first offering is made in a generous manner and there is

JPEG: …exchangeable image file format (EXIF) information that stores details about when a picture was taken and even settings such as exposure and shutter speed. JPEG files typically end in the extension “.jpeg” or “.jpg.”

Exchequer, in British history, the government department that was responsible for receiving and dispersing the public revenue. The word derives from the Latin scaccarium, “chessboard,” in reference to the checkered cloth on which the reckoning of revenues took place. The Exchequer was constituted

government budget: The United Kingdom: …submitted to Parliament by the chancellor of the Exchequer, who is responsible for its preparation. The emphasis of the chancellor’s budget speech is on taxation and the state of the economy, rather than on the detail of expenditures; public discussion is devoted mainly to the chancellor’s tax proposals. The estimates…

Court of Common Pleas: …of King’s Bench and the Court of Exchequer for common-law business. The result was an accumulation of many complicated and overlapping jurisdictional rules. By the 19th century the multiple form of writs and competing jurisdictions had become unbearable, and the Judicature Act of 1873 brought about a replacement of the…

Aziz Sancar: …of an enzyme known as uvrABC nuclease (excision nuclease, or excinuclease) in E. coli. The enzyme specifically targeted DNA that had been damaged by UV or chemical exposure, cutting the affected DNA strand at each end of the damaged region and thereby enabling the removal of the damaged nucleotides.

sales tax: Sales and excise taxes in various countries: Excise tax revenue in most countries comes primarily from excises on automobiles, motor fuels, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages. Many other special excises are in use, such as taxes on coffee, sugar, salt, vinegar, matches, and amusements. Historically, communist countries derived…

female genital cutting: The procedure: Excision. Type 2 FGC involves the partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora. It can also include the removal of the labia majora. Infibulation (also called Pharoanic circumcision). The vaginal opening is reduced by removing all or parts of the external…

Aziz Sancar: …of an enzyme known as uvrABC nuclease (excision nuclease, or excinuclease) in E. coli. The enzyme specifically targeted DNA that had been damaged by UV or chemical exposure, cutting the affected DNA strand at each end of the damaged region and thereby enabling the removal of the damaged nucleotides.

nucleic acid: Repair: …DNA lesions is by an excision repair pathway. Enzymes recognize damage within DNA, probably by detecting an altered conformation of DNA, and then nick the strand on either side of the lesion, allowing a small single-stranded DNA to be excised. DNA polymerase and DNA ligase then repair the single-stranded gap.…

cancer: Biopsy: In excisional biopsy the entire tumor is removed. This procedure is carried out when the mass is small enough to be removed completely without adverse consequences. Incisional biopsies, which remove only a piece of a tumor, are done if the mass is large. Biopsies obtained with…

nucleic acid: Site-specific recombination: A third protein, called excisionase, recognizes the hybrid sites formed on integration and, in conjunction with integrase, catalyzes an excision process whereby the λ chromosome is removed from the bacterial chromosome.

Warren Zevon: …That album was followed by Excitable Boy (1978), which featured the rollicking “Werewolves of London”—Zevon’s only major hit—as well as the geopolitically inspired songs “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” and “Lawyers, Guns and Money.”