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What kind of bird is a marabou? | Buying Marabou | Global FlyFisher | In nature the marabou is a stork. In fly tying it's a very versatile and popular type of feathers from other birds than the marabou. Marabou Martin Joergensen Even though the marabou is a large African stork and the marabou feathers indeed used to come from this bird, the marabou feathers of today come almost exclusively from turkeys and chickens. The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) is actually on the CITES list of protected animals, and feathers from this bird should not be traded or used for fly-tying or anything else. What we're dealing with in fly-tying is mainly turkey feathers. Chicken feathers can be found, but are not nearly as often labeled marabou. The main characteristic of the marabou feather is it's fluffiness. The feather is very soft and mobile and has no willingness to"marry" and form a uniform surface like it's known from many other feathers such as body feathers, coverts and wing feathers. It's not spiky or stiff either like hackle, but is a very fluffy, downy and soft feather. Three basic types Martin Joergensen We usually divide marabou into different categories based on shape, size and use. Blood marabou or blood quill is a short and paintbrush like feather. It's very good for wings and tails but not suited for hackles. You tie in the whole feather and utilize the fact that the barbs end in a parallel bunch in the top of the feather, giving a nice and even edge to the wing or tail. You rarely us the stem, which is often thick. Marabou plumes are longer feathers with "normal" barbs sticking out perpendicular to the stem. These are not as long as the stem marabou, but longer than the blood feathers. They are mostly used for loose barbs, where you do not use the stem, which can be quite thick. You tie in the loose barbs in bunches or in a loop to form hackle, or use the barbs as dubbing. These are by far the most common marabou feathers. Stem marabou AKA Woolly Bugger marabou is the longest type of feather, which is well suited for hackling in the traditional manner, where the stem is wrapped around the hook shank. You want these feathers with a long and thin stem and even and uniform barbs of the length you need. Some of these feathers are much too large and coarse to be used on smaller flies, but can be perfect for Intruder style flies and larger saltwater flies while the medium and smaller feathers can be good for bass bugs, Woolly Buggers and many other wet flies. Bagged marabou Cat in the bag Martin Joergensen The far majority of marabou feathers are sold in bags, and a bag will typically consist of some 20-50 or maybe 100 feathers of varying shape, size and quality. A few manufacturers offer bags with fewer hand sorted feathers, where the feathers in a bag are all of the same type, shape and size. Unless you can clearly see that you have such a hand sorted bag in your hands, you will want to get the bag open and get the feathers out. This will sometimes reveal a nice selection of uniform feathers, but mostly show the opposite: an amazing array of different feathers from the perfect to pure scraps, only useful for dubbing or maybe cutting off the barbs to tie in in bunches. The bagged feathers might still be good, but just in need of some sorting, but if the selection is too inconsistent, simply leave it. The problem is that a bag with 50 feathers might contain only a few that are exactly suitable for your needs. You can also opt to buy several such bags and sort the feathers into categories. Marabou is cheap, and if the quality is good, it makes sense to buy a bunch of bags and sort them. Strung feathers Strung marabou Martin Joergensen You will often find marabou feathers in large paintbrush like bunches called strung marabou. The principle is that the feathers are sewn together at the base and rolled up to form fat bunches. You unroll the bunch and pick the feather you need. The shops will often have done this for you and cut the strips into smaller pieces, which are bagged. A whole roll is large and can contain hundreds if not thousands of feathers. | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: April 2012 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League MACCLESFIELD QUIZ LEAGUE CUP FINAL QUESTIONS COMPILED BY THE OX-FFORD C VETTED BY THE WATERS GREEN RAMS 1. Q Which bird is sometimes referred to as the halcyon? A The kingfisher 2. Q The adjective aquiline is derived from the Latin for which bird? A The eagle 3. Q Whose 1990 album The Rhythm of the Saints featured musicians and rhythms from Latin America? A Paul Simon 4. Q Who wrote the 2006 novel Shalimar the Clown? A Salman Rushdie 5. Q Who was the oldest monarch to succeed to the British throne? A William IV (aged 64) 6. Q In the film Finding Nemo, what was the name of the forgetful fish voiced by Ellen deGeneres? A Dory 7. Q Against which international cricket team did Sachin Tendulkar recently achieve his hundredth century in international first class cricket? A Bangladesh 8. Q What is the name of the principal charity in the UK for single parent families? A Gingerbread 9. Q In which British city are Salisbury Crags? A Edinburgh 10. Q In which American state is Arlington National Cemetery? A Virginia 11. Q Barabas is the title character of which play by Christopher Marlowe? A The Jew of Malta 12. Q What was the name of the island in the Somerset levels on which King Alfred took refuge in AD878? A Athelney 13. Q Who wrote the music for Showboat? A Jerome Kern 14. Q Which spin-off from The Muppets was set in a lighthouse? A Fraggle Rock 15. Q Which regular on the TV show The Comedians, famous for the catchphrase ‘Settle down now, settle down,’ died in February? A Ken Goodwin 16. Q Prussia’s highest military award Pour le Mérite was known by which informal name during World War I? A The Blue Max 17. Q Which actress starred with Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? A Jane Russell 18. Q Which eccentric businessman designed the bra that Jane Russell wore in the film The Outlaw? A Howard Hughes 19. Q In which city are the headquarters of Greenpeace International? A Amsterdam 20. Q Which island country has a name that means old in Spanish? A Antigua 21. Q Which was the first decimal coin introduced in Britain? A 50 pence 22. Q Which institution awards the Pulitzer prize? A Columbia University 23. Q Name either of the jockeys that rode Red Rum to victory in the Grand National. A Brian Fletcher or Tommy Stack 24. Q Medically speaking, vasovagal syncope (vay-so-vay-gal sing-ka-pee) is the most common type of what? A Fainting 25. Q Which member of the cabinet is MP for Twickenham? A Vince Cable 26. Q What was the first name of Field Marshal Montgomery of Desert Rats fame? A Bernard 27. Q In Stieg Larsson’s novels, what is the name of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? A Lisbeth Salander 28. Q Which designer collaborated with Adidas in designing the uniforms to be worn by Great Britain’s competitors in the 2012 Olympics? A Stella McCartney 29. Q In the acronym Radar, what word does the last R represent? A Ranging (RAdio Detection And Ranging) 30. Q In the acronym Sonar, what word does the N represent? A Navigation (SOund Navigation And Ranging) 31. Q What material, invented originally as a textured wallpaper by Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding, celebrated 50 years of a quite different and popular use in 2010? A Bubblewrap 32. Q Which British king was born in Osnabruck Castle? A George I 33. Q In the Thomas the Tank Engine stories, what colour are the Scottish twins Donald and Douglas? A Black 34. Q Which heavyweight boxing champion was known as the Fighting Marine? A Gene Tunny 35. Q Still often referred to as the Place de l’Etoile, what is the current name of the Paris junction where the Arc de Triomphe is located? A Place Charles de Gaulle 36. Q Who played the title role in the 2004 remake of the film Alfie? A Jude Law 37. Q What is the name of the ship that left Southampton on Easter Day this year for the Titanic Memorial Cruise? A MS Balmoral 38. Q Emil Boc resigned as prime minister of which European country in February 2012? A Romania 39. Q What name is used for the helicopter that the President of the USA travels in? A Marine One 40. Q Last Saturda |
What is a person who makes and sells ladies hats called? | What Is a Milliner? Do Dictionaries Have it Wrong? | That Way Hat's Blog That Way Hat's Blog How to Recover Crushed Hats → What Is a Milliner? Do Dictionaries Have it Wrong? The dictionary says that a milliner is a person who makes or sells women’s hats. But many hat makers disagree. Many say that a milliner is a person who is far advanced in the art of fine hat making. Simply selling hats in a hat store or making run of the mill women’s hats would not qualify you to be called a milliner; you would be a shop keeper or a crafts woman who makes hats, but not a milliner. Being called a milliner implies a high degree of Mastery of the Art. “He is not a milliner, just a hat seller” and “She is no milliner, she’s still got a lot to learn before being true master of hat making” are phrases that ring out across the ateliers of hatters. I have heard it said that the dictionary simply needs to update its antiquated notion of what milliner is, since it’s definitions are no longer true. Don’t even ask if you are a hat designer. That is several steps from a milliner. Indeed people who hold this rarefied view of what a milliner is, are gatekeepers who defend the realm of the milliner with so much vigor that few people do dare to call themselves a “milliner” unless they are in fact far advanced in the art of hat making. Those who do may be put on notice that they are violating the spirit of the Art Therefore the following dictionaries are hereby put on notice of the need to update their definitions: Dictionary.com has definitions from Random House and Collins: Random House Dictionary: “A person who designs, makes, or sells hats for women.” Collins English Dictionary: “A person who makes or sells women’s hats.” Merriam Webster has this definition: “A person who designs, makes, trims, or sells women’s hats” American Heritage Dictionary states: “One that makes, trims, designs, or sells hats.” The Concise Oxford English Dictionary has this definition: “A person who makes or sells women’s hats” They were Milanese – The word “milliner” originated in the 16th Century from a word meaning a native of Milan, Italy or dealer of goods from Milan. The Online Etymology Dictionary (quoted in Dictionary.com ) states: mid-15c., vendor of fancy wares, especially those made in Milan, the Italian city famous for straw works, fancy goods, ribbons, bonnets, and cutlery. Meaning of “one who sells women’s hats” may be from 1520s, certainly in use by 18c. | Untitled Page National Capitol: The Washington Monument is dedicated. Government Grover Cleveland (1837-1906) is inaugurated as the 22nd President of the United Staes and Thomas A. Hendricks (1819-1885) in inaugurated as the nation's 21st Vice President. Government President Cleveland (1837-1906) proposes the suspension of the minting of silver dollars, fearing that silver is undermining the nation’s gold reserves. War Indian Wars: Apache Indians leave their reservation in Arizona and continue their war against Whites under Geronimo. Science In memory of ornithologist James Audubon (1785-1851), the National Audubon Society is founded in the United States to study bird species. Science Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) establishes the uniqueness of fingerprints. Medicine The first appendectomy in the United States is performed in Davenport Iowa, by Dr. William Grant. Medicine Vaccines: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) administers the first anti-rabies vaccine to a nine-year-old schoolboy. Inventions The first motorcycle is patented, built by Gottlief Daimler in Germany. Inventions Karl Benz (1824-1929) builds the world's first gasoline-powered vehicle. It has a traveling speed of nine miles per hour. Inventions The first modern bicycle is built. Bikes are a craze in America and Europe until the end of the century. Inventions The dictaphone, the electric transformer, the electric drill, and the thermos bottle are invented. Inventions African American Inventors: Women’s Firsts: Sarah E. Goode becomes the first African-American woman to receive a patent, for a bed that folds up into a cabinet. Education Children’s Books: Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), writes "Little Lord Fauntleroy." Education Children's Books: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) publishes "A Child’s Garden of Verses." Education The Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore, later joined by Bryn Mawr College for Women near Philadelphia, is founded. Arts and Letters "The Mikado," the comic operetta by William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900), premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London. Arts and Letters American Theatre: Theatrical lighting with electricity is made available to theatrical productions. Truman, Bess Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman (1885-1982), wife of Harry S. Truman, is born in Independence, Missouri, on February 13. Grant, Julia Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), 18th President of the United States, dies July 23 in Mount McGregor, New York. Economics The first commercially operated electrical streetcar begins operation in Baltimore. Economics Railroad History: The Santa Fe Railroad is completed. Daily Life History of Toys: Crayola Crayons: Edwin Binney (1866-1934) and cousin, C. Harold Smith, begin the partnership of Binney & Smith in Peekskill, N.Y. Early products include red oxide pigments for painting red barns and carbon black for car tires. Daily Life Special delivery mail service begins in the United States. Daily Life Newspapers: Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1867-1922), writing as Nelly Bly, becomes a reporter for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, reporting on poor working conditions in factories, problems of working girls, slums, divorce, and political corruption. Sports Golf: Golf is introduced to the U.S. from Scotland by John M. Fox of Philadelphia. Sports A weight-lifting strongman is reported to have lifted 3,239 pounds with a harness. Popular Culture H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) writes the adventure novel, "King Solomon’s Mines." Popular Culture "A Thousand and One Nights" is translated by Richard Burton (1821-1890); it includes the stories of “Sindbad the Sailor,” “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” Religion The U.S. Salvation Army is officially organized. Religion The Mormons divide into polygamous and monogamous factions. 1886 The U.S. Forestry Service is established as part of the Dept. of Agriculture. Government A new Presidential Succession Act is passed providing the presidential succession to go to the Vice President, and then to Cabinet officers in the order that their departments were |
What was Marilyn Monroe's last film? | The Misfits (1961) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A divorcee falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 31 titles created 15 Sep 2011 a list of 23 titles created 20 Oct 2011 a list of 23 titles created 15 Aug 2013 a list of 30 titles created 12 Sep 2014 a list of 41 titles created 9 months ago Search for " The Misfits " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 1 win & 1 nomination. See more awards » Photos A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana. Director: Joshua Logan When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell. Director: George Cukor An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the prince regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her. Director: Laurence Olivier The title river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others. Directors: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco Stars: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder. Director: Henry Hathaway When his family goes away for the summer, a so far faithful husband is tempted by a beautiful neighbor. Director: Billy Wilder Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. Director: Jean Negulesco Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers. Director: Howard Hawks Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. Director: Walter Lang A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. Director: John Huston A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth. Director: Howard Hawks After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous. Director: Roy Ward Baker Edit Storyline Roslyn Taber, the type of woman who turns heads easily, recently came to Reno to get a quickie divorce, she having no idea what to do with her life after that. She cannot tolerate seeing animal suffering, let alone human suffering. Coinciding with getting the divorce, Roslyn meets friends Gay Langland and Guido, a divorced aging grizzled cowboy and a widowed mechanic respectively. Although Guido makes no bones about wanting to get to know Roslyn in the biblical sense and although he "saw her first", Roslyn begins a relationship with Gay, despite Roslyn's friend Izzy Steers, who originally came to Reno years ago to get her own divorce and never left, warning her about cowboys as being unreliable, and despite Roslyn initially not being interested in Gay "in that way". Gay has grown children who he rarely sees and wishes he was there for more than was the case. Gay and Roslyn move into the under construction farmhouse owned by Guido, which he was building for his wife before she died. ... Written by Huggo It shouts and sings with life ... explodes with love! See more » Genres: 1 February 1961 (USA) See more » Also | Marilyn Monroe - Biography - IMDb Marilyn Monroe Biography Showing all 282 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (133) | Personal Quotes (116) | Salary (19) Overview (5) 5' 5½" (1.66 m) Mini Bio (2) Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1, 1926. Her mother Gladys Pearl Baker was a film-cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. Marilyn's father's identity was never known. Because Gladys was mentally and financially unable to care for young Marilyn, Gladys placed her in the care of a foster family, The Bolenders. Although the Bolender family wanted to adopt Marilyn, Gladys was eventually able to stabilize her lifestyle and took Marilyn back in her care when Marilyn was 7 years old. However, shortly after regaining custody of Marilyn, Gladys had a complete mental breakdown and was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and was committed to a state mental hospital. Gladys spent the rest of her life going in and out of hospitals and did not have contact with Marilyn ever again. Gladys outlived her daughter, dying in 1984. Marilyn was then taken in by Gladys' best friend Grace Goddard, who, after a series of foster homes, placed Marilyn into the Los Angeles Orphan's Home in 1935. Marilyn was traumatized by her experience there despite the Orphan's Home being an adequate living facility. Grace Goddard eventually took Marilyn back to live with her in 1937 although this stay did not last long as Grace's husband began molesting Marilyn. Marilyn went to live with Grace's Aunt Ana after this incident, although due to Aunt Ana's advanced age she could not care properly for Marilyn. Marilyn once again for the third time had to return to live with the Goddard's. The Goddard's planned to relocated and according to law, could not take Marilyn with them. She only had two choices: return to the orphanage or get married. Marilyn was only 16 years old. She decided to marry a neighborhood friend named James Dougherty; he went into the military, she modeled, they divorced in 1946. She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened to Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapse a year later. In 1948, Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in the B movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948) in which she sang three numbers : "Every Baby Needs a Da Da Daddy", "Anyone Can Tell I Love You" and "The Ladies of the Chorus" with Adele Jergens (dubbed by Virginia Rees) and others. Joseph L. Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in All About Eve (1950), resulting in 20th Century re-signing her to a seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her as a sex symbol superstar. When she went to a supper honoring her in the The Seven Year Itch (1955), she arrived in a red chiffon gown borrowed from the studio (she had never owned a gown). That same year, she married and divorced baseball great Joe DiMaggio (their wedding night was spent in Paso Robles, California). After The Seven Year Itch (1955), she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image and went to New York's Actors Studio. She worked with director Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to learn more about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) and the press was stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller . True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned. They went to England that fall where she made The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) with Laurence Olivier , fighting with him and falling further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages and gynecological surgery followed. So did an affair with Yves Montand . Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961), written for her by departing husband Miller was interrupted by exhaust |
What Scottish patriotic song, used frequently at special occasions and sporting events, was written by a member of the folk group The Corries in 1967? | National Anthem of Scotland (Alba) - "Flower of Scotland" - YouTube National Anthem of Scotland (Alba) - "Flower of Scotland" Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Feb 20, 2014 GOD SAVE THE KING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id04L... ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩ESPAÑOL۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● La canción Flor de Escocia ("Flower of Scotland" en inglés) es uno de los himnos oficiosos de Escocia. Como tal, es a veces interpretado en aquellos eventos deportivos en los que participan las selecciones de fútbol o rugby; y en otros, como los Juegos de la Mancomunidad, se utiliza Valiente Escocia como himno escocés. Esta canción es en especial la favorita de los seguidores de la selección de rugby de Escocia, que la adoptó durante el Lions tour que realizó en Sudáfrica en 1974. Los dos últimos versos de cada estrofa son cantados por los jugadores con especial rabia, sobre todo cuando se enfrentan a la selección de Inglaterra. La Asociación Escocesa de Fútbol también adoptó Flor de Escocia como su himno oficial en 1997, aunque ya la venía usando desde 1993, siguiendo el ejemplo de la selección de Rugby. No obstante, con ocasión de Juegos de la Mancomunidad, de Delhi 2010, los deportistas escoceses votaron a favor de usar Flor de Escocia como himno. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩ENGLISH۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Flower of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Flùr na h-Alba, Scots: Flouer o Scotland) is a Scottish song, used frequently at special occasions and sporting events. Although there is no official national anthem of Scotland, Flower of Scotland is one of a number of songs which unofficially fulfil this role, along with the older Scots Wha Hae, Scotland the Brave and Highland Cathedral. It was written by Roy Williamson of the folk group The Corries, and presented in 1967, and refers to the victory of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over England's Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩DEUTSCH۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Flower of Scotland (korrekt, aber seltener The Flower of Scotland) ist ein patriotisches Lied aus Schottland, das neben Scotland the Brave und Scots Wha Hae eine der drei inoffiziellen Nationalhymnen ist. Die eigentliche Nationalhymne Großbritanniens -- einschließlich Schottlands -- ist God save the Queen. Da Schottland unter anderem eigene nationale Fußball- und Rugbymannschaften hat, wird eine der inoffiziellen Nationalhymnen gespielt, wenn diese bei internationalen Spielen eine andere Hymne als die der englischen Mannschaften benutzen wollen. Category | Lindisfarne: Fog On The Tyne - Music on Google Play ( 5) Description Fog on the Tyne is a 1971 album by English rock band Lindisfarne. Bob Johnston produced the album, which was recorded at Trident Studios in the summer of 1971. It was released on Charisma Records in Great Britain and Elektra Records in America. It gave the group their breakthrough in the UK, topping the album charts early in 1972 for four weeks and remaining on the chart for 56 weeks in total. "Meet Me on the Corner", one of two songs written by bassist Rod Clements, reached No. 5 as a single. The title track became the band's signature tune. Simon Cowe made his debut as a writer, contributing the song "Uncle Sam". Both tracks on the B-side of "Meet Me on the Corner", "Scotch Mist", and "No Time To Lose", appeared as bonus tracks when the album was reissued on CD. A heavily reworked version of the title track with vocals by footballer Paul Gascoigne was released in October 1990 under the title "Fog on the Tyne", credited to Gazza and Lindisfarne. It reached number two in the UK Singles Chart. Reggae group The Pioneers recorded a version of "Alright on the Night" on their 1972 album "I Believe in Love". |
What country contains most of the Ganges river delta? | Geography of the Ganges River By Amanda Briney Updated August 03, 2015. The Ganges River, also called Ganga, is a river located in northern India that flows toward the border with Bangladesh ( map ). It is the longest river in India and flows for around 1,569 miles (2,525 km) from the Himalayan Mountains to the Bay of Bengal. The river has the second greatest water discharge in the world and its basin is the most heavily populated in the world with over 400 million people living in the basin. The Ganges River is extremely important to the people of India as most of the people living on its banks use it for daily needs such as bathing and fishing. It is also significant to Hindus as they consider it their most sacred river. Course of the Ganges River The headwaters of the Ganges River begin high in the Himalayan Mountains where the Bhagirathi River flows out of the Gangotri Glacier in India's Uttarakhand state. The glacier sits at an elevation of 12,769 feet (3,892 m). The Ganges River proper begins farther downstream where the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers join. continue reading below our video 4 Tips for Improving Test Performance As the Ganges flows out of the Himalayas it creates a narrow, rugged canyon. The Ganges River emerges from the Himalayas at the town of Rishikesh where it begins to flow onto the Indo-Gangetic Plain. This area, also called the North Indian River Plain, is a very large, relatively flat, fertile plain that makes up most of the northern and eastern parts of India as well as parts of Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh . In addition to entering the Indo-Gangetic Plain at this area, part of the Ganges River is also diverted toward the Ganges Canal for irrigation in the Uttar Pradesh state. As the Ganges River then flows farther downstream it changes its direction several times and is joined by many other tributary rivers such as the Ramganga, Tamsa and Gandaki rivers to name a few. There are also several cities and towns that the Ganges River passes through on its way downstream. Some of these include Chunar, Kolkata, Mirzapur, and Varanasi. Many Hindus visit the Ganges River in Varanasi as that city is considered the holiest of cities. As such, the city's culture is also closely tied into the river as it is the most sacred river in Hinduism. Once the Ganges River flows out of India and into Bangladesh its main branch is known as the Padma River. The Padma River is joined downstream by large rivers like the Jamuna and Meghna rivers. After joining the Meghna it takes on that name before flowing into the Bay of Bengal. Prior to entering the Bay of Bengal however, the river creates the world's largest delta, Ganges Delta. This region is a highly fertile sediment laden area that covers 23,000 square miles (59,000 sq km). It should be noted that the course of the Ganges River described in the above paragraphs is a general description of the river's route from its source where the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers join to its outlet at the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges has a very complicated hydrology and there are several different descriptions of its overall length and the size of its drainage basin based on what tributary rivers are included. The most widely accepted length of the Ganges River is 1,569 miles (2,525 km) and its drainage basin is estimated to be about 416,990 square miles (1,080,000 sq km). Population of the Ganges River The Ganges River basin has been inhabited by humans since ancient times. The first people in the region were of the Harappan civilization. They moved into the Ganges River basin from the Indus River basin around the 2nd millennium B.C.E. Later the Gangetic Plain became the center of the Maurya Empire and then the Mughal Empire. The first European to discuss the Ganges River was Megasthenes in his work Indica. In modern times the Ganges River has become a source of life for the nearly 400 million people living in its basin. They rely on the river for their daily needs such as drinking water supplies and food and for irrigation and manufacturing. Today the Ganges River basin is t | Jana Mana Gana - The National Anthem of India | Hindi Language Blog Jana Gana Mana – The National Anthem of India Posted by Nitin Kumar on Aug 25, 2012 in Hindi Language The national anthem is called राष्ट्रगान (Rastryagaan). जन गण मन (Jana Gana Mana) is the national anthem of India. It was written by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1911 and in the same year, it was sung for the first time by Indian National Congress (A political party). After Independence of India from British rule, it was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on 24 January 1950. Although, it was written in Bengali with heavy use of Sanskrit words, it was adopted in Hindi as it was originated also from Sanskrit and thus, shares many Sanskrit words. The national anthem of India consists of 5 stanza must take approximately 52 seconds. Devanagari Script: जन गण मन अधिनायक जय हे भारत भाग्यविधाता पंजाब सिन्धु गुजरात मराठा द्राविड़ उत्कल बंगा विन्ध्य हिमाचल यमुना गंगा उच्छल जलधि तरंगा तव शुभ नामे जागे तव शुभ आशीष मागे गाहे तव जयगाथा जन गण मंगलदायक जय हे भारत भाग्यविधाता जय हे, जय हे, जय हे जय जय जय जय हे! Romanized Hindi: Jaya he, jaya he, jaya he, Jaya jaya jaya, jaya he! English Translation: Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people, Dispenser of India’s destiny. Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Shindhu, Gujarat and Maratha, Of the Dravida and Orissa and Bangla; It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas, mingles in the music of Yamuna and Ganges and is chanted by the waves of the Indian Ocean. They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise. The saving of all people waits in thy hand, Thou dispenser of India’s destiny. victory forever. About the Author: Nitin Kumar Nitin Kumar is a native Hindi speaker from New Delhi, India. His education qualification include Masters in Robotics and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he is working in the Research and Development in Robotics in Germany. He is avid language learner with varied level of proficiency in English, German, Spanish, and Japanese. He wish to learn French one day. His passion for languages motivated him to share his mother tongue, Hindi, and culture and traditions associated with its speakers. He has been working with Transparent Language since 2010 and has written over 430 blogs on various topics on Hindi language and India, its culture and traditions. He is also the Administrator for Hindi Facebook page which has a community of over 330,000 members. |
Ringo Starr narrates which children's TV series? | Richard Starkey - Genealogy Genealogy Join the world's largest family tree Gender Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love Build your family tree online Share photos and videos Father of <private> Starkey (STARKEY); <private> Starkey and <private> Starkey Occupation: Drummer with The Beatles, SINGER AND DRUMMER OF THE GROUP THE BEATLES Managed by: <private> Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna stepchild <private> Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna stepchild step-parent About Ringo Starr Better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, the English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden". As drummer for The Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills", technically limited by being a left-handed person playing a right-handed kit. Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous other movies, both during and after his career with The Beatles. After The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. He currently tours with the All-Starr Band, making stops in such cities as New York and Boston, MA. Ringo Starr was born Richard Starkey at 9 Madryn Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, England, the son of Elsie (née Gleave) and Richard Starkey, a confectioner.His paternal grandfather was born with the surname "Parkin", and later adopted his stepfather's surname, "Starkey". Starr's parents split up when he was three years old, and his mother subsequently married Harry Graves, who encouraged his interest in music.Starr attended an Evangelical Anglican church during his childhood.He was afflicted by illness for much of his early years. When aged six, he had appendicitis, which developed complications, causing him to fall into a coma.At thirteen, he developed chronic pleurisy and was admitted to a sanatorium for two years. After this extended hospital visit he did not return to school. The periods of hospitalization left him behind scholastically, and as a result he was ineligible to attend grammar school or even sit its Eleven plus qualifying examination.Starr attended St Silas, a Church of England primary school in High Park Street, close to his home in Admiral Grove; singer Billy Fury attended the school at the same time. Later Starr attended Dingle Vale Secondary Modern School, leaving in 1955. While there, he showed an aptitude for art and drama as well as practical subjects including mechanics. Starr's health problems had another enduring effect in the form of allergies and sensitivities to food, and when The Beatles traveled to India in 1968, he took his own food with him. Like John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, Starr became caught up in Liverpool's skiffle craze. In 1957, he and his friend Eddie Miles formed The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group. In 1959, he | Ringo Starr - Biography - IMDb Ringo Starr Biography Showing all 96 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (5) | Trivia (51) | Personal Quotes (32) | Salary (1) Overview (4) 5' 6" (1.68 m) Mini Bio (1) Ringo Starr is a British musician, actor, director, writer, and artist best known as the drummer of The Beatles who also coined the title 'A Hard day's Night' for The Beatles' first movie. He was born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, in a small two-storey house in the working class area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. His father, Richard Starkey, was a former dockworker turned baker; his mother, Elsie (Gleave) Starkey, was a bakery worker. His parents divorced when he was three and he and his mother, Elsie, moved to another home in Liverpool. While attending Silas Infants' Schools he suffered from many afflictions that basically ruined his education: he had constant abdominal pains, was once diagnosed with a ruptured appendix that led to an inflamed peritoneum, which also led to one of his first surgeries. Ringo was in a coma, and his recovery took a couple of months, during which more operations were performed, and he was known to be accident-prone. Shortly after he came out of the coma, he was trying to offer a toy bus to another boy in an adjoining bed, but fell and suffered from a concussion. When he finally was able to go back to school, he learned that he was far behind in his studies. At age 13 he caught a cold that turned into chronic pleurisy, causing him another stay at a hospital in Liverpool. A few lung complications followed, which resulted in a treatment in yet another children's hospital, this time until 1955. Meanwhile, Richard's mother Elsie had married Harry Graves, the man who her son referred to as a "step-ladder". At the age of 15 he could barely read or write, although he had aptitude for practical subjects such as woodwork and mechanics. At that time he dropped out of school and got his first job was as a delivery boy for British Rail. His second job was a barman on a ferry to New Brighton, and his next was as a trainee joiner at Henry Hunt & Sons. Ringo injured his finger on the first day of his new job, and then he decided to become a drummer. His dream came true, when his stepfather bought him a new drum kit, and Richard promised to be the best drummer ever. In 1957, together with Eddie Miles, he started his own band called 'Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group'. At that time he became known as Ritchie, and eventually became caught in the Liverpool's Skiffle craze. Although he was self-taught, he was a good time-keeper, and developed an original beat with his signature accentuations, due to his left-handed manner of playing on the right-handed drum set. He traveled from band to band, but he eventually landed a spot with "Raving Texans", which was a backing band for Rory Storm, later known as "Rory Storm & The Hurricanes", a popular band at that time Liverpool. Rory Storm encouraged Richard to enhance his career by legally changing his name to Ringo Starr. The Hurricanes topped the bill at one of Liverpool's clubs, where The Beatles also had a gig. Ringo's group was at times sharing popularity with The Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers . He wanted to leave The Hurricanes to join another group called "The Seniors." Before Ringo, The Beatles tried several other drummers. At one point they were so desperate, that they even invited strangers from the audience to fill the position. Then came Pete Best who was not considered by the other band members to be the greatest drummer, and they were keen to recruit Ringo as his replacement. On June 6, 1962, at the Abbey Road studios, The Beatles passed Martin's audition with the exception of Pete Best. George Martin liked them, but recommended the change of a drummer. Being asked by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison; Epstein fired Pete Best. After a mutual decision the band was completed with Ringo Starr. Ringo contributed to their first hit in September of 1962, when The Beatles recorded Love Me Do, which charted |
Which_famons writer also wrote novels using the name Mary Westmacott? | Mary Westmacott | Agatha Christie Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The name Mary Westmacott was one chosen by Christie with great care. Mary was Christie's own middle name, and Westmacott the name of some family relatives. Mary Westmacott is a distinct person from Agatha Christie. In 1950, when she was invited to a celebration for her work, she quipped, "Thank you for asking me to meet Agatha Christie. If you don't mind, I am bringing my old friend Mary Westmacott with me." The Westmacott novels were simply written for "fun," to put it loosely. Christie had said in her autobiography that she wanted "to do something that is not my proper job," i.e., writing detective novels. She said she wrote the first, Giant's Bread, with a "rather guilty feeling" and enjoyed the project she had undertaken. Although Mary Westmacott was revealed to be Agatha Christie in 1949, it didn't stop her from publishing two more Westmacott novels, still under her pseudonym. This is another affirmation that Agatha could write more than just great detective stories. Structure Edit The focus of the Mary Westmacott novel's is human relationship. There's even a hint of autobiographical elements that Christie inserts. There are several themes, to briefly mention a few: possessiveness, failure in human perception, nature and the inequality of love, self-evaluation, and awareness of one's and others' feelings. In the books there are even contemplation of suicide and supernatural elements. Hick's Essay Edit To celebrate Agatha Christie’s Centenary, Rosalind Hicks , Agatha Christie's daughter, wrote an essay on the Westmacott novels. We have reproduced this here: “As early as 1930, my mother wrote her first novel using the name “Mary Westmacott”. These novels, six in all, were a complete departure from the usual sphere of Agatha Christie “Queen of Crime”. The name Mary Westmacott was chosen after some thought. Mary was Agatha’s second name and Westmacott the name of some distant relatives. She succeeded in keeping her identity as Mary Westmacott unknown for nearly twenty years and the books, much to her pleasure, were modestly successful. Giant’s Bread was first published in 1930 and was to be the first of six books under this nom de plume. It is a novel about Vernon Deyre, his childhood, his family, the two women he loved and his obsession with music. My mother had some experience of the musical world having been trained as a singer and a concert pianist in Paris when she was young. She was interested in modern music, and tried to express the feelings and ambitions of the singer and the composer. There is a lot about childhood and the First World War taken from her own experiences. Her publishers, Collins, were not very enthusiastic about this change of direction in her work as she was at this time becoming quite well known in the world of detective fiction. They needn’t have worried. In 1930 she also published The Mysterious Mr. Quin and, Murder at the Vicarage – Miss Marple’s first book. During the next ten years there followed no less than sixteen full length Poirot stories including such titles as Murder on the Orient Express , The A.B.C. Murders , Death on the Nile , and Appointment with Death . Her second Mary Westmacott book Unfinished Portrait was published in 1934. It also relied a lot on her own experiences and early life. In 1944 she published Absent in the Spring . She wrote in her autobiography : “Shortly after that, I wrote the one book that has satisfied me completely. It was a new Mary Westmacott, the book that I had always wanted to write, that had been clear in my mind. It was the picture of a woman with a complete image of herself, of what she was, but about which she was completely mistaken. Through her own actions, her own feelings and thoughts, this would be revealed to the reader. She would be, as it were, continually meeting herself, not recognising herself, but becoming increasingly uneasy. What brought about this revelation would be the fact that for the first time in her life she was alone – completely alone – for | Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca - Strand Mag by The Strand Magazine by Charles L.P. Silet Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” The opening line to Daphne du Maurier’s most famous novel, Rebecca is one of the great opening lines in English fiction. In one stroke, du Maurier establishes the voice, the locale, and the dream-like atmosphere of the story. It’s not surprising that Alfred Hitchcock used the same opening line for his celebrated cinematic adaptation of the novel—one which many critics feel is among his most accomplished. Although Daphne du Maurier was one of the most popular authors of her day and wrote or edited dozens of books—biographies, plays, and collections of letters as well as works of fiction— she is best remembered today for only a handful of novels including, of course, Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier was born on May 13, 1907 in London to Muriel Beaumont, an actress, and Gerald du Maurier, an actor and theatrical manager. Gerald’s father, George, was a famous illustrator, especially known for his work in the British humor magazine Punch. He was also the author of three best-selling novels: Peter Ibbetson, Trilby (with its famous character Svengali), and The Martins. The du Mauriers were well-established in the artistic world, so Daphne—the middle child of three girls—grew up in a privileged and slightly bohemian environment, one in which she met the famous of the London stage as well as the popular writers of the day. Daphne received the usual haphazard education of young women of her class and time. However, she read voraciously, especially in the standard British classics. After finishing at a school near Paris, she moved into the family home, Ferryside, in the harbor town of Fowey on the Cornish coast. Later she rented a local estate, Menabilly, located nearby, which became one of the models for Manderley. For most of her adult life she resided primarily in the area around Fowey (except when she left to travel with her husband, F.A.M. (Boy) Browning, who was a professional soldier) and set a number of her novels, including Rebecca, in that area. Du Maurier was blessed with an active imagination and made up stories to act out with her two sisters as they were growing up. Often based on the fiction she was reading, these stories of adventure and romance set the tone for her later best-selling fiction. She began writing short stories in the late 1920s. Her first publication, “And Now to God the Father,” appeared in the May 8th issue of The Bystander, edited by her uncle Willie Beaumont, her mother’s brother. As she later would write in her autobiography, Myself When Young (1977), “I went self-consciously into the W.H. Smith’s [the booksellers] in Fowey and bought a copy, hoping the girl behind the counter did not know why I was getting it.” Du Maurier’s self-effacing reaction to her first publication was characteristic of her response to her later fame as well. She remained leery of self-promotion and publicity throughout her professional life. Although she sold a number of other short stories to The Bystander, she quickly realized that if she was going to reach financial independence as a writer, she would have to turn her hand to longer works. During the autumn of 1929 she began her first novel, The Loving Spirit, which became the first of her many books inspired by her life in Cornwall. In The Loving Spirit, du Maurier first put to use the combination of romance, adventure, history, and a sense of atmosphere that would characterize all of her later fiction. It was a winning combination. Over the next fifty years she turned out a couple of dozen books, half of which—and the most memorable—were set in Cornwall. One of the most famous, Jamaica Inn, was suggested in part by a stay in the old coaching inn, long associated in local history with the Cornwall smuggling trade. Although her first novels, The Loving Spirit (1931), I’ll Never Be Young Again (1932), The Progress of Julius (1933), and Jamaica Inn (1936), sold well and established her as an author in Great Britain, it was the publication of Reb |
"In which Shakespeare play does the character Antigonus ""exit, pursued by a bear""?" | Open Source Education: Shakespeare: Pursued by a Bear Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Pursued by a Bear Last year, for New Play Project's Bad Play Project, where playwrights were encouraged to write purposely bad plays, I wrote a play based off of that famous (infamous?) stage direction in The Winter's Tale. Since I am reading that play again, I thought I'd share that (bad) play with you here: Pursued by a Bear Scholar: Good evening and welcome to tonight's scholarly look at The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. I'll be your scholar and host, Professor Geoffrey Spencer Hall. We begin tonight where we left off yesterday, with Act III, Scene 3, the sea coast of Bohemia: a shipwreck. This scene is possibly one of the more famous of this somewhat less than famous work by the Bard. Here we met Antigonus, a lord of Sicilia, carrying the infant daughter of King Leontes, who has been banished by the mad king who suspects the child of being the issue and evidence of adultery on the part of his wife and queen. Antigonus cannot bear to see the young innocent child killed, so he has a plan: he will leave her on the shore in the hopes that someone will find her. And just as he is abandoning her we have the most famous stage direction ever written: "Exit, pursued by a bear." (Enter Antigonus, running, pursued by a bear) Ant- Aaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Bear! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Sch- There actually is no bear. Ant- Aaaaaaaaaaaaa -- What? But I'm being pursued by a bear. Sch- No, you're not. Ant- Yes, I am. It says right there in the script, "Exit, pursued by a bear." ! Sch- Yes, that's what the script says, but there is no actual bear. Ant - Then what's that pursuing me? Sch- The bear is merely a symbol, it never actually existed. Shakespeare uses the bear as a symbol of Mother Nature, of nature, and of mothers in general. It is a well known adage that one must never come between a mother bear and her cubs; her rage at anyone seen to be meddling with her offspring is legendary. And here Shakespeare uses a bear to exact Nature's revenge upon the character of Antigonus, who is in the very act of exposing a child to the elements. Ant- I didn't mean to, I am bound to serve my king! I wasn't going to kill her, I swear! Sch- Of course you weren't! Not after that dream you had last night. Ant- How do you know about my dream? Sch- It's in the script, you give a big long monologue about it, describing how Hermoine, the queen and mother to this child, appeared to you in a vision. How you know by this apparition that she has died, most likely from grief at being spurned by her husband, labeled adulteress and traitor by her king, and having her newborn daughter ripped from her to be disposed of. She threatened you for undertaking this act, the will of your mad king, her husband, and swore in her wrath that you would never again see your own wife. Ant- Wow! That's exactly what happened! You're good. Sch- Four centuries of scholars have debated on this subject. In your dream you saw the mother of the child you intended to kill come to avenge the wrongs done against her, and when you were about to leave her child to be exposed and die of the elements, the ultimate angry mother figure, the bear, appears to pursue and devour you. Ant- You mean I'm going to get eaten, too? That sucks! I'm just doing what I'm told. Sch- Indeed you are. It seems Shakespeare is making a point here that was way ahead of its time, and would not become official until the Geneva Convention: that soldiers are not exempt from warcrimes or crimes against humanity simply because they were following orders. You were expected to disobey inhumane orders. What are you, a Nazi? Ant- What's a Nazi? (Sound cue: Bear roar and crashing through trees) Ant- What was that? Sch- What was what? Ant- That roaring and crashing sound I just heard? Is that the bear coming to get me? Sch- Don't be ridiculous! I've told you there is no bear. Ant- I know, I know. It's a symbol. But I'm pretty sure I just heard a bear. Sch- No, you didn't. | Christopher Fry, playwright: papers - Archives Hub Archives Hub https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb71-thm/319 Scope and Content This material has been arranged chronologically according to the order that works were first performed or broadcast, except correspondence, which has been arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent. The archive is organised into the following series: Scripts Correspondence Family and School papers This collection contains Christopher Fry's scripts for stage plays, film, radio and television drama as well as his correspondence, notes and diaries and material relating to the performance of his plays. Administrative / Biographical History Christopher Fry was born on 18 December 1907. He was originally named Arthur Hammond Harris and during his childhood adopted the surname Fry from his maternal grandmother. In his late twenties he became known as Christopher Fry. He went to Bedford Modern School , where he wrote his first play at eleven and his first verse drama at eighteen. He worked for a short period as an actor and teacher and then became director of a repertory theatre in Tunbridge Wells in 1934, directing the English premiere of George Bernard Shaw 's Village Wooing . He also worked as a composer lyricist . In 1938 Fry wrote The Boy with a Cart after being invited by a Sussex vicar to celebrate St Cuthman , who pushed his mother from Cornwall to Steyning in a wheelbarrow. In 1939 he wrote The Tower based on the history of Tewkesbury Abbey . Both these plays are said to be influenced by T.S. Eliot 's Murder in the Cathedral . During the war he spent four years as a non-combatant in the Pioneer Corps as well as being the director of the Oxford Repertory Players in 1940. In 1946 A Phoenix Too Frequent was staged at the Mercury Theatre in London and featured Paul Scofield . It was based on the story by Petronius about a widow who is persuaded not to lock herself away in her husband's tomb. In 1946 he also wrote an early version of The Firstborn telling the story of the struggle between Moses and the Pharaoh in Egypt . He then wrote Thor with Angels about the spread of Christianity for the Canterbury Festival in 1948. In 1946 Alec Clunes commissioned The Lady's Not For Burning for the Arts Theatre Club , which features a soldier who wants to be hanged and a suspected witch who does not want to be burned. First performed in 1948, it then had a long run in London 's West End with John Gielgud , Pamela Brown , Richard Burton and Claire Bloom . Seen by some as an important return to verse drama, others including Kenneth Tynan saw it as backward looking. In 1950 it transferred to New York 's Broadway with Burton. In 1950 Fry also wrote a translation of Jean Anouilh 's L'Invitation au chateau as Ring Round the Moon for Peter Brook . He also wrote Venus Observed for Laurence Olivier , in which an astronomer asks his son to choose his own stepmother from three former mistresses. In 1950 he wrote A Sleep of Prisoners for the Festival of Britain in 1951, which featured four prisoners of war who recreate Old Testament stories in their dreams. In 1953 he wrote the screenplay for The Beggar's Opera directed by Peter Brook and with Olivier in the lead role. In 1954 he wrote The Dark is Light Enough , the third part of his seasonal plays, starring Edith Evans , set as the Hungarians rise up against Austrian rule in the 19th century. In 1955 his translations of Anouilh's L'alouette as The Lark and Giraudoux's La guerre de Troi n'aura pas lieu as Tiger at the Gates were both performed in London 's West End. In the late 1950s Fry went to Rome to help re-write the screenplay for Ben Hur . He also wrote the screenplay for Barabbas (1962) and for The Bible (1966). He continued writing plays, although his type of verse drama had fallen out of favour since the rise of realistic prose drama in the 1950s. In 1961 he wrote Curtmantle about the conflict between Henry II and Thomas Becket and in 1970, the fourth season play, A Yard of Sun about family reunions after a war. He a |
Leaving office in 2010, who was the last Labour Home Secretary? | BBC News - Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet and ministerial teams Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet and ministerial teams Click on the faces for profiles Here are details of Ed Miliband's ministerial team following his October 2013 reshuffle. This page is no longer being updated. For latest, click here . ED MILIBAND - LABOUR LEADER The then 40-year-old beat older brother and former foreign secretary David to the Labour leadership in 2010 by the narrowest of margins, with the backing of the trade unions proving decisive. Attempted to shake-off his "Red Ed" tag by talking about the "squeezed middle" - but faced criticism the party lacked direction. He launched a two-year policy review and consultation exercise on "refounding" Labour as a more modern and inclusive party. He faced criticism his leadership lacked edge, but won support over his reaction to the phone-hacking scandal - and his decision to burn the party's bridges with Rupert Murdoch's media empire. The son of a Marxist intellectual and an MP since 2005, he was formerly an adviser to Gordon Brown. After entering Parliament, he enjoyed a rapid rise, becoming energy and climate change secretary in 2008. Married his long-term partner and mother of his two young children, Justine Thornton in 2011. ED BALLS - SHADOW CHANCELLOR As Gordon Brown's chief economic adviser, he was at the chancellor's side for many years. After being elected an MP in 2005, he quickly became a Treasury minister but had to deny accusations of briefing against Tony Blair. Later he became schools secretary and narrowly held on to his seat in the 2010 election after being targeted by the Tories. Came third in the Labour leadership contest and was named shadow home secretary, despite being tipped for shadow chancellor. His public calls for Labour to change its position on the deficit were widely seen as having lost him the job. However, following Alan Johnson's resignation in January 2011, Mr Balls, at the age of 44 , became shadow chancellor after all. Married to shadow cabinet colleague Yvette Cooper. YVETTE COOPER - SHADOW HOME SECRETARY AND MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITIES Popular throughout the party, the then 42-year old got the most votes of any MP in the shadow cabinet elections. A former journalist with the Independent, she was marked out early on as a rising star after being elected in 1997. Two years later, at the age of 30, she became a minister - the youngest at the time. She rose quickly up the ministerial ladder, working in the Treasury before becoming work and pensions secretary. Was urged by some to run for the leadership but decided against it, saying it was not the right time. Another of those seen as a potential shadow chancellor, she was in fact appointed shadow foreign secretary in Ed Miliband's first front bench line-up, but moved to the home affairs brief after Alan Johnson's resignation. Married to Ed Balls - they are the first married couple to serve as cabinet ministers at the same time. They have three children. DOUGLAS ALEXANDER - SHADOW FOREIGN SECRETARY The former solicitor is one of only a handful of senior Labour figures who were close to both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Once Gordon Brown's speechwriter, he served as Scottish secretary and transport secretary under Tony Blair and international development secretary under Gordon Brown. Blamed by some for the election that never was in 2007 after urging Gordon Brown to call a snap poll. Aged 43 , he co-ordinated the 2010 Labour general election campaign. Backed David Miliband in the leadership contest, chairing his campaign. TRISTRAM HUNT - SHADOW EDUCATION SECRETARY Historian Tristram Hunt, MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central since 2010, was promoted from shadow minister to shadow education secretary in the October 2013 reshuffle. He replaced Stephen Twigg. Mr Hunt is best known as a regular newspaper columnist, broadcaster and history lecturer. After taking a first-class degree in history from Cambridge University, he served as an exchange fellow at the University of Chicago before returning to Cambridge to complete his doctora | History of the Labour Party – The Labour Party History of the Labour Party Kinnock and the policy review With Labour heavily defeated in the 1979 election, the party began a new period of soul-searching. Internal debates about the party constitution dominated, and led eventually to the forming of a breakaway group, the Social Democratic Party, in 1981. Michael Foot, the veteran left-winger, was elected leader but he was hampered by divisions within the party and proved unable to reverse Labour's decline in support. With Labour moving further to the left, the 1983 election resulted in a crushing defeat. Labour gained 27.6 per cent, its lowest showing since 1918 and not much above the Liberal/SDP Alliance. Hope for a revival in Labour's fortunes came from Welsh MP Neil Kinnock, who replaced Michael Foot as leader in 1983. Kinnock first sought to sideline the extreme left within the party, such as the group Militant, and then to restore Labour's image with the general public. His speech to the 1985 Party Conference, where he attacked Militant from the platform, was seen as a sign of the new Labour leader's courage and commitment to change. This was followed by changes to Labour's image, headed by a new Campaigns and Communications directorate under Peter Mandelson. A visible sign of the changes afoot was the replacement of the party's emblem - the red flag - by a red rose at the 1986 conference. Even with such changes, Kinnock was unable to recover much ground and Labour still lost the 1987 election heavily. More thorough-going reform was necessary and therefore the party began a process of policy review. The outcome, Meet the Challenge, Make the Change, ended Labour's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament, high taxation and old-style nationalisation. Labour's fourth successive election defeat was a major shock to the party. Kinnock's successor, Scottish lawyer John Smith, promised to continue the process of reform, including tackling the trade union block. At the 1993 Party Conference Smith won the vote on One Member One Vote (OMOV), removing direct union representation in parliamentary selections, by the smallest of margins, and largely due to the last-minute speech by John Prescott. If he was careful in his dealings with the party, in the Commons Smith was less restrained. Immediately after the election the Tories were wrong-footed by the crisis in sterling and exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism. Black Wednesday as 16 September 1992 became known, was a gift to Smith, who used his considerable parliamentary skills to attack the Conservatives. With record-breaking (for the time) local election results in 1994, John Smith was rightly optimistic about the future of the Party. "A chance to serve, that is all we ask", Smith told a gathering of Labour supporters on 11 May 1994. The event was to be his last. Early the next morning he suffered a massive heart attack. Just as with Gaitskell in 1963, Labour had lost a leader on the verge of power. New Labour The ensuing leadership contest saw the election of Tony Blair, the youngest-ever leader of the Labour Party. Blair was widely known to be a moderniser and his leadership election statement was clear that Labour must be reformed radically if it was to win office again. Yet for any still in doubt, Blair showed his true intentions in his first speech to party conference as leader, when he called for the updating of Clause IV of the party's constitution. While opposed by some traditionalists, the proposed change won overwhelming support at a special conference in April 1995. This was followed in 1996 by the publication of New Labour, New Life for Britain, the draft manifesto that was discussed and voted upon by party members across the country. Labour's agenda was fully costed, to avoid the arguments over tax that had dogged them in 1992, and centred on five pledges: education; crime; health; jobs and economic stability. Party members gave the proposals clear endorsement - with 95 per cent backing the plans. The 1997 election campaign saw the Tories in decline - over sl |
"Complete the title of this James Bond film: ""Licence To ... ""?" | Licence to Kill (1989) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him. Director: From $10.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 23 titles created 05 Mar 2013 a list of 24 images created 25 Jul 2014 a list of 23 titles created 10 Dec 2014 a list of 26 titles created 29 Dec 2015 a list of 26 titles created 3 months ago Title: Licence to Kill (1989) 6.6/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. Director: John Glen A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. Director: John Glen Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Director: John Glen James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Director: Lewis Gilbert James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. Director: Roger Spottiswoode James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Lewis Gilbert Edit Storyline James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond's good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aid of one of Leiter's friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bond's true intentions? Written by simon His bad side is a dangerous place to be. See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for action violence and drug content | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 14 July 1989 (USA) See mo | Dr No Dr No Certificate: pg Synopsis Sean Connery effortlessly stepped into the bespoke shoes of novelist Ian Fleming's James Bond in the first film of what would become the world's most successful cinema franchise. Pitted against pincer-handed megalomaniac Dr Julius No (Joseph Wiseman), Connery established 007 as a ruthless womaniser, ice-cool killer and sardonic cynic while the movie cast a template - Ursula Andress's bikinied Bond girl, Wiseman's over-ambitious villain and Monty Norman's Bond theme - which has held up for decades. Director "I admire your luck, Mr...? "Bond. James Bond." These immortal lines uttered during a game of chemin-de-fer (which he won, naturally) established both Sean Connery and the character of 007 at the beginning of a world-beating sequence of cinema successes that would see Bond reinvented by no less than six actors. Connery, a onetime coffin polisher, milkman and sailor, had enjoyed limited big screen success as a deckhand on the Titanic in A Night To Remember, a squaddie in The Longest Day and the hardman role of Johnny Kates in Hell Drivers. At the time - 1961 - the Bond novels did not enjoy mainstream popularity so the film's producers originally opted for a big name - Cary Grant turned them down - before settling on the untested Connery. They made the right choice. Despite his Scottish working class background, Connery slid easily into the role of the suave, sophisticated spy who was quite happy to kill in cold blood if the situation demanded it. Or even if it didn't. His first cinematic mission saw him despatched by MI6 chief M (Bernard Lee) to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British agent. Hardly had the superspy-in-waiting touched down when he claimed his first victim - a henchman of Dr No (Wiseman) posing as a government chauffeur - bites into a strychnine-laced cigarette when Bond finds him out. Hooking up with CIA agent Felix Leiter (Hawaii's Five-O's Jack Lord), Bond becomes suspicious about the goings-on at the mysterious Crab Key, an island feared by the locals and home of the reclusive Dr No. However, it seems that Dr No is also interested in 007. He sends his henchman Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson) to kill the inquisitive spy...and Bond narrowly escapes death-by-tarantula-bite. During a second attempt, Dent is caught out by Bond who has counted the number of slugs pumped into a pile of pillows 007 has used as a decoy. "That's a Smith & Wesson and you've had your six," Bond observes...and executes him with a shot to the chest. Landing on Crab Key, Bond beholds the now iconic scene of Ursula's Andress's conch-collector Honey Ryder emerging from the sea. (her singing voice for Underneath The Mango Tree was dubbed by British actress Diana Coupland, who is most famous for the TV comedy Bless This House). Captured by Dr No, Honey and Bond as imprisoned in his lair where - over dinner - the villain reveals himself to be a member of SPECTRE - SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) and has plans to disrupt the US rocket launches at Cape Canaveral. All the ingredients that would make the Bond franchise a going concern are present and (politically in-)correct. Apart from the perfect casting of Connery, there's the gun-barrel opening sequence, the concept of "The Bond Girl", the Ken Adam-designed super-sets and even 007's predeliction for a vodka martini "shaken, not stirred." There's also the first mention of SPECTRE and Wiseman's villain - who lost both his hands in a radiation accident and had them replaced with statuette-crushing steel talons - was a chilling blueprint for that most enticing of roles: the Bond villain. Of course, it's dated - a Sunbeam Alpine isn't exactly cutting edge transport - but the elegant playboy spy with just a whiff of danger was clearly here to stay. As Bond says "World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Naploeon. Or God." For the next half century he was about to find out. Tim Evans |
What is the name of the Daily Planet's editor in the Superman series of comics and films? | Perry Black! Laurence Fishburne is Daily Planet's Editor-in-Chief in Superman Reboot MAN OF STEEL! 5 Reasons To Spend Your Christmas At Universal Orlando Resort Perry Black! Laurence Fishburne is Daily Planet's Editor-in-Chief in Superman Reboot MAN OF STEEL! Fisburne is the first black actor to play the iconic Superman character and Clark Kent's boss Perry White! Flipboard In what we would guess is the last notable casting news for Zack Snyder's currently prepping Superman reboot Man of Steel, EW reports that The Matrix actor Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast as Perry White, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet. The character's absence from the cast sheet always did look peculiar when we knew Amy Adams would be portraying Lois Lane, reporter for the Metropolis newspaper... and now we can presume the Daily Planet building will make an appearance in the movie. Fisburne is the first black actor to play the iconic Superman character who is slightly less meaner but no less demanding than his Spider-Man counterpart J. Jonah Jameson and he is stepping into the shoes of; the late Jackie Cooper who gave the best portrayal of the character in the Donner movies, Lane Smith in the 90's Lois & Clark series, whose portrayal suited the show; The excellent character actor Michael McKean in Smallville (who we would have loved to have seen given a big screen run at the character) and Frank Langella in Superman Returns, who for whatever reason never seemed to find the right tone in what was a grossly mis-cast movie. Now in my head Perry White has always been a white character and indeed all my five picks I made last year for the character were all white men, including Ed Harris and John Slattery. Personally, I would have PREFERRED a white actor to play the role just like I would never want to see a white Blade, a white Luke Cage or a white Lucius Fox. But Fishburne is a good actor whose dominerring screen presence, his demanding voice and intensity suits Perry White down to the ground. Zack Snyder and his Superman crew are currently constructing the sets for the new movie, with a fall shoot eyed. If you want an idea of what Henry Cavill might look like as Superman, Moviehole snapped him walking down the street recently with the Clark Kent curl! Man of Steel cast looks something like this - Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Laurence Fishburne, Russell Crowe, Julia Ormond Harry Lennix and Christopher Meloni. Man Of Steel is due June 14, 2013. | Green Lantern (2011) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC Reckless test pilot Hal Jordan is granted an alien ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers that inducts him into an intergalactic police force, the Green Lantern Corps. Director: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 31 titles created 18 Jan 2011 a list of 22 titles created 26 Oct 2011 a list of 25 titles created 04 May 2012 a list of 49 titles created 28 Dec 2014 a list of 35 titles created 11 months ago Search for " Green Lantern " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 2 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards » Videos Stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself. Director: Mark Steven Johnson Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry. Director: Ang Lee A man blinded by toxic waste which also enhanced his remaining senses fights crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero. Director: Mark Steven Johnson Superman reappears after a long absence, but is challenged by an old foe who uses Kryptonian technology for world domination. Director: Bryan Singer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he emerges whenever he loses his temper. However, Banner then must fight a soldier who unleashes himself as a threat stronger than he. Director: Louis Leterrier As Johnny Blaze hides out in Eastern Europe, he is called upon to stop the devil, who is trying to take human form. Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Director: Robert Schwentke A look at Wolverine's early life, in particular his time with the government squad Team X and the impact it will have on his later years. Director: Gavin Hood A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge. Director: Sam Raimi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X Clark Kent, one of the last of an extinguished race disguised as an unremarkable human, is forced to reveal his identity when Earth is invaded by an army of survivors who threaten to bring the planet to the brink of destruction. Director: Zack Snyder Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula. Director: David S. Goyer An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. Director: Stephen Sommers Edit Storyline In a mysterious universe, an elite defense force of peace and justice have existed for centuries. Cocky test pilot Hal Jordan acquires superhuman powers when he is chosen by "the Ring", the willpower-fed source of power, of the Green Lantern Corps. Reluctantly at first, he takes on the challenges these other superheroes face. Putting his self-doubts aside, and spurred on by his sense of duty and love for his beautiful, intellectually equal, colleague, Carol Ferris, he is soon called to defend mankind from Parallax, a powerful, evil being who feeds on fear. He is the uni |
