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Approximately how far is the moon from Earth? | Moon + Contact Glenn The Moon is Earth's nearest neighbor. It orbits the Earth at an average distance of approximately 240,000 miles (384,000 km). The Moon completes an orbit of the Earth every 27.3 days (approximately 655 hours). The Moon also rotates on its axis. Because of tidal forces, it completes one revolution every 655 hours. So one "side" of the Moon is always facing the Earth, and the other "side" is always facing away from the Earth. On the surface of the Moon, you would experience 327.5 hours of sunlight and 327.5 hours of darkness. If you lived on the side of the Moon facing the Earth, you would always see the Earth in the same location in the sky, although the stars and Sun would move across the sky. If you lived on the side of the Moon facing away from the Earth, you would never see the Earth, although you would see all the stars and the Sun. At the time of its formation, the Moon had a liquid core and experienced flows of lava which created the flat basins, or "mare's", which we see from Earth. The Moon gradually cooled, forming a thick crust. We see no evidence of plate tectonics, as we have on Earth, so the surface material on the Moon has remained nearly the same for more than 3 billion years. Because of the lack of an atmosphere, the Moon's surface has been bombarded by passing debris, creating many, many impact craters. The mass of the Moon is approximately 8.1 x 10^19 tons (7.3 x 10^22 kg or .01 x Earth mass). The mean diameter of the Moon is 2,159 miles (3,476 km or .27 x Earth diameter). The mass of the Moon is not evenly distributed; mass concentrations, called Mascons, lie beneath many of the lunar basins, and the center of mass of the Moon is displaced several kilometers towards the Earth. The non-uniform mass distribution creates orbital stability problems for spacecraft orbiting the Moon. The average surface gravitational acceleration (gmn) of the Moon is given by: gmn = 5.3 ft/sec^2 = 1.62 m/sec^2 = .165 Earth gravity The Moon has no appreciable atmosphere. The sky is always black and the radiation from the Sun strikes with full force on the surface of the Moon. The lack of atmosphere produces temperature extremes on the Moon that range from -250 degrees F in the dark to +250 degrees F in the light. Because of the lack of atmosphere, and high radiation environment, there are no living organisms on the Moon. The lack of atmosphere means that there is no aerodynamic drag on a rocket leaving the surface of the Moon, but it also means that a landing spacecraft cannot use aerodynamic braking and must use rocket propulsion to land on the surface. Robotic exploration of the Moon began in the early 1960's by both the United States and the Soviet Union. Of particular note, the American Ranger spacecraft returned detailed pictures of the Moon as the spacecraft were crashed into the surface. The Ranger project was followed by the soft landing Surveyor spacecraft that performed a number of experiments on the lunar soil as well as photographic investigations from the surface. The Lunar Orbiter spacecraft produced photographic maps of the surface of the Moon that were used to select landing locations for the Apollo program. The Soviets also soft landed on the Moon as part of the Lunik (Luna) program. A lunar rover (Lunikhod) and a sample return mission were also successfully executed by the Soviet Union. Human exploration of the Moon was begun by the United States during the Apollo program. Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 orbited the Moon without landing astronauts on the surface. Six Apollo missions (11, 12, 14, 15, 16, & 17) each landed two astronauts on the surface of the Moon. The last three missions included an electric-powered "buggy" which allowed the astronauts to explore several kilometers around the landing location. All of the missions returned lunar rocks and soil to the Earth and established research stations that continued to return data after the astronauts left the surface. Apollo 13 experienced an explosion on the way to the Moon. The spacecraft swung around the Moon and safely | Deimos: Facts About the Smaller Martian Moon Deimos: Facts About the Smaller Martian Moon By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor | June 21, 2016 11:48pm ET MORE Images captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, reveal that the surface of Deimos is mostly smoooth, marred only by recent impact craters. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Mars is the only terrestrial planet to host multiple moons. The smaller of the two, the lumpy moon Deimos, bears more resemblance to an asteroid than to most of the moons in the solar system, a similarity that raises questions about its formation. Discovery and nomenclature On August 12, 1877, the focused search for Martian moons by American astronomer Asaph Hall resulted in the discovery of Deimos. Six days later, he identified the second Martian moon, Phobos . The existence of the moons had been suggested years before, when Johannes Kepler proposed that since Earth hosted one moon and Jupiter four (as only the Galilean moons were known at the time), Mars might have two moons in orbit around it. However, no signs of such moons existed until Hall undertook his careful search. Using a 26-inch refractor at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., Hall made a methodical study of the region around the red planet. Peering closer to Mars than previous astronomers, he found Deimos circling only 14,576 miles (23,458 kilometers) from the center of the planet, traveling around its equator. Phobos orbited even closer in. Their close proximity and small size had kept them hidden in the glare from the planet. Like many objects in the solar system, the Martian moons take their names from Greek mythology. In Homer's ancient poem, "The Iliad," Deimos (Flight) and Phobos (Fear) were the twin sons of Mars (Ares to the Greeks), and accompany him into battle. Exploring the moons Deep space mission planners are eying Deimos, a moon of Mars, as an exploration target for humans. Here, the path to reach the Martian moon is laid out. Credit: Lockheed Martin It took almost another century for scientists to begin to understand the two tiny Martian moons. In 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft became the first manmade satellite to orbit another planet. Images from the craft revealed that both Deimos and Phobos have lumpy, potato-like shapes, rather than being spherical like Earth's moon. Observations of Deimos were limited by the tidal locking of the moon to the planet, resulting in the same side always facing outward. As the exploration of continued, scientists were able to glean more information about the two tiny moons. The Viking orbiters flew by in the late 1970s, with the second orbiter passing within 19 miles (30 km) of Deimos. The Soviet Phobos 2 mission, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor , and the European Mars Express all provided more clues about the two curious moons. Rovers from the planet's surface even got in on the act, with Spirit and Opportunity and Curiosity all providing images from the ground . Formation and composition All of this information combined created a puzzling picture. The dark moons are made up of material similar to Type I or II carbonaceous chondrites, the substance of asteroids and dwarf planets such as Ceres. They are tiny, with the smaller Deimos having a radius of only 3.9 miles (6.2 km). This, combined with their potato-like shape, hints that both moons might be asteroids, pushed by Jupiter from the asteroid belt and snatched up by the gravity of Mars. But this is far from conclusive. The close orbit of Deimos is nearly circular. It travels around the equatorial plane of Mars in 30 hours, a little over a Martian day. To reach such a stable orbit would require braking by the atmosphere, but the atmosphere on the red planet is thinner than on Earth. Another possible origin for the moons is that dust and rock could have accreted, or drawn together, while in orbit around Mars. A third possibility includes a collision, much like the one that formed Earth's moon , with most of the large debris being shed from the planet's orbit, leaving behind only Deimos and P |
Which King of England was the father of both The Black Prince and John of Gaunt? | Death of John of Gaunt | History Today Death of John of Gaunt Richard Cavendish explains the life and death of Henry IV's father, on February 3rd, 1399 John of Gaunt 'Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster', who breathed his last in Leicester Castle on February 3rd, 1399, at the age of fifty-eight, was the son of Edward III, the brother of the Black Prince, the uncle of Richard II, the father of Henry IV and the grandfather of Henry V. Duke of Lancaster and a claimant to the throne of Castile, John of Gaunt (he was born in Ghent in 1340) was the richest nobleman and the greatest subject in England, the owner of huge estates and no fewer than thirty castles. His duchy was almost an independent state and at more or less a snap of the fingers he could raise 1,000 men-at-arms and 3,000 archers. He loved hunting and is reputed to have killed the last wild boar in England, near Rothwell in Yorkshire. Tall and well-built, he was an ardent pursuer of women, too, as well as the patron of Chaucer and John Wycliffe and the Carmelite friars. According to his biographer Anthony Goodman, Gaunt was possibly the most hated man in England, and he was a major target of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, when his luxurious palace of the Savoy in London was burned. He was inevitably an object of fear and suspicion to his overstrung, fastidious nephew Richard II (one of the first people ever to use a handkerchief, to general astonishment), who tried to inveigle him out of England altogether and away to France as Duke of Guyenne. On September 16th, 1398, Gaunt was at Coventry, with a large crowd which had gathered to watch a trial by battle between his son and heir, Henry Bolingbroke, and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, who had quarrelled so bitterly with mutual accusations of treason that the royal council had decided they would have to fight it out. At the last moment, when the two combatants appeared in the lists arrayed in magnificent armour ready to fight to the death, King Richard intervened, forbade the combat and banished both of them. Bolingbroke went to Paris, where he thought of going on crusade, but changed his mind, apparently having been told by the doctors that his father had not long to live. According to the earliest account of the Duke's last days in Leicester Castle, written in Scotland twenty years later, he took to his bed in 'a languor', partly caused by grief and anxiety over his son's exile. Richard visited the sick man and spoke him fair, but left with him some private documents. Whatever was in them, soon after they were read to him, he expired. Another account, not written until the 1440s, has the dying Gaunt showing the King how his genitals had rotted away with disease because of his insatiable appetite for women. His body was taken to London and buried in St Paul's Cathedral on March 16th, which was Passion Sunday. Two days after the funeral, Richard made Bolingbroke's banishment perpetual, but he had little time left himself. Bolingbroke returned in force in July 1400, seized the throne as Henry IV and had Richard murdered. Henry VII's claim to the English crown in 1485 ran back through John of Gaunt, and in Elizabeth I's time the Jesuit Robert Parsons argued that Philip II of Spain was the rightful monarch of England through his descent from Joaõ I of Portugal, who had married Gaunt's daughter Philippa. In Shakespeare's Richard II, however, it is Gaunt who speaks for England and the thrilling speech on 'this royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle...this precious stone set in a silver sea' is placed in his mouth. Related articles | house of Lancaster | English family | Britannica.com House of Lancaster aristocracy House of Lancaster, a cadet branch of the house of Plantagenet . In the 15th century it provided three kings of England—Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI—and, defeated by the house of York , passed on its claims to the Tudor dynasty . The family name first appeared in 1267, when the title of earl of Lancaster was granted to Edmund “Crouchback” (1245–96), the youngest son of Henry III . Two of Edmund’s sons by his second wife, Blanche of Artois, succeeded to the title: Thomas, earl of Lancaster (died 1322), and Henry, earl of Lancaster (died 1345). Henry’s son, Henry, 1st duke of Lancaster (died 1361), was survived only by two coheiresses. The elder daughter—Maud, married to William, duke of Bavaria—died without issue a year after her father. The Lancastrian inheritance thus fell to the younger daughter, Blanche, and to her husband, John of Gaunt (died 1399), third surviving son of Edward III . After Gaunt’s death his son Henry of Lancaster deposed Richard II and became king himself, as Henry IV . On his accession the duchy of Lancaster was merged in the crown, and the house of Lancaster, in the persons of Henry IV, Henry V , and Henry VI , ruled England for more than 60 years. |
In the popular folk song, from which port did the Irish Rover set sail? | CLANCY BROTHERS - THE IRISH ROVER LYRICS The Irish Rover Lyrics And the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and six We set sail from the port quay of Cork We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks For the grand City Hall in New York We'd a near-leaking craft, she was rigged fore and aft And how the trade winds drove her She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts And they called her the Irish Rover And there was Bobby McGee from the banks of the Leith There was Hogan from county Tyrone There was John D. McGirk, who was scared stiff of work And a chap from Westmeath named Malone We had Slugger O'Toole, who was drunk as a rule And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover And your man, Mick McCann, from the banks of the Bann Was the skipper of the Irish Rover We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags We had two million barrels of bone We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails We had four million barrels of stone We had five million hogs and six million dogs Seven million barrels of porter We had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides In the hold of the Irish Rover We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out And the ship lost her way in the fog And the whale of the crew was reduced down to two 'Twas meself and the captain's old dog Then the ship hit a rock, oh, Lord what a shock I nearly tumbled over Turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned I'm the last of the Irish Rover Unfortunately we're not authorized to show these lyrics. | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: November 2015 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League Set by The Park Tavern and the Brewers Q1 Great Britain is to appear in the Tennis Davis Cup final in which Belgian city? Ghent Q2 Once storms Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond and Eva have passed the UK, which will be next? Frank The current Ebola outbreak started in which African country? Guinea (Dec 2013) Where would you find Connexus and Versatile? On TV program The Apprentice (Teams names in the current TV series) Q5 Which actor has appeared as James Bond in exactly 2 official Bond films? Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, License to kill) Q6 According to Collins English Dictionary what has been chosen as the word of the year 2015? Binge-watch Q7 What is the tag line of the upcoming Star Wars film episode 7 of the series? The Force Awakens Who replaced Nick Hewer in the TV program The Apprentice? Claude Littner Q9 Which RAF base was in the news in October, owing to the arrival of ~140 migrants by boat? RAF Akrotiri (Cyprus) Q10 There is one remaining hovercraft service operating in the UK, from which city does it operate? Portsmouth (Southsea -> Ryde on the Isle of Wight) Q11 Baroness Dido Harding of Winscombe has been in the news recently, as the CEO of which company? Talk Talk Q12 Which British airline is celebrating its 20th Anniversary, flying its inaugural flight on November 10th 1995? EasyJet The Schengen Treaty takes its name from a village in which country? Luxembourg MP can stand for two things on an ordnance survey Map, name either? Mile Post or Mooring Post Q15 On a marine map what does HWM stand for? High Water Mark Which country is to host the next Winter Olympics in 2018? South Korea Who did Seb Coe succeed as head of the IAAF? Lamine Diack What is the third largest object in the solar system? Saturn (Sun, Jupiter, Saturn) Which man made object is furthest from Earth? Voyager 1 (allow Voyager) Q20 For his part in which 1953 film did Frank Sinatra receive a Best Supporting Actor Oscar? From Here to Eternity Which current world leader is sometimes known as Bibi? Benjamin Netanyahu Q22 Who has been recently sworn in as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister after winning a surprise majority? Justin Trudeau What is the longest motorway in the UK? M6 What is the longest A road in the UK? A1 Who is the shadow chancellor? John McDonnell Which building was built in 1093 to house the shrine of St Cuthbert? Durham Cathedral In which building would you find the famous Cosmati Pavement? Westminster Cathedral Who hosts 'Modern Life is Goodish'? Dave Gorman Frankie Fredericks represented which African country in athletics? Namibia Who hosts 'As yet untitled'? Alan Davies Who will be the new host of QI succeeding Stephen Fry? Sandi Toksvig What is the word used to describe an animal/plant that is both male and female? Hermaphrodite With which artistic medium would you associate Ansel Adams? Photography Which city is normally accepted as being the ancient capital of Wessex? Winchester Which group recorded the track 'Unfinished Symphony'? Massive Attack Which school featured in UK TV's 'Please Sir'? Fenn Street Q37 80s band Heaven 17 got their name from a well-known novel originally published in 1962. Name it? A Clockwork Orange - (by Anthony Burgess) Q38 Steely Dan got their name from which notorious novel originally published in 1959? The Naked Lunch (by William Burroughs) Q39 Wladimir Klitschko is a champion boxer from which country? Ukraine The 'Rockhampton Rocket' was a nickname given to which famous sportsman? Rod Laver Which British astronaut is going to the international space station in December? Tim Peake How many cantons make up Switzerland? 26 (accept 25 to 27) Q43 Which city was the imperial capital of Japan before Tokyo? Kyoto Saloth Sar born 19 May 1925 is better known by what name? Pol Pot What was discovered in 1799 by Pierre-François Bouchard a Napoleonic soldier? The Rosetta Stone 'I told you I was ill' are the words carved into whose gravestone? 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A ‘what’ Republic is a politically unstable country that is economically dependent on a single export commodity, and is usually governed by a dictator or the armed forces? | Banana republic - definition of banana republic by The Free Dictionary Banana republic - definition of banana republic by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/banana+republic Related to banana republic: gap , Zara banana republic n. A small country that is economically dependent on a single export commodity, such as bananas, and is typically governed by a dictator or the armed forces. banana republic n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) derogatory a small country, esp in Central America, that is politically unstable and has an economy dominated by foreign interest, usually dependent on one export, such as bananas banan′a repub`lic any small nation in the tropics whose economy is largely dependent on fruit exports. [1930–35] banana republic A small country with an economy that is highly dependent on a single crop or resource, and is often ruled by a dictator or miltary junta. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1. banana republic - a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas) country , land , state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" Translations | The French Fifth Republic: Against All Odds The French Fifth Republic: Against All Odds By Håkon Tranvåg Since the French Revolution in 1789, France has had five different republican systems. All of them have been the results of violent crises. The fifth and current one was an outcome of the Algerian crisis in the 1950’s. It withstood several assassinations attempts and rebellions, proving to be one the longest lasting and most stable political systems France has seen so far. In this article I seek to give a brief overview of how this happened. The First Republic began with the fall of King Louis XVI in 1792 and ended with Napoleon Bonaparte declaring himself emperor of the First French Empire in 1804. After Napoleon’s empire had ended, a period of monarchies followed, until the 1848 Revolution saw the birth of the Second Republic, paradoxically enough with the election of Napoleon’s own nephew, Napoleon III, as its first president. An apple never falls to far from the tree, and within just four years he had made himself emperor of the French Second Empire. The Second Empire collapsed in 1870 with the catastrophic war against the Prussians, which the French soundly lost. That same year, the Third Republic was created. This would prove to be the hitherto longest lasting of the French republics. But although the Third Republic had a long life, it was on the other hand quite unstable: In the period from 1929 to 1939, there were 18 different governments. The Third Republic ended in 1940 with the German occupation of France. The Fourth Republic was established after the war and officially put in place in 1946. It was in many respects a revival of the Third Republic, and thus suffered from a lot of of the same problems. But more acutely, it was confronted with the collapse of the French Colonial Empire, and in particular the Algerian War, which began in 1954. The Fourth Republic had successfully lead France to an economic recovery after WWII, but proved itself incapable of resolving the conflict in Algeria. As the French generals and army section stationed in there feared that the government in Paris would abandon them and strike a deal with the Algerian independence movement, the FLN, they took control over the French administration and forces in Algeria, and issued a poorly hidden threat of a coming coup d’état: If the French government failed to give them the support they needed, they “could not predict the army’s reaction.” They then followed this up by taking control of Corsica to force the president to the negotiation table. The generals wanted the former leader of the Free French Forces, Charles de Gaulle, as new head of government to ensure support for the war. It was now a straightforward threat: If de Gaulle wasn’t given the position they would land paratroopers in Paris and seize the city. The president’s hands were tied, and de Gaulle was named head of government. In June 1958 the Parliament dissolved itself and the constitution. De Gaulle now led the forging a new constitution, and by the end of the summer the result was presented to the French people for a referendum. On September 28th a vast majority approved of the constitution, thus commencing the Fifth Republic. In December that year de Gaulle became it’s first elected president. The main problem with the two preceding republics had been that the executive branch was too weak. Governments struggled to achieve a majority; they relied on coalitions and alliances, and were often forced to resign. Further, the political parties were poorly organised, thus making the political game even more complicated. De Gaulle De Gaulle was well aware of all this, and keen to change it. The Fifth Republic was to have a strong executive power. The Prime minister and his cabinet would be less dependent on the Parliament, but more importantly, the President was given considerable authorities: He would be elected by an electoral college and not by the people directly, he appointed the Prime minister, could rule by decree in times of crisis and he could dissolve Parliament and c |
Cassius Chaerea led the assassination of which Roman emperor during the Palatine games in January 41AD? | Roman Emperors - DIR Caligula Pennsylvania State University Introduction Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (b. A.D. 12, d. A.D. 41, emperor A.D. 37-41) represents a turning point in the early history of the Principate. Unfortunately, his is the most poorly documented reign of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The literary sources for these four years are meager, frequently anecdotal, and universally hostile. [[1]] As a result, not only are many of the events of the reign unclear, but Gaius himself appears more as a caricature than a real person, a crazed megalomaniac given to capricious cruelty and harebrained schemes. Although some headway can be made in disentangling truth from embellishment, the true character of the youthful emperor will forever elude us. Gaius's Early Life and Reign Gaius was born on 31 August, A.D. 12, probably at the Julio-Claudian resort of Antium (modern Anzio), the third of six children born to Augustus's adopted grandson, Germanicus , and Augustus's granddaughter, Agrippina . As a baby he accompanied his parents on military campaigns in the north and was shown to the troops wearing a miniature soldier's outfit, including the hob-nailed sandal called caliga, whence the nickname by which posterity remembers him. [[2]] His childhood was not a happy one, spent amid an atmosphere of paranoia, suspicion, and murder. Instability within the Julio-Claudian house, generated by uncertainty over the succession, led to a series of personal tragedies. When his father died under suspicious circumstances on 10 October A.D. 19, relations between his mother and his grand-uncle, the emperor Tiberius , deteriorated irretrievably, and the adolescent Gaius was sent to live first with his great-grandmother Livia in A.D. 27 and then, following Livia 's death two years later, with his grandmother Antonia . Shortly before the fall of Tiberius's Praetorian Prefect, Sejanus, in A.D. 31 he was summoned to join Tiberius at his villa on Capri, where he remained until his accession in A.D. 37. In the interim, his two brothers and his mother suffered demotion and, eventually, violent death. Throughout these years, the only position of administrative responsibility Gaius held was an honorary quaestorship in A.D. 33. [[3]] When Tiberius died on 16 March A.D. 37, Gaius was in a perfect position to assume power, despite the obstacle of Tiberius's will, which named him and his cousin Tiberius Gemellus joint heirs. (Gemellus's life was shortened considerably by this bequest, since Gaius ordered him killed within a matter of months.) Backed by the Praetorian Prefect Q. Sutorius Macro, Gaius asserted his dominance. He had Tiberius's will declared null and void on grounds of insanity, accepted the powers of the Principate as conferred by the Senate, and entered Rome on 28 March amid scenes of wild rejoicing. His first acts were generous in spirit: he paid Tiberius's bequests and gave a cash bonus to the Praetorian Guard, the first recorded donativum to troops in imperial history. He honored his father and other dead relatives and publicly destroyed Tiberius's personal papers, which no doubt implicated many of the Roman elite in the destruction of Gaius's immediate family. Finally, he recalled exiles and reimbursed those wronged by the imperial tax system [[4]] . His popularity was immense. Yet within four years he lay in a bloody heap in a palace corridor, murdered by officers of the very guard entrusted to protect him. What went wrong? Gaius's "Madness" The ancient sources are practically unanimous as to the cause of Gaius's downfall: he was insane. The writers differ as to how this condition came about, but all agree that after his good start Gaius began to behave in an openly autocratic manner, even a crazed one. [[5]] Outlandish stories cluster about the raving emperor, illustrating his excessive cruelty, immoral sexual escapades, or disrespect toward tradition and the Senate. The sources describe his incestuous relations with his sisters, laughable military campaigns in the north, the building of a pontoon bridge across the Bay at Baiae | Useful dates in British history First recorded sighting of Halley's comet BC55 Aug 27: Caesar's first British expedition (second in BC54) BC49 Jan 10 (of the Roman calendar): Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war BC46 Caesar institutes the Julian calendar by adding 90 days to the end of this year (came into force in January BC45) BC45 Jan 1: The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time BC44 Mar 15: Caesar assassinated in Rome BC27 Jan 16: The title Augustus bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian BC/AD Since the Romans had no zero, there was no year AD0 (see AD525 ) AD43 Roman Conquest of Britain begun by Emperor Claudius � Camulodunum (Colchester) captured and becomes first Roman Base in England AD47 Jun: Great fire of Rome, lasted 9 days (Nero fiddles, etc!) AD69 Year of the four emperors in Rome: Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian AD79 Aug 24: (some say Oct 24) Mount Vesuvius erupts � the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash c80�85 Campaign of Agricola in southern Scotland c85 Battle of Mons Graupius, massive defeat of Caledonians by Roman forces 115 Roman Empire reaches its greatest extent under Trajan 122 Sep: Building of Hadrian's Wall begins (completed AD126) c140 Antonine Wall built in central Scotland (completed circa AD143) c150 Around this time, the Christian churches decided to express their divergence from the Roman system by starting the year on a different date, 25th March (this being the 'date of conception' of Christ in order for his birth to have been on 25th December) � see also 1582 180 Beginning of the 'decline of the Roman Empire' (Gibbon) � Defeat of Romans in Caledonia � they retreat behind Hadrian's Wall 20711 Campaign of Severus in southern Scotland 247 1,000th anniversary of founding of Rome 304 St Alban first Christian martyr in Britain [Bede implies some date between 303 and 313] 321 Emperor Constantine I decrees a day of rest each week in the Roman Empire and calls it 'Sunday' 325 Council of Nicaea establishes basic Christian dogma c350 St Ninian first to preach Christian religion in Scotland, arrives Solway Firth 367 Invasion of northern England by Picts and Scots 406/412 Probable end of Roman military occupation of Britain 418 'The Romans gathered all the gold-hords there were in Britain; some they hid in the earth so that no man might find them, and some they took with them to Gaul' � Anglo-Saxon Chronicles c400 � c600 Migration and settlement of Angles, Jutes and Saxons 432 St Patrick begins mission to Ireland 449 Beginning of invasions by Jutes, Angles and Saxons � Hengist and Horsa invade 'The Angles were invited here by king Vortigern, and they came to Britain in three longships, landing at Ebbesfleet. [He] gave them territory in the southeast of this land on the condition that they fight the Picts. This they did, and had victory wherever they went. Then they sent to Angel and commanded more aid � they soon sent hither a greater host to help the others. Then came the men of three Germanic tribes: Old Saxons, Angles and Jutes. Of the Jutes come the people of Kent and the Isle of Wight; of the Old Saxons come the East-Saxons, South-Saxons and West-Saxons; of the Angles come the East Anglians, Middle Anglians, Mercians and all Northumbrians. Their war-leaders were two brothers, Hengist and Horsa � first of all they killed and drove away the king's enemies, then later they turned on the king and the British [mid-450s], destroying through fire and the sword's edge.' � Anglo-Saxon Chronicles 467 Chinese observe Halley's comet c490 British check Anglo-Saxon advance at siege of Mount Badon (site unknown) date uncertain: other sources say 520 and/or c.495, or simply 'some time in the decade before or after 500' c500 Irish "Scots" arrived in western Scotland 525 (some say in 526, 532 or 534) 'Dennis the Short' (Dionysius Exiguous) calculates the date of the birth |
What was on the banned 'B' side of Jasper Carrot's 1975 hit record Funky Moped? | jasper carrot magic roundabout - YouTube jasper carrot magic roundabout 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. Uploaded on Sep 5, 2009 jasper carrot magic roundabout funny Category | Billy J. Kramer’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm Listeners Biography Billy J. Kramer (born William Howard Ashton, on August 19, 1943, in Bootle, Liverpool, England) was a British Invasion / Merseybeat singer. He is known today primarily as the singer of various Lennon-McCartney compositions that The Beatles did not use. Early career The performing name Kramer was chosen at random from a telephone directory. It was John Lennon's suggestion that the "J" be added to the name to further distinguish him by adding a 'tougher edge'. Billy soon came to the attention of Brian Epstein, ever on the look-out for new talent to add to his expanding roster of local artists. Kramer turned professional but his then backing band, The Coasters, were less keen, so Epstein sought out the services of a Manchester based band, The Dakotas, a well-respected combo then backing Pete MacLaine. Even then, The Dakotas would not join Kramer without a recording deal of their own. Once in place, the deal was set and both acts signed to Parlophone under George Martin. Collectively, they were named Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas to keep their own identities within the act. Once the Beatles broke through, the way was paved for a tide of "Merseybeat" and Kramer was offered the chance to cover a song first released by the Beatles on their own debut album, Please Please Me. The track had been allegedly turned down by Shane Fenton (later Alvin Stardust) who was looking for a career reviving hit. Success With record producer George Martin, the song "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" was a number two UK Singles Chart hit in 1963, and was backed by another tune otherwise unreleased by The Beatles, "I'll Be on My Way". After this impressive breakthrough another Lennon/McCartney pairing "Bad to Me" c/w "I Call Your Name" reached number one. "I'll Keep You Satisfied" ended the year with a respectable number four placing. Billy was given a series of songs specially written for him by John Lennon and Paul McCartney which launched him into stardom and a proper place in the history of Rock and Roll. I'll Keep You Satisfied, From A Window, I Call Your Name and Bad to Me all became international million sellers for Billy, and won him appearances on the TV shows Shindig!, Hullabaloo and The Ed Sullivan Show. The Dakotas , meanwhile, enjoyed Top 20 success in 1963 on their own with Mike Maxfield's composition "The Cruel Sea", an instrumental retitled "The Cruel Surf" in the U.S., which was subsequently covered by The Ventures. This was followed by a George Martin creation, "Magic Carpet", evoking a dreamy atmosphere with a subtle echo laden piano, playing the melody alongside Maxfield's guitar. But it missed out altogether and it was a year before their next release. All four tracks appeared on a highly-collectable EP later that year. The three big hits penned by Lennon and McCartney meant that Kramer was always seemingly in the Beatles' shadow, unless he did tried something different. Despite being advised against it, he insisted on recording the Stateside chart hit "Little Children" - the lyrics were allegedly about getting his girlfriend's brothers and sisters out of the way so they could make love. It became his second chart topper and biggest hit. It was Kramer's only major hit outside of the UK. In the U.S., this was followed up with "Bad to Me" which reached number nine. Despite this success Kramer went backwards with his second and last UK single of 1964; another Lennon/McCartney cast-off "From A Window", which only just became a Top Ten hit. After the peak The year 1965 saw the end for the Merseybeat boom, and the next Kramer single was "It's Gotta Last Forever", which harked back to a ballad approach. In a year where mod-related music from the likes of The Who prevailed, the single missed completely. Kramer's cover of "Trains and Boats and Planes" saw off Anita Harris' cover version only to find itself in direct competition with its composer, Burt Bacharach's effort, which won the day. Kramer's effort still reached a |
From which disease did Robert the Bruce die? | King Robert the Bruce of Scotland | Britroyals Name: King Robert the Bruce of Scotland Father: Robert de Brus Mother: Marjory Countess of Carrick Relation to Elizabeth II: 19th great-grandfather House of: Bruce Born: July 11, 1274 at Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire Ascended to the throne: February 10, 1306 aged 31 years Crowned: March 27, 1306 at Scone Abbey, Perthshire Married:(1) Isabella of Mar, 1295 Married:(2) Elizabeth de Burgh, 1302 Children: Marjorie, David, John, Matlida, Margaret plus several illegitimate Died: June 7, 1329, at Cardross, Dumbartonshire, aged 54 years, 10 months, and 26 days Buried at: Dunfermline Abbey (body) and Melrose Abbey (heart) Succeeded by: his son David After Balliol�s abdication in 1296 Scotland was without a monarch for 10 years and ruled remotely by King Edward I of England. Scots national resistance developed into a war of independence in which William Wallace and then Robert Bruce played a leading role. Wallace won a victory over the English at Stirling Bridge in 1297 and proclaimed himself Guardian of Scotland. The following year Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated William Wallace at Falkirk. Wallace went underground but was captured and in 1305, tried and hung in London. In 1298 Robert Bruce took over the title of Guardian of Scotland and, having killed his rival John Comyn, claimed the throne as the great-great grandson of David I and in 1306 had himself crowned king at Scone as Robert I. Independence was made easier by the death of Edward I as he set out to claim back Scotland. Bruce set about removing the English from Scotland and by early 1314 Stirling was the only castle in English hands. An English army sent to break the siege was routed by Bruce�s smaller Scottish force at Bannockburn in June 1314. Six year later in 1320 Bruce and the Scottish nobles issued the Declaration of Arbroath asserting Scottish Independence �For as longs as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise consent to submit to the rule of the English, for it is not for glory that we fight � but for freedom alone.�. However, a truce with Edward II of England failed to stop hostilities which continued until Edward II was deposed in 1327. The Treaty of Edinburgh between Robert I and Edward III in 1328 recognised Scotland's independence, ending the 30 years of Wars of Independence. Edward agreed to the marriage of Robert Bruce�s son David to his younger sister Joan daughter of Edward II. Robert Bruce died at his house in Cardross a year later of a serious illness described by some as leprosy. Timeline for King Robert the Bruce of Scotland Year | Walter Scott Biography - life, family, childhood, children, name, story, history, school, young, son Walter Scott Biography Abbotsford, Scotland Scottish author The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott is recognized as the master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential authors of modern times. Early life Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 15, 1771, the son of a lawyer with a long family tradition in law. By birth Scott was connected with both the rising middle class of Britain and the aristocratic (ruling class) Scottish heritage then passing into history. As a child, Scott battled polio, a disease that attacks children and impairs their development. Despite the ailment, Scott did enjoy a relatively active and happy childhood. During these years he developed a deep interest in literature and reading, especially the folk tales and legends of his native Scotland. Scott was educated at Edinburgh University and prepared for a career in law, but his true passions lay in history and literature. During his years at the university, he read widely in English and Continental literatures, particularly medieval and Renaissance romances from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. He also enjoyed German romantic poetry and fiction, and the narrative folk poems known as ballads. Translations and poetry From these intense interests Scott's earliest publications developed: a translation of Walter Scott. J. W. von Goethe's (1749–1832) play Götz von Berlichingen (1799) and other translations from German; Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–1803), a collection of ballads that generated great interest in folk poetry; and a succession of narrative poems, mainly of historical action. These poems—including The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810)—became best sellers, and Scott established his first literary reputation as a poet of the romantic school, an artistic movement developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During these years Scott also pursued a legal career, rising to the official position of clerk of the Court of Session. His enormous energies allowed him to engage in scholarly and journalistic activities. His edition and biography of John Dryden (1631–1700), the English poet and dramatist, published in 1808, remains of value. His politically motivated founding of the Quarterly Review, a literary journal, helped make Edinburgh the most influential center of British intellectual life outside London. In these years Scott also began to create an estate, Abbotsford. He modeled its furnishings and architecture on the traditions of the medieval era (c. 470– 1470 C.E. , also known as the Middle Ages). Waverley novels When sales of Scott's verse narrative Rokeby (1813) declined and a new poet, Lord Byron (1788–1824), appeared on the literary scene, Scott began to develop another of his many talents. Picking up the fragment of a novel he had begun in 1805, he tried his hand at fiction, and his most fully characteristic novel, Waverley (1814), resulted. As its subtitle, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, established, Waverley was a historical novel about the 1745 rebellion to restore the Stuart line to the British throne. By leading a young and foolish Englishman through a wide range of Scottish classes, political factions (rival groups), and cultural modes, Scott built up a substantial picture of an entire nation's life at a dramatic historical period. The success of Waverley established Scott in the career of a novelist, but it did not establish his name in that role. Unwilling to invest his career in fiction, he had published Waverley anonymously (without the author's name). Finding that the mask of anonymity had stimulated public interest, Scott signed |
Which London theatre has the same name as a silvery, white metal with the atomic number 46 ? | Types of Metal Types of Metal Aluminium Aluminium is a widely used light weight metal. Raw aluminium is not very strong and it is therefore often alloyed with silicon. Normally about 1% silicon is used, but for casting alloys the silicon content can be up to 12%. Raw aluminium has poor corrosive resistance, but thanks to a protective self generating oxide layer, the material can be used in corrosive environments. The quality of the oxide layer can be controled through an anodizing process, and in this way achieve decorative effects and improve corrosion protection. Foamed Aluminium Very light aluminium structures can be formed using foamed aluminium. By mixing the aluminium with titanium hydride before casting, hydrogen gas foams the aluminium. The surface is porous, but can be covered with an extra layer of solid aluminium. Unlike honeycombe aluminium structures, the material can be used within the same temperature range as solid aluminium, i.e. also at higher temperatures. Bismuth Bismuth is a chemical element that has the symbol Bi and atomic number 83. This heavy, brittle, white crystalline trivalent poor metal has a pink tinge and chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. Of all the metals, it is the most naturally dia-magnetic, only mercury has a lower thermal conductivity. Bismuth compounds are used in cosmetics and in medical procedures. As the toxicity of lead has become more apparent in recent years, alloy uses for bismuth metal as a replacement for lead have become an increasing part of bismuth's commercial importance. Brass Brass is a yellow alloy used in musical instruments, rifle cartridges and cutlery (under silver plating).Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. Brass with a lower zinc content (30%) has an excellent formability and is often referred to as cartridge brass. Higher zinc contents gives good casting and machining properties. Bronze Bronze is a reddish alloy used in church bells, casted sculptures, canons and in bearings. It has a reasonable hardness, good weather resistance and is easy to cast. The major alloying element in bronze is always copper. Normally the other major alloying element is tin but it can also be other metals like nickel. Cadmium Cadmium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. A relatively rare, soft, bluish-white, transition metal, cadmium is known to cause cancer and occurs with zinc ores. Cadmium is used largely in batteries and pigments, e.g.,in plastic products. Chromium Chromium is used in chromium plating for decoration and corrosion as well as wear protection. It is also used as an alloying element in stainless steel. The most common form of chromium is very hard and brittle up to 700 C, and only over this temperature becomes ductile. Pure chromium is ductile, but is only produced in laboratory scale. Chromium is resistant to corrosion and oxidation up to 1100 C, due to an resistant film that develops on the surface of the metal. These properties are transferred to alloys which contains chromium in sufficient amounts. Cobalt is a hard, lustrous, silver-grey metal, a chemical element with symbol Co. It is found in various ores, and is used in the preparation of magnetic, wear-resistant, and high-strength alloys. Its compounds are used in the production of inks, paints, and varnishes. Copper A red, moderately expensive and fairly soft material. Excelent electric conductivity and therefore used in electric wires. Easy to shape and used for water pipes, roof plates and in older cooking equipment.Copper is the dominant alloying element in brass (together with zinc) and bronze (normally together with tin). Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from the Latin aurum) and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal which, for many centuries, has been used as money, a store of value and in jewellery. The metal occurs as nuggets or grains in rocks, underground "veins" and in alluvial deposits. It is one of the coinage metals. Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile of the know | Safety checks at London's historic theatres after ceiling collapse | Reuters Fri Dec 20, 2013 | 7:06 PM EST Safety checks at London's historic theatres after ceiling collapse By Belinda Goldsmith | LONDON LONDON Historic theatres in London's West End were undergoing checks on Friday after the ceiling of one collapsed, injuring dozens and raising fears about safety at some of the world's oldest and most elegant playhouses. Up to 90 people were injured, seven seriously, after a section of ornate plaster ceiling measuring about 10 meters (33 feet) by 10 meters fell onto the audience at the 112-year-old Apollo Theatre during an evening performance on Thursday. Some of the 720-strong audience watching the popular play "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" told Reuters of panic and screams as the ceiling collapsed, filling the theatre with dust as they rushed for the exits. It was the worst accident in London's main theatre district in 40 years, since part of a ceiling at the Shaftesbury Theatre fell in 1973, forcing the closure of the long-running musical "Hair". The Shaftesbury opened in 1911. Mayor of London Boris Johnson said investigations into the cause of the ceiling collapse at the Apollo were continuing. Westminster City Council and the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) had assured him that safety checks were up-to-date at all the West End's 30 or so theatres. "But, as a precaution, further checks have already started and will continue throughout the day," Johnson said. Some of the theatres date back to the 19th century and feature plush red velvet seating, ornate plaster ceilings, massive chandeliers and royal boxes. A spokesman for SOLT said all major theatre owners met on Friday and confirmed their safety inspections and certificates were current, adding that such incidents were extremely rare. "(They) will co-operate fully with the authorities to reassure the public that their theatres are safe," the spokesman said in a statement. While the Apollo - situated in Shaftesbury Avenue, in the heart of the West End - will be closed this weekend, all other London theatres remain open for business. London's West End is one of the world's largest and most prestigious theatre districts, rivaling New York's Broadway and entertaining over 32,000 people in central London every night, including many tourists. Annual attendances total 14 million. SOLT estimates the 52 major theatres across London and countless smaller venues account for about 41,000 jobs in the capital, bringing in 2 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) a year. But with many auditoriums aging, the industry has called repeatedly over the past decade for public investment to bring them up-to-date. A 2003 report by the Theatres Trust called for 250 million pounds to be ploughed into the venues. "It got quite close to the government funding them and then the (2012 London) Olympics happened and the money went away," Alistair Smith, deputy editor of industry newspaper The Stage, told Reuters. "The theatre industry has been aware of the need for some kind of public funding for theatres, not necessarily for safety reasons but to ensure these historic buildings are still around for another century or so." (Editing by Catherine Evans) ADVERTISEMENT 1/8 The stage door light is seen at the back of the Apollo theatre on the morning after part of it's ceiling collapsed on spectators as they watched a performance, in central London, December 20, 2013. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett + 2/8 A police officer stands on duty next to a notice board is wrapped in police tape outside the Apollo theatre on the morning after part of it's ceiling collapsed on spectators as they watched a performance, in central London, December 20, 2013. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett + 3/8 A notice board is wrapped in police tape outside the Apollo theatre on the morning after part of it's ceiling collapsed on spectators as they watched a performance, in central London, December 20, 2013. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett + 4/8 People receive medical attention on a bus after part of the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre on |
In 1976, which Italian town was the scene of a toxic gas leak, containing the poison, Dioxin? | The story of the poisoning of Seveso, Italy Dioxin: Seveso disaster testament to effects of dioxin Third in a series By MICK CORLISS Staff writer MILAN, Italy-- Today, birds chatter in the trees and people take Sunday strolls along the paths of Bosco delle Querce, or Seveso Oak Forest park. One would not suspect that beneath the lush green carpet and vegetation lurk the poisonous remains of a chemical disaster nearly 23 years ago. The origin of the park, roughly 15 km north of Milan in Italy's Lombardy region, can be traced back to the afternoon of July 10, 1976. A little after noon that Saturday, a valve broke at the Industrie Chimiche Meda Societa Azionaria chemical plant in Meda, releasing a cloud of chemicals containing dioxin that wafted an estimated 50 meters into the sky. Carried southeast by the wind, the toxic cloud enshrouded the municipality of Seveso and other communities in the area. About 3,000 kg of chemicals were released into the air, according to some researchers. Among them was 2,4,5 trichlorophenol, used in the manufacture of herbicides, and anywhere from about 100 grams to 20 kg of dioxin, said Dr. Paolo Mocarelli of the Hospital of Desio. The accident was not immediately noticed. No one was at the plant when it happened and ICMESA -- the company responsible -- failed to swiftly address the event. The first sign of health problems, burn-like skin lesions, appeared on children a few hours after the accident. Beginning in September of that year, chloracne, a severe skin disorder usually associated with dioxin, broke out on some of the people most exposed to the cloud. Authorities began an investigation five days after the accident, when animals such as rabbits began to die en masse. Nearly two weeks later, a chemist deduced that the cause was dioxin. And within three weeks, some 736 people living closest to the plant were evacuated. About 37,000 people are believed to have been exposed to the chemicals, according to researchers familiar with the case. Approximately 4 percent of local farm animals died, and those that didn't -- roughly 80,000 animals -- were killed to prevent contamination from filtering up the food chain. The affected areas were divided and subdivided based on soil contamination levels. Zone A -- the most contaminated area, covering 110 hectares -- was completely evacuated and was later turned into the park it is today, Seveso Oak Forest. In Zones B and R, the next-most contaminated areas, farming as well as consumption of local agricultural goods and meats were strictly prohibited. Not only did exposure to one of the most toxic chemicals known to humanity change the lay of the land and the lives of local people, it also altered the life of Dr. Mocarelli. Mocarelli was put in charge of a laboratory set up two weeks after the accident to test people for health problems. The first day on the job, he initiated a series of tests that today have surpassed 1 million, he said. At the time of the accident, the technical knowhow for testing dioxin concentrations in people did not exist, so Mocarelli's lab ran neurological, obstetric and other tests on those believed to have been exposed. "I got the inspiration to save one sample (of blood from each person)." "(Samples) like this more or less," he says holding his hand in front of his face and indicating the fingernail of his pinkie to show an amount of roughly 1 milliliter. "Just in case it would be possible to measure TCDD (dioxin) someday." Fortunately, this became possible in 1987, the doctor said. Now the nearly 30,000 samples Mocarelli put in the refrigerator following the accident are paying research dividends as he works with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered in Atlanta, to unravel the accident and its implications more than two decades later. The Seveso accident is likely the most systematically studied dioxin contamination incident in history and, in Mocarelli's words, a chance experiment on human beings. The chance experiment has shed light on the threat dio | Otello: Synopsis Lodivico, Bass, Ambassador of the Venetian republic Soldiers and sailors from Venice and the people of Cyprus. The Opera takes place at the end of the Fifteenth Century. It occurs in a seaport in Cyprus. Act I a seaport in Cyprus. It is night and a storm rages. The Cypriots are gathered at the harbor awaiting the arrival of Otello's ship. The storm grows in intensity as the safety of the ship is in doubt. Women from the island join the men in a chorus calling upon God to deliver the ship and their General (Dio, fulgor della bufera!). The mainsail breaks and the ship heads toward the breakers. The crowd cries for help as Iago comments to Roderigo, "Let the sea be her tomb!" At that moment, the ship is saved to everyone's reflief. Otello bursts upon the scene proclaiming victory over the Turks. (Esultate!) The Cypriots join in the cheers proclaiming, "Long Live Otello!" The storm begins to disperse. Iago approaches Roderigo and asks about his thoughts (Roderigo, ebben). Roderigo is upset about Desdemona and how to win her love. Iago promises Desdemona to him: "No woman's weak vow is too difficult for my talents." He adds that the reason for his hatred of the Moor is Cassio. "Cassio usurped my rank - rank I earned many times over in battle." He adds, "I would not want an Iago around me." He leads Roderigo upstage to plot their course as a bonfire begins to blaze and roar. The Cypriots gather around it praising the fire (Fuoco di gioa). Iago calls upon Roderigo to fetch more wine for Cassio (Roderigo, beviam!). Cassio protests that he has had enough wine. Iago goads him into drinking more by toasting the marriage of Otello and Desdemona. Cassio praises Desdemona's radiance as Iago tells Roderigo to beware of Cassio: "He will get in your path. If he gets drunk, well, he is lost! Make him drink." Iago begins the brindisi (Inaffia l'ugola!) (1). Roderigo keeps filling Cassio's cup. The crowd joins the lively song as Iago and Roderigo succeed - Cassio becomes drunk. Iago tells Roderigo to start a quarrel with Cassio. Montano arrives to escort Cassio to his turn at guarding the castle. Cassio staggers toward Montano who inquires, "What do I see?" Iago retorts that Cassio is like this every evening. Montano says that Otello should be informed of this. Roderigo laughs at Cassio, who charges him as the two trade insults. Montano separates them, but is drawn into the brawl by Cassio. The crowd also joins in the foray as sword fights and general mayhem becomes the rule of thumb. Iago commands Roderigo to spread confusion and horror through the harbor. Iago then calls for the fighting to end. Montano is wounded as alarms sound and the chaos spreads. Otello bursts upon the scene, commanding everyone to drop their weapons (Abbasso... le spade!). He asks Iago to explain what has happened. Iago claims ignorance and adds, "I would rather have lost my legs than have them carry me to this sight." Otello turns on Cassio and asks how he could have forgotten himself so. He offers no explanation and instead asks for pardon. Otello discovers that Montano has been wounded. His anger increases. Desdemona enters as Otello strips Cassio of his rank. Iago declares triumph as Otello orders him to restore peace to the village. He then orders the area cleared immediately. The scene empties and Verdi begins one of the most expansive love duets he wrote. The duet is divided into three main sections. Otello declares that silence has finally arrived (Già nella notte densa). He rejoices in the embrace of his spouse and her love for him. Desdemona praises her superb warrior. She also remembers the lonely evenings apart and rejoices in their embrace. The duet turns to talk of their courtship (Quando narravi). Otello describes the battles he had told her about. She adds also of the time he spent as a slave. Desdemona praises him for the dangers he survived and Otello says he loved her for it. The mood changes as Otello is caught up in the esctasy of the moment (Venga la morte!). They both pray that their love will be eternal. Otello asks for a ki |
What word is given to the thin leather straps used in falconry to tether the bird ? | JESSES CAFE AMERICAIN | JESSES CAFE AMERICAIN JESSES CAFE AMERICAIN Jesses Cafe Americain cafe americain Cafe Americain is an American sitcom starring Valerie Bertinelli which aired on NBC during the 1993-1994 television season. It was filmed at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California. jesses Jesses (singular “jess”) are thin straps, traditionally made from leather, used to tether a hawk or falcon in falconry. They allow a falconer to keep control of a bird while it is on the glove or in training, and allow a bird to be secured on a perch outside of its aviary. (Jess®) Jess® is a rule engine for the Java platform – it is a superset of CLIPS programming language, developed by Ernest Friedman-Hill of Sandia National Labs. It was first written in late 1995. A short leather strap that is fastened around each leg of a hawk, usually also having a ring or swivel to which a leash may be attached (Jess (fictional cat)) Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children’s television series first produced by Woodland Animations. jesses cafe americain – Bobby Flay's Bobby Flay's Bar Americain Cookbook: Celebrate America's Great Flavors When Bobby Flay looks at a map of the United States, he doesn’t see states—he sees ingredients: wild Alaskan king salmon, tiny Maine blueberries, fiery southwestern chiles. The Food Network celebrity and renowned chef-restaurateur created his Bar Americain restaurants as our country’s answer to French bistros—to celebrate America’s regional flavors and dishes, interpreted as only Bobby Flay can. Now you can rediscover American cuisine at home with the recipes in Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain Cookbook. Start with a Kentucky 95—a riff on a classic French cocktail but made with bourbon—and Barbecued Oysters with Black Pepper–Tarragon Butter. Choose from sumptuous soups and salads, including a creamy clam chowder built on a sweet potato base, and Kentucky ham and ripe figs over a bed of arugula dressed with molasses-mustard dressing. Entrees will fill your family family-style, from red snapper with a crisp skin of plantains accompanied by avocado, mango, and black beans to a host of beef steaks, spice-rubbed and accompanied by side dishes such as Brooklyn hash browns and cauliflower and goat cheese gratin. Bar Americain’s famed brunch dishes and irresistible desserts round out this collection of America’s favorite flavors. Bobby also shares his tips for stocking your pantry with key ingredients for everyday cooking, as well as expert advice on essential kitchen equipment and indispensable techniques. With more than 110 recipes and 110 full-color photographs, Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain Cookbook shares Bobby’s passion for fantastic American food and will change the way any cook looks at our country’s bounty. Featured Recipe: Sweet Potato Gratin Definitely decadent, this sweet potato gratin is destined to become a do-or-die part of your family’s holiday spread. Cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg perfume the cream with their warm flavors and seep their rich taste of fall into each layer. A mandoline makes quick work of slicing the potatoes and is worth the investment for the time it will save you in prep work. Don’t forget to remove the cover for the last portion of baking time–the browned and bubbling crust is not to be missed. Yield 8 servings 4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced 1?8 inch thick on a mandoline Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper Preheat the oven to 375°F. Whisk together the cream, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg until smooth. In a 10-inch square baking dish, arrange an even layer of sweet potatoes. Drizzle with a few tablespoons of the cream mixture and season with salt and pepper. Repeat with the remaining potatoes and cream, seasoning with salt and pepper, to form 8 to 10 layers. Press down on the layers to totally submerge the sweet potatoes in the cream mixture. Cover and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the cover and continue baking until the cream has been absorbed, the potatoes are cooked through, and the top is browned, 30 to 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and let rest for 1 | Group Names for Birds Group Names for Birds: A Partial List By Terry Ross A bevy of quail A bouquet of pheasants [when flushed] A brood of hens A building of rooks A cast of hawks [or falcons] A charm of finches A colony of penguins A company of parrots A congregation of plovers A cover of coots A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans] A deceit of lapwings A descent of woodpeckers A dissimulation of birds A dole of doves An exaltation of larks A fall of woodcocks A flight of swallows [or doves, goshawks, or cormorants] A gaggle of geese [wild or domesticated] A host of sparrows A kettle of hawks [riding a thermal] A murmuration of starlings A murder of crows A muster of storks A nye of pheasants [on the ground] An ostentation of peacocks A paddling of ducks [on the water] A parliament of owls A party of jays A peep of chickens A pitying of turtledoves A raft of ducks A rafter of turkeys A siege of herons A skein of geese [in flight] A sord of mallards A spring of teal A tidings of magpies A trip of dotterel An unkindness of ravens A watch of nightingales A wedge of swans [or geese, flying in a "V"] A wisp of snipe Any of these group names may properly be used by birders who wish to display their erudition, although it is probably linguistically inaccurate (and it certainly is bad manners) to upbraid someone who refers to "a bunch of ravens" by saying, "Surely you mean `an unkindness of ravens,' my good fellow." Most of these terms date back at least 500 years. Some of them have been in continuous use since then; others have gone out of fashion and been resurrected in the last century or two; still others only exist on lists. Most of these terms are listed in James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks. Lipton's list is substantially based on very old sources. There were manuscript lists of group names in the 15th century, and these lists appeared in some of the first books printed in England. Many of them make their first appearance in John Lydgate's Debate between the Horse, Goose, and Sheep (1440); and Lydgate's terms along with others appear in The Book of Hawking and Hunting (also known as The Book of St. Albans) by Dame Juliana Barnes (1486). Whether Lydgate and Barnes coined any of these terms, or whether they were setting down the terms that were considered proper in their day is not known. Many of the terms did catch on, and the lists they appeared on were frequently reprinted. The best source I know for investigating the histories of English words is the Oxford English Dictionary. Unfortunately, on the question whether these terms ever were or still are appropriate, the OED is not entirely helpful. To make sense of the matter, I have placed the group names into groups-- GROUP A--The following group names are standard: A bevy of quail A bouquet of pheasants A brood of hens A cast of hawks A charm of finches A covey of partridges A flight of swallows A gaggle of geese A nye of pheasants A siege of herons A skein of geese A trip of dotterel A wisp of snipe GROUP B--These terms are not group names for a particular type of bird, but have been commonly used for many different types: Colony Company Flock Parliament Party GROUP C--These terms are archaic; they were once obsolete, but they have been revived somewhat in the 19th or 20th centuries: A building of rooks A murmuration of starlings A muster of peacocks A peep of chickens A sord of mallards A spring of teal A watch of nightingales GROUP D--These terms are obsolete; they appeared on the old lists, but almost nobody has used them in centuries: A congregation of plovers A dissimulation of birds A dole of doves A fall of woodcock A host of sparrows A paddling of ducks An unkindness of ravens GROUP E--These terms are not in the OED at all as group names for birds: A cover of coots A kettle of hawks A murder of crows An ostentation of peacocks A pitying of turtledoves A rafter of turkeys A tidings of magpies My categories are imprecise, but they provide some guidance about usage. 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British comedians Katy, Joe and Russell all share which surname? | Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson - 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 Sister of <private> Hudson and <private> Hudson Occupation: Added 2013-08-01 17:01:39 -0700 by Private User Collection: Oct 25 1984 - Santa Barbara, California, USA Mother's maiden name: Added 2014-02-07 09:24:18 -0800 by Private User Collection: Oct 25 1984 - Santa Barbara, Kalifornia Parents: <Private> Hudson, <Private> Hudson (z d. Perry) Siblings: Added 2014-02-07 09:26:48 -0800 by Private User Collection: Oct 25 1984 - Santa Barbara, Kalifornia Parents: <Private> Hudson, <Private> Hudson (z d. Perry) Siblings: Maurice Keith Hudson, Mary Hudson (Perry) Siblings: Oct 25 1984 - Santa Barbara, CA, USA Parents: <Private> Hudson, <Private> Hudson (born Cox) Siblings: mother's ex-spouse About Katy Perry She is better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Perry was born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents; she grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in church as a child. After earning a GED during her freshman year of high school, she began to pursue a music career. She released a self-titled gospel album in 2001 as Katy Hudson which failed with the closing of its record label that year. She recorded an album with production team The Matrix and completed most of a solo album from 2004–2005, neither of which were released. After signing on with Capitol Music Group in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry and released her first Internet single, "Ur So Gay", that November, which garnered attention but did not chart. She rose to fame with her second single "I Kissed a Girl" in 2008, which topped international charts. Perry's first mainstream album, One of the Boys, followed later that year and was eventually announced to be the thirty-third best selling album of 2008 worldwide. It was accredited platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America; "I Kissed a Girl" and her second single "Hot n Cold" both received multi-platinum certifications. Perry was ranked the 97th Artist of the 2000–10 decade by Billboard. She became known for wearing unconventional style of dress, often combining bold colors and vintage fashion. Her next album, Teenage Dream, was released on August 24, 2010 in the United States. Perry had a long relationship with Travis McCoy; she is currently engaged to Russell Brand. Katy Perry was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, California. The second child of two pastors, she has an older sister and younger brother.Her Evangelical mother, Mary Hudson (née Perry), grew up in Southern California and had "a tempestuous first marriage in Zimbabwe."Her father, Keith Hudson, was a West Coast scenester in the 1960s.Perry's maternal aunt and uncle were screenwriter Eleanor Perry and director Frank Perry, through whom she is also related to Charles M. Schwab, the founder of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Perry is of Portuguese and German ancestry on her mother's side. Perry was incorporated into her parents' ministry; she sang in their church from ages 9 to 17. She grew up listening to gospel music and was not allowed to listen to what her mother called secular music. Perry attended Christian schools and camps. As a child, Perry learned how to dance in a recreation building in Santa Barbara. She was taught by seasoned dancers and began with swing, Lindy Hop, and jitterbug. She took her GED after her freshman year of high school and decided to leave school to pursue a career in music. Perry initially started singing "because I was at that point in my childhood where I was copycatting my sister and everything she did."Her sister practiced with cassette tapes, and Perry took the tapes herself when her sister was not around. She rehearsed the songs and performed it to her parents, who suggested she should take voice lessons. She grabbed the opportunity | Air Supply - Biography BIOGRAPHY Graham Russell & Russell Hitchcock met on May 12, 1975, the first day of rehearsals for "Jesus Christ Superstar" in Sydney, Australia; they became instant friends with their common love for The Beatles and, of course, singing. After the shows' performances at 10:30, they would play pizza parlors, coffee bars and night clubs with just one guitar and two voices. They quickly gained a reputation for great harmonies and for original songs that Graham was constantly writing. They made a demo on a cassette of two songs, "Love and Other Bruises" and "If You Knew Me" and took it to every record company in Sydney. Everyone turned it down but one — CBS Records — who admired their unique style. They made a single in one afternoon and it shot to number one on the national charts. Air Supply was born! That same year, they opened for Rod Stewart across Australia and then throughout the U.S. and Canada playing all of the famous huge venues before Rod would take the stage. They found new fans, but did not break the U.S. market. Back in Australia they had to start again and made a record called Life Support. On this record were some treasures of songs, including "Lost in Love" which went Top 10 in Australia and somehow found its way to music industry executive Clive Davis in New York. Clive immediately signed Air Supply to Arista Records and in 1980, "Lost in Love" became the fastest selling single in the world, leaping to the top of all of the charts. Now Air Supply was on their way. The second single was "All Out of Love," and that went up the charts even quicker. Seven top-five singles later, Air Supply at that time had equaled The Beatles' run of consecutive top five singles. The albums Lost in Love, The One That You Love, Now & Forever, and The Greatest Hits sold in excess of 20 million copies. "Lost in Love" was named Song of the Year in 1980, and, with the other singles, sold more than 10 million copies. The trademark sound of Russell Hitchcock's soaring tenor voice and Graham Russell's simple yet majestic songs created a unique sound that would forever be known as Air Supply. However, it is the live shows that always hold audiences captive around the world. They were the first Western group to tour China, Taiwan, and countless other countries that before would not allow pop music across their borders. In 1983 they recorded "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" by Jim Steinman which solidified the group as a permanent force in modern music. This song was released on The Greatest Hits album which soared past 7 million copies. "Lost in Love", "All Out of Love", "The One That You Love", "Sweet Dreams", and "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" have each achieved multi-million plays on the radio. In 1986 the group's music was still playing endlessly on radio. That same year, Graham was married to actress Jodi Varble from Rochelle, Illinois, who also was his leading lady in the video for "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All." Air Supply began to tour with lavish productions in places that no one had been before. In South America and Asia they became a part of everyone's life. In 1988, Air Supply was asked to participate in Australia's bicentennial celebration and to play for HRH Prince Charles and HRH Princess Diana, where they learned both were already ardent fans. This engagement would be one of their most treasured moments in their career. In 1989, they recorded "The Earth Is" album selling over a million copies outside of the U.S. This album was followed by "The Vanishing Race" CD and, with the singles "Goodbye" and "It's Never Too Late", again saw multi-platinum success. The following albums, "News from Nowhere", "Yours Truly", and "Across the Concrete Sky" all gave their second greatest hits album multi-platinum status as they traveled the world each and every year. In 2000, a new production company was founded to be devoted to Air Supply's entire future product, called A Nice Pear, which gave them complete creative control. In July 2005, their live DVD, "It Was 30 Years Ago Today" celebrated 30 years o |
In which US city is the National Air and Space Museum? | Exhibitions | National Air and Space Museum National Air and Space Museum Exhibitions Exhibitions Visit our Museum and other popular Smithsonian destinations on the National Mall in Washington, DC, or visit our Udvar-Hazy Center in nearby Chantilly, VA. National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA Filter Exhibitions Cold War Aviation Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War resulted in a competition to create advanced technologies aimed at gathering intelligence. Aerial reconnaissance played an important role, and the Lockheed SR-71 was a a direct result of this struggle for supremacy. Commercial Aviation Flying was new and daring in the early years of the 20th century. Traveling by airplane was rare. Airlines, airliners, airports, air routes—none of these existed. But by century's end, you could travel to almost anywhere in America by air in a matter of hours. Commercial aviation is now both a commonplace and an essential aspect of modern life. It has revolutionized the world. | These were all hits in 1977 "The Honourable Schoolboy" by John Le Carre "Oliver's Story" by Erich Segal Al Capp retires with the last appearance of Li�l Abner on November 14th. Nonfiction "Looking Out for #1" by Robert Ringer "All Things Wise and Wonderful" by James Herriot "Your Erroneous Zones" by Dr. Wayne Dyer "The Book of Lists" by David Wallechinsky Grammy Awards Record of the Year: "Hotel California" ... The Eagles Best Song: "You Light Up My Life" ... Joe Brooks Best Album: "Rumours" ... Fleetwood Mac Male Vocalist: James Taylor ... "Handy Man Female Vocalist: Barbra Streisand ... "Love theme from 'A Star Is Born' (Evergreen)" In the News in 1977 Pope: Paul VI Prime Minister of Canada: Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L) President of United States: Jimmy Carter (Sworn in on January 20th, 1977) Time Magazines Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat 17-Year Old Terry Fox Loses his Leg to Cancer Canadian Human Rights Commission established to deal with Discrimination Willy Adams becomes the first Inuit Senator Speed Limits Go Metric Lung cancer becomes the second most common cancer among women. U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam draft evaders and calls them home from living abroad. Steve Biko, an imprisoned black leader in South Africa, dies in prison from cruelty and neglect, which leads to renewed opposition to apartheid. First Computerland store opened in Morristown NJ, under the name Computershack. February 9th , Apple Computer Incorporates February 19th ,the US space shuttle prototype 'Enterprise' fly�s for the first time on top of a 747 March 27th, 583 killed when a KLM Boeing 747 runs into a Pan Am Boeing 747 on the runway in Tenerife, Canary Islands (worst in aviation history). April 19th, President Jimmy Carter addresses the nation concerning the energy crisis. He warned America that the nation's oil and gas supplies would run out. June 5th , 1st personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale. With 16k Ram and 16K ROM, costing $1298US. August 3rd , Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered. August 10th , Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer. They accused him of killing 13 people during his reign of terror, which he told police was on orders from a black Labrador retriever owned by his neighbor, Sam Carr. August 13th , 1st test glide of the shuttle. In 1977 the TSE launched the world's first Computer Assisted Trading System. 1977 saw two significant advancements. The first was the introduction of the Computer Assisted Trading System, (CATS�). In addition to the trading floor, traders could now trade from their desks anywhere in Canada. The second was the introduction of the TSE 300 Composite Index�, representing 300 of the largest companies listed on the Exchange. This index measures changes that closely reflect the entire market. Inventions of 1977 Neutron bomb Living in the Year 1977 1977 saw the opening of the First West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco where many attendees got their first looks at the Apple II and the Commodore Pet 4k RAM 16k ROM ($795US). Sports and Recreation Toronto Blue Jays play their first season in the Major Leagues Toronto played its first game on April 7, 1977. They defeated the Chicago White Sox 9-5. Rookie first Doug Ault homered twice in the Jays' first game. Otto Velez hit .442 for the month of April. Bob Bailor hit .310, the highest mark ever for a player on a first-year expansion club. Ron Fairly, a 20-year veteran, led the club with 19 homers and became the first player since Stan Musial to play more than 1,000 games in both the infield and the outfield. Pele� Played his last soccer Game on October 1st. NBA: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Philadelphia 76ers Score: 4-2 NCAA Football: Notre Dame Record: 11-1-0 Heisman Trophy: Earl Campbell, Texas, RB points: 1,547 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins Series: 4-0 Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders vs.Minnesota Vikings Score: 32-14 US Open Golf: Hubert Green Sco |
Trypanosomiasis technically refers to what sort of sickness? | Trypanosomiasis - catch, body, contagious, causes, What Is Trypanosomiasis? Trypanosomiasis Trypanosomiasis Trypanosomiasis (trih-pan-o-so-MY-uh-sis) is a disease found in Africa and the American continents that is caused by infection with a parasite. Forms of the disease may persist for many years and have several phases, with symptoms that can vary from one stage to the next. KEYWORDS for searching the Internet and other reference sources Chagas disease Tsetse fly What Is Trypanosomiasis? Trypanosomiasis refers to three types of infections caused by protozoa * and spread to humans through insect bites. There are two kinds of African trypanosomiasis, East African and West African. Both of these varieties also are known as sleeping sickness. The disease can affect people living on the African continent south of the Sahara Desert. American trypanosomiasis also is called Chagas (SHAH-gus) disease. It occurs only on the American continents, from Mexico to Argentina. What Causes Trypanosomiasis? The bite of an infected tsetse (SET-see) fly usually transmits the organisms that cause the African forms of trypanosomiasis. These flies live in the countryside in Africa, especially in bushes and thick vegetation near rivers and lakes. Tsetse flies infected with the protozoan Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (trih-pan-o-SO-mah BRU-see-eye ro-dee-see-EN-see) spread East African trypanosomiasis, the most severe form of the disease, to humans. The West African variety comes from a fly infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (trih-pan-o-SO-mah BRU-see-eye gam-be-EN-see). * protozoa (pro-tuh-ZOH-uh) are single-celled microorganisms (tiny organisms), some of which are capable of causing disease in humans. * feces (FEE-seez) is the excreted waste from the gastrointestinal tract. Reduviid (rih-DO-vee-id) bugs (also called assassin, cone-nose, or kissing bugs) carry the Trypanosoma cruzi (trih-pan-o-SO-mah KROO-zee) protozoa that cause the American variety of trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, named for the Brazilian doctor who discovered it. These bugs hide during the day in the cracks in mud and adobe homes. At night they crawl across sleeping people and bite them, usually on the face but sometimes on the arms, legs, or trunk. They also leave behind their feces * , which contain the protozoa. Without knowing it, people can rub The tsetse fly is responsible for spreading trypanosomiasis in Africa. ©Rob and Ann Simpson/Visuals Unlimited, Inc. the infected feces into the bite, a cut or open sore, or even into their noses, mouths, or eyes. How Common Is Trypanosomiasis? Trypanosomiasis can infect people of every age and race, though it is uncommon in the United States. Since the late 1960s, fewer than 30 cases have been reported among U.S. citizens traveling to areas where the infection is found. In other parts of the world, however, the disease affects thousands of people. The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 500,000 people could have African trypanosomiasis, but because of poor monitoring most of these cases are not reported. Between 16 million and 18 million people in the Americas currently have Chagas disease. Approximately 50,000 may die from the disease each year. Is Trypanosomiasis Contagious? People cannot catch any form of trypanosomiasis in the same way that they catch a cold or the flu from other people. Only the tsetse fly spreads the African varieties, and the reduviid bug spreads Chagas disease. Rarely, a mother infected with the West African variety of trypanosomiasis or with Chagas disease can pass the illness to her unborn child. People who receive a transfusion * of blood or an organ transplant from an infected person also may contract the disease; this form of transmission tends to happen more often with Chagas disease than with the African types. What Are the Symptoms of t | Black Sigatoka, an Important Disease of Banana Black Sigatoka of Banana: The most important disease of a most important fruit Ploetz, R.C. 2001. Black Sigatoka of Banana. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: 10.1094/PHI-I-2001-0126-02. Tropical Research and Education Center, University of Florida, IFAS, Homestead Origins and importance of banana as a food crop Banana is one of the most fascinating and important of all crops. It is a large monocotyledenous herb that originated in Southeast Asia. Virtually all of the cultivars that are grown are thought to have been selected as naturally occurring hybrids in this region by the earliest of farmers. In fact, Norman Simmonds proposed that banana was one of the first crops to be domesticated by man. In writing of the beginnings of agriculture in Southeast Asia, he concluded, "It seems a reasonable assumption that the bananas evolved along with the earliest settled agriculture of that area and may therefore be some tens of thousands of years old." Despite the current, clear understanding of its ancestry, the edible bananas' origins are often confused in the literature. Almost all of the 300 or more cultivars that are known arose from two seeded, diploid species, Musa acuminata Colla and M. balbisiana Colla; they are diploid, triploid and tetraploid hybrids among subspecies of M. acuminata, and between M. acuminata and M. balbisiana. Conventionally, the haploid contributions of the respective species to the cultivars are noted with an A and B. For example, the Cavendish cultivars that are the mainstays of the export trades are pure triploid acuminata and, thus, AAA. The Linnaean species M. paradisiaca (the AAB plantains) and M. sapientum (the sweet dessert bananas, of which Silk AAB is the type cultivar) are invalid and no longer used. Women selling fruit of Dwarf Cavendish AAA and Pisang awak ABB in a market in Karonga, Malawi, East Africa. The lower photograph shows preparation of male buds of Pisang awak for cooking in a market in Sungai Kolok, Thailand. For many of the world’s poorest people, banana is a nutritious and important staple food. Banana is now one of the most popular of all fruits. Although it is viewed as only a dessert or an addition to breakfast cereal in most developed countries, it is actually a very important agricultural product. After rice, wheat and milk, it is the fourth most valuable food. In export, it ranks fourth among all agricultural commodities and is the most significant of all fruits, with world trade totaling $2.5 billion annually. Yet, only 10% of the annual global output of 86 million tons enters international commerce. Much of the remaining harvest is consumed by poor subsistence farmers in tropical Africa, America and Asia. For most of the latter producers, banana and plantain (which is a type of banana) are staple foods that represent major dietary sources of carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins A, B6 and C, and potassium, phosphorus and calcium. This photograph shows seed-packed fruit of Musa balbisiana, one of the ancestors of the edible bananas. Since the edible cultivars are parthenocarpic and often female or male sterile, seeds are rarely found in their fruit. The latter factors, however, have made it difficult to improve this crop by breeding. Click image to enlarge. Impact of banana diseases Diseases are among the most important factors in banana production worldwide. They are the reasons for which all of the world’s breeding programs were created and remain a primary focus of all current programs. Recently, diseases also became principal targets of biotechnological efforts to improve this crop and www.cgi.cnn.com/TECH/science/9807/24/t_t/banana.science/index.html ). A leaf spot disease is the most important of these problems. Black Sigatoka, which is also known as black leaf streak, causes significant reductions in leaf area, yield losses of 50% or more, and premature ripening, a serious defect in exported fruit. It is more damaging and difficult to control than the related yellow Sigatoka disease, and has a wider host range that inclu |
From which musical does the song Don't Cry For Me Argentina come | Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Madonna - YouTube Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Madonna 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 5, 2015 Don't cry for me Argentina - Madonna Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice The song was written in 1976 in memory of Evita Perón, the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón. The scenes in the video are from the film: «Eva Perón» by Juan Carlos Desanzo, starring Esther Goris and Victor Laplace. The song was initially performed by Julie Covington and its name came from an inscription on the plaque of Evita Peron's grave at Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires. Madonna sang the same song in 1996, in the musical drama: Evita, directed by Alan Parker and written by Parker and Oliver Stone. The film starred Madonna as Evita Perón, Antonio Banderas as Ché and Jonathan Pryce as Juan Perón. It won't be easy, you'll think it strange when I try to explain how I feel that I still need your love after all that I've done. You won't believe me | Lulu - Mature Hairstyles Lulu Date of Birth: 11/3/1948 Occupation: Singer Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer�songwriter, actress, model and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day. She is most famous worldwide for her hit "To Sir, with Love" and in the UK for "Shout". Lulu grew up in Glasgow. Taken under the wing of Marion Massey, she shot to fame at the age of fifteen with her version of The Isley Brothers "Shout". Her backing group were called The Luvvers, but after several more British hits she left the group to become a solo artist. Massey guided her career for more than 25 years, for most of which she was Lulu�s equal partner as a business enterprise. Massey�s husband Mark London also wrote many of Lulu�s hits. In 1966, Lulu toured Poland with the British rock and roll band The Hollies, making her the first British female singer to appear live behind the Iron Curtain. She left Decca after failing to place any singles on the chart in 1966 and signed with Columbia to be produced by Mickie Most who also hired Jimmy Page to play guitar on a few sessions. All of the 7 singles she cut and released with Most made the UK chart. In 1967 she made her debut as a film actress in To Sir, with Love, a British vehicle for Sidney Poitier. She had a major hit with the title song "To Sir, with Love", which shot to number one in the United States (In the UK, it was released only on the B-side of "Let�s Pretend", a No 11 hit.) In the meantime, she continued with a thriving pop career in the UK and several television series of her own. In 1967, Lulu appeared on The Monkees tour at the Empire Pool, Wembley. On 29 March 1969, she represented the United Kingdom by performing the winning song "Boom Bang-a-Bang" at the Eurovision Song Contest. Lulu had the biggest hit around the continent with the song, recording German, French, Spanish and Italian versions alongside the original English. She once told John Peel backstage that although she did not like Boom Bang-a-Bang, she�d have sung anything just so long as she won the contest. "I know it�s a rotten song, but I won, so who cares? I�d have sung Baa Baa Black Sheep standing on my head if that�s what it took to win.... I am just so glad I didn�t finish second like all the other Brits before me, that would have been awful." Despite disliking the song, it was in fact her biggest solo UK hit (reaching number two on the chart in 1969). Only weeks before her Eurovision appearance, Lulu married fellow musical star Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a ceremony in Gerrards Cross. They divorced in 1973, but remained on good terms. . In 1972 she starred in the Christmas pantomime Peter Pan at the Palace Theatre, Manchester where the show was a huge success. She repeated her performance at the London Palladium in 1975, and in different London-based productions from 1987 to early 1989. In the early 1980s Lulu appeared in Andrew Lloyd Webber�s Song and Dance and the Royal National Theatre�s Guys and Dolls. She damaged her vocal cords while performing in the Webber show, requiring surgery that threatened her singing voice. In 1974 she performed the title song in the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun. Two slightly different versions of the song were used, at the start and end respectively - the end song actually name-checking James Bond. Also during 1974, she did a cover of two of David Bowie�s classic songs, "The Man Who Sold the World" and "Watch That Man". Bowie himself produced the recordings and played saxophone, and provided back-up vocals on it. There were also rumours that they had a brief affair at the time. Lulu confirmed these rumours in her 2002 autobiography. Bowie, perhaps characteristically, evaded comment on the subject. "The Man Who Sold the World" peaked at number three on the UK chart, her first UK top 10 hit in five years and also her last until 1986. In 1977, Lulu married John Frieda, who was previously her hairdres |
What US city is originally associated with Dixieland (jazz)? | History of Jazz | Black History in America | Scholastic.com New Orleans: The Melting Pot of Sound Mardi Gras in New Orleans at the turn of the century Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. "New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born." Wynton Marsalis Listen to this traditional New Orleans standard called "Second Line." The melody is repetitive and very singable. Notice the banjo rhythms in the background, and listen to the musicians break away from the melody into collective improvisations. To learn more about composition and improvisation , play this jazz game on the PBS Kids website. Mid1930s Swing: Sound in Motion Swing is the basic rhythm of jazz. Swinging means being in sync with other people and loving it. Swing as a jazz style first appeared during the Great Depression. The optimistic feeling of swing lifted the spirits of everyone in America. By the mid-1930s, a period known as the "swing" era, swing dancing had become our national dance and big bands were playing this style of music. Orchestra leaders such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman, and Benny Goodman led some of the greatest bands of the era. Learn about the swing rhythm and listen to how the vocalists accent the second and fourth beats to create that rhythm. These accents give the music a sense of motion and make you want to dance. Duke Ellington Photo: Library of Congress One of the most significant figures in music history, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. He began studying the piano at the age of seven. He started playing jazz as a teenager, and moved to New York City to become a bandleader. As a pianist, composer, and bandleader, Ellington was one of the creators of the big band sound, which fueled the "swing" era. He continued leading and composing for his jazz orchestra until his death in 1974. "Ellington plays the piano, but his real instrument is his band. Each member of his band is to him a distinctive tone color and set of emotions, which he mixes with others equally distinctive to produce a third thing, which I like to call the 'Ellington Effect.'" Billy Strayhorn, composer and arranger Listen to Wynton Marsalis explain the "Ellington Effect." Learn more about Duke Ellington on his official website. 1940s Bebop: The Summit of Sound "If you really understand the meaning of bebop, you understand the meaning of freedom." Thelonious Monk, pianist and composer In the early 1940s, jazz musicians were looking for new directions to explore. A new style of jazz was born, called bebop, had fast tempos, intricate melodies, and complex harmonies. Bebop was considered jazz for intellectuals. No longer were there huge big bands, but smaller groups that did not play for dancing audiences but for listening audiences. Listen to a short history of the beginning of bebop, and learn how to scat! Dizzy Gillespie: A Jazz Visionary Dizzy Gillespie Photo: William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. "The first time you hear Dizzy Gillespie play the trumpet, you may think that the tape was recorded at the wrong speed. He played so high, so fast, so correctly." Wynton Marsalis Trumpeter, bandleader, and composer John B | Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Honeysuckle Rose) Andy Razaf �Honeysuckle Rose� was introduced as a dance number in the 1929 revue, Load of Coal, at Connie�s Inn in Harlem by its composer, Thomas �Fats� Waller. �Honeysuckle Rose� and � Ain�t Misbehavin� ,� also written that year for the musical revue Hot Chocolates, would become the two most enduring compositions born of the longtime collaboration of Waller and lyricist Andy Razaf. Other songs in Waller and Razaf�s Load of Coal score included the wistful �My Fate Is in Your Hands� and �Zonky.� The oddly titled �Zonky� was a song about a dance written in the spirit of �Walking the Dog� or �Balling the Jack.� The song warns the listener �Other dances, they may come and go but when you learn the Zonky you will want it to stay.� According to the Kennedy Center�s website page, �A Place Called Harlem,� Connie�s Inn was a Harlem speakeasy that featured song and dance revues. Found at the intersection of 131st Street and 7th Avenue it was second in popularity only to the Cotton Club. The owners eventually opened the originally segregated club to blacks who were allowed to patronize the club after the whites had gone home. Fats Waller was in good company at Connie�s Inn, at least with regard to other performers which included the likes of Duke Ellington , Fletcher Henderson , and Ethel Waters . |
How many members are there in the French lower house, the National Assembly? | National Assembly 'Kills' French Three-Strikes Anti Piracy Law - TorrentFreak C: 0 News The French three-strikes anti-piracy law "Hadopi" is heralded by copyright holders as an effective way to curb piracy. However, in France the legislation has often been criticized and in a surprise move against the will of the Government, the National Assembly has now voted to dismantle it in a few years. In recent years many anti-piracy initiatives have emerged and in several countries so-called “graduated response” schemes have been implemented. France is seen as the pioneer of so-called “three strikes” anti-piracy legislation, in which repeated file-sharing offenders face fines of up to 1,500 euros. Since 2010 the French Hadopi agency has handed out millions of warning notices . A few thousand account holders received more than three notices, of which a few hundred of the worst cases were referred for prosecution. Copyright holders around the world have cited Hadopi as one of the success stories, hoping to establish similar legislation elsewhere. However, in France the law hasn’t been without controversy and in a total surprise the lower house of the French Parliament has now voted in favor of killing it. Interestingly, the vote late last week went down under quite unusual circumstances. In a nearly empty chamber, the French National Assembly voted to end the Hadopi institution and law in 2022, Next Inpact reports . What’s noteworthy is that only 7 of the 577 Members of Parliament were present at the vote, and the amendment passed with four in favor and three against. The decision goes against the will of the sitting Government, which failed to have enough members present at the vote. While it’s being seen as quite an embarrassment, the amendment still has to pass the senate, which seems unlikely without Government support. The ‘coup,’ orchestrated by the Green party has caused quite a media stir, not least because French President François Hollande called for the end of Hadopi before his election, a position he later retracted. “Related Greens” MP Isabelle Attard says that it’s time to end the “schizophrenic” behavior of the Government on the matter. “A choice has to be made at some point. We can’t call out Hadopi as useless and, years later, still let it linger on,” she says. While it’s doubtful that the amendment means the definite end of Hadopi, it certainly puts it back on the political agenda. 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What was the name of the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave who died in 2009? | Vanessa Redgrave: Reliving Daughter's Death | Fox News Vanessa Redgrave: Reliving Daughter's Death By Roger Friedman The unbelievable tragedy of the death of Natasha Richardson is certainly most awful for her family. But it must be so much worse for her mother, the legendary actress Vanessa Redgrave . For most of 2007, the great Redgrave played writer Joan Didion on Broadway in her play, "The Year of Magical Thinking." Didion, who reportedly visited Redgrave during Natasha’s final hours in the hospital yesterday, wrote the play from her searing memoir about losing her daughter Quintana just a few years earlier. The one woman show was a monologue that showed how Didion coped first with the death of her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, from a sudden heart attack. At the time, Quintana was in a coma. When Quintana awakened, her beloved father was dead. Within a year, she too, would pass away, leaving a young husband and a child.. Both the book and the play became instant classics. Redgrave’s performance was highly praised, and she was nominated for a Tony Award. The book begins: Life changes in an instant You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." Natasha Richardson’s untimely and peculiar death echoes that of Quintana, Didion’s beloved daughter. It happened in an instant. With little explanation. And something about Richardson’s death has touched people who never even heard of her, or knew little about her. Maybe they knew she was part of the famous Redgrave acting family, or that she was Liam Neeson ’s wife. And that may be why this tragedy has so affected us: somewhere in the back of our minds we knew that sexy, funny, smart, incredibly talented Natasha Richardson was uptown, being a mom and a wife, doing her own thing, that she was a cut above the rest and that she could jump back into her career any time she wanted. If she wanted. It made her accessible and cool. Richardson never really sought the spotlight, or desired to be a movie star. She came to America to escape the Redgrave legacy, and to act. That she did, becoming a sensation on Broadway and a regular player in movies both big and small. There’s no doubt that had she lived, there was a movie role in her future that would bring her massive acclaim and respect on the level of the Academy Award. But she was in no hurry. Like her mother, Vanessa, aunt Lynn, sister Joely, she had nothing to prove. The Redgrave simply have ‘it,’ the ability to absorb into a role and inhabit it. And so Vanessa Redgrave did that with the Year of Magical Thinking. The play, eerily enough, begins "This happened on Dec. 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you." Those words are more haunting now than ever. Ron Silver Remembered: Tears and Laughter Actor and political activist Ron Silver’s funeral yesterday was private a service at Temple Rodelph Sholom on the Upper West Side. This much I can tell you: Ron’s kids, Adam and Alexandra, gave beautiful speeches, and made their dad proud. Each of Ron’s brothers gave heartbreaking remembrances of their older sibling. Writer Joe Klein was among those who eulogized a friend with laughter and tears. The historic synagogue’s large vaunted ceiling chapel was full, by the way, with lots of family members, members of Actors Equity (where Ron was president from 1991-2000) and many familiar faces. In the audience I spotted Lorraine Bracco, Joe Pantoliano with wife Nancy, Tony Lo Bianco, former HBO chief Michael Fuchs, "West Wing" writer Lawrence O’Donnell, and even ex spouses Ronald Perelman and Patricia Duff. They sat on opposite sides of the room, however. Hopefully, a public memorial will be set up for the spring. By the way, the lights of Broadway were dimmed for a minute at 8pm on Tuesday in memory of Ron. I’m sure the same will be done tonight or tomorrow for Natasha Richardson. Two terrible losses: this Broadway tradition is usually reserved for stars who die at much older ages. Natasha Richardson: One of the Good Guys As Natasha Richardson’s family made decisions today f | Sports Sports With which sport would you most associate the commentator Ted Lowe? The 'Green Jacket' is presented to the winner of which sporting event? From what bridge does the Oxford/Cambridge boat race start? In which Olympics did Steve Redgrave win his first Olympic gold medal? In what sport do players take long and short corners? By what name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known? For half a mark each, give the nationality and the team (2003) of Fernando Alonso, the youngest-ever grand prix winner? What is the 'perfect score' in a game of Ten Pin Bowling? Which current premier league football team had an obsolete nickname of the Glaziers? What is the name of the new Leicester Football club stadium? What is the highest-achieveable break in snooker? |
What do baleen whales eat? | Diet & Eating Habits Food Preferences And Resources In general, baleen whales feed low on the food chain, primarily eating zooplankton and small fishes, which they encounter in large swarms or schools. Right whales eat zooplankton (animal plankton). Their finely fringed baleen is able to strain from the water copepods (a type of small crustacean) and other small zooplankton. Krill (a family of small, shrimplike crustaceans) and copepods are major components of a right whale's diet. Rorquals generally eat larger prey than do right whales. Depending on species, they eat a variety small crustaceans, squids, and small schooling fishes. Blue whales eat mostly krill. Fin whales eat krill, copepods, squids, and variety of small schooling fishes. Humpback whales, Bryde's whales, and minke whales prey mostly on krill and small schooling fishes. Minke whales in the northern hemisphere prey mostly on small schooling fishes; those in the southern hemisphere prey mostly on krill. Sei whales eat copepods, krill and amphipods (another type of small crustacean). In the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans they also eat squids and small schooling fishes. Gray whales eat mainly invertebrates that live in bottom sediments, mostly amphipods and probably marine worms. It's likely that some whales' diets depend on food availability. Food Intake Most baleen whales spend about four to six months in the summer feeding intensively in high-latitude, productive waters. They spend the next six to eight months traveling and breeding. Scientists estimate that large baleen whales eat about 4% of their body weight each day during the feeding season. Food intake during the feeding season exceeds daily requirements, and excess energy is stored as fat, much of it in the blubber. A blue whale eats up to 3,600 kg (8,000 lb.) of krill each day for about 120 days. It is estimated to take 1,000 kg (2,200 lb.) of food to fill a blue whale’s stomach. Gray whales eat about 150,000 kg (340,000 lb) of food during a 130 to 140 day feeding period - a daily average intake of about 1,089 kg (2,400 lb.). It is estimated to take 300 kg (660 lb.) of food to fill a gray whale's stomach. Gray whales gain about 16% to 30% of their total body weight during a feeding season. Throughout the traveling and breeding season, baleen whales eat much less or not at all. Blubber gained during the feeding season sustains the whale during the winter months. A baleen whale's thick blubber layer stores fat; it is an energy reserve that is necessary during the traveling and breeding seasons. Winter daily feeding rate is only about 0.4% of body weight. Blubber makes up 27% of a blue whale's body weight, 23% of a fin whale, 21% of a sei whale, 29% of a gray whale, and 36% to 45% of a right whale. Method Of Collecting And Eating Food A right whale "grazes" by swimming slowly through swarms of small zooplankton (animal plankton) with its mouth open. At the surface this has been termed "skim-feeding", but right whales also feed under water. Water - and zooplankton - enter a right whale's mouth through a gap in the front baleen plates. Zooplankton is caught in the finely fringed baleen mat; water flows through the baleen and out the sides of the mouth. With long baleen plates and a huge mouth, right whales are adapted for straining immense amounts of food. Right whales usually feed singly, but a group of whales may swim and feed in a V-formation. Rorqual whales feed by gulping enormous mouthfuls of prey and water. As its mouth fills, a rorqual's throat grooves expand and its mouth cavity balloons outward. Then the whale brings its jaws together and contracts the throat grooves, forcing water out. Prey such as krill and small fishes are caught in the baleen mat as water is forced through the baleen and out the sides of the mouth. Rorquals may feed at the surface or deeper in the water. Humpback whales have been observed blowing "bubble nets" to help them feed. The whale dives down, then swims up in a spiral while releasing bubbles of air from its blowholes. The bubbles float up in a column, keep | Sperm Whales in Caribbean Have Distinct Culture Sperm Whales in Caribbean Have Distinct Culture The marine mammals form clans with their own unique dialects, a new study says. View Images Each sperm whale clan has a different vocal pattern—and thus culture. Photograph by Amanda Cotton Click ... click ... click-click-click. That’s the sound of a sperm whale in the eastern Caribbean. Click-click-click-click-click. That’s a sperm whale that lives in the same place, but in a different social group. Shane Gero and his team have discovered that each sperm whale social group in the region has its own clicking pattern, or dialect. (Also see " Whales With Caribbean Accents and Other Animal Dialects .") What's more, each sperm whale that Gero observed socializes exclusively with other sperm whales that have the same accent. View Images Sperm whales have the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth. Photograph courtesy the Dominica Sperm Whale Project The finding strengthens the idea that sperm whales throughout the world have different cultures, just like people. "It’s like how my Canadian passport tells you a little bit about who I am. I like hockey and I put maple syrup on everything," says Gero, a behavioral ecologist and founder of the Dominica Sperm Whale Project . "The main way we identify these different cultures is their dialects,” he says. Listen to Caribbean sperm whales vocalizing. Keeping Tabs For a new study, Gero and colleagues analyzed 11 social sperm whale units, or clans, by recording their voices and observing their actions. Scientists already knew that sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean have vocal clans, but this is the evidence of such clans in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the study, published recently in Royal Society Open Science . Richard Connor , a dolphin and whale expert at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, believes that these behavioral and vocal differences started as random variations that eventually developed into part of a clan’s culture. (Related: " Sperm Whales' Language Reveals Hints of Culture .") Sperm Whale Diving A baby sperm whale learns to swim alone while its mother hunts deep below. “You could think of it as random error in learning,” says Connor, who wasn't involved in the study. “But once those differences are there, that becomes a sort of membership tag.” Clan Power And communicating as a group likely helps them hunt more efficiently, the experts say. View Images Sperm whales are known to dive as deep as 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) in search of squid to eat. Photograph courtesy the Dominica Sperm Whale Project “It’s probable that these groups travel in different areas and they track habitats, which includes … prey,” said Sarah Mesnick , an expert on sperm whale social structure at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in California. (Also see " Rare Video Captures Sperm Whale in Deep Sea .") “They know those areas. They transmit that information socially through the groups.” View Images These toothed whales eat thousands of pounds of fish and squid—about one ton per day. Photograph courtesy the Dominica Sperm Whale Project The ongoing research into sperm whale culture suggests there's more at stake for the species, which still faces threats due to climate change and buildup of toxic metals, Gero adds. That's because if one sperm whale clan goes extinct, that’s it: All that tradition and ancient wisdom specific to their niche is lost. |
What is L. Frank Baum's most famous story? | L. Frank Baum | Oz Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia THE ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ "Never give into despair, for behind every gloomy cloud, there is a bright Rainbow..." ―Lyman Frank Baum R.I.P Dorothy Toto and their three comrades travel to the Emerald City. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow 1900 L. Frank Baum (15 May 1856 – 6 May 1919) was an American stage performer, actor, poet and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow , of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He named himself Royal Historian of Oz and wrote thirteen sequels , nine other fantasy novels , and a plethora of other works, and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. The Original 14 Classic Oz Books by Baum All In Order. Baum would become an iconic figure in story telling. He is responsible for giving a very special gift of spellbinding magic and comort to millions of people from all over the world. Decades later people still could not forget nor resist from falling under his spell and in love with his fictional creations of Wicked Witches, magic shoes and flying Monkeys. An entrancing phenomenon, even over one hundred years after his Death. Baum is a legend in literature, and best known as the man who wrote and told the very first American Fairytale; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz of 1900. Baum's childhood and early life The Royal Historian of Oz! Frank was born in Chittenango, New York, into a devout Methodist family of German (father's side) and Scots-Irish (mother's side) origin, the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum , only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut. Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Frank grew up on his parents' expansive estate, Rose Lawn, which he always remembered fondly as a sort of paradise. As a young child Frank was tutored at home with his siblings , but at the age of 12 he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy. Frank was a sickly child given to daydreaming, and his parents may have thought he needed toughening up. But after two utterly miserable years at the military academy, he was allowed to return home. Frank Joslyn Baum claimed that this was following an incident described as a heart attack, though there is no contemporary evidence of this. A younger L. Frank Baum. Frank started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing. His father bought him a cheap printing press, and Frank used it to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal with the help of his younger brother, Harry Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close. The brothers published several issues of the journal and included advertisements they may have sold. By the time he was 17, Baum had established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with his friends. L. Frank Baum At about the same time Frank embarked upon his lifetime infatuation with the theater, a devotion which would repeatedly lead him to failure and near-bankruptcy. His first such failure occurred when a local theatrical company duped him into replenishing their stock of costumes, with the promise of leading roles that never came his way. Disillusioned, Baum left the theatre—temporarily—and went to work as a clerk in his brother-in-law's dry goods company in Syracuse. At one point, he found another clerk locked in a store room dead, an apparent suicide. This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, " The Suicide of Kiaros . At the age of 20, Baum took on a new vocation: the breeding of fancy poultry, which was a national c | Greenmantle by John Buchan - The 1506th Greatest Fiction Book of All Time Sign In Greenmantle by John Buchan Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. [Literary significance and criticism] The book was very popular when published, and was read and enjoyed by Robert Baden-Powell and by the Russian imperial family as they awaited the outcome of the Revolution in 1917. Just as the British and American characters are positive, slightly jingoistic clichés, many of the German characters are negative clichés; for example, Colonel von Stumm is an ox-necked, bull-like bully with secret effeminate (possibly homosexual) tastes. Buchan saw his novel-writing as part of the war effort. Stumm, the bully, is intended as a symbol of Britain's war enemy of the time, Imperial Germany. However, when Buchan writes of a meeting between Hannay and the Kaiser, he portrays the German leader very positively, as a sensitive man who is greatly troubled by the war. This is one of the most unusual and unexpected episodes in the novel. He makes similarly sympathetic characters of a poor forester's wife who shelters Hannay when he has malaria, and of the captain of the Danube river steamer who takes Hannay on as engineer. Herr Gaudian, a renowned German engineer whom Hannay meets briefly during his time with von Stumm, and who later returns in The Three Hostages, is respected by Hannay, who describes him as "a capital good fellow". Critics have claimed that the weakest elements in this book are the clunky narrative crutches Buchan uses, particularly the many unlikely coincidences and sit-down narratives with which subsidiary characters are brought in at predictable moments and made to tell their adventures. The first chapter of Greenmantle, "A Mission is Proposed", was chosen by Graham Greene for his 1957 anthology The Spy's Bedside Book. |