Who starred in and directed the 1993 film “A Bronx Tale”? | Robert De Niro directs 'A Bronx Tale' on Broadway: Why the 1993 film was a hit - CSMonitor.com Robert De Niro directs 'A Bronx Tale' on Broadway: Why the 1993 film was a hit Latest News Robert De Niro arrives at the Hollywood Film Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in 2015 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/File View Caption of Actor Robert De Niro will co-direct a Broadway musical adaptation of the 1993 film “A Bronx Tale,” in which he both directed and starred in. Mr. De Niro is co-directing the musical with Jerry Zaks, who also helmed the 2011 Broadway production of “Sister Act” and the 2004 Broadway production of “La Cage aux Folles,” among other work. De Niro has starred on Broadway himself, appearing in a 1986 production of the play “Cuba and His Teddy Bear.” Recommended: Famous movie lines: How well do you know them? “Bronx” tells the story of a young boy whose father (De Niro in the film) disapproves of the activities of mobsters but who becomes involved with them after the young boy, Calogero, decides not to tell the police what he knows about a murder. Photos of the Day Photos of the Day 01/17 When the 1993 film was released, it was mostly received positively by critics. Washington Post reviewer Desson Howe wrote that the film “doesn’t have an original bone in its body,” but New York Times critic Janet Maslin called the movie “a warm, vibrant and sometimes troubling portrait of the community.... [De Niro’s] work here, as both actor and director, is impressively unobtrusive.” And Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times found the film to be “a very funny movie sometimes, and very touching at other times. It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue, and De Niro, in his debut as a director, finds the right notes as he moves from laughter to anger to tears.” As for the musical adaptation of “Bronx,” songs will be supplied by Glenn Slater and Alan Menken, who previously collaborated for the Broadway musical “The Little Mermaid” (Mr. Menken composed the music for the 1989 film, with lyrics for the movie by Howard Ashman, who is also credited for the Broadway musical). Next up Get the Monitor stories you care about delivered to your inbox. Daily | The Brothers Grimm: triple j film reviews + LISTEN TO THIS REVIEW (mp3 0.8 MB) cast: Heath Ledger, Matt Damon, Lena Headey The last movie Terry Gilliam directed that actually made it to the big screen finished was his adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-addled comic novel Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas. That was 1998. Not that he hasn't been trying, though. After his ill-fated attempt at turning The Man Who Killed Don Quixote into a feature (see 2002 documentary Lost In La Mancha for all the gory details), he finally gets back to where he belongs with The Brothers Grimm, not that he didn't have problems making that film, either! The Brothers Grimm is Gilliam and writer Ehren Kruger's ( The Ring ) wild n' crazy take on the lives of real-life fairytale scribes, Willhelm and Jacob Grimm, who penned the the famous Grimm's fairytales. It's 1796, and the 'Will n' Jake' (the perfectly cast Matt Damon and Heath Ledger) are busy playing ghostbusters to small towns all over Europe. Only the ghosties, witches and beasties they are supposedly exorcising from townships are all fakes staged by Team Grimm out to make an easy buck. The jig is up, however, when a ruthless French 'generale' (longtime Gilliam collaborator Jonathan Pryce hamming it up in a performance that gives John Cleese's "silly French knight" from Monty Python And The Holy Grail a run for his money), sends them in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a family of girls, reportedly 'spirited away' from their township by an evil enchanted forest. If this sounds like Terry Gilliam at his surreal nightmarish best (think 12 Monkeys (1995), Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King(1991)) you'd be half right. The Brothers Grimm does brim with his trademark dark humour, gruesome 'n' grimy design and some inspired fantasy sequences, especially towards the end when Monica Bellucci ( Irreversible , Matrix II , III ) enters the picture as the evil Mirror Queen. As his fans know only too well, Gilliam likes to push his actors to embrace their inner loon which, at best, is entertaining (Damon doing 'screaming nancy' was hilarious), and at worst, is grating. Never one afraid to embrace his inner loon, Swedish actor Peter Stormare ( Constantine ) is the biggest case for the negative as Italian torturer Cavaldi. The verdict? The Brothers Grimm is another fascinating and spectacular Gilliam failure, too dark to entertain the kids and too light to be a true Gilliam classic. It is patchy and inconsistent and eminently watchable. Another attempt at a big fat adult cartoon made with real actors. Given the grief Gilliam has making regular movies, perhaps it's time for him to swear off live action features altogether and go back to where he started making kooky cartoons for adult audiences. In animation, there are no limits; there no-one can tell him what to do or how to compromise that insane, alluring imagination of his. 3 stars |
Who played Commodus in the 2000 film Gladiator? | Gladiator (2000) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV ON DISC ALL When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. Director: a list of 25 titles created 28 Dec 2010 a list of 46 titles created 18 May 2011 a list of 22 titles created 17 Oct 2013 a list of 28 titles created 10 Aug 2014 a list of 44 titles created 3 months ago Search for " Gladiator " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 5 Oscars. Another 53 wins & 101 nominations. See more awards » Videos When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England. Director: Mel Gibson Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him. Director: Robert Zemeckis A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. Director: Frank Darabont Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. Director: Peter Jackson Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. Director: Steven Spielberg While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. Director: Peter Jackson A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. Director: Jonathan Demme A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. Director: Peter Jackson Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. Director: David Fincher An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more. Director: David Fincher 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, the Dark Knight, with the help of the enigmatic Selina, is forced from his imposed exile to save Gotham City, now on the edge of total annihilation, from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane. Director: Christopher Nolan Edit Storyline Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge. Written by Chris "Morphy" Terry A Hero Will Rise. See more » Genres: Rated R for intense, graphic combat | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 5 May 2000 (USA) See more » Also Known As: $34,819,017 (USA) (5 May 2000) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Tom Sizemore | Kevin Lloyd - This is your life -The Bill - YouTube Kevin Lloyd - This is your life -The Bill Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 28, 2014 Here's Kevin Lloyd "Tosh" from The Bill getting the This is your Life treatment in 1992 4 years after starting in the great police series. Sadly alcoholism was to end his life aged 49 in 1998. Kevin Reardon Lloyd (28 March 1949 -- 2 May 1998) was an English actor, born in Derby, and trained at East 15 Acting School, London. Best known for his part of DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines in Thames Television's The Bill. Prior to this he had already played the high profile role of nightclub owner, Don Watkins, in the soap opera Coronation Street. He also made appearances in a number of other TV shows, including the first series of Starting Out, Boon, Minder, Dear John, Farrington of the F.O., Dempsey and Makepeace, Z-Cars, Andy Capp, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Blake's 7, and Casualty. Lloyd was one of the most popular members of the television show, The Bill. In 1996, the show won the award for "Best TV Drama" at the National Television Awards and it was Lloyd who collected it on behalf of the cast and crew. His Welsh-born father, Ellis Aled Lloyd, was himself a police officer who was killed in an accident while answering an emergency call aged 46 in 1970.[4] A chronic alcoholic, he played "Tosh" continuously from 1988 until he was sacked from The Bill in 1998 for his lack of punctuality and failing to learn his lines. Within days, he was admitted to a clinic in Burton upon Trent for detoxification and was administered sedative medication, but then left the premises to drink alcohol. He returned to the clinic in an intoxicated state, retired to bed, fell asleep, then choked on his vomit,[3] failing to awaken due to the mixture of sedatives and alcohol in his bloodstream. Lloyd died just one week after recording his last scenes for The Bill, and the character of Tosh was still appearing on screen for more than a month after Lloyd's death. He had been so popular on The Bill that on 26 February 1992, within four years of joining the show, he was selected as special guest for the TV guest show This Is Your Life.[5] He was the brother of ITN reporter Terry Lloyd who was killed in the Iraq war in 2003.[6] His son, James Lloyd, is an actor who also appeared on The Bill between 2004 and 2006. he Bill is a British police procedural television series that was broadcast on the ITV network from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, entitled Woodentop, which was broadcast in August 1983. In its final year on air, The Bill was broadcast once a week, usually on Tuesdays or Thursdays, in a one-hour format. The programme focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work. The Bill is the longest-running police procedural television series in the United Kingdom, and was among the longest-running of any British television series. The series was produced by Thames Television. The series name originated from "Old Bill", a slang term for the police. This was also Geoff McQueen's original title idea for the series, before he eventually decided on "The Bill". Category |
In a game of snooker, what colour ball is worth 3 points? | How many points are the snooker balls worth? | Reference.com How many points are the snooker balls worth? A: Quick Answer Each color ball in snooker is worth a different number of points with the highest value ball being the black ball, which is worth seven points. The red ball is worth one point, yellow is worth two points, green is worth three points, brown is worth four points, blue is worth five points and pink is worth six points. Full Answer In the game of snooker the red balls must be hit into a pocket first. Once a red ball has been potted, the player has the opportunity to try and pot a colored ball of their choice. If they are successful, they can then pot another red ball followed by another color. Once all the red balls are potted in the pockets, the players must then try and pot the colored balls in order of their value, from lowest to highest. | Buy Snooker & Pool Accessories: Chalk, Balls, & Scoreboards Accessories Pool and Snooker Accessories The Accessories are split into nine separate categories see below. Our new players accessories category includes an expanding selection of useful practice aids and gadgets like the Q-rite rest extension used regularly on TV by Steve Davis. In Chalk and chalk holders we have a wide range of coloured chalks suitable for different snooker or pool table cloths. Chalk holders include leather pouches and magnetic chalk holders. Tips and re-tipping equipment have tips from different manufacturers like Elkmaster and Blue Diamond with sizes ranging from 8mm to 13mm. The re-tipping equipment section includes clamps to help align and hold the new tip in place and tip files and shapers to keep your tip the perfect condition. In our rest section we have a choice of Maple and Ash shafts as well as the full range of half butt, full butt and rest shafts. We also provide the full range of rest heads including the spider, extended spider, cross rest, swan neck. |
In what year was England ruled (technically) by kings called Edward, Harold, Edgar and William, in that order? | 1066 - History Learning Site History Learning Site historylearningsite.co.uk . The History Learning Site , 5 Mar 2015. 20 Jan 2017. 1066 is considered one of those dates in Medieval England which is difficult to forget. At the start of 1066, England was ruled by Edward the Confessor . By the end of the year, a Norman – William the Conqueror – was king after defeating Edward’s successor, Harold , at the Battle of Hastings . With three kings in one year, a legendary battle in October and a Norman in charge of England, it is little wonder that people rarely forget the year 1066. Many historians view 1066 as the start of Medieval England . William At the start of 1066, England was lead by King Edward who was respected and loved by his people. Such was his saint-like lifestyle, that he was known as Edward the Confessor . Edward was a very religious man and he ordered the building of the first Westminster Abbey. However, when he died in January 1066, he left no heir to the throne. His nearest surviving blood relative was Edgar – but he was only a child and no-one would respect him. Edgar had also spent a lot of time in Hungary – so few people knew him in England. This was a time when powerful men who were victorious in battle were respected; so a child like Edgar had little chance to impress those who held power in England. The most powerful nobleman was Harold Godwinson and he was Earl of Wessex. He was not a blood relative of the king but he was heavily supported by other noblemen in the Witan (a council of England’s most powerful nobles). He had been the leader of Edward the Confessor’s army and he was experienced in government. It was said (by Harold) that Edward named Harold as his successor on his deathbed and that the most important noblemen in the country had agreed to his choice when they met as the King’s Council – the Witan. Why does this involve William who before the Battle of Hastings was only the Duke of Normandy and living in France? William claimed that he was the rightful heir to the throne of England despite the fact that he was not English. He visited England in 1051 and claimed that Edward promised the throne to him when he died. There is no proof of this promise being made. Also in 1064, Harold was shipwrecked off of the coast of Normandy and held captive by Count Guy de Ponthieu. William paid for Harold’s release and he was held in the court of William in Normandy. By any standards, Harold was a prize catch for William. Harold was faced with two choices: he could spend the rest of his life in Norman captivity or he could return to England and lead the life of a nobleman. To return to England he had to promise to support William’s claim to be the next king of England after Edward’s death. The Bayeaux Tapestry clearly shows Harold swearing a sacred oath on the bones of a saint. For this reason, William was confident that Harold would keep his promise on the death of Edward. However, despite the Bayeaux Tapestry , there is no proof that Harold actually did make this promise. A man called William of Poitiers, claimed that he witnessed the promise being made. But he was a close colleague of William who was given work in William’s court. Monks in England at the time wrote the “Anglo-Saxon Chronicles” – a history of England at the time. Nothing about a promise is mentioned in this. On January 7th 1066, just two days after Edward’s death, Harold was crowned king by Archbishop Stigant. This was the time when a comet was seen over England – now known as Halley’s Comet – and many believed that it was a sign of bad luck for England. When William heard of what Harold had done, it is said that he flew into a terrible rage of anger. Harold defended what he had done by claiming that William had forced him to make the promise and therefore it was done by blackmail and was not valid. William promised to take what he believed was his – the throne of England – by force. The matter was further complicated by Harold Hardrada who was king of Norway and Denmark. He believed that he was the rightful heir to the English throne be | Timeline of the Kings & Queens of England There have been 66 monarchs of England and Britain spread over a period of 1500 years. SAXON KINGS EGBERT 827 - 839 Egbert (Ecgherht) was the first monarch to establish a stable and extensive rule over all of Anglo-Saxon England. After returning from exile at the court of Charlemagne in 802, he regained his kingdom of Wessex. Following his conquest of Mercia in 827, he controlled all of England south of the Humber. After further victories in Northumberland and North Wales, he is recognised by the title Bretwalda ( Anglo-Saxon , "ruler of the British". A year before he died aged almost 70, he defeated a combined force of Danes and Cornish at Hingston Down in Cornwall. He is buried at Winchester in Hampshire. AETHELWULF 839-856 King of Wessex , son of Egbert and father of Alfred the Great. In 851 Aethelwulf defeated a Danish army at the battle of Oakley while his eldest son Althelstan fought and beat the Danes at sea off the coast of Kent , in what is believed to be the first naval battle. A highly religous man, Athelwulf travelled to Rome with his son Alfred to see the Pope in 855. AETHELBALD 856 - 860 The eldest son of Aethelwulf, Æthelbald was born around 834. He was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames in southwest London, after forcing his father to abdicate upon his return from pilgrimage to Rome. Following his fathers death in 858, he married his widowed stepmother Judith, but under pressure from the church the marriage was annulled after only a year. He is buried at Sherbourne Abbey in Dorset . AETHELBERT 860 - 866 Became king following the death of his brother Æthelbald. Like his brother and his father, Aethelbert (pictured to the right) was crowned at Kingston-Upon-Thames. Shortly after his succession a Danish army landed and sacked Winchester before being defeated by the Saxons. In 865 the Viking Great Heathen Army landed in East Anglia and swept across England. He is buried at Sherborne Abbey. AETHELRED I 866 - 871 Aethelred succeeded his brother Aethelbert. His reign was one long struggle with the Danes who had occupied York in 866, establishing the Viking kingdom of Yorvik . When the Danish Army moved south Wessex itself was threatened, and so together with his brother Alfred, they fought several battles with the Vikings at Reading, Ashdown and Basing. Aethelred suffered serious injuries during the next major battle at Meretun in Hampshire; he died of his wounds shortly after at Witchampton in Dorset, where he was buried. ALFRED THE GREAT 871 - 899 - son of AETHELWULF Born at Wantage in Berkshire around 849, Alfred was well educated and is said to have visited Rome on two occasions. He had proven himself to be a strong leader in many battles, and as a wise ruler managed to secure five uneasy years of peace with the Danes, before they attacked Wessex again in 877. Alfred was forced to retreat to a small island in the Somerset Levels and it was from here that he masterminded his comeback, perhaps ' burning the cakes ' as a consequence. With major victories at Edington, Rochester and London, Alfred established Saxon Christian rule over first Wessex, and then on to most of England. To secure his hard won boundaries Alfred founded a permanent army and an embryonic Royal Navy. To secure his place in history, he began the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. EDWARD (The Elder) 899 - 924 Succeeded his father Alfred the Great. Edward retook southeast England and the Midlands from the Danes. Following the the death of his sister Aethelflaed of Mercia , Edward unites the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia. In 923, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles record that the Scottish King Constantine II recognises Edward as "father and lord". The following year, Edward is killed in a battle against the Welsh near Chester . His body is returned to Winchester for burial. ATHELSTAN 924 - 939 Son of Edward the Elder, Athelstan extended the boundaries of his kingdom at the Battle of Brunanburh in 937. In what is said to be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on British soil, Athelstan defeated a combined army of Scots |
The first issue of what women's magazine, known for its seal of approval, first appeared on May 2, 1885? | Good Housekeeping History | View Contents | View Magazine a virtual newsstand from the summer of 1925 Overview: Good Housekeeping began as a homemaker�s magazine, first published in 1885 by Clark W. Bryan. The magazine�s mission, as he stated it, was �to produce and perpetuate perfection as may be obtained in the household.� [ 1 ] In its early years the magazine focused on children, household products, and fashion. It also included many fiction stories for adults and children. Although fiction has now nearly faded out in the Good Housekeeping of today, the magazine has retained its original focus on home maintenance. Today the magazine is also applicable to women who work outside the home, but still offers a variety of advice on home d�cor, healthy eating, fashion, children, and money. History ���������� Known as one of the �Big Six� of women�s magazines in the 1900s, as listed by Marjorie Hinds, Good Housekeeping was first published in Holyoke, Massachusetts by an established journalist and businessman, Clark W. Bryan. [ 2 ] When he created the magazine Bryan already owned a number of publications including Paper World (Zuckerman 11). Good Housekeeping�s first issue was published on May 2, 1885 and cost 10 cents.[ 3 ] The magazine was produced semimonthly and ran about thirty-two pages (Zuckerman 11). At its conception a major competitor was a less expensive magazine, Ladies Home Journal; but Good Housekeeping maintained its readership by keeping a stronger focus on the home than its competitors. In 1891 the magazine began printing monthly issues and doubled its circulation to 55,000 in 1895 (Zuckerman 12). When Clark Bryan died in 1898 many of his publications did as well, but not Good Housekeeping. After Bryan�s death, James Eaton Tower became editor from 1899 to 1913. As a supporter of women in the workplace, he wrote �Educated Women in Magazine Work� which encouraged young college graduates to enter the field of magazine publication rather than being limited to becoming teachers only.[ 4 ] John Pettigrew purchased the magazine and two years later, Phelps Publishing Company acquired it with 250,000 subscribers and moved its publication to Springfield, Massachusetts (Zuckerman 12). ���������� In 1900 Phelps established the Good Housekeeping Experiment Station in order �to improve the lives of consumers and their families through education and product evaluation� (GoodHousekeeping.com). The station tested and evaluated household consumer goods such as food, cleaning supplies, and kitchen appliances. The mission of the station was �to study the problems facing the homemaker and to develop up-to-date, firsthand information on solving them� (GoodHousekeeping.com). Two years later the magazine included a money-back guarantee to the readers if any advertised product was found unreliable. The laboratory soon evolved into the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, the name it still carries today. The Institute continued to test products in an effort to make a woman�s work in the home safe, healthy, and convenient. It then began awarding selected products, whose advertisements had been reviewed and accepted, for publication in Good Housekeeping its �Seal of Approval,� letting readers know by a small star that the magazine endorsed a product. The institute became immensely important for Americans during a time they were without the governing factor of the FDA, a Consumer Product Safety Commission, or any regulatory law (GoodHousekeeping.com). The institute�s tests discovered many health concerns related to smoking, preservatives, and overeating and helped draw attention to these safety concerns. The Research Institute�s success was an important source of competitive strength for Good Housekeeping magazine against the rest of the �Big Six.�� The first two decades of the twentieth century were full of change for the magazine. In 1905 the magazine�s price increased to 15 cents a copy. Then in 1911, with a circulation of 300,000, Hearst P | Miss America resigns - Jul 23, 1984 - HISTORY.com Miss America resigns Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant’s history, after Penthouse magazine announces plans to publish nude photos of the beauty queen in its September issue. Williams originally made history on September 17, 1983, when she became the first black woman to win the Miss America crown. Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles, the first runner-up and also an African American, assumed Williams’ tiara for the two months that remained of her reign. Vanessa Lynn Williams was born March 18, 1963, in Millwood, New York, to music teacher parents. She attended Syracuse University and studied musical theater. In 1982, while working a summer job as a receptionist at a modeling agency in Mt. Kisco, New York, photographer Thomas Chiapel took the nude pictures of Williams, telling her they’d be shot in silhouette and that she wouldn’t be recognizable. After Williams became Miss America, the photographer sold the pictures to Penthouse without her knowledge. Williams later dropped lawsuits against the magazine and photographer after it was learned that she had signed a model release form at the time the photos were taken. The Miss America pageant, which prides itself on projecting a wholesome, positive image of women, began in 1921 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a stunt developed by local businessmen to extend the summer tourist season. In 1945, the Miss America Organization handed out its first scholarship. Today, it provides over $45 million each year in cash and tuition assistance to contestants on the national, state and local levels. In 1954, the competition was broadcast live for the first time. Beginning in the 1980s, contestants were required to have a social platform, such as drunk-driving preventionor AIDS awareness, and Miss America winners now travel an estimated 20,000 miles a month for speaking engagements and public appearances. In 2006, following a decline in TV ratings, the pageant moved from Atlantic City for the first time in its history and took place in Las Vegas, where a new Miss America was crowned in January instead of September. Vanessa Williams rebounded from the Miss America scandal and went on to a successful entertainment career as an actress and recording artist, performing on Broadway as well as in movies and television and releasing a number of popular albums. Related Videos |
Who plays Kincade the estate gamekeeper in the Bond film Skyfall? | Kincade | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Kincade is the gamekeeper of Skyfall Lodge and the Bond family estate. He appears in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall and is portrayed by Albert Finney . Film biography After an attempt on M 's life by Raoul Silva , Bond takes her to his empty and remote childhood home in Scotland: Skyfall Lodge . Intending to lure Silva into a trap at the lodge, and using M as bait, he instructs Q to leave an electronic trail for the cyber-terrorist to follow. Arriving at Skyfall, the pair enter the building only to be met by an elderly man wielding a shotgun. Kincade, the gamekeeper to the Bond family estate, recognizes James and utters a simple "James, James Bond...", to which Bond replies "Oh, are you still alive?" Bond introduces M to Kincade (Kincade calls her 'Emma') and explained that the lodge was sold when Bond was presumed dead. Bond updates Kincade on the situation and they set about preparing for Silva's arrival. The trio are only lightly armed, because Kincade sold all the guns to a collector, except for James' father's hunting rifle, hunting knife and a few sticks of dynamite, but they improvise a series of booby traps. Awaiting Silva's attack, Bond suggests that Kincade shouldn't get involved, causing the Scotsman to retort "Try and stop me, you jumped up little S***." When Bond managed to hit the target (two tea cups), Kincade, who was amazed, asked "What did you say you did for a living?" Kincade was flirtatious but polite towards M, giving her an old scarf, showing her a preist's hole and explaining about James' behavior. During the booby trap improvising, Kincade sawed half the barrel off his shotgun and tested it on a door. When Silva's men arrive, Bond, M and Kincade fight off the first assault. Wielding his newly sawed-off shotgun, Kincade dispatches two of Silva's men with a curt "Welcome to Scotland!" During the fight, Kincade seems discomforted with the violence and drops several shells while reloading. Bond comes to Kincade's aid, dispatching Silva's men with one of their own rifles. After the first assault was fought off, Silva arrives by helicopter with a second wave, causing Bond to send M and Kincade off through a secret escape tunnel. Emerging from the tunnel some distance from the house, Kincade attempts to help the wounded M to the relative safety of a nearby chapel, but along the way, M noticed she was wounded in her hip from trying to shoot one of Silva's men. However, Silva notices the gamekeeper's torch beam and sets off in pursuit. Unaware that Silva has followed them, Kincade goes into a side-room to look for something, when he returns muttering, "I couldn't find any-" he is interrupted by Silva who holds him at gunpoint. After examining M's wound with sadistic curiosity, Silva forces his gun into her hand and begs her to kill them both. Arriving through the chapel entrance, Bond hurls a knife into the madman's back, killing him. Seconds later, however, M also collapses from her wound and dies in Bond's arms. Watching nearby, Kincade takes his hat off in respect. Behind the scenes According to director Sam Mendes , the idea of approaching former James Bond actor Sean Connery to portray Kincade was very briefly considered. In an interview with the Huffington Post , Mendes noted that there "was a very brief flirtation with that thought, but it was never going to happen, because I thought it would distract.” [1] References It makes me think that Kingcade had a crush on M (Judi Dench) when he was introducing her the tunnel. 2015-06-10T13:57:32Z | James Bond James Bond 2007 Schools Wikipedia Selection . Related subjects: Films James Bond 007 is a fictional British agent (the Bond character is usually referred to as a spy, but was actually a counter-agent and a professional assassin) created by writer Ian Fleming in 1952. Fleming wrote numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in 1964, further literary adventures were written by Kingsley Amis (pseudonym Robert Markham), John Pearson, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and Charlie Higson. In addition, Christopher Wood wrote two screenplay novelisations and other authors have also written various unofficial permutations of the character. Although initially made famous through the novels and books, James Bond is now best known from the EON Productions film series. Twenty-one films have been made (as of 2006) as well as two that were independently produced and one American television adaptation of Fleming's first novel under legal licence. The EON films are generally referred to as the 'official' films (although its origin is unclear, this terminology is used throughout this article). Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produced most of these up until 1975, when Broccoli became the sole producer. From 1995, his daughter, Barbara Broccoli, and his stepson, Michael G. Wilson, jointly continued production duties. To date, six actors have portrayed James Bond in the official series. They are: Pierce Brosnan (1995–2002), Daniel Craig (2006–present). In addition and generally considered "unofficial", Barry Nelson portrayed Bond in an Americanised television episode adaptation of Casino Royale in 1954. Bob Holness portrayed James Bond in a South African radio adaptation of Moonraker in 1956. Roger Moore acted the role in an episode of a TV comedy show called Mainly Millicent (starring Millicent Martin and guest stars) in summer 1964. This episode is included as a special feature (named Roger Moore as James Bond, Circa 1964) in the newly published Live and Let Die Ultimate Edition DVD. David Niven played the role of James Bond in a non-EON production of Casino Royale in 1967, and Connery reprised the character in another non-EON film, Never Say Never Again in 1983, an update of 1965's Thunderball, in which he also starred. The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing Bond in selected scenes from the original novels. The twenty-first official film, Casino Royale, with Daniel Craig as James Bond, premiered on 14 November 2006, with the film going on general release in Asia and the Middle East the following day. Broccoli and Saltzman's family company, Danjaq, LLC, has owned the James Bond film series, through EON, since the start. It became co-owner with United Artists Corporation since the mid-1970s, when Saltzman sold UA his share of Danjaq. Currently, Columbia Pictures and MGM (United Artists' parent) co-distribute the franchise. In addition to novels and films, Bond is a prominent character in many computer and video games, comic strips and comic books, and has been the subject of many parodies. Overview Ian Fleming's creation and inspiration Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR is an agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) (more commonly known as MI6). He was created in February 1952 by Ian Fleming while on holiday at his Jamaican estate called Goldeneye. The hero of Fleming's tale, James Bond, was named after an American ornithologist of the same name who was an expert on Caribbean birds and had written a definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher, owned a copy of Bond's field guide at Goldeneye. Of the name, Fleming once said, "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting like 'Peregrine Maltravers.' Exotic things would happen to and around him but he would be a neutral figure – an anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a Government Department." Bond's parents are named as Andrew Bond, a Scotsman, and Mon |
Which 73 year old world peace campaigner is to be the President of the 2013 Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod ? | Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod Legendary peacemaker Terry Waite unveils plaque at site of first Llangollen Eisteddfod Legendary peacemaker Terry Waite unveils plaque at site of first Llangollen Eisteddfod Posted July 7, 2016 On the first day of the historic 70th Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, its President, legendary peace campaigner Terry Waite, unveiled a plaque on the field where the first festival was held. Intended to help heal the scars of World War Two which had ended only two years earlier, that 1947 Eisteddfod was staged on what is now the playing field of Llangollen’s Ysgol Dinas Bran. It continued to be held there for the next decade until the annual summer festival moved into the futuristic new International Pavilion specially built at nearby Penddol. To mark the 70th festival, which runs all this week until Sunday, a commemorative plaque was unveiled on the former site by Mr Waite. In the true spirit of international understanding for which the Eisteddfod is famous, he was helped by the Albanian peace ambassador, Fitim Mimari who was paying a special visit to the festival. And in a surprise salute to the close links with Ysgol Dinas Bran, Mr Waite called on one of its youngest pupils to also lend a hand in drawing aside the Welsh national flag from the new plaque. The handsome piece of Welsh slate bearing the inscription was specially donated by the Llechwedd Caverns in Blaenau Ffestiniog and stands on a plinth of Rhosymedre sandstone which once formed part of the walls of Llangollen’s recently demolished Cottage Hospital and was donated jointly by the companies Cynfen of Denbigh and K&C Construction of Kinmel Bay, who are building social housing on the site. As the plaque project received financial assistance from Llangollen Town Council, local Mayor Mike Adams was amongst the large gathering of VIPs who watched the ceremony alongside hundreds of flag-waving children from Ysgol Dinas Bran and the town’s two primary schools, Ygsol Y Gwernant and Ysgol Bryn Collen. Eisteddfod chairman, Dr Rhys Davies, said: “The idea of today’s ceremony is not only to commemorate the fact that the first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod was held here on this field but also to raise awareness of the significance of this site, especially for the pupils of the Ysgol Dinas Bran who will pass this plaque twice a day on their way to their school buses.” Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod 2016. Terry Waite is pictured with guests and pupils from Dinas Bran High school unveiling a plaque to mark the site where the Eisteddfod first took place in 1947. The unveiling ceremony began with a rousing fanfare from the school’s own brass ensemble and there was more music from the girls of the Bishop Anstey High School Choir from Port of Spain in Trinidad who sang two numbers as a prelude to their appearances in the Eisteddfod’s musical competitions later in the week. Before unveiling the plaque, Terry Waite, who spent four years as a hostage at the hands of a Middle Eastern terrorist group, said: “This year we have been remembering World War One and the Battle of the Somme, in which almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers died in just one day. “Such is the cost of warfare but today wars continue to destroy lives, property and peace. “Some might say we are now involved in a third world war but of a different kind where terrorist acts can break out in any part of the world causing tremendous havoc to the people whose lives are affected by them. “At this ceremony we remember the people of Llangollen who, following World War Two, were determined to use what gifts they had to promote peace and understanding amongst people of different cultures and religions. “Over the years music has brought people together and had a profound affect way beyond the boundaries of Llangollen.” He added: “My message to the young people here is to believe in peace and not to believe there is nothing you can do to achieve it. “The people from this relatively small area of Wales have had an impact around the world.” | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: February 2011 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League 22nd Feb–Cup/Plate Semi Finals Questions set by Plough Horntails and the Dolphin 1. How many hoops are used in the standard game of Croquet? A, 6. 2. Which African kingdom was known as Basutoland before it gained independence in 1966? A. Lesotho. 3. The work "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is the textbook of which religious movement founded in 1879? A. Christian Science. 4. What is the fruit of the Blackthorn called? A. The Sloe. 5. How many countries sit on the full United Nations Security Council? A. 15. 6. According to the book of Genesis, which land lay to the "east of Eden"? A. The Land of Nod. 7. What is the name of the southernmost point of Africa? A. Cape Agulhas (note: The Cape of Good Hope is just south of Cape Town and is NOT correct). 8. Responding to a pressing issue in year 1095, what appeal did Pope Urban II make to Kings, Nobles and Knights in a sermon at the Council of Clermont? A. Please help to regain the Holy Lands… the First Crusade. (Accept any answer relating to freeing Jerusalem from Moslems/ Mohammadens / Turks/ Saracens) 9. Who holds the post of High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union? A. Baroness Ashton (Accept Catherine Ashton). 10. Which city was awarded the 1944 Summer Olympic Games? A. London. 11. In which country did the Maoist organization the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) operate? A. Peru. 12. Which major city’s name translates into English as Fragrant Harbour? A. Hong Kong. 13. In which country was the Granny Smith apple first grown? A. Australia (in 1868) 15. Who was the architect of Coventry Cathedral? A. Basil Spence. 16. Who opened an historic address to his people with the following, “In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.” A. King George VI (as taken from the King’s Speech) 17. Which car company makes the Alhambra model? A. Seat. 18. Which car company makes a model called the Sirion? A. Diahatsu 19. What is the Nationality of Stefaan Engels who set a World record on Saturday 5th February in Barcelona by completing a marathon every day for a year, a total of 9,569 miles? A. Belgian. 20. Who wrote Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, as well as collections of poetry? A. Siegfried Sassoon. 21. Approximately what percentage of the planet’s surface is covered by Tropical rainforests? A. 2% (but they are home to more than 50% species on Earth). Accept any figure less than 5%. 22. What is the name of the point on the Celestial sphere directly below an observer or a given position? A. Nadir. (Note this is the opposite of zenith). 23. What is the term, of French origin, loosely translated 'into mouth', for using facial muscles and shaping the lips for the mouthpiece to play a woodwind or brass musical instrument? A. Embouchure (origin, em = into, bouche = mouth) also accept embrasure. 24. In his 2011 memoir, ‘Known and Unknown’, which US ex-politician tries to deflect blame onto others including Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, for Iraq War mistakes? A. Donald Rumsfeld. (The book title alludes to Rumsfeld's famous statement: "There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know..." The statement was made by Rumsfeld on February 12, 2002 at a press briefing addressing the absence of evidence linking the Iraq government with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups.) 25. How many vertices (corners) has a regular dodecahedron (a dodecahedron is a 3D form with 12 faces)? A. 20. 26. The Salmon River in Idaho, USA is known by what nickname, It is also the name of a 1954 film, whose title soundtrack was recorded b |
How many holes are there, usually, in a ten-pin bowling ball? | How to Drill a Bowling Ball: 12 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow Preparing to Drill 1 Choose a ball. Choose the bowling ball that's right for you, based its weight and the materials it is made of. Bowling balls can be made of plastic (the cheapest balls), urethane, reactive resin, or particle. Each of these different materials provides differing degrees of friction, power, and control. [1] If you can, it's a good idea to experiment with different types and weights of balls before selecting one. Once you drill a ball, it's yours for good. 2 Choose a hole configuration. Different finger hole configurations will provide differing amounts of control and power. Choosing the configuration that's right for you will require you to assess your own strengths and weaknesses as a bowler. [2] A conventional grip is achieved by drilling holes deep enough so that your fingers and thumb are inserted into the ball up to the second knuckle joint. This is the traditional bowling alley ball configuration because it is the easiest to control. It is the recommended configuration for beginners and players of moderate skill. A fingertip grip is achieved by drilling holes that allow your fingers to be inserted into the ball up to the first knuckle joint. This is an advanced configuration that is much harder to control, but provides increased lift, power, and spin. [3] A semi-fingertip grip is achieved by drilling holes that allow your fingers to be inserted into the ball between the first and second knuckle joint. This is a happy medium between the grips described above and is easier to master than the fingertip grip while providing more power than the conventional grip. [4] There are also other types of grips, such as the Sarge Easter grip, but the three above are the most common. 3 Measure your span. Measure the distance from the base of your thumb to the points at which the two fingers you will use to hold the ball will bend (some people prefer the forefinger and middle finger while others prefer the middle finger and ring finger). [5] For a conventional grip, this means measuring from the base of the the thumb to the second crease in the appropriate fingers. [6] For a fingertip grip, measure to the crease closest to your fingertip. Using an adjustable bowling ball makes this process much more precise and is strongly recommended. Adjustable bowling balls have movable holes and various depths of finger inserts. A bowling ball manufacturer, sports and recreation store, or possibly your local bowling alley probably have a measuring ball. If you do not have access to an adjustable bowling ball for measuring your grip, you can simply place your fingers onto the surface of your un-drilled ball and mark around each finger once the placement feels comfortable. This isn't as exact, but it is comparable. Alternatively, you can also measure your span using a compass or calipers, keeping your fingers together and thumb out, and then reducing your measurement by about 1/8 of an inch (or 1/4 for a fingertip grip). [7] To determine the depth the holes will need to be without a measuring ball, measure the distance from the edge of your span to the ends of the fingers that will be going into the holes. 4 Record your measurements. Write down both your finger depth measurements and the distance between holes for reference when drilling. 5 Decide on an angle. Having an angle that fits your hand is crucial for comfort and performance. For example, if the holes are angled forward, the ball will have more lift when released because your fingers will remain inside until the last minute. This is a decision you'll have to make based on what's comfortable for you, as well as your individual strengths and weaknesses as a bowler. Part 2 Drilling the Ball 1 Clamp the ball in place. Place the ball into a tight clamp to ensure that it does not move during drilling. If the ball moves during drilling, the holes may come out uneven, making the ball uncomfortable to use or difficult to control. 2 Mark the ball. With an erasable marker or piece of chalk, mark the hole configurati | Tenpin Bowling Australia: How Bowling Pins Are Made How Bowling Pins Are Made How Bowling Pins Are Made Pin specifications are set by the World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA). Regional and national associations such as the United States Bowling Congress and Tenpin Bowling Australia adopt the WTBA standard, so that specifications are standard world-wide. Pins are 4.75 inches (120.65 mm) at their widest point and 15 inches (380 mm) tall. They weigh 3 lb. 6 oz (1.53 kg), although as of 1998 pins weighing up to 3 lb 10 oz (1.64 kg) are approved. The weight of the pins was originally based on the principle of physics, with the idea that a pin should be at around 24-percent the weight of the heaviest bowling ball within regulation of 16 lb 0 oz (7.25 kg). Bowling pins are constructed by gluing blocks of rock maple wood into the approximate shape, and then turning on a lathe. After the lathe shapes the pin, it is coated with a plastic material, painted, and covered with a glossy finish. Because of the scarcity of suitable wood, bowling pins can be made from approved synthetics. Currently there are synthetic pins sanctioned for play in five-pin, duckpin, and candlepin. There is one synthetic tenpin model approved by the USBC. When hit by the ball, synthetic pins usually sound different to wood pins. © Tenpin Bowling Australia 2017. |
Played by Aaron Paul, who was Walter White’s co-protagonist in ‘Breaking Bad’? | Breaking Bad: 36 things you didn't know Breaking Bad: 36 things you didn't know Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in 'Breaking Bad' Credit: AP 1. Walter White is real. Credit: Boston University; WCBV; ABC News; KLTV; Cladwell County Sheriff’s Department While nobody has yet gone ‘full Heisenberg’, Vince Gilligan ’s message about the perils of meth production and distribution apparently failed to reach a handful of hard-up educators. William Duncan, a chemistry teacher from Texas, was arrested for selling home-cooked meth within school grounds; in 2011, 74-year-old mathematics professor Irina Kristy was caught running a meth lab from her Boston home; North Carolina teacher’s assistant and meth chef Marc Hodges was arrested earlier this year after suspiciously purchasing 1,000 cases of matches; and Stephen Doran, a Boston teacher with stage 3 cancer, was found dealing meth and arrested in May. But perhaps the most striking case of life imitating art occurred before Breaking Bad was even on television. In 2008, an Alabama man (main photo, above) earned a place on the state’s Most Wanted list thanks to his thriving meth business. Admittedly, he was neither a teacher nor a cancer sufferer. But his name? Walter White. 2. And so is Heisenberg. Credit: AP The name Walt gives to his alter ego, “Heisenberg”, is a tip of the hat to Werner Heisenberg, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize for developing the theory of quantum mechanics. 3. The cast is full of comedians. Credit: ALAMY "If you can do comedy you can do drama," Vince Gilligan said recently of his approach to casting. "It doesn’t necessarily flow the other way." Consequently, Breaking Bad is packed with funny men – even if they’re not always given the chance to show it. Bob Odenkirk (Saul) is well known as the co-creator of US TV’s last great sketch series, Mr Show; Bill Burr (Kuby) is a stand-up comic, as are Lavell Crawford (Huell), Steven Michael Quezada (poor Gomie), and Javier Grajeda (Gus Fring’s boss at the cartel, and the man who put a severed head on a tortoise). And before he was a struggling actor, Bryan Cranston spent several months as a floundering comedian. Watch Breaking Bad now on Amazon Prime 4. Gus Fring ended his life as a zombie. For the aptly titled season 4 finale, Face Off, Vince Gilligan sought help from the prosthetic-effects team behind AMC’s zombie series The Walking Dead . Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger made a model of Gustavo Fring’s exploded Evil-Dead-meets-Two-Face head, which was then digitally blended with actor Giancarlo Esposito’s real noggin. According to Gilligan, “ it took months ”. Gilligan got the idea for Fring's gruesome death from a real grisly ending that happened to a rocket scientist and ritualist called John Whitedale Parsons. Gilligan heard about him in Strange Angel, George Pendle's book. Parsons, who happened to practice black magic and had "some kind of sex cult going in Pasadena", according to Gilligan, "came to an unfortunate end when he was making up a batch of mercury fulminate for a special effects project. "Something went wrong and it blew up in his face. The story is that he survived with part of his face peeled off for several hours before he finally succumbed in the hospital." 5. Wendy the hooker is much healthier than she looks. Credit: AMC She was certainly perky when Jesse was around, but the show’s standout meth addict was never exactly a picture of good health. However, Julia Minesci, the actress who played the role of “Wendy S” from 2008-2010, has run the Hawaii Ironman six times, the Germany Ironman once and“ countless marathons ”. 6. Gale’s complete karaoke video – with Thai subtitles – is on YouTube. 7. And so is the Jesse Pinkman-directed video for Twaughthammer’s "Fallacies". 8. The White family home is an actual family home. Credit: REX Far from being a drug baron’s digs or even a building dreamt up by Vince Gilligan, Walter White’s house in Breaking Bad has been the real-life home of a woman called Fran since 1973. She admits that “a lot of artistic licence” | Account Suspended Account Suspended This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information. |
The Mexican drink Kahlua has a distinct taste of what? | Kahlua Coffee Liqueur mixed drinks: 30+ appetizing drink recipes. Kahlua Coffee Liqueur mixed drinks 1/1 Pour kahlua and white creme de menthe into an old-fashioned glass. Fill with chocolate milk, and serve. Serve in: Old-Fashioned Glass Leave ice-cream out for about 10 minutes. Add ingredients in order, stir with chopstick (butter knife or spoon works too). Consume immediately and often. Nice and light, great for following a heavy drink. 2% (4 proof) 4 oz Coca-Cola® Pour the Kahlua and Rumple Minze into a highball glass and pour the Coca-cola over the top. Put the glass to your mouth and enjoy the flavor. 15% (30 proof) 3 - 5 squirts chocolate syrup Mix all ingredients until no chocolate residue is left on bottom of glass. Serve chilled. Serve in: Collins Glass Fill blender with coffee ice-cream and the amount of kahula to your desire. Blend until drinkable, pour into a beer mug and garnish with a cinnamon stick. Serve in: Beer Mug Blend kahlua, creme de cacao, and frangelico. Add cream. Serve with ice cubes in highball glass. 17% (34 proof) 4 oz Coca-Cola® Build the kahlua, caribbean cream and milk (or half-and-half) over ice in a tall highball glass. Add coca-cola and stir gently. Add straws, and serve. 3% (6 proof) 2 shots Irish cream Pour chocolate milk into a large glass. Add 2 shots of kahlua and 2 shots of irish cream. Serve cold. 5% (10 proof) Carefully layer ingredients, in order, into a brandy snifter; grenadine, kahlua and then bailey's irish cream. 17% (34 proof) Pour all ingredients over ice (add cream to taste) in cocktail glass. Serve in: Cocktail Glass Mix all together. Serve in a collins glass over ice. 4% (8 proof) 1 handful cottage cheese Shake the chocolate syrup and kahlua, and slowly mix in the desired amount of cottage cheese. Serve cold. Serve in: Hurricane Glass Fill a blender about 3/4 full with vanilla ice-cream (not solid). Add the amaretto and kahlua, followed by the bailey's irish cream. Blend until smooth, and pour into tall glasses. Serve in: Hurricane Glass 1 oz whipped cream Add the Kahlua coffee liqueur, Tia Maria coffee liqueur, Cointreau and milk to a blender. Blend for 5 seconds, and pour into a highball glass almost filled with ice. Layer whipped cream on top, garnish with a half-strawberry, and serve. 10% (20 proof) 1 oz cream Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Add more cream if desired. Shake well. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice cubes, and serve. 7% (14 proof) fill with milk Pour creme de menthe and kahlua in a glass over ice. Add milk to fill. Garnish with whatever you'd like, and serve. Serve in: Highball Glass Pour all ingredients into a highball glass and stir. Add a straw, and serve. 4% (8 proof) fill with cola Shake kahlua, bailey's irish cream, frangelico, and jagermeister in an ice-filled shaker, and strain contents into an ice-filled highball glass. Fill with cola. 12% (24 proof) Stir or shake. Ice cream can be used instead of milk and blended in a blender. 8% (16 proof) 1 dash chocolate milk Coat the bottom of a collins glass with chocolate syrup. Fill the glass half-way with ice cubes. Add Kahlua coffee liqueur, Irish cream and creme de cacao. Fill with chocolate milk and shake gently. Sprinkle with chocolate shavings if desired, and serve. 8% (16 proof) | Log In - New York Times Log In Don't have an account? Sign up here » In order to access our Web site, your Web browser must accept cookies from NYTimes.com. More information » |
What can be a dressing, a language, and a condiment company? | Condiments - definition of Condiments by The Free Dictionary Condiments - definition of Condiments by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Condiments Also found in: Thesaurus , Medical , Wikipedia . con·di·ment n. A substance, such as a relish, vinegar, or spice, used to flavor or complement food. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin condīmentum, from condīre, to season; see dhē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] con′di·men′tal (-mĕn′tl) adj. condiment (Cookery) any spice or sauce such as salt, pepper, mustard, etc [C15: from Latin condīmentum seasoning, from condīre to pickle] con•di•ment something used to flavor food, as mustard, ketchup, salt, or spices. [1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin condīmentum spice =condī(re) to season] con`di•men′tal, adj. condiment - From Latin condimentum, from condire, "to pickle, preserve"; condiments are food substances used to heighten the natural flavor of foods, to stimulate the appetite, to aid digestion, or preserve certain foods. See also related terms for stimulate . ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1. condiment - a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment; "mustard and ketchup are condiments" relish - spicy or savory condiment dip - tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped flavorer , flavoring , flavourer , flavouring , seasoning , seasoner - something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts table mustard , mustard - pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds catsup , cetchup , ketchup , tomato ketchup - thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes chili sauce - tomatoes and onions and peppers (sweet or hot) simmered with vinegar and sugar and various seasonings chutney , Indian relish - a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices steak sauce - pungent bottled sauce for steak taco sauce - spicy tomato-based sauce for tacos salsa - spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods mint sauce - sweetened diluted vinegar with chopped mint leaves cranberry sauce - sauce made of cranberries and sugar duck sauce , hoisin sauce - a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment horseradish - grated horseradish root marinade - mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking soy sauce , soy - thin sauce made of fermented soy beans vinegar , acetum - sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food paste , spread - a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes wasabi - the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish condiment | Did you know? Did you know? One third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper. Gerald Ford said �I�ve watched a lot of baseball � on the radio�? In Connecticut a pickle must bounce to be legal. Shakespeare wrote that �brevity is the soul of wit.� Noted wit Dorothy Parker said it was �The soul of lingerie.� Thinking that its parents were a camel and a leopard, the Europeans once called the animal a �camelopard.� The African elephant produces the loudest sound of any animal, 188 decibels. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving. 15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes. According to an old age custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism. City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folk do. Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930. The average child will eat 1,500 PB sandwiches by high school graduation. Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Thames during the war of 1812. He was a powerful orator who defended his people against white settlement. When the war of 1812 broke out, he joined the British as a Brigadier General. When Edison was twelve years old, he began to lose his hearing. There are a number of stories that have been told about how this happened. Edison had Scarlett Fever as a child, but all the boys in Edison's' family also lost their hearing. Sources: triviacountry.com; alltrivia.net; funfunnyfacts.com; corsinet.com; historyplace.com; apecsec.org photo: freedigitalphotos.net October 2, 2015 |
Which pop star called one of her children 'Chudney'? | Diana Ross wows in white dress at daughter Chudney's wedding in Hawaii | Daily Mail Online comments She certainly made for a very sexy mother of the bride. On Sunday, Diana Ross, 71, looked flawless as she attended the wedding of her youngest daughter Chudney in Hawaii. Chudney - Diana's second daughter from her first married to music exec Robert Silberstein - tied the knot with her longterm partner Joshua Faulkner at the family ceremony in Maui, and looked stunning in a traditional white gown. Scroll down for video Love Supreme! Diana Ross, 71, shows off cleavage in white gown at her youngest daughter Chudney's wedding to Josua Faulkner in Hawaii on Sunday However, all eyes were on Diana, who also wore white, in a stunning low-cut dress that showed off her cleavage. Chudney and Joshua welcomed their first child, daughter Callaway Lane together back in September 2012, who is now two-years-old and acted as their flower girl on the big day. The pair got engaged in January earlier this year. Mother of the bride: Diana looked extremely proud as she stood beside her newly married daughter Stunning bride: Chudney is Diana's second daughter from her first married to music exec Robert Silberstein A beautiful bride: Chudney looked gorgeous in her detailed dress as she prepared to walk down the aisle with her flower girl - daughter Callaway Lane A family affair: The diva held hands with son Evan (who is married to Ashlee Simpson) as they made their way to the reception We're all here: Tracee Ellis Ross chatted with mother Diana as they awaited the bride and groom's arrival Sources told NY Daily News that the wedding event was a four-day affair with activies during the day and night. They revealed: 'It's one of those weddings where there's activities day and night and meals planned for every single meal. Very luxurious.' 'It'll be a full-on food, drink and music celebration. Everything's going to be taken care of for the guests.' Maid of honour?: While Traccee wore an elegant bronze gown, several bridesmaids were seen in pale pink The perfect day: The sun was shining down on the happy couple as they exchanged vows Fairytale gown: Chudney went for a classic look in a strapless gown with lots of tulle, and wedges underneath Getting set up: The bride and her mother spoke to the photographer about getting set up for the pictures Congratulations: Diana shared a hug with a friend after the ceremony According to the report, there was also a rehearsal dinner and a party on a yacht hosted by Diana. Chudney Ross is said to own a bookstore in Santa Monica called Books and Cookies. Siblings Tracee Ellis Ross, Rhonda Ross and Ross Naess were also in attendance. However, it was unclear if Evan Ross' new wife Ashlee Simpson attended the big day, but Evan was pictured in a family photo. Hostess with the mostest: Diana happily mingled with guests during the celebration You may now kiss the bride: Chudney and new husband Joshua puckered up for the photographer Where's Ashlee?: While Evan's heavily pregnant wife appeared to be missing, he shared a hug with sister Rhonda Party time: It looked like the guests were having a wonderful time celebrating the couple's union Heading down the aisle: Chudney had a veil on top of her half up, half down hair and carried a bouquet of pink flowers Getting the wedding album started: The family were on-hand for photos after the couple posed together | Buddy Holly - Singer - Biography.com Buddy Holly Buddy Holly was a singer/songwriter whose records, conveying a sense of the wide-open spaces of West Texas and unstoppable joie de vivre, remain vital today. IN THESE GROUPS Buddy Holly - Rock and Roll Legend (; 3:18) Buddy Holly was a pioneer in the world of rock and roll and had changed the face of music at the time until his tragic death in 1959. Synopsis Born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, Buddy Holly was an American singer/songwriter who produced some of the most distinctive and influential work in rock music. Already well versed in several music styles, he was a seasoned performer by age 16. With hits such as 'Peggy Sue' and 'That'll Be the Day,' Buddy Holly was a rising star when a tragic plane crash struck him down in 1959 at age 22. Early Life Singer. Born Charles Hardin Holley on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas. As the fourth and youngest child in his family, Holly was nicknamed "Buddy" by his mother, who felt that his given name was too big for her little boy. "Holly," the altered form of his last name, would later result from a misspelling in his first recording contract. Buddy Holly learned to play piano and fiddle at an early age, while his older brothers taught him the basics of guitar. A 1949 home recording of "My Two-Timin' Woman" showcases Holly's skilled, if prepubescent, singing voice. Holly's mother and father, a tailor by trade, both proved to be very supportive of their son's burgeoning musical talents, generating song ideas and even penning a letter to the editor of Lubbock's newspaper in defense of rock 'n' roll-loving teenagers lambasted in a conservative editorial. Despite his parents' support, Holly couldn't have become a founding father of rock 'n' roll without engaging in some degree of rebellion. Once a preacher at the local Tabernacle Baptist Church asked him, "What would you do if you had $10?" The young rocker reportedly muttered, "If I had $10, I wouldn't be here." Holly had clearly set his sights on something other than growing up to join his brothers in their tiling business. After high school, Holly formed a band and played country and western songs regularly on a Lubbock radio station. He frequently opened for more prominent national acts that toured through town. Bandmate Sonny Curtis viewed Holly's opening for Elvis Presley in 1955 as a crucial turning point for the singer. "When Elvis came along," Curtis recalls, "Buddy fell in love with Elvis and we began to change. The next day we became Elvis clones." Although the bespectacled, bow-tied youth lacked Elvis's incendiary sex appeal, Holly's conversion from country to rock 'n' roll did not go unnoticed. A record company talent scout soon caught his act at a skating rink and signed him to a contract. In early 1956, Holly and his band began recording demos and singles in Nashville under the name Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes, but the group's lineup was later revised and dubbed The Crickets. Holly wrote and recorded his breakthrough hit, "That'll Be the Day," with The Crickets in 1957. The song's title and refrain are a reference to a line uttered by John Wayne in the 1956 film The Searchers. Between August 1957 and August 1958, Holly and the Crickets charted seven different Top 40 singles. Coincidentally, "That'll Be the Day" topped the U.S. chart exactly 500 days before Holly's untimely death. Solo Career and Untimely Death In October 1958, Holly split from The Crickets and moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. Due to legal and financial problems resulting from the band's breakup, Holly reluctantly agreed to tour through the Midwest in 1959 with The Winter Dance Party. Tired of enduring broken-down buses in subfreezing conditions, Holly chartered a private plane to take him from a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, to the tour's next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota. Holly was joined on the doomed flight by fellow performers Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. The plane crashed within minutes of leaving the ground, killing all aboard. Buddy Holly was just 22 years old. 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What was the name of the former Russian spy who died in London in November 2006 of polonium poisoning? | Alexander Litvinenko: Profile of murdered Russian spy - BBC News BBC News Alexander Litvinenko: Profile of murdered Russian spy 21 January 2016 Close share panel Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Alexander Litvinenko fell ill after a meeting with former KGB contacts in London in 2006 A public inquiry into the killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has concluded that President Putin probably approved his assassination. But who was he and why did his death cause such controversy? Former spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed in November 2006, leading to a clouding of relations between London and Moscow. The 43-year-old had been an officer with the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, but he fled to Britain where he became a fierce critic of the Kremlin. In his final years he also became a British citizen. After he was killed by radioactive polonium-210 , believed to have been administered in a cup of tea, it emerged the father-of-one was being paid by the British secret service MI6. 'Serious poisoning' It is alleged Mr Litvinenko was investigating Spanish links to the Russian mafia and had planned to fly to Spain with former agent Andrei Lugovoi - the main suspect over his murder. At a central London hotel on 1 November 2006, he took tea with Mr Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, who was also a former Russian agent. Mr Litvinenko fell ill soon afterwards and spent the night vomiting. Three days later he was admitted to Barnet General Hospital in north London, where his condition gradually became a cause for concern. On 11 November he was interviewed by the BBC Russian Service and said he was in "very bad shape" after a "serious poisoning". Image copyright AP Image caption Mr Litvinenko had moved to the UK in 2000 During that same interview, Mr Litvinenko - a critic of the Putin regime - said he had been looking into the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya , who had received death threats before being shot at her Moscow apartment block the previous month. On 17 November he was transferred to University College Hospital in London after his condition worsened. He died six days later, with his wife Marina, father Walter, and son Anatoli at his bedside. His widow has said he blamed the Kremlin as he lay dying in hospital, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for "everything that happened to him". Russia denies any involvement. Assassination plot claims Born in the city of Voronezh in 1962, Mr Litvinenko joined a military unit of the Soviet Union's interior ministry in 1980 and reportedly joined the KGB eight years later. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel when the KGB became the FSB in the 1990s. Mr Putin was his ultimate boss at the FSB but they reportedly fell out over corruption within the FSB. In 1998, Mr Litvinenko was arrested on charges of abusing his office after exposing an alleged plot to assassinate Boris Berezovsky, the Russian tycoon who was found dead at his Ascot home in March 2013. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Police investigating the poisoning sealed off several premises, including this Itsu restaurant, for a period afterwards He spent nine months in a remand centre before being acquitted. After leaving the service Mr Litvinenko wrote a book, Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within, in which he claimed FSB agents had been responsible for the bombing of apartment blocks in Moscow and two other cities in 1999. The bombings were blamed on Chechen separatists and his book claimed they were used as a pretext for the second Russian invasion of Chechnya. Mr Litvinenko fled to the UK in 2000, claiming persecution, and was granted asylum. He is understood to have taken British citizenship in 2006. After his death, suspicion fell on Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun, the two Russians he had met for tea at the Millennium Hotel. The inquiry into Mr Litvinenko's death heard that he may have also been poisoned with polonium in the October before he died, at an earlier meeting with the suspects at a private security firm in Mayfair, central London. | Alexander Litvinenko 'was poisoned twice with polonium-210' inquiry hears - Telegraph Law and Order Alexander Litvinenko 'was poisoned twice with polonium-210' inquiry hears Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is thought to have been poisoned with polonium-210 on October 16 and November 1, 2006 By Gordon Rayner, and Tom Whitehead 6:44PM GMT 27 Jan 2015 Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned “not once, but twice” with radioactive polonium-210 by a Russian “death squad” sent by Vladimir Putin, an inquiry into his killing has heard. The former KGB spy had already survived one attempt on his life by the time he ingested a fatal dose of the rare isotope, but mistakenly thought he was suffering from food poisoning when the first murder attempt made him sick. Samples of his hair proved that polonium had entered his body on two separate occasions weeks apart, the inquiry into his death in 2006 was told. For the first time, it also emerged that one of the two prime suspects in the killing had approached a contact in Germany and asked if he knew a chef in London who could slip a “very expensive poison” into Litvinenko’s food or drink. On the first day of the inquiry, which replaces an inquest into the 43-year-old’s death and has the power to hear secret evidence from intelligence sources, the chairman Sir Robert Owen was given the most detailed account to date of the events surrounding the “state sponsored” assassination. Related Articles Alexander Litvinenko Inquiry: as it happened 27 Jan 2015 He was told that Andrey Lugovoy, a former KGB bodyguard, and former soldier Dmitry Kovtun slipped into the country twice with supplies of polonium-210 and administered the fatal dose in a pot of green tea during a meeting with Litvinenko at London’s Millennium Hotel on November 1, 2006. But Robin Tam QC, council to the Inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, disclosed that Litvinenko had been the subject of an earlier assassination attempt, during a meeting with Lugovoy and Kovtun at a business premises on October 16 that year. Lugovoy and Kovtun had flown into the country on that date, and checked into the Best Western Hotel in Shaftesbury Avenue. According to Mr Tam, they had smuggled polonium-210 in their luggage, and left traces of it in their adjacent rooms, 107 and 108. The radioactive material is easily concealed because its alpha radiation is simple to contain and it does not emit gamma radiation of the sort that might be picked up by airport scanners. Litvinenko had agreed to meet the two men in the boardroom of Erinys, a private security company, where they allegedly slipped him a dose of the poison, which is deadly if ingested in sufficient quantities. Mr Tam said: “One of the most significant things the evidence suggests is that Mr Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium not once but twice. “It suggests two things - attempts to poison Mr Litvinenko were made at both meetings and that those attempts met with some success on both occasions. “Hair samples that are available indicate that Mr Litvinenko may well have been poisoned twice and that the first occasion being much less severe than the second.” On the evening of October 16, Litvinenko, 43, vomited when he got home and put it down to food poisoning. The two men left the country on October 18, but on October 30 Kovtun, who had previously lived in Hamburg where he worked in a restaurant, returned to the German city and met a former colleague, referred to only as D3. Mr Tam said: “Mr Kovtun raised the subject of Mr Litvinenko, who was unknown to D3. Mr Kovtun said that Mr Litvinenko was a traitor with blood on his hands who did deals with Chechnya.” Kovtun asked D3 whether he knew any cooks working in London, because: “He had a very expensive poison and that he needed the cook to put the poison in Mr Litvinenko's food or drink.” D3 thought at the time that Kovtun was “talking rubbish” and only later reported the conversation to the authorities. He did know a chef in London, and gave Kovtun his number, which Kovtun later called to ask for a meeting. Two days later, on |