Douglas, Fraser and Noble are all which type of tree? | Types of Christmas Trees at our farm | McFee's Christmas Tree Farm McFee's Christmas Tree Farm Our Trees Grand Fir Grand Fir Christmas trees have a vibrant emerald green needle with a silvery underside. The silver underside of Grand Fir needles have two lines of stomatal bloom which reflect light creating a sparkling display. The glossy Grand Fir needles fan out in a single plane on either side of the branch giving the tree an elegant appearance. While similar in appearance to Balsam Fir from the Eastern United States, which historically did not perform well, Western Grand Fir seed sources come from northern Idaho. These seed sources have dramatically improved needle retention and in home performance during the Christmas season. Noble Fir The Noble Fir grows slowly into a Christmas tree with great spacing between it’s strong branches which is the perfect combination for those with many heavy or large ornaments. Their needles are deep green and a little prickly to the touch. Nobles are also known for their excellent needle retention making it a great choice for those who enjoy their Christmas tree all December long. Douglas Fir The Douglas Fir is your classic, traditional Christmas tree that has been the favourite since the 1920′s. It has soft, dark green needles and branches that are closely bunched which release a mellow fragrance. Ensure your Douglas Fir has a constant supply of water for good needle retention. Fraser Fir The Fraser Fir is quite similar to the Noble fir with great spacing and strong branches for ornaments. Frasers have excellent needle retention as well. The most noticeable difference between the Noble and the Fraser fir is how the Fraser’s strong branches are turned upward. Their needles are silvery-green and soft making it a delight to decorate. | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: November 2015 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League Set by The Park Tavern and the Brewers Q1 Great Britain is to appear in the Tennis Davis Cup final in which Belgian city? Ghent Q2 Once storms Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond and Eva have passed the UK, which will be next? Frank The current Ebola outbreak started in which African country? Guinea (Dec 2013) Where would you find Connexus and Versatile? On TV program The Apprentice (Teams names in the current TV series) Q5 Which actor has appeared as James Bond in exactly 2 official Bond films? Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, License to kill) Q6 According to Collins English Dictionary what has been chosen as the word of the year 2015? Binge-watch Q7 What is the tag line of the upcoming Star Wars film episode 7 of the series? The Force Awakens Who replaced Nick Hewer in the TV program The Apprentice? Claude Littner Q9 Which RAF base was in the news in October, owing to the arrival of ~140 migrants by boat? RAF Akrotiri (Cyprus) Q10 There is one remaining hovercraft service operating in the UK, from which city does it operate? Portsmouth (Southsea -> Ryde on the Isle of Wight) Q11 Baroness Dido Harding of Winscombe has been in the news recently, as the CEO of which company? Talk Talk Q12 Which British airline is celebrating its 20th Anniversary, flying its inaugural flight on November 10th 1995? EasyJet The Schengen Treaty takes its name from a village in which country? Luxembourg MP can stand for two things on an ordnance survey Map, name either? Mile Post or Mooring Post Q15 On a marine map what does HWM stand for? High Water Mark Which country is to host the next Winter Olympics in 2018? South Korea Who did Seb Coe succeed as head of the IAAF? Lamine Diack What is the third largest object in the solar system? Saturn (Sun, Jupiter, Saturn) Which man made object is furthest from Earth? Voyager 1 (allow Voyager) Q20 For his part in which 1953 film did Frank Sinatra receive a Best Supporting Actor Oscar? From Here to Eternity Which current world leader is sometimes known as Bibi? Benjamin Netanyahu Q22 Who has been recently sworn in as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister after winning a surprise majority? Justin Trudeau What is the longest motorway in the UK? M6 What is the longest A road in the UK? A1 Who is the shadow chancellor? John McDonnell Which building was built in 1093 to house the shrine of St Cuthbert? Durham Cathedral In which building would you find the famous Cosmati Pavement? Westminster Cathedral Who hosts 'Modern Life is Goodish'? Dave Gorman Frankie Fredericks represented which African country in athletics? Namibia Who hosts 'As yet untitled'? Alan Davies Who will be the new host of QI succeeding Stephen Fry? Sandi Toksvig What is the word used to describe an animal/plant that is both male and female? Hermaphrodite With which artistic medium would you associate Ansel Adams? Photography Which city is normally accepted as being the ancient capital of Wessex? Winchester Which group recorded the track 'Unfinished Symphony'? Massive Attack Which school featured in UK TV's 'Please Sir'? Fenn Street Q37 80s band Heaven 17 got their name from a well-known novel originally published in 1962. Name it? A Clockwork Orange - (by Anthony Burgess) Q38 Steely Dan got their name from which notorious novel originally published in 1959? The Naked Lunch (by William Burroughs) Q39 Wladimir Klitschko is a champion boxer from which country? Ukraine The 'Rockhampton Rocket' was a nickname given to which famous sportsman? Rod Laver Which British astronaut is going to the international space station in December? Tim Peake How many cantons make up Switzerland? 26 (accept 25 to 27) Q43 Which city was the imperial capital of Japan before Tokyo? Kyoto Saloth Sar born 19 May 1925 is better known by what name? Pol Pot What was discovered in 1799 by Pierre-François Bouchard a Napoleonic soldier? The Rosetta Stone 'I told you I was ill' are the words carved into whose gravestone? Spike Milligan Q47 What did Newcastle chemist William Owen invent in 1927 for those |
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Proof These coins have been struck with special dies that create greater pressure for a more highly polished and clear design. Collectible and often trade at higher premiums. Purity The percentage of precious metal content of a coin. Reverse The back side of a coin. Spot Price The up-to-date value of a precious metal determined by latest market trades. Weight | Top Trading Card Games - Top Ten List - TheTopTens® Top Trading Card Games The Top Ten 1 Magic The Gathering Come on! Easily better because of the artistry on the cards, as well as the core gameplay being so much more expansive and the deck customization has so much creativity available for the players. No competition here. Magic the Gathering has a community and competitive environment that destroys all other trading card games. You can walk into any game store across the world and find people playing MTG any day of the week. Great for ALL ages! And the best game ever made! I play this game. I know how it works. I looked at all the other tcgs on the list and the only ones I recognized were Yu-gi-oh! and Pokemon. V 319 Comments 2 Yu-Gi-Oh! I've played yu-gi-oh and magic for a very long time, and I prefer Yu-gi-oh because it can be very simple and yet very complex at times making your brain work for your victory. The best quality it has is that it has a huge variety of cards that can appeal to almost anyone Really, yugioh should dominate. I have magic and yugioh. I've been playing both for years and yugioh is a lot more fun. Magic is too complicated and it can be hard to create a new deck. Yugioh is not that complicated and is a lot easier to create a deck with. You don't need mana and all that stuff. Also, yugioh has stragetgy but magic is just working with what you have. Yugioh can play cards face down to keep your opponent guessing but magic just has monster to attack. Magic also has flying O. Creatures which is way overpowered. Yugioh has cards which can always be beatable. Yugioh also takes longer to play which is good cause you can enjoy the experience longer. For another reason magic has like 9 different types of ways to play with different rules. Yugioh has one good way to play which is not confusing. You sound like you've never really played magic much. Or you are just terrible at it since you're complaining about flying creatures. It's far more than just creatures attacking creatures. Try playing it and try building a decent deck. Flying is far from your biggest worries. - Robbyrob Yugioh is beast. Its the number one card game in the whole ' world and deserves it. I have been playing for a good while, but my problem is that I have only one other person to play with most of the time but I have two friends who come down once or twice a year for a while so I play them when I can. Also I have no stores anywhere close to me that hold tournaments, but neither of those will stop me playing for a long time to come. I don't think this is a very well known combo 'cause I never play anyone that I don't know but I haven't heard anything about it so here it is. It's a combo for Last Turn. Summon wind-up zenmaines and play him in defense. Make sure it has at least one XYZ material when you activate Last Turn. When your oppenent attatcks use his effect and destroy his monster during the end phase. Hope it helps - llamabaconllama37 Very Strategic and will test you to the limits V 302 Comments 3 Pokémon TCG Honestly, the best card game out there. In comparison to Yugioh, Pokemon appeals to anyone regardless on how old they R. In tournaments, they have Juniors, Seniors and Masters so if you are 14 years old, you wouldn't have to worry about going against a 22 year old. This is also good because it puts people with the same caliber together so it isn't too unfair. Also, anyone can qualify to the world championships, unlike Yugioh which you must qualify from nationals. Pokemon is a really strategic and fun game and the community is much more friendly than Yugioh. I play Pokemon and Yugioh and while I still enjoy Yugioh a lot, I prefer playing Pokemon much more, especially as I have qualified for the World Championships 2013 in Vancouver, Canada. IT IS AWESOME! It has great structure in the style of gameplay, and there is a lot variety in strategies, players, cards, and much more. So yeah I desperately recommend this game. Easy game to pick up, yet has room for tons of strategy. Also, the online game is just fantastic, so if you're |
Reggie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica were members of which fictional band? | The Archies | Archie Comics Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Template:About Template:Infobox musical artist The Archies are a garage band founded by Archie Andrews , Reggie Mantle , and Jughead Jones , a group of fictional adolescent characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show . The group is also known for their real world success, through a virtual band . The fictional band's music was recorded by session musicians featuring Ron Dante on vocals and released as a series of singles and albums. Their most successful song, " Sugar, Sugar ", became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1972. [1] Contents Hot Dog : mascot / conductor The Archies are sometimes jokingly compared to The Doors , as they also had no bass player. However, there is some controversy as to whether Reggie played bass or not. In most drawings, his guitar looks identical to Archie's, making him the band's second (or co-lead) guitarist. However, a number of drawings (including the one above) clearly show Reggie's instrument to have four tuning keys, the most common bass design. Six-string bass guitars do exist, however, and the Archies' recordings regularly featured a bass player. In more than one comic strip, Reggie is described as playing bass (however, this is not necessarily canon , as storylines and hobbies/activities in the Archie world change from story to story). Finally, in the liner notes for 2008's The Archies Christmas Album, Reggie is listed as the bass guitarist. One distribution mode for the Archies' music was cereal boxes: a cardboard record was embossed directly into the back of a box such that the record could be cut out and played on a turntable (although their music was also available on standard issue LPs and 45s). Though the group no longer appears in animation, they are still frequently used in stories published by Archie Comics . Other cartoon groups Edit In the late 1960s and early 1970s, animated series often featured musical groups that were fictional or sometimes based on real life musicians. This dates at least as far back as 1965 with The Beatles , but the Archies helped popularize the concept. Most of these groups played bubblegum pop . Several were also teenage detectives, influenced by Scooby Doo . These groups included The Groovie Goolies , The Hardy Boys , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids , The Banana Splits (actually live action with actors in animal costumes and dubbed speaking voices), The Cattanooga Cats , The Chan Clan , and The Neptunes . Animated versions of The Jackson 5ive , the Osmond Brothers , the Partridge Family , and The Brady Bunch also existed. Archie Comics ' own creation Josie and the Pussycats was successful both as an animated series and as a comic book (and later a live action motion picture ), but The Bingoes and The Madhouse Glads lacked its popularity and never appeared in animation. Two modern examples of the "cartoon rock group" could include the British band, Gorillaz —a musical project created in 1998 by British musician Damon Albarn and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, and Dethklok , a fictional death metal band created by Brendon Small . Production Edit A set of studio musicians were assembled by Don Kirshner in 1968 to perform various songs. The most famous is " Sugar, Sugar ", written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim , which went to #1 on the pop chart in 1969, sold over six million copies, and was awarded a gold disc . [2] In Billboard 's Hot 100 , it was ranked as the number one song of that year, the only time a fictional band has ever claimed Billboard's annual Hot 100 top spot. Other Top 40 songs recorded by The Archies include "Who's Your Baby?" (U.S. #40), "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" (U.S. #22), and "Jingle Jangle" (U.S. #10). "Jingle Jangle" also sold over one million copies, garnering a second gold disc award. [2] Male vocals for the fictional Archies group were provided by The Cuff Links ' lead singer Ron Dante and female duet vocals were provided by Toni Wine . Wine, who was only paid for the record | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: October 2014 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League & Harrington ‘B’ What well-known product was invented in 1886 by John Pemberton, who at that time was addicted to morphine and was looking to find a less harmful substitute? Coca-Cola The entrepreneur Donald F Duncan introduced which toy in 1929, often thought to be based on a weapon used by 16th Century Filipino hunters? Yo-Yo Who was the Greek God of time? Chronos Which English King was the son of Edward, The Black Prince Richard II Who succeeded Richard II as King in 1399? Henry IV What name is given to the notorious tidal current in the Lofoten islands off Norway? Maelstrom Which hit song from July 1979 was inspired by the doings of one Brenda Spencer on 29th January that year? I Don’t Like Mondays (by The Boomtown Rats) Which motor manufacturer produces the model which has the best-selling car name of all time (the model has undergone at least eleven redesigns from 1966 to date)? Toyota (the Corolla is the model in question) What was Fanny Cradock’s real Christian name? Phyllis (Born as Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey) What is the collective name for the handmaidens of Odin who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live? Valkyries Illustrated on its logo, the product Marmite is named after a French word for what? Cooking Pot Which Nintendo game first introduced the character of Mario? Donkey Kong (in 1981…pre-dating Super Mario Bros. by 4 years) Which song was the Labour Party’s theme in its Election campaign of 1997? Things can only get better (by D:Ream) Who is the only woman to have been French Prime Minister? Edith Cresson Who designed the first Blue Peter badge as well as the “Ship” logo used by the programme? Tony Hart Born in Ulverston in 1890, by what name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson better known? Stan Laurel Of which actress did Groucho Marx say “I knew her before she became a virgin”? Doris Day Who wrote and composed the Opera ‘Oedipus Rex’? Stravinsky Who was the first “First Minister of Scotland”? Donald Dewar Who was the first Secretary General of The United Nations? Trygve Lie Against the people of which city did the Romans fight the Punic Wars? Carthage Josip Broz was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. By what name is he better known? Tito Which famous Independent day and Boarding School in Derbyshire was founded by Sir John Port in 1557? Repton School Buddy Holly had a posthumous hit with the song "It doesn’t matter any more". Which singer / songwriter of the time wrote it? Paul Anka An alibi is a form of defence used in criminal proceedings where the accused attempts to prove their innocence. What does the Latin word alibi literally mean? Elsewhere (The accused attempts to prove they were somewhere else at the time of the offence) Who said in a speech in 1968 “As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'”? Enoch Powell In a famous 1871 poem, the wedding feast consisted of “mince and quince eaten with a runcible spoon“. Name either of the parties supposedly getting married. Owl or Pussycat (in the Edward Lear poem) Who was the last King of France before the First French Republic was established in 1792? Louis XVI (the Sixteenth) Which modern Japanese martial art is descended from swordsmanship and uses a weapon called a Shinai Kendo Who wrote the book ‘Whisky Galore’? Compton Mackenzie Which fictional pirate captain went to his death murmuring the words ‘Floreat Etona’? Captain Hook In which London restaurant did Boris Becker have his famously brief, but expensive, 'affair' in a broom cupboard with model Angela Ermakova? Nobu Who was the US President throughout the period of World War I? Woodrow Wilson Who was the UK Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War I? Asquith Gruinard Island is an uninhabited Scottish island which was used as the scene for experiments on which bacterium during the 20th century? Anthrax Jihad is an Islamic term referring to a religious duty of Muslims. Wha |
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The Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi who is acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time was known for her rivalry with which other legendary soprano? | Renata Tebaldi music | Artists Voice/Instrument: Biography Renata Tebaldi (Pesaro, Italy) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano, popular in the post-war period. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time, she primarily focused on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires.Contents Early years Tebaldi was born Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi in Pesaro, the daughter of a cellist, Teobaldo Tebaldi, and Giuseppina Barbieri, a gifted singer who had wanted a singing career but eventually became a nurse instead. Very soon, the parents split up and Renata, together with her mother, moved to the latter's home town, Langhirano in the Province of Parma. Stricken with polio at the age of three, Tebaldi was unable to take part in strenuous activities and instead became interested in music. She was a member of the church choir in Langhirano and her mother sent her to piano lessons with Signorina Passani in Parma at the age of thirteen; she worked with boundless diligence, practising four or five hours a day and dreaming of a career as a concert pianist. She also sang everything she heard. Her main source of inspiration was listening to the radio. It was not until her piano teacher took the initiative that Renata was sent to Italo Brancucci, a singing teacher at the conservatory of Parma. She began studying a short time later at the conservatory, taking lessons with Ettore Campogalliani for three years. Renata had to concentrate on scales and voice training for two years before she was allowed to learn the first songs towards the end of her second year of training. Carmen Melis She went off to spend a Christmas holiday with her father's brother, her uncle Valentino, at Pesaro. There, as operatic destiny would have it, Valentino owned a small café where the famous former diva Carmen Melis came to buy pastries. Melis was a teacher at the Pesaro Conservatory. Valentino talked to Melis about his niece, and the diva finally consented to audition the young girl. Melis had been a soprano prima donna at La Scala in Milan and had sung with Caruso and Titta Ruffo. Melis was to become Tebaldi's most important teacher: the next day, and for the remainder of her holiday, Tebaldi worked with Melis; when she returned to Parma, the improvement was so drastic that no one believed it was the same voice. It was then that she determined to move to Pesaro permanently, where she lived with her father's family and took classes with Melis both at the conservatory and privately. Melis organised a scholarship for her and Tebaldi made her first public appearance singing "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Catalani's La Wally at the theatre in Urbino. At the age of 22, Tebaldi made her debut as Elena in Boito's Mefistofele in Rovigo. She performed several more times in Parma - in La Bohème, L'amico Fritz and Andrea Chénier and started working, again through Melis, with the conductor and singing teacher Giuseppe Pais in Milan 1944. An audition for Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Scala's director, came to nothing as there were hardly any performances anymore during the war years. She made her debut as Desdemona in Trieste alongside Francesco Merli and caused a stir. Arturo Toscanini Her major breakthrough came in 1946, when she auditioned in Milan for Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini was favorably impressed, calling her "voce d'angelo" (angel voice). Tebaldi made her La Scala debut that year at the concert which marked the reopening of the theatre after World War II. She sang the "Prayer" ("Dal tuo stellato soglio") from Rossini's biblical opera, Mosè in Egitto, as well as the soprano part in Verdi's Te Deum. She was given the operatic roles of Margherita and Elena in Mefistofele and Elsa in Lohengrin in 1946. The following year, she appeared in La Bohème and as Eva in Die Meistersinger. Toscanini encouraged her to sing the role of Aida and invited her to rehearse the role in his studio. She was of the opinion that the role of Aida was reserved for a dramatic soprano, but Toscanini convinced her and she made her role debut at La Scala in 1950 along | Sheet Music, Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart, WA, 2 Flutes Cosi Fan Tutte Mozart, WA Various arrangements of Mozart's Opera 'Cosi Fan Tutte' for two flutes. 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Meir Chernofsky News 01-02-2017 SMU flute professor Jean Larson Garver will host a master class with internationally renowned flutist Jean Ferrandis Saturday, March 4, 2017, from 1:00pm - 4:00pm. The class will feature SMU flute students from the studios of Jean Larson Garver, Kara Kirkendoll and Deborah Baron as well as outstanding high school students selected by audition. SMU staff pianist Angela Favazza will serve as accompanist for the class. Powell Flutes with Carolyn Nussbaum Company will have a display of new flutes for teachers and students to try. More information can be found at Flute Master Class with Jean Ferrandis |
Which US company has recently taken over Cadbury's? | BBC News - Cadbury agrees Kraft takeover bid Cadbury agrees Kraft takeover bid Union: 'Sad day' for Cadbury Cadbury is to be taken over by the US food company Kraft after its board approved a new increased bid. The Cadbury board has advised its shareholders to accept a new offer of 840 pence a share - valuing the company at £11.5bn ($18.9bn). Kraft said the deal would create a "global confectionery leader". But there are renewed fears over possible job cuts at Cadbury's UK operations as a result of the agreed takeover. Shareholders have until 2 February to give the deal their backing, with the US confectioner Hershey apparently out of the race. The offer will consist of 500 pence in cash, with the rest made of Kraft shares. Kraft will borrow £7bn ($11.5bn) to finance the deal. The increase in Kraft's debt to pay for Cadbury will doubtless worry its employees BBC business editor Robert Peston Send us your comments "We believe the offer represents good value for Cadbury shareholders... and will now work with the Kraft Foods' management to ensure the continued success and growth of the business," said Cadbury's chairman Roger Carr. Irene Rosenfeld, the chairman and chief executive of Kraft Foods, said the deal was good news for shareholders and staff. "We have great respect for Cadbury's brands, heritage and people," she said. "We believe they will thrive as part of Kraft Foods." Shareholder approval The deal is a significant increase on earlier Kraft bids, which were flatly rejected by the Cadbury board as "derisory". Kraft's previous offer valued the company at £10.5bn - a bid Cadbury's chairman Roger Carr said was an attempt to "buy Cadbury on the cheap". Shareholders are expected to agree to the takeover. David Cumming, head of UK equities at Cadbury shareholder Standard Life, said that he would be agreeing, despite hoping for a higher price. CADBURY John Cadbury, a Quaker, opened a shop in Birmingham in 1824, selling tea, coffee and hot chocolate - as an alternative to alcohol Dairy Milk brand introduced in 1905, with Milk Tray coming 10 years later Merged with rival confectioner J.S. Fry & Sons in 1919 Merged with Schweppes drinks business in 1969. Its drinks arm was spun off in 2008 Employs about 45,000 people in 60 countries Cadbury brands include: Dairy Milk, Flake, Crunchie, Chocolate Buttons and Milk Tray "I won't go against the view of Cadbury's management," he told the BBC. "Kraft are getting a good deal. It's sad that Cadbury is gone, but business is business." In early trading on Tuesday, Cadbury shares were up 3.5%. Job fears Unions have expressed concerns that the Kraft takeover could cost jobs. The company has given no specific assurances over the future of 4,500 UK jobs, though it says it wants to invest in the Bournville site and maintain production at Somerdale, near Bristol, also known as Keynsham. It has not ruled out cuts, and staff numbers at Cadbury's head office in Uxbridge are expected to be reduced, according to the BBC's business editor Robert Peston. KRAFT FOODS Founded in Illinois as a cheese wholesaler in 1903 Bought in 1988 by Philip Morris, which also purchased Nabisco for $19.2bn in 2000 before integrating it into Kraft Foods More than 40 of its brands are more than 100 years old Has 98,000 employees and 168 manufacturing and processing facilities worldwide Kraft brands include: Kenco, Ritz, Philadelphia spread, Tang, Alpen Gold and Oreo Kraft also said it expected "meaningful cost savings" as a result of the merger. Jennie Formby from the Unite union said the need for Kraft to cut costs could mean staff cuts in the longer-term. "We are concerned about the levels of debt that Kraft has," she told the BBC. "The sad truth is that when they have to pay down that debt, the soft option is jobs and conditions. "When you have to make cost savings of the magnitude they will need to make, you have to ask where those cost savings will be made." Those fears were shared by David Bailey, professor at Coventry University Business School. "Serious questions need to be asked about Kraft's intentions," he | quizballs 50 -- part 2 - Google Groups quizballs 50 -- part 2 41. What Cumbrian town was used as a 2007 pilot for the digital TV switch-over? 42. It was announced in April 2007 that Lord Justice Scott Baker would replace Baroness Butler-Sloss in what position? 43. What remarkable sale price did Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull achieve? 44. Which world champion 400m runner successfully overturned her Olympic Games ban for missing drug tests? 45. Monks featured strongly in the September protests in which country? 46. Which northern England city was flooded by torrential rain on on 25 June 2007? 47. In what US city did Barack Obama announce his presidential candidacy in February 2007? 48. Which Bollywood actor was at the centre of the 2007 Big Brother TV Show racism uproar? 49. Shinzo Abe resigned in September 2007 as prime minister of which country? 50. Which corporation bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240m? 51. The Kate Moss Collection was launched by what store chain? 52. The two CDs lost by the UK department HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) contained personal details of 20m people relating to claims of what? 53. Who resigned as England cricket coach after the 2007 Ashes series 5-0 defeat? 54. What nickname was used by the media for the senior policeman in charge of the Cash for Honours investigation? 55. In May 2007 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the biggest what in history to date? 56. Intensive British forces operations in Afghanistan through 2007 were centred in which province? 57. In what significant UK location was the August 2007 Climate Change Camp sited? 58. Which movie star left the much publicized 'rude pig' phone message for his twelve year old daughter? 59. In a bizarre 2007 confessional frenzy, Ruth Kelly, Jacqui Smith, Harriet Harman, Hazel Blears and Alistair Darling where among several British government ministers to make what admission? 60. At the end of 2007 how many England Premiership football (soccer) clubs were foreign owned? 61. In June 2007 the Millennium Dome re-opened under what name? 62. Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing over the Nevada Desert in September 2007? 63. The perfume brand 'Mwah' was launched in 2007 by which 'celebrity'? 64. What country celebrated on August 15th 2007 its 60th anniversary of independence from British rule? 65. Who resigned as World Bank President after failing to disprove allegations of his nepotism? 66. Which country won the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup? 67. Following an Ofcom investigation which TV company was judged in September 2007 to be the worst offending in the premium line phone-in scandals? 68. What film won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Picture? 69. Speculation towards the end of 2007 suggested that Rupert Murdoch's News International Group was in discussion to buy what significant business networking website? 70. Which rapper cancelled his UK tour when refused entry to the country? 71. What was the name of the Space Shuttle which launched on June 8th 2007? 72. Who made this amusing statement: "I have expressed a degree of regret that may be equated with an apology..." ? 73. Whose secret donations of over half a million pounds caused a big problem for the Labour Party when they were exposed in November 2007? 74. Who became the new French president in 2007? 75. Who was charged with fraud when he reappeared five years after going missing in a canoe off the Cleveland coast? 76. Clarence Mitchell was appointed media spokesman for whom in September 2007? 77. Which Formula One racing team was expelled from the 2007 Constructors Championship for spying on a competitor? 78. Blake Fielder-Civil achieved notoriety as whose errant husband? 79. Which former newspaper owner and business mogul was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for fraud in December 2007? 80. Which major city switched off its lights for an hour on the evening of 31 March 2007 as a political statement about climate change? 81. What was the village and laboratory site na |
In Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women, what is the name of the family whose story is told? | SparkNotes: Little Women: Character List Character List Plot Overview Analysis of Major Characters Josephine March - The protagonist of the novel, and the second-oldest March sister. Jo, who wants to be a writer, is based on Louisa May Alcott herself, which makes the story semi-autobiographical. Jo has a temper and a quick tongue, although she works hard to control both. She is a tomboy, and reacts with impatience to the many limitations placed on women and girls. She hates romance in her real life, and wants nothing more than to hold her family together. Meg March - The oldest March sister. Responsible and kind, Meg mothers her younger sisters. She has a small weakness for luxury and leisure, but the greater part of her is gentle, loving, and morally vigorous. Read an in-depth analysis of Laurie Laurence. Marmee - The March girls’ mother. Marmee is the moral role model for her girls. She counsels them through all of their problems and works hard but happily while her husband is at war. Mr. March - The March girls’ father and Marmee’s husband. He serves in the Union army as a chaplain. When he returns home, he continues acting as a minister to a nearby parish. Mr. Brooke - Laurie’s tutor. Mr. Brooke is poor but virtuous. Frederick Bhaer - A respected professor in Germany who becomes an impoverished language instructor in America. Mr. Bhaer lives in New York, where he meets Jo. He is kind and fatherly. Mr. Laurence - Laurie’s grandfather and the Marches’ next-door neighbor. Mr. Laurence seems gruff, but he is loving and kind. Hannah - The Marches’ loyal servant. Aunt March - A rich widow and one of the March girls’ aunts. Although crotchety and difficult, Aunt March loves her nieces and wants the best for them. Daisy - Meg and Mr. Brooke’s daughter. Daisy is the twin of Demi. Her real name is Margaret. Demi - Meg and Mr. Brooke’s son and Daisy’s twin. Demi’s real name is John Laurence. Mrs. Kirke - The woman who runs the New York boarding house where Jo lives. Kate Vaughn - One of Laurie’s British friends. At first, Kate turns up her nose at the bluntness and poverty of the Marches. She later decides that she likes them, however, showing that she is able to overcome her initial prejudice. Sallie Gardiner - Meg’s rich friend. Sallie represents the good life to Meg, and Meg often covets Sallie’s possessions. Aunt Carrol - One of the March girls’ aunts. Aunt Carrol is ladylike, and she takes Amy with her to Europe. Florence - Aunt Carrol’s daughter. Florence accompanies her aunt and Amy to Europe. Fred Vaughn - One of the Vaughn siblings. Fred is Laurie’s friend, but he soon develops a romantic interest in Amy. Esther - Aunt March’s servant. Esther is a French Catholic. Annie Moffat - Another wealthy friend of Meg’s. Annie is fashionable and social, and she wears stylish clothing that Meg envies. Ned Moffat - The older brother of Meg’s friend Annie Moffat. Frank Vaughn - One of the Vaughn siblings. Frank is sickly. Grace Vaughn - The youngest sister of the Vaughn family. Grace and Amy become friends on a picnic. Dr. Bangs - A doctor who tends to Beth when she is ailing. The Hummels - A family that lives near the Marches. The Hummels are poor and in bad health. | David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page - Little Dorrit Little Dorrit FAQ & Email The theme of the debtor's prison is central to several of Dickens' novels and to his personal life as well. In 1824, when Charles was 12 years old, his father was arrested for debt and imprisoned in the Marshalsea debtor's prison in Southwark. His father's imprisonment, and Charles' subsequent consignment to Warren's Blacking factory to help support the family, was an extremely traumatic experience that young Dickens never got over, and which proved to be a major influence in his life's work. Typically, a debtor was accused by the person to whom money was owed. The accused was held several days in a sponging house, such as Coavin's in Bleak House or Moss's, in which Rawdon Crawley is held in Thackeray's Vanity Fair . If, in a few days, the money cannot be raised, the debtor is imprisoned until the debt is paid. There were three prominent debtor's prisons in London: The Fleet , where Mr. Pickwick ( Pickwick Papers ) was held, The King's Bench , where Micawber ( David Copperfield ) was an inmate, and the Marshalsea , where Dickens' father was imprisoned, as well as the fictional William Dorrit (Little Dorrit). The Dorrit's European tour draws heavily on Dickens own travels through France to Italy in 1844/45 and chronicled in his travel book, Pictures from Italy . Dickens' satiric representation of the Civil Service, where the Barnacle family demonstrates how to go around in circles, spewing red tape, and accomplishing nothing, draws on recent government bumbling during the Crimean War...and perhaps just a hint of leftover cynicism from Dickens' days as a young parliamentary reporter. Little Dorrit (2008) Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen In 1830, when Charles Dickens was 18 years old he fell madly in love with the daughter of a successful banker, Maria Beadnell. He courted Miss Beadnell for three years, although her parents objected to the relationship. The courtship ended with Dickens heartbroken. He never forgot Maria, Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield was based on his memory of her. In 1855, with his marriage to Kate breaking down, Dickens received a letter from Maria, now married and describing herself as "toothless, fat, old and ugly." Dickens memory of Maria would not allow him to believe this description and, after several passionate letters were exchanged, a meeting was arranged. When Dickens met Maria he was devastated, her description of herself being fairly accurate. Thereafter his few letters to her were short and formal. Dickens used the new Maria as the basis for Flora Finching, Arthur Clennam's former lover in Little Dorrit. Flora is fat and tiresome, although sincerely good natured. Dickens would later write "We all have our Floras, mine is living, and extremely fat." Dickens' life during the serialization of Little Dorrit Dec 1855 - Jun 1857 Dickens' age: 43-45 December 1855 310,000 handbills and 4000 posters had been printed by Dec 31 advertising Little Dorrit. Sales of the early numbers were phenomenal and continued strong throughout the run. March 1856 Purchases Rochester mansion Gad's Hill Place which he had admired from a child. He paid 1790 pounds for the house and resolved to spend another 1000 pounds on improvements. April 1856 Returns from Paris where he had been, except for frequent trips back to London, since October 1855. While in France he had completed arrangements for a published translation of all of his books into French. June 1856 Visits Boulogne for two months. October 1956 Making preparation to stage the Amateur Theatrical The Frozen Deep. May 1857 Visits the site of the Marshalsea prison , where his father had been imprisoned for debt in 1824 and a setting for Little Dorrit. June 1857 | Illustrations | Locations In his eleventh novel, illustrated by Phiz and published by Bradbury and Evans , Dickens' childhoo |
Making his debut for Sunderland the season before last, who is the only footballer from Albania ever to play in the Premier League? | BBC SPORT | Football | Premier League | Where the Premier League's players come from Where the Premier League's players come from Data shown is place of birth, not nationality. (Data last updated 13 August 2009) By Ollie Williams In the past two decades, the composition of England's top-flight teams has changed dramatically. At the start of the 1989-90 season, leading clubs like Arsenal and Manchester United boasted just one or two regular first-team players who were born outside the United Kingdom. Now, Premier League teams have, on average, 13 foreign-born stars within their ranks. 'THE GLOBAL GAME' Watch the BBC News Channel/BBC World on Friday for interviews and analysis on the global growth and appeal of the Premier League, with coverage also on radio and online Use the interactive world map above to explore the birthplaces of players in all the current Premier League squads, and compare them with the same teams' players from the start of the 1989-90 season - then find out more about each team below. Twenty years ago, defending champions Arsenal had just two players born outside the UK on their books: Icelandic midfielder Sigurdur Jonsson and Irish forward Niall Quinn. Jonsson made barely a handful of appearances before leaving Highbury in 1992, while Quinn was soon to sign for Manchester City. Liverpool, eventual title-winners that season, had an unusually large number of foreign-born players in their 1989-90 squad. Bruce Grobbelaar - one of few foreign stars in 1989 Kenny Dalglish's side featured five players born outside the UK: John Barnes (Jamaica), Bruce Grobbelaar (South Africa), Glenn Hysen (Sweden), Jan Molby (Denmark) and Steve Staunton (Republic of Ireland). But they were the exception. Teams were far more likely to boast just one or two players born outside the UK and, in many cases (such as Manchester City's David Oldfield and Chelsea's Tony Dorigo), those players were British nationals who happened to have been born abroad. Two decades ago, the teams making up this year's Premier League could only boast 12 players born outside the Commonwealth between them. Twenty years later, more than half of the Premier League's clubs could field an entire starting line-up of foreign-born players. Liverpool now have just three UK-born first-team stars in Jamie Carragher, Steven Gerrard and Glen Johnson, with other British talents like Jay Spearing making only occasional European appearances to date. Anfield is home to 20 foreign-born players with a strong first-team claim, while Arsenal can boast 23, as opposed to four Brits, all aged under 21. Teams recently promoted to the top flight have the fewest foreign-born players in their first-team squads - Burnley have seven, Wolves have eight, as do Stoke, who gained promotion a year earlier, while Birmingham have nine. West Ham are also at the lower end of the spectrum, with nine foreign-born players, but at the time of writing this still comprised almost half of the 21 first-team players at Gianfranco Zola's disposal. You can find out more about your team below. Remember that the data focuses on place of birth, not nationality. Read more, comment and download the data on Ollie Williams' blog Jump to a team 1989-90: 19 players born in UK, two born abroad 2009-10: Four players born in UK, 23 born abroad Jack Wilshere is one of Arsenal's UK-born youngsters Jonsson and Quinn, mentioned above, were as exotic as it got for the Gunners 20 years ago. Arsenal could almost have put out a starting line-up featuring only players born in the London area. By contrast, in February 2005, manager Arsene Wenger became the first in English football to field a matchday squad lacking any English players. The current squad's UK-born talents - Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey, Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshere - are all under 21 years old. Points on the map 2009-10: Carlos Vela, who waited more than three years for his first Arsenal goal (and two of those waiting for a work permit), is Mexican. Brazilians Denilson and Eduardo hail from Sao Paulo and Rio respectively. There are three imports from West | Delia Smith boils over after Norwich City are promoted to the Premier League | Daily Mail Online comments A decade ago she made a bit of a pudding of herself after she marched on to her team’s football pitch and screeched ‘Let’s be ’avin’ you!’ at the crowd to fire up the fans. And it seems Delia Smith’s vocal support for Norwich City is just as loud and proud today. The celebrity cook shouted and pumped her fists yesterday after the Canaries beat rivals Middlesbrough 2-0 in the Championship play-off final, meaning they clinched promotion to the Premier League. Scroll down for video Ten tears on: Yesterday (left) Delia celebrated in front of Norwich fans after seeing her club return to the Premier League. Her pitch appearance was reminiscent over her overwrought speech in 2005 (right) Overjoyed: The celebrity cook shouted and pumped her fists yesterday after the Canaries beat rivals Middlesbrough 2-0 in the Championship play-off final She has more reason than most to be overjoyed at the victory, worth £130million to her club, because she is a majority shareholder with her husband Michael Wynn Jones. Indeed Miss Smith, 73, was so deliriously happy that she celebrated by joining players on the pitch. Miss Smith certainly wasn’t dressed for such raucous behaviour in a smart black suit and pearl earrings. RELATED ARTICLES Share 48 shares She had even confined her team’s green and yellow stripes to a silk scarf tucked neatly around her neck. Her displays of support for her club, which has yo-yoed between the top two divisions in recent years, have sometimes stunned supporters. In 2005 she barged on to the pitch during half-time when Norwich City played Manchester City. Winners: Delia Smith can look forward to her side cooking up a storm in the top flight once again after winning promotion Get in: Stephen Fry could not contain his joy on Monday as he watched his football team, Norwich City, secure a place in the Barclays Premier League next season Overjoyed: The team’s 2-0 win over Middlesbrough in the Championship playoff final at Wembley means Norwich will return to the Premier League just one year after relegation She grabbed the microphone from the club announcer and yelled at the crowd: ‘A message for the best football supporters in the world, we need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let’s be ’avin’ you! Come on!’ Miss Smith has supported Norwich City since the 1970s and attends most of City’s matches – home and away – throughout the season. She joined the club’s board with her husband and took over the majority of Norwich City’s shares in 1996, when the club’s finances were very precarious. The couple currently hold 53 per cent of ordinary shares and 19 per cent of ‘B preference’ shares. Miss Smith, who has also been a director of the club since 1996, set up Delia’s Canary Catering in 1997 to provide match-day food at the team’s home ground, Carrow Road. With her cooking credentials it greatly improved the snacks on offer, making ‘significant financial contribution to the club’s coffers’. However, she retired as its head in 2011 in order to ‘reduce her workload’. What a time: The 57-year-old was seen cheering loudly and punching the air with glee as Cameron Jerome and Nathan Remond found the back of the net within the first fifteen minutes of the match Naturally, Stephen was overjoyed by the victory and joined in with other fans, pulling a variety of expressive faces as he saw his team dominate the game right from the kick-off. Another fan who could not contain his joy was Stephen Fry, who was seen throwing his arms into the air from the stand. The panel show host, who has been a member of the Canaries board since 2010, is famously a lifelong fan of the team and has uses his celebrity status to raise awareness for Norwich City over the past few years. Naturally, Stephen was overjoyed by the victory and joined in with other fans, pulling a variety of expressive faces as he saw his team dominate the game right from the kick-off. Making he sure he was on hand to cheer his team on sporting the clubs sca |
How is Anne Catherick referred to in the title of a book by Wilkie Collins? | THE WOMAN IN WHITE THE WOMAN IN WHITE 'This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure and what a Man's resolution can achieve.' 1st edition by Sampson Low in three volumes, August 1860 1st US edition by Harpers in paper wrappers, August 1860 Published in 1860, one of the two novels (with The Moonstone ) for which Collins is most famous. It firmly established his reputation with the reading public and helped raise the circulation of All the Year Round. As Smith, Elder found to their cost, 'everyone was raving about it.' S. M. Ellis described how The Woman in White was so popular that 'every possible commodity was labelled "Woman in White". There were "Woman in White" cloaks and bonnets, "Woman in White" perfumes and all manner of toilet requisites, "Woman in White" Waltzes and Quadrilles.' It was parodied in Punch and even such a critical reviewer as Mrs Oliphant, was unusually favourable. Edward Fitzgerald read it several times and considered naming a sailing boat after the determined Marian Halcombe. Prince Albert read the book and approved. Thackeray was engrossed from morning to sunset, and Gladstone found the story so absorbing that he missed a visit to the theatre. The Woman in White has never been out of print since its first publication. In the twentieth century there have been theatre, film, television and musical adaptations and even a comic-strip version. The Woman in White is generally regarded as the first Sensation Novel and inspired numerous imitations, most notably from Mary Braddon. The story is in part based on an eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment, taken from Mejan's Recueil des Causes Celebres. It uses the theme of substituted identity, a favourite with Collins, and also attacks the misuse of lunatic asylums. The story can be considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The use of multiple narratives draws on Collins's legal training and as he points out in his Preamble: 'the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness'. Collins described his method of the writing The Woman in White in 'Mr Wilkie Collins in Gloucester Place', Number 81 in 'Celebrities at Home', The World, 26 December 1877; and in 'How I Write my Books', The Globe, 26 November 1887. John Gilbert frontispiece to the 1861 one volume Sampson Low edition Walter Hartright, a young drawing master, has secured a position in Cumberland on the recommendation of his old friend Professor Pesca, a political refugee from Italy. While walking home from Hampstead on his last evening in London, Hartright meets a mysterious woman dressed in white, apparently in deep distress. He helps her on her way but later learns that she has escaped from an asylum. The next day he travels north to Limmeridge House. The household comprises Mr Frederick Fairlie, a reclusive valetudinarian; Laura Fairlie, his niece; and Marian Halcombe, her devoted half-sister. Hartright finds that Laura bears an astonishing resemblance to the woman in white, called Anne Catherick. The simple-minded Anne had lived for a time in Cumberland as a child and was devoted to Laura's mother, who first dressed her in white. Hartright and Laura fall in love. Laura, however, has promised her late father that she will marry Sir Percival Glyde, and Marian advises Walter to leave Limmeridge. Anne Catherick, after sending a letter to Laura warning her against Glyde, meets Hartright who is convinced that Glyde was responsible for shutting her in the asylum. Laura and Glyde marry in December 1849 and travel to Italy. Hartright also leaves England, joining an expedition to Honduras. After their honeymoon, Sir Percival and Lady Glyde return the following June to his family estate in Hampshire, Blackwater Park. They a | 1980 Booker Prize 1980 Booker Prize Winner: Rites of Passage by William Golding Shortlist Jacket illustration by Cathie Felstead Dustjacket synopsis: "An ancient ship of the line converted to general purposes is making her way from the South of England to Australia. She carries a few guns, some cargo, some animals, some seamen, some soldiers, some emigrants and a few ladies and gentlemen. There is a clergyman of the Church of England. There is Wilmot Brocklebank, lithographer, marine artist and portrait painter. There is a young army officer. "Representing the higher echelons of administration is young Mr Talbot, setting out with the utmost confidence towards a distinguished career. But the voyage teaches him some unexpected things. It affords him more opportunities for observing the ceremonies that mark a progres through life - more chances for a mixture of acute observation and sheer misjudgement - than he could possibly record in his journal; though, for his godfather's entertainment, he tries his best. Though Talbot is mistaken in Deverel, instructed by Mr Summers, seduced by Miss Brocklebank, and shocked by Miss Granham, he finds it unnecessary in the event to keep an eye on Mr Prettiman. But it is a sadder and more responsible man who learns from the Reverend Robert James Colley what a bitter taste there is to remorse when it is unavailing. "The publication last year of Darkness Visible, William Golding's first novel for many years, restored, as Frank Tuohy wrote in The Times Literary Supplement, 'a living force among us'. 'The writing displays,' Mr Tuohy continued, 'in episode after episode, an intensity of vision without parallel in contemporary writing.' Rites of Passage provides further evidence of the diversity, range and power of his sympathies and his imagination." First Paragraph: Honoured godfather, With those words I begin the journal I engaged myself to keep for you - no words could be more suitable! Very well then. The place: on board the ship at last. The year: you know it. The date? Surely what matters is that it is the first day of my passage to the offier side of the world; in token whereof I have this moment inscribed the number "one" at the top of this page. For what I am about to write must be a record of our first day. The month or day of the week can signify little since in our long passage from the south of Old England to the Antipodes we shall pass through the geometry of all four seasons! This very morning before I left the hall I paid a visit to my young brothers, and they were such a trial to old Dobbie! Young Lionel performed what he conceived to be an Aborigine's war dance. Young Percy lay on his back and rubbed his belly, meanwhile venting horrid groans to convey the awful results of eating me! I cuffed them both into attitudes of decent dejection, then descended again to where my mother and father were waiting. My mother - contrived a tear or two? Oh no, it was the genuine article, for there was at that point a warmth in my own bosom which might not have been thought manly. Why, even my father - We have, I believe, paid more attention to sentimental Goldsmith and Richardson than lively old Fielding and Smollett! Your lordship would indeed have been convinced of my worth had you heard the invocations over me, as if I were a convict in irons rather than a young gentleman going to assist the governor in the administration of one of His Majesty's colonies! I felt much the better for my parents' evident feelings - and I felt the better for my own feelings too! Your godson is a good enough fellow at bottom. Recovery took him all the way down the drive, past the lodge and as far as the first turning by the mill! From the Faber & Faber hardback edition, 1981. Jacket photograph by Pictor International - London Dustjacket synopsis: "Earthly Powers is Anthony Burgess's supreme achievement as a novelist. An entralling, epic narrative that spans six decades of history, that spotlights some of the most vivid events and characters of the twentieth century, it |
"What suffix means ""study of""?" | Quia - Medical Terminology Suffixes / Chapter 2 Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. Medical Terminology Suffixes / Chapter 2 Tools Suffixes that mean "condition of", adjective suffixes, suffixes pertaining to medical specialties and plural endings. A What do these suffixes mean? -ia, -ism, -sis, -y condition of What is the suffix and definition of insomnia (ia) inability to sleep What is the suffix and definition of stenosis (sis) narrowing of a vessel What is the suffix and definition of psoriasis (sis) skin disease What is the suffix and definition of alcoholism (ism) chronic dependence on or addiction to alcohol What is the suffix and definition of dysentery (y) intestinal disorder What is the suffix and definition of thrombosis (is) having a blood clot in a vessel What is the suffix and definition of parasitism (ism) infection with parasites or behaving as a parasite What is the suffix and definition of tetany (y) sustained muscle contraction What is the suffix and definition of analgesia (ia) absence of pain What do these suffixes mean? -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -ic, -ical, -ile, -ous pertaining to What does this suffix mean? -form like or resembling does this suffix mean? -oid Suffix that means resembling What is the suffix and definition of anesthesia (ia) loss of sensation What is the suffix and definition of egotism (ism) exaggerated self-importance What is the suffix and definition of sclerosis (sis) hardening What is the suffix and definition of atony (y) lack of muscle tone What is the suffix and definition of cardiac (ac) pertaining to the heart What is the suffix and definition of skeletal (al) pertaining to the skeleton What is the suffix and definition of muscular (ar) pertaining to muscles What is the suffix and definition of dietary (y) pertaining to the diet What is the suffix and definition of pelvic (ic) pertaining to the pelvis What is the suffix and definition of surgical (al) pertaining to surgery What is the suffix and definition of febrile (ile) pertaining to fever What is the suffix and definition of venous (ous) pertaining to a vein What is the suffix and definition of epileptiform (form) like or resembling epilepsy What is the suffix and definition of ovoid (oid) resembling an egg What does this suffix mean? -logy study of What do these suffixes mean? -ist, -ian specialist in a field of study What do these suffixes mean? -iatrics, -iatry medical specialty What is the suffix and definition of physiology (logy) study of function in a living organism What is the suffix and definition of dentist (ist) specialist in study and treatment of the teeth and mouth What is the suffix and definition of physician (ian) practitioner of medicine What is the suffix and definition of psychiatry (iatry) study and treatment of mental illness What is the plural of "a" "ae" What is the plural of "en" "ina" What is the plural of "ex , ix " "ices" What is the plural of "is" ""es" What is the plural of "nx, anx, inx, or ynx" "nges" What is the plural of "on" "a" What is the plural of "um" "a" What is the plural of "us" "i" | Appendix:List of Latin phrases (A–E) - Wiktionary Appendix:List of Latin phrases (A–E) Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary Warning, this page may be too large for some browsers. If so, the sections can be reviewed individually: Appendix:List of Latin phrases (A–E) This appendix lists direct English translations of Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before that of Ancient Rome: Contents a bene placito "from one who has been pleased well" Or "at will", "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum ("at pleasure"). abusus non tollit usum "abuse does not preclude proper use" a caelo usque ad centrum "from the sky to the center" Or "from heaven all the way to the center of the earth". In law, can refer to the obsolete cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos maxim of property ownership. a capite ad calcem From top to bottom; all the way through. Equally a pedibus usque ad caput. a contrario "from the opposite" Equivalent to "on the contrary" or "au contraire". An argumentum a contrario is an "argument from the contrary", an argument or proof by contrast or direct opposite. a Deucalione a fortiori "from the stronger" Loosely, "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary. a mari usque ad mare "from sea to sea" From Psalm 72:8, "Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae" ( KJV : "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth"). National motto of Canada . a pedibus usque ad caput "from feet to head" Completely. Similar to the English expressions "from tip to toe" or "from top to toe". Equally a capite ad calcem. See also ab ovo usque ad mala. a posse ad esse "from being able to being" "From possibility to actuality" or "from being possible to being actual" a posteriori "from the latter" Based on observation (i.e., empirical knowledge ), the reverse of a priori. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known after a proof has been carried out. In philosophy, used to denote something that can be known from empirical experience. a priori "from the former" Presupposed, the reverse of a posteriori. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known or postulated before a proof has been carried out. In philosophy, used to denote something that can be known without empirical experience. In everyday speech, it denotes something occurring or being known before the event. ab absurdo "from the absurd" Said of an argument that seeks to prove a statement's validity by pointing out the absurdity of an opponent's position (cf. appeal to ridicule ) or that an assertion is false because of its absurdity. Not to be confused with a reductio ad absurdum , which is usually a valid logical argument. ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia "a consequence from an abuse to a use is not valid" Inferences regarding something's use from its misuse are invalid. Rights abused are still rights (cf. abusus non tollit usum). ab aeterno "from the eternal" Literally, "from the everlasting" or "from eternity". Thus, "from time immemorial", "since the beginning of time" or "from an infinitely remote time in the past". In theology, often indicates something, such as the universe, that was created outside of time. ab antiquo ab extra "from beyond" A legal term meaning "from without". From external sources, rather than from the self or the mind (ab intra). ab hinc Often rendered abhinc (which in Latin means simply "since" or "ago"). ab imo pectore "from the bottom of my heart" More literally, "from the deepest chest". Attributed to Julius Caesar . Can mean "with deepest affection" or "sincerely". ab inconvenienti "from an inconvenient thing" New Latin for "based on unsuitability", "from inconvenience" or "from hardship". An argumentum ab inconvenienti |
Whose yacht was the Handicap Winner of the 1969 Sydney to Hobart Race? | Sydney to Hobart yacht race Sydney to Hobart yacht race Sydney to Hobart yacht race Garry Wotherspoon Sydney Harbour and boat races have gone together for a long time. One writer, referring to 'what may fairly be termed the national sport of the colony, boat-racing', has left us with a lyrical description of a typical race day on the harbour: … the glancing waters, fresh with the breeze that prevailed throughout the day, were studded by a thousand boats of every description, all freighted with life and gaiety; and round the harbour, from every point commanding a view of the course prescribed for the contesting boats, gay parties were assembled. [1] This was 26 January, Foundation Day (also known as Anniversary Day, now called Australia Day) in 1848, and it showed the sense of adventure and exhilaration associated with yachting that has continued to be felt on Sydney Harbour. The most famous race that has emerged is the Sydney to Hobart, as it is locally known. The race covers 628 nautical miles, starting from Sydney Harbour at 1 pm on Boxing Day (26 December), as it has done for over six decades. It has been held every year since 1945, with the inaugural fleet of nine yachts growing to a record 371 starters in the 50th race in 1994 – the largest fleet in the world for a Category 1 Ocean Race. In 2007, 82 yachts took part. Postwar celebration It all began in 1945, when a group of Sydney yachtsmen started planning for a post-World War II cruise to Hobart. Captain John Illingworth, who was a British Royal Navy officer stationed in Sydney at the time, had been a keen racing yachtsman in Britain before the war. He bought the 39-foot (11.8-metre) Rani, and joined them. Because of weather conditions, the race is rarely without incident: in the first, several of the boats were briefly 'lost' during the race, among them Rani, although it did complete the course to take both 'line' (first over the line) and 'handicap' (corrected time for type of yacht) honours. In 1984, a fleet of 150 yachts started, but 104 retired in the face of 'strong to gale force' southerly winds that battered the fleet. In 1993, there were 110 starters, but only 38 finished: crews abandoned two yachts as they sank, while the skipper of another was washed overboard and spent five hours in high seas. Luckily he was spotted by a search vessel and picked up by another yacht. Stormy weather In 1998 the race became a major disaster, when wild storms took their toll. The 115-yacht fleet sailed into the worst weather in the Sydney to Hobart's history. Six sailors died and just 44 yachts survived the gale-force winds and mountainous seas to finish the race. Two crew members died on the Launceston yacht Business Post Naiad, one by drowning, the other from a heart attack at the height of the storm. Several yachts were sent to the bottom and the biggest maritime rescue operation in Australia's history was mounted to pluck about 50 sailors from the sea. The storm highlighted some of the more foolhardy aspects of the race and led to a major review of race procedures. The ensuing enquiry made several recommendations for raising safety standards and requirements for competitors. Despite such risks, the Sydney to Hobart is one of the great ocean races of the globe. No other annual yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage and popular attention. The weather risks are not the only source of controversy. In 1990, a spokesman for the NSW Cancer Council ruffled a few cravats by claiming that the name and logo of the British yacht Rothmans breached the NSW voluntary advertising code – which stated that any vehicles propelled by petrol, diesel, gas, solar or wind power were banned from advertising cigarettes. This was in the midst of a war between tobacco companies – who were denying any adverse effects of smoking – and doctors and public health advocates, so it saw much heated debate. Gin-and-tonics were spilt at the bar. While many of the same yachts compete around the world, and their focus is on the longer campaign to be best in Category 1, for many lo | 1966 Performers British Chartbusters of the 60s & 70s 1966 The British charts of 1966 saw the Beatles concentrate on albums while the Beach Boys, Spencer Davis and the Troggs stole the singles charts. The Beatles were once again biggest artists of the year - the same year that John Lennon made his disastrous claim that they were more popular than Jesus. They had number one hits with "Paperback Writer" and then "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby" (third biggest single of the year) but their days of million selling singles in Britain were over. However, they were selling ever more copies of their albums. First "Rubber Soul" and then "Revolver" topped the album charts on the few occasions that "The Sound of Music" film soundtrack moved from the top spot. Buy the Greatest Hits Second place for 1966 belongs to the Beach Boys. They finally broke into the UK charts with a trio of top three hits led by "Barbara Ann" then "Sloop John B" and "God Only Knows" before making number one with "Good Vibrations". Their LP, "Pet Sounds" was also a big success in 1966 and went on to be one of the most acclaimed albums of the decade. Buy the Greatest Hits In third for the year were the Spencer Davis Group. They had an excellent run following a January number one, "Keep on Running" with another chart topper "Somebody Help Me". Later in the year they were at number two with "Gimme Some Loving". And they found time for a top twenty position with "When I Come Home". Buy the Greatest Hits The Troggs became the number four act of the year thanks to a series of big selling singles starting with a number two, "Wild Thing" then a number one for "With a Girl Like You" and another number two with "I Can't Control Myself" and finishing with a top ten position for "Any Way That You Want Me". Buy the Greatest Hits Number five spot was held by the Rolling Stones. In addition to a long running number one spot for album "Aftermath" the band managed a number one single with "Paint It Black". They also had top ten success with "Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown" and "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby" in 1966. |
What do golf balls have on the outside? | What Is Inside a Golf Ball? | GolfLink.com What Is Inside a Golf Ball? What Is Inside a Golf Ball? SHARES By Jessica Mousseau Golf balls have not changed much on the outside over the years. However, what's inside has changed drastically over the course of golf's history and continues to evolve today. The center of a golf ball can have a significant impact on how far the ball will travel when hit and how much control the golfer has over the trajectory of the ball. Wound vs. Solid Core Golf Balls Today there are many types of golf balls on the market. Pretty much all golf balls fall into one of two categories: - Wound balls have a rubber or sometimes liquid core surrounded by strips of rubber that look something like a rubber band. This is encased with the classic hard dimpled shell. - Non-wound balls have a similar design but feature a solid core. Myths About Poisonous or Explosive Golf Balls The most popular myth about golf balls is that the center is either poisonous or explosive. Generations of children have been fascinated by the thought that the inside of a golf ball was filled with a poison gas or potentially explosive material. Fortunately, this is nothing but an urban legend. In 1898, B.F Goodrich produced golf balls with a compressed air core that had the unfortunate habit of exploding from time to time. This may be the origin of the current myth. Solid Core Golf Balls Preferred Wound balls used to be the choice of professional golfers because they were easier to control, even if they did not travel as far. New technology has rendered them almost obsolete because solid core, non-wound balls now have softer covers so they are easier to control, and the solid core makes them travel farther. Distance Advantage Brings Control Problems The popularity of one golf ball versus another is usually based how far the ball travels. Golf balls with solid cores tend to travel farther, making them more popular balls for golfers. The downside to a super distance golf ball is the danger of errant golf balls. People have been injured and property damaged when golfers lose control over the golf balls as they travel over great distances. The United States Golf Association has actually been trying to reign in golf balls in recent years. They have asked manufacturers to submit prototype balls that travel shorter distances. Evolution of Golf Balls The outside of today's golf balls looks very similar to the golf balls of long ago. Inside though, they are very different. - During the early 1700s, golf balls were stuffed with boiled goose feathers. - In the late 1800s brought the occasionally exploding golf ball. Today's golf balls are more a marriage of function and science than function and tradition. They tend to be multi-layer balls with pressurized urethane cores. Video of the Day | 8th Hole : Old Course : Royal Troon Golf Club PAR 3 Hole Overview Originally called "Ailsa" because there is a perfect view of the rocky islet of that name, from the tee. The smallness of the putting surface accounted for the current name when William Park writing in "Golf Illustrated" said, " A pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a Postage Stamp". Much has been written about the famous eighth hole at Royal Troon, aptly named the "Postage Stamp". The tee is on high ground and a dropping shot is played over a gully to a long but extremely narrow green set into the side of a large sandhill. Two bunkers protect the left side of the green while a large crater bunker shields the approach. Any mistake on the right will find one of the two deep bunkers with near vertical faces. There is no safe way to play this hole, the ball must find the green with the tee-shot. Many top players have come to grief at this the shortest hole in Open Championship golf. Hole Stats |
In 7th century Britain, which kingdom stretched from the Welsh border across the Midlands to the North Sea? | Richard's Ramblings » Post Topic » Origins of Mercia – Kingdom on the border Origins of Mercia – Kingdom on the border Posted by rdenning Published in Anglo Saxons , Dark Age , Uncategorized Mercia – the very name means “kingdom on the border”. The border in question was that between the English and the Welsh. These lands were where a permanent barrier and border was established between what became Wales and the rest of England. They were also the lands that saw some of the most tragic events recorded in the Welsh anals and poems. This is because much of what is now Shropshire and Worcestershire were the last parts of England to be conquered from the Welsh. the modern county of Powys is off to the west in the mountain fastness of Wales. Yet in the 6th and 7th centuries the Kingdom of Powys stretched out far into modern England, indeed nudging far out beyond Shrewsbury accross the fertile plains of Shropshire. This was the “Paradise of Powys” refered to in the Welsh poetry and mourned when finally lost in the 7th century. What then was this Mercia – this kingdom on the border that deprived the Welsh of this paradise and pushed them west into their hills? Mercia was the last of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms to emerge and was not fully formed until the late 7th century. It was also the last kingdom to abandon faith in the old gods in favour of the new religion of Christianity – some parts of what now is the Black Country remaining pagan until the 8th century. The early years of this kingdom are lost in the darkest years of the dark ages – those misty decades of the 6th century where there is almost no documentation. Foundation What do we know of the people who came to these “Midlands of Britain”. Who were they? Traditions trace the people back to a certain King Offa or Uffi who was king of the Angles in Jutland – Modern Denmark. At some point his people joined the migration of the Anglo-Saxons westwards in to Britain. They probably first settled in East Anglia. Then – so the stories go – Offa’s grandson Icel established a kingdom in the Trent valley around or near Lichfield and Tamwerth. He established a dynasty of kings called the Iclingas who would rule these lands – with certain interruptions for the next three centuries. The First Kings We start to emerge from the mists around the year 585. This is the year when it is thought Icel’s great grandson Creoda became kings. Creoda may have had to fight to establish territory in the area around Tamworth and Lichield. This would almost certainly have been against the Welsh – or Roman British- still living in these regions but it may have to also have been against the Saxons of Wessex as the two tribes seem to have come into conflict in the south- eastern parts of what became Mercia – perhaps along the Thames valley or in Oxfordshire. Creoda died in the same year – 593 – as a powerful king of Wessex called Ceawlin – so was this at a now forgotten battle? Pybba suceeded Creoda and was probably his son. We know little of Pybba’s reign other than he seems to have pushed the Mercia authority south and west into the Cotswolds. It appears during his reign some accommodation was found with the Welsh kingdoms of Gwynedd and Powys were made for these nations would become allies of Mercia soon. Pybba died around 606. He left several sons and daughters and yet they may have been too young to inherit or to exercise sufficient authority for now another king who was not of the direct decent took over. Ceorl is a bit of a mystery. Its possible he was a cousin of Pybba and so still an Iclingas. On Pybba’s death he takes over, bypassing Pybba’s eldest son Penda. Ceorl is important because his daughter Cwenburgh married Prince Edwin of the southern Northumbian land of Deira. Edwin was a man in exile due to a rival King, Aethelfrith of the northern land of Bernia, having seized Deira and united Northmbria under himself. This marriage was a political gamble for it meant challenging the authority of Aethelfrith by giving support to Edwin. Was Mercia in an alliance with Powys and Gwynedd at the | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 4th November The Questions Macclesfield Pub Quiz League Set by The Lamb Inn ART & ENTERTAINMENT 1. Q. Offenbach’s barcarolle from ‘The Tales of Hoffman’ is a famous piece of music, but what is a barcarolle ? A. A BOATING SONG (Accept any reference to boats). 2. Q. 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What playwright was jailed for stealing and defacing books from the Islington Library? | Library books defaced by prankster playwright Joe Orton go on show | Stage | The Guardian Joe Orton Library books defaced by prankster playwright Joe Orton go on show Orton and his boyfriend, Kenneth Halliwell, went to jail for adding surreal gags to dustjackets in guerrilla protest One of the library book covers defaced by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell – this one with the addition of a picture of a baboon. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian Tuesday 11 October 2011 12.53 EDT First published on Tuesday 11 October 2011 12.53 EDT Close This article is 5 years old As crimes go it was not the most heinous of offences, but Islington council's principal law clerk, Sidney Porrett, made it his mission to nab the perpetrators. "I had to catch these two monkeys," he said. "They were a couple of darlings, make no mistake." The darlings in question were the playwright Joe Orton and his boyfriend – later murderer – Kenneth Halliwell, and the crimes were taking library books and returning them with comedy collages on the dustjackets. After a fruitless investigation that involved undercover librarians, Porrett eventually caught the pair in an elaborate sting operation and they went down for six months each. From Friday, the story of their crimes will be retold by the council, which is putting on display 40 of the 72 dustjackets that the pair defaced. Islington's local history manager, Mark Aston, said it was the first time the jackets – "they're of international interest I'd say" – had gone on show in this number in the same place, and they shined a light on two fascinating lives and characters. The crimes stemmed from Halliwell and Orton's unhappiness at the books on offer at Essex Road library. "They were appalled by what they found," said Aston, stressing that things had much changed since then. "It was endless shelves of rubbish, as they saw it." Fuming at the selection, the pair decided on a guerrilla protest by systematically stealing books and then doctoring the book cover. So a biography of John Betjeman now has a picture of an elderly tattooed man in trunks; Collins Guide to Roses has a baboon on it; and Corbett H Thigpen and Hervey M Cleckley's The Three Faces of Eve has an adorable kitten. In their surrealism some of the gags bring to mind Monty Python and The Goodies, both of which came much later: giant cats, for example, on the cover of an Agatha Christie novel. The pair were clearly out to shock whoever might happen upon their handiwork, with new titles sometimes applied. What would a librarygoer in 1960 think in picking up The Collected Plays of Emlyn Williams and finding they were about to read plays called Knickers Must Fall and Fucked by Monty? They also altered the blurbs for the books in a less than tasteful fashion. Dorothy L Sayers's Gaudy Nights, for example, was the writer "at her most awe inspiring. At her most queer, and needless to say, at her most crude!" Readers of another of her Lord Peter Wimsey books, Clouds of Witness, are advised to read behind closed doors "and have a good shit while you are reading!" The pair would sneak the book back on to a shelf and then wait for someone to pick it up so they could watch the reaction. Orton and Halliwell also, surely much more unacceptably, cut out pages and plates from art books with which to plaster the walls of their flat. "It was library wallpaper," said Aston. "Quite well done actually." When the library authorities cottoned on to what was happening, they brought in undercover staff from other libraries to try to catch whomever was doing it, and when that failed Porrett had the idea of writing to his number one suspects, Halliwell and Orton. He wrote alleging an illegally parked car, provoking an incandescent reply from Halliwell lambasting the petty-mindedness of the council and pointing out that they did not have a car. "Porrett got what he wanted," said Aston. "He got a typed letter which matched the typeface of text on the book jackets." Soon the police were knocking on the door of their flat in Noel Road and they quickly found book jackets in the | I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - Wikiquote I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation , search This article needs cleanup. Please review Wikiquote:Templates to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. This page has been listed as needing cleanup since 2008-09-15. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (BBC Radio 4, 11 April 1972 - ) is a British radio comedy programme which describes itself as "the antidote to panel games ". Hosted by Humphrey Lyttelton , and originally played by Barry Cryer , Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden , Willie Rushton , a range of guests have performed on the programme's panel since it began. The programme is known for its ridiculous rounds and games, such as Mornington Crescent and Word Disassociation played completely for laughs by the panellists who, to the untrained eye, might appear at first to be playing for points. Wordplay and innuendo are a large part of the show's humour. Following the death of Humphrey Lyttelton in 2008, the show used regular guest panellists Stephen Fry , Jack Dee and Rob Brydon as guest presenters for the 51st series, before choosing Jack Dee as the permanent chairman the following series. All quotes are by Humphrey Lyttelton unless otherwise stated. Contents Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Sun: Ten Things You Never Knew You Shouldn't Do" Barry Cryer: "Melody Maker: Stones Make Comeback" Graeme Garden: "Express Sport: Moses Names Ten for Sunday" Willie Rushton: "New Musical Express: 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' drops to Number 8" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Times: Graven Image Manufacturers Protest At New Guidelines" Willie Rushton: "The Star: Kylie Minogue is Star Bird - 'Covet Neighbours Ass'" Joan of Arc burns at the stake[ edit ] Willie Rushton: "Le Figaro: French Government Spokesman says "Smoking Can Seriously Damage Your Health"" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "Daily Mail: "English Hooligans Burnt My Daughter" says Mrs. Arc" Graeme Garden: "The Star: Phew! What a Scorcher!" Barry Cryer: "Green News: Woodburning French Threat To Ozone Layer" Willie Rushton: "The Cricketer: England Win Ashes" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Sun: French Filly Flambé (translation on page 8)" The Gunpowder Plot[ edit ] Graeme Garden: "The Telegraph: Universe Manufacturer Goes Out Of Business After 6 Days" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Lancet: BMA Warn Rib Transplants Can Cause Lumps On Chest" Barry Cryer: "Daily Star: "I'm Over The Moon", Says God" Graeme Garden: "Daily Mail: Snake Problem At Theme Park - Last Two Visitors Forced To Leave" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Times: Nothing Happened Yesterday" Willie Rushton: "Irish Times: Genesis Good For You" Graeme Garden: "News of the World: Spot The Apple and Win A Skoda" The unfortunate demise of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark[ edit ] Barry Cryer: "Dog Breeder's Gazette: Great Dane puts self down!" Willie Rushton: "The Times: Blair says whittling-down of royal family a success" Graeme Garden: "The Stage: Touring players unexpectedly available for panto" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "Daily Express: Reprint of Ophelia's Panorama interview in full, where she says a surfeit of lampreys was just a cry for help" Graeme Garden: "The Guardian: Yesterday's headline 'Laughter at Elsinore' should have read 'Slaughter at Erinsbrough'" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Sun tells the Prince: Just Be!" Graeme Garden: "The Telegraph: Danish Bloodbath - No Britons Hurt" Barry Cryer: "Gay News: Macbeth Outed - Admits laying on MacDuff" Willie Rushton: "The Guardian: Borehamwood seen approaching Dungeness" Graeme Garden: "The Sun: Phew! What a Scotsman!" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Scotsman: Och! Eye of Newt!" Willie Rushton: "Glasgow Herald: Pioneering test-tube baby kills King" Graeme Garden: "Woman's Own: Delia's recipe for Duncan Doughnuts" Graeme Garden: "London Evening Standard: Tube Strike Off" The Assassination of Julius Caesar[ edit ] Barry Cryer: "The Sun: Brutus Splashed it All Over" Willie Rushton: "Daily Mirror: Julius Caesar is Ides Victim" Tim Brooke-Taylor: "Sunday Sport: Brutus Ate Two Hamsters!" Graeme Garden: "Lancashire Evening Post: Mark Antony Come |
In 'The Simsons', what is the name of Springfield's baseball team who play their home games at 'Duff Stadium'? | Springfield Isotopes | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Springfield Isotopes are Springfield 's only minor league baseball team. Profile The team is shown as drastically underfunded and struggling in competition. Their home games are played at Duff Stadium as Duff Beer sponsors and co-manages the team. The Isotopes name is most likely in reference to Springfield's nuclear power plant . Homer Simpson was the Isotopes mascot for a brief period, taking over from the Capital City Goofball, before being fired. The Team Cap Players include Flash Baylor , Fishbone Walker , Smash Diggins , Buck Mitchell and Babe Ruth IV . Potential Relocation The low quality of the team combined with its financial difficulties has prompted management to consider moving the team. After the team was sold to the Duff corporation (from the Mafia, and according to Moe the last of the family-owned teams), Homer once learned that there were plans to move the team to Albuquerque, and staged a hunger strike to prevent it. Springfield become aware of their plans to move the team due to Homer's efforts and their premature roll-out of food packaging with "Albuquerque Isotopes" written on them. Albuquerque decides to change the decision to move the team. Appearances | TRIVIA - TV AND THE MOVIES TRIVIA - TV AND THE MOVIES What TV show lost Jim Carrey when he stepped into the movies? In Living Color. Who plays a paleontologist on Friends? David Schwimmer. What aging pop icon forgot the lyrics to We Can Work It Out on MTV Unplugged? Paul McCartney. What segment of the TV industry receives ACE Awards? Paul McCartney. What classic quiz show was originally titled Occupation Unknown? What's My Line? 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What blond bombshell had a hankerin' for NYPD Blue detective Gegory Medavoy? Donna Abandando. What animated characters are known as Smolf in Stockholm? The Smurfs. What 1980s sitcom was credited with pulling NBC from third to first in overall ratings? The Cosby Show. What Muppet advised: "Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift"? Miss Piggy. What former TV anchorman made headlines by attending two Grateful Dead concerts? Walter Cronkite. What animated kitty was the first cartoon character licensed for use on merchandise? Felix the Cat. What's the "dimension of imagination, "according to the host of a classic TV series? The Twilight Zone. Who appeared in Return of the Killer Tomatoes before he landed a role on ER? George Clooney. What 250-pound star of Hairspray shed half her weight to host a TV talk show? Ricki Lake. What Mayberry resident once hijacked a bull when he'd had too much to drink? Otis Campbell. What four-word TV slogan did Sting add to the Dire Straits hit Money for Nothing? "I want my MTV". What Mary Tyler Moore Show character's blue blazer made it into the Smithsonian? Ted Baxter's. Who was a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers before she became TV's Lois Lane? Teri Hatcher. What was Redd Foxx's last name before show business beckoned? Sanford. Who's been Saturday Night Live's most frequent host? Steve Martin. What town did Howdy Doody live in? Doodyville. What sitcom star advised: "It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it"? Roseanne. What Richard Chamberlain vehicle is second only to Roots in total viewers for a miniseries? The Thorn Birds. What media award was derived from the slang term for the 1 |
Which Australian band released their album ‘Back in Black’ in July 1980? | Back in Black - AC/DC — Listen and discover music at Last.fm Back in Black ac/dc Back in Black is an album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the seventh Australian and sixth internationally released studio album by the band. Released on 25 July 1980, Back in Black was the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott, who died on 19 February at the age of 33, and was dedicated to him. The band considered disbanding following his death, but they ultimately decided to continue, with encouragement from Scott's… read more Don't want to see ads? Subscribe now Tracklist | Puzzles - Coffeetime Triv (Sat) 1: Who played Basil Fawlty in `Fawlty Towers`? 2: Who had a hit single with `Crocodile Rock` in 1972? 3: Who is the author of the `Harry Potter` books? 4: What is the name of the clockwork device used by musicians to measure time? 5: `Question or Nominate` was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show? 6: Which two colours are Dennis the Menace`s jumper? 7: In which film did Roy Scheider play a sheriff and Richard Dreyfus a marine biologist? 8: The name of which (non-UK) football club is an anagram of `Red Admiral`? 9: In 2004, Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch caused an embarrassing security breach at Buckingham Palace dressed as who? 10: The Colosseum is located in the capital city of which country? 1: Who played Basil Fawlty in `Fawlty Towers`? John Cleese 2: Who had a hit single with `Crocodile Rock` in 1972? Elton John 3: Who is the author of the `Harry Potter` books? J.K.Rowling 4: What is the name of the clockwork device used by musicians to measure time? A metronome 6: Which two colours are Dennis the Menace`s jumper? Red and black 8: The name of which (non-UK) football club is an anagram of `Red Admiral`? Real Madrid Wow! I got a footie and an anagram question. I'm going to need to lie down! 9: In 2004, Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch caused an embarrassing security breach at Buckingham Palace dressed as who? Batman? 10: The Colosseum is located in the capital city of which country? Italy 5: `Question or Nominate` was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show? 15 to 1 Patience, so you did. Well done all three of you only one missing is 7: and 'Marine Biologist' (the new wannabe career for Britain's 6th-formers) might have given it to you - the fiilm was Jaws |
Which region of France is bordered by Spain to the south and by the Bay of Biscay to the west ? | Political Map of France - Nations Online Project Political Map of France ___ Political Map of France About France France is a country located on the western edge of Europe, bordered by the Bay of Biscay (North Atlantic Ocean) in west, by the English Channel in north west, by the North Sea in north, by Belgium and Luxembourg in north east, by Germany , Switzerland and Italy in east, by the Mediterranean Sea, Monaco , Spain and Andorra in south. France shares also maritime borders with the United Kingdom . Since 1994 France and the UK are connected by the Channel Tunnel, a 50.5 km (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone in Kent, UK with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France. With an area of 551,500 km² Metropolitan France is more than twice the size of the United Kingdom or more than twice the size of the U.S. state Colorado . France has a population of 66.6 million people (est. 2016); 64.5 million people in Metropolitan France and 2.1 million in its overseas regions. Largest city and capital is Paris . Spoken language is French (official). Map is showing Metropolitan France, that is the French mainland and the island of Corsica. Depicted on the map is the country with international borders, the national capital Paris, region capitals, major cities, main roads, and major airports. Geography of France [show] Metropolitan France has two shorelines, one at the North Atlantic Ocean, the other at the Mediterranean Sea, it sums up to a total of 3,427 km of coastline. About two-thirds of the county's interior (in north and west) consists of plains or gently rolling hills, within there are two major basins: the Paris basin in the northwest, drained by the river Seine, and the Aquitaine basin in the southwest, drained by the Garonne river. The plains are interspersed with highlands here and there. To the south of the country are the rugged Pyrenees, two parallel mountain ranges that creates a natural border between France and Spain, its highest mountains rise up to more than 3,000 m. In south east the Massif Central, a formerly volcanic region with a large concentration of extinct volcanoes, like the Chaine des Puys, a chain of cinder cones, lava domes, and maars within the Massif Central. East of the Massif, separated by a deep north-south cleft created by the Rhone River are the French Alps, part of the Alps, the great mountain range system of Europe. Within the Alps is the highest mountain of France, Mont Blanc with 4,807 m. It is also Italy's highest peak because the "White Mountain" sits on the border which separtes both nations. French Rivers: The longest rivers within France are Loire, Seine, Garonne, and Rhone, the Rhine river in east forms the border with Germany for about 160 km (100 mi). Seine, and Garonne are the main rivers for transportation in France. Airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, also known as Rossy Airport ( IATA code : CDG), located in the vicinity of Paris is the largest and busiest airport in France. Paris-Orly Airport ( IATA code : ORY) located south of Paris is the busiest French airport for domestic traffic. Major Seaports: France has several major seaports, largest port is Marseille , followed by Le Havre, Dunkirk, and Nantes/Saint-Nazaire. all countries of the world You are free to use this map for educational purposes, please refer to the Nations Online Project. Political Map of France Cities and Towns in France: The Map shows the location of following French cities: Agen, Aix-en-Provence, Ajaccio, Alençon, Alès, Amiens, Angers, Angoulême, Annecy, Arcachon, Arles, Arras, Auch, Aurillac, Auxerre, Avallon, Avignon, Bastia, Bayonne, Beaune, Beauvais, Belfort, Besançon, Biarritz, Bonifacio, Bordeaux, Bourg-, Bourges, Bressuire, Brest, Brive-la-, Béziers, Caen, Calais, Calvi, Cannes, Carcassone, Castres, Chambéry, Cherbourg, Châlons-en-Champagne, Clermont-Ferrand, Colmar, Corte, Dieppe, Dijon, Douarnenez, Dunkirk, Gaillarde, Gap, Grenoble, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Le Mans, Le Puy, Lille, Limoges, Lorient, Lourdes, Lyon (capital of Rhô | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - Metapedia Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 27 May 1974 – 21 May 1981 Prime Minister 29 June 1969 – 27 May 1974 Prime Minister 19 January 1962 – 8 January 1966 Prime Minister Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing ( French pronunciation: [valeʁi maʁi ʁəne ʒɔʁʒ ʒiskaʁ dɛstɛ̃] ; born 2 February 1926) is a French centre - right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. As of 2010 [update] , he is a member of the Constitutional Council of France . His tenure as President was marked by a more liberal attitude on social issues – such as divorce , contraception , and abortion – and attempts to modernize the country and the office of the presidency, notably launching such far-reaching infrastructure projects as the high-speed TGV train and the turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main energy source. However, his popularity suffered from the economic downturn that followed the 1973 energy crisis , marking the end of the " thirty glorious years " after World War II , combined with the official discourse that the "end of the tunnel was near". Giscard faced political opposition from both sides of the spectrum: from the newly unified left of François Mitterrand , and from a rising Jacques Chirac , who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wing opposition line. All this, as well as bad public relations , caused his unpopularity to grow at the end of his term, and he failed to secure re-election in 1981. He is a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited his involvement in national politics after his defeat, he became involved with the European Union . He notably presided over the Convention on the Future of the European Union that drafted the ill-fated Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe . He took part, with a prominent role, in the annually held Bilderberg private conference. He also became involved in the regional politics of Auvergne , serving as president of that region from 1986 to 2004. He was elected to the French Academy , taking the seat that his friend and former President of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor had held. As a former President, he is a member of the Constitutional Council . It is a prerogative that he has taken recently. Contents 11 External links Early life Valéry Marie René Giscard d'Estaing was born in Koblenz , Germany , during the French occupation of the Rhineland . He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d'Estaing (1894–1982), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie (May) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux , also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot , and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses , Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet , and by whom Giscard d'Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne . Giscard had an older sister, Sylvie (1924–2008). He has a younger brother, Olivier , as well as two younger sisters: Isabelle (born 1935) and Marie-Laure (born 1939). Despite the addition of "d'Estaing" to the family name by his grandfather, Giscard is not descended from the extinct noble family of Vice-Admiral d'Estaing , that name being adopted by his grandfather in 1922 by reason of a distant connection to another branch of that family, [1] from which they were descended with two breaks in the male line from an illegitimate line of the Viscounts d'Estaing. In 1948, he spent a year in Montreal where he worked as a teacher in Collège Stanislas . [2] He studied at Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand , École Gerson and Lycées Janson-de-Sailly and Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École nationale d'administration (1949–1951). He acceded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister Edgar Faure (1955–1956). Member o |
How is World War 2 known to the Russians? | Russia World War II Victory Is Putin's Obsession | New Republic By Tikhon Dzyadko April 23, 2014 A joke is making the rounds among Vladimir Putin’s opponents in Moscow: His two main accomplishments as Russia's president are Yuri Gagarin’s trip to space and Russia’s victory in World War II. This biting bit of sarcasm, which takes a swing at Putin's populist rhetoric, actually gets at something much deeper. It reflects Putin’s vision of the country’s development as well as the style in which he communicates with his citizens and the international community. And yet, though people in Russia understand him, those in the West do not. In December 2012, Putin delivered his annual address to the Russian Federal Assembly, where he first mentioned Russia’s lack of “spiritual girders.” This vague pairing of words is actually a fairly accurate one: These days, there’s little that holds Russia together. That it has a common language and system of laws doesn’t really count: There are lots of languages in Russia, and the only functioning law of the land is the law of corruption. There is no Russian Dream and, all these years, no one in the Russian leadership has even tried to invent one. Meanwhile, the moribund Russian economy doesn’t give the country much to be proud of: It has subsisted, year in, year out, on the export of energy. In this void, history becomes the only possible unifier. Putin sees himself as a historical figure. At least, this is what people who spend time with him say. You can see it in his speeches, the way he takes care to associate himself with every period of Russian history: with the Yeltsin years, when he talks about the democratic milestones of the 1990s; with the Soviet era, when he mourns the collapse of the USSR; with the pre-Revolutionary period, when he facilitates the reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church, which splintered shortly after the Bolsheviks took power. All these periods in Russian history are understood differently in Russian society, but there is one theme that isn’t disputed by anyone: The victory in World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. Which is exactly why Putin chose it to be the country’s main spiritual girder. The Great Patriotic War, which cost the USSR nearly 30 million lives, has touched nearly every Russian family in some way, and it is the main—if not only—connecting thread unifying Russians today. Putin knows this in part because he is himself from such a family—he says his brother died during the siege of Leningrad ten years before he was born. He knows the power of this painful heritage. And so, wishing to rally Russians around himself, he has begun to use the memory of the war. But that memory has to be purged of its negative pages, and so Russia now has a Commission to Prevent the Falsification of History. Russian directors have begun to make movies about the war in which the Red Army is completely flawless and free of sin. Historians who question Josef Stalin’s conduct of the war are ostracized. The past that fills the lacunae of the present must be perfect, and it must be so everywhere, which is why the country is suddenly festooned with black-and-orange striped St. George’s ribbons (once the ribbon on a tsarist medal), which were issued to commemorate the feats of Soviet soldiers. It all began in 2012 when Putin returned to the presidency. Just two days after his inauguration, he let everyone know how he envisions Russia: as a strong power that plays an important role on the world stage. He announced this during the Victory Day parade. Explaining how Russia would fight new evil in the world, he harkened back to the example of how Russia defeated the evil of fascism back in 1945. “Russia is consistently pursuing a policy of strengthening global security,” he said . “And we have a great moral right to fundamentally and persistently defend our positions, because it was our country that took the main brunt of Nazism.” And, though he didn’t name it outright, it was clear what he meant by the new evil in the world: the United States. This is how Put | History 387: World War II--Selected Lecture Outlines Selected Lecture Outlines First Handout HISTORY 387: WORLD WAR II Fall Semester 2001 The Twenty Years Truce Personalities: Places: Kaisar Wilhelm II Danzig (1) Transylvania (4) Prince Maximilian von Baden Memel (1) Banat of Temesvar (4) General Erich Ludendorff Kiaochow (1) Croatia-Slavonia (4) Field Marshall Paul Von Hindenberg Saar Basin (1) Slovakia (4) President Woodrow Wilson Dune & Heligoland (1) Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia (4) Secretary of State Robert Lansing South Tyrol (2) Burgenland (4) Colonel Edward House Trentino (2) Sudan (5, 6) David Lloyd George Trieste (2) Cyprus (5, 6) Marshall Ferdinand Foch Istria (2) Tripolitania (5, 6) George Clemenceau Dalmatia (2) Morocco (5, 6) Vittorio Orlando Bohemia (2) Tunisia (5, 6) Mohammed VI Moravia (2) Mesopotamia (5, 6) Mustapha Kemal (Atatürk) Silesia (2) Smyrna (5, 6) Bukovina (2) Rhodes (5, 6) Sudetenland (2) Dodecanese Islands (5, 6) Treaties: 1) Treaty of Versailles (Germany) Bosnia (2, 4) Armenia (5, 6) 2) Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye (Austria) Herzegovina (2, 4) Kurdistan (5, 6) 3) Treaty of Neuilly (Bulgaria) Macedonia (3) Anatolia (5, 6) 4) Treaty of Trianon (Hungary) Dobruja (3) Constantinople (5, 6) 5) Treaty of Sèvres (Turkey) Strumnitsa Salient (3) Albania (5,6) 6) Treaty of Lausanne (Turkey) Thrace (3) Straits (5,6) Other Terms: Weimar Bolsheviks Russian Civil War Spartacists Vladimir Lenin Greco-Turkish War Freikorps Vladivostok Hashimate-Saudi War Bavarian Soviet Republic Czechoslovak Legion Kellogg-Briand Pact Magyar Intervention Hungarian Soviet Republic Murmansk Bela Kun Arkhangel German Austria (Deutschösterreich) Rapallo Anschluss Washington Conference Gabriele D'Annunzio London Conference SOME QUESTIONS ON THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II: 1. Do you believe that World War II would have occurred if there had been no World War I? 2. How did the peace treaties (there were five of them) following the First World War create the tensions between and within states which would lead to World War II? 3. We have discussed how World War I paved the way for a second major conflict by the international consequences of the Paris Peace Conference, how did the war create the internal conditions for the development of authoritarian and totalitarian movements in many European countries? Course Introduction and Lecture: THE TWENTY-YEARS TRUCE. Terms: Lusitania Reparations Outline: I. The Affects of the War. Zimmerman note East Prussia A) Economic Collapse. Romanovs Polish Corridor B) Social Dislocation. Hapsburgs Saar C) Political Instablility. Hohenzollerns Ruhr II. The Peace of Paris. Ottomans Rhineland A) Paris (1919) & Vienna (1815). Brest-Litovsk Tirol B) The Treaties. Clemenceau Weimar C) International Security. Lloyd-George Charles G. Dawes III. Conflicts after the First World War. Orl&o Little Entente A) The Russian Civil War. W. Wilson Balkan Entente B) Nationalism & Communism. Versailles Poland C) A New Europe St. Germaine Czechoslovakia IV. The Search for Peace & Security. Trianon Yugoslavia A) The French Alliance System. Neuilly Belgium B) The Reintegration of Germany. Sevres Ataturk C) Disarmament Chanak Lenin D) The League of Nation |
In which European capital city would you find the Chrisriansborg and Amalienborg Palaces? | The 10 Best Amalienborg Palace Tours, Trips & Tickets - Copenhagen | Viator Copenhagen ATTRACTIONS See all Amalienborg Palace Amalienborg Palace is the winter residence of the Danish royal family in Copenhagen. It consists of four identical palace exteriors with rococo interiors that create an octagonal courtyard. A majestic equestrian statue of Amalienborg's founder, King Frederick V, lies in the center of the courtyard, created by French sculptor Jacques-Francos-Josephy Saly. Amalienborg was originally built as manor houses for four noble families; however, when Christiansborg Palace suffered fire damage in 1794, the royal family bought the palaces and moved in. Over the years various royal families have resided in the four different palaces. Although it is still the residence of the royal couple, you can experience some of the rooms that are not in regular use filled with royal furnishings, tapestries, photographs, portraits, and heirlooms. Practical Info The palace is located centrally in the Frederiksstaden district. The Danish Royal Life Guard march from Rosenborg Castle every morning through the streets of Copenhagen, and execute the famous changing of the guard in front of Amal ienborg Palace at noon. Tours & Tickets | Prince Charles and Camilla's wedding: 10 facts about the royal occasion Prince Charles and Camilla's wedding: 10 facts about the royal occasion April 09, 2014 by hellomagazine.com To mark Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall's ninth wedding anniversary on 9 April 2014, HELLO! Online has gathered a list of ten facts about the royal occasion you may not have known Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall are celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary on 9 April 2014. To mark Charles and Camilla's big day, HELLO! Online has gathered a list of ten facts you may not have known about the occasion. Prince Charles and Camilla on their wedding day, 2005 1. Clarence House made the official announcement on 10 February 2005 that Prince Charles was to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, the daughter of the late Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand and the late Hon Rosalind Maud Shand. Camilla had been making appearances alongside the Prince for some time. 2. The wedding date was set for 8 April 2005 but had to be postponed by a day, so that the Prince of Wales could represent The Queen at the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Prince Charles and Camilla on the day of their wedding announcement 3. On 9 April 2005, the royals gathered at Windsor to celebrate the wedding. As crowds lined the streets, Prince Charles and Camilla married in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall. 4. The Queen and Prince Philip did not attend the civil wedding ceremony, but the proud parents joined the service of blessing at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle which followed, and threw the newlyweds a reception at the castle later that day. 5. Prince Charles' son the Duke of Cambridge and Camilla's son Tom Parker-Bowles served as the couple's witnesses. Prince William and Prince Harry arrive for the blessing 6. Royals from around the world attended the blessing at Windsor Castle including King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Norway and the King of Bahrain. 7. The bride looked elegant as she arrived for the civil ceremony in a delicate cream silk chiffon dress with a matching oyster silk basket weave coat. The Duchess-to-be wanted to keep her outfit subtle but stylish. Camilla on her wedding day 8. Camilla was known as "Camilla Parker-Bowles" before the wedding, however it was announced upon marriage that she would take the name of "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall". 9. After the celebrations, the new royal couple travelled to the Prince's country estate in Scotland for their honeymoon. During this time they carried out their first joint engagement as a married couple. Prince Charles and Camilla at the blessing 10. To honour the day, the theme park Alton Towers changed the name of their popular rollercoaster "Rita: Queen of Speed" to "Camilla: Queen of Speed". |
Among US states with the highest number of national parks, California and Alaska come in first with 8 each. Which state comes next with 5 of them? | Seven of the Most Striking Ways States Have Loosened Gun Laws - ProPublica ProPublica Journalism in the Public Interest Receive our top stories daily optional We're probing the policy and politics of guns in America. Latest Stories in this Project Seven of the Most Striking Ways States Have Loosened Gun Laws It’s only Friends’ email(s) max 10, separated by commas Personal message Connect with Facebook to share articles you read on ProPublica. Learn more » Enable Social Reading Update (12/19): This post has been updated to reflect recent developments in Michigan. Correction (12/27): This post has been corrected . Friday’s deadly rampage at a Connecticut elementary school marked the 13th mass shooting in the United States this year . Among the 11 deadliest shootings in U.S. history, more than half took place in the last five years . During the same period, states have often relaxed their gun laws, making it easier for individuals to obtain guns, extending the places where concealed guns are permitted, or giving gun owners more robust protections. We take a closer look at some of the more striking measures: 1. Five states allow students to carry concealed guns on college campuses A March 2012 Colorado Supreme Court decision held that the University of Colorado could not ban students and employees with state-issued concealed weapon permits from carrying guns on campus. The decision overturned the university’s long-standing gun ban . While school policy prohibits guns at ticketed athletic and cultural events, Boulder and Colorado Springs’ campuses now designate dorms for permit-carrying students. (Guns are still banned in other dorms). “Not a single student has asked to live where guns are allowed,” the Denver Post reported last month . In September 2011, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued a similar ruling , allowing guns on campuses throughout the Oregon University system. Wisconsin passed legislation in 2011 allowing college students in the University of Wisconsin school system to bring a concealed weapon on campus grounds, parking lots and “other spaces that aren’t enclosed,” according to the Wisconsin State Journal . The school can prohibit guns in buildings, but only if signs are posted at each entrance. A law passed by the Mississippi State Legislature in 2011 broadly extended the places where concealed weapons are allowed, including college campuses, secondary schools, courthouses, polling locations, churches, bars and passenger terminals of an airport – places previously off-limits. This year, the University of Mississippi , which previously required students to leave guns in their vehicles, began allowing students to bring concealed weapons on campus, provided they have a concealed weapons permit and take an 8-hour training course. Utah grants the least discretion : Since 2004, the state has prohibited any public college or university from banning concealed weapons, as campuses are considered state property. 2. Some states now allow you to bring guns into daycare centers, churches, and even “gun-free zones” Last week, the Michigan Legislature passed a law that would allow concealed weapons in current “gun-free” zones such as schools, day care centers, bars, churches, hospitals and stadiums. Gun owners are required to receive eight hours of extra training before bringing guns into these places. The bill, which has yet to be signed into law, gives private business owners discretion to ban firearms on their property. On Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed the legislation since it lacked the same opt-out provision for non-private institutions like schools. While Michigan’s legislation has gained attention given its timing to Friday’s shooting, it’s far from the only law of its kind. As we’ve already noted, Mississippi has also expanded the list of permissible concealed carry locations. Elsewhere, loaded guns in bars are now allowed in Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, Virginia and Ohio. Georgia lawmakers introduced legislation earlier this year that would expand the list of places where you can bring in a concealed | Songs About California Songs About California Full List of California Songs with Comments and Lyrics Can You Help to Identify This Song? (This list is much too long for its own good. Instead of trying to browse it, go to one of the short lists above then click on the "Artist" link to come to this page.) Some of these songs are about the state itself, but most just reference a place in the state like a highway, a city, the weather, or a "California Girl." This list would be more accurately called "Songs that Refer to Somewhere in California or Something About the State" but that's a lousy title. A lot of songs have been written about California. Many of them describe a journey to or a longing to return to an coastal paradise with constant sun, abundant new opportunities, and where everyone is eternally young and beautiful - basically a mythical place that bears little resemblance to the real Golden State now or ever. (The Spanish named the territory after a mythical island paradise they were searching for that was supposed to be full of gold and inhabited by black women whose queen was named Califa. That didn't pan out, either.) Other songs describe the disappointment the singers find after getting to California when they discover that it's no better than where they came from. Apparently, recording a California song is now a requirement if you're a musician, even if it's only to show that you hate California stereotypes or the Entertainment Industry Establishment. Musicians such as Local H and Brooke White are even writing songs about California Songs while other musicians write about how much they hate the state. It's all good, and it's all here on the list if I know about it. This list is in alphabetical order by artist, not by title. I'll add new songs to the list as I discover them. Let me know if there is something not here that should be. The lyrics come from the Internet, and we all know how unreliable it can be. Also, be aware that some of these songs may contain explicit lyrics. Links to song versions on YouTube or elsewhere are included if I could find them For a much longer list, divided by regions, check out Wickipedia's List of songs about California . Here's a list of Songs About Herps to go along with the list of songs about California to make songs about CaliforniaHerps complete. The lyrics shown here are all the property and copyright of their owners and are provided here for educational purposes only. Shortcut to Artist Last Name Title (Click link to listen to song) Description 2Pac (see Shakur, Tupac ) A Ryan Adams Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd. Alt country, indie rock... genres seem pretty meaningless these days, but whatever you want to call it, New Yorker Adams does it very well. From 2001, this is one of those slow sad piano songs with strings. "La Cienega Just Smiled" - which is probably a reference to another street in LA - La Cienega blvd. - is another slow Adam's song from the same album "Gold" released in 2001. "It's happening baby They're putting up the chairs Taking the money And all we can do is pray Pray for tomorrow And do this all in time to the music That screams like a child in the back of your mind In a clown's saloon So goodnight Hollywood Blvd, goodnight, See ya soon Goodnight Hollywood Blvd, see you sometime Yeah, right " Admiral Radley I Heart California A 2010 song from a California Indie rock band made up of members of two influential California Indie rock bands, Earlimart, from LA, and Grandaddy, from Modesto. Long walks on the 5? What, did they break down? "I am California... yeah? Ice tea in my hair Drugs fall out of diaper bags As midwesterners stare Long walks on the 5 Truck stops and the symphony And I'll be here when I die I heart California... I love California I heart California I heart California... I love California I heart California" Adele Hello Adele does a little bit of California Dreaming In this song from her 2015 album "25" in which she also shows that she doesn't understand how Caller ID works. "Hello, it's me I was wondering if after all these yea |