What are Windsor, Neuschwanstein, and Blarney? | 1000+ images about CaStLEs on Pinterest | Castle homes, Cork ireland and Eilean donan Forward This is Swallow’s Nest Castle an architectural folly, located on the Crimean shore in southern Ukraine, built between 1911-1912 ontop of 130 ft high Aurora Cliff. Designed by Russian architect Leonid Sherwood, the castle overlooks Ai-Todor cape of the Black Sea and is located near the remnants of the Roman castrum of Charax. See More | Battle of Blenheim Battle of Blenheim The Duke of Marlborough’s spectacular defeat of the hitherto invincible French army of Louis XIV The Duke of Marlborough leads the attack at the Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession: picture by Harry Payne The previous battle in the British Battles series is the Siege of Basing House The next battle in the War of the Spanish Succession is the Battle of Ramillies Battle: Blenheim War: Spanish Succession Date of the Battle of Blenheim: 2nd August 1704 (Old Style) (13th August 1704 New Style). The dates in this page are given in the Old Style. To translate to the New Style add 11 days Place of the Battle of Blenheim: On the Danube in Southern Germany. Combatants at the Battle of Blenheim: British, Austrians, Hungarians, Hanoverians, Prussians, Danes and Hessians against the French and Bavarians. John Churchill Duke of Marlborough: Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession Generals at the Battle of Blenheim: The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy against Marshall Tallard, Marshall Marsin and the Elector of Bavaria. Size of the armies at the Battle of Blenheim: There is considerable dissent on the size of the respective armies. The French and Bavarian armies probably comprised 60,000 men (69 battalions of foot and 128 squadrons of horse) and around 60 guns. The Allied army comprised 56,000 men (51 battalions of foot and 92 squadrons of horse), of which 16,000 (14 battalions of foot and 18 squadrons of horse and dragoons) were British and 52 guns. There is considerable variation in the numbers attributed to the French and Bavarian armies: some authorities put their strength as high as 72,000 men with 200 guns. French sources quoted by Sullivan in his book “The Irish Brigades” give the relative strengths as: French and Bavarians: 43,900 men, in 78 battalions and 127 squadrons, with 90 cannon. British and Allies: 60,150 men in 66 battalions and 181 squadrons, with 66 cannon (French battalions having 400 men to the Allied 500 and the French squadrons 100 to the Allied 150). Prince Eugene of Savoy: Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession Uniforms, arms and equipment at the Battle of Blenheim: The British Army of Queen Anne comprised troops of Horse Guards, regiments of horse, dragoons, Foot Guards and foot. In time of war the Department of Ordnance provided companies of artillery, the guns drawn by the horses of civilian contractors. These types of formation were largely standard throughout Europe. In addition the Austrian Empire possessed numbers of irregular light troops; Hussars from Hungary and Bosniak and Pandour troops from the Balkans. During the 18th Century the use of irregulars spread to other armies until every European force employed hussar regiments and light infantry for scouting duties. Horse and dragoons carried swords and short flintlock muskets. Dragoons had largely completed their transition from mounted infantry to cavalry and were formed into troops rather than companies as had been the practice in the past. However they still used drums rather than trumpets for field signals. Infantry regiments fought in line, armed with flintlock musket and bayonet, orders indicated by the beat of drum. The field unit for infantry was the battalion comprising ten companies, each commanded by a captain, the senior company being of grenadiers. Drill was rudimentary and once battle began formations quickly broke up. The practice of marching in step was in the future. French soldiers marching to join their regiment: Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession: picture by Jean Anthoine Watteau The paramount military force of the period was the French army of Louis XIV, the Sun King. France was at the apex of her power, taxing to the utmost the disparate groupings of European countries that struggled to keep the Bourbons on the western bank of the Rhine and north of the Pyrenees. Marlborough and his British regiments acted as an uncertain mortar in keeping |
Who won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest for the UK with their song ‘Save Your Kisses For Me’? | Eurovision 1976 - United Kingdom - YouTube Eurovision 1976 - United Kingdom Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Feb 18, 2008 Brotherhood of Man performing (and cutely dancing to) "Save Your Kisses for Me", the UK entry at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest. After winning that year's vote by one of the largest margins in ESC history, this song became one of the biggest hits to come out of the contest, even scoring big in the US (something quite rare for a Eurovision entry). It especially soared in the British charts, of course, where the group subsequently had two more #1 hits with songs "Figaro" and "Angelo". Read more about Brotherhood of Man here: | Past Eurovision Song Contest winners from the UK - ITV News 9 May 2014 at 10:51am Past Eurovision Song Contest winners from the UK Lulu won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. Photo: Youtube Despite the recent run of disappointments, the UK is still considered to be one of the most successful countries to compete in the Eurovison Song Contest, and many of our biggest stars have sang in the competition. The UK first participated in the competition in 1957 and has gone on to claim first place five times. Hoping to join the UK's hall of Eurovision fame this year is Molly Smitten-Downes, who will perform her self-written song Children of the Universe. Ahead of tomorrow's competition, we take a look back through the history of United Kingdom's best moments. 1967: Sandie Shaw became the first winner from the UK with her hit Puppet On A String. 1969: Lulu joined Spain, Netherlands and France in first place with her hit Boom Bang A Bang. 1976: Brotherhood of man were the first band from the United Kingdom to win with their single Save Your Kisses For Me. 1981: The band Bucks Fizz, who formed specifically for Eurovision, sang their way to first place with their hit Making Your Mind Up. 1997: Katrina & The Waves were the first UK winning Eurovision entry for 16 years singing Love Shine a Light. |
What kind of creature is a 'mugger'? | The Mugger Crocodile – Interesting Facts & Knowledge - Ground Reptiles Follow It's Nature on Facebook Mugger Crocodile The Mugger is a true crocodile but is one of the most like an alligator of all crocodiles, both in what it looks like as well as how it lives and behaves. They is a fairly large sized crocodile, and can reach about 15-16 feet in length. Generally the male mugger crocodile will weigh more than the female and be longer. The mugger crocodile has a very broad snout, which is what primarily gives them the look of an American alligator. Their head is fairly flattened on the top, and the eyes, ears and nostrils are on the same surface. This permits the Mugger crocodile to both see and hear, as well as to small while they are nearly all the way under the water. The eyes of the mugger crocodile are kept protected by the presence of a third eyelid, which is called a nictitating membrane. This nictitating membrane is crystal clear to permit the crocodile to see and keep the water out of the eye. The mugger crocodile Inside their mouths will be about 68 teeth,which is part of what will distinguish the crocodile from an alligator. Mugger crocodile teeth are aligned perfectly with each other, while those of an alligator are not so, but instead are jagged in growth. The mugger crocodile, like all crocodilians is an excellent swimmer, and uses his flat tail to propel himself forward in the water. They have webbed feet however these are not used for swimming. The body of the Mugger Crocodile is well armored by a scaly hide with larger scutes on the neck that look much like the American alligator. The adult is gray or brown, while the smaller juveniles are about ten inches long and are lighter tan, with bands of black on the tail and the back. The mugger crocodile hunting on sand The mugger crocodile hunting on sand The mugger crocodile is a good traveler even on land and if the pool of fresh water they live is dries up, they will travel a long distance to find more water. The females begin to breed at about six years of age while the males are not mature enough until about ten years of age. The female can then breed until she is about thirty years old. The female will dig a nest in a sloping type bank, deposit her eggs about a month after breeding. She will lay between ten and forty five eggs. The female does protect the nest and will guard it until the young hatch. When they do, both mother and father will take the young to the water, and they will stay with the parents until about a year old. Interestingly enough the temperature of the nest is what will determine whether the young are male or female. If it is about 32.5 C the embryos are all males. Between 28-31C all the animals will be females. The mugger crocodile chasing his meal The mugger crocodile chasing his meal The adults capture large prey, such as fish, turtles, snakes, and sometimes even monkeys, deer and buffalo to eat. In the early 1800′s there were thought to be many thousands of mugger crocodiles, and the species was common throughout India where it was seen on a daily bases, but hunting and trapping brought the population of Muggers to the brink of extinction. In 1867 the last sighting of a mugger crocodile in Myanmar took place. In the 1970′s, awareness of the problems for the crocodiles saw new laws enacted and captive breeding brought the wild population up to 5000. See what you can find... dev Is good to see that Indian crocodiles taking a large space in the number of crocodiles. | Bookride: Rupert Annual 1973 Rupert Annual 1973 (Alfred Bestall.) THE RUPERT ANNUAL.The Daily Express, London 1973. Current Selling Prices $20,000+/£10000+ Rupert annuals are a popular series published by the 'Daily Express'. I am not sure whether today's children read them much but I remember them as magical books and alot of kids read them into their teens. Grown ups now pay serious money for the right ones. Some people found them slightly scary, but they would probably now find some of Harry Potter's encounters frightening. They still appear every day in the Express. Certainly they are highly collectable in England and possibly by British expats all over the globe. At the excellent World Collector's net they have a good guide to all Rupert collectables -not just books but records, 'plush' bears, various games, jigsaws and Lledo diecast vans, string puppets, and the Bendy Toys' rubber Rupert which could be posed in various ways. There are also many badges and brooches and 'pins.' Of the books they say: A lady called Mary Tourtel was the creator of Rupert, and her first cartoon strip appeared in the Daily Express on the 8th November 1920. The little bear, in many ways similar to today's character though a bit more 'bear-like', and with baggier trousers, was shown setting out to the shops in the village of Nutwood. The caption was in verse. Mary designed many of Rupert's chums, too, including Bill Badger, Podgy Pig and Edward Trunk and dreamt up the strange, almost surreal world of Nutwood which featured people in medieval dress wandering amongst a mix of incongruities such as clothed animals (who often kept unclothed animals as pets), 'normal' humans, and weird scientific inventions. Mary was fond of using magic to whisk her bear hero away from trouble; her successor, the much-respected Alfred Bestall who took over in 1935, relied on proper twists in the plot. He also introduced a host of new characters, such as Pong-Ping, Bingo Pup, the Professor, Merboy and Tigerlily. Alfred drew the stories up till 1965, and his last adventure was 'Rupert and the Winkybickies', though he continued to work on the annuals. In 1973, he was upset when a white Rupert was featured on the cover, rather than the traditional brown. Alfred had planned his beautiful painting around a brown bear, and felt there was no contrast between the white Rupert and the pale sky behind him. He was also aware that, artistically, there should have been a shadow on Rupert's face. To appease the artist, a handful of annuals from that year were printed with a brown Rupert, and today, to discover a 1973 annual with a brown-faced Rupert is a collector's dream. VALUE? A fine copy is appearing in auction at Duke's of Dorchester this week. It is estimated at £5000 to £7000. Another copy in a lot is estimated at £5000 to £8000. The fact that that there are two might give a hardened dealer pause for thought as there are only supposed to be about 15 in existence. Duke's, in a slightly different version of the tale, say: 'Alfred Bestall was asked to provide the cover illustration for the 1973 annual and as per his earlier designs, gave Rupert his usual brown face whilst the illustrations within the annual show Rupert with a white face. After printing a small run of the annual, the Express decided to alter Bestall's original colourings of Rupert, changing him from brown to white at the request of many young readers who could not understand why Rupert was brown on the cover but white inside. Bestall was incensed at this decision and never illustrated another cover for the Express. The remaining run of the 1973 annual with a white faced Rupert on the cover continued to use Bestall's signature but the publishers altered the colour of the signature to disguise it in an attempt to appease Bestall. The limited number of brown faced 1973 annuals printed makes this annual particularly rare and only 12 others are believed to exist.' I shall watch this auction and report back. Early Rupert annuals can fetch good money and the 1936 annual can currently be found on the web in a j |
In the 18th century John Harrison solved the problem of determining longitude at sea using what instrument? | John Harrison's 'longitude' clock sets new record - 300 years on | The Independent John Harrison's 'longitude' clock sets new record - 300 years on Greenwich horologists celebrate as it keeps to within a second of real time over a 100-day test Saturday 18 April 2015 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online The clock, built from instructions in a book from the 18th century, completes its test National Maritime Museum Down in a basement room of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, history was quietly made one morning last week, witnessed by a dozen experts in horology – the esoteric science of measuring time. Bolted for stability to one of the supporting pillars holding the Observatory’s 18-ton telescope, stands a timepiece with a difference. Designed 300 years ago but completed only now, this chronometer officially became “the most accurate mechanical clock with a pendulum swinging in free air”, certified by Guinness World Records. As the clock’s pendulum swung with a remorseless rhythm, the experts crowded round the sealed Perspex case containing the clock’s elaborate metal workings. They agreed that it was still accurate to within a second of real time, measured by a radio-controlled clock receiving the national time signal and the BT speaking clock ringing out in the background. For the past 100 days, the clock has been part of an official trial to see if it could keep time as well as its inventor, 18th-century clock designer John Harrison, had claimed. Harrison, who was the subject of Dava Sobell’s bestselling book Longitude (1995), which told the story of his solving of the problem of determining longitude at sea, had boasted that his latest pendulum clock would neither lose nor gain more than a second in 100 days. Last Thursday morning his claim was shown to be as accurate as the timepiece he had designed. John Harrison, the 18th-century clock designer, and inventor of the clock The clock, known as the Martin Burgess Clock B after its modern-day maker, was set ticking a year ago but it soon became apparent it was going to be a record-breaker, which is why the Observatory placed wax seals on its Perspex case for a certifiable 100-day trial. “Today sees the culmination of a trial within a trial,” said Jonathan Betts, a member of the Antiquarian Horological Society and senior specialist in horology at the Royal Observatory. “As soon as we set the clock running it was clear that it was performing incredibly well, so then we got the case sealed because nobody was going to believe how well the clock was running.” In his later years, Harrison had left instructions on how to build the clock in an obscure book, which was so hard to read it became known as “the ramblings of superannuated dotage” by later horologists. “It was a claim that Harrison made and a claim nobody believed because the best clocks of the day couldn’t do better than about a second a week, if they were lucky,” Mr Betts said. “So the idea that somebody was going to keep time to an accuracy of a second in a 100 days was preposterous. It was only in the 20th century that people thought that Harrison may have been right.” Mr Burgess, with the help of the Charles Frodsham company, based the clock on Harrison’s designs but used modern materials, chiefly duraluminium and invar (a nickel-iron alloy). The mechanism, however, is from Harrison’s instructions. “This does not claim to be a replica of Harrison’s clock. It claims to be the use of Harrison’s design and concept. It’s important to realise his design goes against everything the establishment has claimed is the best throughout history,” Mr Betts said. Traditional clockmaking argued that a heavy pendulum bob and a short swing would make for good timekeeping. However, Harrison thought the opposite and designed a clock with a relatively light pendulum bob and wide swing. “That was such a radical difference it was another reason why they didn’t believe it. They thought it was rather heretical,” Mr Betts explained. Rory McEvoy, the Observatory’s curator of horology, said Clock B had performed better than an | USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), Boston, Massachusetts Bow of USS Constitution During the American Civil War, she was used as a training ship for United States Naval Academy midshipmen. Constitution was retired from active service in 1881, but she still sailed, notably on a 90-city tour of the USA in 1931. She is the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat. Docked in Boston Harbor at the Charlestown Navy Yard ( map ), she was in a deteriorated condition, but was restored for her 200th birthday in 1997, and she sailed out into Boston harbor under her own power then, and again in 2012. In May 2015 she again moved into Dry Dock 1 at the Charlestown Navy Yard for repairs, including replacement of the 3400 copper sheets that protect her hull from wood-boring sea worms. Constitution had been the first ship to enter Dry Dock 1—in 1833. Repairs are expected to take three years and cost $12 to $15 million. Constitution is open to visits during repairs, which are not carried out during visiting hours. Admission to the shipyard and to the ship is free of charge. When you visit the USS Constitution, if you're 18 years of age or older, you must present a government identification document such as a driver's license or passport, and you will pass through a security check: metal detector and x-ray of bags. You may visit the top deck of the vessel on your own. To visit belowdecks, you must take the free 30-minute guided tour. In the historic granite drydock (1833) next to the USS Constitution is the USS Cassin Young (DD-793), a Fletcher-class destroyer built in 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The Cassin Young, named for a US Navy captain awarded the Medal of Honor, saw much action in the Pacific during WWII, and was retired in 1960. The nearby USS Constitution Museum , a separate entity, houses many artifacts dealing with the Constitution's history and its 40 battles at sea (all won), besides a "Life at Sea" exhibit, showing what shipboard life was like in 1812. Donations are suggested for the museum. The Boston National Historical Park - Charlestown Navy yard also offers programs on the Navy Yard and the American Revolution in Building No. 5 (between the ship and the USS Constitution Museum). Check the USS Constitution website for information on visiting hours. The easiest way to reach the Charlestown Navy Yardand USS Constitution is by MBTA F-4 Inner Harbor Ferry from Long Wharf near the New England Aquarium . You can also take the MBTA Orange Line subway to the Community College station and walk to Bunker Hill or to the Charlestown Navy Yard. |
What colour Onions was a 1962 instrumental hit single for Booker T & the Mgs? | Green Onions - Booker T & the MG's - YouTube Green Onions - Booker T & the MG's Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011 The classic 1962 instrumental hit Green Onions by Booker T & the MG's. Actors and actresses dancing to this very cool song include: Marilyn Monroe, Eli, Wallach, Thelma Ritter, Clark Gable (The Misfits 1961) Sophia Loren (It Started in Naples 1960) Jayne Mansfield (Dog Eat Dog! 1964) Natalie Wood (Gypsy 1962) Kim Novak, William Holden (Picnic 1955) Anita Ekberg (La Dolce Vita 1960) Ann-Margret (The Swinger 1966) Gina Lollobrigida, Rock Hudson (Come September 1961) Romy Schneider, Jack Lemmon (Good Neighbor Sam 1964) Brigitte Bardot (Come Dance With Me! 1959) Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966) Jill St. John (The Oscar 1966) Mamie Van Doren (Untamed Youth 1957) Shirley MacLaine, Gene Kelly (What a Way to Go! 1964) Cyd Charisse, Robert Taylor (Party Girl 1958) Raquel Welch (Flareup 1969) | Account Suspended Account Suspended This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information. |
In which US state is the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway, the longest bridge in America? | 44 Fueled by one of the greatest economic booms in world history, China has been on an infrastructure-building spree of late. In 2010 and 2011, the country opened four new massive bridges, giving it claim to four of the five longest bridges in the world. China now boasts seven of the 10 longest bridges in the world, all built within the past decade. Such engineering feats were once mainly the province of the United States, which for much of the latter half of the 20th century boasted most of the longest bridges in the world. Here are the 10 longest bridges in the U.S., and no matter how well traveled you are, four or five of these bridges will come as a surprise. (Distances are given as the total bridge length, including approaches on shore.) 10. General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge The two spans of the W.K. Wilson Bridge carry Interstate 65 across the Mobile River just northeast of Mobile, Alabama. Finished in 1978, the bridge stretches 6.08 miles and its architectural curves prompted locals to nickname it “The Dolly Parton Bridge.” 9. Sunshine Skyway Bridge Photo credit: Jeff Kinsey/Shutterstock.com This world-famous bridge stretches 6.51 miles across Tampa Bay between the St. Petersburg area and Terra Ceia, Florida. The current span was completed in 1987, replacing an earlier bridge that was heavily damaged in 1980 when a freighter collided with a support column, sending a quarter-mile of the bridge — and 11 vehicles — into the water 150 feet below. The incident claimed 35 lives. Given its picturesque, cable-stayed design, the Travel Channel ranked the bridge No. 3 on its list of Top 10 Bridges in the World. Sadly, in addition to drawing tourists, the bridge also is a popular site for suicide-prone individuals. More than 130 suicides have been confirmed, with many others suspected, and many would-be jumpers have been talked down from the bridge. 8. Seven-Mile Bridge Photo credit: Travel Bug/Shutterstock.com Part of the famous Overseas Highway connecting mainland Florida with the Keys, this 6.76-mile-long bridge carries U.S. 1 from Knight’s Key to Little Duck Key. The bridge is the movie star of structures on this list, with appearances in several films, including True Lies and License to Kill. Large portions of an adjacent bridge, finished in 1912, still stand. 7. San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Photo credit: Calbook Addict This 7-mile bridge, which crosses San Francisco Bay, is the only structure on this list west of Louisiana. Almost 93,000 vehicles a day take it between San Mateo and Alameda counties. Opened in 1967, the bridge on California Route 92 was legendary for its rush-hour traffic snarls before being widened in 2003. 6. Jubilee Parkway The second bridge on this list in south Alabama, this 8-mile-long twin viaduct carrying Interstate 10 across Mobile Bay opened in 1978. As for the bridge’s moniker, Jubilee refers to a bizarre but much-celebrated local event when fish, crabs, shrimp and other sea creatures suddenly swarm into the shallow waters of Mobile Bay, and even crawl or slither their way onto land. 5. Bonnet Carre Spillway Bridge Photo credit: Ray Devlin The Bonnet Carre Spillway made national news in 2011, when it was opened to relieve catastrophic flooding on the Mississippi River. The 11-mile spillway bridge, in St. Charles Parrish, Louisiana, carries Interstate 10 and U.S. 61. 4. Atchafalaya Basin Bridge Photo credit: Jane Doughnut The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge carries two spans of I-10 over the Atchafalaya River and swamp, the largest swamp in the United States. It connects Lafayette and Baton Rouge. Opened in 1973, it checks in at 18.2 miles and is longer than the No. 2 bridge on this list (see below) if measuring shore-to-shore. 3. Manchac Swamp Bridge Photo credit: Melanie Commander Thibodaux These twin structures carry Interstate 55 22.80 miles over the Manchac Swamp in southern Louisiana. It’s one of four bridges on this list located in the state of Louisiana, and several other bridges from the Pelican State almost qualified. 2. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Photo credit: Kubina Not to be c | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: October 2015 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League 1st round of the cup 27th October Questions compiled by the Plough Horntails and the Robin Hood. 1. What is the capital of the US State of Kansas? A. Topeka 2. What is the capital of the US State of Connecticut? A. Hartford 3. Which Shipping Area lies between Wight and Plymouth A. Portland? 4. Which Shipping Area lies between South East Iceland and Fair Isle A. Faeroes? 5. Name the castle in Kent which was the home of the Boleyn family when their daughter Anne married Henry VIII. A. Hever Castle 6. Monticello in the US state of Virginia was the home of which of their Presidents? A. Thomas Jefferson 7. Which actress played Elizabeth Bennet to Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy in the TV production of Pride & Prejudice? A. Jennifer Ehle 8. Which actor played Inspector George Gently? A. Martin Shaw 9. Neville Norway was the real name of which 20th C novelist? A. Nevil Shute 10. David Ivor Davies was the real name of which 20th C composer and entertainer? A. Ivor Novello 11. In which city was the composer Frederick Delius born in 1862? A.Bradford 12. What was the title of the first novel in Terry Prachett's Discworld series? A.The colour of magic 13. What military rank was held by James Bond? A.Commander, Royal Navy. 14. Who was the artistic director for the London 2012 Olympic Opening ceremony? A.Danny Boyle. 15. What is the capital of Namibia? A.Windhoek 16. Who founded the Bauhaus school of architecture and design in Germany in 1919? A.Walter Gropius. 17. Which British playwright wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"? A.Tom Stoppard 18. Who in 1932 became the first female to fly non-stop across the Atlantic single-handed? A.Amelia Earhart 19. Which was the first country to host a FIFA World Cup tournament for a second time? A.Mexico (1970 & 1986). 20. Which author wrote the novels "Blott on the Landscape" and "Porterhouse Blue"? A Tom Sharpe. 21. In which castle was Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned and later executed? A Fotheringay. 22. Which obstacle to navigation does the Welland Canal bypass? A Niagara Falls 23. Mountain, Grevys and Plains are the three subspecies of which animal? A Zebra. 24. In Shakespeare’s plays who are Valentine and Proteus? A The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 25. On which river does the city of Hereford stand? A Wye 26. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, what was the name of the computer that gave 42 as the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? A Deep Thought 27. Whose official country residence is Dorneywood, Buckinghamshire? A Chancellor of the Exchequer. 28. What is the name for a line on a map connecting points of equal underwater depth? A Isobath 29. From which plant are vanilla pods obtained? A.Orchid, specifically the Vanilla Orchid. 30. Who wrote the book “The Interpretation of Dreams”? A.Sigmund Freud. 31. Near which city are the villages of Bevendean, Saltdean and Roedean? A.Brighton & Hove (accept Brighton) 32. In which county are the villages of Melmerby, Langwathby and Glassonby ? A.Cumbria 33. Where is Narita airport? A.Tokyo 34. Which city is served by airports called Tegel and Schoenefeld? A.Berlin 35. What was the name given to the 8-engine aircraft designed & owned by Howard Hughes in the 1940’s? A.The Spruce Goose 36. Who referred to the English as a ‘Nation of Shopkeepers’? A.Napoleon Bonaparte 37. Which state in the USA has the words ‘THE FIRST STATE’ on its car number plates? A.Delaware …. It was the first state to recognise the US constitution 38. Which state in the USA has the words ‘FIRST IN FLIGHT STATE’ on its car number plates? A.North Carolina ... it was where the Wright Brothers were working. 39. Playing (Played) in the 2015 Rugby Union world cup, which team has the nickname of ‘The Cherry Blossoms’? A.Japan 40. Also playing in the 2015 Rugby Union world cup, what is the nickname of Canada? A.`The Canucks` 41. What is the name given to the top vertebra of the spinal column? A.Atlas. ( also accept C1 vertebra or top Cervical) 42. Which car company used the words ‘Hand |
Baku is the capital of which country? | Baku - The capital of Azerbaijan - Baku Home » Baku » Baku - The capital of Azerbaijan Baku - The capital of Azerbaijan Baku - the capital of Azerbaijan, the largest city in the Caucasus and one of the most beautiful cities in the world is compared with Naples, San Francisco and other big cities of the world. The city is situated on the southern coast of the Absheron Peninsula and is the largest port in the Caucasus. According to one version, the name Azerbaijan comes from the Persian language "Badkube" - "wind blow", probably because of strong winds, hence "Baku - the city of winds", according to another version, Baku means - a city on the hill. The name Azerbaijan is found in written sources from the IX century. But the historical sources indicate that the settlements on the place of the city appeared long time ago. They tell about the area, notable with "flames rising from underwater rocks". These "eternal" fires appeared in spots of natural gas yield. The evidences of the ancient age of the city are rock carvings left by primitive people on the walls of caves in Absheron and Gobustan (12 thousand years ago), as well as various archaeological finds, rock inscription left by Augustus, Gaius Octavius, narrating of military camps, set in this area in the I century BC. Considering all given above, we can establish that the city of Baku is more than 5,5 thousand years old. Throughout its history the city has endured a lot - several times he was completely burned and looted, but revived again. Today Baku is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. In the capital of Azerbaijan , are spoken three languages: Azeri, Turkish and Russian. In Baku you can feel the fusion of eras and cultures and meet the architectural monuments of various international schools of architecture. In Baku resides over half of the whole country’s population (more than two million inhabitants). Here concentrated the oldest oil fields, the famous Oil Stones of deep base, powerful crane vessels, modern floating rigs. Baku is also a cultural center of Azerbaijan. Here was opened the first National Theatre, the first library and appeared in print the first newspaper. In the modern city is also well developed the entertainment industry: 7 theaters, 11 universities, 30 museums, a philharmonic society, libraries and cinemas, restaurants and nightclubs. | Azerbaijan - Travel Information and Guide Saturday 5°-3° Welcome to Azerbaijan.com ! We are part of the Travelagents.com Network and one of over 50 Online City Guides - offering the best online travel deals from a choice of well known providers. Azerbaijan.com provides a variety of information on available activities and travel services around the Azerbaijan area. Azerbaijan Activities Maiden Tower (Qiz Qalasi) The Maiden Tower is one of the most dominant architectural pieces, due to its vague design and the stories that surround it. Said to be built in the 12th century originally on the shore of Caspian Sea, it was supposed to serve as a watch tower. But the construction and architecture, points the needle to 2,500 years back. Icheri Sheher Icheri Sheher or the Old Inner City is the oldest part of Baku and is surrounded by fortification walls dating back to the 9th century. The streets inside the historical core of the city have been designed to block the strong winds coming from the Caspian Sea. Search news: |
What weed is named from the French 'lion's tooth'? | A Dandelion Is A Weed - All About Lawns A Dandelion Is A Weed by Alex Russel, All About Lawns Columnist Stumbleupon September 22, 2006 The dandelion is a strange plant. To some it is a powerful medicinal herb, or a delicious food, while to (most) others it's a mere lawn nuisance. Here is an introduction to a puzzling plant. When autumn comes, to most lawn experts, it is time to break out the fertilizer and maintenance chemicals. Fall is the perfect time to improve a lawn, tired from the hot summer sun. How would you like to improve your lawn? Make it greener Do you own your home? Yes Weed Plant Or Friend? Dandelion is a good example of a Weed Plant that you can go after in the fall. It is much easier to attack the deep-rooted weed in a lawn made wet by the rain and overnight dew. If you wait until spring, it becomes much trickier to get to the weed without hurting your lawn, too. Dandelions are especially infuriating to lawn care experts because the plant is usually the first to season in the Spring. Dandelions then quickly horde water and nutrients, while absorbing spring sunshine with broad, porous leaves. These may make nice lettuce like vegetables for some, but they steal nutrients from your lawn. Dandelions Means Lawn Needs Attention As with all weeds, a surfeit of dandelions simply means that the lawn itself needs attention. The big rooted plant makes its home on your lawn when grass roots are most likely skimpy and weak. The solution is to not only attend to your grass, but to also focus on the soil. For healthy soil, spread an inch of mature compost evenly over the lawn and let the autumn rains wash it down to the roots over the winter. This is best achieved by dumping the compost out from a wheelbarrow into several piles and then raking it around evenly on the lawn (a job most children can do!). Weed Known As Lion's Teeth The word dandelion comes from a kind of linguistic accident. It's an Anglicization of the French "dent de lion," or "lion's tooth," perhaps inspired by the serrated leaf edge. The late weed historian Larry Mitich guessed that the word arrived in England in the 11th century, with the Normans. Another French name for the weed plant, "pissenlit," occasionally is found on restaurant menus; it means "wet the bed" and refers, funnily enough, to mildly diuretic properties of the plant. Source Arizona Republic About the Author Alex Russel is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Since graduating from Syracuse University he has worked at many different media companies in fields as diverse as film, TV, advertising, and journalism. He holds a dual bachelor's degree in English and History. Related Searches | Forget-me-not (Myosotis scorpioides) Scientific Name: Myosotis scorpioides Family: Forget-me-not (Boraginaceae) Other Common Names: True Forget-me-not, Scorpion Weed, Love-me, Marsh Scorpion Grass, Mouse-Ear Scorpion Grass, Snake Grass Flower Color: Light blue with yellow center Habitat: Wet soils, near lakes and rivers and sometimes in shallow water General Bloom Dates: May - September General Characteristics: The Forget-me-not flower has five, bright blue, regular petals that surround a yellow center. The flower is 1/2" wide. The flowers grow near the end of the stem, each having its own short stalk off of the main stem. When the plant first emerges the stem is curled at the end; when the flowers begin to bloom the stem uncurls. The stem grows 6"-12" high. The simple leaves grow in an alternate pattern along the stem. Leaves are lance-shaped and are 1-2" long. Both the leaves and stem are covered in fine hair. Forget-me-nots grow in mats with a widespread root system. Plant Lore: There are four species of Forget-me-nots in Minnesota. There are both native and non-native species, but the Myosotis scorpioides is from Europe. It escaped from gardens and found suitable habitat. The plant's scientific name and common name have several interesting theories on their origin. The scientific name, Myosotis, means mouse ear, which describes the size and shape of the petal. Its species name, scorpiodes, and the common name "Scorpion Weed", are from the coiled plant stem that resembles a scorpion tail. This appearance led people to believe this flower was a remedy for scorpion stings; however, this claim has never been validated. The common name may have originated from an unpleasant edible experience that was hard to forget (these plants taste bad), or may have a more heartfelt meaning. It's said that whomever wore this flower wouldn't be forgotten by his or her lover. There are two stories that illustrate the flower's significance among lovers and explain the common name, although both have tragic endings. In the first story, a suitor was picking this flower for his love and saw the perfect specimen. It was close to the cliff's edge but he reached for it anyway. Losing his balance, the man plummeted over the cliff, shouting, "Forget me not!" as he fell. The second story originates in Germany. A knight and his lovely lady were walking along a riverbank. He was picking this flower for her when he tripped and fell into the river. Before he went under he threw the small bouquet to her and shouted "vergiss mein nicht", the German name of the flower. Modern Uses of this Plant: The Forget-me-not is used today in gardens and along walkways. |
Who plays Betty Suarez in the TV series 'Ugly Betty'? | Ugly Betty (TV Series 2006–2010) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A young, smart and wise woman named Betty Suarez goes on a journey to find her inner beauty. The only problem is that it's hard for a slightly less attractive woman to find her beauty ... See full summary » Creators: It's the end of an era, but the beginning, Betty hopes, of something wonderful. In the series finale, which also features appearances by familiar faces from the past, Betty finds it hard to tell ... 9.5 The season-end cliffhanger: Justin is thrilled with the boy playing Tony in the school play falls mysteriously ill and he is promoted from understudy. Santos finds trouble when he stops at a store to... 9.0 Against the backdrop of Ignacio's multi-culti holiday dinner that he prepares for his new flame Jean, who is Jewish, Betty and Hilda have pregnancy scares. Worse, they purchase their Be-Shure instant... 8.9 a list of 21 titles created 29 Sep 2011 a list of 25 titles created 14 Jul 2013 a list of 40 titles created 09 Jan 2015 a list of 40 titles created 07 May 2015 a list of 27 titles created 29 Sep 2015 Search for " Ugly Betty " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: Ugly Betty (2006–2010) 6.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 48 wins & 117 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline A young, smart and wise woman named Betty Suarez goes on a journey to find her inner beauty. The only problem is that it's hard for a slightly less attractive woman to find her beauty surrounded by tall skinny models at a fashion magazine but Betty doesn't let this stop her or her positive attitude towards her work. Written by James Robson Fashion has a new face (UK) See more » Genres: 28 September 2006 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Betty the Ugly See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Chris Williams , who plays Wilhelldiva Hater (the drag queen parody of Wilhelmina Slater), is Vanessa Williams' brother. See more » Quotes Amanda Tanen : Hey, what's different about you? Did you get your hair cut? Betty Suarez : I'm wearing an eye patch. Amanda Tanen : You didn't always have that? Ugly Betty: A Diamond In The Rough 28 September 2006 | by bondgirl6781 (Florida, USA) – See all my reviews I fell in love with this show! Executively produced by Salma Hayek and starring the always lovely America Ferrera as Betty Suarez, a young woman who breaks into the fashion industry as an assistant to the editor-in-chief of Mode magazine Daniel Meade (sexy Eric Mabius). Betty is sweet, smart, and always on top of things, but of course she is not the most beautiful girl, but when they say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder they were not kidding. Squaring off against Daniel Meade is the conniving Wilhemina (Vanessa Williams...I smell Emmy) who covets the title of editor-in-chief. I just saw the pilot episode and this show is a winner and I hope it stays on the air because of America Ferrera who is lovely and spirited as Betty. She is without question the female heroine that all young women need in times where women are expected to be sexy and beautiful under superficial means. 75 of 105 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes | Betty Driver | Coronation Street Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Driver ( 20th May 1920 - 15th October 2011 ) was an actress and singer most famous for her long-running Coronation Street role as Rovers Return Inn barmaid Betty Williams (previously Turpin), a role she played from 1969 to 2011 . After a career in the 1930s and 1940s as a big band singer, Betty went into acting, and in 1964 she auditioned for the part of Hilda Ogden on the Street, but was rejected because the casting directors wanted an actress who weighed less. In 1965 she gained a role in the Street spin-off sitcom Pardon the Expression , where she suffered a back injury after the script required her to throw Arthur Lowe . Betty retired from showbusiness in November 1967 to run a pub - firstly Cock Hotel at Whaley Bridge and later the Devonshire Arms in Mellor where H.V. Kershaw tracked her down in 1969 and persuaded her to return to acting in the role of Betty Turpin. Betty was awarded the MBE in 1999 . Betty was also awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the British Soap Awards in 2010 . Betty was rushed to hospital on 11th May 2011 suffering from pneumonia. Her character's final scenes aired in Episode 7610 on 27th May . The actress passed away several months later on 15th October . Her funeral was held at St Ann's Church, Manchester on Saturday 22nd October when Helen Worth and Bill Kenwright gave addresses and many of the cast, past and present, attended. The character she had played for 42 years was written out of the programme in April 2012 , after dying off-screen of natural causes. A portrait of her was placed on the wall of the Rovers Return set, allowing the memory of both she and the character to remain a constant presence. |
July 20, 1919, was the birth of what New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist, who made sherpa Tenzing Norgay an international celebrity? | Horoscope of celebrities born on July, 20, [1/3] 149,791 clicks, 70th woman, 132nd celebrity Biography of Gisele B�ndchen Gisele Caroline B�ndchen (born July 20, 1980 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Marcello Borges, birth certificate)) is a Brazilian fashion model and occasional film actress and producer. She is the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme. In the late 1990s, B�ndchen was the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find international success. In 1999, Vogue dubbed her "The Return of the Sexy Model", and she was credited with ending the "heroin chic" era of modeling. B�ndchen was one of Victoria's Secret Angels from 2000 until mid-2007. B�ndchen pioneered the "horse walk", a stomping movement created when a model picks her knees up high and kicks her feet out in front. 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The band was formed in 1984 by Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil and Hiro ... 30,272 clicks, 612th woman, 1,404th celebrity Biography of Diana Rigg Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Biography Early life and education Rigg was born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire to Louis Rigg and Beryl Hilda Helliwell (1908�1981); her father was a railway engineer who had been born in Yorkshire. Between the ages of two months and eight years Rigg lived in Bikaner, India, where her father was employed as a railway executive. Rigg speaks fluent Hindi. She was then sent to a boarding school, the Moravian School in Fulneck, near Pudsey. She disliked her boarding school, where she felt like a fish out of water, but she believes that ... 27,746 clicks, 919th man, 1,616th celebrity Biography of Olivier de Kersauson Olivier de Kersauson was the seventh child in a family of eight. While he was the only de Kersauson not to have been born in Brittany, he was born on 20th July 1944 and brought up near Morlaix in a �provincial Catholic aristocracy with compulsory mass,� as he calls it. Very early on, Olivier de Kersauson was to break away from his family. Without being inattentive, he was a pupil, who did not settle in well to school life with the fathers at boarding schoo | Tenzing Norgay - Biography Contact Us The world would have given its acclaim to any climber who was first on the summit of the world's highest mountain, but for Tenzing Norgay there was a special glory in this achievement. Over a period of nearly twenty years, he had made himself a part of every expedition that set out to put a man on the top of Mt. Everest. He had climbed as a lowly porter and as a respected member of the climbing team. He had accompanied large, confident armies (such as the 1936 and 1953 British Everest Expeditions) on their way to the summit, but he had also gone to the mountain with a solitary climber, Earl Denman, in 1947, on the chance that even this might give him an opportunity to get to the top. By 1953, he had probably spent more time on Mt. Everest than any other human being - and had come closer to its summit. Only months before his successful climb with Edmund Hillary, he and Raymond Lambert of the 1952 Swiss expedition, had come within 1,000 feet of the summit -- the highest point that anyone had reached until then. Unlike most of his fellow Sherpas of the time for whom, by and large, climbing was just a challenging way of making a living, Tenzing desperately wanted to get to the summit of Mt. Everest and devoted most of his life to this goal. "For in my heart," he once said, "I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth." If there was ever anyone who deserved to get there first, it was Tenzing. But there are other reasons why it was appropriate that he have that honor, with Sir Edmund Hillary. Until World War II, most of Asia had been under the domination of the West. By the early 1950s, its people were beginning at last to feel their own strength and identity, and Tenzing, by achieving a goal that the whole world recognized as one of its highest, provided a focus for a new kind of pride and a new view of the future. "For millions in the world today," wrote James Ramsay Ullman not long after the climb, "Tenzing is a manifestation of godhead: an avatar of the Lord Siva, a reincarnation of the Buddha. For still other millions, too sophisticated to confuse man with deity, he is a mortal figure of supreme significance. Symbolically as well as literally, Tenzing on Everest was a man against the sky, virtually the first humbly born Asian in all history to attain world stature and world renown. And for other Asians his feat was not the mere climbing of a mountain, but a bright portent for themselves and for the future of their world." Tenzing's birth may have been humble, as Ullman says, but it also had lucky portents. His parents lived in the high mountain village of Thame in Nepal, but at the time of his birth, his mother was on pilgrimage to a holy place called Ghang La in eastern Nepal. Tenzing, whose name was changed by a high lama from Namgyal Wangdi to the name we know him by today ("Norgay" means "fortunate"), always believed himself to have a special luck and favor. He knew early in his life that his destiny lay beyond tending yaks in the high mountains, and by the time he was 13, had already made a secret trip to Kathmandu, Nepal's big city. Five years later, he moved (again without the permission of his parents) to Darjeeling in India, where he hoped to be able to join one of the British expeditions to Mt. Everest that were being organized there. Nepal at that time was closed to foreigners, which meant that all attempts on the mountain were from the north side. Starting with their first expedition in 1921, the British had drawn on Darjeeling's large Sherpa population for help in getting to Everest as well as climbing it. By something of a fluke, Tenzing got himself onto Eric Shipton's 1935 Everest Expedition. He was 19 at the time and newly married -- to Dawa Phuti, a Sherpa girl living in Darjeeling. His performance on this climb was such that he had no trouble in being hired on later British Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. When World War II put an end to large, official Everest expeditions, he allowed himself to be persuaded to jo |
"What is the Italian for the English word ""air""?" | air-conditioning - Dizionario inglese-italiano WordReference I only turn on the air conditioning on the hottest days. Accendo l'aria condizionata solo nei giorni più caldi. air conditioning unit nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (device: cools the air) | Andy Murray levels up Davis Cup tie with straight sets win against Italy's Andreas Seppi | Daily Mail Online comments Andy Murray fiercely criticised the state of the clay court erected beside the Bay of Naples after he defeated Andreas Seppi to level Britain’s Davis Cup tie with Italy at 1-1 on Saturday. ‘The court is pretty dangerous,’ he said. Murray fell awkwardly, running down a ball on his forehand on the second point of the resumption of his match with Seppi, as he raced into the corner of the court that has been in need of constant running repairs due to rain water having got under the covers on Friday. He winced as he landed heavily causing his weight to be unevenly distributed through his right knee. Get in: Andy Murray celebrates after finally seeing off his adversary on Saturday morning in Naples Busy day: Murray had earlier completed his straight sets win over Andreas Seppi Souvenir: Murray throws his wristband into the stands following his victory over Seppi All smiles: Andy Murray fist pumps as he jogs off the court Seppi caused him less distress. Murray, whose progress was halted by nightfall on Friday, let his feelings on the court surface be known in no uncertain terms after he finished off the Italian, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 before lunch time on Saturday. ‘The court is pretty dangerous,’ he said. ‘That corner, where I fell, is not good enough. If this was the ATP Tour we wouldn’t be using this surface. That’s something we will definitely talk about after the tie. The last thing you want is people getting injured because of a bad surface. It doesn’t need to be like this.’ Stretch: Murray can seal a place in the semi-finals with a victory over Fabio Fognini on Sunday Out in force: Fans draped in Union Jacks turn out to watch Murray in Naples The Italians chose to build a court, alongside the main road running along the water front of Naples, with the intention of playing against Britain in a city renowned for the passion of its football crowd. Regrettably, the heavy rain that fell before the tie began infiltrated the covers and the ground staff have been unable to prevent the surface in one corner from being cut up whenever a player arrived on his forehand side at full pace. Hitting the deck: Murray labelled the court 'dangerous' during an interview on Saturday Anxious: Judy Murray watches as her son battles for victory Mixed bag: Andy Murray cut a frustrated figure at times but eventually pulled through In control: Andy Murray returns a forehand during his victory against Andreas Seppi Back in form: Murray plays a backhand on his way to a victory victory for Great Britain Not enough: Italy's Andreas Seppi was powerless to prevent the Scot's win Murray’s tenacity, and desire to usher Britain towards their first Davis Cup semi-final since 1981, provided him with the mental fortitude to overcome his fear of injury. Once Murray once the first two games on Saturday, to take a two sets lead, Seppi had a mountain the size of Vesuvius to scale. He was incapable of leaving base camp. The 26-year-old Wimbledon champion had been unwell during the countdown to the tie. ‘I was a little bit tired this morning when I got up, but otherwise I felt alright,’ said Murray. For most of the match, the British supporters who had travelled to the south of Italy had far more to shout about than the home crowd. Ouch: Murray pulls up in pain during the opening set against Seppi Frustrated figure: Murray reacts angrily after missing an opportunity t win a point Focused: Seppi returns a Murray serve with a powerful forehand Even so, the Italians were swift to jeer Murray whenever he made a mishit or served a double fault. It is a reflection of the partisan flavour of the Davis Cup that is part of its magic and appeal. Home advantage is worth something. Murray is oblivious to such distractions, however. Seppi is a formidable opponent on clay, but for this morning he was destined to finish as runner-up. ‘The last few games went by quite quick,’ said Murray. ‘It was good I managed to finish it off in str |
What item of tableware was introduced into England by Thomas Coryat in 1608 | Coryats Crudities V2 book by Thomas Coryat | 2 available editions | Alibris Books Questions? Contact the seller. Seller's Description Very Good. Book Thomas Coryat's first hand account of hisadventures across Europe and Asia. First thus, of this twentieth century reprint of Coryat's original 1611 text. With five illustrations to volume I comprising of three plates and two vingettes in addition to five illustrations to volume II of which four are plates and one vignette. Prior owners include Allston A Kisby, headmasterof Cottingham School during the 1940s and a keen local historian. He was the author of Indifferent Children (1935). His bookplate and signature are to the front pastedows. This text tells the tales of Thomas Coryat, an English traveller from the Somerset village of Odcombe near Yeovil. His travels were mainly on foot and he visited Europe and parts of Asia. He is often credited with bringing the table fork back to England with 'Furcifer' becoming his nickname. His description of how Italians protected themselves from the sun resulted in the word 'Umbrella' being introduced into English. A replica of the shoes Coryat wore on his travels are hanging in Odcombe parish church. Upon his return, Coryat wrote his Crudities which were extremely popular. It gives a vivid picture of life in Europe at this time and is particularly important to music historians as it details the activities of the Venetian School. Coryat is often regarded as the first Briton to do a Grand Tour of Europe. Condition: In original red buckram bindings with gilt stamping to the front boards and spine. Externally, smart with rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of spines. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown ofboth volumes, Allston A Kisby, Cottingham and his signature above the bookplate. Anotherprior owner's signature to the recto of front endpaper, John Turner. Written to the same page is 'John B Young purchased at Canterbury, Kent, England, July 20th 1971 before departure for the Gravetye Manor, East Grimstead, England. Internally, both volumes arefirmly bound. Pages are bright with offsetting to endpapers andscattered spots throughout. Overall: VERY GOOD. 1905, James MacLehose and Sons Hardcover | Full text of "China..www.booksjadid.blogspot.com/" See other formats \ V. CHINA WORLD HISTORY PAUL S. ROPP China in World History The New Oxford World History China in World History Paul S. Ropp OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010 OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford University Press, Inc, publishes works that further Oxford University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2010 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ropp, PaulS., 1944- China in world history / Paul Ropp. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-517073-3; ISBN 978-0-19-538195-5 (pbk.) 1. China— History. 2. China — Civilization. 3. China— Civilization — Foreign influences. I. Title. DS735.R67 2010 951— dc22 2009051140 135798642 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Frontispiece: Qing dynasty incense hurner, stoneware with iron wash and glazes. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washmgton, D.C.: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1900.57a-b For CJ, Simone, and Silas This page intentionalfy left blank Contents Editors' Preface ix Preface xi Chapter 1 The Formative Age: Beginnings to Third Century bce 1 Chapter 2 The First Empires: Qin (221-206 bce) and Han (206 bce -220 ce) 20 Chapter 3 The Era of Division (220-589) 37 Chapter 4 Reunified Empires: Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907) 50 Chapter 5 Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers: Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) 67 Chapter 6 Early Modern China: Ming (1368-1644) and Early Qing (1644-1800) 85 Chapter 7 Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire (1800-1920) 102 Chapter 8 Civil Wars, Invasion, and the Rise of Communism (1920-1949) 119 Chapter 9 The People's Republic of China (1949 to the Present) 135 Chronology 157 Notes 161 Further Reading 167 Websites 173 Acknowledgments 175 Index 177 viii Contents Editors' Preface This book is part of the New Oxford World History, an innova- tive series that offers readers an informed, lively, and up-to-date history of the world and its people that represents a significant change from the "old" world history. Only a few years ago, world history generally amounted to a history of the West — Europe and the United States — with small amounts of information from the rest of the world. Some versions of the old world history drew attention to every part of the world except Europe and the United States. Readers of that kind of world history could get the impression that somehow the rest of the world was made up of exotic people who had strange customs and spoke difficult languages. Still another kind of "old" world his- tory presented the story of areas or peoples of the world by focusing primarily on the achievements of great civilizations. One learned of great buildings, influential world religions, and mighty rulers but little of ordinary people or more general economic and social patterns. Inter- actions among the world's peoples were often described from only one perspective. This series tells world history differently. First, it is comprehensive, covering all countries a |
What is the name of the steam yacht, owned by the National Trust, which offers cruises on Coniston Water? | Steam Yacht Gondola Lake Bank to Coniston | National Trust Steam Yacht Gondola Lake Bank to Coniston Walking trail The walk takes you up to 200m above sea level on clearly defined paths with some short, quite steep climbs and easy descents. Conditions underfoot can be wet at certain times of the year but the views are more than rewarding. The route then follows the lake shore path and is very straightforward but also has wonderful views. The timings given are for a fit pensioner, so please adjust to suit after the first couple of stages and allow for various breaks. In partnership with Distance 7.6 miles (12.2 km) Map Landranger 96 Coniston Pier 1 Distance: 0.6km, Time: 10 mins. Walk past the ticket office and up the narrow path to the road. Turn right, passing the entrance to Crake Valley Holiday Park. As the road sweeps right on a gentle decline, look out for the footpath on your left. This point is confirmed currently by two signs by the National Park regarding Blawith Common. Read more Lake Bank jetty Don't rush to leave Lake Bank. It has a magical quality all of its own with wonderful views up the lake. To the south-east is High Nibthwaite with an Anthony Gormley statue just visible in the field this side of the village. 2 Distance 1.1km, Time: 28 mins. A short steep climb takes you in a south-westerly direction. On the ascent, ignore a track going off to your right, between the two sets of telegraph poles. At the top of the climb, ignore a track off to your left and descend straight ahead. This takes you down to a more defined track coming in from your left (Water Yeat). It is here that you turn right and cross Tarn Beck on a small slatted bridge. 3 Distance: 0.4km, Time 9 mins. A steady climb begins to level out. Ignore a track going right across the beck. Simply carry on ahead with the beck on your right. This brings you to the south of Beacon Tarn. Read more Beacon Tarn Beacon Tarn is a South Lakeland gem, provoking childhood memories of swimming and fishing in the summer and skating in the winter! There are great views north to the Coniston Fells. 4 Distance: 1.0km, Time: 28 mins. Joining the Cumbria Way, head around the far side of the tarn (the west side) ignoring the various tracks to your left and head north along the edge of the tarn, to its northernmost point. This area can be very wet underfoot. Continue north, slowly climbing to the high point. Read more Beacon Fell At the north end of the tarn you could always make a detour to the summit of Beacon Fell, a short steep climb rewarded by stunning views. If you do this, be sure to re-join the trail where you left it! 5 Distance: 1.4km, Time: 28 mins. Ahead and below you is a large 'moss'. As you descend, leave the moss on your left side. As you reach the far end, the larger Stable Harvey Moss is visible ahead. Beyond it, you may see a small disused reservoir which is a guide to the general direction. Towards the end of the descent, bear left at a fork in the trail and pass below a small rock outcrop. Keep heading for the lane which serves Stable Harvey, joining it at a fingerpost pointing back towards the route you have just done. 6 Distance: 1.7km, Time: 30 mins. 60m up the lane is another bridleway sign taking you left away from the lane. Pass the two ash trees and continue straight ahead toward the twin poles. The gentle descent sweeps right; on reaching a small marker post, go left reaching another marker post almost immediately. Go right over the beck, soon ignoring a track off to the left (to the reservoir) and head down the left hand flank of the valley. This brings you to Torver Beck with its wooden bridge. Follow the path to the road ahead. Read more Torver Beck Bridge Torver Beck runs into Coniston Water at Sunny Bank. The bridge is a delightful spot for a breather. If the weather's nice you might want to go for a quick paddle. 7 Distance: 5.9km, Time: 100 mins. All the hard work is done! Cross the road and follow the path down to the lake at the Sunny Bank jetty. Simply follow this delightful shore footpath which takes you all the way b | The Titanic | Ireland The Titanic > The Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on 15 April 1912. She struck the iceberg four days into the crossing, at 23:40 on 14 April 1912, and sank at 2:20 the following morning, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. The largest passenger steamship in the world, the Olympic-class RMS Titanic was owned by the White Star Line and constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. She set sail for New York City on 10 April 1912 with 2,223 people on board. The high casualty rate resulting from the sinking was due in part to the fact that, although complying with the regulations of the time, the ship carried lifeboats for only 1,178 people. A disproportionate number of men died due to the "women and children first" protocol that was enforced by the ship's crew. Titanic was designed by experienced engineers, using some of the most advanced technologies and extensive safety features of the time. Adding to the ironic nature of the tragedy is the fact that the liner sank on her maiden voyage. The high loss of life, the media frenzy over Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes in maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have all contributed to the enduring interest in Titanic. Titanic was designed to compete with the rival Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania. Titanic, along with her Olympic-class sisters, Olympic and the soon-to-be-built Britannic (which was to be called Gigantic at first), were intended to be the largest, most luxurious ships ever to operate. The designers were Lord Pirrie, a director of both Harland and Wolff and White Star, naval architect Thomas Andrews, Harland and Wolff's construction manager and head of their design department, and Alexander Carlisle, the shipyard's chief draughtsman and general manager. Carlisle's responsibilities included the decorations, the equipment and all general arrangements, including the implementation of an efficient lifeboat davit design. Carlisle would leave the project in 1910, before the ships were launched, when he became a shareholder in Welin Davit & Engineering Company Ltd, the firm making the davits. > |