In the human body what is the Trachea? | The Trachea (Human Anatomy): Picture, Function, Conditions, and More Human Anatomy Picture of the Trachea © 2014 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved. The trachea, commonly known as the windpipe, is a tube about 4 inches long and less than an inch in diameter in most people. The trachea begins just under the larynx (voice box) and runs down behind the breastbone (sternum). The trachea then divides into two smaller tubes called bronchi: one bronchus for each lung. The trachea is composed of about 20 rings of tough cartilage. The back part of each ring is made of muscle and connective tissue. Moist, smooth tissue called mucosa lines the inside of the trachea. The trachea widens and lengthens slightly with each breath in, returning to its resting size with each breath out. Trachea Conditions Tracheal stenosis: Inflammation in the trachea can lead to scarring and narrowing of the windpipe. Surgery or endoscopy may be needed to correct the narrowing (stenosis), if severe. Tracheoesophageal fistula : An abnormal channel forms to connect the trachea and the esophagus. Passage of swallowed food from the esophagus into the trachea causes serious lung problems. Tracheal foreign body: An object is inhaled (aspirated) and lodges in the trachea or one of its branches. A procedure called bronchoscopy is usually needed to remove a foreign body from the trachea. Tracheal cancer: Cancer of the trachea is quite rare. Symptoms can include coughing or difficulty breathing. Tracheomalacia: The trachea is soft and floppy rather than rigid, usually due to a birth defect. In adults, tracheomalacia is generally caused by injury or by smoking. Tracheal obstruction: A tumor or other growth can compress and narrow the trachea, causing difficulty breathing. A stent or surgery is needed to open the trachea and improve breathing. Trachea Tests Flexible bronchoscopy : An endoscope (flexible tube with a lighted camera on its end) is passed through the nose or mouth into the trachea. Using bronchoscopy, a doctor can examine the trachea and its branches. Rigid bronchoscopy : A rigid metal tube is introduced through the mouth into the trachea. Rigid bronchoscopy is often more effective than flexible bronchoscopy, but it requires deep anesthesia. Computed tomography ( CT scan ): A CT scanner takes a series of X-rays, and a computer creates detailed images of the trachea and nearby structures. Magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI scan ): An MRI scanner uses radio waves in a magnetic field to create images of the trachea and nearby structures. Chest X-ray : A plain X-ray can tell if the trachea is deviated to either side of the chest. An X-ray might also identify masses or foreign bodies. | Trachoma: Read Treatment and Symptom Information Medical Author: Frank J. Weinstock, MD, FACS Frank J. Weinstock, MD, FACS Dr. Weinstock is a board-certified ophthalmologist. He practices general ophthalmology in Canton, Ohio, with a special interest in contact lenses. He holds faculty positions of Professor of Ophthalmology at the Northeastern Ohio Colleges of Medicine and Affiliate Clinical Professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University. Medical Editor: Andrew A. Dahl, MD, FACS Andrew A. Dahl, MD, FACS Andrew A. Dahl, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist. Dr. Dahl's educational background includes a BA with Honors and Distinction from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, and an MD from Cornell University, where he was selected for Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. He had an internal medical internship at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. Share Your Story Trachoma is a contagious bacterial infection which affects the conjunctival covering of the eye, the cornea , and the eyelids. It is often associated with poverty and lack of proper hygiene. Trachoma is caused by the Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria and is essentially totally preventable and curable. It is the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world. Approximately 80 million people in the world have active trachoma. The majority of these are children. The disease is found predominantly in poor tropical or semi-tropical countries. How does trachoma manifest itself? Trachoma affects the eyelids and conjunctiva (outside covering) of the eye, usually with very little discomfort until later in the disease. When infected, the conjunctival covering of the eye becomes red and irritated (inflamed). Repeated infections by the trachoma bacteria are common and, unless treated, can result in scarring of the conjunctival surface of the lids. The lids become scarred and the lid margins may turn in, causing eye irritation and pain followed by scarring of the cornea by the inward-turned lashes (trichiasis), which scrape the cornea. Corneal scarring results in decreased or total loss of vision. In order to see properly, it is necessary for the cornea (front window of the eye) to remain clear. What is the cause of trachoma? Although trachoma is caused by a small parasitic bacteria, poor sanitation, unclean water supply, and reduced personal and community hygiene allow the bacteria to infect and reinfect eyes of individuals living in endemic areas. Prevention of vision loss requires adequate, prompt treatment, in addition to education and teaching proper hygiene to the parents and children. Trachoma is an ancient disease and was once prevalent throughout the world except in colder climates. It has been eliminated in more advanced countries but is still endemic in about 55 third-world nations, primarily in Africa and the Middle East. Approximately 10 million people have significant visual loss from the corneal scarring caused by trachoma. Trachoma is spread by direct or indirect contact with eye, nose, or throat secretions of an individual with trachoma, or indirectly via flies or other insects carrying those secretions on their legs or bodies. Common denominators are poor hygiene , unsanitary water supplies, and shared towels. It is most common in small children (3-5 years of age) who spread it to their siblings, mothers, and playmates. Within endemic areas, the incidence of the infection is highly variable from village to village and concentrates in families or other pockets. Throughout the entire world, Chlamydia trachomatis also causes sexually transmitted disease and conjunctivitis of the newborn , transmitted from the mother during the birth process. 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The famous ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ died in which prison in 1703? | the man in the iron mask | French convict | Britannica.com The man in the iron mask French convict Alternative Title: l’homme au masque de fer the man in the iron mask French convict l’homme au masque de fer born Paris , France The man in the iron mask, French l’homme au masque de fer (born c. 1658?—died November 19, 1703, Paris , France ), political prisoner, famous in French history and legend , who died in the Bastille in 1703, during the reign of Louis XIV . There is no historical evidence that the mask was made of anything but black velvet (velours), and only afterward did legend convert its material into iron. The Man in the Iron Mask, etching and mezzotint, 1789. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-07185) He was first imprisoned at Pignerol (Pinerolo, in Piedmont) sometime before 1681, then at other prisons before finally being transferred to the Bastille in Paris on September 18, 1698. He died there on November 19, 1703. Buried the next day in the parish cemetery of Saint-Paul, he was registered there under the name of “Marchioly,” and his age was given as “about 45.” His several moves during his lifetime corresponded with the successive postings of the prison governor Bénigne d’Auvergne de Saint-Mars, in whose charge he was evidently especially committed. The identity of the man in the mask was already a mystery before his death, and, from the 18th century on, various suggestions as to his identity were made: in 1711, an English nobleman; in 1745, Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois, a son of Louis XIV and Louise de La Vallière; between 1738 and 1771, an elder brother of Louis XIV (Voltaire popularized this unlikely solution, which was later taken up by Alexandre Dumas in Dix Ans plus tard ou le Vicomte de Bragelonne [1848–50], translated into English as The Man in the Iron Mask); in 1883 Molière, imprisoned by the Jesuits in revenge for Tartuffe. Of the dozen or more hypotheses , only two have proven tenable: those for Ercole Matthioli and for Eustache Dauger. Matthioli, a minister of Ferdinand Charles, duke of Mantua, had been entrusted with the secret negotiation of the treaty of 1678 whereby the impoverished duke was to deliver the stronghold of Casale over to France in return for 100,000 écus, but, as soon as the agreement was signed, Matthioli nullified its effect by betraying the secret to several foreign courts. Furious at having been tricked, Louis XIV had him quietly abducted and imprisoned at Pinerolo (1679). It is generally agreed, however, that Matthioli died in the Îles Sainte-Marguerite in April 1694 and that the prisoner in the mask was Eustache Dauger. Britannica Stories Man in the Iron Mask - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) The political prisoner of Louis XIV of France known as the Man in the Iron Mask was brought to the Bastille on Sept. 18, 1698. He died there on Nov. 19, 1703. He was named for the mask he was made to wear to keep his identity a secret. The mask was actually made of black velvet but was later mistakenly recorded in legend as consisting of iron. The identity of the prisoner was much speculated on. One popular theory was that he was Count Matthioli, who had double-crossed Louis XIV by refusing to betray a fortress. It is generally agreed, however, that Matthioli died in the Iles Sainte-Marguerite in April 1694 and that the prisoner in the mask was the valet Eustache Dauger. A favorite subject of literature, the Man in the Iron Mask was featured in Alexandre Dumas’s Dix Ans plus tard ou le Vicomte de Bragelonne (1848-50; Ten Years Later; or, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, translated into English as The Man in the Iron Mask). Article History | A Short Biography of Peter Wyngarde Born: August 23rd 1933 Fact File Peter Wyngarde is a French-born English actor best acknowledged for creating and playing the character of Jason King, a successful writer and detective, in two British television series of the 1960s and early 1970s:' Department S' (1969–1970) and 'Jason King' (1971–1972). Born Cyril Goldbert in Marseille, France, the son of an a a French mother and English father . His father worked in the British Diplomatic Service, consequently his childhood was spent in a numerous different countries. In 1941, although his parents were away in India, he went to live with a Swiss household in Shanghai. The Japanese Armed forces took over Shanghai's International Settlement on the 8th December 1941, and as a British national his father was incarcerated in the Lunghua concentration camp on 10 April 1943. Conditions in the camp were at times harsh. According to J.G. Ballard's autobiography Miracles of Life, "Cyril Goldbert, the future Peter Wyngarde" was a fellow internee at Lunghua Camp and "He was four years older than me...". Ballard was born in November 1930 but according to Lunghwa Camp archives, compiled in 1943, Goldbert was really born in 1928. His younger siblings, Adolphe Henry and Marion Simeone, were under Swiss protection and consequently immune from internment. As a young man he began acting, and from the mid-1950s had innumerable roles in feature films, single television plays and television series. In the late 1960s, he was a steady guest star on countless popular UK series of the day, many of which had espionage and adventure plots, including 'The Avengers', 'The Saint', 'The Baron', 'Sherlock Holmes', 'The Champions', 'The Troubleshooters', 'Love Story', 'I Spy' and The 'Man In Room 17'. He also played the Number Two in The Prisoner ("Checkmate", 1967). Wyngarde's movie work was narrow but had influence. In 1961, he made the most of his brief scenes as the leering Peter Quint in Jack Clayton's 'The Innocents' with Deborah Kerr and Pamela Franklin. The next year he starred in the occult adventure movie 'Night of the Eagle'. The Big break came for Wyngarde in 1969 when he was cast in the ITC television series 'Department S', (produced by Monty Berman) in the role of the charismatic Jason King, a sardonic, well-spoken, over sexed mystery author who also works for an undercover Interpol investigative unit. With his long hair and a loud moustache, and dressed in an array of late '60s/Swinging London-style cravats, ruffled shirts, crumpled velvet outfits, kaftans, etc., Wyngarde was the original peacock. The character's eccentric mannerisms, together with his look, soon made Wyngarde the main star of the show, casting a shadow on his two co-stars, Joel Fabiani and Rosemary Nicols; indeed, many fans felt that Wyngarde's character dressed more flashily than Nicols' character. Now a days, Jason King's manner of dress, together with his ferocious sex drive and even with the sporadic use of such retro terms as "groovy" makes him the very obvious role model for the 'Austin Powers' chracter, made famous by Mike Myers. In the series that spun out of 'Department S', simply called' Jason King', he worked solo but manoeuvred from bed-to-bed with a succession of women in seemingly every story, keeping up a pace that any self-respecting James Bond would have had a tough time keeping up with. In 1970, Peter recorded an album for RCA Victor called Peter Wyngarde, and a single, "La Ronde De L'Amour/The Way I Cry Over You" was released. The album was reissued on CD by the British RPM Records label as 'When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head'. Curiously,it was not a collection of lounge standards but instead an unusual collection of spoken word/musical arrangements. Several tracks are on the Radio Sounds Familiar playlist. In 1983, he performed in the thriller 'Underground' opposite Raymond Burr (Ironside) at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto and at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. During the 1980s and 1990s he made a number of television appearances, compris |
Philip Pirrip is the lead character in which Charles Dickens novel? | The Development Of Pip's Character in (Great Expectations by Charles dickens) - a poem by ahmad. All poetry poets - All Poetry The Development Of Pip's Character in (Great Expectations by Charles dickens) [ edit ] Philip Pirrip in the novel Great Expectations by Charles dickens Is the major character in which the events of the novel revolves around him he is known as Pip. This novel like the novel of bildungsroman in which the actions revolve around the development of Pip from childhood to adulthood to the final state which is maturity .The author Charles Dickens in this novel showed the story of of a young boy called Pip who realizes his identity as he strives to be above his social class, pip's personality traits change through interaction with other people in the course of the story . The beginning of the tale offer us a great events to know pip's personality .the author displays first how pip have no memory of his family ,he just can remember the appearance of his mother and father .this suggests that pip has good imagination although he was little boy .pip lived with his sister Mrs Joe ,but through out the story Mrs Joe acted as pip's mother , she was strict and raise pip up by hands because of that his relationship with Joe the blacksmith was much stronger than his relation with Mrs joe , so he was influenced strongly by joe than his sister .even we notice that his sister had more control Over pip's personality in the novel. The turning point in pip's life come after his first to satis house ,she trated him and his uncle pumblechook with scorn .pip's first impression about herthat she was wery proud also relying on the fact that she called him boy ,and this was the first time pip was treated so .the same thing happened to him when he met for the first time the beautiful girl Estella ,pip falls in love with her as they were playing cards she was laughing at his hands and his thick boots ,this was also a turning point in pip's life and an important stage or line that shows pip's eagerness to take the first step of changing his uncommon ways as he said "Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it." . the change that pip adopted in the novel was influenced mostly because of two characters Estella and Miss Havisham in which he had a strong desire to impress Estella ,Miss Havisham who was trying to break pip's heart using Estella as a tool . Although pip has a strong desire for better change in his life he was changing for worse at the beginning because he was not aware of this change yet .as we can see also throughout the course of the novel that Herbert had a great influence on pip's character by making pip realizes that getting a gentleman is not just about being unpleasant and treating lower class with contempt as pip had experienced to some extent from Estella and Miss Havisham ,Herbert also helped changing pip's character by invoking generosity and manners . Love and friendship was pip's relationship with joe ,but when he brought joe to satis house to meet with Miss Havisham ,pip gets ashamed of joe's behaviors because it was an embarrassment for pip .pip saw this as a reminder of who he was and the place he came from . it was bad thing for pip to be ashamed of joe because he would not have any change before visiting Satis house . Things began to change for pip When he and joe met Mr Jaggers who come for business to tell pip of his great expectations, people who treated pip in un respectful way , they show respect and rained him with praises, such as uncle Pumblechook . After going to London, pip meet his old friend Herbert then they became friends .pip wants Herbert to help him to be more gently .Herbert started to help pip improving his table manner, so Herbert's influence on pip was helpful for teaching him respect and politeness. then and after that pip meets with Estella after she came back from France .He was fascinated by her beauty and tranquility , unfortunately pip thought that Estella would accept him after changing many things | Charles Dickens, Bleak House - UI Victorian Wiki - UIowa Wiki UI Victorian Wiki Go to start of metadata "The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid" John Jarndyce uses the quote above to describe the apathy that so many poor and orphaned citizens of England faced in the 19th Century. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, follows the trajectories of a large cast of characters from various social statuses and backgrounds but all of whom are tightly tangled in the infamous case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The case is a symbol of the greed and exuberance demonstrated by the British elite and those in power of the civil court system. The stark contrasts between the wealthy and the destitute are highlighted within the novel. The novel follows the story of Esther Summerson, an orphan who becomes an unwilling participant in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. The story also revolves around the mystery of Esther's identity as several links to wealthy and fashionable aristocrats are quickly established. Esther's closest friends, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, conversely tumble into poverty and destitution as the novel unfolds. The Early Edition Bleak House, along with many others of Dickens’ novels, was originally published in serial installments. There were a total of 20 installments and each one contained 32 pages of text, two illustrations, and 16 pages of advertisements. Dividing the novel into installments was an effective use of marketing. It allowed Dickens to have a wider audience because more people were able to afford it. People could sign up for an installment plan and pay one shilling a month over paying 21 shillings for the novel. Table of Contents Major Themes Government/Legal System Corruption "Never can there come fog too thick, never can there com mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds, this day, in the sight of heaven and earth(14)". The heavy, dirty, suffocating fog that the narrator describes in the opening pages of Bleak House symbolizes the ubiquitous corruption of the government and legal system of Victorian London. Just as there is “fog everywhere,” a murky force seeming to suffocate the city, the High Court of Chancery seems to slowly suck the life out of nearly everyone who has been unfortunate enough to be involved in a suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce; a case that has dragged on for generations. Miss Flite, the oldest living ward of the case, has gone insane from her years of waiting. She keeps caged birds and gives them the names of Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach; all symbolizing the victims of the suit. Richard, one of the newest wards, succumbs to the involvement of the Chancery and becomes so obsessed with the suit that he is unable to find passion for anything else in life. The narrator tells us in chapter 39 that “The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself”(621) as it is perpetually causing delays and creating costs that the parties of the suit can never expect to get back. The case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce symbolizes the corrupt legal system that ruined, rather than represented, the people of Victorian London. Echoing the corruption of the Court of Chancery is the parody of the members of Parliament. In chapter 40, the narrator describes the corrupt process of electing a new leader in Government. Like the lawyers of Chancery, the politicians are only concerned with power and personal gain. The narrator of Bleak House even suggests that the leader of Parliament was elected through bribery money given by Sir Leicester Dedlock, a prominent member of the aristocracy. Below: A caricature of William Ballantine, a famous Queen's Council member. Vanity Fair. 1870. (Wikimedia Commons). [DQ]The parody of England’s Parliament, while entertaining, doesn’t seem to help to move the plot along in any wa |
After how many years of marriage would you celebrate your coral wedding anniversary? | What is an appropriate gift for a 35-year anniversary? | Reference.com What is an appropriate gift for a 35-year anniversary? A: Quick Answer The traditional gift given for the 35th anniversary is coral jewelry, and the most valuable form of coral is the Japanese blood coral. Another popular gift associated with the 35th anniversary is jade jewelry. Jadeite stones from Myanmar are some of the most sought after in the world. | Also see exotic species over-population. . July 14, 09: Britain's honeybees are disappearing at an "alarming" rate, yet the government is taking "little interest" in the problem, a group of MPs has said. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says bees, vital for pollinating crops, are worth �200m a year to the economy. It wants Defra to spend more money on research into bee health and make registration compulsory for beekeepers. July 9, 09: Rhino poaching around the world is set to reach a 15-year high as demand for the animals' horns grows, conservation groups warn. July 6, 09: Increasingly acidic oceans and warming water temperatures due to CO2 emissions could kill off the world's ocean reefs by the end of this century, scientists warned.The experts told a meeting in London the predicted pace of emissions means a level of 450 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere will be reached by 2050, putting corals on a path to extinction in the following decades. . . "If we act quickly and decisively we may be able to [reverse] it before the damage becomes irreversible." . . Oceans absorb large amounts of CO2 emitted by the burning of fossil fuels. But scientists say the oceans are acidifying as they absorb more CO2, disrupting the process of calcification used by sea creatures to build shells as well as coral reefs. . . Coral reefs --delicate undersea structures resembling rocky gardens made by tiny animals called coral polyps-- are important nurseries and shelters for fish and other sea life. They also protect coastlines, provide a critical source of food for millions of people, attract tourists and are potential storehouse of medicines for cancer and other diseases. . . "If CO2 is allowed to reach 450 ppm, as is currently widely regarded as being the most optimistic threshold target for world leaders to agree at Copenhagen, we will have put the world's reefs on a path to major degradation and ultimate extinction", John Veron, the former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, told the meeting. "Such a catastrophe poses a dire threat to the future wellbeing of all humanity." July 4, 09: Fleeting sightings of the world's rarest antelope, the hirola, in a new safe haven are cases of mistaken identity, a survey has found. . . That has dashed hopes that some of the last hirola have managed to colonize a new territory where they would be less vulnerable to flooding and hunting. Fewer than 600 wild hirola remain, confined to a small area in Kenya. It is sometimes called a 'living fossil', being the sole survivor of a once diverse group of antelope species. Prior to 1970, an estimated 14,000 hirola existed in the wild. July 2, 09: The world's largest cat, the Amur tiger, is down to an effective wild population of fewer than 35 individuals, new research has found. Although up to 500 of the big cats actually survive in the wild, the effective population is a measure of their genetic diversity. That in turn is a good predictor of the Amur tiger's chances of survival. The results come from the most complete genetic survey yet of wild Amur tigers, the rarest subspecies of tiger. . . At the start of the 20th Century, nine subspecies of tiger existed, with a total world population of more than 100,000 individuals. Human impacts have since caused the extinction of three subspecies, the Javan tiger, Bali tiger and Caspian tiger, and world tiger numbers could now have fallen to fewer than 3000. July 2, 09: The world's largest cat is down to an effective wild population of fewer than 35 individuals, new research has found. July 1, 09: More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported. Jun 30, 09: Coastal development and declining water quality are threatening seagrasses worldwide, researchers report. A study of coastal grasses around the world shows that 58% of the seagrass meadows are in decline. Seagrass provides habitat for coastal life and helps reduce the impact of sediment |
Gadwell, Garganey and Scaup are all species of which bird? | Gadwall, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology Typical Voice Size & Shape Gadwall are about the same size as Mallards. Gadwall have a fairly large, square head with a steep forehead. The bill is noticeably thinner than a Mallard's. In flight, the neck is slightly thinner and the wings slightly more slender than a Mallard’s. Color Pattern Male Gadwall are gray-brown with a black patch at the tail. Females are patterned with brown and buff. Females have a thin orange edge to their dark bills. In flight, both sexes have a white wing patch that is sometimes visible while swimming or resting. Behavior Gadwall feed with other dabbling ducks, tipping forward to feed on submerged vegetation without diving. They sometimes steal food from flocks of diving ducks or coots. You'll often see these ducks in pairs through the winter, because they select their mates for the breeding season as early as late fall. Habitat Gadwall breed mainly in the Great Plains and prairies. On migration and in winter, look for Gadwall in reservoirs, ponds, fresh and salt water marshes, city parks, sewage ponds, or muddy edges of estuaries. | Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: October 2014 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League & Harrington ‘B’ What well-known product was invented in 1886 by John Pemberton, who at that time was addicted to morphine and was looking to find a less harmful substitute? Coca-Cola The entrepreneur Donald F Duncan introduced which toy in 1929, often thought to be based on a weapon used by 16th Century Filipino hunters? Yo-Yo Who was the Greek God of time? Chronos Which English King was the son of Edward, The Black Prince Richard II Who succeeded Richard II as King in 1399? Henry IV What name is given to the notorious tidal current in the Lofoten islands off Norway? Maelstrom Which hit song from July 1979 was inspired by the doings of one Brenda Spencer on 29th January that year? I Don’t Like Mondays (by The Boomtown Rats) Which motor manufacturer produces the model which has the best-selling car name of all time (the model has undergone at least eleven redesigns from 1966 to date)? Toyota (the Corolla is the model in question) What was Fanny Cradock’s real Christian name? Phyllis (Born as Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey) What is the collective name for the handmaidens of Odin who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live? Valkyries Illustrated on its logo, the product Marmite is named after a French word for what? Cooking Pot Which Nintendo game first introduced the character of Mario? Donkey Kong (in 1981…pre-dating Super Mario Bros. by 4 years) Which song was the Labour Party’s theme in its Election campaign of 1997? Things can only get better (by D:Ream) Who is the only woman to have been French Prime Minister? Edith Cresson Who designed the first Blue Peter badge as well as the “Ship” logo used by the programme? Tony Hart Born in Ulverston in 1890, by what name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson better known? Stan Laurel Of which actress did Groucho Marx say “I knew her before she became a virgin”? Doris Day Who wrote and composed the Opera ‘Oedipus Rex’? Stravinsky Who was the first “First Minister of Scotland”? Donald Dewar Who was the first Secretary General of The United Nations? Trygve Lie Against the people of which city did the Romans fight the Punic Wars? Carthage Josip Broz was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. By what name is he better known? Tito Which famous Independent day and Boarding School in Derbyshire was founded by Sir John Port in 1557? Repton School Buddy Holly had a posthumous hit with the song "It doesn’t matter any more". Which singer / songwriter of the time wrote it? Paul Anka An alibi is a form of defence used in criminal proceedings where the accused attempts to prove their innocence. What does the Latin word alibi literally mean? Elsewhere (The accused attempts to prove they were somewhere else at the time of the offence) Who said in a speech in 1968 “As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'”? Enoch Powell In a famous 1871 poem, the wedding feast consisted of “mince and quince eaten with a runcible spoon“. Name either of the parties supposedly getting married. Owl or Pussycat (in the Edward Lear poem) Who was the last King of France before the First French Republic was established in 1792? Louis XVI (the Sixteenth) Which modern Japanese martial art is descended from swordsmanship and uses a weapon called a Shinai Kendo Who wrote the book ‘Whisky Galore’? Compton Mackenzie Which fictional pirate captain went to his death murmuring the words ‘Floreat Etona’? Captain Hook In which London restaurant did Boris Becker have his famously brief, but expensive, 'affair' in a broom cupboard with model Angela Ermakova? Nobu Who was the US President throughout the period of World War I? Woodrow Wilson Who was the UK Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War I? Asquith Gruinard Island is an uninhabited Scottish island which was used as the scene for experiments on which bacterium during the 20th century? Anthrax Jihad is an Islamic term referring to a religious duty of Muslims. Wha |
Which Thames attraction shares its name with a brand of Scotch Whisky that was introduced in 1923? | Distilleries | Scottish Whisky UK Scottish Whisky UK Single Malt Scotch Whiskey Source Archives for category: Distilleries What is Bourbon Whiskey? Bourbon is some kind of American whiskey – a barrel-aged distilled spirit produced mainly from corn. The name of the spirit dates back to its historical association with an area known as Old Bourbon, near what is now named as Bourbon County, Kentucky (which, in turn, was named after the French House of Bourbon royal family) in 18 century. While it may be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with Kentucky specifically, and the south of American generally. Information of the Bourbon Whiskey Distilleries-US, Bourbon & Kentucky County Six well-known whiskey distilleries in Bourbon/Kentucky America: 4. Maker’s Mark (Loretto) 5. Wild Turkey (Lawrenceburg) The other two operating distilleries in Bourbon/Kentucky Buffalo Trace, in Frankfort, Kentucky Tom Moore, in Bardstown, Kentucky Detailed information for the Bourbon Whiskey Distilleries: Address: 1224 Bonds Mill Road, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky 40342, U. S Tel: +1 502.839.3436 ext. 18 History: The Lawrenceburg, Kentucky distillery was built in 1910 in Spanish Mission-style architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places The brand was originally introduced by the Frankfort Distilling Co., and was purchased by Seagram in 1943. It was the top selling brand of Bourbon in the United States in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Around the end of the 1950s, despite the popularity of the brand, Seagram decided to discontinue the sale of Four Roses Bourbon (and all other Straight Bourbons) within the U.S., in order to focus on sales of blended whiskey there. Four Roses Kentucky Straight Bourbon marketing was shifted to Europe and Asia, which were rapidly growing markets at the time. In these markets, it became the top selling Bourbon. However, in the U.S. during this period, the Four Roses brand name was used on a blended whiskey, made mostly of neutral grain spirits and commonly seen as a sub-par “rotgut” brand. Four Roses continued to be unavailable as a Straight Bourbon in the U.S. market for more than forty years – until the brand ownership changed again in 2002 after Seagram was purchased by Vivendi, and then sold most of its brands to Diageo, which sold the Four Roses brand to Kirin. Its new owner (Kirin) discontinued the sale of blended whiskey to focus exclusively on Four Roses Bourbon production. Products Four Roses Yellow Label 40%, selling in U.S., Europe, and Japan Four Roses Small Batch Limited Edition 50% , selling ONLY in U.S Four Roses Small Batch 45%, selling only US, Europe Four Roses Single Barrel Limited Edition 58.4%, selling in U.S., UK Four Roses Single Barrel 50%, selling only US, Europe, and Japan Four Roses Super Premium 43%, selling only in Japan Four Roses Black Label 40%, selling only in Japan Four Roses Marriage Collection 100°, introduced in 2008 (produced only seasonally) Name: Heaven Hill Distilleries- America’s largest independent family-owned producer of Bourbon Address: 1311 Gilkey Run Road, Bardstown, Kentucky 40004, US Tel: +1 502.337.1000 Website: http://www.heavenhill.com History: The distillery Inc is a private family-owned and operated distillery company headquartered in Bardstown, Kentucky that produces and markets the Heaven Hill brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and a variety of other distilled spirits. Heaven Hill was founded shortly after the repeal of Prohibition in 1935 by several investors, including a prominent distiller, Joseph L. Beam, and a member of the Shapira family. As the company developed, the five brothers of the Shapira family bought out the other investors. Joe Beam remained as Master Distiller, along with his youngest son, Harry. Descendants of the Shapira brothers own and run the company to today. All of the Master Distillers at Heaven Hill since its founding have been members of the Beam family. The original Master Distiller was Joseph L. Beam, Jim Beam’s first cousin. He was followed by his son, Harry, w | Early Steam Trains The First Steam Locomotive 1804 (Unnamed) The first full scale working railway steam locomotive was invented by a British mining engineer called Richard Trevithick. Early Steam Trains Timeline of Early Steam Trains 1808 Catch Me Who Can 1808 This famous steam locomotive was built by John Urpeth Rastrick and John Hazledine for Richard Trevithick. It was successfully demonstrated in London in 1808. 1813 Puffing Billy 1813 The Puffing Billy is the world’s oldest steam locomotive in existence today. It was built by a team of British engineers called William Hedley, Jonathan Forest and Timothy Hackworth who worked for Christopher Blackett, the owner of the Northumberland colliery at Wylam. 1815 Wylam Dilly 1815 The Wylam Dilly was built by William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth, British engineers who had contributed towards the construction of Puffing Billy. They built Wylam Dilly whilst still working for the owner of the Northumberland colliery at Wylam, Christopher Blackett. The loco still exists today making it one of the oldest surviving steam locomotives in the world. 1814 The Blucher 1814 The Blücher was invented in 1814 by a famous British civil engineer called George Stephenson (The Father of the Railways). It was a powerful steam locomotive for its time, capable of pulling a train of 30 tons at approximately 4 miles per hour. The loco was named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the Prussian general. One of the major improvements that George Stephenson made to the design of the Blücher steam locomotive was its increased boiler efficiency which was achieved by allowing steam to escape through a steam outlet from the cylinders into a smoke stack. 1829 The Rocket 1829 The Rocket was a famous steam locomotive produced by Robert Stephenson and Company at the Forth Street Works, Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1829 for the Rainhill Trials; a competition set up by Liverpool and Manchester Railway to select the best design to power the railway. The Rocket was the only loco to complete the Rainhill Trials and it became the winner in 1829. When Robert Stephenson designed and produced the Rocket, he had to consider its weight, size and speed if he was to become a serious contender in the Rainhill Trials. He built the steam locomotive using a lighter, faster and smaller design. Timeline of Early Steam Trains Early Steam Trains Early Steam Trains - The Rocket - Historical Facts - The Industrial Revolution - The Golden Age - Steam Powered - History - Facts - Info - Information - Catch Me Who Can - Puffing Billy - Wylam Dilly Timeline - Power - Energy - Types - Videos - Images - Pictures - Railways - Uk - Great British - English - Children - For Kids - Invention - Diagram |
Who became the first Briton to win gold at the 5000 metres in the World Athletics Championships? | World Athletics Championships: Mo Farah wins gold in men's 5000m - Telegraph Advertisement World Athletics Championships: Mo Farah wins gold in men's 5000m Mo Farah became the first British athlete to win a global gold medal at 5,000 metres after delivering a devastating sprint finish to race away from his rivals at the World Championships in Daegu. Image 1 of 2 Top of the world: Mo Farah ran the perfect race at the World Championships to win the 5,000m gold medal Photo: GETTY IMAGES Image 1 of 2 Gold guy: Mo Farah's gold is Britain's second in the World Championships after Dai Greene won the 400m hurdles Photo: AP By Simon Hart , in Daegu 12:09PM BST 04 Sep 2011 Follow The 27 year-old Londoner, who can now claim to be the greatest male endurance runner Britain has ever produced, was locked in a titanic struggle with Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel with 200 metres remaining before pulling clear as the pair entered the final straight. But, as Farah closed on the finish line, he then faced another challenge as American Bernard Lagat, the 2007 5,000m world champion, chased him with a late surge in the final 30 metres. Farah, his face racked with effort, held on to win in 13min 23.26sec, with Lagat taking the silver medal and Ethiopian Imane Merga, who passed Gebremeskel, taking the bronze. After crossing the line, Farah, who was “disappointed” not to have won the 10,000 metres crown the previous week, sank to his knees in prayer before he was taken over by tears. After embracing Alberto Salazar, the American coach who has overseen his astonishing transformation in the seven months they have been working together, he set off on a lap of honour with a Union Flag draped around his neck bearing the words “Fly Mo”. Related Articles | Doctor Who: Nine 'lost episodes' found in Nigeria with The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear available to watch on iTunes - Mirror Online Nine missing Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s featuring Patrick Troughton have been recovered in Nigeria and will be made available for fans to watch. Eleven episodes were discovered in total by Phillip Morris, director of Television International Enterprises Archive, from the tracking records of overseas shipments made by the BBC containing tapes for transmission. BBC Worldwide has re-mastered these episodes to restore them and enable excited fans, many of whom have never seen the episodes before, to buy them from midnight on Thursday. Mr Morris said: “The tapes had been left gathering dust in a store room at a television relay station in Nigeria. I remember wiping the dust off the masking tape on the canisters and my heart missed a beat as I saw the words ‘ Doctor Who ’. When I read the story code I realised I’d found something pretty special.” There were fears the heat of the country could have ruined the episodes, but Mr Morris said considering the Nigerian temperatures "they have been kept in optimum condition". The stories recovered are The Enemy of the World (1967) - click here to watch clips from the episode - and The Web of Fear (1968), both starring Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor . The Enemy of the World, is the fourth six-part tale of Series 5 which first aired on the BBC in December 1967. Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 had been missing from the BBC archives. Alongside Patrick Troughton who plays both the Time Lord and his antagonist (Ramon Salamander) are his companions Frazer Hines (Jamie) and Deborah Watling (Victoria). Also recovered is the 1968 six-part story, The Web of Fear - click here to watch clips . Episodes 2 to 6 were feared lost forever but now episodes 2, 4, 5, and 6 have been recovered. The Web of Fear introduces Nicholas Courtney for the first time as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (who later returns as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart). Fiona Eastwood, Director of Consumer Products, BBC Worldwide said: “We are thrilled with the recent discovery of The Web of Fear and The Enemy of the World and we’re very happy to be launching re-mastered versions of these treasured episodes to fans as we celebrate the 50th year of Doctor Who.” On November 23, Doctor Who celebrates 50 years since the very first episode, An Unearthly Child, aired on BBC television. A number of episodes from the first series of Doctor Who were lost as a result of BBC Archive space-saving measures and there are still 27 Doctor Who stories that are missing or have incomplete episodes. Video Loading |
"Where are the ""Spanish Steps""?" | 7 Facts about the Spanish Steps | Rome Guide - The Spanish Steps | 7 Facts about the Spanish Steps 7 Facts about the Spanish Steps With its irregular butterfly design, the beautiful “Scalina Spagna”, or Spanish Steps are just one of these must see places when in Rome and a great example of Roman Baroque Style. It’s a great place to just sit down and enjoy the atmosphere and views of the Eternal City. The steps are a wide irregular gathering place consisted of 138 steps placed in a mix of curves, straight flights, vistas and terraces. They connect the lower Piazza di Spagna with the upper piazza Trinita dei Monti, with its beautiful twin tower church dominating the skyline. 7 facts about the Spanish Steps: 1 The Spanish steps were built in 1723-1725 by a design of the rather little known architect Francesco de Sanctis and were financed by French diplomat Étienne Gueffier’s bequeathed. It was built in order to link the the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the king of France, with the Spanish square below. The long, triangular Spanish square is named after the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See. In the 17th century, the area around the embassy was even considered Spanish territory. The idea of connecting the church with the square below originates from the 17th century, when the French also planned a statue of King Louis XIV of France at the top of the staircase. This plan was never executed, due to the refusal of the Pope. 2 The Spanish steps unique design and elegance has made it a popular place for artists, painters and poets who were attracted to the place which inspired them in return. The artist’s presence attracted many beautiful women to the area, hoping to taken as models. This in turn, attracted rich Romans and travelers. After a short time, the steps were crowded with people of all kinds of backgrounds. This tradition, of the Spanish Steps as a meeting place, has lived on ever since. The Spanish Steps are the widest stairway in Europe The Fountain of the old boat. though to be the first work of young Gian Lorenzo Bernini who helped his father building it Don't eat while youre sitting on the Steps! its not allowed. The Beautiful Spanish Steps 3 At the lower end of the stairs you can find an early baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia, or “Fountain of the Old Boat”. It is credited Pietro Bernini; a member of the renowned artist family Bernini and father of famous Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The fountain has the form of a sinking ship and it is said to be based upon a folk legend. The legend tells that a fishing boat was carried all the way to this exact spot during a massive flood of the Tiber River in the 16th century. The design with the sinking boat also helped Bernini to overcome a technical problem, due to low water pressure. 4 On the 13th June, 2007, a drunken young man attempted to drive a Toyota Celica down the Spanish Steps. Luckily no one was hurt, but several of the 200-year-old steps were chipped and scuffed. The driver was arrested. 5 At the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in 1821; it is now a museum dedicated to his memory, full of memorabilia of the English Romantic generation. 6 On the 20th March, 1986, the first McDonalds restaurant in Italy was opened near the Spanish Steps. Protests there against fast food led to Carlo Petrini founding the international Slow Food movement three years later. Even today, almost 2000 years after its construction, the breathtaking pantheon is a remarkable building to see. The spectacular design, proportions, elegance and harmony are a striking reminder of the architecture of the great Roman Empire… Continue Reading… Rome’s most popular monument was built between 72-80 A.D. The Colosseum is still the largest amphitheater in the world, and stands as an iconic symbol of Rome and the great Roman architecture. Continue Reading… 10 Facts about Piazza Navona Dominitian’s ancient stadium, now Rome’s most beautiful Piazza, is adorned with fine Renaissanc | Madonna Madonna Load More Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2017 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Send to Email Address Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Email check failed, please try again Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. |
Which European nation's flag has nine horizontal blue and white stripes, and top-left a white cross on a blue square? | Historical Flags of Our Ancestors - International and Multi-National Organizations APC Flag 2013 African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) is a group of countries (currently 79: 48 African, 16 Caribbean and 15 Pacific), created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975 (also known as the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement"). The group's main objectives are sustainable development and poverty reduction within its member states, as well as their greater integration into the world's economy. The APC, sometimes called "The Lom� Convention," is basically a trade and aid agreement between the European Community (EC) and the 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, first signed in February 1975 in Lom�, Togo. In 1975, a white flag with green-outlined letters ACP, each containing a red globe with gold lines of latitude and longitude, was adopted by the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States. The ACP Group unveiled a new flag and anthem at the opening ceremony of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly in 2013, to represent the solidarity and shared vision of its 79 member states. "Our flag consists of three diagonal bands of colour green, gold and blue. Green represents fertility and natural beauty and resources of our countries, gold symbolises the sun and the warmth of our people and blue symbolises the bodies of water that surround many of our nations, as well as the peace we all strive for," the Secretary General stated. ALECSO Flag Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), or the Organisation arabe pour l'�ducation, la culture et les sciences, is a specialized agency having its headquarters in Tunis. The Organization, which works within the Arab League, is mainly concerned with enhancing and coordinating educational, cultural and educational activities in the Arab world. ALECSO was founded in accordance with Article 3 of the Arab Cultural Unity Charter and its creation was officially announced in Cairo in 1970. ALECSO includes 22 member states. The ALECSO flag is green with its logo in the center of the flag. ARABSAT Flag Arab Satellite Communications Organization The Arab Satellite Communications Organization is a leading communications satellite operator in the Arab World, headquartered in the city of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). It was established on 1976 by the member states of the Arab League with a defined goal of serving in telecommunication, information, culture and education sectors. Arabsat has operated the Arabsat GEO telecommunications system since its first satellite launch in 1985. ARABSAT owns and operates five satellites platforms at orbital positions. ARABSAT was created to deliver satellite-based, public and private telecommunications services to the Arab States, in accordance with International Standards. With more than 20 member countries, the organization plays a vital role of enhancing communications in the Arab World. It flag is white with its logo. It is a stylized globe indicating by blue and grey longitude and latitude lines. Under the globe, there is Arabic and and English name of the organization. APEC Flag Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was established in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence among Asia-Pacific economies. APEC has become the primary international organization that promotes open trade and economic cooperation among its 21 members around the Pacific Rim. APEC�s goal is to advance Asia-Pacific economic dynamism and sense of community. Asia-Pacific is one of the fastest growing regions in the world and a major contributor to global prosperity and stability. APEC's members have a combined population of over 2.4 billion inhabitants, that imported goods worth more than 2.6 trillion dollars in 1999, and its Gross Domestic Product hit US$16 trillion in 1998). Mexico is the APEC Chair for the year 2002. ASBU Flag The Arab States Broadcasting Union Flag The Arab Sta | Flags of Every Country Follow us... Flags of Every Country Tweet This map shows Flags of every country in the world. 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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 |
What is the capital of the Scilly Isles | The Islands | Isles of Scilly Tresco Inclusive Travel Tresco All year Skybus fly all year round to St Mary’s from Land’s End and Newquay, and from Exeter between March and November. If you are staying on Tresco, we recommend that you book your journey through the Island Office as our fares include all island transfers. Read more » Skybus St. Mary's All year Skybus fly all year round to the Isles of Scilly from Land’s End and Newquay airports, and from Exeter airport between March and November. Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, Steamship House, Quay Street, Penzance, TR18 4BZ. Read more » Scilly Parking UK Mainland Mar-Nov Make your daytrip easier, book your car in with Scilly Parking and have peace of mind. Scilly Parking take care of everything and provide secure car parking and a free park and ride service to Penzance Quay. 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Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, Steamship House, Quay Street, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4BZ. Read more » Classic Sailing Fleet - Tall Ships and Traditional Boats UK Mainland Apr-Sep Sail to Scilly from the mainland as ‘hands on’ crew on our fleet of pilot cutters, luggers, and historic sailing ships. Once in the archipelago, enjoy different anchorages, explore ashore and island hop under sail. Classic Sailing offer 6 or 7 day sailing holidays with a skipper as your guide. We provide freshly cooked meals and accommodation on board characterful wooden vessels for a fantastic Scillies adventure. Read more » Scilly Parking UK Mainland Mar-Nov For Scillonian passengers avoiding long walks with your luggage. We take you to the quay and meet you on your return. We also take dogs. Read more » DJ Cabs St. Mary's All year Local, family run cab company operating around the islands for 5 years. Reliable, comfortable transport for short trips or late pick ups around St Mary's. Read more » Calypso Boat Company St. Mary's Apr-Oct Boat trips from St Mary's with skipper Tim - visit 3 islands in one day, take a day trip to an off island or an unihabited island, or a trip to see seals and birds. Read more » Falcon Boating St. Mary's All year Enjoy a special charter trip on the 'Falcon', an 11 metre Red Bay rib with twin engines and fully enclosed cabin to seat 12 passengers. Read more » Toots Taxi St. Mary's All year We are a friendly and reliable taxi service based on St. Mary’s, working seven days a week, including evenings and weekends. We have two vehicles available for hire, one carrying four passengers and one carrying six passengers. The larger vehicle has two integrated baby/booster seats so children can be transported safely and comfortably. We are available for a quick taxi trip to get you from A to B, as well as more leisurely tours of the island. We really look forward to being of service to you whilst you are on the islands. Read more » Tresco Boat Services Tresco All year Tresco Boat Services, serving Tresco, Bryher and St Martin's, offer all the waterborne services you need to get the most from your visit to the Isles of Scilly. Read more » Island Sea Safaris St. Mary's Apr-Oct Island Sea Safaris operate marine wildlife safaris in their 8m RIB FIREBRAND IV around and amongst the islands and rocks of Sc | Argyll & Isles - Things To Do & Accommodation | VisitScotland Isle of Tiree Islands The Isle of Tiree is the most westerly island of the Inner Hebrides, with a mild climate and white sand beaches. Jura Islands The long and narrow island of Jura is one of the wildest and most mountainous of the Inner Hebrides. Lochgilphead Towns & Villages Lochgilphead is situated at the apex of a short loch called Loch Gilp, an offshoot on the western shore of the much larger Loch Fyne. Lochgoilhead Towns & Villages Lochgoilhead is a small village situated at the northern end of Loch Goil, a sea loch running into Loch Long. Mull Islands Mull is the largest of the islands of Argyll and the third largest in Scotland, with 300 miles of coastline. Oban Towns & Villages The largest town in Argyll & The Isles, Oban is known as the ‘Gateway to the Isles’ and the 'Seafood Capital of Scotland'. Rothesay Towns & Villages Rothesay is a smart Victorian seaside resort and the main town on the east side of Isle of Bute. Tarbert Towns & Villages Tarbert on Loch Fyne is an attractive village which for many visitors acts as the gateway to the beautiful peninsula of Kintyre. Tobermory & North Mull Towns & Villages Tobermory is the main town on the island of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides. The picture-postcard port with its brightly coloured harbour-front buildings was the setting of children's TV show Balamory. Bowmore iCentre VisitScotland iCentres Bowmore's iCentre is located in the Square in the centre of the Island of Islay. Information is available to make your stay on the Island the best it can be. Campbeltown iCentre VisitScotland iCentres Ideally located at the bottom of the Main Street/Head of the Pier. We can offer a wide selection of information on the local area and Scotland in general. Craignure iCentre VisitScotland iCentres We are perfectly located directly opposite the ferry terminal from Oban and can therefore provide you with tailor-made information to help you make the most of your holiday right from the start. Dunoon iCentre VisitScotland iCentres Dunoon iCentre is situated in Dunoon's east bay, a quarter of a mile from our iconic Victorian pier. Inveraray iCentre VisitScotland iCentres Inveraray VIC is situated on the A83 and faces on to Loch Shira, an arm of Loch Fyne. The VIC is located on Front street, next door to the Argyll Hotel. |
Holly Valance and Jason Donovan competed in which 2011 UK television show? | Holly Valance and Alex Jones voted off Strictly Come Dancing - Mirror Online TV Holly Valance and Alex Jones voted off Strictly Come Dancing Holly Valance and Alex Jones waltzed off Strictly Come Dancing at the semi-final stage last night after failing to impress the public. Share Strictly Come Dancing: Holly Valance (Pic: BBC) Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Holly Valance and Alex Jones waltzed off Strictly Come Dancing at the semi-final stage last night after failing to impress the public. Singer Holly and The One Show host Alex were the judges’ bottom two acts and voters decided not to save them. It means McFly’s Harry Judd, 25, actress Chelsee Healey, 23, and stage star Jason Donovan, 43, will compete in the final in Blackpool this weekend. Who won Strictly Come Dancing? Alex, 34, who danced with James Jordan, said: “I’ve had an incredible time and when I’m old and grey I’ll look back at these three months. James has been brilliant – we’ve laughed 80% of the time, apart from when I get left and right wrong. “To meet the contestants, dancers and everybody backstage has been incredible experience. James has been able to work miracles, and in such a funny way.” Holly, 28, said: “I am not disappointed. I am just grateful to get this far, 11 out of 12 weeks ain’t bad, nothing to sniff at.” Holly is tipping Chelsee to win. She said: “She is a great dancer with a great personality. She was doing a TV show at the same time, shooting Waterloo Road. Now she has time to concentrate purely on Strictly I think she is going to keep rising. She will pull something amazing out of the bag.” She vowed to keep dancing, adding: “I would like to take some ballet classes. I enjoyed my Swan Lake and we did a lot of balletic stuff in that.” The Australian sparked pregnancy rumours on Twitter by touching her stomach a number of times after each of her performances. Asked to comment, she said cryptically: “I think that is hysterical. That is probably one of the c****est questions I have ever been asked.” On Saturday, two routines got the first perfect 40 scores of the series from the judges: Chelsee and Pasha’s paso doble and Jason and Kristina’s Argentine tango. Harry got 39 for his dances. Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent | Neighbours information and Neighbours spoilers at SoapForum.co.uk Hollyoaks Neighbours is a long-running Australian soap opera that enjoys considerable success in the UK . It originally aired on the Seven Network in Australia in 1985; however, they cancelled the series later that year. The series was immediately picked-up by rival Network Ten. It began screening on that channel in early 1986 and has remained popular with its core teenage audience ever since. Neighbours was first aired in the UK in 1986. In the late 1980s it regularly had a UK audience in the tens of millions and was sometimes watched by more people than the population of Australia at that time. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the fictional Ramsay Street, Erinsborough (an anagram of 'Our Neighbours') and includes the usual soap staples of births, deaths, and marriages. The soap is filmed in Melbourne, and for street scenes uses Pin Oak Court in Vermont South, a suburb in eastern Melbourne. Many successful Australian actors and singers had some of their earliest work on Neighbours, including Kylie Minogue, Jesse Spencer, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe (brief extra appearance), Natalie Imbruglia, Jason Donovan, Holly Valance, Mark Little, Radha Mitchell, Delta Goodrem and Natalie Bassingthwaighte of the band Rogue Traders. Actor Alan Dale who had previously starred in The Young Doctors, played the central character of Jim Robinson for the show's first seven years and is now a recognisable star in US series such as 24 and The O.C.. One of the most enduring characters currently on the show is Harold Bishop, played by actor Ian Smith who has also written many of the scripts for the show. The show initially gained notoriety for its depiction of the teenage romance of Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell. Their Romeo and Juliet style romance culminated in a wedding was keenly anticipated by viewers and is still fondly regarded today as being one of the high points of the series. Until recently, both the Ramsays and the Robinsons had been written out of the series, with the sole exception of the Bishop family (who are related to the Ramsays through the marriage of Harold Bishop to the late Madge Ramsay). 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The 2005 US film ‘Fever Pitch’, starring Drew Barrymore, is about which sport? | Fever Pitch (2005) | DVD Review | Film @ The Digital Fix 13 Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel, Feature Length audio commentary, 3 featurettes, Theatrical Trailer Soundtracks English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround Subtitles English, Spanish Daniel Stephens gets the unfortunate task of checking out the Farrelly's latest film to hit DVD - Fever Pitch. This romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon has about as much life as Roy Munson's prosthetic hand. THE FILM The Farrelly brothers are losing touch. After hitting us with the likeable schmaltz that was Shallow Hall and Stuck On You, there was a sense that something was still missing. The Farrelly�s will be remembered for Cameron Diaz�s hair gel, Ben Stiller�s unfortunate run-in with his own zipper, and introducing the world to Jim Carrey. In a sense � loud, slapstick, silly, toilet humour with unfortunate physical gags a-plenty and Ernie McCracken�s hair. Why then make Fever Pitch - another Hollywood remake and another very straightforward romance that breathes about as much life into the genre as Roy Munson�s prosthetic hand. In their ongoing endeavour to be treated as serious filmmakers (was Osmosis Jones an experiment or pretentious over-ambition), the Farrelly brothers have forgotten about their niche and seemingly their audience, to produce generic pulp only good for more cameos and bit-parts for their friends and relatives. Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon) is a school teacher and avid Boston Red Sox fan. Lynsey (Drew Barrymore), his new girlfriend, is about to find out just how big a fan Ben is. After taking some of his students to Lynsey�s place of work, Ben feels the need to ask for her number after one of the little brats says he isn�t in her league. Well, one thing leads to another and they get together but it�s during baseball�s winter break, so as the romance blossoms and summer approaches will Ben�s devotion to the team come between him and his girl? Fever Pitch is a Hollywood remake of the 1997 British original of the same name, based on a book by Nick Hornby. The major difference is the change in sport for the main character�s obsession � football becomes baseball; however, there�s another important difference and it has nothing to do with the sport. The problem is, unlike the original, the Farrelly�s have failed to bring any semblance of the book�s critical social humour to the film. Forgivable is the difficult transition from working-class U.K football terraces to middle-class American baseball bleaches, but there�s a distinct sense that it�s a problem they walked themselves into. For one thing, Bull Durham and The Sandlot for example, showed us baseball was a lot more than replica jerseys and schedules, but the Farrelly�s seem only too happy to preach privileged, yuppie whining that will no doubt infuriate most whilst alienating everyone else. Ben�s �obsession� with the sport is more a hobby to divert him away from his working life and has little depth beyond that. The Farrelly�s use of flashback is a heavy-handed way of telling us � the sport is Ben�s life, but they�re shouting at an audience that�s pleading �yes we believe you, now tell us something we didn�t know!� Ben�s room is filled with Red Sox memorabilia, much like a twelve-year whose just discovered masturbation, but it�s an overt way of telling us about his character. The filmmakers have shown us in their previous efforts that being excessive can be funny, but here subtlety is key and they fail miserably. Having said that, there could have been an interesting dynamic between Lynsey�s workaholic and Ben�s fascination with baseball but it falls flat largely due to Fallon and Barrymore failing to spark any chemistry. It�s unfortunate that Fallon doesn�t have the charisma to take a lead role in a film, but it�s probably more of a problem that he simply isn�t funny. Drew Barrymore on the other hand is capable of holding her own but it�s as if she�s rather bored, and realises that Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel�s script is perhaps their worst collaboration to date, | "Masterminds" - Manchester Evening News, November 7, 2015 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt 1. Playboy Russia covergirl Maria Kozhevnikova, boxer Nikolai Valuyev, and tennis player Marat Safin shared which honour in December 2011? 2. What William S Burroughs 1961 book popularised the rock music term 'heavy metal', and provided the names for at least two rock bands of the 1970s? 3. What main religion celebrates festivals including Nuakhai, Yatra (or Zatra/Jatra), Pongal, Holi and Shigmo? 4. Which country experienced the Velvet Revolution in Nov-Dec 1989? 5. According to the UK General Teaching Council how many of the 28,000 newly qualified teachers in 2010 had a computerrelated degree: 3; 30; 300 or 3,000? 6. Spell the word: Remanisence; Reminissense; Remeniscence; or Reminiscence? 7. What ancient Sanskrit word loosely meaning 'region' commonly now refers to people (and culture, products, etc) of Indian sub-continent origins? 8. Whom did Forbes Magazine list as the most powerful woman in the Southern Hemisphere in 2011? 9. Unrelated, what is a set of slats and a museum? 10. What ship, whose name means thunderbolt, was Nelson's flagship 1799-1801, and later a training ship for boys? 26 11. The Showa period of Japan coincided with what Emperor's reign? 12. Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's book War Horse, on In state Luther which the 2012 Spielberg film (of the same name) is based, held what UK position from 2003-5? 13. What fashionable Mediterranean resort hosted the G20 international economics conference at the height of the Greek Euro membership crisis? 27 14. How many cubic metres is the space in a room four metres square and three metres high? 15. Which politician bowled faster than Dennis Lillee and Andy Roberts? 16. What element is also known as hydrargyrum? David shows around 17. Whose father wrote and sang the popular Secret Lemonade Drinker song in the award-winning British 1970s-80s R Whites Lemonade TV advert ? … Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Newspapers Encyclopedia Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details |