Cleopatra's Needle in London had stood in which Egyptian city since 12 BC | How Cleopatra’s Needle got to Central Park | New York Post How Cleopatra’s Needle got to Central Park Cleopatra Needle's made a long and tedious journey to Central Park. Michael Sofronski ; Shutterstock More On: Animal rights activists sued for 'terrorizing' carriage horses It’s 70 feet tall, 220 tons and the city’s oldest artifact — but many New Yorkers don’t know it exists. Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500-year-old obelisk from Ancient Egypt, survived a voyage to Central Park more than a century ago and has been a park treasure ever since. Nestled behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the hieroglyph-covered column was commissioned by one of Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs and reigns as among the last of its kind. “It’s our oldest inhabitant,” says Dr. Bob Brier, a renowned Egyptologist at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, LI. Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park. “When it was erected, everyone went bananas,” he adds. “Then it was forgotten. Trees grew up around the knoll and obscured it. People just stopped thinking about it.” Still, Brier says the artifact’s history has enough twists and turns to make a Hollywood film. Erected in Heliopolis around 1450 BC, the obelisk was toppled centuries later by Persian invaders. It was buried in the dust for 500 years more until the Romans snatched it for Julius Caesar. Now the Central Park Conservancy is embarking on a $500,000 project to clean and preserve the monument — using lasers to wipe away decades of dirt and pollution. “There was a recent article about the obelisk, and the writer said it’s boring,” says Brier, who visits the monument every month. “He’s dead wrong. The obelisk is an engineering achievement. It’s an ancient skyscraper.” Despite its nickname, Central Park’s obelisk wasn’t made for Cleopatra, but for the Napoleon of Egypt. Thutmosis III amassed the greatest empire in Egyptian history during his 54-year reign. The pharaoh came to power in 1479 BC and claimed to have conquered more than 300 cities from Syria to Sudan, leading his army from a chariot sheathed in gold. Thutmosis was also a prolific builder, commissioning dozens of temples and obelisks. Construction has begun on Cleopatra’s Needle.Helayne Seidman To celebrate his 30th year of rule, the pharaoh asked for a pair of pillars to flank the sun temple in Heliopolis — a feat that sent thousands of workers south to the Aswan quarry to cut each monument from a single piece of red granite. While Thutmosis was the brain behind the obelisks and inscribed them with his name, two other kings later seized them and added their own self-serving hieroglyphs to the four sides. Pharaoh Ramesses II, who reigned from 1279 to 1212 BC, inscribed his praises and left little room for Osorkon I, who crammed his moniker on a lower edge. The monuments towered above the Nile for more than 1,000 years, until Persians raided the city and toppled them. The obelisks may have burned in the invasion and eroded from spending hundreds of years in the sand. The obelisks stood again around 12 BC, when Roman conquerors uprooted and moved them to Alexandria. The artifacts were placed then at a Caesarium, a temple honoring Julius Caesar. After the collapse of the Roman empire, and even the fall of the Caesarium, the obelisks still stood. At some point — no one’s quite sure by whom — they were given their nickname: Cleopatra’s Needles. “Thutmosis’s pair of obelisks quietly faded into the scenery, their presence taken for granted by the Alexandrians,” wrote Martina D’Alton in a 1993 book on the obelisk. “The obelisks remained unperturbed . . . greeting incoming ships and witnessing the departure of obelisks and other treasures bound for distant shores.” Cleopatra’s Needle was erected by Thutmose III at Heliopolis in about 1,460 BC, later moved to Alexandria, and then to the USA.Getty Images By the 19th century, Europe coveted Egyptian artifacts. England was offered one of the Thutmosis columns in 1801 as a gift for helping Egypt oust Napoleon. It wasn’t erected in London until 1878, however, after a hazardous journey t | Queen Cleopatra VII - Last Pharaoh of Egypt From Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony She may not have been an Egyptian, but she was Egypt's queen, ruling on her own rather than in the name of her husband. Her relationships with the leaders of Rome led to scandals. Her death continues to inspire playwrights, movie producers, and romantics. She was . . . Cleopatra. Cleopatra came to power in Egypt at the age of 17. She reigned from 51-30 B.C. As a Ptolemy, Cleopatra was Macedonian, but even though her ancestry was Macedonian, she was still an Egyptian queen and worshipped as a god. continue reading below our video Profile of Cleopatra Egyptian Women Since Cleopatra was legally obliged to have either a brother or son for her consort, she married brother Ptolemy XIII when he was 12. "However she soon dropped his name from any official documents regardless of the Ptolemaic insistence that the male presence be first among co-rulers. She also had her own portrait and name on coins of that time, ignoring her brother's." How did Queen Cleopatra get away with such high-handed actions? Perhaps because Egyptian women were uniquely accepted as capable of holding office and handling affairs. "Despite the many rights of women, Egypt was not an egalitarian society. There were many class-based distinctions. Women did not inherit equally with men and fewer were literate. Rather than legal restrictions, custom dictated that middle and upper class women usually engage in child-rearing and home-based activities." (http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/B94women.html) Excursus III: The Status of Women in Ancient Egyptian Society) Cleopatra Rolled in a Carpet To rid herself of brother-spouse Ptolemy XIII, who had sent her into exile, Cleopatra needed Roman support. After she supposedly enticed Caesar with the infamous gift of herself rolled up in a carpet, Ptolemy was killed. In 47 B.C., Cleopatra dutifully married the next Ptolemy brother in line, Ptolemy XIV, an 11-year old, and then went on a cruise with her lover, Caesar. "Cleopatra's union with Julius Caesar ... would have placed Egypt firmly back on the map as a world power after a period of increasing weakness, with Caesar and Cleopatra reigning as joint rulers of the classical world. With this in mind she promptly produced the necessary son and heir to launch the dynasty. Republicans in Rome thwarted this by assassinating Caesar on the steps of the Senate before he was offered a Throne. Octavian later had their son Caesarion strangled following Cleopatra's defeat and ritual suicide." Rediscovering Cleopatra, by Stuart MacWatt Also see Pharaoh , by Karen Essex -- the second part of an historical fiction biography of Cleopatra -- which brings to life the meeting between Caesar and Cleopatra and shows how and why Cleopatra managed to present herself to the Roman leader in this manner. Caesarion An outcome of the affair between Caesar and Cleopatra was a son, the soon-to-be-murdered Caesarion, whom Cleopatra set up as her co-regent (remember the rule about women ruling as pharaohs with a male) after the murder of her second brother. Mark Antony In the wake of Caesar's March 15, 44 B.C. assassination and the Civil War, Mark Antony arranged to meet Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. He fell in love with her, but married a Roman, Octavia, sister of Caesar's heir, Octavian, later known as Augustus. It was with Cleopatra, however, that Antony lived. Octavin led the Romans to believe that Mark Antony was in the process of handing over what should be theirs to the Egyptian queen. Between this potential international threat, competition over the legacy of Julius Caesar (that Octavian was heir to the estate of Julius Caesar didn't necessarily put him in charge of the Roman Empire), and the familial insult to Octavian's sister, tensions mounted in Rome. Ultimately Mark Antony divorced his Roman wife when Octavian declared war on him (and Cleopatra). Rule of Egypt Passes to Rome In the end, defeated, Antony committed suicide and Cleopatra committed suicide, according to legend, by putting an asp to her breas |
Which Greek astronomer was the first person to formally propose the heliocentric model of the solar system? | * Heliocentric (Astronomy) - Definition,meaning - Online Encyclopedia This entry contributed by Dana Romero Astronomical coordinates which use the center of the Sun as their origin. 10 Interesting Heliocentric Solar System Quotes Heliocentrism is the astro nomical model which places a stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System while the Earth , planet s and other bodies revolve around it. Heliocentric theory[edit] Teaching around 150 BC, he is known to have been a follower of the heliocentric theory of Aristarchus of Samos, which stated that the Earth rotate d around its own axis which in turn revolve d around the Sun . heliocentric model A mode of the solar system which is centered on the Sun , with the Earth in motion about the Sun . helioseismology The study of conditions far below the Sun 's surface through the analysis of internal "sound" waves that repeatedly cross the solar interior. Heliocentric Refers to a reference system centered at the sun . For example, the heliocentric distance to an object is the distance between the object and the sun 's center. Heliocentric With the Sun at the center. Heliopause The gradual boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar gas outside our solar system . See the diagram with the definition of " heliosphere " below. heliocentric having the Sun as the centre I inferior conjuction when an inferior planet passes between the Sun and the Earth so that they are lined up in the order Sun , inferior planet , Earth inferior planet a planet whose orbit is inside the Earth 's orbit around the Sun , namely, ... HELIOCENTRIC Having the Sun as a center, such as a heliocentric solar system . I IMPACT CRATER S Crater s which are the result of a collision between a large body, such as a planet or satellite , and a smaller body such as an asteroid or meteorite . Heliocentric. Centered on the Sun . Heliopause . The region in space where the Sun 's atmosphere merges with interstellar space . The position of the heliopause depends both on the strength of the solar wind and on the properties of the local interstellar medium . Heliocentric. Referring to the sun . A heliocentric orbit is one based on the sun as one of the two foci of the ( elliptical ) orbit (or as the center of a circular orbit ); ... Heliocentric Helioseismology ... heliocentric universe (35) A model of the universe with the sun at the center, such as the Copernican universe. helioseismology (91) The study of the interior of the sun by the analysis of its modes of vibration. Heliocentric. Meaning: As seen from the centre of the Sun . A system of co-ordinates. Hertzsprung-Russell diagram . A diagram in which stars are plotted according to their spectral type and their absolute magnitude . Heliocentric - Centered on the Sun . In the heliocentric model of the solar system , the planet s move about the Sun Heliopause - The boundary of the heliosphere , where the solar wind merges into the interstellar gas ... heliocentric - (n.) Sun -centered; using the sun rather than the earth as the point to which we refer. A heliocentric measurement, for example, omits the effect of the Doppler shift caused by the earth 's orbit al motion. heliocentric parallax Alternative name for annual parallax . See also diurnal parallax ; trigonometric ... Heliocentric model that replaced the geocentric Ptolemaic model , and was thus a considerable improvement. The model , however, still involved epicycle s and the spheres. [A84] Copernican Principle Copernican Revolution ... In the heliocentric model the 6 angles that just happened to always be the same in the geocentric model are all a reflection of the motion of the Earth around the Sun . This is a considerable simplification of the model . In his heliocentric theory, Copernicus found himself able to describe the movements of the Moon and planet s in a more elegant way than Ptolemy in his geocentric system . Both model s employed perfect circular motion with epicycle s, equant s ... Nikolas Kopernig ( Copernicus , 1473-1543) ... Copernicus ' heliocentric model Heliocentrism In astronomy , h | Shakespeare's Moons, the moons of Uranus - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System Welcome to Uranus The Tilted Planet Discovery of Uranus Shakespeare's Moons Miranda, a moon of Uranus Facts about Uranus Thousands of years ago, when the Romans and Greeks were naming the planets that were visible to them, they decided to name them after their gods. Mercury (Greek: Hermes) was the Roman god of commerce, travel and industry, Venus (Greek: Aphrodite) was the goddess of love and beauty, Mars (Greek: Ares) was the god of war, Jupiter (Greek: Zeus) was the king of the gods, and Saturn (Greek: Cronos) was the god of agriculture. Hundreds of years later, even when people knew that the planets weren't actually gods, they still kept with tradition and named newly discovered planets after mythological characters. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were all discovered in modern times, but their names are all still linked to ancient myths. Uranus is the Greek ruler of the heavens, Neptune (Greek: Poseidon) is the Roman god of the sea, and Pluto (Greek: Hades) is god of the underworld. The names of moons orbiting planets are also influenced by mythology. This is all except for one planet. The moons orbiting Uranus are named after characters in plays, mostly after characters in plays written by William Shakespeare. Why would you name moons after characters in a play though? Before I answer that, here's my quick guide to Shakespeare. One of the greatest ever writers of the English language was William Shakespeare. He was born on 23rd April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and during his life, wrote about 154 poems (called sonnets) and 38 plays. From 1588, he lived in London where many of his plays were performed in front of the courts of the Royal Family. Although his plays are now over 400 years old, they are still performed and studied today, containing themes and ideas which are as relevant now as they were when they were first written. The Globe Theatre in London was opened in 2000 and is a modern day replica of the type of theatre in which Shakespeare's plays would have originally been performed. Some of Shakespeare's most famous plays are Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare died on 23rd April 1616 and is buried in Stratford-upon-Avon church. Although Shakespeare wrote a large number of plays, these plays can be placed into four categories: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Romances. The Comedies were often farcical comedies of error, kind of like Fawlty Towers for the 16th Century (e.g. A Midsummer Night's Dream) . The Histories were based on real historical events, usually about English history (Henry IV, Part 1) or ancient history. Tragedies were plays with darker themes (such as betrayal and jealousy) and by the end of the play, most of the characters had died! (Romeo and Juliet, King Lear). The Romances were a bit lighter in theme and featured elements of fantasy and magic (A Winter's Tale, The Tempest). William Shakespeare is a hugely influential figure in English literature today. Students still analyse and discuss his works, and tourists from all over the world visit Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare's house (pictured right). His importance inspired William Herschel in 1787 to name some of the moons known to be orbiting Uranus after characters in Shakespeare's plays. In 1781, Uranus became the first planet to be " discovered ". The other planets that were known of at the time ( Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter and Saturn ) plus the Sun and the Moon had been observed for tens of thousands of years from Earth and already had names, named by the Greeks and Romans after their gods. Before 1781, nobody knew that Uranus existed and people thought there were only six planets in the Solar System. Although Uranus had already been spotted numerous times, it was English astronomer William Herschel who first recognised that Uranus was actually a planet and not a star . Because the planet was discovered by an English astronomer , not an ancient Roman or Greek, it was very n |
Music of the Night is a song from which stage musical? | Musical Performance: "Music of the Night" from "The Phantom of the Opera" | Stanford+Connects Musical Performance: "Music of the Night" from "The Phantom of the Opera" Sacramento, CA May 9, 2015 Matthew Billman, '15, brings a taste of the arts to Sacramento with a stirring rendition of "Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera. Matthew Billman, '15 is a human biology major straddling the fields of music and medicine. When not writing and performing music with the Fleet Street Singers, Matthew splits his time between the Margaret Fuller DevBio Lab, the MemAud stage (he starred last year as Jean Valjean in the Ram’s Head production of Les Miserables), and the CCRMA recording studio. Following graduation, Matthew will pursue a career as a surgeon and/or a pop/classical crossover singer. (Hopefully “and.”) | SB Solo Concerts S arah Brightman made her theatre debut at at the age of thirteen in "Albert and I" directed by John Schlesinger. At sixteen she was a member of the dance group "Pans People", and at eighteen joined the dance group "Hot Gossip". Sarah was a member of the original cast of "Cats" and then premiered Charles Strauss opera "The Nightingale" at the Buxton festival. She then premiered Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Requiem" with Placido Domingo and Lorin Maazel in New York and London for which she received a Grammy nomination as "Best New Classical Artist". She then performed the role of Valencienne in "The Merry Widow" for the New Saddlers Wells Opera. Sarah created the role of Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of The Opera". She premiered the role on Broadway and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. In 1990 she performed the part of Rose in "Aspects of Love" in London, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. From 1992 she performed the name roles in the plays "Trelawney of the Wells", "Relative Values", "Dangerous Obsession" and "The Innocents" both in repertory and the West End. She wanted to become a famous artist. Sarah Brightman is not an artist like many others. Her voice has inspired millions of people. Her music is global, mighty, boundless. Her explanation for this success is, not surprisingly, brief: "I work hard". The child's steadfastness marked the adolescent's way. At the age of twelve she gave her first stage performance in a John Schlesinger theatre production, at fourteen she began singing and aged eighteen she scored her first big hit with the dance pop formation HOT GOSSIP. Two years later she had had enough of quick success and started looking for new challenges. She went to an audition for London's premier staging of CATS. She got the part. And its originator. She married Andrew Lloyd Webber and embarked on a classical career under his direction, sang with Placido Domingo in Webber's REQUIEM and became the much-celebrated star in the Webber musical PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Envious people, critics and the media distrusted her success. After all, she was Andrew Lloyd Webber's wife. That makes it pretty easy to claim that she was merely a mirror-image of his fame. "I had a hard time in this marriage; no matter how well I performed, they never judged me by my achievement". When the marriage split up, it was time to start a new life. She turned her back on her birthplace and moved to the United States with the clear aim of making and producing her own records. Here she met Frank Peterson, an ingenious producer and highly creative partner, with whom she has been working ever since. The co-operation resulted in the release of her first solo album, DIVE, followed by TIMELESS in 1997, a worldwide success with over 2.5 million copies sold. She continued working on her classical career and was soon moving in both worlds. Sarah Brightman interprets big opera arias on her album with just as much grace and self-confidence as she does in timeless pop hymns. Magnificent live performances accompany her on her distinctive way. She sang FRIENDS FOR LIFE with Jose Carreras, the theme song at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, she thrilled German TV audiences with her hits for the boxer Henry Maske, QUESTION OF HONOR and especially the duet with Andrea Bocelli TIME TO SAY GOODBYE, both of which have become worldwide hits and milestones in the history of music. The single TIME TO SAY GOODBYE sold more than 10 million copies worldwide (a massive 2.75 million in Germany alone) and made Sarah Brightman's work and creative personality famous around the world. In her opinion, the diversity of her abilities is a nature-given fact that goes without saying. She grew up with manifold different influences. Being bombarded with her parents' 60's rock music wa |
Which river is used for the annual Oxford v Cambridge boat race? | History of the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race | River Thames London Boat Blog River Thames London Boat Blog » History of the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race The University Boat Race is one of the River Thames’ best known events on the calendar, attracting a cross section of supporters, sponsors and spectators from across the UK and internationally. For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, the Boat Race is an annual contest between two rowing crews from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The first race took place in 1829 in Henley on Thames following a challenge between two school chums and has been repeated annually, except during the First and Second World Wars. The date of the race varies each year, usually falling on the last weekend of March or the first weekend of April, subject to the state and time of the high tide. The race is rowed upstream, with the assistance of the incoming tide behind them, usually starting an hour before high water. Today, the race takes place between the University Stones at Putney and Mortlake with the start line just upriver of Putney Bridge and the finish line just before Chiswick Bridge. The course is 4 miles, 374 yards (6.8 km). This course was first used for the Boat Race in 1845 and has been used for every race since, apart from 1846, 1856 and 1863 when the race was held in the opposite direction between Mortlake and Putney. Source: http://theboatraces.org/ Training for The Boat Race starts in September of each year with many hopeful rowers being eliminated as the season progresses. Sessions are rigorous – two or sometimes three times daily as well as gym and weight sessions; and that’s on top of a full day of studies! Three to four weeks prior to the race the crews will be announced to the press and public, accompanied by the official weigh-in – weights and heights of the crews are recorded and the speculation begins over which team has the advantage. The boat race is not just a man’s domain – the first women’s race took place in 1927 on the Isis in Oxford, with (according to The Times) “large and hostile crowds gathered on the towpath” as the men objected to women rowing. In the 1960’s the women’s race become a permanent fixture although it was rowed at Henley rather than Putney. This year, for the first time ever, the Newton Women’s Boat Race will take place on the same day and course as the men’s race. 2015 sees the 161st Boat Race scheduled for the 11th April with the following schedule: 1650 The Newton Women’s Boat Race 1720 Isis v Goldie Race 1750 The BNY Mellon Boat Race Cambridge currently leads the series with 81 victories to Oxford’s 79, with one dead-heat in 1877. Head down to the Putney Embankment on 11th April and you’ll see both the Elizabethan and Erasmus moored at Putney Pier, supporting the rowers. You can also join in the fun by settling into one of the many pubs along the Embankment. Share this: | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 12th October – The Questions 12th October – The Questions Specialist questions set by Waters Green Rams. General knowledge questions set by Church House, Bollington. All vetted by Harrington Academicals. SPECIALIST ROUNDS- 1. SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE 2. SCIENCE 5. TIME FOR THE KIDS 6. POLITICS ROUND ONE - SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE – News stories of the summer 1. Which actor, born Bernard Schwartz in 1925, died in September 2010? TONY CURTIS 2. In June, Princess Victoria married her former personal trainer Daniel Westling. Of which country is she a princess? SWEDEN 3. Which 74 year-old singing Dame received poor reviews when she appeared on a UK stage for the first time in 30 years at the London O2 in May? JULIE ANDREWS 4. What name was given to the tent city that was set up at the top of the San Jose pit shaft in Chile, where 33 miners were trapped? CAMP ESPERANZA (original Spanish name) or CAMP HOPE 5. Goodluck Jonathan became President of which country in May? NIGERIA 6. The Savile Enquiry finally delivered its findings on which event of 38 years ago? BLOODY SUNDAY (January 1972 in Derry) 7. Why was Mary Bale in the news in August? She was filmed on CCTV putting a CAT into a WHEELIE BIN in Coventry. 8. Which major New Zealand city was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale? CHRISTCHURCH Supp 1 Which company, with its head-quarters in Windermere, was declared the UK’s best retailer by Which? Magazine? LAKELAND Supp 2 Why was Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida in the news in September? He planned to BURN copies of the KORAN outside his church. ROUND TWO – SCIENCE 1. Which scientist was born in Shrewsbury in 1809 and died at Down House in Kent in 1882? CHARLES DARWIN 2. Which acid was traditionally known as Oil Of Vitriol or Spirit Of Vitriol? SULPHURIC ACID 3. Which heavenly body has moons called Charon, Nix and Hydra? PLUTO 4. William was in prison in 1770, when he invented the toothbrush. What was his surname, still famous in that field today? ADDIS 5. Besides the elephant, which other African mammal is a source of ivory? HIPPOPOTAMUS 6. An amalgam is a compound containing which metal? MERCURY 7. What name is given to a triangle with sides of unequal length? SCALENE 8. What does a Campbell-Stokes Recorder Record? SUNSHINE (not temperature) Supp 1 Scientist William Harvey (born 1578) is famous for his research into what? THE BLOOD (circulation etc.) Supp 2 What is the more common name for triatomic oxygen? OZONE ROUND THREE – SPORT 1. Tony McCoy finally won his first Grand National in 2010 on his 15th ride in the race. Which horse did he ride? DON’T PUSH IT 2. Name either of the 2008 Ryder Cup captains. PAUL AZINGER or NICK FALDO 3. Which sport would you be taking part in if you used a monkey climber, waggler and a plumb? ANGLING / COARSE FISHING 4. Which county won the 2010 County Cricket Championship? NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 5. Which team won the 2010 Rugby League Challenge Cup? WARRINGTON WOLVES ( bt. Leeds Rhinos 30-6 in the final). Accept WARRINGTON. 6. Where will the final race in the 2010 Formula One Series be held? YAS MARINA circuit in ABU DHABI (accept either) 7. According to Wikipedia, which English football ground has the widest pitch and boasts the tallest floodlights? EASTLANDS (home of Manchester City) 8. Which football club holds the record for the fewest wins in a season in the Premier League? DERBY COUNTY – in 2007/8, their record was Played 38, Won 1, Drawn 8, Lost 29. Supp 1 How many times did Alex Higgins win the World Snooker Championship? TWO Supp 2 Which Rugby Union club has made their Premiership debut in the 2010/11 season? EXETER (Chiefs) ROUND FOUR – GEOGRAPHY 1. Which Irish port was known as Kingstown from 1821, after a visit by George IV, until 1921? DUN LAOGHAIRE (pronounced DUNLEARY) 2. Between 1947 and gaining independence in 1971, by what name was the present-day country of Bangladesh known? EAST PAKISTAN 3. Name an African country that, in its normal English spelling, contains the letter Q. MOZAMBIQUE or EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 4. The islands of Hokkaido a |
What is the capital of Lithuania? | Vilnius - The Capital Of Lithuania | Travel Lithuania Vilnius Urban Vilnius is the Capital of Lithuania located in the center of Europe which is both contemporary and ancient, rich in architecture, historical monuments, culture heritage, thematic festivals and entertainments. Vilnius is the fastest growing capital in the Baltic States, aspiring to become the most attractive political, business and culture center between Lithuania neighbor countries. A very significant step in reaching this purpose is becoming the European Capital of Culture 2009. The Main Facts Vilnius is the largest city in Lithuania with the population of approximately 554.400 inhabitants according to data of 2007. The population contains of 57,8% Lithuanians, 18,7% Poles, 14% Russians, 4 % Byelorussians, 0,5% Jews and 5% of other nationalities. The area of Vilnius is about 400 sq.km in total, 29,1% of which is covered by buildings, 68,8% by greenery and 2,1% by waters. History According to a legend, the authentic history of Vilnius began when the Grand Duke Gediminas in the early 14th century dreamt a gargantuan iron wolf howling enormously loudly. The Grand Duke asked magus Lizdeika to explain the dream and was told to found a city in the place he slept because the city is destined to become glorious and well known in all around the world. Looks like Lizdeika was right. Gediminas founded the city and named it after the name of river Vilnia. As soon as Vilnius was founded, the Capital of the Great Duchy of Lithuania was shifted from Trakai to Vilnius. At that time Vilnius became a center of tolerance where people of various nationalities settled and lived there in harmony developing trade and crafts. As soon as the Vilnius University was established in 1579 by King of Poland Stefan Batory, the city became a center of education and culture as well. Many years the destiny of Vilnius was closely related with Poland. There were even times when polish was set up as a language of higher classes. In order to avoid Russian military threat Lithuania had to sign a union that united Lithuania and Poland to a Commonwealth of Two Nations. However in 1795 the Commonwealth was divided between Russia, Austria and Prussia. Vilnius felt to Russia. Hopes for the Commonwealth recreation emerged when the great general Napoleon Bonaparte appeared in Vilnius in 1812. However, Napoleon was defeated and his highly debatable campaign of recovering the Commonwealth ended in disaster. Despite the difficulties some new Lithuanian seeds were sowed because of Vilnius University where Simonas Stanevicius and Simonas Daukantas worked in order to renew Lithuanian identity. However, the Vilnius University was closed after Russian repressions in 1831 and reopened only in 1917 after the collapse of the Russian Empire. As a consequence, less than 3% of Vilnius population spoke Lithuanian during the First World War. In 1920 Vilnius was overtaken by Poland and the Capital was transferred to Kaunas until 1939 when Lithuania was forced to sign a mutual assistance treaty with the Soviet Union on the basis of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. In that way Lithuania got Vilnius back, but lost its sovereignty. In 1941-1943 Lithuania was under control of Nazis so two ghettos were set up in the Old town . But Germany lost the Second Warld War and the history turned everything back when Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union again to be Lithuanian SSR. Although the period of Soviet occupation was very gloomy, Vilnius started to grow again in the early sixties inspired by sense of solidarity and Lithuanian identity. In 1991 the Soviet yoke was supplanted and Lithuania got back its independence. Vilnius shows the great leadership as a historical capital till nowadays. Once lost now it seems to be more precious than ever before. Vilnius nowadays Nowadays Vilnius is a modern European city reachable in various ways. An International Vilnius Airport is located only 7 km from the center, Vilnius Bus Station is just in front of Vilnius Rail Station, the internal traffic infrastructure is well developed so it i | Lighthouses of Denmark: West Coast Lighthouses of Denmark: West Coast Denmark , located at the mouth of the Baltic Sea, includes the north-pointing peninsula of Jylland (Jutland) in the west and a large number of islands to the east. The capital, Copenhagen, is on the island of Sjælland. Other major Danish islands include Fyn (between Sjælland and Jylland), Lolland and Falster (south of Sjælland) and Bornholm (farther east in the Baltic). The Skaggerak is a sound separating Jylland from Norway to the northwest, while the Kattegat separates Jylland from Sweden to the northeast. This page covers lighthouses on the west coast of Jylland and on the Limfjord waterway that crosses the northern part of the peninsula. The southern part of this coast faces the North Sea, and the northern part faces Norway across the Skaggerak. The Danish word for a lighthouse is fyr. The front light of a range is the forfyr and the rear light is the bagfyr. Næs is a cape, odde a narrow promontory or isthmus, ø is an island, and havn is a harbor. In October 2011, the government placed maintenance of Danish aids to navigation under the Danish Maritime Authority (Søfartsstyrelsen). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights . DFL numbers are from the Dansk Fyrliste. Admiralty numbers are from volume B of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 114. General Sources Official Danish light list (in .pdf format); the list also includes lights of Greenland and Faroes. Hanstholm Light, Thisted, October 2005 photo copyright Malte Werning; used by permission Bovbjerg Light, Lemvig, June 2008 Flickr Creative Commons photo by Johan Wieland Syddanmark (Southern Denmark) Region Lighthouses Note: Additional lighthouses of the Syddanmark region are listed on the Southeast Jylland and Fyn and Langeland pages. Esbjerg Lighthouses * Esbjerg Trafikhavn Sydmole (South Mole) (2) 2014 (station established 1889). Active; focal plane 8 m (26 ft); continuous green light. 5 m (17 ft) square skeletal tower with lantern and enclosed upper portion, painted green. Köhler has a photo . The original lighthouse, a 5 m (17 ft) round cast iron tower with a domed lantern, was removed and scrapped in 2014. That tower was green in the Anke/Jens photo (July 2005) and in Huelse's photo , although it was white in Trabas's photo . Google has a 2010 street view across the harbor and a satellite view . The Trafikhavn (Commercial Harbor) is one of several small basins in the harbor facilities at Esbjerg. Located at the end of the Trafikhavn South Mole; apparently accessible by walking the mole. Site open, tower closed. DFL-0075; Admiralty B1796; NGA 10792. * Esbjerg Trafikhavn Nordmole (North Mole) (1) 2014 (station established 1889). Active; focal plane 8 m (26 ft); continuous red light. 5 m (17 ft) square skeletal tower with lantern and enclosed upper portion, painted red. Köhler has a photo . The original lighthouse, a 5 m (17 ft) round cast iron tower with a domed lantern, was removed and scrapped in 2014. Trabas has an excellent closeup photo by Klaus Kern (note the south mole light in the background, painted green), Huelse also has a photo , and Google has a 2010 street view across the harbor and a satellite view . Huelse has a postcard view of a former mole lighthouse. Site open, tower closed. Located at the end of the Trafikhavn North Mole; apparently accessible by walking the mole. DFL-0074; Admiralty B1794; NGA 10788. * Esbjerg 1923. Active; focal plane 6 m (20 ft); white, red or green light, depending on direction, 2 s on, 2 s off, 6 s on, 2 s off. 5 m (17 ft) wood building; the light is shown through a square window. Lighthouse painted white with one red horizontal band. Huelse also has a good photo , Lemvigh has a page for the light, Köhler has a photo , and Google has a satellite view . |
"Now among the most praised and honoured people in the film industry, who made his screen acting debut in ""Sunday, Bloody Sunday"" in 1971 ?" | The Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers | Advocate.com Arts & Entertainment film The Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers What is the most essential movie ever for LGBT viewers? There can be only one. We've made our pick, and now you can vote on Facebook and Twitter in a "Clash of the Classics!" By Advocate.com Editors June 23 2014 7:33 AM EDT Everyone agrees a set of movies exists that are must-sees for any LGBT viewer. We just don't agree on which ones. Dare ask a gay man for his list, and he's likely to rattle off a few that come to mind quickly and then make amendments to it for the rest of your adult lives. Women don't start with the same list. Some movies are incredibly impactful on depictions of trans people or those living with HIV, or mark major firsts in film. Some are too campy to ignore (at least not if you want to keep up at brunch). The bottom line is there are legions of reasons why a movie could be considered "essential" to the LGBT community. We've ventured into the tricky territory of ranking which are most essential. To accomplish this feat, everyone on staff was asked for a top 10, then we asked readers for theirs, and finally began the arguing — always politely. Television movies aren't included (sorry, The Laramie Project, An Early Frost, and Gia). Television series aren't included either (apologies to Tales of the City, AbFab, and Angels in America). The result is potentially a guide for anyone who wants to examine our roots through film. Oh, and we reserve the right to amend it for the rest of our lives. — The Editors The List: 1. Brokeback Mountain (2005): This Oscar-winning feature film is arguably one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking gay love stories ever told on the silver screen. The chemistry between the late Heath Ledger’s restrained, tortured Ennis Del Mar and Jake Gyllenhaal’s sensitive and tender Jack Twist takes viewers high into Wyoming’s Grand Teton mountains in an intimate portrait of two men brutally confined by the hypermasculine culture in which they exist. After watching the film with its emotional gut-punch of a conclusion, you’ll understand Jack’s lament and agony in telling Ennis “I can’t quit you.” The only thing that compares with the powerful performances turned in by Ledger and Gyllenhaal is director Ang Lee’s stunning visuals — which earned him an Academy Award for best director. —Sunnivie Brydum 2. Milk (2008): This film about the life and death of pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk won two richly deserved Oscars, for Dustin Lance Black's screenplay and Sean Penn's performance in the title role. It does not make Milk a plaster saint, but portrays him as fully and fallibly human as well as a formidable crusader for the rights of all. Directed by Gus Van Sant, it's a film that moves and inspires, while assuring that a new generation will know an important figure in our history. —Trudy Ring 3. Paris Is Burning (1990): This documentary shone a bright light on the African-American, Latino, and LGBT communities involved in the New York City ball culture of the mid-to-late 1980s. Directed by Jennie Livingston, Paris Is Burning brought an underground aspect of LGBT culture to the mainstream. From the use of slang (“serving realness”) to unforgettable quotes (“reading is fundamental”), the film has had a lasting impact on both LGBT and mainstream pop culture. —Jase Peeples 4. Cabaret (1972): There's no doubt that Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is just the most fantastically awesome place this side of World War I. Right at the beginning, the Emcee, played by the tireless Joel Grey, bids the audience a hearty "willkommen" to this world of seedy glamour. Our heroine Sally Bowles — portrayed by an exquisite Liza Minnelli — pops off the screen in a story that follows her trapped in love with two men, while the Nazi regime rises to power. The film is epic, gripping, and entertaining. You will be singing at least one of the songs from this musical for days. Weeks. OK, in my case, years — it's "Two Ladies," "Money, Money," and the title tune. —Michel | Learn and talk about John Le Mesurier, 20th-century English male actors, British Army personnel of World War II, Burials in Kent, English autobiographers For other people of this name, see John Le Mesurier (disambiguation) . John Le Mesurier in 1973 John Le Mesurier ( /lə ˈmɛʒərər/ , [1] born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was an English actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army (1968–77). A self-confessed "jobbing actor", [2] Le Mesurier appeared in more than 120 films across a range of genres, normally in smaller supporting parts. Le Mesurier became interested in the stage as a young adult and enrolled at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art in 1933. From there he took a position in repertory theatre and made his stage debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in Edinburgh in the J. B. Priestley play Dangerous Corner . He later accepted an offer to work with Alec Guinness in a John Gielgud production of Hamlet . He first appeared on television in 1938 as Seigneur de Miolans in the BBC broadcast of The Marvellous History of St Bernard. During the Second World War Le Mesurier was posted to British India , as a captain with the Royal Tank Regiment . He returned to acting and made his film debut in 1948, starring in the second feature comedy short Death in the Hand , opposite Esme Percy and Ernest Jay . He undertook a number of roles on television in 1951 including Educating Archie alongside Tony Hancock . Le Mesurier had a prolific film career, appearing mostly in comedies, usually in roles portraying figures of authority such as army officers, policemen and judges. As well as Hancock's Half Hour , Le Mesurier appeared in Hancock's two principal films, The Rebel and The Punch and Judy Man . In 1971 Le Mesurier received his only award: a British Academy of Film and Television Arts "Best Television Actor" award for his lead performance in Dennis Potter 's television play Traitor ; it was one of the few lead roles he played during the course of his career. He took a relaxed approach to acting and felt that his parts were those of "a decent chap all at sea in a chaotic world not of his own making". [3] Le Mesurier was married three times, most notably to the actress Hattie Jacques . A heavy drinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about by a complication of cirrhosis of the liver. After his death, critics reflected that, for an actor who normally took minor roles, the viewing public were "enormously fond of him". [4] Contents Early life[ edit ] Sherborne School , Dorset, which Le Mesurier disliked intensely Le Mesurier was born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, in Bedford on 5 April 1912. [5] His parents were Charles Elton Halliley, a solicitor , [6] and Amy Michelle ( née Le Mesurier), whose family were from Alderney in the Channel Islands ; [1] both families were affluent, with histories of government service or work in the legal profession. [7] [a] While John was an infant the family settled in Bury St Edmunds , in West Suffolk . He was sent to school, first to Grenham House in Kent , and later to Sherborne School in Dorset where one of his fellow-pupils was Alan Turing . [8] Le Mesurier disliked both schools intensely, [9] citing insensitive teaching methods and an inability to accept individualism. [10] [11] He later wrote: "I resented Sherborne for its closed mind, its collective capacity for rejecting anything that did not conform to the image of manhood as portrayed in the ripping yarns of a scouting manual". [12] From an early age Le Mesurier had been interested in acting and performing; as a child he had frequently been taken to the West End of London to watch Ralph Lynn and Tom Walls perform in the popular series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre . These experiences fuelled an early desire to make a career on the stage. [13] [14] After leaving school he was initially persuaded to follow his father's line of work, as an a |
What colour shirts did the winning team wear 1966 World cup? | England will wear all-white kit at the World Cup after caving in to new FIFA demands - Mirror Online Sport England will wear all-white kit at the World Cup after caving in to new FIFA demands FIFA want sides to wear singled-coloured kits in order to improve the quality of high-def television pictures from Brazil Share All-white on the night: England went one-colour in Euro 2012 (Photo: Getty) Share Get football updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email England will ditch their traditional kit for an all-white World Cup strip after bowing to demands from FIFA . The Zurich bureaucrats have urged nations to adopt predominantly single-coloured kits to improve the quality of HD pictures from Brazil. And it means Roy Hodgson’s men will run out in Manaus, Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte in their World Cup group clashes wearing a kit that some old-school fans will not appreciate. While the hosts are understood to be ignoring FIFA’s request and sticking with their canary yellow shirts and blue shorts, England are following other major countries and falling into line. Germany last month revealed their all-white design, ditching their traditional black shorts. Spain will be all-red, Portugal all Port-red and Italy all blue, although France are sticking with white shorts under their blue shirts. And the FA and strip manufacturers Nike have agreed a new all-white outfit which will be unveiled before the Wembley farewell friendly against Peru in May. | Index-a This Week's Puzzles So You Think You Know Soccer A soccer goal is what dimensions, yards wide and feet high: 8x7; 7x8; 8x8 or 9x8? According to FIFA World Cup rules which flag must be displayed inside each match stadium besides those of FIFA/Fair Play, and the two competing nations? Approximately how many million people play regular organized football in the world (at the early 2000s): 5; 25; 65; or 250? The word soccer derives from: Sock; Association; Kosher; or Socrates? What is not required by the rules of soccer: Goal net; Penalty spot; Specified ball pressure; or Shin guards? The 2014 World Cup Finals allocated European and African teams respectively how many places: 3 and 9; 4 and 10; 5 and 13; or 6 and 15? What city/club football rules, which spread widely in the late 1800s, introduced heading, corners, throw-ins, changing ends, and the goal crossbar: Sheffield; Paris; Milan; or Berlin? FIFA's 2014 World Cup Finals/Qualifying rules dictate a match squad of how many players: 18; 23; 26; or 30? In the 2010 World Cup Final, Jo'bulani was the: Winner's national anthem; Winning goalscorer; Ball; or Trumpet-like horn blown by fans? The minimum rest-period between two games for any team at the 2014 World Cup is how many hours: 24; 36; 48; or 72? Soccer rules award what after an 'own goal' directly from a throw-in: Goal; Penalty; Corner; or Drop-ball? The headquarters of FIFA are in Brussels; London; Zurich, or Oslo? Who has made the World Cup footballs since 1970: Adidas; Puma; Umbro; or Nike? The World Cup Qualifiying matches between El Salvador v Honduras in 1969 coincided with what mutual event: Independence; Earthquake; Drought; or War? The first ever �100,000 (or above) football transfer, in 1961, was: Bobby Moore; Pele; Dennis Law; or Eusebio? A white ball was first used in a World Cup in: 1930; 1950; 1966; or 1982? The centre circle of a soccer pitch is used only at kick-offs/re-starts, and in which other game feature? Matthias Sammer, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo, and Luis Figo won what between 1990-2002: European Cup; World Cup; Golden Boot; or European Footballer of the Year? The first, second and third placed teams at the 2014 World Cup receive how many medals: 20; 30; 40 or 50? Soccer has been an Olympic event since: 1900; 1964; 1992; or 2002? PAGE 6 |
Who played `Wolfie' Smith in the TV comedy series Citizen Smith? | "Citizen Smith" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb trailers and videos full cast and crew trivia official sites memorable quotes Overview 17 out of 18 people found the following review useful: The best thing to come out of Tooting... from Sussex, England 11 December 2005 The running gag in this show was that every other character of note had their own name for him. 'Foxie' 'Yeti' 'Smudger' 'Trotsky' & 'Smiffy' with I think, only Ken actually calling him 'Wolfie' Am I right in believing nobody ever called him Walter Henry? I have a memory that he only revealed that as his real name in the penultimate show. I do remember the original BBC promo for this series. 'Wolfie' was spraying graffiti on a short section of wall while Ken watched. He'd managed to write "THINK AHEA" before running out of wall, and amidst the ironic laughter of the audience began to berate the council for not building a wall long enough
It set the tone for what followed, although almost immediately the show began to die in instalments as actor after actor left during its four season run. Some, like girlfriend Shirley were merely written out while her screen father, the more central character 'Charlie' was recast twice (if we include the pilot.) I feel though that when Stephen Grief's excellent 'Harry Fenning' was replaced, the show had peaked, perhaps reaching its zenith with "Glorious Day" the third season finale. Yep, it was 'that' episode where they 'liberate' the Scorpion Tank and invade London. I think even die hard aficionados would agree with me that should have been that. Particularly as season three had some of the most memorable episodes of all, introducing John Tordoff as the hyperbolically bizarre 'Tofkin.' Check out "Don't look down" and "Tofkin's revenge." Quite a few have pointed out the similarities between this series and Sullivan's next effort, the rather better known "Only Fools and Horses" and the similarities are indeed there. Both were set in a triangle of flat, pub and occasional exterior, and it is straightforward to recognise equivalent characters across both series. The malapropism that surrounded Wolfie's name was refined for Rodney, who was consistently called 'Dave' throughout by Trig, and of course there is the Citizen Smith episode that was called "Only Fools and Horses" which seems to round things up. I actually worked on this series in a minor, functionary role, during 1980. It is one of very few productions I can recall halting during the shoot as the studio crew were laughing so much it was putting the actors off, and this was during the fourth, and I consider poorest season. People were still talking about it for some time after, and quoting gags while Only Fools and Horses struggled to take hold in its early years. I think the reason that 'Only Fools' prospered and 'Smith' rather withered on the vine was the lack of breadth of story lines and a cast limited in numbers. There are only so many scrapes an Urban Revolutionary can get involved in and with so few lead characters, Sullivan ran out of steam rather early. This series has its moments though and is well worth a look. It had a recent re-run (late 2005) on one of the many BBC/ITV archive satellite channels (in this case UKTV Drama) and should re-appear before long. Until then we have the DVD's to keep us going. Power to the People! from Australia 15 June 2001 Wolfie Smith is a fanatic who craves revolution. Leader of the Tooting Popular Front ( a Marxist political party which numbers six members), Wolfie is a wannabe freedom fighter who likes to call himself an "urban guerilla". He wants to overthrow the Capitalist oppressors of the working class and create a fair, equal and just society (with himself in charge). While he waits for the glorious day, he plays the guitar and sings his raucous songs, dressed in a Che Guevara T-shirt and a black beret with one star on it. Wolfie's attempts to seize power are thwarted time and time again, usually with hilarious consequences. Wolfie keeps a book containing a list of anyone who gets on the wrong side of him. Come the Glorio | Spike Milligan Spike Milligan Person Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles and Minnie Bannister characters. Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse; much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the groundbreaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. He was the oldest, longest lived and last surviving member of the Goons. Milligan's 1960 application for British citizenship and 1961 application for a British passport were blocked by his refusal to pledge an oath of allegiance to the United Kingdom, his adopted home for most of his adult life. When the Commonwealth Immigrants Act removed Indian-born Milligan's automatic right to British citizenship in 1962, he promptly became an Irish citizen, exercising a right conferred through the automatic retroactive Irish citizenship of his Irish-born father (ironically a British citizen). Spouses: Patricia Ridgeway (1962–78; her death) Shelagh Sinclair (1983–2002; his death) Children: Romany Watt-Milligan Early life Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM,RA (1890–1969), who was serving in the British Indian Army. His mother, Florence Mary Winifred Kettleband (1893–1990), was English. He spent his childhood in Poona (India) and later in Rangoon, capital of British Burma. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and later at St Paul's High School, Rangoon. On leaving school he played the cornet and discovered jazz. He also joined the Young Communist League in opposition of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, who were gaining support near his home in south London. After returning from Burma, Milligan lived most of his life in the United Kingdom apart from overseas service in the British Army in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. Second World War Men of Spike Milligan's unit, 56th Heavy Regiment, with a BL 9.2-inch howitzer, Hastings, Sussex, May 1940 During most of the late 1930s and early 1940s, Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist and trumpeter before, during and after being called up for military service in the fight against Nazi Germany, but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops. After his call-up but before being sent abroad, he and fellow musician Harry Edgington (1919–1993) (whose nickname 'Edge-ying-Tong', inspired one of Milligan's most memorable musical creations, the "Ying Tong Song") would compose surreal stories, filled with puns and skewed logic, as a way of staving off the boredom of life in barracks. One biographer describes his early dance band work as follows: "He managed to croon like Bing Crosby and win a competition: he also played drums, guitar and trumpet, in which he was entirely self taught"; he also acquired a double bass, on which he took lessons and would strum in jazz sessions. Milligan had perfect pitch. During the Second World War, Milligan served as a signaller in the 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery, D Battery, as Gunner Milligan, 954024. The unit was equipped with the obsolete First World War era BL 9.2-inch howitzer and based i |
From which musical does the song 'Till There Was You' come? | Till There Was You by The Beatles Songfacts Till There Was You by The Beatles Songfacts Songfacts This was written in 1957 for the Broadway musical The Music Man. It was written by songwriter Meredith Willson, who also wrote "76 Trombones" for the same musical as well as the seasonal favorite " It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas ." Paul McCartney loved show tunes and wanted to cover this. His favorite version was Peggy Lee's. The Beatles played this song, along with " She Loves You " and "Twist And Shout," at the Royal Command Performance of 1963. Paul credited it to their "Favorite American group, Sophie Tucker." >> Suggestion credit: don - rapid city, SD The Beatles performed this on their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance, February 9, 1964. This was a huge event, as Beatlemania had just come to America. This was the only song they played that night that was not one of their hits - they put it in to appeal to the older audience that was tuned in. As they played, the camera zoomed in on each Beatle and superimposed their first name. When it got to Lennon, it read, "Sorry girls, he's married." This was also performed during the Beatles appearance on the Royal Variety Show on November 4, 1963. It was probably also appealing to the older audience and it provided a break between the up-tempo numbers, "She Loves You" and "Twist and Shout." >> Suggestion credit: | Free Flashcards about GK 6 Which horse was involved in the 1913 incident that killed Emily Davison? Anmer What is the meaning of "discursive"? digressing from subject to subject What was the German 'Jugendstil' known as in Britain and the USA? Art Nouveau The artists Odilon Redon and Fernand Khnopff were most closely associated with which artistic movement? Symbolism What nationality was artist Fernand Khnopff? 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Which Turner Prize-winning sculptor designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a 22m. sculpture, for the London 2012 Olympic Park? | London 2012 Olympics: ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture opened on Olympic Park but concerns over price - Telegraph Advertisement London 2012 Olympics: ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture opened on Olympic Park but concerns over price Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has called for the entrance costs to the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture he designed on the Olympic Park to be as low as possible. Launched: the Orbit has been officially completed Photo: AFP Bottoms up: a view from below the main area of the Orbit Image 1 of 9 Bird's eye view: the Orbit overlooks the Olympic Stadium and offers a wonderful view of the track Image 1 of 9 Not a bad view: workmen chatter on the Orbit while the London skyline stretches out on the horizon Image 1 of 9 Long way down: Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, the chairman of ArcelorMittal, invested £19.6 million in the sculpture Roped up: three workers discuss their next move Sitting pretty: Looking over the Olympic Park the Orbit is now complete Photo: GETTY IMAGES Image 1 of 9 Completed: Anish Kapoor said that the £15 entry free the Orbit during Games-time was a "lot of money for people" Photo: GETTY IMAGES Image 1 of 9 By Jacquelin Magnay , Olympics Editor 11:49AM BST 11 May 2012 Follow The twisting red tower, situated next to the Olympic Stadium by the entrance of the Park, was declared officially complete on Friday but Kapoor, who designed it in conjunction with structural designer Cecil Balmond, said the £15 entry free during Games-time was a "lot of money for people". Legacy bosses told Telegraph Sport they shared his concerns and would be doing all they could to get the price down after the Games. Sir Keith Mills, the London 2012 vice-chairman said Locog made a decision to not use the Orbit as a hospitality centre as they wanted the public to be able to have access. "To have taken this for the corporates would have been wrong," he said. "We did look at it as a hospitality venue but we believe this is a very special place and we wanted as many people as possible to be able to enjoy it. "The £15 is what it costs us to operate it. We set the price to offset that cost." Related Articles Anish Kapoor's Arcelor Mittal Orbit: review 11 May 2012 Tickets to visit the tower during the Olympic Games go on sale from May 29. Tickets will only be available to those individuals who already have tickets to watch sporting events on the Park or who hold general admission passes. The Orbit has two observation floors, a 455-step spiral staircase a lift and even a restaurant, with the objective being that visitors go up to the top in a lift before walking down the spiral staircase to take in both the views and Kapoor's artistic detail. Review by Mark Hudson **** As you approach the Orbit across the Olympic Park, it doesn’t appear as gigantic as you might expect. Here you’re in a kind of fairground of extraordinary structures, from the great white crown of the main stadium to the ergonomic ellipse of the velodrome, where gigantism rules. You’ve come here to be overwhelmed and entertained, and on that level the Orbit doesn’t disappoint. The viewing platforms at the top afford spectacular views over the City, with two distorting concave mirrors that are designed to change our sense of space, as though, in Kapoor’s words, 'you’re in an instrument for looking’. That is a rather elevated description of the mirrors’ rippling, distorting effect. Yet overall the Orbit provides a challenging twist on the idea of the tower as viewing point and visitor attraction that is inspiring and uplifting. I loved it. Those involved in the project hope that the tower, which is 22 metres taller than the Statue of Liberty, will remain a must-see attraction long after the Games have finished. Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, the chairman of ArcelorMittal, invested £19.6 million, while the remaining £3.1 million is coming from the Greater London Authority. The Orbit's unique design has divided opinion but Kapoor said in time it would end up being considered a beautiful structure. "It is beautiful but it's awkwar | Turner Contemporary by David Chipperfield | Dezeen Turner Contemporary by David Chipperfield 12 comments Architect David Chipperfield has released images of the completed seafront Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate composed of six identical volumes with an acid-etched glass skin. The gallery, which Dezeen showed designs for back in October , is intended to withstand the corrosive effects of the seaside environment, including the occasional high wave. The ground floor accommodates a reception area, event space and cafe while the exhibition spaces are on the first floor, benefitting from natural north light. The gallery will have no permanent collection, but will feature temporary exhibitions combining historic and contemporary works, with a focus on the work of artist JMW Turner (1775-1851). Here are some more details from the gallery: Turner Contemporary opens 16 April 2011 Margate’s new Turner Contemporary gallery, one of the largest and most important spaces for art outside London, opens to the public on Saturday 16 April 2011. The gallery will be opened by one of Margate’s most famous residents, Tracey Emin, with the musician Jools Holland and a group of local schoolchildren. Designed by internationally acclaimed architect, David Chipperfield, winner of 2007 RIBA Stirling Prize and RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, the opening of the new gallery is one of the most anticipated cultural events of 2011. Victoria Pomery, Director, Turner Contemporary said: “I am thrilled to be opening the gallery on 16 April. It will be a momentous day for both Turner Contemporary and Margate and the moment we open the doors and see visitors entering this fantastic new building will be very special.” Taking inspiration from Britain’s best-known painter, JMW Turner who was a regular visitor to Margate throughout his life, the gallery is situated on the sea front on the site of a guesthouse frequented by the artist. To mark this connection there will always be works by Turner on display in the gallery. John Kampfner, Chair, Turner Contemporary said: “The opening of Turner Contemporary marks the start of an extraordinary opportunity for Margate and Thanet to become one of the UK’s most compelling culture and tourism destinations. I would like to pay tribute to Kent County Council and our other partners for delivering this outstanding building on time and on budget.” Turner Contemporary’s exhibitions programme shows a unique combination of contemporary art alongside historical work, demonstrating a particular focus on the art, thought and the legacy of JMW Turner. The opening show Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens explores the themes of imagination, discovery, wonder and the creative spirit. Centred on JMW Turner’s extraordinary but little-known painting The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains, in the Island of St Vincent, at Midnight, on the 30th of April, 1812, from a Sketch Taken at the Time by Hugh P. Keane, Esqre 1815, on loan from Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool, the exhibition will feature new commissions by Daniel Buren, Russell Crotty, Ellen Harvey and Conrad Shawcross, together with selected works by Teresita Fernández and Douglas Gordon. The opening exhibition will be followed by: Nothing in the World but Youth (17 Sep 2011 - 8 Jan 2012) An exhibition exploring how youth experience has been reflected in art, culture and the media from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Hamish Fulton: Walk (17 Jan - 6 May 2012) Hamish Fulton's first one-person show in the UK since 2002, will include new work made as the result of the group walks in Kent that we commissioned in the lead up to the opening of Turner Contemporary. Turner and the Elements (28 Jan - 13 May 2012) The gallery’s first major exhibition of works by JMW Turner a collaboration with Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg and National Museum, Cracow, exploring the important role that the depiction of the elements played in Turner’s landscapes, watercolours and late paintings. Mike Hill, Cabinet Member for Community Services, said: "I have been |
Of which country was Juan Peron dictator from 1946 to 1955 and 1973 to 1974? | Juan and Evita Peron, photo, biography Juan and Evita Peron Biography Juan and Evita Peron Dictator Juan Peron and his wife Evita - a former nightclub singer - many years ruled by Argentina. Under the guise of good intentions, they robbed millions of people, led the country to the edge of bankruptcy. And all this was done ostensibly in the name of the Argentine people ". It was a strange and seemingly incompatible couple: a singer with a dubious reputation and ambitious army colonel. But they have long determined the course of Latin American politics, and to this day the Argentines commemorate their bad word. Musical Evdryu Weber's "Evita" was not the sole reason that Eva Duarte, the passion of the Argentine dictator, has become notorious. In a country where Peronism became almost a religion, Juan and Eviga were demi-gods who are worshiped and hated. People without a conscience and principles, they shamelessly misappropriated millions from the national treasury, raising them to their personal accounts in a Swiss bank. During the Second World War, they supported the fascist movement in Europe, strangled the opposition press, persecuted progressive religious figures. Peronism in fact turned out to be well-organized robbery of the State. Before coming to power of Peron's Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world. After his country has become bankrupt. Juan Domingo Peron was born in 1895 in a poor immigrant family. He rose through the ranks thanks to the zeal and abilities. Outwardly charming, athletic man in his heart he was a coward and a scoundrel. Peron dreamed of a loud glory, and many of his absurd economic reforms were carried out for the sake of applause from the crowd. Until 1943, when a military coup, Argentina was under the rule of President Ramon Castillo. Anti-government conspiracy led by army officers, united in a secret society of "Young Eagles". Among them was Colonel Peron. Ashifashistskaya position of President irritated the military, among whom were many officers of Italian origin, worshiped Mussolini. During the coup Peron served in the military and was considered one of the most ardent pro-fascist-minded officers. The new authorities, he was appointed to high office in the Ministry of Labor, created by the military junta. The labor movement in Argentina has traditionally controlled trade unions. Peron decided to merge the job in one paramilitary alliance, which would be dominated by totalitarian order, which he admired during a trip to Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Peron used all his charm to win over trade union leaders, to create a working image in the eyes of the "elder brother", which seeks to facilitate their economic and social situation. A few months ago these same people he called the communist scum and dregs of society. But on the eve of the elections had to get a mandate from the people trust, and Peron was sure that flattery - the best way to get votes. He made sure that the negotiations on wages between workers and employers passed through his office. Peron was profitable bribes from union bosses and business owners secretly diverted to his bank account in Switzerland. Peron introduced paid holidays, surcharges for Christmas and other benefits. While the workers welcomed these short-term measures, businessmen complained of the loss of control levers, and the unions obediently followed the government policy. Both were victims of attempts to enter the regime of Juan Peron's military dictatorship, based on the support of the masses. As in Europe crumbled dictatorships, which so delighted with the Argentine military in the country was spreading movement in defense of democracy. In August 1945, was lifted a state of emergency imposed during the war. The following month, on the streets of the Argentine capital was half a million demonstration. Citizens demanded respect for human rights. This frightened the government and sparked a wave of arrests. And when the war among themselves provoked controversy and the view of many of them coincided with the position of workers, Peron decided | My Questions - Documents Documents Share My Questions Embed <iframe src="http://docslide.us/embed/my-questions.html" width="750" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://docslide.us/documents/my-questions.html" title="My Questions" target="_blank">My Questions</a></div> size(px) Download My Questions Transcript Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? 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The headquarters of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) are in which European city? | Europe and Central Asia | United Nations Europe and Central Asia Europe and Central Asia Europe and Central Asia The main centres of United Nations activity in Europe and Central Asia are Geneva, Switzerland, Vienna, Austria and The Hague in the Netherlands. Geneva is home to the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG) and the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). Vienna is home to the UN Office in Vienna (UNOV). The Hague is the seat of the International Court of Justice . There are also many regional and country offices of UN system entities, and UN political offices in Europe and Central Asia. An aerial view of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), Switzerland. UN Office at Geneva (UNOG) The UN Office in Geneva located in Geneva, Switzerland, serves as the representative office of the Secretary-General at Geneva. It is a focal point for multilateral diplomacy, and services more than 8,000 meetings every year, making it one of the busiest conference centres in the world. With more than 1,600 staff, it is the biggest duty station outside of United Nations Headquarters in New York. There are many UN system entities with a presence in Geneva. UN Office in Vienna (UNOV) The UN Office in Vienna performs representation and liaison functions with permanent missions to the United Nations (Vienna), the host Government and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in Vienna. There are many UN system entities with a presence in Vienna. The Hague, International City of Peace and Justice The Hague is the International City of Peace and Justice. There are 160 international organisations in The Hague, employing around 14,000 people dedicated to the cause of world peace. The seat of the International Court of Justice is at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Of the six principal organs of the United Nations, it is the only one not located in New York. Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) The major aim of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) , which has its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, is to promote pan-European economic integration. To do so, it brings together 56 countries that are part of the European Union, non-EU Western and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and North America. All these countries dialogue and cooperate under the aegis of UNECE on economic and sectoral issues. However, all interested United Nations member States may participate in the work of UNECE. Over 70 international professional organizations and other non-governmental organizations take part in UNECE activities. UN Peacekeeping Operations in Europe and Central Asia UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has Special and Personal Representatives, Envoys and Advisers in the European region. 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International Labour Organization (ILO) UN Women has a regional office for Europe and Central Asia, and country offices. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) UNIDO Headquarters is in Vienna, Austria. UNIDO also has several liaison and country offices, desks and focal points for Europe and the Newly Independent States . Un | City Mayors: European cities of culture City Mayors reports news from towns and cities around the world. Worldwide | Elections | North America | Latin America | Europe | Asia | Africa | Events | Mayors from The Americas, Europe. Asia, Australia and Africa are competing for the annual World Mayor Award. More City Mayors ranks the world’s largest as well as richest cities and urban areas. It also ranks the cities in individual countries, and provides a list of the capital cities of some 200 sovereign countries. More City Mayors reports political events, analyses the issues and depicts the main players. 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Which South Wales town was formed in 1921 by the amalgamation of Aberavon and Margam? | Timeline - PORT TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Timeline Timeline 10,000 BC Nomadic groups of hunter gatherers, following the animal herds, gathering shell-fish and berries along the shore 4,000 BC Arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) farmers, who grow crops and keep animals. They live in settled groups, make pottery, and learn to weave cloth. They build stone circles, communal stone tombs, etc 2,000 BC Bronze Age: first use of metals for weapons, tools and ornaments 600 BC Iron Age: arrival of Celts. Local evidence: Hill forts at Margam and Baglan, Hut circles and remains of Celtic fields 43 AD The Romans arrive in Britain 43-69 AD Resistance to the Romans is lead in South Wales by the Silures under Caradco/Caratucus 500-1050 Raids by Irish slavers, Danes and Vikings. St Baglan, a Breton prince who studied at St. Illtyd’s school at Llantwit Major and was then sent to work as Christian missionary in west Wales, founded a church at Baglan. St. Sawel, who founded the church at Briton Ferry also came from this time. Local chieftains set up mini kingdoms and built fortified homes like the one destroyed when the most recent Briton Ferry Bridge was built. The first Aberavon probably dates from this period – it may have been nearer the sea where the docks are now. When the docks were being excavated c1836 various things were found – Roman coins, shoes, cattle horns, fences, walls and cultivation ridges from fields. A field in this area was known as “Platch yr Hen Eglwys” – The field of the old church – which might have been the long vanished church of St Thomas. 1066 The Normans conquer England c.1090 Normans arrive in South Wales. Rhys ap Tudur the King of South Wales was killed in battle. Iestyn ap Gwrgan is defeated by a combined Welsh-Norman army but his son Caradoc is allowed the keep the land between the Neath and the Ffrwdwyllt, and becomes the first Lord of Afan, the only Welsh ruled area in Norman South Wales. Caradoc builds a wooden motte and bailey castle next to what is now St. Mary’s church, Aberavon. 1137 Robert, Earl of Gloucester founds Margam Abbey, partly for the good of his soul, partly as a buffer between the Welsh in Afan and the uplands of Glamorgan and the Normans in Coity, Bridgend and the Vale. 1147 Margam Abbey was founded 1153 Caradoc’s castle is burnt down by his brothers-in-law, Maredudd and Rhys ap Grutrydd. The castle is rebuilt in stone. Small settlements began to grow up around the castle and the Abbey 1170 Great Eisteddfod at Llanfihangel Afan King John visited the Abbey at Margam 1232 Morgan Gam, Lord of Afan attacked Kenfig 1249 Monks of Margam start mining coal at Bryn 1304 Sir Leisan de Avene grants Aberavon its first charter 1326 Edward II stops at Margam Abbey 1336 Monks at Margam complained that “no small part of the land adjacent to the shore is subject to inundation by the sea”. 1347 Outbreak of the Black Death. 1350 Aberavon Borough Charter re-issued by Thomas d’ Avene. By now the family of the Lords of Afan has become more Norman then Welsh, and in the next twenty years they disappear, possibly to England. Afan becomes part of the lands of Edward le Despenser, English Lord of Glamorgan. C.1373 Edward Le Despenser grants new charter to Aberavon 1384 The Abbot of Margam appropriates St Mary’s Church at Margam 1394 Richard II at the Abbey. He was there again five years later 1399 Richard II visited Margam c.1400 The Lords of Afan have disappeared, no-one lives in the castle but the town/village still exists. The town is run mainly by the burgesses. Ieuan Gethin, descendant of a younger branch of the Afan lords, lives at Plas Baglan. Inland, Llanfihangel Ynys Afan/Michaelstone Super Avon (now Cwmavon) is mostly small farms with a church and inn as its centre. The road down to Aberavon is very bad, so people tend to head for the markets and fairs at Neath. 1427 Serious flooding in the Swansea Bay area c.1470 Hen Eglwys (Capel Mair) constructed The monks are thrown out of Margam Abbey 1540-1547 Sir Rice Mansel of Oxwich buys the abbey and its lands at a cost of £2494/13/5 The nave | General Knowledge Quiz - By Zarbo84 The fictional character John Clayton is better known by what name? La Paz is the administrative capital of which South American country? Actor Charles Buchinsky was better known by what name? 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Which American chemist who discovered covalent bond and coined the term 'photon' among other things is probably the greatest scientist to never win the Nobel Prize? | Organic Chemistry/Print version - Wikibooks, open books for an open world Organic Chemistry/Print version This is the print version of Organic Chemistry You won't see this message or any elements not part of the book's content when you print or preview this page. Welcome to the world's foremost open content Organic Chemistry Textbook This free online text is intended to become a complete replacement for your printed book. The Study of Organic Chemistry Organic chemistry is primarily devoted to the unique properties of the carbon atom and its compounds. These compounds play a critical role in biology and ecology, Earth sciences and geology, physics, industry, medicine and — of course — chemistry. At first glance, the new material that organic chemistry brings to the table may seem complicated and daunting, but all it takes is concentration and perseverance. Millions of students before you have successfully passed this course and you can too! This field of chemistry is based less on formulas and more on reactions between various molecules under different conditions. Whereas a typical general chemistry question may ask a student to compute an answer with an equation from the chapter that they memorized, a more typical organic chemistry question is along the lines of "what product will form when substance X is treated with solution Y and bombarded by light". The key to learning organic chemistry is to understand it rather than cram it in the night before a test. It is all well and good to memorize the mechanism of Michael addition, but a superior accomplishment would be the ability to explain why such a reaction would take place. As in all things, it is easier to build up a body of new knowledge on a foundation of solid prior knowledge. Students will be well served by much of the knowledge brought to this subject from the subject of General Chemistry . Concepts with particular importance to organic chemists are covalent bonding, Molecular Orbit theory, VSEPR Modeling, understanding acid/base chemistry vis-a-vis pKa values, and even trends of the periodic table. This is by no means a comprehensive list of the knowledge you should have gained already in order to fully understand the subject of organic chemistry, but it should give you some idea of the things you need to know to succeed in an organic chemistry test or course. Organic Chemistry is one of the subjects which are very useful and close to our daily life. We always try to figure out some of the unknown mysteries of our daily life through our factious thinking habit, which generates superstitions. Through the help of chemistry we can help ourselves to get out of this kind of superstition. We always try to find the ultimate truth through our own convenience. In the ancient past we had struggled to make things to go as per our need. In that context we have found fire, house, food, transportation, etc… Now the burning question is: "how can chemistry help our daily life?" To find the answer of this questions, we have to know the subject thoroughly. Let us start it from now. Contents If you save this file to your computer, you can click on these links to go to the appropriate section. The authors of this book are: Karl Wick Citizen of the United States of America, and living there The initiator of this project is Karl Wick, who is finishing up his premed science courses at the Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of this writing (7/15/03) I have been the sole contributor but as time goes on it will become a group project "of the people" as many contribute and improve it by bits and pieces. Justin Johnson Citizen of the United States of America, residing therein, born 1975 Justin Johnson( JSJohnson ) is a pre-medical undergraduate student at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis . He first read this book in the summer of 2005, and began contributing to it in the spring of 2006. Igoroisha Goh Liang Song ( User:Gohliangsong ) Citizen of the Republic of Singapore. He graduated from the National University of Singapore , majoring in Chemistry. | Research Profile - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Research Profile by Luisa Bonolis Dorothy C. Hodgkin Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances". Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was among the most prominent of a generation of great crystallographers. Beginning in the 1930s, she pioneered the X-ray study of large molecules of biochemical importance, solving a large number of structural problems of importance in biochemistry and medicine. The crystal structures of cholesterol, penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin are enduring achievements and had an immediate impact on chemistry, biochemistry and medical science. In 1964, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, she was the first British woman, and the third woman ever, to receive the Prize in chemistry (after Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie). She was the fifth woman to win a Nobel in science and only the second woman to be decorated with the Order of Merit (the first was Florence Nightingale). Hodgkin reinvented crystallography, transforming it into an indispensable scientific tool. With every major molecule she solved, she devised new methods that expanded crystallography's technical capabilities far beyond what other chemists considered possible at the time. Due largely to Hodgkin's pioneering efforts, X-ray crystallographic techniques were utilized by Max Perutz and John Kendrew in their studies of protein structure, and by Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, James Watson and Francis Crick in their analysis of the spiral structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Discovering the Charm of Crystals Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was born in Cairo, Egypt, of English parents, in 1910. Although her formal schooling took place in England, she spent a significant part of her youth in the Middle East and North Africa, where her father was an inspector for the Ministry of Education. Already at school she was fascinated with chemistry and in particular with crystals, being intrigued by the elegance and beauty of their geometric shapes, with plane faces meeting at characteristic angles, and the orderly symmetry of their structures. She also made small experiments to grow copper sulfate and alum crystals. When she was 14 years old, while visiting her father in Khartoum, where he had just been appointed director of education and antiquities for the Sudan, she met his friend, Dr. A. F. Joseph, a government soil chemist. Joseph further stimulated her interest in science by helping her perform her first quantitative analysis of some local minerals and later giving her a professional surveyor's kit for identifying minerals. Her mother always encouraged her interest in chemistry, allowing her to purchase materials from the local chemist and to do experiments at home. When Dorothy was 15, her mother gave her two books written by Sir Henry Bragg for school children, where he described how he could shine X rays through a crystal to discover the arrangement of its atoms. Henry Bragg and his twenty-two-year old son Lawrence, along with the German physicist Max von Laue, were pioneers of the new science of X-ray crystallography, the study of the regular packing of atoms and molecules in a crystal. In 1912, Laue had posited that X-rays passing through a crystal would reflect off atomic centres in the lattice and interfere with each other to create a diffraction pattern. Through the 19th and early 20th century, the work of crystallographers on the geometry of crystal structure had shown that the atoms or molecules in a crystal must be arranged in a geometrical pattern with perfect regularity, and it was possible to calculate that the spacing of the pattern must be of the order of 1/100000000 centimetre. The relation between this spacing and the conjectured wavelength of the X-rays was precisely that required to give diffraction effects. By June 1912, von Laue's idea had been proved right: X-rays, with wavelengths much smaller than interatomic spacings, are able to scatter off the atoms in the crystal, showing the sym |
Who was exiled to Siberia three times, was active in the plot that overthrew Kerensky in 1917, and became Secretary of the Russian Communist Party? | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY Vladimir Il’ich Ul’ianov (who in 1901 began to call himself Lenin) was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, now Ul’ianovsk, a provincial town on the Volga, one of six children in an educated middle-class family. When he died on January 21, 1924, near Moscow, he was acclaimed as “the greatest genius of mankind, creator of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the leader and teacher of the peoples of the whole world.” In different measure the events of his personal life, his intellectual life, and his active political life contributed to this metamorphosis. His father, of lower middle-class origin, was a graduate of the university in Kazan and for many years taught mathematics and physics in secondary schools in the Volga region. In 1869 he was appointed a school inspector and, shortly afterward, director of the “people’s schools” in Simbirsk province, thus earning the rank of nobleman. Ul’ianov’s mother was a woman of indomitable character. Daughter of a country doctor with little money and a large family, she had received her schooling at home. The boy Vladimir, the second son, was an intelligent and conscientious student, and a good swimmer, skater, and chess player. He was much impressed by his father’s talk of the “darkness” of life in the villages and of the arbitrary treatment of peasants by officials. A voracious reader, Ul’ianov became well acquainted at an early age with the writings of the great Russian authors, from Pushkin through Turgenev to Tolstoi, and was especially interested in the works of Nekrasov; he was also aware of such protorevolutionary writers as Belinskii, Herzen, Chernyshevskii, Pisarev, and Dobroliubov. But there was no hint in these early intellectual activities that he would become a revolutionary. The first blow to young Ul’ianov’s happy existence was the death of his father in 1886. An even worse shock was the arrest, in March 1887, of his elder brother, Alexander, whose brilliant research on worms at the university in St. Petersburg had promised a bright future but who, unknown to his family, had been active in terrorist revolutionary circles. Alexander was executed for having plotted the assassination of the tsar. The Ul’ianov family, shunned by local society, moved to a village not far from Kazan. Ul’ianov was admitted to the university in Kazan, though only on the strength of a character reference from the director of the Simbirsk Gymnasium, father of Alexander Kerenskii, the man Lenin was later to overthrow. Ul’ianov was arrested in December 1887 for his part in a student demonstration against a university rule that enjoined students from forming organizations. Expelled from the university and forbidden to go abroad for study, he threw himself into preparation for external examinations and was finally permitted to take these in the spring of 1891, thus winning a first-degree diploma from the law faculty of the university in St. Petersburg. For two years he held a job in a Samara law office; at the same time he was studying Marxism and engaging in open criticism of the narodniki, activities which he continued in St. Petersburg, where he went in 1893 “in quest of the proletariat.” By the spring of 1895 he had become well enough known to be sent by his comrades to visit Georgii Plekhanov, the “grandfather of Russian Marxism,” in Geneva. Before his return he met Paul Lafargue, son-in-law of Karl Marx, and the veteran German Marxist Wilhelm Liebknecht but was unable to see the dying Friedrich Engels. That fall young Ul’ianov joined with L. Martov (pseudonym of lulii O. Tsederbaum) and a handful of other intellectuals to form the so-called Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, which planned to publish an illegal newspaper, Rabochee delo (“The Workers’ Cause”). The first issue was confiscated, and UFianov was among those arrested. Imprisonment prevented him from participating in the | Alexander Kerensky - Metapedia Alexander Kerensky 21 July 1917 – 7 November 1917 [8 July – 26 October 1917 Old Style ] Preceded by 21 July 1917 – 7 November 1917 Preceded by 11 June 1970 (aged 89) New York, NY, United States Resting place Profession Politician 8 References Early life and activism Kerensky, a son of a headmaster, was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk ), the same town as Lenin (whose surname was then Ulyanov). At one point Kerensky's father, Fyodor, had taught the young Vladimir Ulyanov at Kazan University . Kerensky's uncle and grandfather were said to be orthodox priests. [1] Kerensky graduated with a degree in Law from St. Petersburg University in 1904. He showed his left-wing political allegiances early on, with his frequent defences of anti- Tsarist revolutionaries. He was elected to the Fourth Duma in 1912 as a deputy for the Trudoviks , a Labour Party who were closely associated with the Socialist Revolutionary Party . A brilliant orator and skilled parliamentary leader, he became a member of the Provisional Committee of the Duma as a Socialist Revolutionary and a leader of the socialist opposition to the Tsar, Nicholas II . February Revolution When the February Revolution broke out in 1917, Kerensky, a republican, was elected vice-chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. He simultaneously became the first Minister of Justice in the newly-formed Russian Provisional Government . When the Soviet passed a resolution prohibiting its leaders from joining the government, Kerensky delivered a stirring speech at a Soviet meeting. Although the decision was never formalized, he was granted a de facto exemption and continued acting in both capacities. On March 6, the new Foreign Minister, Miliukov, saw the British Ambassador, Sir George Buchanan and told him that the Provisional Government was disposed to allow the Imperial Family to leave for England if it could be arranged. British Prime Minister Lloyd George , however, thought this a bad idea and made a very pessimistic report on the matter to his King. Between March 21 and July 31 (Julian calendar) Kerensky visited the Imperial family regularly, although after July 9 his visits became solemn events as he had succeeded Prince Lvov. On one of his earlier visits Tsar Nicholas noted that Kerensky seemed "completely outside the nation's preoccupations". The Soviet historian, Bikov, thought Kerensky too easy on the family and cited a valet who said that the Tsarina said to him of Kerensky "I have no complaint to make against him, he's a decent man and one with whom one can talk." Many others, however, felt Kerensky's courtesy was insincere. This appears to be born out by the final meeting with the Tsar on July 31 when he told Nicholas that he was sending him and his family not to the Crimea or one of his family's great estates, but as prisoners to Tobolsk in Siberia . [1] On July 2 , 1917 , the first coalition collapsed over the question of Ukraine 's autonomy. Following widespread unrest in Petrograd and suppression of the Bolsheviks, Kerensky succeeded Prince Lvov as Russia's Prime Minister . The came the Kornilov Affair at the end of August, and the resignation of the other ministers. Kerensky now appointed himself Supreme Commander-in-Chief as well. He retained his other posts in the short-lived Directory in September, and the final coalition government in October 1917 until it was overthrown by the Bolshevik coup. Keeping Russia in the War Kerensky and the other political leaders continued their obligation to Russia's allies by continuing involvement in World War I - fearing that the economy, already under huge stress from the war effort, might become increasingly unstable if vital supplies from France and the United Kingdom were to be cut off. Some also feared that Germany would demand enormous territorial concessions as the price for peace (which indeed happened in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ). After the first government crisis over the new Foreign Minister Pavel Milyukov 's secret note re-committing Russia to its original war aims on May 2-4, Kerensky became the |
Where is the Tynwald the legislative body? | Legislative body | Article about Legislative body by The Free Dictionary Legislative body | Article about Legislative body by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Legislative+body Also found in: Dictionary , Thesaurus , Legal , Wikipedia . legislature, representative assembly empowered to enact statute law. Generally the representatives who compose a legislature are constitutionally elected by a broad spectrum of the population. Types of Legislatures Two common types of legislature are those in which the executive and the legislative branches are clearly separated, as in the U.S. Congress, and those in which members of the executive branch are chosen from the legislative membership, as in the British Parliament. Respectively termed presidential and parliamentary systems, there are innumerable variations of the two forms. It should be noted that while popular assemblies of citizens, as in direct democracy democracy [Gr.,=rule of the people], term originating in ancient Greece to designate a government where the people share in directing the activities of the state, as distinct from governments controlled by a single class, select group, or autocrat. ..... Click the link for more information. , are often called legislatures, the term should properly be applied only to those assemblies that perform a representative function. In its early history, the English Parliament Parliament, legislative assembly of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Over the centuries it has become more than a legislative body; it is the sovereign power of Great Britain, whereas the monarch remains sovereign in name only. ..... Click the link for more information. , like the States-General States-General or Estates-General, diet or national assembly in which the chief estates (see estate) of a nation—usually clergy, nobles, and towns (or commons)—were represented as separate bodies. ..... Click the link for more information. of France and the diet diet, parliamentary bodies in Japan, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, the Scandinavian nations, and Germany have been called diets. In German history, the diet originated as a meeting of landholders and burghers, convoked by the ruler to discuss financial problems. ..... Click the link for more information. of the Holy Roman Empire consisted of representatives chosen according to classes or estates (see estate estate. 1 In property law, see property; tenure. 2 In constitutional law, an estate denotes an organized class of society with a separate voice in government. Representation by estate arose in Europe in the 13th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. , in constitutional law). Out of the estates arose the typical bicameral system, in which an upper house represented the nobility and clergy and a lower house represented the bourgeoisie. Although the upper house assemblies of many countries are still nonelective or hereditary, they are generally much weaker than the popularly elected lower house and carry out only minor functions. Those states with unicameral legislatures include Finland and Israel. The Congress of the United States Congress of the United States, the legislative branch of the federal government, instituted (1789) by Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which prescribes its membership and defines its powers. ..... Click the link for more information. is bicameral, but rather than being rooted in societal class differences, it is based upon principles of federalism. The founders of the American republic, in order to assure acceptance of the Constitution, gave each state equal representation representation, in government, the term used to designate the means by which a whole population may participate in governing through the device of having a much smaller number of people act on their behalf. ..... Click the link for more information. in the Senate, as a gesture to the smaller states, and made membership in the House of Representatives dependent upon population size, thereby favoring the larger states. Most of the Ameri | Llyn Tegid - Bala, N Wales | Bala Lake, known in Welsh as 'L… | Flickr Ben By: Ben Llyn Tegid - Bala, N Wales Bala Lake, known in Welsh as 'Llyn Tegid' meaning Lake of Serenity, was formed by the action of glaciers. It is the largest body of water in Wales, being four miles long and a mile wide. Local legend states that the lake is inhabited by a monster which is known as 'Teggie' and it is claimed that on moonlit nights, towers and buildings can be seen under the waters of Bala Lake. Legend states these buildings to be the palace of King Tegid, husband of Ceridwen, the mother of the famous Welsh bard Taliesin (c. 534 - c. 599), the earliest poet of the Welsh language and often referred to as Taliesin Ben Beirdd (Taliesin, Chief of Bards) who was born in the area. Bala Lake is a protected wildlife site and its waters contain abundant pike, European perch, trout, eel and a rare and protected whitefish called the Gwyniad, a relic of the last Ice Age. The Gwyniad spends most of its time in the deeper, colder parts of the lake and only swim into the shallower water at night to spawn, the fish is no longer found anywhere else in Britain. The lake also contains the very rare mollusc Myxas glutinosa - the Glutinous snail. Done |
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. Dictionary of Soul', whose name is missing from the title of his last solo studio album? | Lists courtesy of Gordon Stephen unless stated otherwise. MOJO: THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE August 1995 Edition 1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 2. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 3. The Beatles - Revolver 4. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street 5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 7. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 8. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 9. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico 10. Patti Smith - Horses 12. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? 13. Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy 14. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 15. The Band - The Band 16. The Stooges - Fun House 17. Television - Marquee Moon 19. The Beatles - The Beatles 20. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 21. David Bowie - Station To Station 22. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks 23. The Clash - London Calling 24. The Beatles - Abbey Road 25. David Bowie - Hunky Dory 26. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet 27. The Beatles - Rubber Soul 28. Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica 29. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust 30. The Doors - The Doors 31. Otis Redding - Otis Blue 32. James Brown & The Famous Flames - Live At The Apollo Vol. 1 33. Nirvana - Nevermind 34. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 35. Prince - Sign 'O' The Times 36. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers 37. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People 38. The Who - The Who Sell Out 39. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks 40. Big Star - Third (AKA Sister Lovers) 41. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 42. Gram Parsons With Emmylou Harris - Grievous Angel 43. The Ramones - Ramones 44. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life 45. Lou Reed - Transformer 46. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way 47. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday 48. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express 49. The New York Dolls - New York Dolls 50. Moby Grape - Moby Grape 51. 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In what war was the Battle of Blenheim fought? | Battle of Blenheim Battle of Blenheim The Duke of Marlborough’s spectacular defeat of the hitherto invincible French army of Louis XIV The Duke of Marlborough leads the attack at the Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession: picture by Harry Payne The previous battle in the British Battles series is the Siege of Basing House The next battle in the War of the Spanish Succession is the Battle of Ramillies Battle: Blenheim War: Spanish Succession Date of the Battle of Blenheim: 2nd August 1704 (Old Style) (13th August 1704 New Style). The dates in this page are given in the Old Style. To translate to the New Style add 11 days Place of the Battle of Blenheim: On the Danube in Southern Germany. Combatants at the Battle of Blenheim: British, Austrians, Hungarians, Hanoverians, Prussians, Danes and Hessians against the French and Bavarians. John Churchill Duke of Marlborough: Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession Generals at the Battle of Blenheim: The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy against Marshall Tallard, Marshall Marsin and the Elector of Bavaria. Size of the armies at the Battle of Blenheim: There is considerable dissent on the size of the respective armies. The French and Bavarian armies probably comprised 60,000 men (69 battalions of foot and 128 squadrons of horse) and around 60 guns. The Allied army comprised 56,000 men (51 battalions of foot and 92 squadrons of horse), of which 16,000 (14 battalions of foot and 18 squadrons of horse and dragoons) were British and 52 guns. There is considerable variation in the numbers attributed to the French and Bavarian armies: some authorities put their strength as high as 72,000 men with 200 guns. French sources quoted by Sullivan in his book “The Irish Brigades” give the relative strengths as: French and Bavarians: 43,900 men, in 78 battalions and 127 squadrons, with 90 cannon. British and Allies: 60,150 men in 66 battalions and 181 squadrons, with 66 cannon (French battalions having 400 men to the Allied 500 and the French squadrons 100 to the Allied 150). Prince Eugene of Savoy: Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession Uniforms, arms and equipment at the Battle of Blenheim: The British Army of Queen Anne comprised troops of Horse Guards, regiments of horse, dragoons, Foot Guards and foot. In time of war the Department of Ordnance provided companies of artillery, the guns drawn by the horses of civilian contractors. These types of formation were largely standard throughout Europe. In addition the Austrian Empire possessed numbers of irregular light troops; Hussars from Hungary and Bosniak and Pandour troops from the Balkans. During the 18th Century the use of irregulars spread to other armies until every European force employed hussar regiments and light infantry for scouting duties. Horse and dragoons carried swords and short flintlock muskets. Dragoons had largely completed their transition from mounted infantry to cavalry and were formed into troops rather than companies as had been the practice in the past. However they still used drums rather than trumpets for field signals. Infantry regiments fought in line, armed with flintlock musket and bayonet, orders indicated by the beat of drum. The field unit for infantry was the battalion comprising ten companies, each commanded by a captain, the senior company being of grenadiers. Drill was rudimentary and once battle began formations quickly broke up. The practice of marching in step was in the future. French soldiers marching to join their regiment: Battle of Blenheim 2nd August 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession: picture by Jean Anthoine Watteau The paramount military force of the period was the French army of Louis XIV, the Sun King. France was at the apex of her power, taxing to the utmost the disparate groupings of European countries that struggled to keep the Bourbons on the western bank of the Rhine and north of the Pyrenees. Marlborough and his British regiments acted as an uncertain mortar in keeping | Discover the imaginative genius of Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard - Discover Britain Discover the imaginative genius of Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard Feb 2, 2015 Google+0 Claire Masset Learn more about the life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh, who, without any training, went on to outshine the most respected architects of his time. Blenheim Palace Bold, daring and dramatic, Vanbrugh was as adventurous in life as he was in his architecture. Such were his skill and lively mind that he became in turn a merchant, soldier, playwright and architect during his 62-year life. Blessed with a penchant for business, a powerful way with words, a keen eye for beauty and drama, and clearly a good dose of courage and intellect, Vanbrugh fashioned an incredibly varied and exciting life for himself. Castle Howard John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) was a staunch Protestant and played a part in the scheme to overthrow the Catholic king, James II. From 1686, he worked undercover and helped bring about the invasion of William of Orange, who eventually ousted James II and became the new King. On his way back from bringing messages to William in the Hague, Vanbrugh was arrested in France on suspicion of espionage in September 1688 and imprisoned for four years. The conditions of his release stated that he should spend three months in Paris, and so – free to move around but unable to leave the country – he had ample time to see the city’s architecture. Four years behind bars would also have offered plenty of opportunity for reading and study. Wollaton Hall. © Les Churchman On his return to England in 1693, Vanbrugh joined the navy, but again this was short-lived. Within two years he had swapped army life for the theatre and was making a name for himself as a thought-provoking playwright and producer. The Relapse (1696) and The Provok’ed Wife (1697) – both witty and risqué comedies – quickly became stage favourites in the West End. With success already at his door, no one really knows why the 35-year-old Vanbrugh decided to launch into yet another career, this time as a novice architect. But in 1699 he took on one of the grandest architectural commissions of the time – the design of a palatial house in Yorkshire for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Given that he had no experience or training, how did Vanbrugh achieve this feat? No doubt his membership of the Kit-Cat Club helped greatly. This political and cultural gathering of prominent Whigs included the Earl of Carlisle (as well as the Duke of Marlborough, who later commissioned Vanbrugh to design Blenheim Palace). By 1702, Vanbrugh was such a respected architect that he was made Comptroller of the Queen’s Works. And no doubt thanks greatly to his achievements as an architect, he was knighted by King George I in 1714. How did the untrained Vanbrugh become the most prominent architect of his time? His charm, intellect and connections of course helped. But this inspired amateur was also gifted with extraordinary powers of the imagination and an ability to visualise in three dimensions. His earlier work as a playwright and producer of plays must certainly have honed his eye for the theatrical. In his first two major projects – Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace – he was lucky to be assisted by the highly experienced architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, who had learnt his trade in the office of Sir Christopher Wren. While Vanbrugh was free to let his imagination run riot, Hawksmoor was the firm hand whose attention to detail was the perfect complement to Vanbrugh’s flamboyant creativity. Perhaps thanks to his lack of training, Vanbrugh was able to approach designs with flexibility and combine elements which other architects never dared to mix, creating powerful juxtapositions. Classical features were enlivened with a Baroque approach to design, and sometimes supplemented with elements of castle architecture such as battlements and towers. Vanbrugh was keen to inject his buildings with, what he called, ‘something of the castle air’. His time |
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Who played Batman immediately before George Clooney? | The 9 actors who’ve played Batman | Den of Geek Search The 9 actors who’ve played Batman We look at the nine actors who’ve graced Batman's cowl on the big screen, including Mr Ben Affleck… j Holy revolving door, Batman! The Caped Crusader has been portrayed by more actors than any other superhero in movie history – nine to be exact. Most have lasted for just one film, but with the release of The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale became the first man to have played Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego more than twice on the silver screen. He didn’t have much competition – Michael Keaton was the only prior actor to reprise the role. Will Arnett will also join that club when his LEGO Batman movie hits cinemas in 2017. Ben Affleck could well throw all these records out, of course, given the sprawling DC Extended Universe plans now afoot and his vital involvement in them. Here's the nine actor who've played Gotham's Dark Knight... 1. Lewis G Wilson Wilson was the first and youngest actor ever to play the adult Batman, and also the least successful. At 23, the unknown thespian donned the cape and the cowl in the 15-part 1943 Columbia serial Batman. While he looked the part of the dashing playboy, his physique was more Danny DeVito as the Penguin. One critic described Wilson as “thick about the middle.” Maybe that was why he wore his utility belt just below his chest. Critics also complained that his voice was too high and that he had a Boston accent. That, of course, wouldn’t be the last time someone complained about Batman’s voice. After Batman, Wilson’s career went nowhere. Most of his roles went uncredited. His next biggest movie part was probably in the 1951 cult classic Bowanga Bowanga. A few years later he was out of showbiz altogether. His son, Michael G Wilson, however, fared better in Hollywood, becoming the executive producer of the James Bond series. Lewis G Wilson died in 2000. 2. Robert Lowrey Lowery took over the role in the follow-up serial, 1949’s Batman And Robin. Unlike Lewis, Lowery, 36 at the time, was a veteran actor, having already appeared in The Mark Of Zorro (1940), The Mummy's Ghost (1944) and Dangerous Passage (1944). He also filled out the Batsuit better than Lewis, with his utility belt hanging where you would expect it on a non-octogenarian. Though Lowery never played Batman in another movie, he did get to wear the cape once more and make superhero history in the process. In 1956 he guest-starred on an episode of The Adventures Of Superman, marking the first time a Batman actor shared screen time with a Superman actor. (One for the fact fans: the two actors also appeared together in their pre-superhero days, in a WWII anti-VD propaganda film called Sex Hygiene). After Batman, Lowrey enjoyed another 20 years in movies and TV. He died in 1971. 3. Adam West The man logging the most hours in the Batcave, of course, was William West Anderson, whom you probably know better as Adam West. Either you love him for his goofy charm or hate him for blemishing the Bat’s image for several decades. His campy, over-the-top portrayal of Gotham’s Guardian infiltrated nearly every medium, including a 1966 movie and several animated series. Legend has it producer William Dozier cast West after seeing him play a James Bond-like spy called Captain Q in a Nestlé Quik TV ad. He beat future Wonder Woman co-star Lyle Waggoner for the role. Dozier, who supposedly hated comic books, decided the only way the show would be successful was if they camped it up. So blame him. Things would almost come full circle when, in 1970, West was offered the role of James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. West declined, later writing in his autobiography that he believed Bond should always be played by a Brit. Holy bad career moves, Batman! After the Batman series went off the air in 1968, West was resigned to typecast hell. At one point he was forced to make public appearances as the Caped Crusader to earn a living. Then, in 1977, he returned to the tube as Batman, doing his voice in The New Adventures Of Batman, and then on such shows as Super Frien | Film Awards in 2009: Winners Announced | BAFTA Home Media Centre Press releases Film Awards in 2009: Winners Announced Film Awards in 2009: Winners Announced Share 8 February 2009 BAFTA / Richard Kendal The winners of the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009 have been announced at a ceremony in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE WINS 7 BAFTA AWARDS INCLUDING BEST FILM THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON WINS 3 AWARDS KATE WINSLETT WINS FOR THE READER MICKEY ROURKE WINS FOR THE WRESTLER Slumdog Millionaire was named Best Film at tonight’s Orange British Academy Film Awards, held at London’s Royal Opera House. The film also won six other awards: Director for Danny Boyle, Adapted Screenplay, Music, Cinematography, Editing and Sound. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won three BAFTAs; for Production Design, Make Up & Hair and Special Visual Effects. Kate Winslet was awarded the BAFTA for Leading Actress for The Reader. The Supporting Actress BAFTA went to Penélope Cruz for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Mickey Rourke won the Leading Actor award for The Wrestler and the Supporting Actor award was presented posthumously to Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight. In a very good night for British film, In Bruges won the BAFTA for Original Screenplay and The Duchess won the BAFTA for Costume Design. Director/writer Steve McQueen received The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film for Hunger. The BAFTA for Outstanding British Film went to the documentary Man on Wire. I’ve Loved You So Long took away the Film Not in the English Language BAFTA and the award for Animated Film went to Wall•E. Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death won the Short Animation award and the Short Film award was presented to September. Two awards were announced earlier this week: the Academy Fellowship was awarded to Terry Gilliam and the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema was presented to Pinewood and Shepperton Studios. The Orange Rising Star Award was presented to Noel Clarke, director and star of Adulthood. This award recognises an international actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and has begun to be recognised as a film star in the making. This award, now in its fourth year, was created in honour of Mary Selway, the highly respected casting director, who died in 2004. 8 February 2009 |
"Who had her first major movie role in ""Crossroads"" (2002), a comedy-drama film that also starred Dan Aykroyd and Kim Cattrall?" | Crossroads (2002) directed by Tamra Davis • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd It's not a music video, not yet a movie. With this paraphrased credo of the Britney Spears-starring seminal classic Crossroads I welcome you to my review: * First of all, make no mistake, this was boring as shit. I had hoped that I'd be bad in an entertaining way, but these hopes crashed and died a fiery death soon. How many serious dialogue montages © can one put in this sort of movie? Hint: The answer is way too many. * Britney plays a valedictorian in this movie. I shit you not. The film opens with Britney being nervous about her great graduation speech. Because the movie apparently couldn't afford more than 5 extras, we cut to: Right after the… 3 "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire I have nothing against Britney Spears. In the cultural void of the early 2000s, Spears, though evidently the product of careful marketing schemes, was an alluring, enjoyable diversion from the horrors of 9/11 and the Iraq War. Spears was (and still is) an entertainer, and not an artist - and that's hardly a disparagement. Now it's been rashly and bitterly said of me (on Letterboxd, no less) that I am a "misogynist" because I disagree on the worth and purpose of Britney's only cinematic outing. That is entirely unreasonable. To describe it in sociopolitical terms, I believe this to be the natural,… 7 So... you know that theory about how high school never really ends? Some people have a great take on life: just get through the hell of your teen angst. Graduate and get a million miles away from all the people in high school who made life for you a cartoonishly simple game of Good People vs. Bad People and then you will forget them and they will forget you and you will all grow into real adults and all of the terrible social patterns which played out there like a creepy soap operatic circus of fate won't follow you anywhere and you'll forget everything bad that ever happened to you (because... uh... bigger problems?) and you will never run into… Review by Ewan ★★★ It's probably different to watch a screening of this in a central London cinema followed by a Q&A with the director, but I find it difficult to say anything too harsh about what is evidently an earnest attempt to move Britney out of a certain (virginal) stereotype, while also making a film far more concerned with women's friendship over time. Some of the plot points are a little leaden, along with some overburdened symbolism (waves crashing to indicate female sexuality comes to mind), but the film cannot help but exceed all these quotidian referents, by which I mean (and I'm no theorist) that it's not just a film with actors playing characters following a narrative. No, by virtue of its… | 1988 Academy Awards® Winners and History Working Girl (1988) Actor: DUSTIN HOFFMAN in "Rain Man", Gene Hackman in "Mississippi Burning", Tom Hanks in "Big", Edward James Olmos in "Stand and Deliver", Max von Sydow in "Pelle the Conqueror" Actress: JODIE FOSTER in "The Accused", Glenn Close in "Dangerous Liaisons", Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl", Meryl Streep in "A Cry in the Dark", Sigourney Weaver in "Gorillas in the Mist" Supporting Actor: KEVIN KLINE in "A Fish Called Wanda", Alec Guinness in "Little Dorritt", Martin Landau in "Tucker: the Man and His Dream", River Phoenix in "Running on Empty", Dean Stockwell in "Married to the Mob" Supporting Actress: GEENA DAVIS in "The Accidental Tourist", Joan Cusack in "Working Girl", Frances McDormand in "Mississippi Burning", Michelle Pfeiffer in "Dangerous Liaisons", Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl" Director: BARRY LEVINSON for "Rain Man", Charles Crichton for "A Fish Called Wanda", Mike Nichols for "Working Girl", Alan Parker for "Mississippi Burning", Martin Scorsese for "The Last Temptation of Christ" Beginning this year, the trademark phrase: "and the winner is..." was substituted with "and the Oscar goes to..." Director Barry Levinson's critically and financially-successful Rain Man was the major Oscar winner in 1988. It was the buddy-road saga of the human relationship that gradually develops between two sibling brothers: the elder one a TV-obsessed, institutionalized adult autistic (Hoffman), the other an ambitious, hotshot money-maker/car salesman and hustler (Cruise). The autistic savant's kidnapping from an asylum by his fast-talking brother is with the intent to swindle him of his inheritance, but during a cross-country road trip, a loving relationship develops between the brothers with strong blood ties. Rain Man had a total of eight nominations and four wins - for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay (by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow). It was the year's highest-grossing picture as well, taking in $173 million (domestic). The other Best Picture nominees included the following: director Lawrence Kasdan's adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel, the psychological drama The Accidental Tourist (with four nominations and one win - Best Supporting Actress), with two co-stars - Kathleen Turner and William Hurt - that Kasdan had teamed together in an earlier film - Body Heat (1981) British director Steven Frears' first American feature film, the lush, pre-Revolutionary France costume drama of competitive sexual seduction Dangerous Liaisons (with seven nominations and three wins - Best Screenplay, Best Art/Set Direction, and Best Costume Design) director Alan Parker's propagandist account of the investigation of the disappearance of three civil rights activists in 1964 in the social drama Mississippi Burning (with seven nominations and only one win - Best Cinematography) director Mike Nichols' sophisticated romantic comedy about 80s corporate ladder-climbing and office politics in Working Girl (with six nominations and one win - Best Song by Carly Simon: "Let the River Run") Two of the five directors of Best Picture nominees were not included in the list of Best Director nominees. 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Shaun The Sheep - Home Sheep Home 2 | Woman who MARRIED dog tells This Morning 'I am totally her b****' - Mirror Online TV Woman who MARRIED dog tells This Morning 'I am totally her b****' During the bizarre interview host Phillip Schofield has to hold back laughter as her asks about Amanda Rodgers' life in the bedroom Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Video Loading Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now Watch Next Dog marrying Amanda Rodgers has appeared on television and defended her romantic ceremony with her pet pooch on ITV's This Morning . Earlier in the week it was reported that Amanda married her dog Sheba in Croatia, in a service which was attended by 200 people. Speaking to hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby the 46-year-old divorcee said the pair were "meant to be". "She was two weeks old and she was new to the world - but I fell in love with her," Amanda said, when asked if they fell in love at first sight. "I knew that we were meant to be." Phillip and Holly then quizzed Amanda about her bizarre decision to marry her pet. Schofield said: "It's a big step to go from caring for your dog to marrying it - why did you get there?" "Yeah, I suppose you're right... there are different kinds of love - my love for Sheba is very deep. We have a deep connection." Did Sheba bark 'I do'? (Photo: ITV) Then, staying ever-professional, the hosts asked about Amanda's love life. Whilst looking lovingly into her dog's eyes, Amanda explained: "Men don't come anywhere near the bedroom unless she agrees... One time I made a man sleep in the dog bed for a whole week." At the end of the interview Phillip seemingly had to hold back his laughter to ask a killer question. He said: "Do you think she knows?" "Yes, and I am totally her b****," Amanda replied sharply. 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Thailand is divided into how many provinces? | The official website of Tourism Authority of Thailand About Thailand Geography Located in the center of Southeast Asia, Thailand is truly at the heart of the region. Looking over a map of Thailand will reveal a country whose borders form the rough shape of an elephant’s head: the head and ears forming the mostly landlocked northern and eastern provinces and the trunk extending down the Malaysian peninsula between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. The geography of Thailand features many natural borders with neighboring countries: a mountainous border with Myanmar (Burma) to the north and west; a long stretch of the Mekong River separating Thailand from Laos to the north and east; and the Mekong River and the Dongrak Mountains delineating the border of Cambodia to the east. Covering an area of approximately 514,000 square kilometers (200,000 sq miles), Thailand is the 50th largest country in the world, most nearly equal in size to Spain. Located just 15 degrees north of the equator, Thailand has a tropical climate and temperatures typically range from 19 to 38 degrees C (66-100 F); monsoon rains fall predominately from May to July and cooler, drier weather occurs around November and December. Despite the geographical boundaries of Thailand all falling within the tropics, Thailand’s four primary regions are each geographically distinct from each other. Along Thailand’s western border with Myanmar, the forested mountains of Thailand rise higher as they stretch north, peaking at the 2,565 meter (8,415 ft) Doi Inthanon. Thailand’s northern peaks are replete with wildlife and feature Thailand’s coolest winters. Northeastern Thailand’s geography, where the kingdom borders Laos at the Mekong River, features the Khorat Plateau, which extends south towards the Thai border with Cambodia. The Isan region of Northeastern Thailand is the most populous region of Thailand (with the exception of Bangkok) and features a number of bustling provincial capital cities. The geography of Thailand’s interior is dominated by the Central Plains, the “Rice Bowl of Asia,” through which the Chao Phraya River feeds expansive rice fields and then enters the bustling capital of Bangkok before spilling into the Gulf of Thailand. Stretching down the Malaysian peninsula, the slender trunk of the figurative elephant separates the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand, providing Thailand with beaches and islands along opposing shores. Once, the sheltered coves of the narrow Isthmus of Kra were important ports along an ancient, strategic trading route; today the islands of Phuket and Koh Samui are equally important as tourist destinations, though both coasts also contain numerous historical attractions as well as national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and spectacular forests, waterfalls, and beaches. In addition to these natural, geographical regions, Thailand is divided into 76 political provinces, with Bangkok serving as the political, commercial, industrial, educational, and entertainment capital of the country. | Phuket - Geography Thai News Geography of Phuket Phuket is on the southwest coast of Thailand. It is 860km south of Bangkok and 830km north of the equator (7.5 degrees latitude). This puts it on a parallel with countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria and Venezuela. Phuket lies in the Andaman Sea which is part of the Indian Ocean. Phuket is the biggest island in Thailand and the only island big enough to be a province in its own right. The island is 49km long and 21km wide comprising a total area of 570 sq km. including 70 sq km from 39 smaller islands around Phuket. Phuket is separated from the mainland by a narrow sea channel and connected by the 600-meter Sarasin Bridge. The geography of Phuket is varied. The island is mostly granite and sedimentary rock. There are many hills, some rising above 500 meters. The main hill ranges run down the west coast of the island but there are hills everywhere. The flatlands are mostly urbanised or used for agriculture such as rubber and coconuts. There are also mangroves and tropical rainforest in Khao Phra Thaew National Park. The best beaches are along the west coast of the island. They have been forged by the waves that beat into this side of the island through the rainy season creating spectacular beaches in bays split by rocky headlands. The east coast of the island has smaller beaches that tend to be a little muddy. This is because the seabed on the sheltered easy coast still has a lot of sludge and mud stirred up from the old tin-mining days when the seabed was extensively dredged. Much of the east coast is covered by mangrove forest. There are two types of island around Phuket. There are the granite islands that lie to the west and close to the south and east coasts. They tend to be forested low lying islands with beaches such as Koh Racha Yai and Koh Hee (Coral Island). Then there are the limestone islands to the northeast, and further out to the east and south. These islands tend to rise vertically from the sea producing dramatic scenery such as the Phi Phi islands and Phang Nga Bay. The limestone platform that produces these islands runs east of Phuket from Phang Nga province, through Krabi province and into Trang producing spectacular scenery all along this stretch of coastline. Phuket is basically a stable geographic location. Until the 2004 tsunami, it was not considered an area that ever suffered from major natural disasters. The rainy season always sees a few big storms but nothing that would be categorised as a typhoon. The rainy season does occasionally cause localised flooding. The rainy season has also caused a few landslides and a few lives have been lost in these. However the landslides have generally happened at building sites where the trees and bushes that supports the steep sided hills have been stripped away. There is no volcanic activity in Phuket. The massive earthquake that caused the 2004 tsunami was just about felt in Phuket but did not cause any damage. However there is a minor fault line that does run under Phuket and in April 2012 Phuket experienced the very unusual event of an earthquake of its own. It was only 4.4 on the richter scale but that was enough to give everyone a quick shake. No serious damage was done and this is the only earthquake to directly hit Phuket in modern history. It is a minor fault line and is not likely to ever cause a major earthquake. |
Traditionally how many bells are sounded on board ship to herald in the New Year? | US Navy Flag Usage and Ceremonies U.S. Navy Flag Usage and Ceremonies On this page: Return to Sea Flags Home Page Morning and Evening Colors Following the 1797 mutinies in the British fleet at Spithead, Admiral Lord St. Vincent established the practice in the Royal Navy of raising and lowering the colors--the ensign and jack--at a formal ceremony with the band and guard of the day paraded. The practice was taken up by the U.S. Navy from an early date and first codified in the 1843 Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Navy. At first, the time of morning colors was based on the time of sunset; if the sun set before 6:00 p.m., morning colors took place at 8:00 a.m., otherwise at 9:00 a.m. This conformed to the contemporary British practice. The modern practice of making morning colors at 8:00 a.m. regardless of season and latitude was set by regulation in 1870. The current regulatory provisions on morning and evening colors are in Article 1206 of Navy Regulations. They provide for the observance of the ceremony on all ships that are not under way and at all shore stations of the Navy and Marine Corps. Although few ships or shore stations have bands or buglers nowadays, the ceremonies are still conducted with as much formality as local resources will permit. At a minimum, the word is passed over the ship's loudspeaker system, the "1MC." The following is the sequence of events. Morning Colors 1. At 7:55 a.m., the word is passed "First call, first call to colors," and the yellow and green " PREP " pennant is hoisted at the outboard signal halyard on the port yardarm. If a bugler is available, he sounds "First Call" instead. The guard of the day and the band, if available, form near the point of hoist of the ensign. 2. Immediately before 8:00 a.m., "Attention" is sounded on the bugle or one blast is blown on a police whistle and "PREP" is hauled down. All persons in uniform within sight or hearing face the ensign and, if not in formation, render the hand salute. Boats in the vicinity lie to, or proceed at the slowest possible speed, and the boat officer or coxswain stands and salutes. 3. At exactly 8:00, the ensign is hoisted smartly to the top of the ensign staff, all ships in the same port doing so simultaneously with the ship of the senior officer present afloat. If music is available, the band or recording plays the National Anthem, or the bugler sounds "To the Colors," with the ensign starting up the staff on the first note of the music. In the case of a ship, the union jack is hoisted simultaneously to the top of the jack staff at the bow. 4. At the end of the music (or if there is no music, once the ensign reaches the truck of the flagstaff), the bugle call "Carry On" is sounded, or three blasts are given on the police whistle, or the word is passed, "Carry on," at which time salutes are terminated and the ceremony is over. Evening Colors 1. Approximately five minutes before sunset as calculated by the quartermaster of the watch, the word is passed, "First call, first call to colors." If a bugler is available, he sounds "First Call" instead. The guard of the day and the band, if available, form near the point of hoist of the ensign. 2. Immediately before sunset, "Attention" is sounded on the bugle or one blast is blown on a police whistle. All persons in uniform within sight or hearing face the ensign and, if not in formation, render the hand salute. Boats in the vicinity lie to, or proceed at the slowest possible speed, and the boat officer or coxswain stands and salutes. 3. The order "Execute" is then given and the ensign is lowered slowly. If music is available, the band or recording plays the National Anthem, or the bugler sounds "Retreat," with the ensign starting down the staff on the first note of the music and timed to reach the bottom at the last note of the music. In the case of a ship, the union jack is lowered simultaneously with the ensign. 4. When the ensign is completely lowered, the bugle call "Carry On" is sounded, or three blasts are given on the police whistle, or the word is passed, "Carry | 1510 How happy is the little Stone by Emily Dickinson | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor Poem: "How happy is the little Stone," by Emily Dickinson. How happy is the little Stone How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn't care about Careers And Exigencies never fears Whose Coat of elemental Brown A passing Universe put on, And independent as the Sun Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute Decree In casual simplicity It was on this day in 1928 that the first cartoon with a synchronized soundtrack, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," was premiered in New York City. The cartoon featured a mouse named Mortimer, for whom Mr. Disney himself provided a squeaky voice. Mrs. Disney felt the name Mortimer was too stuffy, so it was later changed to Mickey. It's the birthday of the American novelist and poet James Welch, born in Browning, Montana (1940). His father was a Blackfoot Indian, and his experiences growing up on Blackfoot and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana underlie his writing. His historical novel Fool's Crow (1986) mixes legend and history to tell the story of a branch of the Montana Blackfoot in the period following the Civil War. His most recent novel, The Heartsong of Charging Elk (2000), is also historical: It follows the real life story of an Oglala Sioux who became part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. It's the birthday of the Canadian novelist, critic, and poet Margaret Eleanor Atwood , born in Ottowa (1939). She has published 20 books of poetry, 11 novels, two books of literary criticism, three children's books, and a great deal of journalism, winning 57 awards as diverse as Ms. magazine's Woman of the Year award, the Government of France's Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Arthur C. Clarke award for best science fiction. Her most recent novel, Blind Assassin (2000), won the Booker Prize and the International Association of Crime Writer's 2001 Dashiell Hammett prize. It's the birthday of the English playwright and humorist Sir William Schwenk Gilbert , born in London (1836). He studied law and was called to the bar in 1863, but his enthusiasm for writing always outweighed his legal ambitions. His first published work, when he was 21, was a translation of a French "laughing song" which was printed in the program of the Covent Garden Promenade concerts. He confessed that he attended many of these concerts just to watch people reading his translation. In 1861 a new weekly paper, Fun, modeled after Punch, was launched in London, and he began writing and illustrating nonsense verse for it, signing this work with the pseudonym Bab, which he had used since childhood. A decade of these weekly contributions, which made him a favorite of London readers at the time, were collected and published as The Bab Ballads (1869) and as More Bab Ballads (1873). These short narrative poems were a rich source of material for the librettos that he later wrote and for which he is most famous today. His first collaboration with Sir Arthur Sullivan came in 1871 with Thespis, or the Gods Grown Old. Their second work, the one-act Trial by Jury (1875), established the names Gilbert and Sullivan as a sort of trademark. Twelve other operettas staged over 20 years include H. M. S. Pinafore (1878), Pirates of Penzance (1880), and The Mikado (1885). The partners often fought between themselves. It's the birthday of the American botanist Asa Gray, born in Oneida County, New York (1810). He wrote many books on the subject of botany, aimed at audiences of different educational backgrounds, but his great work was a comprehensive flora, the Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, first published in 1848, and subsequently in many editions. He was a close colleague and avid supporter of Charles Darwin and his defense of the theory of natural selection, coming, as it did, from a devout Christian, undermined the popular notion of his day that to be an evolutionist was to be an atheist. His essays on Darwin's theories we |
King Michael abdicated in 1947 from which throne? | King Michael of Romania and Michael of Romania his only son MichaelofRomania.com Home King Michael of Romania has only one son Michael II of Romania who is also known as Mihai Von Hohenzollern II. Michael II descends from Queen Victoria, and the Prussian House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, which provided Romania’s first King, Carol I. King Michael I abdicated on December 30, 1947 and went into exile during communism. Michael II was exiled and raised under protection in United States. Mihai II is proud of his children and grand children that all continue to live in the United States. Now living in California, he continues to promote the interests and culture of his Romanian homeland and considers Bucharest his hometown. This is the official web site authorized by Michael II of Romania. Michael II is the Head of House for the Romanian branch of the Hohenzollern line by agnatic primogeniture law after the abdication of Michael I in 1947. However Mihai continues refer to his Father as King Michael out of respect only. You may contact Michael’s office at Mihai Von Hohenzollern II on facebook. Contact Michael II's office: https://www.facebook.com/mihaivonhohenzollernII Regele Mihai a fost silit să abdice la 30 decembrie 1947. Mihai II este singurul fiu al regele Mihai I al României. Mihai II s-a născut în Elveţia şi a fost crescut în America. Prin Legea salică, Mihai II devenit șeful Casei Regale de România după abdicarea tatălui său la 30 decembrie 1947.....JR, Site Administrator Title Corrected Nicolas Medforth-Mills Recently my nephew had his title removed by my father, Former King Michael I. The act did not surprise me in the least. This is an expected action; for my nephew should never have been placed in a position of succession. Many people may find the concept of royalty to be defunct, but the reality is quite the opposite. Holding the proper title is a serious position and enables the person do very positive and powerful work for the public. As has been explained in previous articles, when my Father abdicated, that position was forwarded to me. Also, it is most imperative to say, that with all respect to my Father, he was not given proper and accurate information concerning my person after I was evacuated to the United States. He now has the proper knowledge of me and my intent. I am in agreement with him on the matter of my nephew's correction of position. The Kennedy Glasses a Gift From the White House Michael II's Personal Collection: The Kennedy Glasses and Jacqueline Kennedy With The Glasses Our Mother was not Royal, this I have already stated, but the maternal side of our family are American and the United States does not recognize titles of nobility; rather American ideals are that to embrace public service for the benefit of all. Our Mother served the people of the United States through high levels of work that did not allow for public accolades. Her funeral was marked with a flyover by F15s. She could only receive such an honor and acknowledgment posthumously. Our Mother gave myself and my Sister Princess Margarita much to be proud of. Our Mother believed in service, and her work placed her and family at certain government events, which included President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. The photo is of the glasses she passed to me, that were the glasses used by President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline during the inauguration. My Mother had valuable things, but the gift of these modest glasses were precious to her and reminded her of an exciting time in her career and of the new possibilities and change that the Kennedy administration began. World War II: So Much Stolen Reflecting on the recent movie “ Woman in Gold ” involving Maria Altmann's fight against the Austrian government to reclaim what was stolen during WWII. The true title of the painting is “ Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I ” and the name 'The Woman In Gold' robbed Ms. Bloch-Bauer of her of her identity. Identity is a very basic right. The movie was a testament to truth, trials, tribulation, a | Wallis and Edward Story.htm His Majesty King George V THE PLAY The story begins with Wallis Simpson's Presentation at Court in 1931, where she arrogantly presents her credentials in the song I'm Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, followed by her quickly deposing the Prince of Wales' former mistress Lady Thelma Furness. During Wallis' first visit to Edward's home Fort Belvedere, Noel Coward plays a snipit of this own very telling song If Love Were All . On an open invitation to cocktails, the Prince of Wales unexpectedly appears at the Simpson home in Bryanston Court where he crosses the line between friendship and more in the obssessive song Lost In The Blue. More frivolous partying at Fort Belvedere slithers into the fast-paced song Trend Setters where as international fashion icons we find they are so shallow that the only thing that matters is that they are the people everyone wants to be, and the people that everyone wants to see! The exposure of Wallis' dark side is revealed to King George V and the Royal Family, through the China Dossier, by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his proffering of ideas on how to rid England of Mrs. Simpson, by calling upon all of the famous murderers and murderesses of history to come and do away with her in the comic ditty She's Got To Go (They Poison Popes Don't They?) ... all of which comes to naught following King George V's untimely demise. From the Proclamation of Accession of King Edward VIII, and his bartering of Wallis with husband Ernest Simpson in time for Wallis to, hopefully, be crowned Queen of England, and Wallis' self-proclaiming anthem - Going To Be Queen! To the fateful Nahlin Cruise where the world becames aware of their disastrous affair, and King Edward becomes a dangerous political dablatant amongst Eastern Europe's and Asia Minor's potentates in the song Positively Perfect Holiday Trip! His Majesty King Edward VIII Proclamation of Accession of His Majesty King Edward VIII Prince of Wales with Lady Thelma Furness and His Caim Terriers Cora and Jaggs at York Cottage c1930 1936 The Year of the Three Kings - George V, George VI and Edward VIII His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Wallis' preliminary divorce comes through, and without wasting a moment King Edward pops the Mogul emerald engagement ring that evening, after which Wallis reiterates her right to be Queen, as being ordained, in the reprise of I'm Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson. Their Suggested Morganatic marriage proposal is refused by Parliament and the Dominions. Crisis! The silence of the British press on their affair breaks! Drop Mrs. Simpson, marry her and the government will resign bringing about a possible fascist regime in England - or abdicate! Meanwhile, in the vein of Osbert Sitwell's infamous essay and poem - Rat Week - about changing sides and allegiances, getting out while one still can and still save face, we find Lady Emerald Cunard and Lady Sybil Colefax singing the scathing double entendre diatribe Last Two Rats, in which Wallis Simpson is the sinking ship they need to abandon! Hoping desperately to crawl, unnoticed, aboard the about to be launched ship of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, so to speak! Wallis flees to France. As the Cross Channel Ferry departs En |