Which Football League team plays its home games at Huish Park? | Huish Park | Yeovil FC | Football Ground Guide Football Ground Guide Address: Lufton Way, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 8YF Telephone: 01935 423 662 Pitch Size: 115 x 72 yards Club Nickname: Glovers Shirt Sponsors: Jones Building Group Kit Manufacturer: Sondico Home Kit: Green and White Hoops Away Kit: Green and Orange Hoops Community Stand WHAT IS HUISH PARK LIKE? Yeovil is predominantly remembered for some classic 'giant killing' deeds in the FA Cup and the famous slope of the pitch. With the move to a new ground in 1990, that slope has gone, but the team have continued to impress. Generally the ground is a tidy looking one, in a pleasant setting, with lots of trees visible behind the stands. Both sides of the ground are similar looking stands and are of the same height. They are both cantilevered, covered single tiered stands that are all seated. Each stand has windshields to either side. The only differences between these stands, is that the Tamburino Stand has some executive boxes running across the back of it, plus the dug outs and players tunnel, whilst the Screwfix Community Stand has a press box suspended from beneath its roof and a small simple looking electric scoreboard. At one end is the medium sized Thatchers Gold Stand Terrace, which is covered and for home supporters and again has windshields to either side. Opposite is the Copse Road Terrace, which is given to away fans. This is smaller and uncovered. Oddly the steel work is in place at the back of this stand to incorporate more terrace space, but the concrete rows have so far not been added. Perched above the rear of this stand is a large electric scoreboard. The ground is completed with a set four modern floodlight pylons, one in each corner of the ground. FUTURE STADIUM DEVELOPMENTS The Club are investigating the possibility of building a new 3,500 capacity seated stand at the Copse Road End of the stadium. It is believed that this would be dependant on selling some land adjacent to Huish Park for retail development. WHAT IS IT LIKE FOR VISITING SUPPORTERS? Away fans are situated in the Copse Road open terrace at one end of the ground. This is uncovered, so hope for a dry day. Up to 1,500 supporters can be housed in this area. Additionally just under 600 seats are allocated to away fans in the Screwfix Community Stand, which is covered. However tickets are only made available in this area to families with young children, senior citizens and ambulant disabled. Normally a visit to Huish Park is enjoyable, and the atmosphere good. This is boosted by a very vocal crowd in the home terrace as well as the presence of a drummer and trumpeter in that end (on my last visit the trumpeter was even imitating an ambulance siren as the trainer ran on to treat an injured player!). If Yeovil score then 'Glad All Over' by the Dave Clark Five blasts out around the ground. Food on offer inside include Pasties (meat or vegetable £3.20), a range of pies; Chicken Curry, Chicken & Mushroom, Steak & Kidney (all £3.20), Hot Dogs (£3.20) and Sausage Rolls (£2.20). On my last visit I was five minutes late getting to the game and had missed the kick off. Unbelievably the turnstiles had already closed at the away end. Myself and a number of other away fans had to run around the ground to try and find and someone who could get us in. We managed this, and I have to say that the stewards were particularly helpful and friendly. I found the large police presence in and around the ground perturbing. In my mind I was not at a high profile game, so I was somewhat surprised at the amount of local constabulary there. PUBS FOR AWAY FANS I was pleasantly surprised to find a large marquee outside of the ground, that had been set up as a make shift beer tent. There was a large sign outside the marquee which announced that 'Everyone Is Welcome!' Just a pity that wasn't quite correct as any away fans in colours were turned away at the entrance by a couple of burly looking bouncers. Some visiting fans did refer the bouncers to the said sign, but to no avail. There are a couple of pubs within about 10-1 | How London's Football Teams Got Their Names | Londonist How London's Football Teams Got Their Names M@ How London's Football Teams Got Their Names A nice, neutral shot of park football by Homemade , to kick things off. Continuing our etymological tour of the capital. London contains hundreds of football clubs. To keep this list at a manageable length, we've only considered teams currently playing in the top four divisions (Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two). Feel free to discuss lower-placed clubs in the comments. AFC Wimbledon London's newest professional club, founded by supporters in 2002 after the original Wimbledon FC upped sticks to Milton Keynes. The name 'Wimbledon' is Anglo-Saxon, meaning 'Wynnman's hill' after a local land owner. The 'AFC' stands either for 'Association Football Club', or for nothing at all, and there's a ferocious debate about this point on the Wikipedia talk page. Arsenal Most people know that the Gunners originally played in Woolwich, and that their modern name (and nickname) comes from the Royal Arsenal munitions complex, based at Woolwich since the 17th century. The Workers of Woolwich mural reflects the workforce who founded Arsenal. Image by kenjonbro in the Londonist Flickr pool. Fewer will know that the club was originally founded in 1886 as Dial Square — the name of the workshop in which those earliest players laboured. So as not to alienate or exclude those from other workshops, the small club soon changed name to Royal Arsenal. In 1893, the club set up as a limited liability company, becoming the first London side to turn professional. The change of status warranted another name change, this time to the lengthy dribble of Woolwich Arsenal Football and Athletic Company, Limited... or just Woolwich Arsenal to their friends. A final transformation occurred a year after the team moved to Highbury in 1913, when the team dropped the Woolwich to become (boring boring) Arsenal. Photo by Umbreen Hafeez . The club's other etymological boast, of course, is that it is the only football team to bequeath its name to a tube station, after Gillespie Road became Arsenal in 1932. Brentford The name Breguntford is first recorded in 705, and simply means a fording place over the River Brent, which still flows through the area. The name Brent itself has even more ancient origins, and possibly relates to the goddess Brigantia. This makes Brentford the only London team that can legitimately claim divine origins. Charlton Athletic Charlton is an Old English name meaning something like 'farmstead of peasants', and was first recorded in the Domesday Book as Cerletone. The local club was founded as a youth team in 1905, adopting the qualifier 'Athletic', which was a common convention of the time. More interesting is their nickname 'The Addicks'. It is believed to be a south-east London corruption of 'haddocks', after the team's practice of dining on fish and chips from local fishmonger Arthur 'Ikey' Brian. Chelsea The Blues' name dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, with Chelsea a corruption of Chelceth or Chelchith. This means something like 'chalk wharf' (i.e. a place on the Thames where limestone or chalk was originally landed). Shame for fans of Old English puns that they never signed Norman Whiteside. And, indeed, that they actually play in Fulham. Crystal Palace Did you know that Crystal Palace Park was home to the FA Cup between 1895 and 1914? The annual fixture stoked up plenty of local demand for football, and so a professional Crystal Palace club side was formed in 1905. The team and park are, of course, named after the great glass structure that housed the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, which later moved to the slopes of Sydenham. That building was first dubbed "a palace of very crystal" by playwright Douglas Jerrold (father of William, who famously collaborated with Gustave Doré on London: A Pilgrimage). So, Palace fans, if it wasn't for Jerrold, your team might now be called Great Exhibition Centre Wanderers, or something like that. Dagenham & Redbridge The club formed in 1992 |
What area of the Yukon Territory experienced the gold rush of 1897? | Klondike Gold Rush Yukon Territory 1897 Yukon Territory 1897 (Gordon Stables (1840-1910) The Klondike gold rush began in July of 1897 when two ships docked in San Francisco and Seattle carrying miners returning from the Yukon with bags of gold. The press was alerted and papers carried the story to the masses. Soon, miners of all shapes and sizes, called "stampeders", were on their way to the gold fields. Within six months, approximately 100,000 gold-seekers set off for the Yukon. Only 30,000 completed the trip. Most stampeders knew little or nothing about where they were going, so pamphlets were available to help them on their way. Many of the pamphlets contained little or no real information and made outrageous claims of wealth to be had by everyone. Outfitters sprang up overnight that were happy to sell the stampeders whatever they needed to get started. This included food, clothing, tools and camping, mining and transportation equipment. Helping the outfitters in this regard were the Northwest Mounted Police who required all stampeders to have one year�s supply of goods before they allowed them across the border into Canada. This was roughly one ton of goods per person. Towns such as Seattle made fortunes outfitting the miners. List of the supplies carried by a typical stampeder. The easiest and more expensive route to the gold fields was by boat upstream from the mouth of the Yukon in western Alaska. The most difficult route was the "All Canadian Route" from Edmonton and overland through the wilderness. Map of the Routes. The most common route taken by the stampeders to reach the fields was by boat from the west coast of the continental U.S. to Skagway in Alaska, over the Chilkoot or White Passes to the Yukon River at Whitehorse and then by boat 500 miles to Dawson City. The Chilkoot Pass trail was steep and hazardous. Rising 1,000 feet in the last � mile, it was known as the "golden staircase": 1,500 steps carved out of snow and ice worked their way to the top of the pass. Too steep for packhorses, stampeders had to "cache" their goods, moving their equipment piecemeal up the mountain. Stampeders who gave up often did it here, discarding their unneeded equipment on the side of the trail. Chilkoot and White Pass Map Conditions on the White Pass trail were even more horrendous. Steep, narrow and slick, over 3,000 pack animals died on the trail causing it to be dubbed the "dead horse trail". Those who made it across the passes found themselves at Bennett Lake. Here, boats had to be built to run the final 500 miles down the Yukon River to the gold fields. A three week trip, the miners had to survive many sets of rapids before making it to Dawson City. Many miners lost their lives or their possessions when their boats broke up in the rapids. Those who survived the perilous journey mostly found disappointment once they reached Dawson City. Locals had already claimed all of the gold-bearing creeks and claims of "gold for the taking" were grossly exaggerated. Many stampeders headed home, some worked for others on the claims and still others stayed to work in Dawson City. The work that was necessary to retrieve the gold was incredible. Most of the gold was not at the surface, but rather 10 or more feet below. To reach it, the miners had to dig through the permafrost - the layer of permanently frozen ground. The ground had to be thawed before it could be dug. Then the dirt had to be sluiced to separate it from the gold. All digging had to be down during the summer as it was impossible to dig in the winter when temperatures could reach -60�F. It was incredibly difficult work. The biggest boom to hit this part of the world was a huge bust for the miners. The only ones to strike it rich were the merchants and profiteers who took advantage of those who hoped to "get rich quick". Read about the stern-wheeled boats that traveled on the water highways of the far north. Then read about the huge bucket-line gold dredges that replaced the hand dug holes and signified the end of the "stampede". Klondike Links: | H3975 Horse-drawn vehicle, full size, hansom cab, brougham-type, and fares plate, wood / metal / leather / fabric, made in Sydney, 1880-1915, used by Mr J. Connor in Sydney until 1937 - Powerhouse Museum Collection History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes In their heyday in the late nineteenth century, Sydney's hansom cabs made up over half of the city's licensed street vehicles. In 1895 Sydney had 2,180 licensed vehicles, 1,215 of which were hansom cabs. G.V. Portus provides a lively description of the vehicles in Sydney during the 1880s: "Hansom cabs did not impress me so much. They were gloomy looking things of black or dark blue, while the buses [horse buses] were always painted a brilliant yellow. There was not much to see from inside a cab except the horse's tail and hind quarters. But I can remember how exciting it was when the cabs coming back from the races at Randwick used to race each other along Botany Street, especially if the hirers had backed a winner. Also I can remember the cabs on Sunday afternoons, with blinds down and the horse trotting decorously, on the way to Coogee or Maroubra bearing a freight of flirtatious couples. This was the nearest to Tail Light Avenue that Sydney got in those days, and even then there was always the driver for chaperon, sitting above his little world and with his passengers well under his eye through the spy-hole in the roof." Sydney cabs were independently owned by their drivers. Many cabs had two drivers who alternated the day and night shifts. Cabs were regulated by the Metropolitan Transit Commissioners and fares were laid down by them in the 1890s at 1 shilling for 15 minutes at a speed of at least 6 mph (9.5 kph). Apparently the public objected to this "funeral" pace and cabs drove much faster. Licence fees cost one pound a year for the cab and 7/6d for the driver. However, the upfront cost of a "first class" turnout was 100 pounds and many drivers were virtually working for money lenders and financiers. The upkeep of a cab cost between 12 and 14 shillings a week and most cabs needed doing up every 3 months. Even in those times vandalism occurred with repairs to fittings and furnishings required such as replacing window blind tassels which had been cut off and replacing ruined carpets. As well as this the horse still needed to be fed, groomed and stabled. Many cab drivers began as horse bus drivers learning the routes prior to doing their cabbie's exam. Prospective cab drivers also needed a character endorsement form the Metropolitan Transit Commissioners. For the convenience of the public and to give the cab drivers a "fair go" Sydney cabs were allotted ranks and stands. A stand accommodated one to two cabs and was supplied from the nearest rank. The last stand was always visible from the rank and each stand was in sight of the next one. A licensed driver could take his turn on any rank, moving up to the head as the leading cab drove off to vacant stands. There were about 70 stands in the city and immediate suburbs, as well as 30 in outlying suburbs. The most profitable ranks were at the main railway terminus where up to 250 cabs an hour would be hired. Others were in St James Road and Macquarie Street north. In August 1908 the "Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright" noted that in Sydney in 1888 "very few cabs were not of the old fashioned open type, but now the rubber-tyred brougham, light and easy running, with its closed doors and overhead connecting rods is the rule. It represents the highest point of cab evolution, but it looks as though it is the final challenge in its fight for the streets". Sydney's cabs began to gradually decline from the 1890s economic depression. They had competition from trams, the telephone, the bicycle, which was taken up by all classes and, from 1910, the motor taxi. This hansom cab was driven by its 73-year old owner Mr J. C |
What is the SI unit of electrical capacity? | Electrical units of measurment (V,A,Ω,W,...) Volt (V) Volt is the electrical unit of voltage . One volt is the energy of 1 joule that is consumed when electric charge of 1 coulomb flows in the circuit. 1V = 1J / 1C Ampere (A) Ampere is the electrical unit of electrical current . It measures the amount of electrical charge that flows in an electrical circuit per 1 second. 1A = 1C / 1s Ohm is the electrical unit of resistance. 1Ω = 1V / 1A Watt is the electrical unit of electric power . It measures the rate of consumed energy. 1W = 1J / 1s 1W = 1V � 1A Decibel-milliwatt (dBm) Decibel-milliwatt or dBm is a unit of electric power , measured with logarithmic scale referenced to 1mW. 10dBm = 10 � log10(10mW / 1mW) Decibel-Watt (dBW) Decibel-watt or dBW is a unit of electric power , measured with logarithmic scale referenced to 1W. 10dBW = 10 � log10(10W / 1W) Farad (F) Farad is the unit of capacitance. It represents the amount of electric charge in coulombs that is stored per 1 volt. 1F = 1C / 1V Henry is the unit of inductance. 1H = 1Wb / 1A siemens is the unit of conductance, which is the opposite of resistance. 1S = 1 / 1Ω Coulomb is the unit of electric charge . 1C = 6.238792×1018 electron charges Ampere-hour (Ah) Ampere-hour is a unit of electric charge . One ampere-hour is the electric charge that flow in electrical circuit, when a current of 1 ampere is applied for 1 hour. 1Ah = 1A � 1hour One ampere-hour is equal to 3600 coulombs. 1Ah = 3600C Tesla is the unit of magnetic field. 1T = 1Wb / 1m2 Weber is the unit of magnetic flux. 1Wb = 1V � 1s Joule (J) Joule is the unit of energy. 1J = 1 kg � 1(m / s)2 Kilowatt-hour (kWh) Kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy. 1kWh = 1kW � 1h = 1000W � 1h Kilovolt-amps (kVA) Kilovolt-amps is a unit of power. 1kVA = 1kV � 1A = 1000 � 1V � 1A Hertz (Hz) Hertz is the unit of frequency. It measures the number of cycles per second. 1 Hz = 1 cycles / s | Electrical Terms Z A ACTUATOR SOLENOID - The solenoid in the actuator housing on the back of the injection pump which moves the control rack as commanded by the engine controller. ALTERNATOR - A device which converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC) - A flow of electrons which reverses its direction of flow at regular intervals in a conductor. AMBIENT TEMPERATURE - The temperature of the surrounding medium, such as gas, air or liquid, which comes into contact with a particular component. AMMETER - An instrument for measuring the flow of electrical current in amperes. Ammeters are always connected in series with the circuit to be tested. AMPERE - A unit of measure for the flow of current in a circuit. One ampere is the amount of current flow provided when one volt of electrical pressure is applied against one ohm of resistance. The ampere is used to measure electricity much as "gallons per minute" is used to measure water flow. AMPERE-HOUR - A unit of measure for battery capacity. It is obtained by multiplying the current (in amperes) by the time (in hours) during which current flows. For example, a battery which provides 5 amperes for 20 hours is said to deliver 100 ampere - hours. AMPLIFIER - A device of electronic components used to increase power, voltage, or current of a signal. AMPLITUDE - A term used to describe the maximum value of a pulse or wave. It is the crest value measured from zero. ANALOG IC - lntegrated circuits composed to produce, amplify, or respond to variable voltages. They include many kinds of amplifiers that involve analog - to - digital conversions and vice versa, timers, and inverters. They are known as Operational Amplifier Circuits or OP - Amps. ANALOG GAUGE - A display device utilizing a varying current to cause a mechanical change in the position of its needle. ARMATURE - The movable part of a generator or motor. It is made up of conductors which rotate through a magnetic field to provide voltage or force by electromagnetic induction. The pivoted points in generator regulators are also called armatures. ARTIFICIAL MAGNETS - A magnet which has been magnetized by artificial means. It is also called, according to shape, a bar magnet or a horseshoe magnet. ATOM - A particle which is the smallest unit of a chemical element. It is made up mainly of electrons (minus charges) in orbit around protons (positive charges). AUXiliARY SPEED SENSOR - The engine speed sensor located on the engine timing gear cover. It serves as a back - up to the primary engine speed sensor. Back to Top B BENDIX DRIVE - One type flywheel engaging device for a starting motor. It is said to be mechanical because it engages by inertia. BREAK - See " Open ." BRUSH - A device which rubs against a rotating slip ring or commutator to provide a passage for electric current to a stationary conductor. CALIBRATION - The determination or rectification of the graduations used on a testing instrument. CAPACITOR - A device which stores electrical energy. Commonly used for filtering out voltage spikes. CHARGE - To restore the active materials in a storage battery by the passage of direct current through the battery cells in a direction opposite that of the discharging current. CURRENT - Movement of electricity along a conductor. Current is measured in amperes. CURRENT FLOW - The flow or movement of electrons from atom to atom in a conductor. CYCLE - The change in an alternating electrical sine wave from zero to a positive peak to zero to a negative peak and back to zero. CYCLING - The process by which a battery is discharged and recharged. Back to Top D DIAGNOSTIC CODE - A number which represents a problem detected by the eng |
What is traditionally given to celebrate the 60th wedding anniversary in the UK? | Wedding Anniversary List: Names by Years Married - Disabled World Wedding Anniversary List: Names by Years Married Print Published: 2011-06-27 (Rev. 2015-06-04) - Contact: Ian Langtree at Disabled World Synopsis: A list of wedding anniversaries by year that includes the names of materials symbols and flowers associated with the anniversary. About Wedding Anniversary A wedding anniversary is defined as the anniversary of the date a wedding took place. Traditional names exist for some of them: for instance, 50 years of marriage is called a "golden wedding anniversary" or simply a "golden anniversary" or "golden wedding". Main Document "In the United States, one can receive a greeting from the President for any wedding anniversary on or after the 50th." What is a Wedding Anniversary? A wedding anniversary is the anniversary of the date a wedding took place. On a wedding anniversary in many countries it is traditional to give a gift to your partner (or couples) that symbolize the number of years of marriage. The names of some wedding anniversaries provide guidance for appropriate or traditional gifts for the spouses to give each other; if there is a party to celebrate the wedding anniversary these gifts can be brought by the guests and/or influence the theme or decoration of the venue. Jump-To: Ring Size Chart Lists of wedding anniversary gifts vary by country. Listed below is a list of wedding anniversaries by year that includes materials, symbols, and flowers associated with the occasion. Wedding anniversary names common to most nations include: Wooden (5th), Tin (10th), Crystal (15th), China (20th), Silver (25th), Pearl (30th), Ruby (40th), Golden (50th), and Diamond (60th). Wedding Anniversary Gifts List 77.4 Facts: Wedding Anniversary The celebration of wedding anniversaries dates back to Roman times when husbands gave their wives a silver wreath for 25 years of marriage, and a gold wreath for 50. Today there are traditional and modern materials related to each wedding anniversary, usually progressing from the weakest to the strongest as the years go by, to symbolize the strengthening of the relationship. In the United States, one can receive a greeting from the President for any wedding anniversary on or after the 50th. In the British Commonwealth domains you may receive a message from the monarch for your 60th, 65th, and 70th wedding anniversaries, and any wedding anniversary after that by applying to Buckingham Palace in the U.K., or to the Governor-General's office in the other Commonwealth realms. An exception being Australia and Canada. The delivery of congratulatory messages marking 100th birthdays and 60th wedding anniversaries is arranged by the Anniversaries Office at Buckingham Palace. In Canada you may also receive a message from the Governor General for the 50th anniversary, and every 5th anniversary after that. In Australia may receive a letter of congratulations from the Governor General on the 50th and all subsequent wedding anniversaries; the Prime Minister, the federal Opposition leader, local members of parliament (both state and federal), and state Governors may also send salutations for the same anniversaries. 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Who supplied the voice for Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy between 1977 and 1983? | James Earl Jones - Biography - IMDb James Earl Jones Biography Showing all 74 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (55) | Personal Quotes (9) | Salary (2) Overview (3) 6' 1½" (1.87 m) Mini Bio (1) James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred in many films over a 40-year period, beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). He is probably best known for his role as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy (for the voice only, as the man in the Darth Vader suit was David Prowse , whose voice was dubbed because of his British West Country accent). He has appeared on the animated series The Simpsons (1989) three times and played Mufasa in The Lion King (1994). James Earl Jones returned as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jadidi Spouse (2) Took acting lessons to control his stutter. Son, with Cecilia Hart : Flynn Earl Jones. Had a stuttering problem as a child and said very little as a child; still struggles with the problem and says he has to think about what he says carefully before saying it (impressive, since he is known widely for his voice). Provided the thunderous voice (uncredited) of Darth Vader, the villain of the original Star Wars trilogy. Son of prizefighter-turned-actor Robert Earl Jones , from whom he was (allegedly) estranged long into adulthood. Yet they starred together in a well-received stage revival of John Steinbeck 's "Of Mice and Men", as Lennie Small and Crooks, respectively ( Kevin Conway also starred in the play, as George Milton). He's the commanding voice that says "This is CNN". Attended and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1955. His first time acting was at the Ramsdell Theater in Manistee, Michigan. Attended and graduated from Kaleva-Norman-Dickson High School in Brethren. Grew up in the small town of Dublin, Michigan. Callers using Bell Atlantic pay phones often hear Jones's voice assuring them "Welcome to Bell Atlantic", just before a female voice asks for a calling card number. Was once a United States Army officer after college. His "death" was announced during a live broadcast of an NBA playoff game in April 1998. The deceased was actually James Earl Ray , the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King . He received the John F. Kennedy Centre Honour in December 2002. Narrated the documentary Black Indians: An American Story (2001) , which explores issues of racial identity between the mixed-descent peoples of both Native American and African American heritage. Jones himself is a Black Indian. Announced the forty-fifth greatest movie villain of all time by Maxim Magazine's "Fifty Greatest Movie Villains of All Time" list for his character of Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Co-starred with Madge Sinclair five times. Has won two Tony Awards: in 1969, as Best Actor (Dramatic), for "The Great White Hope", a role he recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version of the same title, The Great White Hope (1970) and in 1987, as Best Actor (Play), for August Wilson 's "Fences". In the original Star Wars trilogy, he and Billy Dee Williams were the only black actors to play major roles. One of Billy Dee Williams ' other roles was the title role in Scott Joplin (1977). Scott Joplin 's ragtime music was used as the score for The Sting (1973), which features James's father, Robert Earl Jones . Has appeared in the animated comedy Robots (2005) with Stanley Tucci . In a television biopic of Peter Sellers , Stanley Tucci played Stanley Kubrick , who directed Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), which was also Jones' first film. He was the first established celebrity to appear on the series Sesame Street (1969). | Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You | StarWars.com tv shows Why is May the 4th Called Star Wars Day? // Say “May the 4th Be With You” out loud and you’ll hear the pun that Star Wars fans worldwide have turned into a rallying cry to proclaim their love of the saga. It’s the worldwide day to say “May the Force be with you” to all, and celebrate the beloved Star Wars story that binds our galaxy together. One of the earliest known records of “May the 4th” used in popular culture is in 1979, as described here by author Alan Arnold while he was chronicling the making of The Empire Strikes Back for Lucasfilm: Friday, May 4 “Margaret Thatcher has won the election and become Britain’s first woman prime minister. To celebrate their victory her party took a half page of advertising space in the London Evening News. This message, referring to the day of victory, was ‘May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie. Congratulations,’ further proof of the extent to which Star Wars has influenced us all.” Once the Internet allowed Star Wars fans around the world to connect with one another, May the 4th soon became a grassroots tradition each year, with fans online and offline proclaiming it “Star Wars Day.” While the idea of May the 4th did not start with Lucasfilm, the film company that created Star Wars has fully embraced the spirit of fandom that makes the day so special. StarWars.com as well as the official Star Wars social media channels (hashtag #StarWarsDay ) help spread the word and showcase fan activity. More and more official partners have offered sales, giveaways and exclusives, and have hosted parties and other activities to mark the day. May the 4th kicks off a season of celebration, particularly since the month of May has always been important to Star Wars fans. The six live-action movies of the Star Wars saga debuted in May (starting with the original Star Wars on May 25, 1977). The month of May includes George Lucas’ birthday (May 14, 1944), and has been the traditional start date of the popular Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World Resort. With the launch of a new era of Star Wars thanks to The Force Awakens — which continues with Rogue One later this year — this day to celebrate the saga and its amazing fans is bigger (and more fun) than it’s ever been. Video // |
What Christian festival commemorates the coming of the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem? | Epiphany - Credo Reference Topic Page: Epiphany Definition: Epiphany from Philip's Encyclopedia Christian feast celebrated on January 6. It originated in the Eastern Church as an observance of the baptism of Jesus. In the West, it became associated with the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles and more particularly it has come to celebrate the coming of the Magi (Three Wise Men). Summary Article: Epiphany from Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices Image from: The Adoration of the Magi, oil painting by... in Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Falling on January 6, Epiphany is a Christian feast that celebrates the revelation of God in human form in the person of Jesus Christ. In Greek, the word “epiphany” means “manifestation” and in Eastern Christian tradition the event is called “Theophany,” which means “manifestation of God.” In the Eastern tradition, it falls on January 19. Roman Catholics will often celebrate it on the Sunday closest to January 6. The Western observance commemorates the visitation of the biblical Magi to the child Jesus, stressing the appearance of Jesus to the Gentiles. In many Hispanic and European churches, it is also known as Three Kings Day. Eastern Christians include the baptism of Jesus in their celebration, highlighting Christ’s revelation to the world as the Son of God. Marking the 12th day of Christmas, Epiphany brings to an end the Advent and Christmas seasons. The day begins an extended period of “Ordinary Time” in the Christian year that focuses on the mission of the church in the world to reveal Jesus as the Son of God. It is also a time of focusing on Christian unity and fellowship across ethnic and racial lines. Originating in Eastern Christian churches, the earliest reference to the feast is found in 361 CE in the writings of Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. 330-395 CE). In a sermon delivered on December 25, 380, Gregory of Nazianzus (329-389 CE) referred to the day “the Theophany” and explained how in the coming weeks the church would be celebrating “the holy nativity of Christ.” On January 6 and 7, he preached two more sermons, declaring that the celebration of the birth of Christ and the visitation of the Magi had already taken place and now Christ’s baptism would be recognized. Originally, the day was part of the Christmas celebrations of the nativity, but by 534 CE, the Western church had separated it as a commemoration of the coming of the Magi. The Eastern church continued to celebrate January 6 as a composite feast for some time, but eventually reserved January 6 as a commemoration of the baptism of Jesus. The colors of Epiphany are usually the colors of Christmas, white and gold. Epiphany liturgies stress the universal mission of Jesus Christ and his church to all peoples throughout the whole world. While Anglicans and Lutherans observe Epiphany, most Protestant churches ignore it and collapse into Christmas their discussion of the visit of the Magi and the related custom of giving gifts. In the last generation, with the spread of the acknowledgment of the liturgical year among some of the large Protestant groups (Methodists, Presbyterians), some notice of Epiphany has emerged. Epiphany is the reference for the popular Christmas song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” See also: Christmas; Eastern Orthodoxy; Liturgical Year; Roman Catholic Church. References Cullmann, Oscar. “The Origin of Christmas.” In The Early Church, edited by A. Higgins, 21-36. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956. Martindale, Cyril Charles. “Epiphany.” In The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. Merras, Merja. The Origins of the Celebration of the Christian Feast of Epiphany. Joensuu, Finland: Joensuu University Press, 1995. Talley, Thomas J. The Origins of the Liturgical Year. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1991. Quast, Kevin MLA Quast, K., & Quast. (2010). Epiphany. In J. G. Melton, & M. Baumann (Eds.), Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Retrieved from ht | Account Suspended Account Suspended This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information. |
Which famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co of Avery Island Louisiana? | Avery Island | TABASCO.COM Welcome to Avery Island – Our Louisiana Home. Since 1868, our Original Red Sauce has been made on Avery Island. Visitors can tour our modern-day factory on Avery Island. TABASCO® products and merchandise can be purchased in the Country Store. Majestic live oaks draped with Spanish moss dot the island landscape. Each spring, azaleas flower, bringing bright colors to Jungle Gardens. Snowy egrets return to “Bird City” in Jungle Gardens each year. Come visit us soon – and bring the whole family! Dine at Restaurant 1868, a casual eatery serving South Louisiana cuisine & more. | Rio Rio You're Reading a Free Preview Pages 3 to 24 are not shown in this preview. This action might not be possible to undo. Are you sure you want to continue? CANCEL We've moved you to where you read on your other device. Get the full title to continue Get the full title to continue reading from where you left off, or restart the preview. Restart preview |
Inspired by lucid dreaming and corporate espionage, it won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Cinematography. Which film is it? | Inception Trailer HD - YouTube Inception Trailer HD 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 Jul 17, 2014 Inception is a 2010 science fiction heist thriller film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars a large ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays a professional thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance of redemption as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. Shortly after finishing Insomnia (2002), Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about "dream stealers" envisioning a horror film inspired by lucid dreaming and presented the idea to Warner Bros. Feeling he needed to have more experience with large-scale film production, Nolan retired the project and instead worked on Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008). He spent six months revising the script before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009. Inception was filmed in six countries and four continents, beginning in Tokyo on June 19, 2009, and finishing in Canada on November 22, 2009. Its official budget was US$160 million; a cost which was split between Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures. Nolan's reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the film's $100 million in advertising expenditure, with most of the publicity involving viral marketing. Inception 's premièr was held in London on July 8, 2010; its wide release to both conventional and IMAX theaters began on July 16, 2010. A box office success, Inception has grossed over $800 million worldwide becoming the 41st-highest-grossing film of all time. The home video market also had strong results, with $68 million in DVD and Blu-ray sales. Inception has received wide critical acclaim and numerous critics have praised its originality, cast, score, and visual effects. It won 4 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects, and was nominated for four more: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Screenplay. Category | The History of the Academy Awards: Best Picture – 1948 | News from the Boston Becks News from the Boston Becks The life and times of Erik, Veronica and Thomas 26 June, 2010 The History of the Academy Awards: Best Picture – 1948 [4] Comments Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons in the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene in Hamlet (1948) The 21st Academy Awards, for the film year 1948 . The nominations were announced on February 10, 1949 and the awards were held on March 24, 1949. Best Picture: Hamlet The Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Red Shoes Most Surprising Omission: The Search Best Eligible Film Not Nominated: Red River Rank (out of 82) Among Best Picture Years: #39 The Race: Before the end of January, what would end up being the best reviewed film of 1948 (one which later critics would agree) had already been released: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But Treasure wasn’t nearly as much of a hit at the box office as either Johnny Belinda or The Snake Pit. Johnny Belinda ended up being Warner Bros. biggest hit of the year and The Snake Pit ended up as the highest grossing film of the year. All three films were in the race along with Red River, the film that, as John Ford put it, showed that John Wayne could act, and The Search, the big hit from newcomer Montgomery Clift (who also starred in Red River). But the real competition turned out to be from Britain, where Michae Powell’s The Red Shoes and Laurence Olivier’s film version of Hamlet were critical hits. The first of the awards didn’t seem to bring much to the race as The National Board of Review gave Best Picture and Director to Paisan, an Italian film that hadn’t yet opened in Los Angeles and thus wasn’t eligible. Their Top 10 did include all of the major contenders except for Red River. The New York Film Critics went with Treasure for Best Picture and Director but their Best Actor award went to Olivier and Hollywood began to get a bit nervous. The Golden Globes added to the haul for Treasure, as it won Best Picture and Director (tying for Picture with Johnny Belinda), though Olivier again won Best Actor. The Writers Guild and Directors Guild decided to get into the awards act and Treasure and Snake Pit would both win WGA awards, but both awards were announced months after the Oscars. The Results: Things suddenly looked good for Johnny Belinda on nomination day when it received 12 nominations, tied for second all-time, becoming only the second film (along with Mrs. Miniver) to get nominated for Picture, Director, Screenplay and all four acting awards. Hamlet was in a distant second with only 7 nominations and had not received a Screenplay nomination, something no film had won Best Picture without since 1933 (though that film was Cavalcade, the only British film to win Best Picture). Johnny Belinda was favored to win and Variety predicted that it would. However, when Ethel Barrymore went up to announce Best Picture, it was more up in the air. Johnny Belinda had only won one award (Actress), Treasure had yet to lose, winning Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actor and Hamlet was tied for the lead with Treasure with 3 Oscars on the night. Barrymore opened the envelope and was clearly disappointed to find Hamlet inside as she had publicly criticized the film as being inferior to her brother John’s stage production. But Hamlet had won. Bearing in mind that the book Oscar Dearest by Peter H. Brown and Jim Pinkston has numerous errors and is incredibly subjective, it notes some interesting back story to this race. After previous nominations for British films like Henry V and Great Expectations, the studios were beginning to panic when Hamlet seemed to be rising to the top of the class. As detailed on pages 30-32, executives from the Big Five (Warner Bros, MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and RKO) met in New York and decided to withdraw their financial support from the Academy (according to Tom O’Neill, it was actually the three minor-major companies, Columbia, Republic and Universal that withdrew; Inside Oscar claims that the Big Five withdrew and |
In which country is it a tradition to hide all brooms in the house on Christmas Eve? | Christmas Traditions Around The World Christmas Traditions Around The World Christmas Traditions Every now and then we find customs that are delightfully funny and a joy to pass on to our readers. Here we present our top ten examples of strange, funny and unusual Christmas rituals from around the world. Indeed, it is tradition that give countries their individual characteristics. Burning of the Goat - A Very Funny Swedish Christmas Custom What started-off as an act of vandalism has become one of the most interesting Christmas traditions in Sweden. For over 40 years the Swedish town of Gavle has erected a giant Goat made of straw to mark the beginning of the Christmas holiday season. Every year vandals do everything they can to burn down the goat before Christmas Day. People ingeniously disguise themselves as Santa Claus or elves to get past the guardians and ignite the straw monument. However, since 1966, the Straw Goat has survived until Christmas Day only 10 times. Hide The Broom - A Funny Norwegian Tradition The hiding of all brooms on Christmas Eve night is apparently a very old Norwegian tradition. In days gone by people believed witches and evil spirits come out on this night looking for brooms to ride on, so they hid them in the safest places possible. Nowadays, Norwegian women still hide their brooms, mops and brushes before going to sleep, while the men sometimes sneak out of the house and fire a shotgun to scare off the witches. Knocking Nights in Germany Germany used to hold "knocking Nights" [Klöpfelnachte] on the three Thursdays before Christmas. Traditionally children used to dress in masks, bang lids and clang cowbells as they walked through their neighbourhood knocking on doors, reciting a poem and receiving a treat in return. Sounds a little like trick or treat to Will and Guy. The bottom right mask looks like Boris Becker, but who are the other faces? Ξ Unusual Romance Japanese Style In Japan Christmas is widely celebrated as a day for romance, a day for sweet-hearts much like Valentine's Day in other countries. Christmas cake is popular but it is a strawberry cream sponge with no traditional ingredients in sight. The main Christmas dish is a popular fast food fried chicken as that is how a traditional Christmas meal is depicted in local advertising. Women of 25 years and older who are single are jokingly referred to as "unsold Christmas cake". Not very friendly think Will and Guy. Note: Sending red Christmas cards to anyone in Japan constitutes bad etiquette, since funeral notices there are customarily printed in red. Food Throwing - A Strange Christmas Custom from Slovakia and Ukraine Will and Guy consider this Christmas ritual to be a rather messy one and we suggest that you do not try this at home. At the beginning of Christmas Eve dinner, the head of the family takes a spoon of *Loksa and throws it up at the ceiling. The more mixture that remains glued on the ceiling the richer his crops will be the following year. Food throwing is a custom popular in many areas of Slovakia and the Ukraine, but the women that have to clean up the mess don't like it so much. We are not surprised! A traditional Christmas dish made out of bread, poppy seed filling and water for the event. More Ukrainian Christmas Traditions An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck. (Because it kills flies in Champagne!). A traditional Christmas bread called 'kolach' is placed in the centre of the dining table. This bread is braided into a ring, and three such rings are placed one on top of the other with a candle in the middle of the top one. The three rings symbolize the Christian Holy Trinity. Θ Father Christmas Children's Tradition in Canada In Canada Father Christmas has his own personal zip code [postcode]; it is the alphanumeric number: H0H 0H0. (Ho-Ho-Ho) In this way people who write to Santa know that their letter wi | The Story Of The Three Kings Home The Story Of The Three Kings [The Story Of The Three Kings] [Some Twelfth Night Customs] [St. Nicholas In England] [Father Christmas And His Family] [Pantomime In The Past And Present] [Saint Nicholas In Europe] [Saint Nicholas In America] [All About Yule Tide] [More Christmas Articles] ( Originally Published 1909 ) In the Latin countries, that is to say, in Italy and the southernmost edge of France, Switzerland and Austria, our good old friend Santa Klaus rarely acts as the bearer of gifts at the Christmas season. Even Russia, though she has adopted Saint Nicholas as her patron saint, and celebrates his day in her own way, gives him no special place in the festivities that attend the birthday of Christ. Indeed in all these countries it is not Christmas but the Epiphany, not December 25th but January 6th, which is the day on which presents are exchanged among friends and relations. Epiphany, best known among English-speaking peoples as Twelfth Day, is the feast of the Three Kings, who figure in the New Testament story as the Magi or Wise Men of the East. You will undoubtedly remember how these Wise Men were warned of the birth of Christ by the appearance of a strange star in the heavens, and how, by following its guidance they arrived at the stable in Bethlehem where the Savior had been born. They brought with them gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh which they presented to the Holy Child. It was in memory of the gift-bearing kings that Epiphany among the Latin and Russian peoples is celebrated as the season for exchanging presents. Little is said in the New Testament about these wise men. Popular legend has greatly filled out the Biblical story. It makes them three rich and powerful monarchs:-Caspar, King of Tarsus, the land of myrrh; Melchior, King of Arabia, where the land is ruddy with gold, and Balthasar, King of Saba, where frankincense flows from the trees. According to some authors these kings were of the race of Balaam, the Old Testament prophet, who had prepared the Gentiles for the coming of Christ into the world. He had foretold that a new star should appear in that part of the sky under which lay the land of Judea, and had warned his descendants that when they saw the star they should follow it and should go to adore a great king who would be born somewhere in Judea and be Lord of the Universe. Even from the time of Balaam, it is added, sentinels had been posted upon a mountain towards the east, in order that as soon as the star rose into view they should give notice of it to the lords of the country, that the latter might go without delay to pay reverence to the new king. This notice, as it happened, was not necessary in the case of Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. Being very wise and learned kings they were under the special care of the Holy Spirit, who informed them in person of the appearance of the star. Each of them at once gathered together a retinue of servants, as well as troops of horses, camels and dromedaries, all of which were laden with the choicest products of their respective countries. Then they started out in search of the new born king. They looked up to the star as their guide, for it moved forward as they moved, and they well knew that it had been sent to show them the way. Where the three kings met is not told, but they arrived in Jerusalem together. As soon as they had entered the city gates the star which had guided them disappeared. Now this was in accordance with the will of God,that on the failure of their starry guide the kings might make inquiries in the capital of Judea, and by these means publish abroad the birth of the Son of God. Hence Herod and the Jews in general could have no excuse for ignoring this great event, and "the care and diligence of the Magi would reprove their negligence and indifference, because having Christ so near them, they did not seek Him, while these strangers came from distant countries for this cause alone." And in fact the three kings, as they rode through the streets of Jerusalem, asked of every o |
The Ffestiniog Railway runs from Blaenau Ffestiniog to which other Welsh town? | Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways | About Us About Us Train travel as it should be done Outstanding scenery, comfortable carriages and historic steam engines await you here in the heart of Snowdonia. Glorious coastlines, ancient oak woodlands, mountains, rivers and castles, all beckon as you embark on your journey on our award winning railways. Double Fairlie 'David Lloyd George' steams through the Vale Of Ffestiniog With some of the most comfortable carriages on any preserved railway - standard or narrow gauge - you can step back in time to a more civilised age. Relax and enjoy the stunning scenery of Snowdonia in comfort, with at-seat buffet service, snacks, refreshments and a fully-licenced bar featuring locally-brewed award-winning beers. As the oldest railway company in the world still operating trains, we know a bit about what makes a journey special. Even a short trip on our railways will help you unwind - so much so, we think you'll want to do it all over again... The Ffestiniog Railway is the world's oldest narrow gauge railway with almost 200 years of history, taking you on a 13½-mile journey from the harbour in Porthmadog to the slate-quarrying town of Blaenau Ffestiniog. We still operate three of our original locomotives - over 150 years old - and original carriages, offering an unrivalled journey back into the golden age of rail travel. Our historic trains climb over 700 feet from sea level into the mountains through tranquil pastures and magnificent forests, past lakes and waterfalls, round tight bends (even a complete spiral) clinging to the side of the mountain or tunnelling through it. Discover why engineers from around the world visited the Ffestiniog to see how it should be done. A Welsh Highland Railway Garratt heads through the Aberglaslyn Pass towards Beddgelert The Welsh Highland Railway is the UK's longest heritage railway and runs for 25 miles from Caernarfon, past the foot of Snowdon and the picture postcard village of Beddgelert, then through the stunning Aberglaslyn Pass and on to Porthmadog. Passengers ride in some of the most comfortable carriages on any heritage railway in the UK, including first class Pullman luxury and freshly-cooked food delivered to your seat. 2014 saw the opening of the new £1.25 million Porthmadog Harbour Station, offering greatly-improved passenger facilities and a convenient cross-platform interchange between the two railways. "The best British train journey ever!" - This railway is fantastic. I cannot imagine a much better train journey in the UK. We each sat in a large comfortable armchair with a great view. My kids loved it as did I" (TripAdvisor) | Towns Towns Towns Think of Anglesey and you’ll no doubt picture our stunning coastline, but venture a little further and you’ll find beautiful towns and villages that are well worth exploring. Holyhead may be best known for being the busiest UK Irish Ferry port, but it‘s also home to the Breakwater Country Park , ideal for bird watching and experiencing wildlife first hand. For history and art discover Llangefni , often referred to as the cultural centre of Anglesey. Alternatively, explore the Copper Kingdom and old harbour in the peaceful town of Amlwch . On the banks of the Menai Strait you’ll find the pretty town of Menai Bridge , home to two stunning bridges , Thomas Telford’s Menai Suspension Bridge and the Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge. In town you’ll find great pubs and restaurants, while a stroll along the Belgium promenade to the church of St Tysilio offers stunning views of the Strait itself. 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Which Cuban born ballet dancer, joined the Royal Ballet in 1998 and was appointed its Principal Guest Artist in 2003? | Carlos Acosta — People — Royal Opera House Carlos Acosta in Don Quixote © ROH/Johan Persson, 2013 Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta was a Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet 2003–16. He has danced with many of the leading ballet companies in the world. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1998 and became a Principal Guest Artist in 2003. His many roles for the Company included Siegfried (Swan Lake), Albrecht (Giselle), The Prince (The Nutcracker), Des Grieux (Manon), Prince Florimund (The Sleeping Beauty), Basilio (Don Quixote) and Apollo. He has staged Don Quixote and created the new work Carmen for the Company. Acosta was born in Havana and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba, going on to dance with the English National Ballet, the National Ballet of Cuba and the Houston Ballet. The culture and history of his home country have been important influences throughout his career, and in 2003 his show Tocororo – A Cuban Tale, loosely based on his childhood, broke box office records at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. His 2007 autobiography No Way Home was a UK bestseller, and he published his first novel, Pig’s Foot, in 2013. His film appearances include in Day of the Flowers and Our Kind of Traitor. Since leaving The Royal Ballet he has founded the dance company Acosta Danza in Cuba. Acosta has received many awards throughout his career, including an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2007, a Prix Benois de la Danse in 2008 and an Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2014 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. In 2014 he was appointed a CBE for services to ballet. Videos | Stravinsky: The Genius Who Wrote The Rite of Spring Stravinsky: The Genius Who Wrote The Rite of Spring by DavidPaulWagner Igor Stravinsky's brilliant music scores stir up a lot of excitement. In fact, there was a riot at the premiere of his ballet "The Rite of Spring" and the police were called! In one of the most sensational events in music history, there was a riot when Stravinsky's ballet, "The RIte of Spring", was first staged and the police were called in! The music and choreography of the ballet were viewed as just too rhythmically powerful and "primitive". Today his works no longer cause riots but they still stir up passion and excitement! Let us look at the life, music and legacy of this leading 20th century composer. Life of Igor Stravinsky Stravinksy was born in St Petersburg, Russia in 1882. He started studying law but then, from 1902, began to learn music composition and instrumentation under the composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1909 two of Stravinsky's orchestral compositions were heard by Sergei Diaghilev, the Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets). Diaghilev was impressed and commissioned him to compose a ballet score, The Firebird (French title, L'oiseau de feu). In 1910 Stravinsky moved from Russia to Paris and then to Switzerland. Over the next few years he composed more works for the Ballets Russes -- the ballet Petrushka, the ballet The Rite of Spring (French title, Le sacre du printemps), and the neo-classical ballet Pulcinella. In 1913 the audience at the Paris premiere of his ballet, The Rite of Spring, was so scandalized by the orchestral music and by the representation of a blood sacrifice and primitive fertility dances on stage, that a riot broke out and the police had to be called. The riot was actually great for publicity and overnight Stravinsky became the world's most famous composer. From 1920 until 1939 Stravinsky lived in France. The works of this period included the opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex (1927), the Symphony of Psalms (1930), and the ballet The Card Party (1936). Stravinsky moved residence again in 1939 when he traveled to the United States, where he was to reside until his death. In America he composed ballets such as Orpheus (1947) and The Rake's Progress (1951) and serial music influenced by Schoenberg and Berg, the latter works including his Canticum Sacrum (1955), the ballet Agon (1953-57) and the Requiem Canticles (1966). He toured the world conducting his works, with trips to Australia, Africa and to Soviet Russia (where his work had been banned for almost 30 years until Premier Krushchev invited him for a state visit in 1962). Stravinsky died in New York in 1971. The Rite of Spring (by Igor Stravinsky) With the Joffrey Ballet (1987) Stravinsky's Musical Works Stravinsky's works can be divided into three periods: (1) The Russian Period (1908-19) His earliest music shows a truly original style (e.g. polyrhythms and dissonances) but with some influences from Russian folk music and from Rimsky-Korsakov and Debussy. He first burst onto the world scene with his three celebrated ballets: The Firebird (1910) The Rite of Spring (1913) After these came works with a new, more austere style. For example: Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) (1918) the ballet Les Noces (The Wedding) (1914; 1919) (2) The Neoclassical Period (1920-54) His neoclassical works included: the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927) Symphonie des Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms) (1930) the ballet Orpheus (1947) the opera The Rake's Progress (1951) In this period Stravinsky became eclectic and was influence by everything from plainsong to Beethoven to jazz and swing. He also collaborated with great writers such as Jean Cocteau and W. H. Auden. (3) The Serial Period (1954-68) In this period Stravinsky used serial techniques such as we see in the composers Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. From the latter he adopted dodecaphony (or twelve-tone technique). Works in this period included: Canticum Sacrum (1955) Requiem Canticles (1966) Stravinksy Conducts The Firebird Rare vide |