'The Honourable Mrs. Graham' is by which 18th century English portrait painter? | Fashioning The Past: Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham 1775-1777 National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh There is an almost instantaneous visual association upon hearing the name Thomas Gainsborough with this painting. It is one of his most recognisable works, and for good reason. Not only does it capture Gainsborough's play on lightness against rich textures but also gives an insight into his inspirations as an artist. The sitter Mary Graham is also of interest, due to her engrossing and heartbreaking story. Thomas Gainsborough was a British landscape and portrait painter in the 18th Century. He was born in Sudbury in 1727, to a father who manufactured and sold clothes, and a mother who had an interest in painting flowers. Gainsborough travelled to London to work at a Silversmiths, then with Hubert Gravelot, a pictorial engraver and the painter Francis Hayman. He began his work with paintings of landscapes which he preferred, but he started to study the skills of portraiture as the commissions were more lucrative. Some of his earlier pieces such as Mr. and Mrs. Andrews c. 1748 combined landscape and portraiture, and gave him the opportunity to paint his beloved Suffolk. His fame gradually grew when he moved to Bath and he painted his most well-known work The Blue Boy, 1770. Despite Gainsborough declaring that he was 'sick of portraits', he produced more than 700 of them. His portraits of 18th Century British society are renowned for the close likeness of his sitters that he managed to achieve. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews c.1748 The Honourable Mary Cathcart was raised in Russia, her father was the 9th Baron Cathcart who was Ambassador to Catherine The Great. Upon her return to England she married the wealthy Scottish landowner Thomas Graham. Mrs Graham posed for this portrait a year after her wedding. Her beauty and gentle demeanour caught the attention of Gainsborough, who decided to paint her. Mrs Graham had tuberculosis and after 18 years of marriage she died whilst the couple were travelling in the South of France. Further tragedy struck when her casket was broken into by French soldiers, and her body was exposed and tampered with. After this, her husband wasn't able to look at the painting and gave it to Mary Graham's sister. Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham 1775-1777 The beautiful and poignant painting highlights Gainsborough's light brushwork, which creates a graceful movement to the costume. The juxtaposition of the lightness of the painting with the rich folds and textures of the fabric is also eye-catching. Some of the costumes in Thomas Gainsborough's portraits were sometimes imagined, but quite often real. Regardless of this, he used fashion as a means of expressing the sitter's place in society. In the case of this painting, Mrs Graham's opulent clothes express her wealth and her high social standing. Her slenderness and height are also indicative of nobility and elegance. The richness and excess of her clothing doesn't create a stiffness often seen in 18th Century portraiture. Her soft expression and the ease of which Gainsborough painted her give an impression of elegance as opposed to ostentatious pomp. Historical fashion was often included in Gainsborough's work, showing not only the fashionability of his sitters but he used this as a tool to convey their wealth also. This can be seen in this portrait with 17th Century details including the plumed hat, high heeled shoes, pearl detailing, relaxed collar and ribbon on the sleeves. The silver and pink tones also show a move away from the previous darkness in colour of the past fashions. The ostrich feather that Mrs Graham is holding is often seen in paintings in the Van Dyck style. Anthony Van Dyck was one of the most influential portraitists, with his elegant style being held as shaping the style of European portraiture into the 18th Century. Gainsborough studied the work of Van Dyck and this influence can be seen in the painting, | Celebrating Britten in Sweden, with Billy Budd Celebrating Britten in Sweden, with Billy Budd Overview Audio Selections The Story Who's Who Britten's opera is set at sea, on the British man-of-war H.M.S. Indomitable, during the Napoleonic wars in 1797. The opera presents portraits of a number of crew members, but the story focuses on three main characters -- a naïve, strapping young sailor named Billy Budd; his nemesis, the Master-at-Arms John Claggart; and the ship's beloved Captain Vere, or "Starry Vere," as the sailors call him. In a brief prologue, we see Captain Vere as an old man, looking back on his life, unable to forget the story of the young sailor Billy Budd, and Billy's fate at the hands of the officers on board the H.M.S. Indomitable. ACT ONE takes us back to that ship. The crew is on stage, busy at work, being bullied and whipped by their overseer. They sing a sea shanty with the refrain, "Oh heave away, heave!" Un deck, three prisoners have been brought on board. They're merchant marines who've been pulled off their ship and are about to be pressed into duty on the Indomitable. While questioning them, the Master-at-Arms, John Claggart, reveals his nasty side. One of the three men is a handsome young sailor named Billy Budd. He's cheerful and open hearted. He does, however, have a stutter, which comes out when he's in distress, at times leaving him frustrated and angry. When Billy realizes he's not going back to his old ship, he shouts a farewell to his mates. The ship is called Rights of Man, and in calling its name, Billy is misunderstood by his new officers to be encouraging dissent. They tell Claggart to keep an eye on him. Claggart goes them one better. He instructs his underling, Squeak, to deliberately provoke Billy. Meanwhile, Claggart orders Billy to remove his "fancy neckerchief: "This is a Man-o'-War," he says. Then, with a leering glance, he adds, "Take pride in yourself, Beauty, and you'll come to no harm." An old sailor named Dansker warns Billy about Claggart, but the young man pays little mind. In the next scene, Captain Vere is in his cabin, reading classic literature and musing on the parallels between his own times and those of the ancients. When he invites his officers in for drinks, they warn him about the new guy, Billy Budd. Vere waves them off; Billy is high-spirited, he tells them, but he's an innocent. In the final scene of Act One, the sailors are singing shanties up on deck. Billy goes down to his berth and finds Squeak rummaging through his things. The two men begin to fight. Claggart appears, realizes that Squeak has bungled his mission, and to conceal his own role has Squeak packed off to the brig. Claggart then insinuates himself into Billy's good graces, praising the young man's beauty and goodness. But as he later sings, it's exactly those qualities that inspire his own determination to destroy Billy. Claggart then sends for a sailor called the Novice, and forces him to attempt to bribe Billy into starting a mutiny. When the Novice does this, Billy resists, and then gets angry. As the two scuffle, the old man Dansker finds them, and calms Billy down. He then warns him -- again -- to beware of Claggart. As ACT TWO begins, the H.M.S. Indomitable is stuck in a thick fog. The men are champing at the bit to engage in battle. John Claggart, the ship's devious Master-at-Arms, tells Captain Vere that he thinks Billy Budd is a mutineer. Suddenly the fog begins to lift, and the sails of a French ship are visible. Vere orders his men to pursue the vessel and prepare for battle. But when he orders the cannon to fire, the shots fall short. The mist returns, and any chance of a battle ends. Claggart again approaches the captain, and this time he's more more insistent. He tells Vere he has proof that Billy accepted a bribe of gold in exchange for starting a mutiny. Vere is angry, but still refuses to believe Claggart -- preferring to confront Billy himself. Vere, alone in his cabin, sings of his confidence that Billy is innocent. But when Claggart brings Billy in for questioning, Billy be |
What creature is the 1940-50s TV puppet character Muffin? | Muffin the Mule to trot back into the limelight on his urban animal farm (From HeraldScotland) Jobs Business Directory Local Info Dating Buy Sell Book an Ad Muffin the Mule to trot back into the limelight on his urban animal farm MUFFIN The Mule, the vintage TV puppet, is to make a comeback for his 60th birthday and trot into the twenty-first century. BBC chiefs have bought a new series based on the character, which is expected to be shown in the next three years. This time round, he will be animated rather than operated with strings and will live on an urban farm. Muffin was first seen by TV audiences in October 1946 in the show For The Children which was presented by Annette Mills, sister of actor John Mills. Loading article content Originally, the wooden puppet - which was made during the 1930s at a cost of 25 shillings ((pounds) 1.25p) - would dance as Mills played the piano, but in the new show he will be seen talking to the other animals. Muffin, it will be recalled, used his head a great deal in ''conversations'' with Ms Mills. Muffin went from strength to strength, clumping around on the piano top with Ms Mills playing the music and Ann Hogarth standing on the piano to operate him from behind a partition. Further sidekicks emerged as the shows went on, including a bossy penguin called Mr Peregrine Esquire, a rather shy Louise the Lamb, Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, and a genial minstrel puppet called Wally the Gog. Muffin was the first star, in Britain at least, entirely created by television. By 1950, there were many merchandise spin-offs from the character, including records, song and story books and comic strips, while Muffin crossed the Atlantic in films made for American television. Some children even got Muffin bedroom slippers. TV Comic featured Muffin on its front cover for its first issue in November 1951. A BBC spokeswoman said: ''Muffin will be something of a problem-solver - he helps out all the other animals. The show is being brought up to date and will now be living on a town farm rather than dancing on a piano.'' Rights to the character were bought by production company Maverick Entertainment in January. Mike Diprose, the firm's managing director, said: ''Muffin the Mule was a hugely successful character in the 1950s and 1960s and is now very much part of English broadcasting heritage. ''The new production will be the first new material on the character since the | The Museum of Broadcast Communications - Encyclopedia of Television - Cartoons CARTOONS Cartoons have long existed on the periphery of broadcast television, consigned to the shadowy regions of weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. The networks' evening programming has been remarkably empty of cartoon series. Indeed, there have been only a pair of prime-time series that have lasted more than two seasons: The Flintstones and The Simpsons. Many of the "television" cartoon characters with which we are the most familiar (Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Popeye, et al.) were not actually designed for television, but, rather, were initially exhibited in cinema theaters. On any given day one may view a short history of theatrical film animation on television--as cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s are juxtaposed with more recent offerings. This results in some odd cultural gaps, such as when a viewer born in the 1980s watches cartoons making jokes about 1930s movie stars and politicians. Cartoons initially evolved in the teens, but their development was slowed by their prohibitive cost. After all, 24 entire pictures had to be drawn for every second of film. Animation became more economically feasible in 1914 when Earl Hurd patented the animation cel. The cel is a sheet of transparent celluloid that is placed on top of a background drawing. By using cels, the animator need only re-draw the portions of the image that move, thus saving considerable time and expense. The acceptance of the cel was slowed by legal wrangling, however, and comparatively few silent cartoons were made. At the same time that sound and color film technologies were popularized, studios also found ways to streamline the animation process by using storyboards (small drawings of frames that represented different shots in the cartoon) to plan the cartoon and departmentalizing the steps of the process. Thus, something resembling an assembly line was created for animation, making it much more cost effective. Producer Walt Disney was a leader in using these technologies and devising an efficient mode of cartoon production. Steamboat Willie (1928) was the first significant cartoon with synchronized sound and Flowers and Trees (1932) was the first to use the three-color Technicolor process (which became the cinema's principal color process in the late 1930s). Disney was so protective of these new technologies that he negotiated an exclusive deal with Technicolor; for three years, no other animators could use it. The final key to the success of the cartoon was an effective distribution system. During the silent era, cartoons had been created by small studios with limited access to cinema theaters. In the 1930s, major studios such as Paramount, Warners, Universal, and MGM each signed distribution deals with the cartoon studios, or they created their own cartoon departments--the output of which they then distributed themselves. Since the studios also owned the preeminent theaters and since the standard way of exhibiting films at the time was two feature-length films separated by a newsreel and a cartoon, the animation studios and departments had a steady, constant demand for their product. The late 1930s to 1950s were a "golden era" for the cartoon and it is from this era that most theatrical cartoons on television are drawn. Cartoons started their emigration to television in the late 1940s when one of the smaller studios (Van Beuren) began marketing their catalogue to early children's programs such as Movies for Small Fry. Other, larger studios were slower to take advantage of the electronic medium. In 1948 the major studios were forced by the U.S. Supreme Court to divest themselves of their theaters--which greatly weakened their ability to distribute their product. In this weakened state, they also had to compete with television for viewers. Disney, however, was among the first of the major cartoon studios to develop a liaison with television |
What is the title of the wife of a viceroy? | King's Son of Kush Tomb KV35 The Viceroy of Kush The viceroy of Kush was known as the 'King's Son of Kush' (in this case, the word 'son' means that he is important, not that he is the actual son of the pharaoh). He was also in charge of controlling the valuable gold mines in Nubia, and was known as the 'Overseer of the Gold Lands of the Lord of the Two Lands'. Ahmose called Si-tayit - One of the earliest Viceroys. Served under Ahmose and Amenhotep I. Si-tayit's son Ahmose called Turo would later serve as King's Son of Kush. His grandson Ahmose called Patjenna would continue to serve - but not as Viceroy of Kush. Patjenna is known from a statue now in the BMFA (see link to pdf about statue about Patjenna naming Ahmose Si-tayit) The Cambridge Ancient History. By I. E. S. Edwards, Cambridge University Press (p299 and 348). Ahmose called Turo - Served under Amenhotep I and Tuthmosis I. Son of Ahmose Si-tayit. Ahmose Turo's son Ahmose Patjenna would continue to serve during the reigns of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III. A coronation decree exists recording the accession of Tuthmosis I. This unique document is a royal decree issued on the king's coronation day to the viceroy of Nubia, Thure, informing him of the king's accession, fixing the full titulary, the royal name to be used in offering oblations, and the royal name to be used in the oath. "Behold, there is brought to thee this [commanded of the king in order to inform thee that my majesty has appeared as King of Upper and Lower Egypt upon the Horus-throne of the living, without his like forever. Make my titulary as follows: Horus : "Mighty Bull, Beloved of Maat;" Favorite of the Two Goddesses: "Shining in the Serpent-diadem, Great in Strength;" Golden Horus: "Goodly in Years, Making Hearts Live;" King of Upper and Lower Egypt: "Aakheperkare;" Son of Re: "[Thutmose], Living forever, and ever." (Breasted) Turo (Thuwre) served under Ahmose as Commander of Buhen. Served as King's Son (of the Southern Region) under Amenhotep I (inscriptions in Semneh, Uronarti). Served under Tuthmosis I according to inscriptions dating to year 1 and 3. Turo is mentioned in an inscription at West-Silsileh belonging to the vizier User. This inscription dates to the reign of Hatshepsut. This may be a posthumous mention of the Viceroy. It's possible there were family connections between Ture and User; Turo is shown leading Vizier Aa'methu's daughters in procession. (Aa'methu was User's father). The Viceroys of Ethiopia by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920), pp. 28-55. Seni: Served as Viceroy under Tuthmosis I - Tuthmosis II Under Ahmose Seni served as Overseer of [...] as recorded at the temple at Semneh. Under Amenhotep I, Seni served as Overseer of the Granary of Amun and Overseer of Works in Karnak (All recorded at Semneh). Some time after year 3 of Tuthmosis I, Seni was made King's Son. At the temple of Kummeh Seni is given the titles of Overseer of the Granary of Amun, King's Son, Overseer of the Southern Lands. This inscrition dates to the Reign of Tuthmosis II. In another undated inscription from Kummeh Seni is named Viceroy of Nubia. Seni may have served as Viceroy for as many as 36 years. The Viceroys of Ethiopia by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920), pp. 28-55. ???Inebni: Reign of Hatshepsut. Not certain if Inebni served as Viceroy. He did hold the title of Commander of the Bowmen. It is interesting that on a statue of his Inebni (Enebni) refers to Thutmosis III as Hatshepsut’s brother [Breasted] There’s a statue of an Inebny in the British Museum who is recorded as being commander of bowmen and overseer of the king's weapons. It was 'made by the favour' of the joint sovereigns Hatshepsut (1479-1457 BC) and Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC), who ruled together for a time. However, Hatshepsut's name has subsequently been erased. Amen-em-nekhu: Hatshepsut. According to Pammiger, sometime after year 2 of Hatshepsut/Tuthmosis III, Seni retired and was succeeded by Amen-em-nekhu, a confidant of Hatshe | Vera Lynn - Biography - IMDb Vera Lynn Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (16) | Personal Quotes (3) Overview (4) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (1) Vera Lynn was born on March 20, 1917 in East Ham, London, England as Vera Margaret Welch. She was previously married to Harry Lewis. Spouse (1) (1941 - 1999) (his death) (1 child) Trivia (16) Subject of a song on Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and in the movie of the same. Refers to the 1942 "We'll Meet Again". She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1969 Queen's New Year Honours List and the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Released a comeback single in the 70s called "Don't You Remember When" which was written and produced by Lynsey de Paul . Had a radio show during the war for the BBC titled 'Sincerely Yours' where she sang requests in the form of a letter to troops overseas, visited their wives and visited the troops abroad in Burma. Bestselling autobiography 'Vocal Refrain' and bestselling war memoirs 'We'll meet again' Husband Harry Lewis was a musician in the Bert Ambrose orchestra where Vera was a singer. Retired in 1995 after singing outside Buckingham Palace at the 50th V.E. Day celebrations. She often appears at war shows and made a surprise appearance at the 60th V.E Day show in London (2005). Left school at 14 to work in a factory, after working a few weeks in the factory she decided to return to singing in clubs A regular guest on Tallulah Bankhead radio show 'The Big Show'. Brother: Roger Daughter: Virginia Penelope Ann Lewis, born 10th March 1945 Had a hugely successful music career. Which included being the first British female to top the American Billboard charts with "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" in 1952. That same year she had 3 top ten hits in the first ever official UK Singles chart on November 14th 1952. In 1957 she topped the UK Singles chart with "My Son, My Son" which featured the Frank Weir Orchestra. On 13th September 2009 her greatest hits collection, "We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn", topped the UK album chart, making her the oldest artist ever to do so, aged 92. Made many trips to remote camps near the front during World War II, in the Pacific theater of operation; to entertain and visit the troops. She is now widowed and residing in Ditchling in East Sussex. [June 2004] She was awarded the CH (Companion of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to entertainment and charity in East Sussex, England. Personal Quotes (3) I've never claimed to be a great singer but I've always given my best, and I've loved what I've done, and had a very good life. You hear people go on about unpopular wars, but show me a popular one. Nobody in their right mind wants to go to war, but when it happens you have to get behind your troops. I got so many letters. I still get them now, and I'm always moved by them. It seemed extraordinary that soldiers would come back from the war and write to thank me for what I had done. It made me feel very humble, and that's why I've always done everything I can to thank them back. See also |
In which colour strip does the England football team traditionally play home games? | FIFA World Cup 2010 - Historical Football Kits Historical Football Kits FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 The 2010 World Cup, played between 11 June and 11 July, marked the first occasion that the finals have been played on the African continent. Only the host nation received an automatic place in the finals while Italy, world champions in 2006, had to negotiate their way through the qualifying competition. Puma now supplied twelve African nations, including four qualifiers for this World Cup, with their stunning African Range strips. All twelve used the African Unity strip as third choice although these did not appear in the finals. The blue is inspired by the African sky, the brown supposedly matches soil samples taken from the continent while the gold detailing represents African sunshine. FIFA regulations required teams to wear kits that provide a high degree of contrast as well as avoiding colour clashes with opponents. Every team was guaranteed to play at least once in their first choice strip. Full details of all variants worn in the tournament are available in the Match by Match Sections. Due to the chilly conditions in which some night games were played, both long and short sleeved shirts were used: long sleeved versions are shown where the entire team turned out in this style. Second Designer: Adidas The South African team (known as Bafana Bafana) faced a difficult task to qualify from a tough group containing three experienced World Cup teams. On paper they were the weakest of the African sides competing in the finals but they could count on passionate (and noisy) home support. The new "sunshine and twilight green" home kit introduced for 2010 is on the face of it straightforward but closer examination reveals an intricate jacquard pattern woven into the body (representing the national flag) and neat embroidery at the collar and hem of the shorts. The second choice strip is basically a reversal of the "home" kit with the addition of "forest green" trim on the shirts and socks. Second Designer: Puma Uruguay hosted the first ever World Cup in 1930 and have won it twice, in 1930 and again in 1950. Prior to this they won gold medals in the 1924 and 1928 summer Olympics, which is why four stars appear above the team crest. More recently, La Celeste have struggled and this is only the second time they have reached the finals out of the last five competitions. The teams traditional colours are sky blue and black. Their Puma strip featured a multi-pointed sun motif from the national flag embossed into the fabric. Early reports that the second choice shirts would be metallic gold appear to be incorrect while the early releases of the home shirt had a red Puma logo. Second Designer: Adidas France's qualification was marred by the circumstances of the decisive play-off game against the Republic of Ireland, which was settled after Thierry Henry handled the ball on the goal line before passing to William Gallas who scored. The resulting outcry severely damaged the reputation of Henry and of the sport in general. Les Blues won the World Cup in 1998 and were beaten finalists last time out. Their new strip is a reinterpret ion of the classic 1984 shirt, worn when the team won the European Championship. The classic white change shirt with fine red and blue pinstripes reappears as second choice, embellished with navy and metallic gold trim at collar and cuffs. (Julio Lopez) Second Designer: Adidas Argentina made extremely heavy weather of qualifying, due in no small part to the eccentric selection policy of Diego Maradona, now national team coach, who picked no fewer than 56 players in 2009 alone. Nevertheless Los Albicelestes (sky blue and whites) are considered serious contenders to add a third World Cup to their tally. The stripes on the new Adidas shirt are officially described as "Colombian Blue". The change strip is, as usual, royal blue (although no doubt Adidas' marketing people have come up with a more fanciful description) and white and for 2010 features a shadow stripe on the shirts. Second Designer: Umbr | Old Kent Road | Monopoly Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Houses cost £30 each Hotel, £30 plus 4 Houses If a player owns ALL the lots of any Color-Group, the rent is Doubled on Unimproved Lots in that group. Old Kent Road is the first brown (formerly dark purple) property , featured in the Standard UK version ("London") of the classic Monopoly boardgame. It is well known as the least expensive property in the game. Old Kent Road is named after a road in South East London, England , which forms part of Watling Street; the Roman road which ran from Dover to Holyhead. Many people have sung songs about the Old Kent Road. Even Fozzie Bear: |
Which mythical figure carries a scythe? | Grim Reaper | Myths and Legends Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Myths and Legends Wiki Share In English, death is often given the name the "Grim Reaper" and from the 15th century onwards came to be shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe and clothed in a hooded, black cloak. The nickname Angel of Death, stemming from the Bible, is another name most knows this mythical creature by in some society legends. Other beliefs hold that the Spectre of Death is only a psychopomp, serving to sever the last ties between the soul and the body and to guide the deceased to the next world without having any control over the fact of the victim's death. In many languages, Death is personified by an image of a male, while in others, it is perceived as a female. The main focus on this article is the myths of the Ancient Greeks, the beginning of mythological legends, gods, and temples. Ancient Greece found death to be inevitable, and therefore he is not represented as purely evil. In most Greek documents and stories he is portrayed as a bearded and winged man, or even a young boy. Death or Thanatos, is the counterpart of life; and is often represented as male, to the female image of life. Thanatos (Death) is the twin brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He is typically shown with his brother, and is usually considered to be gentle. His job in the mystic realm is to escort the deceased to the god of the underworld, Hades. Once in Hades’ kingdom, Thanatos (Death) hands the dead over to Charon, a skeletal body, black cloaked being awaiting the delivery). This part of the deceased’s journey begins with the “Grim Reaper” who mans the boat over the river Styx. This river separates the land of the living from the land of the dead. Legends and myths say that if the ferryman didn’t receive some form of payment for his services, then the soul couldn’t be delivered to the underworld. The consequence in this theory is the soul is left by the riverside for eternity, never to gain the new beginning. Thanatos' sisters, the Keres, the spirits of violent death, are most times associated with deaths from battle, disease, accident, and murder. They are portrayed as evil, often feeding on the blood of the body after the soul had been escorted to Hades. Dressed in blood stained clothes, they bore fangs and talons for their beastly feast. Media which glorify or make fun of the Grim Reaper are songs: Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper. Movie: Bill and Ted’s Bogus Adventure. Cartoon by Looney Tunes ; the Reaper is portrayed as a bumbling foolish character out to gain Porky’s soul. So in closing, death is a natural part of life, but the journey is only beginning with a visit from the Reaper. A loved one is dying. The sick room is full of machinery droning on endlessly with a kind of white noise. The attendant has dozed off, but suddenly awakens, and in the dim morning light notices a figure standing near the dying person. Startled and frightened, the attendant is frozen in awe. The figure is wearing a long, dark, flowing robe, much like the robes worn by ancient monks, but no face or extremities can be seen. It seems to be in a meditation-type state. The dying person takes a few labored breaths, and finally exhales for the last time. At that moment, the figure is gone..... Another encounter with the most universally recognized ghost or spirit entity of all time, the Grim Reaper - the Angel of Death - a frequent apparition experienced by virtually every culture and religion since Biblical times. Though descriptions vary somewhat, the basic entity is the same - a tall figure felt to be male wearing a long monks robe tied by rope at the waist, sometimes with a sickle or scythe, and sometimes without. A skeleton-like face is occasionally reported, but more often there is no discernable face and no visible extremities. Though there are usually no facial features, the face area is often described as being the darkest dark - almost a black abyss - sometimes with sparkling or shining areas where the eyes should be. When it moves, it seemingly glide | River Styx *** The River Styx River Styx - Hades, the Underworld The place called Hades, the Underworld was the domain of the god Hades and other gods and goddesses associated with the inexplicable, such as death, sleep, witchcraft, ghosts, dreams and enchantments. According to Greek mythology the River Styx was a great black river that completely encircled the Underworld. The River Styx formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld. The word 'stygian' came to refer to anything dark, dismal, and murky. Hades the Underworld consisted of different areas where the souls of dead mortals resided. The souls of mortals who had led good lives were sent to Elysium and the Elysian Fields (paradise) . The souls of mortals who had led both good and evil lives on earth were sent to endless toil in the Asphodel Meadows. Those evil mortals that had led sinful lives were confined in the dark depths of Tartarus , in the bowels of the earth where the souls of the wicked suffered endless torture. The River Styx was connected all of the places via four tributaries. Picture of Charon the Ferryman and the River Styx Map of the Underworld showing the location of River Styx The name 'Styx' comes from a Greek word that denotes both hatred and extreme cold and it expresses loathing of death. The following picture of the imaginary Map of the Underworld provides an overview of the realm of the dead, and the location of River Styx and the and the other rivers of Hades. Map of Hades, the Underworld and the tributaries of the River Styx The River Styx & Charon in Greek Mythology The River Styx had to be crossed to reach life after death and the only way to cross the River Styx was in a ferryboat rowed by a terrible old boatman named Charon. The boatman would only take a soul if their bodies had received funereal rites on earth. Charon the ferryman also demanded to be paid. The funeral rites of the Ancient Greeks therefore included placing a small coin or obolus under the tongue of a dead person for this purpose. An obolus was a small silver coin of Athens. A single coin buried with the dead and made of silver or gold was referred to as a danake or as Charon's obol. The coin to pay Charon for passage was also called 'naulum' from the Greek word meaning "boat fare". If these conditions had not been fulfilled, the souls were left behind to wander up and down the banks of the River Styx for 100 years as restless spirits. The River Styx & Cerberus Hades the Underworld was guarded by Cerberus the monstrous three-headed dog whose howls could be heard across the dark domain. Cerberus permitted all shades to enter, but none to return. The sight of the huge and monstrous Cerebus was the first to confront the souls of the dead when they alighted from the ferryman's boat following their journey across the River Styx. Picture of the River Styx and Tartarus (Hell) River Styx - The Five Rivers of Hades the Underworld Five infernal rivers flowed through Hades the Underworld, each of them had a specific function and meaning. Four of the rivers were tributaries of the River Styx. The following chart defines each of the infernal rivers in the Underworld: Mythical Facts about the River Styx & the other Rivers of Hades Names of Rivers: Information and Facts about the Styx River Styx: The River Styx (meaning Hateful and detestable) was a great black waterway that encircled Hades the Underworld . The Styx separated the world of the living on Earth from the world of the dead in Hades. The Styx had to be crossed to reach life after death. The only way to cross the Styx was in a ferryboat rowed by a terrible old boatman named Charon . The Styx was said to be filled with lost hopes, dreams and wishes that never came true. River Phlegethon: The River Phlegethon (meaning flaming) was the river around Tartarus (Hell) . The waves of the Phlegethon rolled flames of fire, and lit up, with their vivid glare, the appalling realm of Tartarus. It was described as "a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus". Legend tells that the Phlegethon |
"What is the only state flag in the USA that incorporates the Battle Flag of the Confederacy (also called the ""rebel"", ""Southern Cross, or ""Dixie"" flag)?" | 8 things you didn't know about the Confederate flag | PBS NewsHour Video: Slain Rev. Clementa Pinckney from PBS documentary 'The African Americans' 1. The Confederate battle flag was never the official flag of the Confederacy. The Confederate States of America went through three different flags during the Civil War, but the battle flag wasn’t one of them. Instead, the flag that most people associate with the Confederacy was the battle flag of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Designed by the Confederate politician William Porcher Miles, the flag was rejected for use as the Confederacy’s official emblem, although it was incorporated into the two later flags as a canton . It only came to be the flag most prominently associated with the Confederacy after the South lost the war. 2. The flag is divisive, but most Americans may not care. Roughly one in ten Americans feels positively when they see the Confederate flag displayed, according to a 2011 Pew Research Center poll . The same study showed that 30 percent of Americans reported a negative reaction to seeing the flag on display. But the majority, 58 percent, reported feeling neither positive nor negative. The poll also showed that African-Americans, Democrats and the highly educated were more likely to perceive the flag negatively. Mississippi fans in stands with Confederate flags during a sporting event in 1993. Photo by Patrick Murphy-Racey/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images 3. The flag began to take on a new significance in the 20th century. In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the battle flag was used mostly at veterans’ events and to commemorate fallen Confederate soldiers. The flag took on new associations in the 1940s, when it began to appear more frequently in contexts unrelated to the Civil War, such as University of Mississippi football games. In 1948, the newly-formed segregationist Dixiecrat party adopted the flag as a symbol of resistance to the federal government. In the years that followed, the battle flag became an important part of segregationist symbolism, and was featured prominently on the 1956 redesign of Georgia’s state flag, a legislative decision that was likely at least partly a response to the Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate school two years earlier. The flag has also been used by the Ku Klux Klan, though it is not the Klan’s official flag. The design of a proposed “Sons of the Confederacy” Texas state license plate is shown in this handout illustration provided by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles March 20, 2015. Photo from Department of Motor Vehicles/Handout via Reuters 4. The Supreme Court recently ruled that Texas could refuse to issue Confederate flag specialty license plates. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled against the nonprofit Sons of Confederate Veterans in Texas. The group had applied to create a specialty license plate that featured the battle flag and argued that Texas’s licensing board violated their First Amendment rights by denying the application. Although the ruling came the day after the massacre in Charleston, the court heard arguments in the case in March. 5. The NAACP has long led a boycott against South Carolina because of the battle flag on display at the capitol. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has led an economic boycott of South Carolina for years. In 2000, activists managed to have the flag moved from the dome of the capitol building to a memorial to Confederate soldiers nearby on the Statehouse grounds, but the boycott remains in effect. Two days after the Charleston shooting, NAACP President Cornell Brooks reiterated the demand that South Carolina remove the flag. “One of the ways we can bring that flag down is by writing to companies, engaging companies that are thinking about doing business in South Carolina, speaking to the governor, speaking to the legislature and saying the flag has to come down,” Brooks said, according to the Charleston City Paper . The NCAA also has a partial ban on sporting events in South Carolina because of the state’s decisio | Flags of Every Country Follow us... Flags of Every Country Tweet This map shows Flags of every country in the world. Flag description produced from actual flags or the best information available at the time the entry was written. The flags of independent states are used by their dependencies unless there is an officially recognized local flag. Some disputed and other areas do not have flags. Note: Flag description from CIA Factbook and Flag image from Wikipedia. Last updated: Abkhazia Afghanistan three equal vertical bands of black (hoist side), red, and green, with the national emblem in white centered on the red band and slightly overlapping the other two bands; the center of the emblem features a mosque with pulpit and flags on either side, below the mosque are numerals for the solar year 1298 (1919 in the Gregorian calendar, the year of Afghan independence from the UK); this central image is circled by a border consisting of sheaves of wheat on the left and right, in the upper-center is an Arabic inscription of the Shahada (Muslim creed) below which are rays of the rising sun over the Takbir (Arabic expression meaning "God is great"), and at bottom center is a scroll bearing the name Afghanistan; black signifies the past, red is for the blood shed for independence, and green can represent either hope for the future, agricultural prosperity, or Islam note: Afghanistan had more changes to its national flag in the 20th century than any other country; the colors black, red, and green appeared on most of them Akrotiri the flag of the UK is used Albania red with a black two-headed eagle in the center; the design is claimed to be that of 15th-century hero George Castriota SKANDERBERG, who led a successful uprising against the Turks that resulted in a short-lived independence for some Albanian regions (1443-1478); an unsubstantiated explanation for the eagle symbol is the tradition that Albanians see themselves as descendants of the eagle; they refer to themselves as "Shkypetars," which translates as "sons of the eagle" Algeria two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and white; a red, five-pointed star within a red crescent centered over the two-color boundary; the colors represent Islam (green), purity and peace (white), and liberty (red); the crescent and star are also Islamic symbols, but the crescent is more closed than those of other Muslim countries because the Algerians believe the long crescent horns bring happiness American Samoa blue, with a white triangle edged in red that is based on the fly side and extends to the hoist side; a brown and white American bald eagle flying toward the hoist side is carrying two traditional Samoan symbols of authority, a war club known as a "Fa'alaufa'i" (upper; left talon), and a coconut fiber fly whisk known as a "Fue" (lower; right talon); the combination of symbols broadly mimics that seen on the US Great Seal and reflects the relationship between the United States and American Samoa Andorra three vertical bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red, with the national coat of arms centered in the yellow band; the latter band is slightly wider than the other two so that the ratio of band widths is 8:9:8; the coat of arms features a quartered shield with the emblems of (starting in the upper left and proceeding clockwise): Urgell, Foix, Bearn, and Catalonia; the motto reads VIRTUS UNITA FORTIOR (Strength United is Stronger); the flag combines the blue and red French colors with the red and yellow of Spain to show Franco-Spanish protection note: similar to the flags of Chad and Romania, which do not have a national coat of arms in the center, and the flag of Moldova, which does bear a national emblem Angola two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle); red represents liberty, black the African continent, the symbols characterize workers and peasants Anguilla blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the |
Which large land mammal features in a famous woodcut of 1515 by AIbrecht Durer? | Albrecht Dürer - BOBO Art Space & Online Art Auction Albrecht Dürer Self-Portrait (1500) by Albrecht Dürer Born 6 April 1528 (aged 56) Nuremberg , Holy Roman Empire You might be interested in this auction: The gadget spec URL could not be found Early life (1471–90) Dürer's own woodcut of his coat of arms Self-portrait silverpoint drawing by the thirteen-year-old Dürer, 1484. The earliest painted Self-Portrait (1493) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum Louvre , Paris Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, third child and second son of his parents, who had between fourteen and eighteen children. His father was a successful goldsmith , originally named Ajtósi, who in 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós , near Gyula in Hungary . The German name "Dürer" is derived from the Hungarian, "Ajtósi". Initially, it was "Thürer," meaning doormaker, which is "ajtós" in Hungarian (from "ajtó", meaning door). A door is featured in the coat-of-arms the family acquired. Albrecht Dürer the Elder married Barbara Holper, the daughter of his master, when he himself became a master in 1467. [2] Dürer's godfather was Anton Koberger , who left goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher in the year of Dürer's birth. He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany, eventually owning twenty-four printing-presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad. His most famous publication was the Nuremberg Chronicle , published in 1493 in German and Latin editions. It contained an unprecedented 1,809 woodcut illustrations (with many repeated uses of the same block) by the Wolgemut workshop. Dürer may well have worked on some of these, as the work on the project began while he was with Wolgemut. [3] It is fortunate Dürer left autobiographical writings and that he became very famous by his mid-twenties. Because of this, his life is well documented by several sources. After a few years of school, Dürer started to learn the basics of goldsmithing and drawing from his father. Though his father wanted him to continue his training as a goldsmith, he showed such a precocious talent in drawing that he started as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut at the age of fifteen in 1486. A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint , is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “when I was a child”, as his later inscription says. Wolgemut was the leading artist in Nuremberg at the time, with a large workshop producing a variety of works of art, in particular woodcuts for books. Nuremberg was then an important and prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades. It had strong links with Italy , especially Venice , a relatively short distance across the Alps . [3] [ edit ]Wanderjahre and marriage (1490–94) After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre — in effect gap years — in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas; Dürer was to spend about four years away. He left in 1490, possibly to work under Martin Schongauer , the leading engraver of Northern Europe, but who died shortly before Dürer's arrival at Colmar in 1492. It is unclear where Dürer travelled in the intervening period, though it is likely that he went to Frankfurt and the Netherlands . In Colmar, Dürer was welcomed by Schongauer's brothers, the goldsmiths Caspar and Paul and the painter Ludwig. In 1493 Dürer went to Strassbourg, where he would have experienced the sculpture of Nikolaus Gerhaert . Dürer's first painted self-portrait (now in the Louvre ) was painted at this time, probably to be sent back to his fiancé in Nuremberg. [3] In early 1492 Dürer travelled to Basel to stay with another brother of Martin Schongauer, the goldsmith Georg. [4] Very soon after his return to Nuremberg, on 7 July 1494, at the age of 23, Dürer was married to Agnes Frey following an arrangement made during his absence. Agnes was the daughter of a prominent brass worker (and amateur harpist) in the city. However, no children resulted from the marriage. 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Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to fellow MP Ed Balls? | Ed Balls of the Labour party - bio PARLIAMENT LINK View Parliament profile Bio Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Morley and Outwood since 2010, and is the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. From 2005 to 2010, he was the MP for Normanton and he served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families under Gordon Brown from 2007-10. Balls is married to current Shadow Home Secretary and fellow Labour MP Yvette Cooper. In June 2007 they became the first married couple to serve together in a British Cabinet when Cooper became Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Press Who Shall I Vote For is a free service that helps you to choose the political party that fits your beliefs. Your vote really does count, and it's important that you go to the polls knowing which party is the best one for you. Whether you've got a life-long affiliation towards a party, if you're sitting on the fence, or are new to politics, then let us help you to decide who to vote for when you head for the polling stations on the 7th May 2015. We're not affiliated to any party, and we guarantee that the questions in our quiz are 100% unbiased towards any political party. You don't need to supply an email address and we don't ask you for any personal details. That's our promise to you. Contact Information Shropshire, SY3 7FA. Registered company number 7575287. | Grant Shapps: my Michael Green alias was only a 'joke' - Telegraph Politics Grant Shapps: my Michael Green alias was only a 'joke' Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party chairman, has claimed he was only joking when he used a fake name to promote his get-rich-quick business. Mr Shapps on new reports: 'Old story: all properly declared at the time and all many years ago. Labour just hate business' By Rowena Mason , Political Correspondent 6:15PM BST 05 Oct 2012 Comments Mr Shapps is being investigated by the Advertising Standards Agency over his use of an alias, but he last night insisted his real identity was "never a secret" The senior MP said he is "absolutely not embarrassed" about having built a successful business under the name of Michael Green while he was recovering for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a type of cancer. Hitting back at his critics, Mr Shapps said he only attended an event with a name badge reading "Michael Green" because it was his pseudonym used to write books like How to Get Stinking Rich. "It was a conference joke," he told the Evening Standard. “Everyone knew who I was. It was not a secret, never was. Authors using pen names is normal. Nigel West is really Rupert Allason [ a former Tory MP and spy writer] and people didn’t care.” Mr Shapps also denied accusations that he bought Twitter followers and said he only ever edited his Wikipedia entry to make it accurate. Related Articles Grant Shapps edited own Wikipedia page 09 Sep 2012 He spoke out to defend himself after Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, mocked the Conservative chairman for his multiple identities. “I’m absolutely not embarrassed about having done something that Ed Miliband has never done – which is to build up a business from scratch,” Mr Shapps told the newspaper. “I know what it’s like to get up early and graft – and to put my house on the line to buy the next printing press, pray it works out, and pay my employees at the end of the week. “It’s easy to make speeches saying ‘I know how difficult it is for working people’. But I have actually been a working person. “Some of us did stuff before we went into politics. Miliband has no other experience at all. He’s the one who must think he was born to rule because he never went for any other job.” The probe into Mr Shapps is focusing on his claims to be a self-help guru called Michael Green on a website called howtocorp.com. A complaint to the ASA alleges that the website misled the public by presenting Michael Green as a genuine businessman with a personal fortune of £17 million, who would share the secrets of his success for a fee. It relates to a website entitled “Sebastian Fox’s How To Corp – The Home of Great Toolkits on the Net”, which includes links to articles on each advertised “toolkit” which it says are written by Michael Green. |
What natural feature covers approximately 6% of the Earth's land surface, and harbors 40% of the Earth's species? | Community and Ecosystem Dynamics COMMUNITY AND ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS Definitions | Back to Top A community is the set of all populations that inhabit a certain area. Communities can have different sizes and boundaries. These are often identified with some difficulty. An ecosystem is a higher level of organization the community plus its physical environment. Ecosystems include both the biological and physical components affecting the community/ecosystem. We can study ecosystems from a structural view of population distribution or from a functional view of energy flow and other processes. Community Structure | Back to Top Ecologists find that within a community many populations are not randomly distributed. This recognition that there was a pattern and process of spatial distribution of species was a major accomplishment of ecology. Two of the most important patterns are open community structure and the relative rarity of species within a community. Do species within a community have similar geographic range and density peaks? If they do, the community is said to be a closed community , a discrete unit with sharp boundaries known as ecotones . An open community, however, has its populations without ecotones and distributed more or less randomly. In a forest, where we find an open community structure, there is a gradient of soil moisture. Plants have different tolerances to this gradient and occur at different places along the continuum. Where the physical environment has abrupt transitions, we find sharp boundaries developing between populations. For example, an ecotone develops at a beach separating water and land. Open structure provides some protection for the community. Lacking boundaries, it is harder for a community to be destroyed in an all or nothing fashion. Species can come and go within communities over time, yet the community as a whole persists. In general, communities are less fragile and more flexible than some earlier concepts would suggest. Most species in a community are far less abundant than the dominant species that provide a community its name: for example oak-hickory, pine, etc. Populations of just a few species are dominant within a community, no matter what community we examine. Resource partitioning is thought to be the main cause for this distribution. Classification of Communities | Back to Top There are two basic categories of communities: terrestrial (land) and aquatic (water). These two basic types of community contain eight smaller units known as biomes . A biome is a large-scale category containing many communities of a similar nature, whose distribution is largely controlled by climate Terrestrial Biomes: tundra, grassland, desert, taiga, temperate forest, tropical forest. Terrestrial biome distribution is shown in Figure 1. Aquatic Biomes: marine, freshwater. Figure 1. Major terrestrial biomes. Image from Purves et al., Life: The Science of Biology, 4th Edition, by Sinauer Associates ( www.sinauer.com ) and WH Freeman ( www.whfreeman.com ), used with permission. Terrestrial Biomes Tundra and Desert The tundra and desert biomes occupy the most extreme environments, with little or no moisture and extremes of temperature acting as harsh selective agents on organisms that occupy these areas. These two biomes have the fewest numbers of species due to the stringent environmental conditions. In other words, not everyone can live there due to the specialized adaptations required by the environment. Tropical Rain Forests Tropical rain forests occur in regions near the equator. The climate is always warm (between 20° and 25° C) with plenty of rainfall (at least 190 cm/year). The rain forest is probably the richest biome, both in diversity and in total biomass. The tropical rain forest has a complex structure, with many levels of life. More than half of all terrestrial species live in this biome. While diversity is high, dominance by a particular species is low. Typical tropical rain forest views are shown in Figure 2. While some animals live on the ground, | Fauna – Page 1 – IMC Photo · Updated December 21, 2013 Canada has multiple ecosystems, ranging from lush forests of British Columbia, the prairies of Western Canada, to the tundra of the Northern Canada. With a large land mass, and small population density, the wildlands of Canada provide important habitat for many animals, both endangered and not. Canada is home to approximately 70.000 known species of plants and animals – and perhaps many more that have yet to be discovered. More than 400 species are listed as being at risk of extinction in Canada. The regions with the most endangered or threatened species are those in which humans have had the greatest impact on the environment. The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. Adult bears generally weigh between 100 and 635 kg and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator. The brown bear’s principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States (mostly Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania), but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on, the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal. The bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) is a species of sheep in North America named for its large horns. These horns can weigh up to 30 lb (14 kg), while the sheep themselves weigh up to 300 lb (140 kg). Sheep originally crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge from Siberia: the population in North America peaked in the millions, and the bighorn sheep entered into the mythology of Native Americans. By 1900, the population had crashed to several thousand. Bighorns from the Rocky Mountains are relatively large, with males that occasionally exceed 500 lb (230 kg) and females that exceed 200 lb (90 kg). Bighorn sheep generally inhabit alpine meadows, grassy mountain slopes, and foothill country near rugged, rocky cliffs and bluffs. The American bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds, became nearly extinct by a combination of commercial hunting and slaughter in the 19th century and introduction of bovine diseases from domestic cattle, and has made a recent resurgence largely restricted to a few national parks and reserves. The wood bison is one of the largest wild species of bovid in the world, surpassed by only the Asian gaur and wild Asian water buffalo. It is the largest extant land animal in North America. The moose (North America) or Eurasian elk (Europe) (Alces alces) is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic (“twig-like”) configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Northern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates. Moose used to have a much wider range but hunting and other human activities greatly reduced it over the years. Canada Jay is a member of the crow and jay family (Corvidae) found in the boreal forests across North America north to the tree-line and in subalpine forests of the Rocky Mountains south to New Mexico and Arizona. The vast majority of Gray Jays live where there is a strong presence of one or more of black spruce, white spruce, Englemann spruce, jack pine, or lodgepole pine. Gray Jays do not inhabit the snowy, coniferous, and therefore seemingly appropriate Sierra Nevada of California where no spruce and neither of the two named pines occur. |
West Ham FC?s new ground, the former Olympic Stadium, is in which London district? | Location | West Ham United West Ham United Updated Tuesday 14 Jun 17:13 Location Located at the south end of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, West Ham United’s new home remains in the heart of London’s East End, just 2.4 miles away from the Boleyn Ground. With nine direct rail links and numerous bus routes, this global landmark will be the most accessible stadium in the UK. It is less than 40 minutes from all of London’s major railway stations, just seven minutes from St Pancras International, and will be connected to Crossrail from 2018. It is also 30 minutes to the M25, and less than an hour to all of London’s international airports. The Stadium is also an excellent location for disabled fans, with step-free access at all the main approaches, and accessible Blue Badge car parking. You can plan your journey using the information below > The Olympic Stadium is a public transport venue and public transport is the quickest and easiest mode to travel to events. The nearest station is Stratford Station served by London Underground, Overground, DLR and mainline rail services; West Ham Station will be extremely busy on match days. It is advised to find alternative direct routes to Stratford Station; Pudding Mill Lane DLR Station is subject to construction activity and will not be available on match days; Hackney Wick Station has limited capacity and will not be available on match days; Do not drive to the Olympic Stadium. Parking restrictions will be in place and enforced in the local area; Road closures will be in place in the local area and roads are expected to be extremely busy on match days No parking is available at the former Olympic Stadium; Further detailed travel information will become available as the transport strategy for the area is developed, however the above key messages should be considered by spectators prior to planning their journey to the former Olympic Stadium on matchdays. The Stadium’s fantastic location and breathtaking design is truly special. I cannot think of a better place for West Ham United to call home. Sir Trevor Brooking | The last days of Walthamstow Stadium | Sport | The Guardian The Observer The last days of Walthamstow Stadium This month, the most charismatic greyhound track in Britain will close down. We celebrate a venue that, over 75 years, has hosted everyone from Winston Churchill to Brad Pitt. See it in all its glory here Walthamstow Stadium is closing down after 75 years. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA The Observer The last days of Walthamstow Stadium This month, the most charismatic greyhound track in Britain will close down. We celebrate a venue that, over 75 years, has hosted everyone from Winston Churchill to Brad Pitt. See it in all its glory here Saturday 26 July 2008 19.01 EDT First published on Saturday 26 July 2008 19.01 EDT Share on Messenger Close On 16 August, the last greyhound race will be run at Walthamstow Stadium. A race just like any other - hare circles; traps open; dogs hurtle towards the bend - that will bring to an end almost eight decades of sporting history. It was in 1933 that Walthamstow first opened its gates, to a public that fell instantly in love with its earthy urban glamour. What a place it was! If I close my eyes now I can see the thin bright tubes of neon on the Art Deco frontage, the pink-red glow of the words WALTHAMSTOW STADIUM, the way they gleamed across a darkening sky. Whenever I drove across London to the track I longed for that first glimpse of light, its promise of fun, vigour, happiness. In my twenties, when I wrote my first book, The Dogs, which was about growing up in the world of greyhound racing, I went to Walthamstow all the time. There was nowhere that I would rather have been. It was a terribly unlucky place for me, gambling-wise, but that couldn't have mattered less. What I liked was simply being there, in the midst of things, feeling around me all the rough good-nature, hearing the shouts of the bookmakers and the whining of the dogs in the traps, watching as the lights of the track gradually encroached upon the night. On a busy Saturday night it felt like the most alive place in the world: 'a magical palais of urban dreams', as I described it in my book. Walthamstow was, in fact, a latecomer to the world of greyhound racing, which had kicked off in Britain at Belle Vue, Manchester, in July 1926. A crowd of 1,700 attended the first meeting, where the races were run by former hare-coursing dogs owned by members of the aristocracy; a supreme irony, given that this night saw the birth of one of the great working men's sports. Within a week the crowd had grown to 16,000. The late 1920s saw an explosion of popularity, with tracks being set up all over the country: in London alone there was racing every night at White City, Harringay, Wembley, West Ham, Clapton, Wimbledon or Hackney Wick. By the end of the decade, annual attendances totalled 17 million. By the end of the war they had risen to 50 million, with 77 licensed tracks. The beauty of dog racing was that it was cheap, accessible, and gave you eight quick thrills in a night. You could walk to the track. You could back your judgment to win money. This was your sport; unlike horseracing, it was not the property of the remote and rarefied elite. It belonged to the people who supported it, and who loved it to the point of madness. William Chandler, who created Walthamstow, was born in Hoxton, just north of the City of London. His sharp brain took him to the position of number-one bookmaker at White City, and he became a director of Hackney's track (whose site will form part of the venue for the 2012 Olympics). In the early 1930s he sold his shares and paid £24,000 for an unlicensed dog track - a 'flapper', as they are called - upon whose land Walthamstow was built. The Chandler family ran the stadium all its life. I loved to spend the evening with them in the Paddock Grill restaurant (where local boy David Beckham used to collect the glasses) and was half in love with Frances, daughter-in-law of William, whose beauty was undiminished by age and who would tell me stories of the stellar greyhounds that she had owned throughout the 1950s. |
Which actress failed to win an Academy Award despite having been nominated 6 times? | Academy Award Nominees Who Have Never Won · Guardian Liberty Voice Share on Facebook Follow on Facebook Add to Google+ Connect on Linked in Subscribe by Email Print This Post Academy Award nominations are a dream come true for many actors, but what happens to those nominees who have never won, ever? Is it possible that there are actors good enough to be repeatedly nominated and yet not great enough to win that coveted statue? The roll call of winners in any category has been routinely disparaged for the people it has omitted. For example, the category for Best Director has excluded names such as Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles and even Alfred Hitchcock. Although the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) may loudly proclaim that they are “a global organization representing the best of an international art form,” no movie that was presented entirely in a foreign language has ever won an Academy Award in the Best Film category. Animated and sci-fi films have also traditionally been given the cold shoulder for the Best Film category. If Gravity wins this year, it will be a landmark of sorts. If the plight of the slighted categories is lamentable, the woes of people who have been repeatedly nominated for an Academy Award but who have never won must surely be greater. As the nomination lists are read out and the cameras scan the hopeful faces, there are stalwarts who have lived this moment many times, only to have it end right there. Here is a list that is sure to astound any fan of the movies. Sound mixer Kevin O’Connell was first nominated in 1983 for his contribution to Terms of Endearment and his latest Oscar outing was for Transformers in 2007 He has a total of 20 nominations and no win. Acting legend Glenn Close has also never gotten close enough to an Academy Award to get her hands on it, despite six nominations. Tom Cruise has won three Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for three Oscars but has no Academy Award win to date. The late Peter O’Toole gathered an impressive eight nominations but had to be satisfied with an honorary Oscar in 2003. Brad Pitt’s nomination run began way back in 1995 and is still going strong with 12 Years a Slave. Unless he changes his bleak win history this year, that will make it a total of five nominations with nothing to show for them. The late Deborah Kerr won an astonishing six Best Actress nominations in a career spanning just 11 years. She was the recipient of an honorary Academy Award in 1994 and passed away in 2007. Among the list of unsuccessful hopefuls at the 2014 Academy Awards show is Leonardo DiCaprio who has been waiting for 20 long years. Despite having stood at the helm of some of the most successful movies of recent times, he is firmly in the list of Academy Award nominees who have never won. DiCaprio was first nominated in 1994 and is nominated this year for The Wolf of Wall Street. When the curtain opens on March 2, 2014, and Ellen DeGeneres takes center stage, there will be much clapping and crying and many a prayer will be sent in all directions. How many of the rich and famous will go home mouthing the platitude about nomination itself being an honor, remains to be seen. By Grace Stephen | 2008 Academy Awards® Winners and History Kung Fu Panda (2008) Actor: SEAN PENN in "Milk," Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor," Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon," Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" Actress: KATE WINSLET in "The Reader," Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married," Angelina Jolie in "Changeling," Melissa Leo in "Frozen River," Meryl Streep in "Doubt" Supporting Actor: HEATH LEDGER in " The Dark Knight ," Josh Brolin in "Milk," Robert Downey, Jr. in "Tropic Thunder," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt," Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road" Supporting Actress: PENELOPE CRUZ in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Amy Adams in "Doubt," Viola Davis in "Doubt," Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler" Director: DANNY BOYLE for "Slumdog Millionaire," Stephen Daldry for "The Reader," David Fincher for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Ron Howard for "Frost/Nixon," Gus Van Sant for "Milk” 2008 represented the continued rise of smaller studios and development companies, proven by the dominance of the Best Picture-winning independent film Slumdog Millionaire. The low-budget film was made for only $15 million, had no American superstars, lots of foreign-language dialogue, and it struggled to find a distributor. It also had a 'feel-good' theme and romantic sub-plot, a song/dance finale, an Oscar-winning song "Jai Ho," while at the same time exhibiting the extreme poverty of India. Its major competitor, the big-budget The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, was produced by a major studio (a co-production between Warner Bros. and Paramount), featured major stars, an extensive marketing campaign, a well-respected director, and expensive CGI-effects. And it suffered a record loss among films with 13 nominations -- it had the fewest wins for any film with that many nods. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a Warner Bros./Paramount Film co-production Frost/Nixon, from Universal The Reader, from The Weinstein Company Slumdog Millionaire, from Fox Searchlight All five titles of the Best Picture-nominated films referred to the film's characters (this also occurred in 1964), and were mostly tales from the past. The Best Picture winner became more strongly favored as the Oscar season progressed: director Danny Boyle's dark horse crowd-pleasing Slumdog Millionaire (with 10 nominations and 8 wins), based on the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, about an impoverished, 18 year-old orphaned slum thief Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) who is arrested for cheating (presumably due to his unsavory, lower-class background), when only one question away from winning the top prize of 20 million rupees in the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"; the film's other wins included Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song ("Jai Ho"); [Note: Slumdog Millionaire was only the fifth film in the past 50 years to win without any acting nominations, repeating the feat of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) , Braveheart (1995), The Last Emperor (1987), and Gigi (1958). It was one of only eleven films in all of Academy history that have won Best Picture without receiving a single acting nomination.] The other Best Picture nominees were: director David Fincher's sweeping 2 3/4ths hour, big-budget fantasy epic The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (with 13 nomin |
What was the first name of Captain Mainwaring in the TV Series Dad's Army? | Captain George Mainwaring | Dad's Army Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit George Mainwaring was born in 1885. He is a pompous, blustering figure with overdeveloped sense of his importance, fuelled by his social status in Walmington-on-Sea as the bank manager, and his status as Captain and commander of the local Home Guard volunteer unit. He believes in following rules and orders to sometimes ludicrous degrees. He is class conscious and a snob, considering himself upper-middle class and looking down on anyone he considers beneath him, which may be because he struggled to rise above his working class background. His pretensions stand in contrast to Wilson , who is genuinely Upper Middle Class, Mainwaring is often bitter about Wilson's having attending public school, believing it made him 'wet', while his own state-school background is an attribute. Mainwaring and Wilson's relationship is mainly based on the fact that Mainwaring has always had to struggle and fight for everything in his life, whereas Wilson has just sat back and let it all come to him, (despite being a strong autocrat, Mainwaring fully believes that people should work and earn everything they get in life). Mainwaring is prudish and repressed, and can be judgemental about people who do not share his moral outlook. Mainwaring Mainwaring's pomposity and snobbery work against him, as he is frequently dependent on those he considers beneath him, and his arrogance is frequently punctured by circumstance and the people around him, such as Arthur Wilson , his chief clerk with whom he shares an antagonistic friendship, and Private Walker , a black-marketeer who interjects during Mainwaring's lectures with a quip or a sly revelation that Mainwaring is benefitting from underhanded deals. Mainwaring is particularly jealous of Wilson, who is more relaxed and charming and possesses combat experience that Mainwaring does not, and takes every opportunity to remind his sergeant who is the senior. As a bank manager, he is efficient if ruthless and stingy; as a military commander he is barely competent, confused by the 24-hour clock, and his plans result in chaos. Mainwaring has no combat experience, which causes tension with the other members of the Home Guard, particularly Wilson, who was a decorated Captain of World War I. (In World War II, John Le Mesurier who played Wilson, had been a Captain while Arthur Lowe was a Sergeant Major). He did, however, serve in the army of occupation in France, "during the whole of 1919 — somebody had to clear up the mess." (He tried to enlist in 1914 but was rejected with poor eyesight; Arthur Lowe tried to enlist in the Merchant Navy prior to World War II but was also rejected with poor eyesight.) Despite his shortcomings as a leader, Mainwaring considers himself an excellent military tactician. His height and background is frequently demonstrated to show a Napoleon Complex; he is frequently referred to as 'Napoleon' by his nemesis Hodges . In one episode, A Soldier's Farewell , Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon Bonaparte , and is thwarted at the Waterloo by a Duke of Wellington looking like Wilson. His pomposity and conviction of his prowess see Mainwaring yearn to be in control of any situation, and he behaves in an arrogant manner; this is demonstrated by the first episode, in which he organised the Home Guard unit and appointed himself commanding officer despite lack of experience or qualifications (and had to wait until the episode Room at the Bottom before he received his commission). In Command Decision he was prepared to relinquish control so the platoon could gain rifles, arguing defence of the country was more important than his ego. In addition he was prepared to "march in the ranks as Private Mainwaring" when he was briefly de-commissioned. This implied he was more overzealous than a control freak. Mainwaring's patriotism can lead to xenophobia (he is not keen on the French because they are emotional, the Russians because their communism, and the Germans and the Italians because of them being such deadly enemies). Mainwaring o | Dad's Army uncovered: 35 things you need to know about the BBC comedy classic - Mirror Online TV Dad's Army uncovered: 35 things you need to know about the BBC comedy classic It has been 35 years since Dad's Army finished its original telly run - check out our essential need to know facts about the comedy favourite Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Despite its original run ending 35 yesterday, Dad’s Army still has a prominent pride of place in British TV history. More than just a comedy, few other shows have contributed as many immediately recognisable moments that are remembered so fondly across all ages. So are the show's stars - Clive Dunn's recent sad passing evidenced one again how Dad's Army has stayed with viewers across the years. Think you know everything there is to know about this national telly treasure? Think you’re dooooooooooomed? Well don’t panic! Here are 35 facts on the adventure of the Home Guard during Britain’s finest hour! 1. Television and beyond! Dad’s Army ran for an epic 80 television episodes across nine series from 1968 to 1977 as well as a number of short sketches. But it wasn’t all about television: the Captain Mainwaring and his men also crossed radio and stage on their way to becoming national treasures. 2. Almost Mainwarings Arthur Lowe is most famous for his role as bumbling Captain George Mainwaring, a character some of his co-stars thought resembled him! But he wasn’t the first choice. Some BBC bosses, including Head of Comedy Michael Mills, were against his casting and the role was offered to Thorley Walters and even future Doctor Who Jon Pertwee before Lowe took on his most famous part. 3. They don’t like it down ‘em! Arthur Lowe certainly knew what comedy he liked and knew what he didn’t. In one episode he refused to film a scene where Private Frazer tries to free a bomb from Captain Mainwaring’s trousers. After a few rewrites, as you may remember, Corporal Jones ended up taking the bomb for the team. But Arthur Lowe insisted on something a bit more permanent: he had a clause written into his contract that he would never have his trousers removed! 4. War veterans View gallery Corporal Jones may always be the first of the platoon to want to ‘stick it up ‘em’ but the late Clive Dunn , who served four years in prisons and prisoner of war camps in Austria during WW2, was a pacifist. Other members of the cast and crew had fought not only in the Second World War, but also the First such as Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey). During WWII, Arthur Lowe served as a Sergeant Major and John Le Mesurier a Captain, while director/producer David Croft rose to the rank of major after joining the Royal Artillery in 1942. 5. Real Home Guard Of the television Home Guard platoon only John Laurie (Frazer) and Arnold Ridley (Godfrey) had actually served in the real Home Guard during the Second World War. Ridley had joined the Home Guard’s forerunner, the Local Defence Volunteers in 1940, narrowly escaping injury or death when his cottage was hit by a bomb in 1944. Laurie was also a veteran of the First World War, as a member of the Honourable Artillery Company. 6. Permission to sing, sir! Video Loading Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now The late Clive Dunn achieved fame as one of the most quotable characters in Dad’s army, Corporal ‘Don’t Panic’ Jones. But at the same time he was playing the role, he also managed to score a number one hit single with 1971’s ‘Grandad’ – a song that featured none other than Rick Wakeman on keyboards. It certainly wasn’t the end of Dunn’s musical career - he even released his own album, ‘Permission to Sing Sir!’ 7. Private Perry! One of the show’s most popular characters, Private Pike (played by Ian Lavender ) was based on writer Jimmy Perry’s real life experience as a teenager being molly-coddled by his mum. "She didn't go so far as making me wear a scarf, but she came pretty near" he said. Shouldn’t have told us that, Pike! 8. Almost W |
What was the name of New York's 'JFK Airport' before it was renamed in honour of the assassinated President? | History of JFK International Airport | eHow History of JFK International Airport Email Save John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York is one of the busiest passenger airports in the United States. Yet it was designed only to relieve overflow from the nearby, crowded LaGuardia Airport. Today, JFK is one of the most recognizable airports in the world. Idlewild Airport The original name of JFK Airport was Idlewild Airport. It was named, when construction began in 1942, for the Idlewild Golf Course that the airport was built on. The initial planned size of the airport was only 1,000 acres. The airport was planned as a relief to the overcrowded LaGuardia Airport, already too busy for its size. 1943-1963 The airport was renamed Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport in 1943, after a Queens resident. He was a member of the National Guard who died in World War II in 1942. In March 1948, the New York City Council again changed the name of the airport to New York International Airport, Anderson Field. Most people still called the airport Idlewild Airport until 1963. Becoming JFK Airport The airport was renamed the John F. Kennedy International Airport in December 1963. The renaming was in honor of the assassinated president, who was killed one month earlier. Since 1963, the airport has been known by the abbreviation JFK Airport to many travelers. JFK Airport Today JFK Airport is managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that oversees bridges, tunnels, bus terminals, airports and seaports in New York City and New Jersey. The airport includes eight terminals and provides services to almost 80 domestic, international and charter airlines. Approximately 50 million passengers a year pass through JFK Airport. Economics of JFK JFK Airport generates over $30 billion a year, including over 35,000 jobs at the airport and almost $10 billion a year in salaries. | MHQ Home Page Though John F. Kennedy emerged from World War II as a national hero, he thought of the war years as a dark period for his family. “It turned [us] upside down and sucked all the oxygen out of our smug and comfortable assumptions,” he said. Joseph P. Kennedy, patriarch of the clan and a fierce isolationist, opposed the war and made several missteps that severely damaged his political career, which once seemed destined to climax in a bid for the White House. Appointed in 1938 as President Franklin Roosevelt’s ambassador to Great Britain, he backed the appeasement policy of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, describing Czechoslovakia and other nations threatened by Hitler as “disposable countries,” according to Edward Renehan Jr.’s The Kennedys at War. During the Battle of Britain, he declared that democracy was “finished” in England and perhaps America, too. In a line from a speech that Roosevelt censored, he said, “I should like to ask you all if you know of any dispute or controversy existing in the world which is worth the life of your son?” That line would haunt Kennedy when the three of his nine children who were of age and able—Joe Jr., Jack, and Kathleen—joined the war effort. Kathleen, the fourth of his nine children, volunteered for the Red Cross in London, in part to be closer to Billy Hartington, a wealthy British aristocrat she’d met while her father was ambassador. She and Hartington married in May 1944, but the groom, a captain in the British Army, was killed in combat three months later. Jack’s near-death misfortune in the Solomons left him in the hospital for months after back surgery. But the biggest Kennedy tragedy of the war was the death of Joe Kennedy Jr. A navy bomber pilot, he flew at D-Day and twice extended his tour of duty in Europe. In August 1944—days before Billy Hartington died—he volunteered for a secret mission testing an experimental drone plane packed with explosives—a weapon the Allies hoped to use as a guided missile. On the first test flight, the explosives detonated prematurely and the plane exploded. Kennedy’s body was never found. His son’s death shattered Joe Kennedy and fueled his rage at Roosevelt for entangling America in the war. “For a fellow who didn’t want this war to touch your country or mine,” he wrote a friend in Britain, “I have had a rather bad dose—Joe dead, Billy Hartington dead, my son Jack in the Naval Hospital. I have had brought home to me very personally what I saw for all the mothers and fathers of the world.” Click For More From MHQ! |
"Which US composer, conductor and pianist has written the music for over 100 films, starting with ""Daddy-O"" in 1958, his latest is the 2012 film ""Lincoln""?" | John Williams | Lucasfilm Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [Source] John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer , conductor and pianist . He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential and successful film composers of all time. In a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including the Star Wars saga , Jaws , Superman , the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , Home Alone and its sequel , Hook , Jurassic Park , Schindler's List , Saving Private Ryan , War Horse , Lincoln , and the first three Harry Potter films. He has had a long association with director Steven Spielberg , composing the music for all but two ( Duel and The Color Purple ) of Spielberg's major feature films. Other notable works by Williams include theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football , the NBC Nightly News , the Statue of Liberty's rededication , and the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants . Williams has also composed numerous classical concerti, and he served as the Boston Pops Orchestra 's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993; he is now the orchestra's conductor laureate . Williams has won five Academy Awards , four Golden Globe Awards , seven British Academy Film Awards and twenty-one Grammy Awards . With forty-eight Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated person, after Walt Disney . [1] Williams was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. [2] Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004. Contents Edit John Williams was born on February 8, 1932 on Long Island, New York , the son of Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams . [3] His father was a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quintet. In 1948, the Williams family moved to Los Angeles where John attended North Hollywood High School graduating in 1950. He later attended the University of California, Los Angeles , and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco . [4] In 1952, Williams was drafted into the U.S. Air Force , where he conducted and arranged music for The U.S. Air Force Band as part of his assignments. After his Air Force service ended in 1955, Williams moved to New York City and entered The Juilliard School , where he studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne . [4] During this time, Williams worked as a jazz pianist in New York's many clubs and eventually studios, most notably for composer Henry Mancini . His fellow session musicians included Rolly Bundock on bass, Jack Sperling on drums, and Bob Bain on guitar—the same lineup featured on the Mr. Lucky television series. Williams was known as "Little Johnny Love" Williams during the early 1960s, and he served as music arranger and bandleader for a series of popular music albums with the singer Frankie Laine . Williams was married to actress Barbara Ruick from 1956 until her death on March 1, 1974. Williams and Ruick had three children: Jennifer (born 1956), Mark (born 1958), and Joseph (born 1960). Joseph is one of the various lead singers in the band Toto . Williams' grandson is Lionel Williams who is in the band Vinyl Williams . John Williams married his second wife, Samantha Winslow, on July 21, 1980. John Williams is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi , the national fraternity for college band members. Film and television scoring Edit Williams at the Boston Symphony Hall after conducting the Boston Pops, May 2006 While skilled in a variety of 20th century compositional idioms, Williams' most familiar style may be described as a form of neoromanticism , [5] inspired by the late 19th century's large-scale orchestral music—in the style of Tchaikovsky or Richard Wagner 's compositions and their concept of leitmotif —that inspired his film music predecessors. [6] After his studie | Greatest Films of 1940 The Bank Dick (1940) , 73 minutes, D: Eddie Cline A great classic W. C. Fields comedy, with wonderful sight gags and one-liners. Fields (in his last major film role) credited himself as screenwriter Mahatma Kane Jeeves (similar to "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!"). A drunken, unemployed no-account, henpecked husband in Lompoc, California (pronounced Lompoke) - Egbert Souse (W. C. Fields) (pronounced "Soo-zay") - inadvertently foiled a bank robbery in town, and was rewarded for his accidental heroism with an in-bank position as a guard (or "dick"-detective) by grateful bank president Mr. Skinner (Pierre Watkin). Egbert's most frequent visits were to the Black Pussy Cat Cafe for stiff drinks. Egbert was conned by J. Frothingham Waterbury (Russell Hicks) to fund a flimsy mining operation, Beefsteak Mines. He convinced bank clerk Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton) - his future son-in-law, the dim-witted fiancee of his daughter Myrtle (Una Merkel), to embezzle $500. And then he had to avoid having auditing bank examiner J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn) discover his crime by slipping him a drink. Hilarious, bumbling antics ensue, concluding with another bank robbery and a classic car chase sequence, with Egbert taken as hostage. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), 90 minutes, D: Dorothy Arzner An early feminist-minded film, and a critical and commercial box-office failure, from pioneering butch-lesbian Dorothy Arzner (and regarded as her best) - one of the few female Hollywood directors at the time, and featuring one of Lucille Ball's better film roles. Not to be confused with the 1933 film of the same name. This backstage musical was taglined: "Heartbreak Behind Gayety of a Girly-Girl Show!" and pitted the two dichotomous female leads against each other - a good girl vs. bad girl representing two opposite styles of dance (burlesque and ballet). Aspiring 'serious' but poor ballerina Judy O'Brien (young Maureen O’Hara in her third Hollywood film), an Irish redhead, and her outrageous, gold-digging, ambitious friend Bubbles (Lucille Ball) were introduced as two chorus girls stranded in Akron, Ohio before they traveled separately back to New York City to find work. Bubbles (renamed "Tiger" Lily White) became a cheap burlesque stripper in a live show, while Judy struggled in dance school with her Russian dance teacher/mentor Madame Lydia Basilova (Maria Ouspenskaya). With a cruel and cutthroat gesture, Bubbles hired the desperate Judy to dance ballet immediately after her own act, knowledgeable that "stooge" Judy would be greeted with hostile jeers, boos, and laughter from the voyeuristic dirty-old-man audience, and would - of course - demand an encore by Bubbles (who only stripped to a hula skirt and bra!). Besides an on-stage catfight, the film's most remarkable sequence was Judy's celebrated lecture-speech delivered at the climax to the males of a jeering burlesque audience who were mocking her classical dance act. Fantasia (1940) , 120 minutes, D: Ben Sharpsteen and Disney An innovative and revolutionary animated classic from Walt Disney (his third feature animation), combining classical music masterpieces with imaginative visuals, presented with conductor Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was the first commercial American film to use stereophonic sound as well as the first and only film recorded in pioneering Fantasound. An updated version was created almost 60 years later, Fantasia/2000 (1999) - the first feature length animated film to be presented in IMAX, with |
At which Buckinghamshire estate did the National Museum of Computing open in 2007? | Why Bletchley Park is at war again - Telegraph World War Two Why Bletchley Park is at war again Conflict between the bodies responsible for the protection of the former Second World War code-breaking HQ has broken out into the open The Bletchley Park code-breakers’ penetration of the innermost workings of the Nazi high command is believed by some historians to have shortened the war by two years. Photo: John Lawrence Comments Extreme secrecy ensured that those working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War had little to fear from the Germans. The Luftwaffe crew who jettisoned their bombs over the code-breaking centre while returning from a raid during the night of November 20 1940 were oblivious of the priceless target they had so narrowly missed. That was the only time Bletchley was seriously threatened by enemy action. When destruction eventually loomed, it came from a far more dangerous quarter: the housing developers of south-east England. In 1991, the Buckinghamshire estate, largely abandoned by its post-war users – Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and British Telecom – seemed destined for a new and altogether less noble career as a site for executive homes. The huts in which the intricacies of the Enigma cypher machine had been mastered were to be torn down and consigned to the history books. One of the most crucial battlefields of 1939-45, albeit an intellectual one, was to be erased. The developers were fought off in 1992 when Bletchley was declared a conservation area and the Bletchley Park Trust formed to protect the historic site. But Bletchley remained a sorry spectacle for more than a decade, the huts – flimsy, wartime ''temporary’’ structures – remaining in danger of collapse. Starved of money, the trust was holding a crisis meeting every fortnight. Today, all that has changed. In June, a rejuvenated Bletchley is due to open to the public; £8 million of investment, including a £5 million donation from the Heritage Lottery Fund, is being used to create a new visitor centre and restore the huts that produced the Ultra decrypts, the crown jewels of wartime intelligence. The opening is intended to coincide with the 70th anniversary of D-Day, June 6 1944, the success of which was owed in no small part to Bletchley. The code-breakers’ penetration of the innermost workings of the Nazi high command is believed by some historians to have shortened the war by two years. Related Articles Silly blighters 27 Feb 2014 Yet, even as its renaissance beckons, Bletchley still labours under a cloud. A long-running dispute between the trust and its tenants threatens to delay the refurbishment and dampen the relaunch. There is a considerable amount of bad blood at Bletchley, with sources in the trust accusing the opposition of trying to sabotage its bid for Lottery money and obstruct the revamp. The trust, which includes on its board Sir John Scarlett, former chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, is in turn being criticised for trying to turn the estate into a “war memorial”, marginalising the scientific innovation that takes place within its boundaries. The House of Lords is holding a debate on Bletchley today, intended as a pleasant amble down memory lane for members involved in its work or history. Noble lords will no doubt be dismayed to learn of the battle of attrition waged there over the past few years. There are two tenants on the estate, Bletchley Park Capital Partners (BPCP), which leases the famous mansion and other buildings, and The National Museum of Computing, home to, among other exhibits, a working replica of Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer, built to speed up the human code-breaking operation at Bletchley. BPCP earns its money from sub-letting units to small businesses, many of them hi-tech. The computer museum, a charity, relies on donations and receipts from visitors, many of whom are drawn to the site by the neighbouring code-breaking museum. Sources within the trust say one man more than any other has been behind attempts to block its vision for Bletchley. Tim | Inventors 1792-1871 Inventor of the Computer British mathematician and inventor, who designed and built mechanical computing machines on principles that anticipated the modern electronic computer. Babbage was born in Teignmouth, Devonshire, and was educated at the University of Cambridge. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1816 and was active in the founding of the Analytical, the Royal Astronomical, and the Statistical societies. In the 1820s Babbage began developing his Difference Engine, a mechanical device that can perform simple mathematical calculations. Babbage started to build his Difference Engine, but was unable to complete it because of a lack of funding. However, in 1991 British scientists, following Babbage's detailed drawings and specifications, constructed the Difference Engine. The machine works flawlessly, calculating up to a precision of 31 digits, proving that Babbage's design was sound. In the 1830s Babbage began developing his Analytical Engine, which was designed to carry out more complicated calculations, but this device was never built. Babbage's book Economy of Machines and Manufactures (1832) initiated the field of study known today as operational research. 1888 - 1946 Scottish Inventor John Logie Baird is remembered as the inventor of mechanical television, radar and fiber optics. Born in 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland, Baird learned a Calvinist work ethic from his father, a Presbyterian minister. He successfully tested in a laboratory in late 1925 and unveiled with much fanfare in London in early 1926, mechanical television technology was quickly usurped by electronic television, the basis of modern video technology. Nonetheless, Baird's achievements, including making the first trans-Atlantic television transmission, were singular and critical scientific accomplishments. Baird created a host of television technologies. Among them, phonovision, a forerunner of the video recorder, noctovision, an infra-red spotting system for "seeing" in the dark; open-air television, a theater-projection system; stereoscopic color TV; and the first high definition color TV. 1937 - English Inventor Trevor Baylis was born in Kilburn, London, in 1937. He was always an avid swimmer and by the age of 15 Baylis was swimming competitively for Britain. At 16 he joined the Soil Mechanics Laboratory in Southall and began studying mechanical and structural engineering at the local technical college. At 20 years of age he began his National Service as a physical training instructor, and he swam competitively for the Army and Imperial Services. Upon leaving the army in 1961, he joined Purley Pools as a salesman. He quickly advanced in this firm and was soon involved in research and development. He went on to start his own successful swimming pool company. His love of swimming led led Baylis to work as a stuntman on various television shows performing escape feats underwater. His other passion has been inventing, especially inventing products that might help the physically handicapped. In 1993, he watched a program about the spread of AIDS in Africa, which observed that in many regions radio was the only available media, but the need for batteries or electricity made them too expensive or too difficult to access. There was a need for an educational tool that did not rely on electricity. By 1996 Trevor Baylis was receiving numerous awards for his 'Clockwork Radio' which was powered by the occasional turn of a handle. Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE FRS Inventor of the Hovercraft Christopher Sydney Cockerell was born in 1910 at Cherry Hinton near Cambridge, the son of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, sometime private secretary to Sir William Morris and from 1908 to 1937 Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Cockerells were a talented family. The sons of Sydney John Cockerell, a London coal merchant, and Alice nee Bennett, the daughter of a City Watchmaker, Sir Sydneys elder brother, Theodore, was a biologist, his younger brother, Douglas, and eminent bookbinder; while Douglass son Sydney Maurice, two ye |
What character was played by Gary Cooper in 'High Noon'? | High Noon (1952) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him. Director: Carl Foreman (screenplay), John W. Cunningham (magazine story "The Tin Star") Stars: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 46 titles created 18 May 2014 a list of 28 titles created 8 months ago a list of 25 titles created 5 months ago a list of 31 titles created 2 months ago a list of 34 titles created 2 weeks ago Search for " High Noon " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 10 nominations. See more awards » Videos A Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from an Indian tribe. Director: John Ford A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed. Director: John Ford Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Director: John Huston A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. Director: George Stevens A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. Director: John Ford A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. Director: Howard Hawks An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. Director: Sam Peckinpah An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. Director: Elia Kazan A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Director: Alfred Hitchcock A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. Director: John Ford A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. Director: Charles Laughton Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close. Director: George Roy Hill Edit Storyline On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, lawman Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller's gang, who are waiting for him at the station... Written by Man_With_No_Name_126 When these hands point straight up...the excitement starts! See more » Genres: Rated PG for some western violence, and smoking | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 30 July 1952 (USA) See more » Also Known As: A la hora señalada See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Gary Cooper , "B" movie producer Robert L. Lippert and screenwriter Carl Foreman were set to go into a production company together, after the success of this film. John Wayne and Ward Bond ordered Cooper to back out of the deal, as HUAC was preparing to "blacklist" Foreman. Shortly afterward, Lippert was made "persona non grata" by the Screen Actors Guild, which destroyed his independent production company. See more » Goofs In the two | Sir Henry Cooper obituary | Sport | The Guardian Sir Henry Cooper obituary British heavyweight boxing champion known for his warmth, indomitable spirit and a left hook dubbed 'Enry's 'Ammer Muhammad Ali and Henry Cooper before their world heavyweight title fight in London. Photograph: Aubrey Hart/Getty Images Sunday 1 May 2011 17.31 EDT First published on Sunday 1 May 2011 17.31 EDT Share on Messenger Close Sir Henry Cooper , beloved of British postwar generations as no heavyweight boxer before him, has died aged 76. His warmth and indomitable personality, together with his rise from humble roots, gave him a popularity far beyond his sport's normal boundaries. He was never world champion, but his good spirits seemed to hold a gift for everyone, even for his most notable conqueror, Muhammad Ali. At Wembley stadium, on 18 June 1963, Cooper landed Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, on his pants with a punch that made boxing history – a left hook travelling five and a half inches at 30mph with 60 times the force of gravity, striking the side of the American's jaw. The world came to know it as 'Enry's 'Ammer, and it felled Ali as never before. However, in front of 55,000 people, Ali was "saved by the bell" amid unique controversy. Ali, then 21, had fought only one major figure, the ageing Archie Moore, before his arrival in London to meet Cooper, the experienced 29-year-old British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion, over 10 rounds. With a multimillion-dollar syndicate behind Ali's world championship ambition, and Cooper in his prime, it was a fight attracting worldwide interest. Already, the Kentucky fighter's braggadocio ("I am the prettiest ... I am the greatest") had brought him the title of the Louisville Lip. But, after Cooper's hammer blow, Ali's corner were up to various tricks before the Englishman fell victim to a cut eye in the fifth round. In later years, Ali's trainer, Angelo Dundee, admitted tweaking the loose stitching of his fighter's right glove so that the formal minute interval was stretched by six seconds before a replacement was found. His use of smelling salts also defied the rules. "For a fit man," Cooper said later, "seconds are a lifetime. When you are really trained up, you need only 20 seconds and you are back to your old self." Ali's long reach and quickness posed Cooper, himself the lightest of heavyweights, 13st 13lb at his heaviest, some early problems. "For my money, he was the fastest heavyweight of all time, and a stone and a half heavier than me," Cooper acknowledged. "There was never a still target in front of you. He wasn't a counter-puncher, nothing to compare with Floyd Patterson . Nor a puncher like Rocky Marciano. It was a flicker with the left, or a long-arm right that could drag and tear your skin." Ali caught Cooper with a typical blow in the third round. Jim Wicks, Cooper's manager, known as "The Bishop" and always protective of his man, was all for ending the fight as the blood flowed down his fighter's cheek. Cooper, in the corner interval, pleaded for one more round as his "cuts" man, Danny Holland, applied an adrenalin-Vaseline compound. In Cooper's view, he could still take his man – and he very nearly did. The 'Ammer smacked into Ali's chin as he backed into the ropes, the American's speed for once not saving him. Ali slid down the ropes, the slowness helping him. The referee, Tommy Little, reached a count of five, then Ali rose, in Cooper's view like an amateur, his arms dangling, an open target. But the bell rang, and boxing history took another turn. "Oh boy!" was Cooper's autobiographical note. "If it had only happened in the second minute." As it was, Ali took the world title in his next fight, against Sonny Liston. Cooper was to meet Ali – by then, his name had been formally changed after his conversion to Islam – for a world title fight at Arsenal's Highbury stadium, London, on 21 May 1966. Again the fight had to be stopped for a cut eye, this time in the sixth round. The gash was deeper and longer than any of Cooper's career. The Englishman reckoned himself narrowly |
June 7, 1866 saw the death of Chief Seattle, after whom some city somewhere is probably named. What tribe was he the chief of? | Full text of "Origin of Washington Geographic Names (Continued)" See other formats STOP Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in the World This article is one of nearly 500,000 scholarly works digitized and made freely available to everyone in the world by JSTOR. Known as the Early Journal Content, this set of works include research articles, news, letters, and other writings published in more than 200 of the oldest leading academic journals. The works date from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. We encourage people to read and share the Early Journal Content openly and to tell others that this resource exists. People may post this content online or redistribute in any way for non-commercial purposes. Read more about Early Journal Content at http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early- journal-content . JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. ORIGIN OF WASHINGTON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES [Continued from Volume XII., Page 299.] Roza, a town in the southern part of Kittitas County, named in 1883 or 1884 by the Superintendent of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in honor of his daughter. (M. J. Roberts, in Names MSS. Letter 407.) Ruby, a name much used for creeks and mining camps. In the central part of Okanogan County, Thomas Fuller in 1885, built the first cabin of a settlement. He was one of the owners of the Ruby Mine and so he called the settlement Ruby. (C. H. Lovejoy to Frank Putnam, on Tonasket, in Names MSS. Letter 3345.) In the central part of Pend Oreille County, some prospectors found rubies in a little creek, which was at once named Ruby Creek. In 1905, when a postof fice was established there, it received the name of Ruby. (T. D. Eastlick, in Names MSS. Letter 428.) Rudd, see Machias. Ruff, a town in the eastern part of Grant County, named for Gotf red Ruff, on whose property the town was to have been located. (W. H. Poggevall, in Names MSS. Letter 180) RUSSEU.S, a creek and a town in Walla Walla County. "The creek was named for Charles Russell who settled there in 1889, but Russells Station was named for Patrick Russell." (W. D. Lyman, of Walla Walla, in Names MSS. Letter 246.) Ruston, surrounded by Tacoma, Pierce County. In 1915, Doctor Pratt, Mayor of Ruston, and one of the incorporators, stated that the name was an honor for W. R. Rust, one of the founders of the smelter at that place, on account of his benefactions and his kindness to employes. Mr. Rust was President of the Tacoma Smelting Company. (E. L. Sweeney, of Tacoma, in Names MSS. Letter 114.) Ruth's Prairie, in the southern part of Thurston County, named in 1850 for B. F. Ruth, a settler there. (F. D. Conklyn, of Rainier, in Names MSS. Letter 59.) Ryan, a town in the northwestern part of Stevens County, named for Henry Ryan, who owned a farm there. (Joseph T. Reed, of Marble, in Names MSS. Letter 125.) Ryder Channel, see Balch Passage. (32) Origin of Washington Geographical Names 33 Rye, a station in the central part of Whitman County and another with the same name in the southeastern part of Kittitas County. The latter was named by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company after Rye, New York. (H. R. Williams, in Names MSS. Letter 589.) Sachal, an early name for a river and lake in Thurston County, southwest of Olympia, probably the Black River and Black Lake of more recent maps. The Wilkes Expedition, 1841, in describing the Indians of that region, say the Sachals numbered about forty and "reside about the lake of the same name, and along the river Chickeeles" [Chehalis]. (Narrative Volume V., page 132.) Sachap, see Satsop | Original Tribal Names Atikamekw , also T�te-de-Boule (French translation.) Baxoje/Pahoja ("gray snow") Ioway (from a word in their language meaning "sleepy," unclear how this came to be a tribal name.) Beothuk (possibly "kinfolk") Unfortunately the Beothuk are extinct today. They were more commonly known as Red Indians (English, after their extensive use of red ochre dye.) Bode'wadmi ("firekeepers," traditional religious role) Potawatomi , from tribal name. Chahta (the name of a legendary tribal chief) Choctaw , from tribal name. Chikasha (the name of a legendary tribal chief) Chickasaw , from tribal name. Dakelh ("water travelers") Carrier (English translation of the Sekani name for them, referring to the tribe's mourning ritual.) Dakota ("the allies.") Band names include Sisseton ("marsh dwellers,") Wahpeton ("forest dwellers,") and Yankton ("living far away.") Dakota Sioux ("Sioux" comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "little snakes.") Degexit'an ("people of this land") Ingalik (from an Inuktitut word for "Indian people.") Dena'ina ("the people") Hare (English, from tribal name.) Kwakwaka'wakw ("speakers of our language") Kwakiutl , from one of their band names. Illiniwek ("the best people"). A band name still in use today is Peoria ("backpack people.") Illini or Illinois Indians (English and French corruptions of tribal name.) Innu ("the people") Innu , also Montagnais (French word for "mountain people") and Naskapi (band name, means "bad dressers" in the Innu language.) Inuit ("the people") Inuit , also Eskimo (from a Cree name for the Inuit meaning either "raw meat eaters" or "snowshoe lacers." ) Iyiniwok/Ininiwok ("the people") or Nehiyawok ("Cree speakers") Cree (from the French word for the tribe, Kristeneaux, of uncertain origin.) Kadohadacho ("true chiefs"/"sharp") or Hasinai ("our own people") Caddo , from tribal name. Kanienkehaka ("people of the flint") Mohawk (from an Algonquian word meaning "man-eaters,") also Iroquois (from an Algonquian word meaning "real snakes.") Kanonsionni ("people of the longhouse"), more recently Haudenosaunee. Iroquois Confederacy (from an Algonquian word meaning "real snakes.") Karok ("upriver") Kiwigapawa ("wanderer," in Shawnee; the Kickapoos split off from the Shawnee tribe.) Kickapoo , from tribal name. Lakota ("the allies") or Teton ("prairie dwellers.") Lakota Sioux ("Sioux" comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "little snakes.") Lenape ("the people"), Lenni Lenape ("true people") Delaware (after the English name for the Delaware River, named after a British nobleman.) L'nu'k ("the people"), Mi'kmaq ("my friends") Menominee (from an Ojibwe word meaning "wild rice people.") Meskwaki ("red earth people") Fox Indian (possibly an English translation of a clan name). Mikasuki ("boar clan") Miccosukee , from tribal name, also Seminole (from a Spanish word meaning "wild.") Minisink ("rocky land") Mohingan ("wolf"--this was probably originally a clan name and became a tribal name later) Mohegan , sometimes mistakenly called Mohican by non-Indians. Muheconneok ("Running Waters," name of a river in their homeland) Mohican , or Stockbridge Indians (the name of a town they settled in temporarily). Muskogee (meaning not known, may originally have been a Muskogee chief's name) Creek (after the English name for a river in their homeland), also Seminole (from a Spanish word meaning "wild.") Myaamia ("allies") Miami or Maumee, from tribal name. Nakoda ("allies") Assiniboine (from an Algonquian Indian word meaning "cooks with stones," or Stoney (English word with the same idea). Nanigansek ("Small Point," a geographical location in their homeland) Narragansett , from tribal name. Apache (from a Zuni word for "enemy.") Niukonska ("middle water") Osage (from Wazhazhe, a band name.) Numakiki ("people") Mandan (from a Sioux word for "riverbank people.") Numinu ("the people") Comanche (from a Ute word meaning "they fight with us.") Nuutsiu or Nunt�zi ("the people") Ute (probably a corruption of their tribal name; it does not mean "mountain" as is popularly believed) Nuxbaaga ("original people") Hidats |
What was the first U.K. top ten entry for Odyssey | Will We Ever Achieve the Vision of '2001: A Space Odyssey'? September 21, 2015 05:47pm ET MORE An early production painting of "Discovery" closely matches the description of the ship in Arthur C. Clarke's novel "2001: A Space Odyssey." Credit: Copyright © 2014 Turner Entertainment Co. 2001: A Space Odyssey and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Turner Entertainment Co. (s14) Piers Bizony is a science writer and author specializing in the history of space exploration. His newest book " The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' "(Taschen, 2015) is an inside look at the making of the iconic film. Bizony contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . In 1968, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and his screenwriting colleague, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, presented "2001: A Space Odyssey," an almost documentary vision of how engineers and scientists of the time envisioned the future of spaceflight, the prospects for artificial intelligence and the likelihood of contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie's famous opening scene shows prehistoric ape-men struggling for survival, until a mysterious, monolithic, black slab implants in one of them the transformational idea of bone tools and weapons. The film then skips 4 million years in a single frame, and we're on our way to the moon, where another, buried monolith awaits its discoverers. A publicity photo from "2001: A Space Odyssey" shows lead actor Keir Dullea as astronaut Dave Bowman (at left) conferring with co-star Gary Lockwood (Frank Poole) inside an EVA pod. Credit: Copyright © 2014 Turner Entertainment Co. 2001: A Space Odyssey and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Turner Entertainment Co. (s14) So what did we just watch? Audiences were thrilled by the enormity of these ideas, conveyed in images of stunning artistic and technical quality. Not long after the initial release, I nagged my mom and dad until we went to see it at the local movie theater. I was thrilled — blown away — by everything I saw. I was also confused as heck, but the worst moment came when we piled out onto the street, and my parents asked me, "What was all that about? Did you understand it?" Somewhat taken aback by their question, and also not sure I had quite figured out the meaning of what we'd seen, I blurted out, "You're not supposed to understand it. You're just supposed to watch it!" Now, nearly five decades later, I still agree with my 10-year-old self. Almost immediately, " 2001 " was a huge global commercial success, and was rated not just as a landmark piece of science fiction by the rest of the world beyond New York, but as one of the most impressive films of all time, in any genre. (A popular myth has it that a grouchy bunch of naysaying New York movie critics almost killed "2001" on its first release. I've seen the box office reports from the crucial first few days and weeks of the film's run, and that story just isn't true.) "2001" wasn't just the story of a journey to Jupiter. It was an unprecedented virtual-reality experience of spaceflight that allowed us to share the ride. Kubrick's large-format production, shot on a special new version of Cinerama, was a forerunner of today's IMAX shows. Actors and crew from "2001: A Space Odyssey" relax after completing photography in a set representing a huge lunar pit where a strange black monolith has been excavated. Credit: Copyright © 2014 Turner Entertainment Co. 2001: A Space Odyssey and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Turner Entertainment Co. (s14) 2001: Sharing the story Even as a kid, I knew I wanted to make a book about how "2001" was created. It took a while, but a slender paperback of mine, " 2001: Filming the Future " (Aurum Press, 2000), was published about 20 years ago. Kubrick looked at early proofs, sent to him by Arthur C. Clarke, whom I had gotten to know quite well by that point, because I was helping to archive that portion of his papers and manuscripts that were held in the U.K. rather than his h | UK Top 10 Best Selling Singles from ukcharts.20m.com Candle In The Wind 1997 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight Elton John (4.8 million copies) 1997 On 31st August 1997, Princess Diana died in a car crash with companion Dodi al Fayed. The news shocked the world. The world was plunged into mourning. Tributes flooded in. The funeral was held on 6th September 1997 (coincidentally, her wedding heads the top TV list, with 39m and the funeral is 5th with 31m). Sir Elton John performed this song of his at the funeral. It was originally a tribute to Marilyn Monroe when released in 1974, reaching #11, and #5 in 1988 when recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It was released on 13 September (a Saturday, unusually) and sold 658,000 copies on that one day, enough to send it straight to number one after just one day on release. It had sold 2 million by the end of its second week on chart, 3 million the next week, and eventually reached 4.8 million, thus making it the biggest selling single in the UK by a fair lead. In the USA, it received the grand total of 11 million sales. In Canada it probably fared best in terms of chart success, spending an astonishing 45 weeks at Number One over there. It became the best-selling single in the world, with total sales standing at 37 million. Fact: It was actually voted the third WORST Number One single in Channel 4's 100 Greatest #1s poll. 2 Do They Know It's Christmas? Band Aid (3.51m) 1984/5 This record was the brainchild of Boomtown Rats (2 #1s) frontman Bob Geldof. Watching the news one night, he saw the disturbing images of starving children in Ethiopia, and felt he simply had to do something. So the biggest superstar line-up was arranged for each star to sing their own part in this record, co-written and produced by former Ultravox (#2 with Vienna in 1981) frontman Midge Ure. At the time it was the fastest-selling single in UK history, shifting 750,000 copies in its first full week alone. The same recording returned to #3 the next Christmas, and a SAW (Stock, Aitken and Waterman) version recorded with SAW stars such as Kylie Minogue and Bananarama with the group entitled Band Aid II was the Christmas #1 for 3 weeks in 1989. Together with the Live Aid concert in 1985, they successfully raised �110 million for the worthy cause. Sadly, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to drop the VAT (Value Added Tax) bill on the record. Artists featured on Band Aid: Adam Clayton, Bono (U2); Bob Geldof, Johnny Fingers, Simon Crowe, Pete Briquette (Boomtown Rats); David Bowie; Paul McCartney; Holly Johnson; Midge Ure, Chris Cross (Ultravox); Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, Roger Taylor, John Taylor (Duran Duran); Paul Young; Tony Hadley, Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, John Keeble, Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet); Martyn Ware, Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17); Francis Rossi, Nick parfitt (Status Quo); Sting; Boy George, Jon Moss (Culture Club); Marilyn; Keren Woodward, Sarah Dallin, Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama); Jody Watley; Paul Weller; Robert "Kool" Bell, James Taylor, Dennis Thomas (Kool And The Gang); George Michael. 3 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen (2.13m) 1975 & 1991 Allegedly mapped out by songwriter Freddie Mercury of Queen on the back of a cereal packet, this almost six minute wonder is like three songs in one, with stunning nine-part harmony vocals and combining grunge metal with almost kitsch opera, accompanied with what was conceived as the first pop video. The group consisted of Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Brian May and Mercury. It entered at #47 and was #1 within three weeks, where it stayed for a groundbreaking 9 weeks. It sold a million copies. Then, 16 years later it returned, upon Mercury's AIDS-related death, to the #1 spot for another five weeks, pushing the total weeks at #1 to 14 (4th most) and it shifted, astonishingly, another million copies helped with the coupling of new track These Are The Days Of Our Lives (winner of 1992 award for Best British Single at the BRITs), and in addition all profits from the 1991 release went to charity, complet |
Which European city was called Christiania frm 1624-1925? | Christiania - definition of Christiania by The Free Dictionary Christiania - definition of Christiania by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Christiania Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . Chris·ti·a·ni·a (krĭs′tē-ăn′ē-ə, -ä′nē-ə, krĭs′chē-) chris·ti·an·i·a (krĭs′tē-ăn′ē-ə, -ä′nē-ə, krĭs′chē-) n. [Norwegian, after Christiania (Oslo), Norway.] Christiania (Placename) a former name (1624–1877) of Oslo Os•lo (ˈɒz loʊ, ˈɒs-) n. the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fjord. 453,700. Formerly, Christiania. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1. Christiania - the capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast capital of Norway , Oslo Kingdom of Norway , Noreg , Norge , Norway - a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905 Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Holiday RAIDING; Get to grips with Vikings in Denmark We paid a quick visit to the infamous Christiania, once a beacon of a counterculture lifestyle but now offering very little other than homemade jewellery and outdated drug cliches, so we moved on. COPENHA GEM; Denmark's capital and 'Riviera' coast tick all the boxes for Christina Pullam; Copenhagen is a delightful mix of old and new trends Rooms with a view Valloire has a wide range of family-friendly chalets, B&Bs and hotels like the central Christiania. | The Many Historical Names of Istanbul « Turkey Travel Guide « I was in Turkey photo by gribbly With a transient past of ownership and religions, it’s no surprise the city of Istanbul has a chronicle of names. Trace the history of Istanbul’s names as it changed from the hands of Byzantines to Latin Crusaders, from Ottomans to Turks. Byzantium Pagan roots are attributed to the first recognized settlement of Istanbul’s historical peninsula. As legend goes, King Byzas of the Greek Dorian city-state Megara was instructed by the Delphi oracle of Apollo to settle opposite the ‘land of the blind’. He embarked on his destiny’s quest until stumbling on a highly strategic location between the Golden Horn, Bosphorus and Marmara Sea. With no previous settlers to contest ownership, Byzas considered them blind to bypass such a strategic location. Byzantium was established on that very spot in 7th Century BC, named in honor of the king. Constantinople The new transformation of Byzantium into a city worthy of capital status earned Constantine immortality by name. The city became known as Constantinopolis or Constantinople , meaning the “City of Constantine”, and was the capital of the Roman Empire also known as the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire. Although Constantine’s preferred the name, Nea Roma (New Rome), it never caught local popularity. It remained the official name of the city throughout the Byzantine period, and was also commonly used by the west until up until the creation of the Republic of Turkey. Kostantiniyye This started as simply the Arabic calqued word for Constantinople that held a familiar association to the city in the Islamic world. However, once the Ottomans took hold of the city in 1453, Kostantiniyye was used as the highest, formal official name of the city in Ottoman Turkish. It was sporadically used until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, but holds its place in history as it appeared as the official name on coinage in the 17th and 19th centuries. The City An indication of pride, the Byzantines had several references for their great city, not least modest being ‘Queen of Cities’. Following a need to shorten names, it simply became referred to as ‘The City’, which is still used in Greek and Armenian slang. The Greek translation of city ‘polis’ also laid the foundation of its latter Turkish name Istanbul, meaning ‘in the city’. Latin Empire The Fourth Crusades finally won victory over the Byzantine Empire and laid their claim by renaming the city once again. This feudal Crusader state was established as the Latin Empire in 1204, however it was short-lived as the weakened Byzantine Empire claimed the city back in 1261. Islambol This adaptation of Istanbul’s name was a reference to the importance of the city’s role as the capital of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, referring to ‘lots of Islam’. It came into being after Sultan Mehmed II conquered the city, whom allegedly invented the word himself. It also appeared on coinage and was officially used during the 17th and 18th centuries. Istanbul Finally, Istanbul was cemented after the formation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. However, it took a while before the city’s previous names became obsolete. To enforce the new name, all postages stating any other name were promptly returned to the sender after the 1930s. The name was not new, however, but rather a name used in common language before and during the Ottoman Empire. Etymologically, the name “İstanbul” can be translated to ‘in the city’. 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An Ostrich can live up to 75 years. True or false? | 99 Colorful Facts about Birds | FactRetriever.com 99 Colorful Facts about Birds By Karin Lehnardt, Senior Writer Published August 20, 2016 There are over 9,500 species of birds in the world. Scientists typically group them into 30 categories. Birds are the most widespread of all animals around the world.[12] Approximately 2/3 of all the bird species are found in tropical rain forests.[1] Hoatzin chicks have two claws on each wing. When they climb out of the nest, they use their claws to hold on to mangrove trees. They lose their claws once they mature, but they remain poor flyers.[6] The longest feathers ever seen were on a chicken in Japan. Its tail feathers measured 34.7 feet (10.59 m) long.[12] Birds crystallize their urine and excrete it, along with feces, out their cloacas To make them more lightweight, most birds do not have bladders to store urine. Rather than producing liquid urine to get rid of wastes, they produce a white, pasty substance. However, while an ostrich does not have a bladder like a mammalian bladder, it is unique among birds because it does have a complete separation of feces and urine.[1] A bird’s lungs are much more complicated and efficient and take up more space than those of mammals, such as humans. A human’s lungs compose about 1/20 of its body, but a bird’s takes up 1/5.[10] The Australian pelican has the longest bill of any bird in the world. It is nearly 2 feet (0.5 m) in length. The sword-billed hummingbird, with its 3.9-inch (10 cm) bill, is the only bird with a bill that’s longer than its body.[6] Owls cannot swivel their eyes. Instead they move their heads completely around to see straight behind them. They live on every continent except Antarctica. Soft fringes on their wings make their flight essentially silent.[1] Famous birds include Ba in Egyptian mythology, Bar Juchne in the Talmud, The Cu Bird in Mexican folklore, the Firebird in Native American mythologies, Harpies in Greek mythology, the Phoenix in Egyptian mythology, Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology, and the Raven in Native American religions.[12] Famous birds in literature include the Albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Archimedes in The Once and Future King, Chicken Little, Chanticleer in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Fawkes and Hedwig in Harry Potter, Mother Goose, the Raven in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” Owl in Winnie the Pooh, Thorondor (the king of eagles) in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and The Ugly Duckling.[12] Famous birds in cartoons, comics, and films include Big Bird in Sesame Street, Buzz Buzzard in Woody Woodpecker, Disney’s Darkwing Duck, Footloops cereal’s Toucan Sam, Woodstock in the Peanuts comic strip, Woody Woodpecker, and Iago in Aladdin.[12] Cats kill billions of birds per year In the continental U.S. alone, between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds are killed by cats annually.[11] The only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak is the kiwi. This placement helps it sniff for food, such as worms and insects on the ground. It often snorts to clear its nostrils.[6] Unlike most birds that sing, a woodpecker will drum its beak against a tree. Other woodpeckers can identify which bird it is by the sound of the drumming.[6] The most talkative bird in the world is the African gray parrot. One parrot could say over 800 words. Most species of parrots can learn only 50.[1] Many birds, such as starlings, sing notes too high for humans to hear.[10] The chicks of large bird species often take the longest to hatch. Emu chicks, for example, take 60 days to hatch. Small songbirds take just 2 weeks.[10] A green woodpecker can eat as many as 2,000 ants per day.[12] The Japanese crested ibis is one of the rarest birds in the world. Probably fewer than 50 crested ibises are alive today.[1] The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska polluted approximately 1,180 miles of coastline and killed up to 100,000 seabirds.[1] Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards The bird with the most feathers is the whistling swan, with up to 25,000 feathers. Hummingbirds, on the other hand, are so small that | Poll system, 2 new trivia lists · Twentysix26/Red-DiscordBot@9ce74b6 · GitHub 75 trivia/2015.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +In China in 2015 the record for the longest mating session between two giant pandas was broken at?`18 minutes`18 mins +Ford claimed to launch the first 'e-(What?)' at the 2015 Mobile World Congress Show?`Bike +A 2015 intensive listening study discovered that giraffes actually?`Hum +Name the last US president to meet the leader of Cuba before Barack Obama did in 2015?`Eisenhower +Jay Z and Beyonce launched a music streaming service in 2015 called? `Tidal +At auction in 2015, $1.2m was paid for Don McLean's original handrwitten lyrics for which 1971 big hit song? `American Pie +In 2015 what global contest ruled against the use of swimsuits for its 114 competitors, for the first time since 1951 inception? `Miss World +Which vast tech corporation opened its first 'Nest' branded intelligent home store in Palo Alto California in 2015?`Google +In 2015 Japan lowered its voting age to what?`18`eighteen +The abbreviation MERS, significantly impacting South Korea 2015, is otherwise known as?`Camel Flu +Christian is the lead character in the film 2015 adaptation of what extraordinarily successful book?`Fifty Shades of Grey`50 shades of grey +Who stepped down as chief of 21st Century Fox in 2015?`Rupert Murdoch`murdoch +In 2015 a new North Korean schools curriculum reportedly included that leader Kim Jong-un learnt to drive at age?`3`three +Which car company launched the Avensis model in 2015?`Toyota +In 2015 evidence of water was found on which planet?`Mars +Which 'BRIC' country launched the Astrosat space lab in 2015?`India +Who won the 2015 men's tennis French Open?`Stan Warwinka`warwinka +What company launched the S6 Edge smartphone?`Samsung +Which leading professional networking tech corporation, whose main revenue is selling user access/details to recruiters, bought the Lynda learning company for $1.5bn in 2015?`Linkedin`linked in +'Dismaland' was the temporary theme park/exhibition of which famous 'anonymous' artist?`Banksy +Matthais Muller was made chief of which troubled car company in 2015?`Volkswagen`vw +In 2015 the World Anti-Doping Agency suggested banning which nation from the 2016 Olympics?`Russia +The game of Monopoly celebrated what anniversary in 2015?`eighty`80`80th +Name the Princess born 4th in succession to the British throne in 2015, to Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?`Charlotte +The 2015 Mad Max movie is sub-titled?`Fury Road`mad max: fury road`mad max fury road +The Magna Carta, signed in London, and inspiring constitutional rights globally thereafter, was how many years old in 2015?`eight hundred`800 +In 2015 the Sinabug volcano erupted in what country?`Indonesia +Olav Bjortmont became 2015 world champion in?`Quizzing`quiz +Lars Lokke led his centre-right party to 2015 government election victory in what country?`Denmark +Blackberry's new phone for 2015 was called the...?`Priv +Facebook's new music sharing/streaming feature launched in 2015 was called "Music... "?`Stories +Eddie Jones was appointed head coach of which English sporting team in 2015?`Rugby Union`rugby +According to 2015 survey what fruit was most popular among USA children?`Apples`apple +Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey celebrated what birthday in 2015?`49`fourty-nine`fourty nine`49th +Jon Snow was killed off in what TV series in 2015, adapted from GRR Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?`Game of Thrones +Finance minister Yanis Yaroufakis caused comment for not wearing a tie in February 2015 when negotiating the debts for which nation?`Greece +What nation hosted the 2015 Women's World (soccer) Cup?`Canada +What iconic equine-alluding company, in countless books/films/cowboy holsters, filed for bankruptcy in 2015?`Colt +Due to a 2015 contamination scandal in India/Afica, which corporation destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi noodles?`Nestle +How many years old was the McDonalds fast food company in 2015?`60`sixty +It was announced in 2015 that Alexander Hamilton would be replaced on?`$10 bill`$10`tendollars`ten dollar bill`ten |
"""THX1138"" and ""American Graffiti"" were the first two feature films directed by whom?" | THX 1138 (1971) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 30 titles created 17 Mar 2011 a list of 39 titles created 06 Jan 2012 a list of 24 titles created 24 Mar 2013 a list of 27 titles created 02 Jul 2013 a list of 22 titles created 11 months ago Search for " THX 1138 " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards » Videos While monitored and pursued, a man races to escape through a futuristic labyrinth. Director: George Lucas A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. Director: George Lucas An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30. Director: Michael Anderson In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO. Director: Richard Fleischer In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft. Director: Douglas Trumbull Edit Storyline It's sometime in the future in a state controlled society, where conformity and homogeneity are the rule. What is also the rule is that the populace follows the wants of the faceless state without question. How this is achieved is through a mandatory drug regimen, which also suppresses human desire, with sexual intercourse and human relationships banned. The law of the state is policed by a force of robocops. The physical environment is totally within a manufactured enclosure, what being outside of this unknown. THX 1138 is a loyal subject, he who goes about his business as a skilled factory working building robocops. And even when he begins to have strange feelings, he does what is obliged by going to the state run confessional, which further brainwashes through its reinforced mantra of happiness, loyalty and understanding. THX 1138 is given a glimpse into the other side through his computer matched and thus appointed female roommate, LUH 3417, and her surveillance colleague SEN 5241... Written by Huggo The Future is here. See more » Genres: Rated R for some sexuality/nudity | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 11 March 1971 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia George Lucas included the trailer to _Tragedy on Saturn, Chapter Two of Buck Rogers_, a 1939 Saturday morning serial, before the film. He attempted to draw an ironic contrast between the swashbuckling Rogers and the titular character in his bleak sci-fi debut because each was "just an ordinary, normal human being who keeps his wits about him." But he also saw it as an homage to the kinds of sci-fi stories he loved growing up. The serialized space adventures of Buck Rogers were also a fundamental influence on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). See more » Goofs When THX is shouldered, naked, by the police in prison, we can see his short shorts tan line on his leg - pretty impossible for people in an underground city. (Unless, of course, there are solariums/tanning salons in the city.) See more » Quotes Male voice (medicine cabinet): What's wrong? THX 1138 : Nothing. Nothing really. I just feel that I need something stronger. Male voice (medicine cabinet): If you have a problem, don't hesitate to ask for assistance. THX 1138 : Yes, thank you, I'll be alright. Male voice (medicine cabinet): Call 3485... See more » Crazy Credits The Warner Bros. logo is preceded by a trailer for a Buck Rogers serial (or in early versions, a one-minute scene from Things to Come (1936)). See more » Connections (Gro | Film History of the 1960s Film History of the 1960s 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s The Invasion of British Cinema: Increasing American interest in British fads, fashion, and culture coincided with the smash-hit period comedy and Best Picture-winning Tom Jones (1963) that was based on the hero of Henry Fielding's classic novel. [The adapted screenplay was written by John Osborne - known for his earlier work for the socially-realistic Look Back in Anger (1959).] Its win of four Oscars (including Best Picture) and six other nominations in 1963 took everyone by surprise - Tony Richardson's British film was an especially appealing, free-spirited, 'Swingin' Sixties' film because of its bawdy, slapstick attitude toward sex seen through the misadventures of a lusty youth (Albert Finney) in 18th century England. The Fabulous Four Beatles, who had invaded the US with Beatlemania in 1963 and 1964 with their pop music made two semi-documentary musical films: (1) director Richard Lester's fast-paced, inventive rock 'n' roll comedy A Hard Day's Night (1964) (filmed in only eight weeks after the Beatles' return to England) - a day in the life of the band, and (2) the energetically zany Help! (1965). A few years later, a third Beatles-related film, the UK's animated, kaleidoscopic fantasy musical Yellow Submarine (1968) with a score by George Martin, featured a Nowhere Man, actors' voices standing in for the actual Beatles, and an invasion of Blue Meanies on Pepperland. Other British films such as John Schlesinger's Darling (1965) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1967), Georgy Girl (1966), and Lewis Gilbert's sex comedy Alfie (1966) gave international attention to actors like Julie Christie, Lynn Redgrave and Michael Caine (also Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson and others). Oscar-winning Maggie Smith starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), a film set in 1930s Edinburgh about an exceptional, free-thinking teacher whose pupils were "the creme de la creme." Director Ken Loach's low-budget debut film Kes (1969) told about an abused 15 year old boy (David Bradley) from the Yorkshire working classes who found solace with a pet kestrel (falcon). Blacklisted US director Joseph Losey collaborated with scriptwriter Harold Pinter and actor Dirk Bogarde (as a sinister and unctuous manservant named Barrett) to satirize the upper strata of the British class system in The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967). But the British film (now a cult classic) that best exemplified the 'swinging' youth drugs/sex era of late 60s London was co-directors Donald Cammell's and Nicolas Roeg's originally X-rated Performance (1970) - starring Rolling Stones rock star Mick Jagger. The Invasion of Foreign Cinema: Many of the best and most varied arthouse films came from foreign directors (from Italy, France, and Japan) during this decade and were enjoyed (with subtitles) by college students and other sophisticated metropolitan audiences, such as: Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8 1/2 (1963) Jean-Luc Godard's A Bout De Souffle (1960) (aka Breathless) Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura (1960) and Blow-Up (1966) Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Jules Et Jim (1962) Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962) Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (1963) Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) Luis Bunuel's Viridiana (1961), Belle De Jour (1967) and Tristana (1970) Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967) Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967) Many famous European directors (Antonioni, Truffaut, |
What name is given to a cap or covering topping off a wall? | Paving Expert - AJ McCormack and Son - Hard Landscape Features - Walls and Brickwork Introduction This page looks at some of the basic features of the types of walls used in hard-landscaping. It covers only simple, free-standing walls, up to 1200mm in height, and retaining walls. The method used to build all sorts of walls is covered on the Brickwork Basics page, which should be read in conjunction with this page unless you are already familiar with bricklaying techniques. Simple Wall The diagram below illustrates the salient points of constructing a low wall of the type found in most landscaping applications. This shows a double skin wall, 225mm wide on the left and a single skin wall, 100mm wide, on the right. A single skin wall is only suitable to a height of around 450mm; anything higher should be double-skinned for stability. Any wall higher than 1.2 metres must be designed by a structural engineer, who will take account of prevailing ground conditions, planned usage etc. and design a wall suitable to the project. Foundations Walls must be built on a solid foundation. Nowadays, we use a concrete strip footing which is basically a trench filled with mass concrete of strength C20 or greater, with reinforcing steel for high, heavy or load-bearing walls. Where the strip footing will be carrying a heavy and/or structural wall, the trenches are commonly lined with a flexible sheet material that is designed to accommodate any slight movement from ground heave and so protrect the building from additional stresses. These liners, known as 'clayboard' and the like, are not essential for small garden walls but would not cause any problems if included. Spreader courses In some parts of the country, we come across walls built directly onto solid clay with spreader courses used to distribute the weight of the wall over a larger area. These comprise a number of courses of bricks that successively decrease in width as they head upwards, the theory being that the load of the wall is 'spread' over a larger footprint. As some of the properties supported by these spreader courses have managed to remain upright for in excess of a century, ther must be some validity to the method, even though it would not be used nowadays, thanks to the advent of reliable concretes. It is permissible to build a wall on top of an existing concrete slab for small outbuildings, but again, any wall higher than 1.2m, which most walls for buildings will be, must be professionally designed. Any footing should be at least 100mm wider on each edge than the thickness of the intended brickwork. So, for a 225mm thick wall, we will typically pour a 450mm wide footing. For load-bearing walls, the strip footing may be 600mm wide. The footing is typically 150mm thick, though this may be reduced to 100mm for smaller walls on good ground, or increased for heavier walls on bad ground. Foundation detail The depth of the footing depends on ground conditions. Ideally, the footing should be poured on top of bedrock or solid, firm clay, but this is not always possible, and so, on bad ground, the footing may be made wider and used to distribute the weight over a larger area of sub-grade, a process sometimes known as 'rafting'. In the relatively mild climate of Britain and Ireland, the top of the footing should be at least 150mm below ground level to give 'frost cover', but in areas where the good clay or bedrock is deeper, it can be 1 metre or more below ground level. A word about Frost Cover Frost cover is provided to prevent the foundation being affected by frost heave; Freezing causes an expansion in volume of water which can 'swell' a sub-grade (normally a clay), lifting the foundation and the wall it carries in the process, only for the whole lot to subside once again when a thaw occurs. Repeated freeze-thaw cycles can have devastating and/or catastrophic results. The temperate maritime climate of Britain and Ireland means we are not severely affected by this phenomenon, so 150-300mm is usually regarded as sufficient depth for frost cover, but continental Europe and | History Jeopardy Template Who is the Medici Family Who was the wealthy family in Florence that funded many artists during the Renaissance? 100 Who is Prometheus Who is that man that brought fire to the people of Greece by breaking off a piece of the sun? 100 Who is Helen of Sparta The Trojan War began because of the abduction of which Spartan queen according to classical sources? 100 What was the river that Egyptian civilizations depended on for flooding and irrigation? 100 After what explorer is our continent named? 200 What is Legalism What was the ancient Chinese philosophy that was used to bring an end to the Warring States Period in ancient China? 200 Who was the very wealthy king who loved gold more than anything? 200 In what year was the last battle of the War of 1812? 200 What type of belief system did most early civilizations have? 200 Who is that Spanish explorer that conquered the Incan empire? 300 What was the pictographic script used by the ancient Egyptians involving symbols? 300 Who was the god that was thrown off Mount Olympus because he was ugly? 300 During the Fourth Crusade, the pope excommunicated the Crusaders because they sacked what Christian city? 300 What is the Shang Dynasty What Chinese dynasty used tortoise shells and 'oracle bones' to communicate with the spirits which led to the first examples of Chinese writing? 300 Who is known as the first man to sail all the way around the world? 400 What is "Ring around the Rosie" What is the song that children sing for fun, but actually describes the Black Death that spread across Europe? 400 Artemis and who were the twins that Zeus had with Leto? 400 Who is Henry Tudor The War of Roses was fought between the Lancasters and the Yorks, but was one by a leader of neither party named who? 400 Who is the Nazca Who of this early Andes Mountains civilization carved enormous pictographs or glyphs into the desert floor that might be a form of ancient calendar? 400 Who crossed Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean? 500 What is 1886 What is the year in which the United States was presented with a monumental gift from France? 500 Who is Paris According to legend, who fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel, his only vulnerable spot? 500 What is the Treaty of Westphalia What was the resolution of the 30 Years War? 500 What is Papua New Guinea Jarred Diamond began searching the world for answers to a question posed by Yali, a native of what tropical country where Diamond did his early research? 500 |