"What does the Japanese word ""Kamikaze"" mean?" | What does kamikaze mean? definition, meaning and pronunciation (Free English Language Dictionary) Hypernyms ("kamikaze" is a kind of...): airplane pilot ; pilot (someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight) suicide bomber (a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people) Domain region: Japan ; Nihon ; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Learn English with... Proverbs of the week "Hard words break no bones." (English proverb) "Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant." (Native American proverb, Kiowa) "Seek education from the cradle to the grave." (Arabic proverb) "A good dog gets a good bone." (Corsican proverb) KAMIKAZE: related words searches | What English words come from Japanese? Next: What "false friends" are there between Japanese and English? What English words come from Japanese? This page lists some examples of English words which have origins in Japanese. In some cases, the English word has a different meaning, spelling, or pronunciation from the original Japanese. Adzuki From azuki (小豆) A kind of bean. In Japanese, the word is pronounced a-zu-ki without any "d" sound. The "d" in "adzuki" is a relic of a non-standard system of romanization where づ is romanized as "dzu". See What is the "kwa" in "kwaidan"? Anime Anime is a contracted form of animēshon ( アニメーション ) (from English "animation"). The word "anime" is now used in English to mean "Japanese animation". See also What are contracted words like rimokon? Bokeh From boke (ぼけ) A photographic term meaning deliberately out of focus. The "h" at the end of "bokeh" is used to indicate the pronunciation "boh-keh" rather than "boak". See also What does boke mean? Bonsai The art of growing miniature trees. Bukkake From bukkake (ぶっかけ) A sexual practice. In Japanese, this just means "splash on", without necessarily any sexual connotations. See What does bukkake mean? Edamame Soy beans. See also soy . Emoji The Japanese term means either a foldable mattress (shikibuton ( 敷き布団 ) or a duvet (kakebuton ( 掛け布団 ). The wooden framed sofa-bed called a "futon" in Western countries is not related to the Japanese futon, which contains no wood at all, and is usually laid on the floor on top of tatami. Ginkgo From ichō, ginnan (銀杏) A kind of tree and its nut. "Ginkgo" was given to this plant by German botanist Engelbert Kaempfer in the seventeenth century based on a Japanese source. "Ginkgo" may have been a mistaken transcription of an alternative pronunciation ginkyō of the kanji word 銀杏 with a g for the y. [1] Go A game played with black and white stones. Haiku From haiku (俳句) Although "haiku" has become a kind of poetry in English consisting of seventeen English syllables, the meaning in Japanese is a seventeen-syllable poem which contains a seasonal word or phrase, kigo ( 季語 ). The meaning of "syllables" is also different from English, since the seventeen "syllables" are moras ("beats") rather than true syllables. See What is the difference between a mora and a syllable? Hibachi A style of flower arranging. Ikebana literally means "living flowers". Kabuki A form of humorous drama. Kaizen A business practice. The Japanese word just means "improvement". Kanban From kanban (看板) A business practice. The Japanese word just means "sign", as in a road sign or advertising hoarding. Karaoke From karaoke (カラオケ) The word "karaoke" in Japanese means the backing track for a singer. It originates from kara ( 空 ), "empty" and oke ( オケ ), an abbreviation for "orchestra" (see What are contracted words like rimokon? ). It is usually written all in katakana. Kimono From kimono (着物) A "kimono" is usually made of silk and worn with an obi. The dressing gown called a kimono in the west is closer to the Japanese yukata ( 浴衣 In Japan, this is a tea made from kombu ( 昆布 ), a kind of seaweed. The English meaning has broadened to include other kinds of teas. Kudzu From kuzu (葛) The English word is used for the root of the plant. The Japanese word means the plant itself, a kind of climbing vine which grows as a weed. Like "adzuki", the "d" in kudzu is a relic of a former romanization system, see What is the "kwa" in "kwaidan"? Manga From manga (漫画) Manga just means "comics" or "cartoons" in Japan, but has come to mean "Japanese comics" in English. Mirin |
Which Cabinet minister fathered Flora Keays by his secretary? | Cecil Parkinson cuts lovechild with Asperger's out of his will Cecil Parkinson cuts lovechild with Asperger's out of his will Cecil Parkinson had once been tipped as a Conservative Party leader Credit: Rex Featrues Camilla Turner 27 April 2016 • 9:40am Cecil Parkinson, the former cabinet minister, left nothing in his will to the lovechild he fathered with his secretary, it has emerged. The late Tory grandee, who was a close ally of Margaret Thatcher, had a daughter with his mistress Sara Keays in 1983 then fought a bitter court battle to keep her existence a secret. Sara Keays pictured with her daughter Flora Credit: Rex Features Parkinson, who died in January aged 84, had once been tipped as a Conservative Party leader but was forced to resign from the front bench after the affair and Flora's birth became public knowledge. He secured a gagging order which stopped the Press from reporting on his illegitimate child, who has Asperger’s syndrome, until she turned 18. Now it has emerged that he left his fortune to his wife Ann and their three daughters Mary, Emma and Joanna, cutting out lovechild Flora entirely. The politician and former Conservative Party chairman wrote in his will: “Having made separate provision for my daughter Flora Keays I make no provision for her under this my will,” according to The Sun. It is unclear what the “separate provision” entails, but it is thought to be a reference to the money Parkinson paid his former secretary for their daughter's upbringing. He lived in a listed mansion in Hertfordshire which is now on the market £2million, with the proceeds set to go to his wife. The Tory politician, who was created Baron Parkinson after resigning from politics, and served in the House of Lords, had extensive business interests and amassed millions of pounds over his lifetime. He served as a director of more than a dozen companies and chaired the web start-up Planet Online which was sold for £85million in 1998. “Having made separate provision for my daughter Flora Keays I make no provision for her under this my will” Cecil Parkinson's will However, none of his fortune will go to Flora, 32, who was left with severe health problems after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumour at the age of four, and was later diagnosed with Asperger's. When the court order was lifted in 2002, she revealed that Parkinson had never inquired after her wellbeing or even sent her a birthday card, although he claimed to have spent £500,000 supporting her. Parkinson had been widely seen as the architect of Thatcher's 1983 election victory, and was rewarded with an appointment as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. However, he was forced to resign a few months later when news of his affair with Ms Keays became public. The MP was able to return to the front benches in 1987 as Energy Secretary and then transport Secretary, later moving to the House of Lords and becoming a chairman of the Tory party. From 1993 to 2001, it was illegal for the media to make any reference to Flora's existence because of a court order sought by Parkinson. Follow Telegraph News News latest 18 Jan 2017, 10:10pm | William Hague quits as foreign secretary in cabinet reshuffle - BBC News BBC News William Hague quits as foreign secretary in cabinet reshuffle 15 July 2014 Close share panel Media captionNewsnight's Allegra Stratton looks back at William Hague's political career William Hague has stood down as foreign secretary, but will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons, Downing Street has said. At least 12 men will leave their posts in the significant reshuffle, including Ken Clarke who is standing down. Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is leaving the cabinet and is expected to be replaced by education minister Liz Truss. Philip Hammond has accepted the role of foreign secretary. Labour described the reshuffle as "the massacre of the moderates". Mr Hague is to leave Parliament at the 2015 general election after 26 years as MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire. Senior ministers have told the BBC that the current defence secretary, Philip Hammond, will replace Mr Hague. Image caption William Hague leaves Downing Street after a brief visit on Tuesday morning Prime Minister David Cameron said: "William Hague has been one of the leading lights of the Conservative Party for a generation, leading the party and serving in two cabinets. "Not only has he been a first-class foreign secretary - he has also been a close confidant, a wise counsellor and a great friend. "He will remain as first secretary of state and my de facto political deputy in the run up to the election - and it is great to know that he will be a core part of the team working to ensure an outright Conservative victory." Ken Clarke told Radio 4's Today programme that he felt it was "time to step down". He said: "If you do work beyond the normal retirement age, I think actually you should prepare to decide you're going to go before people are starting to scratch their head and think of reasons to get rid of you." Speaking on Mr Cameron's latest changes, he said: "He doesn't have many reshuffles which is a very good thing so ministers find out what their job is and then he wants a reshuffle, which looks like the sort of government he wants in the next Parliament. "That's what he's done and guys like me who have done a few decades in government took the opportunity to retire." He added it was "superficial" for people to become obsessed with the gender balance of the cabinet and that Mr Cameron had made "enormous efforts" to get women in. Analysis Chris Mason, BBC political correspondent As reshuffles go, this is David Cameron's biggest. And if you want to know how it looks, you needn't look any further than a tweet from Conservative MP Alistair Burt: "I'm really worried that this reshuffle will leave the PM short of middle aged white men in Govt. I'm selflessly ready Dave!" In other words, there is something of a cull of what critics have called "the male, pale and stale" and what is expected next is the promotion of faces and voices that are seen to better represent contemporary Britain. So popping up on a telly near you soon: more ministers who are women and more ministers with regional accents, in more prominent roles. Mr Hague said: "I am delighted to be able to serve as Leader of the House of Commons, and to be able to campaign for Conservative candidates across the country. I want to finish in frontline politics as I began - speaking in Parliament and campaigning among the voters. "After the general election I will return to my writing, while still giving very active support to the Conservative Party and campaigning on international causes I believe in." The prime minister is understood to have held a series of meetings in his House of Commons office on Monday with ministers. Astonishing early success, followed by bitter failure and a rise to the top of national - and even international - politics BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the current occupant of the Commons leader post, ex-health secretary Andrew Lansley, had left the government. Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is effectively being fired, our correspondent added. Other Conservative MPs to have los |
Which Greek god gives his name to a company famous for making handbags? | Hades, Greek God of the Underworld And Hades, Zeus of the Underworld, the Greek god known also as the Roman god Pluto. Hades, Greek God of The Underworld Hades, like his brothers and sisters, was swallowed at birth by his father, the Titan ruler Cronus, to prevent the fulfillment of a prophecy that one of his offspring would grow up to replace him on the throne. Years later his younger brother Zeus (who had been hidden away by their mother to prevent him from also being swallowed) made Cronus vomit up his siblings, and then led them in a battle to overthrow the Titans. Knowing they would need armor, weapons, and troops to win the war, the three brothers, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, traveled to the Underworld to release the Cyclopes from their captivity. The Cyclopes were a tribe of one-eyed giants who were fine metal smiths. Cronus had imprisoned them in Tartarus, a region in the Underworld that functioned both as a prison and as a place of exile and punishment, rather like our modern vision of hell. The Cyclopes, grateful for their release, crafted gifts for the brothers - thunderbolts for Zeus, a trident (three pronged spear) for Poseidon, and a magic helmet that rendered the wearer invisible for Hades. The war was long and bloody, and Hades fought ferociously on the battlefront and proved himself a valiant warrior. The younger generation finally won when Hades, wearing his helmet of invisibility crept up on Cronus, Poseidon pinned him down with his trident, and Zeus rendered him unconscious by striking him with a thunderbolt. Once the battle with the Titans was over, the brothers drew lots to determine which regions each of them would rule. Poseidon won the oceans, Zeus the sky (which made him the supreme ruler over all the gods and goddesses as well), and Hades drew the Underworld. This seemed to suit Hades just fine. The Greek god Hades, ruler of the Underworld, spent little time with his Olympian siblings, preferring instead to withdraw to his own space and to mind his own business, so to speak. And surely his divine responsibility was large -- the management of the Underworld, an underground kingdom wherein lived the spirits of those who had died, those who slept and dreamed, and others who, for whatever reason, had been banished from the earth. With his dark, somewhat morbid nature, the Greek god Hades was undoubtedly well-suited to his career. Nonetheless, at times he was bound to be lonely. And so he decided that he needed a wife, and the adolescent goddess Persephone unwittingly attracted his eye. One can hardly blame Hades because the Underworld probably needed some brightening up, and the young Persephone's radiance would certainly liven up the place. Hades, however, did not bother to woo the young Persephone. After asking for (and receiving) the approval of her father Zeus for Persephone's hand in marriage, Hades simply abducted her one bright sunny day when she stooped to pluck a narcissus from a field of wildflowers growing near her home. The meadow was suddenly rent open, and Hades simply reached out and snatched Persephone away, taking her to his underworld kingdom and making her his Queen. Persephone remained lonely for her mother and the life she'd known on earth. Meanwhile her mother, the goddess Demeter, began an intensive search for Persephone. After learning how Zeus had betrayed their daughter, and consumed by grief and sorrow, Demeter refused to allow the crops to grow until Persephone was returned to her. Mankind was facing a dreadful famine. Zeus finally relented and sent the god Hermes to bring Per | Students of Occult History Students of Occult History Norse Gods The Gods of the Norsemen This is a list of Norse gods and goddesses that are in Norse mythology. Divided between the Æsir and the Vanir, and sometimes including the jötnar (giants), the dividing line between these groups is less than clear. However, it is usually accepted that the Æsir (including Óðinn, Þórr and Týr) were warrior gods, while the Vanir (mainly Njörðr, Freyja and Freyr) were fertility gods. Various other groups of beings, including elves, dwarves and jötnar were probably minor gods, and might have had small cults and sacred places devoted to them. The gods and their function Baldr - God of beauty, innocence, peace, and rebirth. Consort: Nanna. Dead, killed by Hodr. His death began Ragnarok Borr - Father of Óðinn, Vili and Ve. Consort: Bestla Bragi - God of poetry,music and the harp. Consort: Iðunn. Dead, killed in the Dwarven tusk boar battle at Ragnarok. Búri - The first god and father of Borr. Dagr - God of the daytime, son of Delling and Nótt. Delling - God of dawn and father of Dagr by Nótt. Eir - Goddess of healing. Forseti - God of justice, peace and truth. Son of Baldr and Nanna. Fitch - God of ruling and arbitration. Son of Eir and Gmot." Freya - Goddess of love, fertility, and battle. Consort: Óðr. Committed Suicide during Ragnarok. Freyr - God of fertility. Consort: Gerð. Dead, killed by Surtr in Ragnarok. Frigg - Goddess of marriage and motherhood. Consort: Óðinn Can also be pronounced Frigga Fulla - Frigg´s handmaid. Gmot - God of the moon. Brother of Re`es and Weth. Gefjun - Goddess of fertility and plough. Hel - Queen of Neifelheim, the Norse underworld. Heimdallr (Rígr) - One of the Æsir and guardian of Ásgarð, their realm.. Killed by Loki. Hermóðr - The heroic son of OdinTried to rescue Balder. Hlín - Goddess of consolation and protection. Höðr - God of winter. Killed by Vali. Hœnir - The silent god. Iðunn - Goddess of youth. Consort: Bragi. Jörð - Goddess of the Earth. Mother of Þórr by Óðinn. Kvasir - God of inspiration. Killed by Dwarves. Lofn - Goddess of forbidden loves. Loki - Trickster and god of mischief . Consort: Sigyn (also called Saeter). Killed by Heimdall. Magni-god of strength.Son of Thor. Máni - God of Moon. Mímir - Óðinn´s uncle. Decapitated by Vanir. Nanna - An Ásynja married with Baldr and mother to Forseti. Died because of Baldur's death. Nerþus - A goddess mentioned by Tacitus. Her name is connected to that of Njörðr. Njörðr - God of sea, wind, fish, and wealth. Killed in Ragnarok. Nótt - Goddess of night, daughter of Narvi and mother of Auð, Jörð and Dagr by Naglfari, Annar and Delling, respectively. Odin The "All Father" (The Ruler of the gods). Swallowed by Fenrir. Sága - An obscure goddess, possibly another name for Frigg. Ran-god of the ocean |
What is the name of both a U.S. state and a country in Asia? | Asia Map / Map of Asia - Maps, Facts and Geography of Asia - Worldatlas.com Asia Photographs Description Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world, sharing borders with Europe and Africa to its West, Oceania to its South, and North America to its East. Its North helps form part of the Arctic alongside North America and Europe. Though most of its continental borders are clearly defined, there are gray areas. Europe and Asia are technically located on the same overall landmass, and combined the two are referred to as Eurasia. As a result of its porous land border, some countries on Asia’s western border have been at times referred to as part of Europe’s East. Armenia , Azerbaijan , and Georgia are sometimes referred to as Asian and other times as European. Russia and Turkey tend to be cut into regions. Russia is generally split along the Ural Mountains, with its western half called “European Russia” and its East as simply “Russia.” The land between Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, and its direct borders with Bulgaria and Greece is at times referred to as a part of Europe called “Thrace,” while the rest of its territory is called “Anatolia” and is part of Asia. On the other side of the continent, the islands which separate Asia from Oceania can also be difficult to delineate. Indonesia and parts of the Philippines are sometimes categorized as part of Oceania rather than as Asian. This being said, it is important to note that these divided regions do not constitute separate countries or autonomous regions claiming sovereignty (such as the cases of Hong Kong or Palestine). “European Russia” and “Russia” are both simply Russia, and the “Thrace” and “Anatolia” parts of Turkey are both undisputedly part of Turkey, but sometimes the regions are shaded differently on maps in order to help delineate the borders between Asia and Europe. Asia is often divided into culturally and geographically similar regions. Although definitions, names, and borders can vary, generally the regions of Asia include West Asia (which is part of the Middle East), the Caucasus (sometimes also considered as part of the Middle East), Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia (also called the India n Subcontinent), and Southeast Asia. West Asia is sometimes referred to as the Middle East, with is actually a misnomer since the cultural region we define as the Middle East often included countries outside of Asia, such as Egypt in Africa and Cyprus in Europe. West Asia specifically includes the countries within the region of Asia bordered by the Mediterranean and Red Seas to the West and the Persian Gulf, the Gulfs of Aden and Oman , and the Arabian Sea to the South. Countries within West Asia include Afghanistan , Bahrain , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Oman, Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates , and Yemen . Just northeast of Turkey lies the Caucasus, a mountainous region wedged between the Black Sea to the West and the Caspian Sea to the East. The Caucasus includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Russia. Central Asia is located just north of Iran and Afghanistan and south of Russia, consisting of Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan . East Asia defines the region between Central Asia, Russia, and the Pacific Ocean roughly up to the beginning of the Tropic of Cancer. The countries of East Asia include China , Japan , North Korea , South Korea , and Mongolia (as well as Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan ). South Asia is also referred to as the Indian Subcontinent, separated from East Asia by the Himalayan Mountains between China and India and defined largely by the Indian Tectonic Plate on which its countries largely rest. South Asian countries include Bangladesh , Bhutan , India, Maldives , Nepal , Pakistan , and Sri Lanka . Lastly, the Southeast Asian region defines the tropical and equatorial countries between South and East Asia to the North and Oceania to the South. The countries of Southeast Asia include Brunei, Cambodia , Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia , Myanmar | Christmas 2015 Jeopardy Template In which state is Santa is called Kanakaloka? 100 How do many people spend Boxing Day? A) Working. B) Shopping C) Wrapping presents. 100 What colour are the berries of the mistletoe plant? 100 Just like the ones I used to know What's the second line of "I'm dreaming of a white christmas"? 100 True or false: Joseph married Mary immediately after the angel appeared to him? 200 Arizona and Florida Which two states in the US have towns called Christmas? A)Arizona and Florida B)Maine and South Dakota C)Washington and Utah D)Louisiana and Alabama 200 Norway London's Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is traditionally given by which country? A) Canada B) Norway C) Denmark D) Scotland 200 How many points does a snowflake have? 200 I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950's Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas? 200 Canada In which country does Santa have his own personal postcode: HOH OHO? A) The U.S. B) Canada C) New Zealand 300 Snowflake, Texas Which of the following places is NOT a real U.S. city or town? A) Snowflake, Texas B) Noel, Missouri C) St. Nicholas, Florida D) Santa Claus, Georgia 300 A six pence (a coin) What's lucky to find in your Christmas Pudding? 300 What country did Christmas Trees originate from? 300 White Christmas (by Bing Crosby) What is the title of biggest selling Christmas single, globally? 300 Charles Dickens One of the most loved Christmas books is A Christmas Carol. Who wrote it? A) Mark Twain B) Charles Dickens C) Hans Christian Andersen D) Thomas M. Sawyer 400 The French drink 'Lait de Poule' What drink was adapted to become the American Christmas drink 'Egg Nog'? A) The Scandinavian drink 'Gløgg' B) The Austrian drink 'Gluhwein' C) The German drink 'Biersuppe' B) The French drink 'Lait de Poule' 400 In the U.S., he's called "Santa Claus" - what's his British name? 400 Rudolph Which of the following names is NOT a name of one of Santa's original reindeers? A) Comet B) Cupid C) Dasher D) Dancer E) Prancer F) Vixen G) Donner H) Rudolph Blitzen 400 1984 (bonus points - Band Aid II was 1989, Band Aid 20 was 2004) In what year was Band-Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas the UK Christmas chart-topping record (bonus point each for the years of reissue success by Band Aid II and Band Aid 20)? Bonus points (100 each): years of band Aid II + Band Aid 20 400 B: A lump of coal Santa keeps close track of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice! Nice children often receive toys and candy in their stockings, but naughty children may receive: A) A book B) A lump of coal C) An old shoe D) An orange 500 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) What major U.S. facility provides up-to-date information every Christmas Eve on the flight path of Santa Claus? A) The U.S. National Weather Service B) North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) C) The U.S. Geological Survey D) International Arctic Research Center 500 Sandringham House Where does the British Queen traditionally spend Christmas? A) Windsor Castle B) Buckingham Palace C) Sandringham House D) Balmoral castle 500 Ten (Latin, decem - it was the tenth month of the early Roman calendar) From what does the month of December take its name? 500 Silent Night What is the English title of the carol written in 1818 by Austrian priest Josef Mohr originally called "Stille Nacht"? 500 Matheus Which of the following names does NOT belong one of the Three Kings? A) Caspar B) Balthazar C) Matheus D) Melchior |
Which musical festival was founded by John Christie in 1934 in East Sussex? | Sir George William Langham Christie | British opera festival director | Britannica.com Sir George William Langham Christie British opera festival director Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Presented as archival content. Sir George William Langham Christie British opera festival director Glyndebourne , England Sir George William Langham Christie, (born Dec. 31, 1934, Glyndebourne, near Lewes, East Sussex, Eng.—died May 7, 2014, Glyndebourne), British opera festival director who was for more than four decades (1958–99) the guiding force behind the privately operated Glyndebourne Festival, the annual summer opera festival founded in 1934 by his father, John Christie, on the family’s country estate in East Sussex. During his tenure as chairman of Glyndebourne Productions, Christie established (1968) the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, oversaw the expansion of the production repertoire to include modern works, and commissioned the construction (1992–94) of an acclaimed 1,200-seat opera house to replace the aging 300-seat theatre (later expanded to 850 seats) that his father had established as Britain’s first purpose-built opera house. Christie was born just seven months after his pregnant mother, soprano Audrey Mildmay, sang the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze de Figaro in the festival’s inaugural performance on May 28, 1934. He followed his father’s educational path to Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, but left the university without graduating. He took charge of the family-run festival at the age of 23 when ill health prevented his father from continuing (his father died in 1962). Christie devoted his life to private fund-raising to support the festival, the touring company, and the new theatre. At the end of 1999 he handed over his position of executive chairman to his second son, Gus. Christie was knighted in 1984, and in 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour (an order to which his father had been appointed in 1954). | The Housemartins - Beautiful South & Paul Heaton Fans Beautiful South & Paul Heaton Fans The Housemartins The Band was formed in late 1983 by Paul Heaton (vocals) and Stan Cullimore (guitar), and they initially performed as a busking duo. They recorded a demo tape with Ingo Dewsnap of Les Zeiga Fleurs, which brought them to the attention of Go! Discs. They then expanded by recruiting Ted Key (bass), former guitarist with The Gargoyles, and Chris Lang. The band often referred to themselves as "the fourth best band in Hull", referring to Hull, their home base. The three bands that were ‘better’ were Red Guitars, Everything But The Girl and The Gargoyles. In 1986, having recorded two John Peel sessions, the band broke through with the single "Happy Hour", which reached #3 in the UK singles chart. The single's success was helped by a animated pop promo of a type that was in vogue at the time, featuring a cameo by TV comedian Phil Jupitus, who toured with the band under his stage name of 'Porky the Poet'. The Housemartins debut album, London 0 Hull 4 was released in 1986. At the end of 1986 they had their only UK #1 single on 16 December with a cover version of Isley-Jasper-Isley's 'Caravan of Love'. It was knocked off the top spot by Jackie Wilson's 'Reet Petite' on 23 December, denying the Housemartins the coveted Christmas number 1 single. The band’s second album, The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death was released in 1987. The band split in 1988, but the members have remained friends and have worked on each other's projects. Norman Cook has enjoyed significant success with Beats International and then as Fatboy Slim, while Heaton, Hemingway and roadie Sean Welch formed The Beautiful South. Paul has called upon Norman to help, and he can be seen to be referred to as ‘Rhythm consultant’ on the 1998 Beautiful South release ‘Quench’. In August 2009, Mojo magazine arranged for The Housemartins original members to get together for a photo-shoot and interview. The bands debut album, London 0 Hull 4 was re-released on 22 June 2009 as "London 0 Hull 4 Deluxe", a limited edition package, with a bonus disc. The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death Now That's What I Call Quite Good The Best of The Housemartins The Housemartins, Live at the BBC London 0 Hull 4 Deluxe Band Biography Paul David Heaton (b. 9 May 1962, Humberside) Chris Lang Chris Lang is now best known a writer, actor and producer for British TV. He has written for British television shows including Alias Smith and Jones, The Bill, Casualty, Soldier Soldier etc. He served as an Assistant Producer on Sirens, Lawless, and Amnesia and as an executive producer on Torn. He has also written two episodes of popular series Primeval. As an actor, he has appeared in such shows as Paul Merton, Drop the dead donkey, Jo Brand through the cakehole etc. He has also worked as a voice actor for films, video games (such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), and cartoons. His voice work in children's television series includes the voice of Pigling Bland in The world of Peter Rabbit and friends, and voices for almost all of the characters (except for Kipper) in Kipper the dog. Prior to his (now extensive) TV work, alongside his brother Nick Lang, Chris Lang was a drummer in the unsigned new wave rock band The Acidicx, later becoming a member of The Housemartins (for whom he also played drums) alongside school friends Quentin Cook (AKA Norman Cook - Fatboy Slim) and Paul Heaton. Lang left the band in 1984 to be replaced by Hugh Whittaker. Ted Key Ted Key (b. Anthony Matthew Key, 1 July 1960, Hull) was the original bass player in The Housemartins. He was replaced in 1985 by Norman Cook. Key originally played with a local band called The Gargoyles, which links him to several other Housemartins members… Hugh Whitaker Hugh Whitaker (b. 18 May 1961, Hull) is the former drummer for the indie band The Housemartins. He replaced original drummer Chris Lang and drummed for the band's first album, London 0 Hull 4, and its attendant single releases. He left the band before the recordin |
Which liqueur is marked D.O.M? | benedictine bottle | eBay benedictine bottle: $4.39 Buy It Now $10.99 Buy It Now 1 2 eBay determines this price through a machine learned model of the product's sale prices within the last 90 days. eBay determines trending price through a machine learned model of the product’s sale prices within the last 90 days. "New" refers to a brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item, and "Used" refers to an item that has been used previously. Top Rated Plus Sellers with highest buyer ratings Returns, money back Sellers with highest buyer ratings Returns, money back Please enter a minimum and/or maximum price before continuing. $ *Learn about pricing Amounts shown in italicized text are for items listed in currency other than U.S. dollars and are approximate conversions to U.S. dollars based upon Bloomberg's conversion rates. For more recent exchange rates, please use the Universal Currency Converter This page was last updated: Jan-19 12:03. Number of bids and bid amounts may be slightly out of date. See each listing for international shipping options and costs. | YouTube Undo Close "Dr Hook ~ Sy..." The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement. Sorry about that. |
Which was the first car manufacturer to offer a 7year/150,000 km warranty on all cars sold in Europe? | Kia offers 7-Year/150,000 km warranty on all cars sold in Europe Kia offers 7-Year/150,000 km warranty on all cars sold in Europe View gallery - 2 images Korean auto maker, Kia, has announced a seven-year/150,000 km bumper-to-bumper, parts-and-labour warranty for all vehicles sold and registered in Europe from January 1, 2010. This is far-and-away the longest fleet-wide warranty ever offered by a car manufacturer anywhere at any time and the move could have far reaching consequences. Brands with big reputations are charging two, five, even ten times as much for a car as Kia, yet they are clearly unprepared to guarantee their quality to the same extent, and this might well be the point the public finally understands that new price does not reflect quality, that quality is measurable, and that reputations for quality are distinctly at odds with reality. At very least, as the warranties are fully transferable to subsequent owners, Kia resale values should skyrocket. Kia’s warranty coverage does not in any way appear disingenuous – it has minimum exclusions, is transferable to subsequent owners and its press statement was quite clear that “this is not an insurance company’s ‘extended warranty’ - the Kia warranty is a comprehensive manufacturer’s warranty with ‘bumper-to-bumper’ coverage from Day 1 until the end of the seventh year.” For the first three years there is no mileage limit, unless the vehicle is being operated as a taxi, in which case the limit is 150,000 km. For years four-to-seven, for all users, the warranty limit is 150,000 km. There are also some components that are not covered for 7 years, but once again, the finer details seem reasonable as some items have a natural limited lifetime/durability: vehicle paint (5 years/150,000 km), audio system, navigation and in-car entertainment equipment (3 years/100,000 km), accessories and batteries (2 years). Wear and tear items such as tires, brake pads do not come with a time or distance warranty either. We expect the new warranty to become a disruptive force in the auto market as it will add significant pressure to other car manufacturers to stand behind their production quality and offer similar guarantees of workmanship. Only last week we ran a story on the results of the ongoing research carried out by UK manufacturer Warranty Direct, which showed that reputations for quality are distinctly at odds with reality. Automotive warranties were once 6/6 or 12/12, being six months of 6,000 miles or 12 months or 12,000 miles, whichever came first. In the sixties, Chrysler upset the industry and offered a five year 50,000 mile warranty, but the company’s faith in its products was unfounded and it and all the other manufacturers which had rushed to offer similar warranties, all quickly reverted to the tried and true 12 month/12,000 mile warranty which more accurately reflected the quality of the products of the period. In recent years however, the quality of automotive product has improved dramatically, and Kia and its parent company, Hyundai, seem intent on bringing this to the attention of the consumer in the most logical way possible – by offering a warranty on their vehicles which other companies will be very reluctant to match. Currently, the world’s best warranty is only available in Europe, though it will be available in more than 20 participating countries and local terms and conditions will apply. It will hence be interesting to see if Kia will offer the warranty in other markets. Please note that the warranty applies only to new Kia vehicles sold and registered in Europe after January 2010 and excludes the company’s K2900, K2700 and K2500 commercial vehicles. Finally, a hearty “well done” to Kia. It is leading the way towards a more honest relationship between car makers and buyers and its warranty means that peace-of-mind now comes as standard with every Kia - 2,555 days or 150,000 km of worry-free motoring and lower costs of ownership. The ‘peace-of-mind’ provided by the Kia 7-year warranty simplifies the whole ownership experience. | Car History 4U - History of British Motor Car / Automobile Manufacturers History of British Motor Car / Automobile Manufacturers 8.7 Great Britain (UK) 8.7.1. Aston Martin The company was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford and the first car to bear the name was ready by 1915. After encountering financial difficulties during 1924/5 the company was sold in 1926 and renamed “Aston Martin Motors”. Seven years later, in 1933, the company changed ownership again. Up to the start of World War 2, in 1939, about 700 Aston Martin cars had been produced. In 1947 the company was purchased by David Brown Limited, who also acquired the Lagonda car company the same year. The DB range of cars started in 1948 with the 2-Litre Sports DB1. This was followed by the 2,580 cc DB2 (1950-53) and the racing model DB3 in 1957. The 240 hp (179 kW) 3,670 cc DB4 was first produced in 1958; a car with a top speed of 140 mph (224 kph). By 1963, when production of the DB4 ceased, 1,110 had been made (from 1962 70 were convertibles). 100 short wheelbase DB4 GT/Zagoto models were also built. The lightweight DB4 GT version was introduced in 1959. 75 of these cars, which had a top speed of 153 mph (240 kph), were built. Is 75 correct? In 1961 the company launched the DB4 Vantage model. The 266 hp (198 kW) car was fitted with three SU carburettors. 136 saloons and 32 convertibles were built. Between 1961 and 1963 19 DB4 GT Zagato models were produced, the bodies of which were built by Zagato in Italy. The 3,995 cc DB 5 model was produced from 1963 to 1965. The 282 hp (210 kW) version, which was fitted with three SU carburettors, had a top speed of 141 mph (226 kph). In 1964 the company produced the high performance, 314 hp (234 kW), DB5 Vantage coupe model. 65 were built. A total of 1,024 DB5 models were produced; 901 two-door coupes and 123 convertibles. A figure of 1,063 has also been quoted. Which is correct? 19 of the convertibles were left-hand drive. 12 special estate car versions were also built. A DB5 car was used in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger (Ian Fleming’s book featured a DB Mark III). 1,567 DB6 models were produced from 1965 to 1970. The 325 hp (242 kW) 3,996 cc car had a top speed of 150 mph (240 kph). It accelerated from 0-60 mph (96 kph) in 8.4 seconds. A Mark 2 version was launched in 1969. Having been sold in 1972 to a British consortium, the company was bought in 1975 by two American businessmen, who produced the V8 Vantage in 1977 and the the convertible Volante in 1978. Between the early 1980s and 1987 the company changed ownership three more times until the Ford Motor Company initially purchased 75% of the company (gaining full control in 1993). Between 1968 and 1988 approx. 5,000 Aston Martin cars were made. In 1993 the company announced the DB7. In 2002, when production reached 6,000, the DB7 became the top selling DB model. The DB9 coupe was introduced in 2003, followed by a convertible version the following year. In March 2007 the Ford Motor Company sold Aston Martin to a British consortium led by David Richards. 8.7.2. Austin The Austin Motor Company was founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin, becoming a private limited company in 1908. In 1906 the company produced a large 5 litre family sized model, the first of about 8 different models that were produced in this first decade. In its first year the company produced 23 cars. By 1917 the company’s factory at Longbridge was the largest of its type in Great Britain. The first model introduced after the end of World War 1 was the Austin 20 in 1919. In 1922 a scaled down version, the Austin 12, was produced. Another model introduced in 1922 was the Austin 7, which remained in production until 1939 by which time over 375,000 had been made. It was also being built in Germany, U.S.A and France. In the early 1930s it was the most popular car in the world. The car had a 747 cc engine and a top speed of 42 mph (67 kph). The first cars produced after World War 2 were based on pre-war designs. These were the Austin 8, 10, 12 & 16 models. The 1,200 cc Austin A40 wa |
Which German engineer gives his name to the four-stroke cycle of a petrol engine? | How do car engines work? - Explain that Stuff Tweet by Chris Woodford . Last updated: October 4, 2016. Think back 100 years to a world where people generally got around by walking or riding horses. What changed things? The invention of the car . Wheels may be 5500 years old, but the cars we drive round in today made their debut only in 1885. That was when German engineer Karl Benz (1844–1929) fastened a small gasoline (petrol) engine to a three-wheeled cart and made the first primitive, gas-powered car. Although Benz developed the automobile, another German engineer, Nikolaus Otto (1832–1891), was arguably even more important—for he was the man who'd invented the gasoline engine in the first place, about two decades earlier. It's a testament to Otto's genius that virtually every car engine made ever since has been inspired by his "four-stroke" design. Let's take a look at how it works! Photo: Car engines turn energy locked in liquid fuel into heat and kinetic energy . They're full of pipes and cylinders because they work like mini chemical plants. This is the powerful V12 engine on a gloriously restored Jaguar XJS sports car from the late 1970s. What is a car? Photo: The restored (and nicely polished!) engine in a classic car from the early 1970s. That's not quite such an obvious question as it seems. A car is a metal box with wheels at the corners that gets you from A to B, yes, but it's more than that. In scientific terms, a car is an energy converter: a machine that releases the energy locked in a fuel like gasoline (petrol) or diesel and turns it into mechanical energy in moving wheels and gears . When the wheels power the car, the mechanical energy becomes kinetic energy: the energy that the car and its occupants have as they go along. How do we get power from petroleum? Cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes—all these things are powered by fuels made from petroleum. Also known as "crude oil", petroleum is the thick, black, energy-rich liquid buried deep underground that became the world's most important source of energy during the 20th century. After being pumped to the surface, petroleum is shipped or piped to a refinery and separated into gasoline, kerosene, and diesel fuels, and a whole host of other petrochemicals—used to make everything from paints to plastics . Photo: Petroleum can be extracted from the ground by "nodding donkey" pumps like this one. Picture courtesy of US Department of Energy . Petroleum fuels are made from hydrocarbons: the molecules inside consist mostly of carbon and hydrogen atoms (with a fewer other elements, such as oxygen, attached for good measure). Wood , paper , and coal also contain hydrocarbons. We can turn hydrocarbons into useful energy simply by burning them. When you burn hydrocarbons in air, their molecules split apart. The carbon and hydrogen combine with oxygen from the air to make carbon dioxide gas and water, while the energy that held the molecules together is released as heat. This process, which is called combustion, releases huge amounts of energy. When you sit round a camp fire, warming yourself near the flames, you're really soaking up energy produced by billions of molecules cracking open and splitting apart! People have been burning hydrocarbons to make energy for over a million years—that's why fire was invented. But ordinary fires are usually quite inefficient. When you cook sausages on a camp fire, you waste a huge amount of energy. Heat shoots off in all directions; hardly any goes into the cooking pot—and even less into the food. Car engines are much more efficient: they waste less energy and put more of it to work. What's so clever about them is that they burn fuel in closed containers, capturing most of the heat energy the fuel releases, and turning it into mechanical energy that can drive the car along. Photo: Why does the world use so much oil? There are now about a billion petroleum-powered cars on the planet and, as this chart shows, even the most energy-efficient models burn through at least 10 barrels (420 gallons) of petroleum in a year. Drawn usi | Motoring Firsts - The National Motor Museum Trust The National Motor Museum Trust Home > Story of Motoring > Motoring Firsts Motoring Firsts Among the questions we are most frequently asked are the various motoring firsts. Listed below are some of the most common questions that have been answered by our Motoring Research Service. Questions What were the first motor cars? The motor car was developed over many years by a number of talented individuals but Karl Benz of Mannheim in Germany is normally credited as the Inventor of the Motor Car. In the autumn of 1885, his three-wheeled vehicle became the first successful petrol-engined car. He was awarded a patent for it on 29 January 1886, and became the first motor manufacturer in 1888 with his Modell 3 Benz. In 1886, Gottlieb Daimler and his protégé Wilhelm Maybach built the first successful four-wheeled petrol-driven car at Bad Cannstatt. The Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft was established four years later in 1890. On 1 July 1926 Benz and Daimler merged to become Daimler-Benz AG and its products Mercedes-Benz. Fredrick William Bremer, a plumber and gas fitter, built the first British four-wheeled petrol-engined motor car. Starting work in 1892, when he was 20, the still incomplete car made its first run on a public highway in December 1894. What was the first motor car to run on the British Highway? There are a number of claims and counter claims for the first motor car to appear on the road in Britain. Frederick William Bremer of Walthamstow is believed to have had a four-wheeled car running in late 1894. Both he and James D. Roots may have independently built motorised tricycles as early as 1892. Roots certainly had one powered by an oil engine running on the road in early 1896. Another theory is that the first motor car to run on the British highway was a 2hp Benz Velo imported by Henry Hewetson in November 1894, although some believe this may have actually been in 1895. The Hon. Evelyn Ellis certainly imported a Panhard et Levassor into Britain in June 1895. By the end of 1895, following further importations, it was estimated that there were 14 or 15 cars on Britain’s roads, a figure which had increased dramatically by 1900 to approximately seven or eight hundred! The million mark for private cars was reached in Britain in 1930, with 10 million in 1967. John Henry Knight of Farnham, Surrey was an engineer and enthusiastic inventor with a keen interest in photography and locomotion. With the help of engineer George Parfitt, in 1895 he created the first purpose-built, petrol-driven, three-wheeled car to be run on the roads of Britain. In order to improve stability a fourth wheel was added the following year. This pioneering British car is on display at the National Motor Museum. Cycle makers Charles and Walter Santler of Malvern Link, Worcestershire built a steam car in 1889 which was subsequently fitted with a single cylinder gas engine and then rebuilt again with a single cylinder ‘petrol’ engine in 1894. Santlers went on to build several other cars between 1897 and 1913 when they launched a range of light cars for general sale. Frederick Lanchester started work on a four-wheeled petrol car in 1895 which was successfully tested on the road in early 1896. The Lanchester Engine Co. commenced building production cars in 1899. When was the word petrol first used? The term petrol was not used until 1896, when it was patented by Messrs Carless, Capel & Leonard of Hackney Wick. When were windscreen wipers first used? There are various claims for the first windscreen wipers. Some sources say that they were first used in France in 1907. British photographer Gladstone Adams is said to have had the idea for wipers whilst driving his Daracq home to Newcastle after watching the 1908 FA Cup Final at Crystal Palace (his team Newcastle United had lost 3 – 1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers). He patented his design in 1911. Various motoring magazine pictures show Prince Henry of Prussia in a car with simple up and down squeegee type wiper fitted to the windscreen in 1909. In 1919 (some sources |
What blue pill was introduced by Pfizer? | Viagra: The little blue pill that could - CNN.com Viagra: The little blue pill that could By Jacque Wilson, CNN Updated 6:33 PM ET, Wed March 27, 2013 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. JUST WATCHED Viagra celebrates 15th anniversary 02:25 Story highlights Viagra was approved by the FDA on March 27, 1998 British scientists working for Pfizer first created the drug in 1989 Since then three major competitors for Viagra have been approved Fifteen years ago, men who were suffering from impotence received a beacon of hope in the form of a little blue pill. Wednesday marks the 15th anniversary of Viagra's FDA approval in the United States. Viagra currently holds 45% of the sexual dysfunction market share, with competitor Cialis in close second, according to industry researcher IMS Health . There were 8 million Viagra prescriptions written in 2012 with total sales of about $2 billion. But how did a drug that was originally tested for the treatment of heart problems end up in bedrooms across America? Take a look back at Viagra's history. 1989: British Pfizer scientists Peter Dunn and Albert Wood create a drug called sildenafil citrate that they believe will be useful in treating high blood pressure and angina, a chest pain associated with coronary heart disease. The drug is classified as UK-92480. 1991: Dr. Nicholas Terrett is named in the British patent for sildenafil citrate, or Viagra, as a heart medication. Terrett is often considered the father of Viagra, according to ViagraBox.com. JUST WATCHED MUST WATCH Searching for 'Himalayan Viagra' 03:07 Early 1990s: Pfizer completes several early trials of sildenafil citrate that provide little hope for its use as a heart disease treatment. But volunteers in the clinical trials are reporting increased erections several days after taking a dose of the drug, according to researcher Ian Osterloh. "Around the same time, other studies were revealing more information about the biochemical pathway involved in the erection process," he writes for Cosmos magazine . "This helped us understand how the drug might amplify the effects of sexual stimulation in opening up the blood vessels in the penis. With UK-92480′s chances of treating angina now slim, we decided to run pilot studies in patients with erectile dysfunction." Testosterone: 'Viagra for the boardroom' 1996: Pfizer patents sildenafil citrate in the United States. March 1998: The FDA approves the use of the drug Viagra to treat erectile dysfunction. In the following weeks, experts estimate, U.S. pharmacists dispense more than 40,000 Viagra prescriptions. May 1998: TIME magazine's cover story, " The Potency Pill " quotes Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione as saying he believes Viagra will "free the American male libido" from the emasculating doings of feminists. Feminists are not amused. On CNN's Larry King Live show, former presidential nominee Bob Dole admits he took part in experimental trials for Viagra, calling it "a great drug." June 1998: Newsweek calls Viagra the "hottest new drug in history almost everywhere in the world." At the time Viagra is only legal in the United States, Brazil, Morocco and Mexico, but Newsweek reports growing black market sales in other countries. December 1998: Pfizer announces it has hired Bob Dole for a television campaign aimed at raising awareness of male impotence. The Washington Post reports that the CIA is using Viagra to gain friends in Afghanistan. "While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of the country's roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations." July 25, 1999: Popular TV show "Sex and the City" airs " The Man, The Myth, The Viagra ," in which character Samantha dates a wealthy older man who uses the little blue pills. In the next season, Samantha takes the little blue pill herself to enhance her sexual experiences. PE: The 'other' male sexual problem 2 | vienna.pdf | Vienna | Berlin vienna.pdf You're Reading a Free Preview Pages 4 to 35 are not shown in this preview. Sign up to vote on this title UsefulNot useful This action might not be possible to undo. Are you sure you want to continue? CANCEL We've moved you to where you read on your other device. Get the full title to continue Get the full title to continue reading from where you left off, or restart the preview. Restart preview |