"Whose novels ""Northanger Abbey"" and ""Persuasion"" were published posthumously in 1818, and who died before completing one that was eventually called ""Sanditon""?" | Jane Austen (Author of Pride and Prejudice) edit data Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture. | Connecticut - U.S. States - HISTORY.com Nickname(s): Constitution State; Nutmeg State; Land of Steady Habits; Provisions State Motto: Qui Transtulit Sustinet (“He who transplanted still sustains”) Tree: White Oak Bird: American Robin Interesting Facts The Fundamental Orders was the first constitution to be adopted by the American colonies in 1639. It established the structure and boundaries of the newly formed government and ensured the rights of free men to elect their public officials—principles that were later embraced within the U.S. Constitution. During a candle-lit dispute that occurred when Sir Edmund Andros attempted to seize Connecticut’s Royal Charter by order of King James II in 1687, the lights went out and the charter was whisked away to safety amid the chaos. Captain Joseph Wadsworth hid the charter inside a grand white oak tree, which became a symbol of freedom and, later, the official state tree. Benedict Arnold, whose name has become synonymous with the word “traitor” after he conspired with the British to turn over the post at West Point in exchange for money and a command in the British Army, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. In 1781, he led British troops in the Battle of Groton Heights, which devastated New London, Connecticut. The construction of Connecticut’s Old State House was completed in 1796. In 1814, it hosted the Hartford Convention, a meeting of Federalist leaders in which the adoption of seven proposed amendments to the Constitution was considered by many to be treasonous. Connecticut and Rhode Island were the only two states that failed to ratify the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol. The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, was constructed in Groton, Connecticut, between 1952 and 1954. Much larger than its diesel-electric predecessors, it traveled at speeds in excess of 20 knots and could remain submerged almost indefinitely because its atomic engine required only a very small quantity of nuclear fuel and no air. After 25 years of service, the Nautilus was decommissioned and opened to the public as an exhibit in Groton. The Connecticut-born Revolutionary soldier and spy Nathan Hale, who was hanged by the British in 1776, became Connecticut’s official state hero in 1985. Tags |
At the end of 2007 how many England Premiership football (soccer) clubs were foreign owned? | The Premier League : History : Information More DVD's from Amazon.co.uk The Premier League (officially known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons, colloquially known as The Premiership), is an English professional league for football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The Premier League is currently contested by 20 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League, English football's governing body. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each. The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 and the first games were played on 15 August that year, following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League to take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal; The Football League had served as England and Wales' primary football competition since 1888. Since then, the Premier League has become the world's most watched sporting league[1] and the most lucrative football league, with cumulative club revenues of around �1.4 billion.[2] The league is a corporation with the 20 clubs acting as shareholders. A total of 40 clubs have competed in the Premier League, but only four have won the title: Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, and Chelsea. The current Premier League champions are Manchester United, who won their ninth title in the 2006�07 season, the most of any Premier League team. History Origins The 1980s had marked a low point for English football. Stadiums were crumbling, supporters endured poor facilities, hooliganism was rife, and English clubs were banned from European competition following the events at Heysel in 1985.[3] The Football League First Division, which had been the top level of English football since 1888, was well behind leagues such as Italy's Serie A and Spain's La Liga in attendances and revenues, and several top English players had moved abroad.[4] However, by the turn of the 1990s the downward trend was starting to reverse; England had been successful in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, reaching the semi-finals. UEFA, European football's governing body, lifted the five-year ban on English clubs playing in European competitions in 1990 and the Taylor Report on stadium safety standards, which proposed expensive upgrades to create all-seater stadiums, was published in January of that year.[5] Television money had also become much more important; the Football League received �6.3million for a two-year agreement in 1986, but when that deal was renewed in 1988, the price rose to �44m over four years.[6] The 1988 negotiations were the first signs of a breakaway league; ten clubs threatened to leave and form a "super league", but were eventually persuaded to stay.[7] As stadiums improved and match attendance and revenues rose, the country's top teams again considered leaving the Football League in order to capitalise on the growing influx of money being pumped into the sport. More Football-Soccer From Amazon.co.uk Foundation In the 1991 close season, a proposal for the establishment of a new league was tabled that would bring more money into the game overall. The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs, established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League.[8] The newly formed top division would have commercial independence from the Football Association and the Football League, giving the FA Premier League license to negotiate its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. This was considered necessary so that English clubs could once again compete with and beat the best of Europe, while attracting the best talent in the world, something which in 1991 seemed practically unthinkable.[9] In 1992 the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League en masse and on 27 May 1992 the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company working out of an office at the then Football Association's h | Ewood Park: The Cradle of English Football - Blackburn Rovers - Ewood Park Ewood Park: The Cradle of English Football Chronology of Events Laws of the game: Approved by the Football Association : 1863. Notts County F.C. established: 1863. Laws of the game: Forward passes are permitted, as long as there are three defending players between the receiver and the goal: 1866 Laws of the game: Introduction of the specific position of goalkeeper: 1871. Football Association Cup established: 1871. Blackburn Rovers F.C. established: 1875. Laws of the game: Full unity with the Sheffield Rules is established – several features of the northern code had been incorporated into the London-based association rulebook over the preceding 14 years: 1877. Blackburn Olympic F.C. established: 1878. Preston North End F.C. established: 1880. Blackburn Olympic F.C. win the Football Association Cup: 1883. Blackburn Rovers F.C. win the Football Association Cup: 1884. Blackburn Rovers F.C. win the Football Association Cup: 1885. Football Association legalises professionalism: 1885. Blackburn Rovers win the Football Association Cup: 1886. Football League established: 1888. Preston North End win the Football League: 1888-89. Preston North End win the Football League: 1889-90. Blackburn Olympic folded: 1889. Laws of the game: The penalty kick is introduced: 1891. Football League Division 2 established: 1892. Football League Division 3 (South) established: 1920-1921. Football League Division 3 (North) established: 1921. Laws of the game: The offside rule is reduced from three to two defending players between the player and the opponent's goal line: 1925. Laws of the game: Introduction of substitutes: 1958. Football League Division 3 established: 1958. Football League Division 4 established: 1958. Football League Cup established: 1960 Laws of the game: Introduction of red and yellow cards: 1970. Laws of the game: Introduction of the back-pass rule: 1992. Football Association Premier League established: 1992. Blackburn Rovers win the Premier League and crowned Champions of England: 1995. Ewood Park officially reopened: 1995. Laws of the game: Goal-line technology is permitted, if the individual competition wishes to implement it: 2012. Blackburn Rovers are one of only three clubs to have been both a founder member of the Football League and the Premier League; the others being fellow Lancastrian's Everton and Warwickshire club Aston Vila. Blackburn Rovers are the only Football Club to be founder members of the Premier League and Football League and Champions of both. During the 1880's, the dominance of the upper-class southern public school, army and university teams came to an end as the game took root in the industrial heartlands of Lancashire and the west and north Midlands. Even though clubs like Blackburn Rovers were formed by middle-class grammar school boys, with the participation of the working-class, both as players and spectators, the game eventually ceased to be the exclusive pursuit of the genteel middle and upper-classes and became a mass spectator sport. Even before professionalism was legalized in 1885 and certainly after the legalization of professionalism, these new breed of clubs were building enclosed grounds; charging admission fees and being run for profit. Intense competition led to players being poached by one club from another and financial inducements, forbidden by the FA's strict rules on amateurism, became commonplace. Before professionalism and the Football League was created, it was the FA Cup that was competed for by teams from both England and Scotland. The FA Cup went north for the first time to the unknown working-class team of Blackburn Olympic rather than the former grammar school boys of Blackburn Rovers. Olympic won the cup and Olympic's victory marked a turning point in the sport's transition from a pastime for upper-class gentlemen to a full time professional sport enabling the participation of working-class men. Blackburn Olympic were formed |
Paramaribo is the capital of which republic in South America? | Paramaribo – Suriname Paramaribo – Suriname in South America Paramaribo is the capital and one of ten districts of the Republic of Suriname in South America. The city is located on the left bank of the river Surinam , about 23 km upstream from the Atlantic away. The architecture of Paramaribo is a mixture of Dutch, French and later American influences. These factors are closely related to the historical developments that have gone through the country. This Paramaribo has developed a totally unique style, which were mainly of wood and bricks used less. Particularly reflects the multi-ethnic and multi-religious composition of the population in the multitude of different and differently designed religious buildings such as churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. paramaribo The name Paramaribo is probably one of Karibendorf , Parmirbo derived. In 1613 the two Dutch founded Dirck van Claeszoon Sanen and Nicolaas Baliestel a small trading company in the near Parmirbo on the western shore of Suriname . To protect against raids by Caribs of the post was surrounded by palisades. After several failed attempts by Europeans to permanently settle, the items fell into British hands in 1651. The British built the post on behalf of Francis Willoughby into a fort, Fort Willoughby. They settled, however, further south, about 50 km away from the fort on the Suriname River to. As the center of the newly taken territory in possession of the English founded their city Torarica. In 1667 the area of which is Zealanders under Abraham Crijnssen conquered. The fort was then called Fort Zeelandia and the place was renamed Paramaribo for a short time in New Middelburg. This was the fort to the center of the colony. From the fort, the city spread out just to the west and then south. Nevertheless, there was the city itself in 1683, only a collection of 27 buildings. Only from the year 1790 there have been reports of the census of more than 1,000 buildings. paramaribo presidential palace paramaribo downtown paramaribo peru The city was destroyed by two major fires in 1821 and 1832 in parts. After the abolition of slavery in 1863 and the expiration of the ten-year work requirement in 1873 (staatstoezicht) many ex-slaves moved to the city. This is the first major urban expansion was necessary. After 1950 it came by the increase of urban population to other major construction projects. In 1987 Suriname was carried out in a territorial reform and administrative reorganization. The district of Paramaribo was here divided into 12 departments. | Account Suspended Account Suspended This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information. |
From which Disney animated picture does the song 'Colours Of The Wind' come? | Colors of the Wind | Disney Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Colors of the Wind Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Colors of the Wind is a featured article , which means it has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Disney Wiki community. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute. Colors of the Wind Vanessa Williams (End credits/Pop version) Feature Films [Source] "Colors of the Wind", by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz , was the 1995 Oscar-winner for Best Original Song from the Disney animated feature film Pocahontas . It also won the Golden Globe in the same category as well as the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Movie. It was also nominated for AFI's 100 years...100 songs, as one of 15 songs from Disney and one of 17 songs from an animated movie to be nominated. The songs that eventually made the cut were: " When You Wish Upon A Star " (#7), " Some Day My Prince Will Come " (#19), " Beauty and the Beast " (#62) and " Hakuna Matata " (#99). The song poetically represents the Native American viewpoint that the earth is a living entity where humankind is connected to everything in nature. This song is about Pocahontas ' exhortation to John Smith about the wonders of the earth and nature, including the spirit within all living things, encouraging him not to think of them as things he can conquer or own, but rather as beings to respect and live with in harmony. She also urges him to accept humans who are different in appearance and culture and to learn from them. Contents [ show ] Melody The first two notes of Alan Menken's melody span a musical interval of a major sixth. Overall, the span of the melody reaches an eleventh. Because the melody spans a slightly larger range than some instruments, such as the Native American flute, can reach, alternate versions of the melody have been arranged that span a more modest interval. Described as a "stirring anthem to animism", this song is Pocahontas' exhortation to Captain John Smith about the wonders of the earth and nature, including the spirit within all living things, encouraging him not to think of them as things he can conquer or own, but rather as beings to respect and live with in harmony. She also urges him to accept humans who are different in appearance and culture and to learn from them. There is some debate over where the song begins within the narrative of the movie. The first part sung, when the music technically begins, has Pocahontas talking about how having experience with other races does not necessarily mean understanding them, and has her asking John Smith whether she is the savage between the two of them. As she sings this, she angrily shoves his gun into his hands, implying that the European attitude towards guns, violence, and racism is far more savage than the views that the Native Americans have. Pocahontas then tells John Smith that there is a lot about the Earth he doesn't know. At this point, it is considered that the song actually begins. The first line of the chorus tells of the wolf crying to the "blue corn moon", with the second line varying with the verse context. The phrase "blue corn moon" has no actual meaning in Native American folklore. It was made up by lyricist Stephen Schwartz because he enjoyed the sound of it, being inspired by a Native American love poem that read "I will come to you in the moon of green corn". The second time the chorus is sung in the single version, the second line becomes "Or let the eagle tell you where he's been" from the original "Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned," likely because the latter phrase refers to imagery in the movie of a fictitious constellation which resembles a bobcat. The third line tells of singing with th | Cartoon Characters, Cast and Crew for Pocahontas Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Feature Length Theatrical Animated Film Cartoon Characters: Pocahontas, John Smith, Grandmother Willow, Meeko, Flit, Governor Ratcliffe, Wiggins, Thomas, Lon, Kocoum, Ben, Percy, Kekata, Chief Powhatan, Nakoma. Vocal Talent: Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Judy Kuhn (Pocahontas, Singing), Mel Gibson (John Smith), Linda Hunt (Grandmother Willow), Jon Kassir (Meeko), Frank Welker (Flit), David Ogden Stiers (Governor Ratcliffe, Wiggins), Christian Bale (Thomas), Joe Baker (Lon), James Apaumut Fall (Kocoum), Billy Connolly (Ben), Danny Mann (Percy), Gordon Tootoosis (Kekata), Russell Means (Powhatan), Michelle St. John (Nakoma), Jim Cummings (Powanton, Wise Man). Directed By Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg. Produced By James Pentecost. Associate Producer: Baker Bloodworth. Animated By Alexander Williams, Randy Haycock (Pocahontas). Supervising Animators: Glen Keane (Pocahontas), John Pomeroy (John Smith), Ruben Aquino (Powatan), Duncan Marjoribanks (Radcliffe), Dave Pruiksma (Flit), Brian Ferguson (Meeko), Ken Duncan (Thomas), Richard Bazley. Character Animator: David Kuhn, Barry Temple. Effects Animation: Ted Kierscey. Animation Clean-Up: Renee Holt-Bird (Pocahontas). Written By Carl Binder, Susannah Grant, Philip LaZebnik. Story: Chris Buck, Robert Gibbs, Francis Glebas, Ed Gombert, Joe Grant, Kaan Kalyon, Glen Keane, Todd Kurosawa, Duncan Marjoribanks, Burny Mattinson, Bruce Morris, Ralph Zondag. Additional Story: Randy Cartwright, Andrew Chapman, Vincent DeFrances, Don Dougherty, Will Finn, T. Daniel Hofstedt, Broose Johnson, Jorgen Klubien, Tom Mazzocco, Dave Pruiksma, Nik Ranieri. Edited By H. Lee Peterson. Assistant Editor: Anna Solorio-Catalano. Associate Editor: Mark A. Hester. Casting: Ruth Lambert. Production Manager: Traci Tolman Mars. Artistic Coordinator: Dan Hansen. Artistic Supervisor, Layout: Rasoul Azadani. Artistic Supervisor, Background: Cristy Maltese. Artistic Supervisor, CGI: Steve Goldberg. Visual Effects: Don Paul. Animator, Additional Effects: Peter Demund. Checking: Pat Sito. Digital Scanning Pre-checker: Michael D. Lusby. Choreographer: D.J. Giagni. Scene Planning Coordinator, Florida: Karen N. Sickles. Software Engineer: Bruce Hatakeyama. Special EFX, Animating Assistant: Colbert Fennelly. Technical Assistant: Earl Coffman. Technology Production Supporters: Kee-Suk 'Ken' Hahn, Thomas Moore, Jr. Technology Supporters: Mark M. Tokunaga, Tony Matthews. Title Designer: Susan Bradley. Music Production Supervisor: Tod Cooper. Music Arrangers: Chris Boardman, Martin Erskine. Music Scoring Mixer: John Richards. Orchestrator: Danny Troob. Vocalist, "Colors Of The Wind": Vanessa L. Williams. Vocalist, "If I Never Knew You": Jon Secada, Shanice. Supervising Sound Editor: Larry Kemp. Sound Editor: Rick Morris. |
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What kind of creature's largest species is called a 'Goliath'? | Goliath Frog | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants SPECIES: goliath ABOUT Goliath means REALLY BIG! We're not kidding—the goliath frog is the largest frog in the world. It grows up to 12.5 inches (32 centimeters) long and can weigh up to 7.2 pounds (3.3 kilograms). The goliath frog is as big as some house cats! It doesn't start out so big, though. The goliath frog tadpole is the same size as the tadpole of an average frog, but just keeps growing. The adult looks a lot like other frogs as well, just a whole lot bigger. Although these giant frogs have been around longer than humans, we still have a lot to learn about them. For example, how many years do they live? Is there more than one species of goliath frog? Scientists are studying these creatures in the wild and learning new things about them. They hope that what they learn will help us find answers, so this amazing frog will be safe from extinction. HABITAT AND DIET Goliath frogs live in small ranges in the rain forests at the equator of western Africa, near swift-moving rivers and waterfalls. These giant amphibians need to be near water much like the average frog. Goliath frogs come out at night and sit on river rocks to look for food. An adult goliath frog eats the same types of food that other frogs do: insects, crustaceans, fish, and other amphibians. But one researcher found a bat in the stomach of a goliath frog! FAMILY LIFE Not-so-parental instincts: When goliath frogs reach maturity and have babies, they do things a little differently from most frogs. The male builds a nest of rocks and gravel near a riverbank, and wrestles with other males to breed with females. The wrestling and rock moving may be why males are larger than females: this is unusual for frogs. Then the female lays thousands of eggs in the nest. That is where the parenting stops: they don’t even wait around to ensure the eggs hatch. Tadpoles must fend for themselves and find their own food. Goliath frog tadpoles are picky eaters and only eat a certain plant found near waterfalls and the banks of swift rivers. This could explain why this frog species is only found in one tiny location on Earth! AT THE ZOO | My Questions - Documents Documents Share My Questions Embed <iframe src="http://docslide.us/embed/my-questions.html" width="750" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://docslide.us/documents/my-questions.html" title="My Questions" target="_blank">My Questions</a></div> size(px) Download My Questions Transcript Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? What is the tallest and thickest type of grass? 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Constanze Weber married which composer in 1782? | Mozart to his wife, Constanze Mozart to his wife, Constanze Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the finest composers the world has ever known, had two great loves in his life; the first was music; and the second was Constanze Weber, whom he married in Vienna on August 4, 1782. She was 20, he was 26. By the time they married, Mozart's life had already been a long succession of journeys in search of a patron who would free him from financial insecurity and allow him to devote all his energy to composing music. His concert tours began in Salzburg, where he was acclaimed as a musical prodigy at the age of five. He and his elder sister, Maria-Anna, performed in the courts and cathedrals of many of Europe's greatest cities: Munich, Augsburg, Mainz, Frankfurt, Paris, London, and Vienna. In 1772, Mozart at 16 had already written 25 symphonies and his first string quartets. His travels brought him much honor, but not much money, and he tended to be extravagant with what little he earned. It was in September 1777, while staying in Manneheim with his mother, that Mozart first met Constanze's family, the Webers. He fell in love with her eldest sister, Aloysia, a singer of some promise but little experience. Mozart made grand plans to take her to Italy and start her in a career in opera, but his father Leopold, who never trusted the Weber family, persuaded him against it. A year later Aloysia's feelings for Mozart had cooled, and he wrote to his father on December 29, 1778, "I can only weep. I have far too sensitive a heart." Nevertheless, Mozart stayed in close touch with the family, and on December 15, 1781, he wrote again to his father revealing his plans to marry: "Owing to my disposition, which is more inclined to a peaceful and domesticated existence than to revelry, I, who from my youth up have never been accustomed to look after my belongings, linen clothes and so forth, cannot think of anything more necessary to me than a wife...A bachelor in my opinion is only half alive." His attention had now turned to Aloysia's sister, dark-eyed Constanze, with her pretty figure and, "the kindest heart in the world...I love her and she loves me with all her heart." Mozart brought to his marriage an engaging personality, limitless talent, and plenty of optimism, but few prospects. He promised her family that if he did not marry Constanze within three years he would pay her 300 gulden every year for the rest of his life. At their wedding in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Mozart and Constanze wept, as did the congregation, and the priest. It was a marriage of deep affection and understanding, both much needed through their years together. Constanze was frequently ill and often with child. In nine years she gave birth to six children, only two of whom survived. Though Mozart probably was, as his great friend, the composer Joseph Haydn, described him, "the greatest composer now living in the world," he was struggling financially. His career was at the mercy of musical fashion in Vienna, and he was often forced to go on tour in order to pay the doctor's bills for Constanze. Constanze's fondness for her husband and unfailing belief in him were put to the test. Two days before the opening night of Mozart's new opera, Don Giovanni, in Prague in 1787, Mozart had not yet written the overturn. The most worried the opera's company and producers became, the more carefree Mozart seemed to be. On the last evening, at about midnight, he began to write. Constanze helped to keep him awake by telling him stories, and sustained his energy by making him drink quantities of punch. When he got too tired to work she said he should sleep on he sofa for an hour and she would wake him. But he slept so soundly that she let him sleep until five in the morning. The copyist was due at seven o'clock, and Mozart finished the overtune just in time. Printed here is the postscript to a letter that Mozart wrote to Constanze at the spa town of Baden, where she was seeking a health cure in 1790. He was writing from Mainz w | Madeleine Gurdon - iSnare Free Encyclopedia Madeleine Gurdon (1962-11-30) 30 November 1962 (age 54) [1] Sport Madeleine Astrid Gurdon, Baroness Lloyd-Webber, (born 30 November 1962) is an English former equestrian sportswoman, and the third and current wife of musical theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber . Early life Madeleine "Gurtie" Gurdon was born in 1962 to a British Army officer, and his wife, who later retired as a Brigadier . Gurtie was educated at a convent, and [2] was an equestrian competitor for nearly a decade, riding in three-day events in Princess Anne's set. [2] To supplement her riding career, Gurdon designed an exclusive country wear company, featuring leather-and-suede clothing, [2] called The Done Thing, after her favourite dun horse. Gurdon met Lloyd Webber through his Watership Down neighbours, who loved horses. [3] Personal life Gurdon married Lloyd Webber at his Hampshire home on 9 February 1991. They have three children together; Alastair (born 1992), William (born 1993) and Isabella (born 1996). The family currently resides in London [4] and Hampshire . [5] References ^ |
Which battle of 1066 is also the name of a football ground? | BBC - History - British History in depth: 1066 Print this page Claims to the throne It all began with the death of Edward the Confessor, in January 1066. The Bayeux tapestry depicts Edward on his deathbed, offering the English crown to Harold, and this event is reflected in most of the chronicles of the time. Edward's corpse was eventually borne in state to his own new cathedral church at Westminster, and the tapestry shows Harold there, being offered the crown by the magnates of England, among whom must have been Edwin and Morcar. Harold was crowned at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury and Archbishop Ealdred of York. It is significant that only the former is depicted (and actually named) on the Bayeux tapestry, as his appointment had never been recognised by the Pope, allowing the Norman propaganda machine to portray Harold's coronation as illegal. On the tapestry, the members of the congregation shown as witnessing the event are facing Harold, but their eyes are turned towards Halley's Comet, which is depicted in the sky as a portent of the doom to come. Harold is seen receiving news of the Comet with fear in his eyes. William decided on invasion... These bad omens for Harold were important to William of Normandy, who was set on claiming the English crown for himself - omens as important as the 'promise' of 1051 and the 'oath' of 1064. This was because, despite his pre-eminent position, he required the active co-operation of his nobles for the great venture he was planning - the venture to invade England and become the English king. William could not just demand support from his nobles, he had to convince them of his case. He needed to show his followers that his claim was a lawful one, and that he had God on his side. So when he decided on invasion, he took elaborate measures to ensure he had strong support, and even sent an envoy to the Pope asking for his blessing. William did not move immediately. He only began plans for an invasion after Tostig arrived in neighbouring Flanders, looking for support against Harold in a projected invasion of Northumbria. This was the lever that William needed: with Harold occupied in the north, William could invade in the south. Whether or not he thought God was on his side, William's preparations were very down to earth. Top Harold becomes king Westminster Abbey, the site of Harold's coronation © On top of anything else, William must have been painfully aware that his claim to England's throne was actually the least legitimate of all the putative contenders. It rested entirely on a spurious promise, made over 15 years previously, and on the fact that William's great-grandfather was Edward's maternal grandfather. Harold had an equally weak blood claim, through the brother-in-law of King Cnut, although it was he who was Edward's last nominated heir. There were others with much stronger blood claims, among them Swegn Estrithson, King of Denmark, who was the nephew of King Cnut; and Edgar the Aetheling, grandson of Edmund Ironside, from whom Cnut had wrested the kingdom in 1016. Aetheling actually means 'throneworthy' and was the title given to the most legitimate heir; but a legitimate blood claim was only part of the issue. The crown would go to the claimant who could muster most support amongst the 'great and the good' of England. In January 1066, Edgar Aetheling was a minor, and with the wolves breathing at the door, the English magnates could not afford to risk the kingdom in such inexperienced hands. So they turned to Harold, the obvious power behind the throne, who, as we have seen, had prepared his ground well. Instead, William watched, and he waited... Immediately after Edward's death, the cards were flying and everyone was gambling madly. Tostig enlisted the help of a powerful Joker in the pack, the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada, an adventurer who had fought for the Byzantines in the Varangian Guard and was now trying to recreate the Viking kingdom of Northumbria. William had the other Joker, the Pope, in his pocket, and was drawing his Aces aroun | Burnden Park - The Stadium Guide The Stadium Guide Club: Bolton Wanderers | Opening: 1895 | Closing: 1997 | Final capacity: 25,000 | Maximum capacity: 70,000 Description Burnden Park was for over a hundred years the home of Bolton Wanderers FC. It was also the site of one of the worst stadium disasters in the history of English football. In its first decades of existence Bolton Wanderers played at a ground at Pike Lane, however by the early 1890s they were in urgent need of a purpose-built ground. Construction of Burnden Park was financed with a share issue that turned Bolton into a limited company. The stadium opened in August 1895 with a friendly match between Bolton and Preston. The stadium got gradually expanded in the following decades and by the 1930s a total of 70,000 fans could pack into the stadium. The official record attendance was set in 1933 when 69,912 fans visited a match between Bolton and Manchester City. However, it is estimated that a total of 85,000 people came to see Sir Stanley Matthews play in 1946 during a 6th round FA Cup match against Stoke. The huge Embankment terrace was far over capacity and when the crowd pressed forward two metal crush barriers broke. The resulting crush killed 33 fans and injured another 400. By the 1980s Burnden Park was in steady decline with low attendances and a heavily reduced capacity, and in 1986 part of the Railway Stand was sold off to make way for a supermarket. In the early 1990s plans were made for the conversion of the stadium into an all-seater, however in the end was decided to build a new stadium. The last match at Burnden Park was played in April 1997 and involved a league match between Bolton and Charlton Athletic. At that time the stadium could hold about 25,000 fans. A few months later the club moved into the Reebok Stadium and two years later Burnden Park got demolished to make place for a supermarket. Keep up to date with the latest stadium news by following @stadiumguide on Twitter (all updates) or liking our Facebook page (occasional updates). Record your memories |
Olympus Mons is the highest mountain on which planet in our solar system? | Where is the highest mountain in our Solar System? | Cool Cosmos Where is the highest mountain in our Solar System? The highest mountain and volcano in the Solar System is on the planet Mars. It is called Olympus Mons and is 16 miles (24 kilometers) high which makes it about three times higher than Mt. Everest. In addition to being very tall, it is also very wide (340 miles or 550 kilometers) and covers an area larger than the entire chain of Hawaiian islands. Olympus Mons is a very flat mountain which slopes by only 2 to 5 degrees. It is a shield volcano built up by eruptions of lava. Continue the conversation on | Planetary Names: Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) Planetary Names: Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers Home Named Mercurius by the Romans because it appears to move so swiftly. Discoverer Venus Roman name for the goddess of love. This planet was considered to be the brightest and most beautiful planet or star in the heavens. Other civilizations have named it for their god or goddess of love/war. Discoverer Earth The name Earth comes from the Indo-European base 'er,'which produced the Germanic noun 'ertho,' and ultimately German 'erde,' Dutch 'aarde,' Scandinavian 'jord,' and English 'earth.' Related forms include Greek 'eraze,' meaning 'on the ground,' and Welsh 'erw,' meaning 'a piece of land.' Earth I (Moon) Every civilization has had a name for the satellite of Earth that is known, in English, as the Moon. The Moon is known as Luna in Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as Lune in French, as Mond in German, and as Selene in Greek. Martian System The names of the moons of Mars and the English translations of the names were specifically proposed by their discoverer, Asaph Hall, and as such, they have been accepted and retained under the current IAU nomenclature. Body Discoverer Mars Named by the Romans for their god of war because of its red, bloodlike color. Other civilizations also named this planet from this attribute; for example, the Egyptians named it "Her Desher," meaning "the red one." Mars I (Phobos) Inner satellite of Mars. Named for one of the horses that drew Mars' chariot; also called an "attendant" or "son" of Mars, according to chapter 15, line 119 of Homer's "Iliad." This Greek word means "flight." August 17, 1877 A. Hall Mars II (Deimos) This outer Martian satellite was named for one of the horses that drew Mars' chariot; also called an "attendant" or "son" of Mars, according to chapter 15, line 119 of Homer's "Iliad." Deimos means "fear" in Greek. August 11, 1877 Selected Asteroids (of the Main Belt) and their Satellites Body Named for the Greek god of love. August 13, 1898 Named for a resort on the Crimean Peninsula. July 30, 1916 G. Neujmin (243) Ida Named for a nymph who raised the infant Zeus. Ida is also the name of a mountain on the island of Crete, the location of the cave where Zeus was reared. September 29, 1884 J. Palisa (243) Ida I (Dactyl) Named for a group of mythological beings who lived on Mount Ida, where the infant Zeus was hidden and raised (according to some accounts) by the nymph Ida. August 28, 1993 Galileo imaging and infrared science teams. (253) Mathilde The name was suggested by a staff member of the Paris Observatory who first computed an orbit for Mathilde. The name is thought to honor the wife of the vice director of the Paris Observatory at that time. November 12, 1885 J. Palisa (22) Kalliope I (Linus) Satellite of (22) Kalliope. In various accounts of Greek mythology, Linus is considered to be the son of the Muse Kalliope and the inventor of melody and rhythm. August 29 and September 2, 2001 Mauna Kea J.-L. Margot, M.E. Brown, W.J. Merline, F. Menard, L. Close, C. Dumas, C.R. Chapman, and D.C. Slater (45) Eugenia I (Petit-Prince) Satellite of (45) Eugenia. The Little Prince, Napolean-Eugene-Louis-Jean-Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879), was the son of Eugenia de Montijo de Guzm\'an and Napoleon III. November 1, 1998 Mauna Kea W.J. Merline, L. Close, C. Dumas, C.R. Chapman, F. Roddier, F. Menard, D.C. Slater, G. Duvert, C. Shelton, and T. Morgan Jovian System Satellites in the Jovian system are named for Zeus/Jupiter's lovers and descendants. Names of outer satellites with a prograde orbit generally end with the letter "a" (although an "o" ending has been reserved for some unusual cases), and names of satellites with a retrograde orbit end with an "e." Body Discoverer Jupiter The largest and most massive of the planets was named Zeus by the Greeks and Jupiter by the Romans; he was the most important deity in both pantheons. Jupiter I (Io) Io, the daughter |
When did India first participate in the modern Olympic Games? | First modern Olympics is held - Apr 06, 1896 - HISTORY.com First modern Olympics is held Share this: First modern Olympics is held Author First modern Olympics is held URL Publisher A+E Networks On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating. The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1984 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad. The ancient games are believed to have originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, Greece, where athletes competed in one event: a foot race. Over the years, other events were added, including chariot racing, boxing, wrestling and the pentathlon. Participants, who were all young men from Greek city-states and colonies, often battled it out in the buff, as a way to celebrate the human body, and winners received olive branches. The last ancient Olympics are thought to have taken place in A.D. 393. At the first modern Olympics, 241 male athletes (and no women) representing 14 nations competed in 43 events. America’s James Connolly became the first modern Olympic champion when he won the triple jump on the opening day of the Games. For his achievement, he was awarded a silver medal and an olive branch. Connolly later finished second in the high-jump event and took third in the long jump. France, Great Britain, Germany and Greece had the largest number of athletes participating. Nevertheless, the U.S. took home the most first-place finishes (11) of any nation, followed by Greece (10) and Germany (6). All told, America placed first, second or third in 20 events while Greece scored in 46 events and Germany placed in 13 competitions. To the delight of the hometown crowd, Greek runner Spyridon Louis won the marathon. The first Olympiad closed on April 15, 1896. The second Olympiad was held in Paris in 1900 with 997 athletes (22 of them women) from 24 countries competing in 95 events. The U.S. hosted the Olympics for the first time in 1904, in St. Louis. The third Olympiad marked the first time gold, silver and bronze medals were given out to first, second and third-place finishers. Starting in 1992, the summer and winter games, which had traditionally been held in the same year every four years, took place two years apart. The Summer Games returned to Athens in 2004, with 10,625 athletes (4,329 women and 6,296 men) from 201 nations participating in 301 events. Related Videos | Field Hockey 101: Olympic history | NBC Olympics Field Hockey 101: Olympic history USA Today Sports Field Hockey 101: Olympic history 1458915000 Tumblr The history of field hockey at the Olympic Games. London, 2012: Men- Germany succeeded in defending its 2008 Olympic gold by beating the Netherlands 2-1 in the final thanks to two goals by Jan Philipp Rabente. Australia won the bronze by beating Great Britain 3-1. Women- The Dutch women took home their second consecutive gold medal, beating Argentina 2-0. Great Britain beat New Zealand in the bronze medal match to make the podium on home soil. Beijing, 2008: Men- Germany's Christopher Zeller scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Spain in the final in Beijing. The Germans had last won gold in 1992. Spain added to the silver medals it won in 1980 and 1996. Women- The Netherlands, the reigning world champions, carried the No. 1 ranking into the final. The Dutch lived up to its billing and defeated the hosts China 2-0 to win the gold. Athens, 2004: Men- Australia won its first-ever Olympic field hockey gold medal with a stunning 2-1 victory over defending champion Netherlands. The Aussies won in overtime through a Jamie Dwyer goal scored in the 78th minute. Women- The Netherlands entered the Games as heavy favorites to claim women's gold. They had 2003 FIH Player of the Year Mintje Donners on their squad. But Germany, which lost twice in pool play, scored twice in the opening 20 minutes of the final and held on for a 2-1 upset victory and its first gold medal. Sydney, 2000: Men- The Netherlands edged South Korea, 8-7, on penalty strokes to become the first team to win consecutive men's titles since 1956 (India). Women- The host Aussies topped Argentina, 3-1, to become the first women's field hockey team to defend an Olympic title. Atlanta, 1996: Men- Dating back to 1968, the Netherlands never finished outside of the top six in the men's Olympic field hockey tournament. During that stretch, the Dutch placed fourth on three occasions and won bronze in 1988. Finally, in Atlanta, the nation cleared the semifinal hurdle, and defeated an upstart Spanish team, 3-1, in the final. Women- Favored Australia won the women's field hockey tournament, finishing with a 27-5 goal differential, capped by a 3-1 victory over South Korea in the final. Australia extended its international unbeaten streak to 39 matches. Barcelona, 1992: Men- In the final, Germany defeated Australia to win its first Olympic gold in men's field hockey. Pakistan took home the bronze medal. Women- Despite little tradition in the sport, host Spain won gold in women's field hockey, beating Germany 2-1 in overtime. Seoul, 1988: Men- Great Britain defeated West Germany for the gold medal. It was Great Britain's first Olympic field hockey gold medal since 1920. Women- Australia and South Korea met in the final of the women's tournament with Australia taking home the gold. It was the first Olympic field hockey medal for both nations. Los Angeles, 1984: Men- Pakistan beat West Germany in the final of the men's tournament. It was Pakistan's seventh Olympic medal in men's field hockey. Women- In round-robin play at the 1984 Games, Australia defeated the U.S. 3-1. But the teams wound up tied for third behind the Netherlands (gold) and West Germany (silver) with identical 2-2-1 records and goal totals (9 scored, 7 allowed). Rules of the day required the teams to engage in a penalty stroke shoot-off, which the Americans won, 10-5, to claim bronze. Moscow, 1980: Men- Against a field depleted by the American-led boycott, India won its eighth gold medal in men's field hockey, defeating Spain, 4-3, in the final. Spain was the only other country from the 1976 competition to participate in Moscow. Women- Five of the six teams originally expected to compete in the inaugural women's Olympic field hockey tournament boycotted the Moscow Games. As a result, Zimbabwe, a last-minute replacement subsidized by the Soviet Union and International Olympic Committee, emerged as the surprise winner. Czechoslovakia was secon |
The followers of John Wycliffe were called what? | John Wycliffe English Bible History John Wycliffe The first hand-written English language Bible manuscripts were produced in 1380's AD by John Wycliffe, an Oxford professor, scholar, and theologian. Wycliffe, (also spelled “Wycliff” & “Wyclif”), was well-known throughout Europe for his opposition to the teaching of the organized Church, which he believed to be contrary to the Bible. With the help of his followers, called the Lollards, and his assistant Purvey, and many other faithful scribes, Wycliffe produced dozens of English language manuscript copies of the scriptures. They were translated out of the Latin Vulgate, which was the only source text available to Wycliffe. The Pope was so infuriated by his teachings and his translation of the Bible into English, that 44 years after Wycliffe had died, he ordered the bones to be dug-up, crushed, and scattered in the river! John Wycliffe (1320-1384) was a theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He initiated the first translation of the Bible into the English language and is considered the main precursor of the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was born at Ipreswell (modern Hipswell), Yorkshire, England, between 1320 and 1330; and he died at Lutterworth (near Leicester) December 31, 1384. The Early Life of John Wycliffe His family was of early Saxon origin, long settled in Yorkshire. In his day the family was a large one, covering a considerable territory, and its principal seat was Wycliffe-on-Tees, of which Ipreswell was an outlying hamlet. 1324 is the year usually given for Wycliffe's birth. Wycliffe probably received his early education close to home. It is not known when he first went to Oxford, with which he was so closely connected till the end of his life. He was at Oxford in about 1345, when a series of illustrious names was adding glory to the fame of the university--such as those of Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Bradwardine, William of Occam, and Richard Fitzralph. Wycliffe owed much to Occam; he showed an interest in natural science and mathematics, but applied himself to the study of theology, ecclesiastical law, and philosophy. Even his opponents acknowledged the keenness of his dialectic. His writings prove that he was well grounded in Roman and English law, as well as in native history. A family whose seat was in the neighborhood of Wycliffe's home-- Bernard Castle-- had founded Balliol College, Oxford to which Wycliffe belonged, first as scholar, then as master. He attained the headship no later than 1360. The Early Career of John Wycliffe When he was presented by the college (1361) with the parish of Fylingham in Lincolnshire, he had to give up the leadership of Balliol, though he could continue to live at Oxford. His university career followed the usual course. While as baccalaureate he busied himself with natural science and mathematics, as master he had the right to read in philosophy. More significant was his interest in Bible study, which he pursued after becoming bachelor in theology. His performance led Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, to place him at the head of Canterbury Hall in 1365. Between 1366 and 1372 he became a doctor of theology; as such he had the right to lecture upon systematic divinity, which he did. In 1368 he gave up his living at Fylingham and took over the rectory of Ludgershall in Buckinghamshire, not far from Oxford, which enabled him to retain his connection with the university. Roots of Wycliffe's Reformation Activities It was not as a teacher or preacher that Wycliffe gained his position in history; this came from his activities in ecclesiastical politics, in which he engaged about the mid-1370s, when his reformatory work also began. In 1374 he was among the Engli | Wycliffe (TV Series 1994– ) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Set in Cornwall, Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe, who works along with his colleagues DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane, investigates murder cases with his trademark determination and clinical accuracy. Stars: When the manager of the local building society and his wife are killed during an attempted kidnapping, Det. 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Who was the first Tudor King? | King Henry VII of England (1457-1509) [Henry of Lancaster; Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond] Search KING HENRY VII, of England, was the first of the Tudor dynasty. His claim to the throne was through his mother, Margaret Beaufort , from John of Gaunt and Catherine Swynford, whose issue born before their marriage had been legitimated by parliament. This, of course, was only Lancastrian claim, never valid, even as such, till the direct male line of John of Gaunt had become extinct. By his father, Edmund of Hadham , the genealogists traced his pedigree to Cadwallader, but this only endeared him to the Welsh when he had actually become king. His grandfather, Owen Tudor , however, had married Catherine , the widow of Henry V and daughter to Charles VI of France. Their son Edmund , being half brother of Henry VI , was created by that King Earl of Richmond, and having married Margaret Beaufort , only daughter of John, Duke of Somerset , died more than two months before their only child, Henry, was born in Pembroke Castle in January 1457. The fatherless child had sore trials. Edward IV won the crown when Henry was four years old, and while Wales partly held out against the conqueror, he was carried for safety from one castle to another. Then for a time he was made a prisoner; but ultimately he was taken abroad by his uncle Jasper Tudor , who found refuge in Brittany. At one time the duke of Brittany was nearly induced to surrender him to Edward IV; but he remained safe in the duchy till the cruelties of Richard III drove more and more Englishmen abroad to join him. An invasion of England was planned in 1483 in concert with the Duke of Buckingham 's rising; but stormy weather at sea and an inundation in the Severn defeated the two movements. A second expedition, two years later, aided this time by France, was more successful. Henry landed at Milford Haven among his Welsh allies and defeated Richard at the battle of Bosworth (August 22, 1485). He was crowned at Westminster on the 30th of October following. Then, in fulfilment of pledges by which he had procured the adhesion of many Yorkist supporters, he was married at Westminster to Elizabeth (1465-1503), eldest daughter and heiress of Edward IV (Jan. 18, 1486), whose two brothers had both been murdered by Richard III. Thus the Red and White Roses were united and the pretexts for civil war done away with. Nevertheless, Henry's reign was much disturbed by a succession of Yorkist conspiracies and pretenders. Of the two most notable impostors, the first, Lambert Simnel , personated the Earl of Warwick, son of the Duke of Clarence , a youth of seventeen whom Henry had at his accession taken care to imprison in the Tower. Simnel, who was but a boy, was taken over to Ireland to perform his part, and the farce was wonderfully successful. He was crowned as Edward VI in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, and received the allegiance of every one — bishops, nobles and judges, alike with others. From Ireland, accompanied by some bands of German mercenaries procured for him in the Low Countries, he invaded England; but the rising was put down at Stoke near Newark in Nottinghamshire, and, Simnel being captured, the king made him a menial of his kitchen. This movement had been greatly assisted by Margaret, duchess dowager, of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV, who could not endure to see the House of York supplanted by that of Tudor. The second pretender, Perkin Warbeck , was also much indebted to her support; but he seems to have entered on his career at first without it. And his story, which was more prolonged, had to do with the attitude of many countries towards England. Anxious as Henry was to avoid being involved in foreign wars, it was not many years before he was committed to a war with France, partly by his desire of an alliance with Spain, and partly by the indignation of his own subjects at the way in which the French were undermining the independence of Brittany. Henry gave Brittany defensive aid; but after the duchess Anne had married Charles VIII of France, he felt bound to fulfil his obl | The Tudors - Monarchs | HistoryOnTheNet The Tudors The Tudors - Monarchs Last Updated: 08/04/2014 - 09:09 The Tudors reigned from 1485 until 1603. There were 5 crowned monarchs and Lady Jane Grey reigned as Queen for just 9 days. The Tudor kings and queens were very powerful and they are noted for the numbers of people executed during the period. Henry VII came to the throne after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He was a serious man and faced many challenges to his place on the throne, the most notable being from Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck. He married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV uniting the houses of Lancaster and York and ending the Wars of the Roses. Henry successfully established the Tudor dynasty and when he died in 1509, his son's succession was not challenged and England was a rich and prosperous country. Henry VIII is the best known of the Tudor Monarchs, he was the second son of Henry VII and became King because his brother, Arthur had died. He married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon when he became King, but divorced her when she did not produce a male heir to the throne. In order to gain his divorce, Henry had to establish the Church of England and end Catholicism. Henry went on to marry another five wives - Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr. Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard were executed for treason. He died in 1547. Edward VI came to the throne at the age of 9 years. He was a sickly child and the country was run by his protectors: firstly, the Duke of Somerset, his mother's brother, then by the Duke of Northumberland. Edward died at the age of 15 in 1553. Lady Jane Grey was chosen to be Queen by the Duke of Northumberland in an attempt to keep England a Protestant country. Next in the line of succession was Henry VIII's eldest daughter, Mary. Mary was a Catholic and had sworn to return England to Catholicism. The public did not approve of Jane's succession and supported Mary's claim to the throne. Queen Jane reigned for just 9 days before Mary successfully took the throne. Jane and her husband, Guildford Dudley, son of the Duke of Northumberland, were beheaded. Mary I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and was a committed Catholic . When she came to the throne she vowed to return England to Rome and Catholicism. She is known as Bloody Mary because of the numbers of people who were executed for being Protestants. She made herself even more unpopular by marrying Philip of Spain and losing Calais, England's last possession in France. Mary died in 1558, probably of cancer of the womb. Elizabeth I became Queen after her sister Mary I died without an heir. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She upheld Protestantism in England and her will was the law. She did not marry and was known as the Virgin Queen. During Elizabeth's reign the age of exploration began with explorers such as Francis Drake claiming new lands for England and introducing new materials and foods. The American State , Virginia, is named after her. When Elizabeth died in 1603 the Tudor line ended. Quiz: |
Wednesday is associated with which Norse god? | Wednesday’s Named for Two Very Different Gods | Dictionary.com Blog Home » Language » Wednesday’s Named for Two Very Different Gods Wednesday’s Named for Two Very Different Gods March 19, 2014 by: Dictionary.com 155 Comments The name Wednesday derives from two mighty but distinct gods. The Old English word for Wednesday indicates that the day was named for the Germanic god Woden. In Romance languages, the name is derived from the Roman god Mercury. (For example, Wednesday is mercredi in French and miercuri in Romanian.) Woden (also known as Odin) and Mercury have been associated since Scandinavian and Roman cultures crossed paths. Under Woden’s supervision, the earth and sky were created from the dead body of a giant named Ymir. Woden also created the first man and woman from an ash tree and an alder. As if fashioning the human race wasn’t enough, Woden also established the laws of the universe. (The wacky history of Tuesday makes the origin of “Wednesday” seem boring. Read it here .) Mercury was the messenger to the gods, along with being the patron of science, the arts, travelers and athletes. Today, he is one of the most widely recognized gods. Usually, he’s depicted wearing a winged helmet and sandals. Starting around 1965, Wednesday began being referred to as “ hump day .” Smack dab in the middle of the traditional work week, arriving at Wednesday symbolizes that we’ve made it over the hump and the weekend is in sight. | The Traditions Of Mardi Gras The history of a Mardi Gras celebration existed many years before Europeans came to the New World. Some time in the Second Century, during mid-February (usually February 15 according to the Julian calendar), Ancient Romans would observe what they called the Lupercalia, a circus-type festival which was, in many respects, quite similar to the present day Mardi Gras. This festival honored the Roman deity, Lupercus, a pastoral God associated with Faunus or the Satyr. Although Lupercus is derived from the Latin Lupus (meaning "wolf"), the original meaning of the word as it applies to Roman religion has become obscured over the passage of time. When Christianity arrived in Rome, the dignitaries of the early Church decided it would be more prudent to incorporate certain aspects of such rituals into the new faith rather than attempt to abolish them altogether. This granted a Christian interpretation to the ancient custom and the Carnival became a time of abandon and merriment which peceded the Lenten period (a symbolic Christian pentinence of 40 days commencing on Ash Wednesday and ending at Easter). During this time, there would be feasting which lasted several days and participants would indulge in voluntary madness by donning masks, clothing themselves in the likeness of spectres and generally giving themselves up to Bacchus and Venus. All aspects of pleasure were considered to be allowable during the Carnival celebration and today's modern festivites are thought by some to be more reminiscent of the Roman Saturnalia rather than Lupercalia, or be linked to even earlier Pagan festivals. From Rome, the celebration spread to other European countries. In medieval times, a similar-type festivity to that of the present day Mardi Gras was given by monarchs and lords prior to Lent in order to ceremoniously conscript new knights into service and hold feasts in their honor. The landed gentry would also ride through the countryside rewarding peasants with cakes (thought by some to be the origin of the King Cake), coins (perhaps the origin of present day gifts of Mardi Gras doubloons) and other trinkets. In Germany, there still remains a Carnival similar to that of the one held in New Orleans. Known as Fasching, the celebrations begin on Twelfth Night and continue until Shrove Tuesday. To a lesser degree, this festivity is still celebrated in France and Spain. A Carnival season was also celebrated in England until the Nineteenth Century, originating as a type of "renewal" festival that incorporated fertility motifs and ball games which frequently turned into riots between opposing villages, followed by feasts of pancakes and the imbibing of alcohol. The preparing and consumption of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday (also known as "Pancake Day" or "Pancake Tuesday" and occurring annually between February 2 and March 9, depending upon the date of Easter) is a still a tradition in the United Kingdom, where pancake tossing and pancake races (during which a pancake must be tossed a certain number of times) are still popular. One of the most famous of such competitions, which takes place in Olney, Buckinghamshire, is said to date from 1445. It is a race for women only and for those who have lived in the Parish for at least three months. An apron and head-covering are requisite. The course is 415 yards and the pancake must be tossed at least three times during the race. The winner receives a kiss from the Ringer of the Pancake Bell and a prayer book from the local vicar. "Shrove" is derived from the Old English word "shrive," which means to "confess all sins." It is generally accepted that Mardi Gras came to America in 1699 with the French explorer, Sieur d'Iberville. The festival had been celebrated as a major holiday in Paris since the Middle Ages. Iberville sailed into the Gulf of Mexico and, from there, launched an expedition along the Mississippi River. By March 3, 1699, Iberville had set up a camp on the West Bank of the River...about 60 miles South of the present day City of New Orleans in the State of Louisiana. |
A denarian is what age range? | Definition of Age by decade Definition of Age by decade Surprising Benefits of Sex Slideshow Age by decade: A term designating someone's age by decade. For example, a septuagenarian refers to someone in his or her seventies (age 70 to 79). The prefix in such terms is always from the Latin. For example, the Latin septuageni = seventy. Denarian: Someone age 10 to 19. Vicenarian: Someone in his or her twenties. Tricenarian: Someone in his or her thirties. Quadragenarian: Someone in his or her forties. Quinquagenarian : Someone in his or her fifties. Sexagenarian : Someone in his or her sixties. Septuagenarian: Someone in his or her seventies. Octogenarian: Someone in his or her eighties. Nonagenarian : Someone in his or her nineties. Centenarian : Someone 100 or more. Supercentenarian : Someone 110 years old or more (no upper limit). The terms denarian, vicenarian, tricenarian, and quadragenarian are not in common usage. The term supercentenarian was coined in 1991. Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2016 | The Lord of the Rings "The Lord of The Rings required a commitment from our cast to learn how to swordfight, horseback ride, canoe, learn Elvish, climb mountain peaks and at the same time bring the magic and magnetism of Tolkiens characters to the screen. They were up to the task." Barrie M. Osborne, producer At the core of the story in The Lord of the Rings are the cultures that make up Middle-earth: Hobbits, Dwarves, Humans, Elves, Wizards, Trolls, Ents, Orcs, Ringwraiths and Uruk-Hai. Each culture has its own rich way of life, its own customs, myths, ways of dress and even style of fighting. Each is fully developed in The Lord of the Rings, creating the essence of a living, breathing world just beyond our own history. For example, Hobbits are gentle and close to nature, an almost child-like group who live off the land. With an average height of 36", the furry-footed creatures dwell deep in furnished holes on the sides of hills. They love the simple things in life: smoking pipes, eating, and, of course, storytelling. They live to around 100 years old, with the age of 33 marking the start of adulthood. Elves, on the other hand, are noble, elegant, magical beings whose time is running out and who seem to possess a bittersweet sense that they are now about to pass into myth. Although they could be slain or die of grief, elves are immortal in that they are not subject to age or disease. Dwarves are short but very tough, with a strong, ancient sense of justice and an abiding love of all things beautiful. Small in stature, they live to be about 250 years old. Wizards are supremely powerful but can use that power for good or for evil, depending on where their hearts lie. Men in The Lord of the Rings are a fledgling race just coming into their own. Other creatures are even more fantastical: the leaf-covered Ents try to protect their brethren, the trees; the misshapen Orcs fight for Saruman; and the sinister, black-cloaked Ringwraiths are neither living nor dead but cursed to live in the twilight world of Sauron. To bring these remarkably diverse beings to life would require a cast of true versatility and also a cast willing to spend months in the deep heartland of New Zealand bringing life to a literary legend. It would require a group of actors who could carry their characters through three chapters of climactic changes. In the first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring, the actors get a chance to introduce their characters and their individual quests. At the center of it all is the storys 36" hero Frodo Baggins, the shy but forthright hobbit who assumes the responsibility for destroying The Ring. Despite the help of the Fellowship, it is Frodo who must bear the burden of The Ring and resist its constant temptations of evil. For the actor to play Frodo, the filmmakers chose 20-year-old Elijah Wood for his energy, innocence and charisma. "Elijah has a sincerity of purpose that just makes him a natural in the role," observes Barrie M. Osborne. "He is capable of taking the character through a real transformation, which begins with The Fellowship of the Ring." Wood describes Frodo as "a very curious adventurer. Frodo lives in a time when most of his fellow hobbits want to stay with their own kind, but Frodo is very different in that he wants to leave and see the rest of the world and all its wonders." Which is exactly what he does in The Lord of the Rings. As Frodo begins his journey, Wood was struck by how much like a person, rather than a fantasy character, the hobbit began to seem. "He became alive for me," he admits. "The way we shot the movie, everything was so real that we all believed that Frodo and the others really existed in history. Once I had on my prosthetic ears and feet for the first time, I knew what it was to feel like a hobbit. It sounds bizarre, but it felt the same as playing a historical character, as if hobbits had actually once been alive." One of Frodos closest allies in his plight to destroy The Ring is the old and powerful wizard Gandalf, who begins to demonstrate his full pow |
What is the English title of the national anthem of Ireland? | The Irish National Anthem The Irish National Anthem Atá fá gheall ag Éirinn, whose lives are pledged to Ireland Buidhean dár sluagh tar rúinn do ráinig Some have come from a land beyond the wave, chughainn: Fámho�dh bhe�rh saor, no more our ancient sireland Sean-t�r ár sinnsear feasta Shall shelter the despot or the slave; N� fágfar fá'n t�orán ná fa'n tráil; tonight we man the Bearna Baoghal Anocht a theigeamh sa bhearna baoghail, In Erin's cause. Le gean ar Gaedh� chun báis nó saoghail, come woe or weal; Le gunna sgréach: Fá lamhach na piléar. 'Mid cannon's roar and rifle's peal Seo Libh canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. We'll chant a soldier's song. Seo dhibh a cháirde duan oglaidh We'll sing a song, a soldier's song Caithréimeach, br�oghmhar, ceolmhar. With cheering, rousing chorus ár dteinte cnámh go buacach táid, As round our blazing fires we throng, `S an spéir go min réaltógach. The starry heavens o'er us; Is fionmhar faobhrach sinn chun gleo Impatient for the coming fight, 'S go tiúnmhar glé roimh tigheacht do'n ló, And as we wait the mornings light Fa ciúnas chaoimh na h-oidhche ar seol, here in the silence of the night Seo libh, cana�dh amhrán na bhFiann. We'll chant a soldier's song. Cois banta réidhe, ar árdaibh sléibhe. In valley green or towering crag Ba bhuadhach ár rinnsear romhainn, Our fathers fought before us, Ag lámhach go tréan fá'n sár- bhrat séin And conquered 'neath the same old flag Tá thuas sa ghaoith go seolta; That's floating o'er us, Ba dhúthchas riamh d'ár gcine cháidh We're children of a fighting race Gan iompáil riar ó imirt áir, That never yet has known disgrace, 'Siubhal mar iad i gcoinnibh rámhaid And as we march the foe to face, Seo libh, canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. We'll chant a soldier's song. A buidhean nach fann d'fuil Ghaoidheal is Gall Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale! Sinn breacadh lae na saoirse, The Long watched day is breaking; Tá sgéimhle 's sgannradh � gcroidhthibh namhad, The serried ranks of Innisfail Roimh ranngaibh laochra ár dt�re; Shall set the tyrant quaking. ár dteinte is tréith gan spréach anois, Our camp fires now are burning low; Sin luinne ghlé san spéir anoir, See in the east a silvery glow, 'S an b�odhbha i raon na bpiléar agaibh: Out yonder waits the saxon foe, Seo libh, canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. So chant a soldier's song. | Why does Liechtenstein use "God Save the Queen" as its national anthem? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk Why does Liechtenstein use "God Save the Queen" as its national anthem? Tom Chilton, Kismaros, Hungary Lots of countries do, or did. It's a very old tune, that only became popular as 'God Save the Queen' after about 1745. Its origins are unknown, but various composers - including Purcell and Dowland - have been fingered as the creator. 'God Save the Queen' has never been officially adopted as the UK national anthem (the nearest it has come has been a 1934 Army order, laying down rules on interpretation and tempo). It's a catchy, bombastic, easy-to-follow, unadventurous tune, with a flexible and innately 'vocal' structure, and these factors have made it consistently ideal for anthemic purposes. GSTQ is the ultimate off-the-peg national anthem. Garrick Alder, London The simple answer is that Liechtenstein doesn''t use God Save the Queen, it does however use the same melody. The first line of the text is "Oben am jungen Rhein lehnet sich Liechtenstein An Alpenhöh''n." which roughly translates as "On the upper reaches of the young Rhine Liechtenstein leans agains the Alpine heights". The text was changed in 1963 from "German Rhine" to "young Rhine". The "German" was a reference to the fact that Liechtenstein is the last of the 343 states which once made up the Holy Roman Empire, as it is known in English, or "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" as it is known in German. Liechtenstein is however not the only state to have used this melody. Bismarck chose a song - "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" - to the same melody which was used by The German Empire until the end of the First World War. The text is similar in tone to God Save the Queen, praising the virtues of the Kaiser and wishing him immortality etc. The present German melody (composed by Haydn) was previously used by Austria (with different words). Though never having the status of national anthem, the US also uses the melody of God Save the Queen in a patriotic song. It all goes goes to show that melodies are interchangeable the world over. Andy Shackleton, Sheffield England I have heard that several countries use the tune of "God Save the Queen" for national anthems or other patriotic music, for example it is used in the USA for "My Country 'tis of Thee/Sweet Land of Liberty". Hugh, London, UK The Sex Pistols have always been popular there. William Barrett, London, UK It is also used as a royal anthem in Norway, and known as Kongesangen. The melody was also used in France, Sweden and Russia as a national anthem at one time or another. WS, Canterbury, UK Switzerland also used the same melody until about 40 years ago! I have also heard that the melody was French in origin and originally used for a hymn in the honor of Louis XIV. Martin Ricketts, Monaco Monaco |
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