Which brewery won Champion Beer of Britain for the second time in 2012, with 'No 9 Barley Wine', following its success in 1998 with 'Bluebird Bitter'? | Olthwaite: BEER Olthwaite Boozers, Bands and Buildings. Comedy, Films and Trains. Rugby, pies and moans. Tuesday, December 02, 2014 BEER DUNHAM GOOD Some breweries never let you down, no matter whether their beers are light or dark. strong or session - and Dunham Massey is one of them. So it's great DM's getting national recognition after winning Camra's Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain title at the Winter Beer Festival in Derby for their 5.2pc porter. Cairngorm Black Gold won silver and Exe Valley Winter Glow bronze. Marble's Stouter Stout got bronze in the stout category. Congratulations to Elland Brewery. Its 1872 Porter has been crowned the Best Beer in Britain at the Camra Great British Beer Festival. Interesting to see in these crafty hoppy times, an 'old school beer' winner. It's superb. Another cracker, Saltaire's Triple Chocolate, was runner-up in the speciality beers category. The lovely Great Orme's Welsh Black was best mild HUDDERSFIELD BEERS ARE BEST IN THE WORLD! Congratulations to Magic Rock and Summer Wine breweries whose beers have been included in a list of the best 350 beers in the world. They are featured in Craft Beer World, a handsome, informative and interesting book by award winning blogger Mark Dredge. Huddersfield's Magic Rock actually has two entries - Magic 8 Ball, a black IPA, and High Wire, a West Coast pale ale, while Holmfirth's Summer Wine has Cohort, a double black Belgian Rye pale ale. The 350 beers are divided into 53 categories, from the familiar mild and bitter to categories such as Belgian Quadrupel and Flemish Bruin. About a third of the beers in the list are from the US, with 40 from Britain including familiar names from The Grove, in Hudds, such as Thornbridge, Fullers, Brewdog, Moor and Buxton. Dredge defines craft beer as 'a knowing, thoughtful way of brewing which is concerned with flavour, variety, ingredients and story', so it's not just about microbreweries and keg beers - cask, bottles, cans and beers by the biggest breweries are featured. It's a good definition as keg has moved far beyond Watneys Red Barrel and some cask and bottle conditioned beers do disappoint. For me, it's hard to keep up with Yorkshire beers, never mind all the interesting looking bottles from abroad in the book. Dredge has a fascinating insight into beers from Iceland, Brazil, New Zealand, Belgium, Germany and many other countries, but I sometimes wonder that in a desire to move beyond and set themselves apart from Camra, beer lovers like Dredge are too eager to embrace American pale and hoppy beers. Dredge says Magic Rock went from 'nought to brilliant in no time' and indeed they've made an incredible impact. I feel dreadfully disloyal because Magic Rock is literally at the end of my road but I find their US-style beers almost undrinkably bitter. A 'tribute' to Lance. Tee-hee Rat Brewery! HURRAH FOR ELLAND Congratulations to the fantastic Elland brewery for winning CAMRA's Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain award with their 1872 Porter. In an age of whippersnapper new breweries harping on about hops on their fancy websites, it's good to see an 'old school' brewery with consistently high standards geting recognition. Oct 12: Well, the Huddersfield Beer Festival is here again - it doesn't seem like a year since I was behind the bar at the last one. I can't make it this year but it's always a good do and seems to have found a decent venue - roomy, good bar and plenty of seats (yes, I am old and I like a sit down). Oh - there's a good range of beers, well-kept. BEER OF THE YEAR Aug 12: Congratulations to Coniston for winning best beer in Britain with its No9 Barley Wine, an 8.5% that supposedly tastes like 'a cognac'. Good to see Rudgate Ruby Mild, Hobsons Mild and Purple Moose in the best category lists. Full results: Gold- Coniston, No.9 Barley Wine (from Coniston, Cumbria) Silver- Green Jack, Trawlerboys Best Bitter (from Lowestoft, Suffolk) Bronze- Dark Star, American Pale Ale (from Horsham, West Sussex) Mild category- Gold- Rudgate, Ruby Mild (from York, North Yorkshire) Silver- Hobso | 2001 KO Final February, which ex-PM was awarded an earldom on his 90th birthday ? Harold Macmillan B1 A member of the House of Lords and an ex-MP, who celebrated his 100th birthday in November 1984 ? Mannie Shinwell Which government department banned trades unions causing a national outcry ? GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) Outside which foreign government building was policewoman Yvonne Fletcher shot and fatally wounded ? Libyan People's Bureau or Libyan Embassy A3 In the course of a violent argument in April, which recording artist was shot and killed by his father ? Marvin Gaye In October, who was killed by members of her own bodyguard ? Indira Ghandi A4 In March the British government announced its approval of the sale of which shipyard on the lower Clyde to Trafalgar House ? Scott Lithgow B4 In October which bank, a bullion dealer, was rescued from debts of around �250 million by a Bank of England buy-out ? Johnson Matthey Subject: �One Word Cinema� Answers A1 A 1992 Oscar winning Clint Eastwood film in which a former hired killer turned unsuccessful farmer returns to his old ways in pursuit of a $1,000 reward ? Unforgiven B1 A 1972 John Boorman film in which a leading character, played by Ned Beatty, is raped by a �Hillbilly� ? Deliverance A2 A 1929 film, Hitchcock�s first talkie, in which a Scotland Yard Inspector is placed in a difficult position when he discovers his girlfriend has committed a murder ? Blackmail B2 Set in Rio, a 1946 Hitchcock film with Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman in which a woman marries a Nazi renegade to help the US Government ? Notorious A3 A 1916 film by D.W. Griffith starring Lillian Gish in one of four intercut stories including Balshazzar�s Feast and the St Bartholomew�s Day Massacre ? Intolerance B3 A 1967 camped-up version of Faust in which a short order cook is saved from suicide by Mr Spiggott - who offers him 7 wishes in exchange for his soul ? Bedazzled A4 A 1924 Erich von Stroheim film in which an ex-miner turned dentist kills his avaricious wife and her lover ? Greed B4 Set in the mid 19th century, a 1999 film starring Guy Pearce & Robert Carlyle in which a cannibalistic officer commands an isolated army outpost ? Ravenous Answers A1 The liqueur Cura�ao (say �Koor-a-sow�) is traditionally flavoured with sugar & which fruit ? Orange B1 Which spirit takes its name from a place near Guadalajara (say �Gwadlahara�) where the conquistadors first developed it from a variety of Aztec drink ? Tequila A2 With a peculiar but agreeable taste, which coarse & potent liquor is made in the East Indies from a variety of sources, including fermented rice & coconut juice ? Arrack B2 Used to season food & fruit as well as alcoholic drinks, which flavouring is prepared with oil distilled from the aromatic bark of two S. American trees blended with herbs, and bears the former name of a port in Venezuela ? Angostura (now called Cuidad Bolivar) A3 Derived from a town in north east Hungary, what name is shared by a grape variety and a golden-yellow coloured, sweet, aromatic wine ? Tokay (from Tokaj) Subject: Wordgame �No� as in �Note� Answers � a spout on a hose etc. from which a jet issues ? 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"Now only used in the Isle of Man, a ""deemster"" is an old name for what?" | John McCrystyn, Justiciarius Insulae and Deemster (c.1368 - 1422) - Genealogy John McCrystyn, Justiciarius Insulae and Deemster Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love Build your family tree online Share photos and videos John McCrystyn, Justiciarius Insulae and Deemster Birthdate: in Lezayre, Isle of Man Immediate Family: Circa 1368 - Isle of Man Death: After 1422 - Altadale, Lezayre, Isle of Man Son: Between Jan 9 1368 and Jan 8 1369 - Isle of Man Death: Between Jan 10 1422 and Jan 9 1423 - Lezayre, Isle of Man Father: son About John McCrystyn, Justiciarius Insulae and Deemster Deemster John McCrystyn was born circa 1368 at Isle of Man. He died after 1422 at Altadale, Lezayre, Isle of Man. He held the office of Deemster in 1408. Owing to the disappearance of all early Manx records, this John McCrystyn is the earliest of whom a written record exists, when he is recorded in 1408 as a Deemster. An "indenture" is to be seen at the British Museum, signed by him as "John McCrystyn, Justiciarius Insulae". From the earliest records extant, the Christians held the Office of Deemster, an office of the greatest dignity and authority. In the ancient court rolls, the deemsters were styled "Justiciarii Domini Regis". They were not only the chief judges, but were also the Lord's Privy Councillors, and their influence over the people resembled the civil authority of the ancient Druids. They alone knew, and were guardians of the unwritten laws, which only on important occasions were verbally divulged to the people. The Deemstership was hereditary in the Christian family, either by some decree of which all knowledge is lost, or because it was convenient for a son, as soon as old enough, to attend his father, the Deemster, at Courts, acting as his amanuensis and assistant, in order to be initiated into the duties, to learn the unwritten laws and customs, and to prepare himself for the serious and important oiffice. Notes from a Christian family genealogical table prepared in the early 1900s. Arms: Azure a chevron confrée, between three chalices OR. Crest: a unicorn’s head argent, erased, armed and crested OR. Motto: Salus per Christum A family of Scandinavian origin, the MacCristens, or Christins, or, as they now call themselves, Christians must have attained an important position in the Isle of Mann at an early date, as John McCristen, the first of whom there is any record, was one of the Judges or Deemsters in 1408 and a Member of the Tynwald Court in 1422. Of his three successors, who also bore the name of John, the first was seated at Altadale, in the Parish of Lezayre; the second was Deemster, from 1500-1510, and the third was also Deemster from 1511-1535. This later acquired the property adjoining Altadale and called the whole Milntown. He was the first to put the Manx Laws in writing. Daniel, his brother, was the ancestor of the Christians of Baldroma, in Maughold. His sister married Garret of Ballabrooie, and his eldest daughter Samsbury of Ronaldsway. John, his second son, was Water-Bailiff. William, the eldest, who was Deemster with his father, succeeded to the estate in 1535, but died four years afterwards. William’s second son, Robert, was also Deemster. From him the Christians of Lewaigue, in Maughold, are descended. Ewan, the fourth in descent from William, changed his name from MacCristen to Christian. He succeeded to the property in 1593. In 1605, when only 26 years old, he was made Deemster, and held that office 51 years. He was also Deputy-Governor of Peel Castle, and the most influential man in the Island. His sister, Jane, married Thomas Samsbury of Ronaldsway, and died without progeny. He purchased that estate from her trustees, and presented it, in 1643, to her third son, William, the famous ‘Iliam Dhone.’ John, his eldest son, who died before him, was Assistant-Deemster. His eldest daughter, Mabel, born in 1599, was John Curghey of Ballakillingan’s second wife. Ewan, John Curghey’s son, by his first wife, married Margaret, born in 1617, a younger sister of Mabel’s. Ewan was succeeded | BBeM: Item List Item List 1 member comment Trivia questions After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, "Who was that masked man?" Invariably, someone would answer, "I don't know, but he left this behind." What did he leave behind? When The Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on ... Get your kicks ... 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Which traditional Scottish soup is made with the principal ingredients of leek, onions and chicken stew, and sometimes also with prunes? | National Soup Month | HI COOKERY Sweet Potato Soup January: National Soup Month We (TRY to) make a resolution to eat healthier this year and we started it off by cooking a heart-warming soup from carrots and sweet potatoes. The bright color combinations of these root vegetables remind us of a sunny day when winter weather can be dull and depressing. Both carrots and sweet potatoes are packed with vitamins and minerals, such as A and B-complex and beta-carotene, have anti-oxidant properties and are a naturally sweet source of fiber. Creamy carrot and sweet potato soup is a “souper” healthy way to begin the new year and observe National Soup Month. Recipe salt and pepper to taste 2 tablespoons thyme, fresh and roughly chopped (optional garnish) Directions In a large pot, melt one tablespoon butter over medium heat. Cook the onions until tender. Add the cinnamon and nutmeg, stirring constantly. Push this mixture to the side and add the remaining two tablespoons butter. Turn up the heat and melt the butter until brown (about a minute). Add the carrots, sweet potatoes. Pour in the chicken broth and water. Add the thyme. Bring to a boil then reduce the heat. Cover and simmer until the carrots and sweet potatoes are tender (about 35 minutes). In a blender, working in batches, place the soup mixture and puree until smooth. Be careful not to splatter. Return all the pureed soup into the pot over medium-low heat. Stir in the milk and cream. Season with salt and pepper. Ladle into soup bowls. Serve hot and garnish with extra thyme. Notes Substitute ¼ cup half-and-half for the milk and cream. Have a happy and healthy new year! Portuguese Bean Soup (Slow Cooker) January 6: National Bean Day Although Pacific Islanders and Asians dominate Hawaii’s immigrant population, there is a sizable settlement of Europeans (Brits, Scots, Russians, Germans, Spaniards and Portuguese) on the islands. Portuguese cuisine is especially popular in Hawaii as the people shared their cultural cooking customs at the historic plantations. We especially love their donuts (malassadas), sweet bread (pão doce) , sausage (linguiça) and bean soup served in several restaurants and food trucks. This blog post presents a slow cooker recipe for Portuguese bean soup, a hearty stew of linguiça, ham hocks, vegetables and kidney beans. Portuguese bean soup is perfect for cold winter days, during January’s National Soup Month and National Slow Cooker Month and on National Bean Day. Recipe Directions In the crock pot, add the sliced Portuguese sausage, tomatoes, onions and potatoes. Mix in the carrots, kidney beans and tomato sauce. Stir until blended. Cover and cook on low for 6-10 hours or until the vegetables are tender. Stir in the cabbage, cover and cook for another 30 minutes or until the cabbage is soft. Ladle the stew into soup bowls and garnish with a sprigs of fresh cilantro or parsley. Serve hot with Portuguese sweet bread or over steamed white rice. Notes Obrigado (thanks) to Lisa L. for the San Miguel rooster prop in the final food photo above that she got for us in Portugal. She also used to be stationed in Hawaii years ago and is back this year for a few months working for the U.S. Navy. Lucky for her, she gets to eat Portuguese bean soup and other authentic local-style foods in Islander’s home state! Other versions of the Portuguese bean soup recipe include macaroni to add texture and thickness to the broth. (Scottish Chicken and Leeks Soup) January: National Soup Month The ultimate comfort food for cold weather (and for colds and flu) is chicken soup. We have blogged before about tinolang manok , a Filipino-style chicken soup. But this recipe post is for cock-a-leekie, a Scottish-style chicken soup, for Hogmanay (Scottish New Year) and the upcoming Burns Supper celebrations in the latter part of January. Highlander’s Scottish relatives shared several versions of their recipes with us but we have adapted one for our own tastes and kept the traditional ingredients—cock (chicken), leekie (leeks) and prunes. Other recipes add bacon rashers, rice or barley as | Account Suspended Account Suspended This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information. |
"Which of the Hindu Trimurti is ""The Creator""?" | Heart of Hinduism: The Trimurti Brahma – the creator (in charge of raja-guna – the quality of passion). Vishnu – the maintainer On charge of sattva-guna – the quality of goodness). Shiva – the destroyer (in charge of tama-guna – the quality of ignorance). In the material world there are three principal deities called the trimurti (literally "three deities").They correspond to God's functions of creation, sustenance and destruction (see also Prakriti and Guna ). God also exists beyond this world, as an impersonal force and/or as the Supreme Person. Most commonly that transcendent Supreme is identified with Vishnu, or one of his forms (such as Krishna, Rama, or Narayana). Brahma, the creator (or secondary creator, since he is born of Vishnu, the original creator). Direct worship of Brahma is rare, and in India there is only one major temple dedicated to him in Pushkar, Rajasthan. Some consider him to be worshipped indirectly through the chanting of the Gayatri mantra, since Gayatri is one of his consorts. Vishnu, all-pervading yet also a person. He is most often worshipped in his forms as Krishna and Rama (see Twelve Principal Deities ). Shiva, with his carrier, Nandi the bull. Shiva is in charge of universal destruction, though he also has a role in creation. He represents the male principle within this world, while his female counterpart, Shakti, is his consort and the personification of material energy (Mother Nature). Common Misunderstandings The Trimurti is the Hindu Trinity The implied comparison here with Christianity is potentially misleading, and hence the term "Hindu Trinity" is best avoided. | The Adversary Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 35 out of 41 people found the following review useful: Ray's forgotten masterpiece from India 16 April 2005 It is my personal view, and I think I'll have to go into hiding after saying this, that this is Satyajit Ray's greatest film. I happen to share a common name with the protagonist, Siddhartha, and knowing the sort of impact this movie had on my father, and people of his generation, I wouldn't be surprised if, subconsciously at least, I was named after the character. This movie is the first in what is called Ray's 'Calcutta Trilogy', which consists of 'Pratidwandi', 'Seemabaddha', and 'Jana Aranya'. These three movies, though not as remarkable perhaps as his previous, and more famous trilogy, the 'Apu trilogy', are nonetheless some of his finest and most subtle movies. Pratidwandi is set in a Calcutta rocked by political unrest, and examines the varied reactions of the youth of the city to this unrest. Based on Sunil Gangopadhyay's novel, the story revolves around Siddhartha, his family, the girl he loves and his struggle for survival in the big city, while at all times staying true to his principles. From its beginning interview scene, its use of real events as backdrop, its sublime acting, particularly that of Dhritiman, right till its remarkable ending, arguably Ray's greatest ever, the film sustains a continues high which makes watching it an unforgettable experience. Was the above review useful to you? 7 out of 9 people found the following review useful: Rebel with a Cause from India 16 December 2010 There are as many Rays as there are movies made by him. Having seen a good number, I find the present one different from any of the others. This is not the gentle poet of Pather Panchali nor the romantic chronicler of India's past of Charulata. This is the first of the so called Calcutta Trilogy. The film depicts the agony of youth stranded at the dawn of adulthood, in the specific context of Calcutta in the late sixties. This was the age of hippies and budding Naxalism, of Woodstock and the Vietnam war.The film reflects the bitterness and anger of an intelligent, sensitive youth man engaged in the herculian task of finding a job. Siddharth has recently interrupted his medical studies after losing his father. His sister is earning, but that is more because of her youth and femininity, and although nothing specific is imputed, her activities are perceived to be dishonorable. The younger brother is drifting towards shady political activity. Siddhartha's own encounters with women are sensitively portrayed. One charge that can never be made against Ray is lack of realism or anything less than utter honesty. He tells it exactly like it was. Ray seems to have indulged in some cinematic innovation. There are a number of eery dream sequences which reminded one of the opening sequence in Wild Strawberries. At some points the surrealism definitely seems artificial and overdone as when a whole crowds of job seekers waiting to be interviewed turns into skeletons in his imagination. Like Siddharth, Ray is in love with Calcutta, city of revolt and history and squalor. He has an unusual ability to condense everything into a short statement of a minute or so. These inspired climactic moments of dense compression punctuate Ray's work. In the present movie this comes towards the end when the seething dammed emotions of the young man explode in a demonstration of rage, as the long wait of the job seekers waiting to be interviewed is prolonged by another hour. Not his best but his worst is ahead of other's best. Was the above review useful to you? 4 out of 5 people found the following review useful: The competitor Author: anirban ghatak 19 June 2013 " The competitor or Pratidwandi was set up in a time of political turmoil in Bengal where a medicine drop out Siddhartha is looking out desperately for a job. Siddhartha had to leave his medicine study due to the sudden death of his father and ended up studying botany hence. The film moves through Kolkata with the eyes of Sidhartha mainly as an u |
Representing the province of Sarangani, Philippines, what is the more famous day job of Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao? | stumbleupon More StatsView More About Manny Pacquiao Boxer Manny Pacquiao currently has an estimated net worth of $250 million. While still regarded by many as the best boxer in the sport right now, Pac-Man is also busy outside the ring. He was elected a member of Congress of the Philippines in May 2010. Pacquiao spent a reported $7 million on the campaign.Pacquiao was elected to the House of Representatives in the 15th Congress of the Philippines, representing the province of Sarangani.He is the only active boxer to become a congressman in the Philippines. He earned $35 million for his two fights against Joshua Clottey and Miguel Cotto.Pacquiao is included in Forbes’ list of Highest Paid Athletes from the second half of 2009 to the first half of 2010; he is ranked 8th with an income of $42 million. Earnings & Financial Data The below financial data is gathered and compiled by TheRichest analysts team to give you a better understanding of Manny Pacquiao's net worth by breaking down the most relevant financial events such as yearly salaries, contracts, earn outs, endorsements, stock ownership and much more. ? | TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates Careers Quotes delayed at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Interactive Data . ETF and Mutual Fund data provided by Morningstar, Inc. Dow Jones Terms & Conditions: http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/html/tandc/indexestandcs.html . S&P Index data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions . Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions . All products and services featured are based solely on editorial selection. TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. © 2017 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.com VIP YOU BROKE TIME.COM! Dear TIME Reader, As a regular visitor to TIME.com, we are sure you enjoy all the great journalism created by our editors and reporters. Great journalism has great value, and it costs money to make it. One of the main ways we cover our costs is through advertising. The use of software that blocks ads limits our ability to provide you with the journalism you enjoy. Consider turning your Ad Blocker off so that we can continue to provide the world class journalism you have become accustomed to. The TIME Team |
The 12th century Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth is known for his writings on what? | BBC - Wales History: Geoffrey of Monmouth: making fact out of fiction Post categories: History , Myths and legends Phil Carradice | 16:20 UK time, Friday, 13 July 2012 For hundreds of years the standard history of Britain was the one supplied by an obscure teacher, writer, cleric - and, later, priest - of dubious Welsh connections. His name was Geoffrey of Monmouth and his words were believed implicitly, from the time of their creation in the 12th century right down to the days of Queen Elizabeth. Only much later did it become clear that Geoffrey's version of British history came from a range of different sources. These included a ninth century Welsh book of history (written in both Latin and Welsh), the work of monks like Bede and Gildas, the poems of several Welsh bards - and, in particular, his own rather vivid imagination. Virtually everything about Geoffrey of Monmouth is obscure, even his date of birth. In all probability he was born around the year 1100, possibly in the Marches of Wales. Even that is unclear. Historia Regum Britanniae He called himself Geoffrey of Monmouth in his most famous and influential book, Historia Regum Britanniae, a supposed history of Britain's kings. He probably, therefore, had some connection with the Monmouth area and may well have been born there. The background of his parents is, likewise, also unknown but they may well have come from Brittany with William the Conqueror in 1066. It is unlikely that he had any Welsh blood in him - as was originally believed - and he almost certainly had only a passing acquaintance with the Welsh language. He wrote in Latin, as did most learned men in those days. For many years it was believed that Geoffrey was a monk or a cleric at the Benedictine Priory in Monmouth but, in fact, he may well only have studied there as a youth. Most of his adult life was actually spent outside Wales. Certainly he was made secular canon at the Collegiate Church of St George in Oxford and between 1129 and 1151 his name, along with that of the Archdeacon of Oxford, appeared on six different charters for the Oxford area. Bishop of St Asaph On 21 February 1152 Geoffrey of Monmouth was appointed Bishop of St Asaph. Amazingly, he had only been ordained as a priest some two weeks before. The new Bishop probably never went near St Asaph as the rebellion of Owain Gwynedd was raging at the time and to venture to that particular part of north Wales would, in all honestly, have meant death and disaster. Geoffrey died somewhere around December 1155, already acknowledged as a major historian but, in reality, one of the greatest legend makers Wales and Britain had ever seen. Dedicated to Robert, Earl of Gloucester, Historia Regum Britanniae remains his best known work. It purported to be a true history of Britain and of her kings from the time of Brutus - a descendant of Aeneas of Troy, not the Shakespearean character - through the Roman invasion of Julius Caesar to the reigns of Leir and Cymbeline (that one DID later become a Shakespearean figure). Creating a legend Above all his Historia included the character for whom Geoffrey is always best remembered, King Arthur. His work on creating the legend - arguably a necessity in a period of trouble and strife when the country was desperately seeking to return to happier, more peaceful times - certainly began the popularity of the Arthurian legend. Later kings and historians took the legend and adapted it to their own needs but it undoubtedly began with Geoffrey of Monmouth. Unfortunately, Geoffrey did not confine himself to the true historical facts around the character of Arthur. After all, like most story tellers - and that is how we should remember him, as a very good story teller - Geoffrey was not going to let the truth get in the way of a great tale. It remains a sad fact but if Geoffrey had told the real story of the Romano-British warrior chief who fought against the Saxon invaders we might have had more of a grasp on our history during those troubled years. As it was, his work - his fantasy work - on Arthur and Merlin opened | WALES - Welsh Rugby Memorabilia from 1900 to present day, WALES / CYMRU Welsh rugby memorabilia - you will find on this page a marvellous selection of memorabilia from all eras of Welsh Rugby. From the first Golden era to the 2008 Grand Slam, we've got the lot. 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RRP �14.99 Ref: PL44-warrbkdv-gift.pack - �12.99 2012 Wales Grand Slam - INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMMES v Ireland WALES GRAND SLAM 2005 MAGIC MOMENTS - TURF PAPERWEIGHTS Rugby Relics are proud to be able to offer the actual turf on which Shane Williams touched down for his try against England and the very piece of grass from which Gavin Henson launched his penalty kick that won the game for Wales. The pitch cut up badly during the game and the Millennium Stadium and Welsh Rugby Union decided a new pitch was needed. To do this the whole pitch needed to be removed and re-laid. These two important pieces of turf were pinpointed by stadium staff and removed from the main pitch on Tuesday 15th of February. We have turned these two pieces of historical turf into a series of limited edition paperweights. For more information on the Magic Moments - Turf Paperweights - CLICK HERE �10.00 A Limited Edition print by Jonathan Evans celebrating that wonderful moment when Gavin Henson kicked the winning goal against England to set Wales on their way to the 2005 Triple Crown and Grand Slam. For further details CLICK HERE The 2005/6 Rugby Annual for Wales (37th year) - This annual includes details of Wales' Grand Slam, the British Lions tour of New Zealand, Wales tour of North America + other European & Worldwide competitions. As always it is a mine of information, the most comprehensive view of rugby in Wales - Ref: anwa2005-06 - �7.50 For other editions of the Rugby Annual for Wales including 2006/7 - CLICK HERE 1905 WALES v NEW ZEALAND - WALES TEAM POSTCARD SET A quality set of 20 A6 size postcards featuring the Welsh team that defeated New Zealand in 1906. The postcards in this set are as follows: Welsh team, Gwyn Nicholls, Percy Bush, Jack Williams, Rhys Gabe, Arthur Harding, Jehodia Hodges, Dai 'Tarw' Jones, Will Joseph, Teddy Morgan, Willie Llewellyn, Dicky Owen, Cliff Pritchard, Charlie Pritchard, George Travers, Bert Winfield, Sir JDT Llewellyn, Tom Williams, Ack Llewellyn & official programme. Ref: pcwa1905nzst20 - �25.00 Wales v New Zealand 1905 facsimile programme. This programme was reproduced in 1981. It is the same as the original programme apart from reproduction details on the back page. 8 pages, in very good condition. Ref: prwanz.1905.rpxb - �35.00 England v Wales Schools 1913 touch judges' flag. This embroidered flag which measures 47cm x 30cm was used in the intermediate (under 16) schools match at Leicester on March 1st 1913. England schools triumphed 17 points to 3, only their 2nd victory over Wales. The flag has some light marks and folding creases, for it's age it is in very good condition. 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As a former racing guest put......... “ The accommodation, host and breakfast are a 10 out of 10 - and it’s great fun !”” xx Celebrate the best race meet of the year here at the Stable House xx THE COACH HOUSE CAN BE BOOKED AS A WHOLE OR ON A ROOM BY ROOM BASIS: PRICES £100 PER ROOM PER NIGHT. THE COACH HOUSE – DETAILS Up the traditional old outside steps from the garden is the stable door entrance into the Hayloft sitting room. Over 17ft long with a vast high beamed ceiling , this beautiful room has a large corner sofa and a double sofa ( which is handy sofa bed too). As well as wifi and large Smart TV, there is a lovely dining table and fully e | William Fox-Pitt Archives - Equestrian News Equestrian News Nov 012013 Following a successful season now is the time to celebrate the riders and horses that have made it to the top of the British Eventing Points ranking table. The final 2013 rankings have seen a hotly contested battle for the top spots. New Zealander Andrew Nicholson has retained first place in the rankings following another very successful season and also leads the FEI HSBC rankings. Topping the horse rankings is Irish bred Mr Cruise Control, owned jointly by Robin and Nicola Salmon alongside Andrew. Mr Cruise Control has had a prolific season finishing fifth in the 4* at Pau and first in both the CIC3* at Chatsworth in May and Luhmuhlen 4*. His owners will be presented with the Calcutta Light Horse Trophy in recognition of his impressive achievement. Andrew’s Olympic bronze medal winning mount, Deborah Sellar’s Nereo, is runner up with 382 points. Best of the Brits, and winner of the Tony Collins award, is Dorset based William Fox-Pitt who attained a total of 2142 points this season. William’s European bronze medal winning horse Chilli Morning, owned by Christopher and Lisa Stone, reached third place in the BE rankings after winning 378 points. Another of Fox-Pitt’s rides, Catherine Witt’s recent Pau 4* winner Seacookie finished just behind his stable mate in fourth place with 368 points. Fellow Brit Oliver Townend again retains third place in the rankings following another busy season, amassing 1241 points. The top twenty ranked horses and riders are detailed below and the top one hundred can be found here . Jan 242013 HRH the Duchess of Cornwall, Patron of the British Equestrian Federation (BEF), hosted a reception on the evening of Tuesday 22 January 2013 to celebrate the achievements of the British equestrian teams at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The event, held in the majestic formal rooms of Clarence House, London, was a wonderful opportunity for the team to meet the Duchess, an enthusiastic supporter of equestrian sport and to reflect on a successful 2012. Over 80 honoured guests including horse owners, grooms, coaches and team support staff gathered with medallists to enjoy the occasion. Athletes attending included dressage gold medallist Laura Bechtolsheimer MBE; eventing silver medallists Tina Cook, William Fox-Pitt, Mary King MBE, Zara Phillips MBE and Nicola Wilson; showjumping gold medallist Peter Charles MBE; Paralympic multi-medallists Natasha Baker MBE, Sophie Christiansen OBE, Deb Criddle MBE and Sophie Wells MBE who were presented and photographed with Her Royal Highness. Chairman of the British Equestrian Federation, Keith Taylor commented; “Our Patron, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, is wonderfully supportive of everything we do. Tonight, HRH played a very personal tribute in hosting and celebrating the successes of our athletes, their owners and the support staff at Clarence House. It was a joyous occasion in celebration of the best ever haul of medals at an Olympic and Paralympic Games.” The success of the equestrian teams during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games saw a record 16 medals won across the four disciplines, from the historic first Olympic medals for dressage, the first showjumping gold medal for sixty years, to the unbeaten British Paralympic team (since para-dressage’s introduction in 1996) exceeding their Beijing medal haul, after securing a total of 11 medals. Jul 032012 Unfortunately DHI Topper W, ridden by Piggy French, has incurred an injury that means he will not be fit to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the equestrian (eventing) competitions. The British Olympic Association (BOA) has confirmed that Nicola Wilson (35) from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, riding Opposition Buzz owned by Miss Rosemary Search has been selected to replace Piggy and DHI Topper W. Commenting on her selection Nicola Wilson said: “It’s horrific and fabulous at the same time; I just don’t know what to say; I’m devastated for Piggy and wouldn’t wish this on anybody, she’s become a very close frien |
"In the cartoon show ""The Wacky Races"" who drove the Mean Machine?" | Wacky Races | Wacky Races Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The series ran on CBS from September 14 , 1968 to January 4 , 1969. Seventeen episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races, for a total of 34 races in all. Attempting to foil the racers' efforts were the show's resident villains Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick, Muttley. Dastardly would usually gain a large lead, then execute all sorts of elaborate schemes to trap, divert, blow up or stop the other racers, only to see them backfire spectacularly. The intended object lesson may have been that Dastardly might have easily won several races had he only kept his mind on the race and off dirty tricks. The Mean Machine was arguably the fastest car in the series, as evidenced by Dastardly's repeatedly zooming to a stunning lead from far behind. Like Wile E. Coyote , Dastardly never saw victory, although on one occasion he did cross the finish line first only to be disqualified when the judges reviewed the video replay, revealing that Dastardly had cheated (by extending the tip of his car). Many of Dastardly's plots look similar to those used in Road Runner cartoons, perhaps because Mike Maltese was a scriptwriter on both series. Wacky Races was inspired by the 1965 film The Great Race , and the main characters in the cartoon were based on those in the film. Penelope Pitstop (who would later have a spinoff series) took on the appearance of Maggie DuBois, played by Natalie Wood, including her pink outfit and her car's parasol. Dastardly has much in common with Jack Lemmon's portrayal of Professor Fate. Fate and his sidekick, Max Meen ( Peter Falk ), indulge in similar acts of sabotage and Max has Muttley's knack for making mistakes. Although Fate's car does not look much like the Mean Machine, it does bear the familiar spike on the front and is equipped with smoke screen, cannon, and other assorted gadgets. One of the musical themes, used in the show, was used as the opening and closing segments of the spin off show "Perils of Penelope Pitstop." One of the original plans for the series was that the races themselves would be part of a live-action quiz show with Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions, the team behind the television series Hollywood Squares. Heatter-Quigley's plan was that contestants would actually bet on which Wacky Racer would cross the finish line first. Although the game show concept was eventually scrubbed, the series still retained a Hanna-Barbera Heatter-Quigley dual production credit. In 1988, a made-for-TV movie, Around The World With The Wacky Racers, was planned as part of Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 series of TV movies, but it never got past the concept stage. Drivers, characters and cars The eleven racers and their numbers are: Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Mean Machine 00 (The double 'O'/ The Double Zero) Edit The villains of the series, in a purple, rocket-powered car with an abundance of concealed weapons and ability to fly. Dick Dastardly would concoct a plan or set a trap once he got into the lead of the race to make sure no other car would catch up to him; however, every plan backfired. Ironically, many tricks Dastardly uses are not unlike the ones the other racers use, though only his are referred to as "cheating." Most of his traps always fail, with Dastardly being the one who gets hurt in the end and Muttley, his canine sidekick, snickering at his misfortune, often earning him a bonk on the head from Dastardly, who could seemingly stretch his arms considerable distances for that sole purpose. Dastardly dresses in purple, and wears a red-and-purple striped puffy hat. He also has a long, black moustach and appears as the archetypal turn-of-the-century villain . The Slag Brothers in the Bouldermobile. Edit Rock Slag and Gravel Slag are Cavemen driving a wheeled boulder. The Slag Brothers sometimes reconstructed their car from scratch just by using their clubs on any large boulder that was available. Like the Grusome Twosome, the Slag Brothers can summon up appropriate creatures - such as Ptera | The Perils of Penelope Pitstop | The Cartoon Network Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Perils of Penelope Pitstop 1,030pages on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop Genre September 13, 1969 – September 4, 1971 Status Dastardly & Muttley Wiki The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that premiered on CBS on September 13, 1969. The series consisted of a total of 17 half-hour episodes, the last first-run episode airing on January 17, 1970, repeats aired until September 4, 1971. The series is a spin-off of the Wacky Races cartoon, reprising the characters of Penelope Pitstop and the Anthill Mob. The series previously aired in reruns on Cartoon Network and currently airs on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang . Contents [ show ] Overview The series was patterned on the silent movie era melodrama cliffhanger movie serial The Perils of Pauline using the most successful characters of Wacky Races, namely Penelope Pitstop, the members of Ant Hill Mob and originally Dick Dastardly and Muttley though Dastardly and Muttley were later dropped in pre-production according to this series' DVD release information. Those characters would be later reused in their own series. Deciding to feature the characters in a different setting, studio heads decided to set the characters into an active adventure format strongly reminiscent of the 1910s. Adding to the cliffhanger serial feel, episodes typically started with a recap such as "Last time we left Penelope, she was in the clutches of the Hooded Claw". Contrary to later editing of the series in rebroadcasts, the original format of the series was to introduce the successive episodes at the end of the just-finished broadcast for the successive week that would present and leave Penelope in the middle of a dangerous situation to overcome. The cliffhanger would end with Penelope being shown placed in direct danger such as being shot out of a circus cannon to land in the wild animal cage. The audience is left there with the indication "Tune in next week for danger in the 'Big Top Trap' ". The successive episode would include recapping the previous week's end scene introduction and continue onto Penelope's successful avoidance of the danger she encountered. In all rebroadcasts of the series since the original broadcasts as well as on the DVD release of the series, these introduction endings have been removed from the main episodes. Also from the Wacky Races was the Ant Hill Mob, originally portrayed as a group of crooks but in this incarnation are now either reformed, never had the criminal background of their earlier Wacky Races incarnation, or are engaging in a protection racket. The members also have completely new names, different from the original Wacky Races series (except for their leader Clyde, who was named "Big Clyde" in the Wacky Races), who, with their largely self-aware car, Chugga-Boom, acted as the heroes and were constantly rushing to Penelope's rescue. But their attempts to save her were only half effective. The Mob's reason for being Penelope's friends and guardians is never explained, although the narrator mentions that they were her "benefactors." The Hooded Claw (voiced by Paul Lynde), aided by his pair of near identical henchmen who always speak in unison, the Bully Brothers (both voiced by Mel Blanc), concocted needlessly Goldbergian plots to kill Penelope (such as a device to drop her from an aircraft, cut her parachute, and then have her drop into a box of wildcats). While the Mob often rescued Penelope, as often as not she needed to rescue the Mob from the unintended effects of their attempts to rescue her. While Penelope was curiously helpless whenever The Hooded Claw grabbed her, once he left her tied up for his fiendish plans to take effect, she usually became resourceful and ingenious, sometimes coming up with spontaneous and creative methodologies to escape her peril. Penelope was always in a different part of the globe for every peril. Mainly she was in America, but she did go to locations such as E |
What is the staple diet of the leopard seal? | Leopard Seal Facts | Leopard Seal Diet & Habitat Facts for Kids Leopard Seal Facts | Leopard Seal Diet & Habitat Come and discover some of the essential leopard seal facts including leopard seal diet, reproduction, and physical features. The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) is regarded as the second largest species of seal all throughout Antarctic. The southern elephant seal is the largest specie among its family. These animals are also called sea leopards and are known to inhabit across the Antarctica coast and sub-Antarctic islands, with some species are also found on the southern coasts of Australia, South Africa, Lord Howe Island, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Tasmania, and South America. These animals can survive up to 26 years or more. The most common seal’s predators are sharks and orcas. The leopard seal belongs to the family of Phocidae. Interesting Leopard Seal Facts The leopard seal exhibits pale grey color from the stomach while the back is pure black. The males are faintly larger as compared to females. The length of the leopard seals measure around 2.4 – 3.5 meters (8.4 – 11.7 feet). The leopard seal weighs around 200 – 600 kg (440 – 1,300 lb). The front teeth of leopard seal are sharp like carnivores. These types of seals inhabit in the cold waters encompassing Antarctica. The leopard seals primarily rely on pack ice in the summer months. These species are normally solitary creatures in that they only group together at the time of mating. The gestation period of leopard seal lasts for 9 months. The female gives birth to a single pup in summer. The leopard seal is one of the bold and curious creatures. The length of the canine teeth of these animals measure around 2.5 cm (1 inch). The closest relatives of leopard seals are crabeater seal, Weddell seal, and Ross seal. In general, leopard seals are considered to be highly aggressive species but they seldom attack on humans. What Do Leopard Seals Eat The leopard seal predominantly feed on smaller species like krill, squid, and small fish. These animals are also known to take on adelie, Gentoo, emperor, and king penguins, together with other species such as crabeater seal and other seals. The leopard seals living in the sub-Antarctic island in South Georgia often prey on Antarctic fur Seal; while other prey includes fish, Antarctic krill, southern elephant seal, and penguins. Leopard Seal Facts | Video | Africa on the Matrix: Namibia's Skeleton Coast News Skeleton Coast & Kunene Region The treacherous Skeleton Coast reaches north from the town of Swakopmund to Namibia's northern border at the Kunene River. Cold water, carried by the Benguela current flowing north from Antarctica, meets the hot, dry air of the Namib desert and forms an early-morning fog that often penetrates more than 20 miles inland. The currents, the winds, the fog and the absence of protected harbors have made this stretch of Atlantic coastline a hazardous passage for centuries. The morning fog is the only source of moisture for many of the specially-adapted plants that eke out a fragile existence in this forbidding environment. By late morning, the fog begins to burn away, revealing a windswept landscape of shifting sand dunes, crashing waves and the occasional black-backed jackal trotting along keeping a sharp lookout for an opportunistic meal. On the beach, several giant colonies of Cape fur seals (technically a species of sea lion) teem with the bleating sounds of babies and mothers trying to find one another among the multitudes as mothers return from feeding in the ocean. As mothers and babies make their way through the crowd, brief but spirited fights break out as neighbors are jostled and territories are trespassed. At several points along the coast, "ephemeral" rivers traverse the dry sand en route to the sea. The rivers are "ephemeral" because they flow with water only for brief days or weeks during the rainy season. During the rest of the year they appear as dry as the rest of the strand. Looks, however, are deceiving. In many cases, the rivers still carry some water below the surface. Local plants have adapted deep root systems to reach down for the precious water. Desert elephants, which have also adapted to the harsh conditions, have learned to dig holes in the sandy river beds and wait for ground water to seep in. In some places, underground rock layers force the water to the surface in the form of small springs that attract animals from miles around. It is an eerie experience to walk along the edge of the sea. During the heyday of whaling in the 19th century, seamen dismembered their quarry to process the meat and oil and threw the bones overboard. Many of the these bones washed ashore and remain visible today, preserved for more than a century by conditions that even decay-causing bacteria find inhospitable. There are also skeletons of young sea lions, trampled in a stampede in a crowded seal colony or perhaps snatched away by a stealthy jackal, then picked clean by the scavengers. At various points along the shore, one also sees skeletons of ships that have been dashed against the rocks and broken to pieces. In one area, there is a tomb to a seaman who lost his life along the coast (one of many to die but one of the few whose remains could be found). Inland from the Skeleton Coast lies Namibia's Kunene Region (previously known as Kaokoland when the country was under South African control). Although the region is arid, desert elephants, giraffes and many other species have adapted to the dry conditions. In addition, the Himba people have lived in the area for centuries, raising cattle, sheep and goats. Because of their isolation, the Himba have been better able to maintain their traditional lifestyle than many indigenous groups in Africa. Photos from the Kunene Region are available in a pop-up window by clicking on the link below. |
Signed on Sept 8, 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco officially ended what? | Treaty of San Francisco, 1951 - Council on Foreign Relations Council on Foreign Relations Treaty of San Francisco, 1951 Connect With Us: Treaty of San Francisco, 1951 Share Treaty of San Francisco, 1951 Japan and some of the Allied Powers signed this treaty on September 8, 1951, in San Francisco, and it came into force on April 28, 1952. It officially ended World War II, outlined compensation for former prisoners of war in Japan, and renounced Japan's rights to some overseas territories. Excerpt from the treaty : WHEREAS the Allied Powers and Japan are resolved that henceforth their relations shall be those of nations which, as sovereign equals, cooperate in friendly association to promote their common welfare and to maintain international peace and security, and are therefore desirous of concluding a Treaty of Peace which will settle questions still outstanding as a result of the existence of a state of war between them; WHEREAS Japan for its part declares its intention to apply for membership in the United Nations and in all circumstances to conform to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations; to strive to realize the objectives of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; to seek to create within Japan conditions of stability and well-being as defined in Articles 55 and 56 of the Charter of the United Nations and already initiated by post-surrender Japanese legislation; and in public and private trade and commerce to conform to internationally accepted fair practices; WHEREAS the Allied Powers welcome the intentions of Japan set out in the foregoing paragraph; THE ALLIED POWERS AND JAPAN have therefore determined to conclude the present Treaty of Peace, and have accordingly appointed the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, who, after presentation of their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following provisions: CHAPTER I PEACE Article 1 (a) The state of war between Japan and each of the Allied Powers is terminated as from the date on which the present Treaty comes into force between Japan and the Allied Power concerned as provided for in Article 23. (b) The Allied Powers recognize the full sovereignty of the Japanese people over Japan and its territorial waters. CHAPTER II TERRITORY Article 2 (a) Japan recognizing the independence of Korea, renounces all right, title and claim to Korea, including the islands of Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet. (b) Japan renounces all right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores. (c) Japan renounces all right, title and claim to the Kurile Islands, and to that portion of Sakhalin and the islands adjacent to it over which Japan acquired sovereignty as a consequence of the Treaty of Portsmouth of 5 September 1905. (d) Japan renounces all right, title and claim in connection with the League of Nations Mandate System, and accepts the action of the United Nations Security Council of 2 April 1947, extending the trusteeship system to the Pacific Islands formerly under mandate to Japan. (e) Japan renounces all claim to any right or title to or interest in connection with any part of the Antarctic area, whether deriving from the activities of Japanese nationals or otherwise. (f) Japan renounces all right, title and claim to the Spratly Islands and to the Paracel Islands. Article 3 Japan will concur in any proposal of the United States to the United Nations to place under its trusteeship system, with the United States as the sole administering authority, Nansei Shoto south of 29deg. north latitude (including the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands), Nanpo Shoto south of Sofu Gan (including the Bonin Islands, Rosario Island and the Volcano Islands) and Parece Vela and Marcus Island. Pending the making of such a proposal and affirmative action thereon, the United States will have the right to exercise all and any powers of administration, legislation and jurisdiction over the territory and inhabitants of these islands, including their territorial waters. Article 4 (a) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Article, the disposition of proper | Introduction - The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War (Hispanic Division, Library of Congress) Photographic History of the Spanish American War , p. 36. On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire -- Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. Background Beginning in 1492, Spain was the first European nation to sail westward across the Atlantic Ocean, explore, and colonize the Amerindian nations of the Western Hemisphere. At its greatest extent, the empire that resulted from this exploration extended from Virginia on the eastern coast of the United States south to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America excluding Brazil and westward to California and Alaska. Across the Pacific, it included the Philippines and other island groups. By 1825 much of this empire had fallen into other hands and in that year, Spain acknowledged the independence of its possessions in the present-day United States (then under Mexican control) and south to the tip of South America. The only remnants that remained in the empire in the Western Hemisphere were Cuba and Puerto Rico and across the Pacific in Philippines Islands, and the Carolina, Marshall, and Mariana Islands (including Guam) in Micronesia. Cuba Following the liberation from Spain of mainland Latin America, Cuba was the first to initiate its own struggle for independence. During the years from 1868-1878, Cubans personified by guerrilla fighters known as mambises fought for autonomy from Spain. That war concluded with a treaty that was never enforced. In the 1890's Cubans began to agitate once again for their freedom from Spain. The moral leader of this struggle was José Martí , known as "El Apóstol," who established the Cuban Revolutionary Party on January 5, 1892 in the United States. Following the grito de Baire, the call to arms on February 24, 1895, Martí returned to Cuba and participated in the first weeks of armed struggle when he was killed on May 19, 1895. The Philippines Islands The Philippines too was beginning to grow restive with Spanish rule. José Rizal , a member of a wealthy mestizo family, resented that his upper mobility was limited by Spanish insistence on promoting only "pure-blooded" Spaniards. He began his political career at the University of Madrid in 1882 where he became the leader of Filipino students there. For the next ten years he traveled in Europe and wrote several novels considered seditious by Filipino and Church authorities. He returned to Manila in 1892 and founded the Liga Filipina, a political group dedicated to peaceful change. He was rapidly exiled to Mindanao. During his absence, Andrés Bonifacio founded Katipunan , dedicated to the violent overthrow of Spanish rule. On August 26, 1896, after learning that the Katipunan had been betrayed, Bonifacio issued the Grito de Balintawak , a call for Filipinos to revolt. Bonifacio was succeeded as head of the Philippine revolution by Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy , who had his predecessor arrested and executed on May 10, 1897. Aguinaldo negotiated a deal with the Spaniards who exiled him to Hong Kong with 400,000 pesos that he subsequently used to buy weapons to resume the fight. Puerto Rico During the 1880s and 1890s, Puerto Ricans developed many different political parties, some of which sought independence for the island while others, headquartered like their Cuban counterparts in New York, preferred to ally with the United States. Spain proclaimed the autonomy of Puerto Rico on November 25, 1897, although the news did not reach the island until January 1898 and a new government established on February 12, 1898. United States U.S. interest in purchasing Cuba had begun long before 1898. Following the Ten Years War, American sugar interests bought up large tracts of land in Cuba. Alterations in the U.S. sugar tariff favoring home-g |
The theatres for which war included North Africa, the Philippines, Italy, Germany and Crete? | Lonely Planet Travel Guides and Travel Information Overview Things to do Hotels Tips & Articles History Although Crete has been inhabited since Neolithic times (7000–3000 BC), for most people its history begins with the Minoan civilisation. The glories of Crete’s Minoan past remained hidden until British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans made his dramatic discoveries at Knossos in the early 1900s. The term ‘Minoan’ was coined by Evans and derived from the King Minos of Greek mythology. Nobody knows what the Minoans called themselves. Among the ruins unearthed by Evans were the famous Knossos frescoes. Artistically, the frescoes are superlative; the figures that grace them have a naturalism lacking in contemporary Cycladic figurines, ancient Egyptian artwork (which they resemble in certain respects), and the Archaic sculpture that came later. What is known is that early in the 3rd millennium BC, an advanced people migrated to Crete and brought with them the art of metallurgy. The Protopalatial period (3400–2100 BC) saw the emergence of a society of unprecedented artistic, engineering and cultural achievement. It was during this time that the famous palace complexes were built at Knossos , Phaestos , Malia and Zakros. Also during this time, the Minoans began producing their exquisite Kamares pottery and silverware, and became a maritime power trading with Egypt and Asia Minor. Around 1700 BC the complexes were destroyed by an earthquake. Undeterred, the Minoans built bigger and better palaces on the sites of the originals, as well as new settlements in other parts of the island. Around 1450 BC, when the Minoan civilisation was at its peak, the palaces were mysteriously destroyed again. While there is continued speculation as to the cause of this destruction, the latest theory suggests it was the result of a giant tsunami that followed the massive volcanic eruption on the island of Santorini (Thira) . Knossos was the only palace to be salvaged. It was finally destroyed by fire around 1400 BC. The Myceneans appeared in Crete during this time, but the Minoan civilisation was a hard act to follow. The war-orientated Dorians, who arrived in Greece around 1100 BC, were pedestrian by comparison. The 5th century BC found Crete, like the rest of the country, divided into city-states. The glorious classical age of mainland Greece had little impact on Crete, and the Persians bypassed the island. It was also ignored by Alexander the Great, so was never part of the Macedonian Empire. By 67 BC, Crete had fallen to the Romans. The town of Gortyna in the south became the capital of Cyrenaica, a province that included large chunks of North Africa. Crete, along with the rest of Greece , became part of the Byzantine Empire in AD 395. In 1210 Crete was occupied by the Venetians, whose legacy is one of mighty fortresses, ornate public buildings and monuments, and handsome dwellings. Despite the massive Venetian fortifications, which sprang up all over the island, by 1669 the whole of the mainland was under Turkish rule. The first uprising against the Turks was led by Ioannis Daskalogiannis in 1770. Many more insurrections followed, and in 1898 the Great Powers ( Great Britain , France and Russia ) intervened and made the island a British protectorate. It was not until the signing of the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913 that Crete officially became part of Greece , although the island’s parliament had declared a de facto union in 1905. Crete saw much heavy fighting during WWII. Germany wanted the island as an air base and on 20 May 1941 German parachutists landed on Crete. It was the start of 10 days of fierce fighting that became known as the Battle of Crete. For two whole days the battle hung in the balance until Germany won a bridgehead for its air force at Maleme, located near Hania . The Allied forces of Britain, Australia , New Zealand and Greece then fought a valiant rear-guard action which enabled the British Navy to evacuate 18, 000 of the 32, 000 Allied troops on the island. The German occupation of Crete lasted until the end of WWII. During | The British Declaration of War - History Learning Site The British Declaration of War Citation: C N Trueman "The British Declaration of War" historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 31 Mar 2015. 16 Aug 2016. On August 4th 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. It was a decision that is seen as the start of World War One. Britain, led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had given Germany an ultimatum to get out of Belgium by midnight of August 3rd. In fear of being surrounded by the might of Russia and France, Germany had put into being the Schlieffen Plan in response to the events that had occurred in Sarajevo in June 1914. By doing this, the German military hierarchy had doomed Belgium to an invasion. Belgium’s neutrality had been guaranteed by Great Britain as far back as 1839. Asquith had a very simple decision to make – but one that would have a cataclysmic impact on British society. He could either turn a blind eye to a war in mainland Europe that might have little impact on Britain if she stood as a neutral. Or the British public could see Asquith as the man who stood up to the perceived bullying of Germany and who stood for righteousness and decency. A future Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, described the scene in London in the hours that led to the declaration of war. “It was eleven o’clock at night – twelve by German time – when the ultimatum expired. The windows of the Admiralty were thrown wide open in the warm night air. Under the roof from which Nelson had received his orders were gathered a small group of admirals and captains and a cluster of clerks, pencils in hand, waiting. Along the Mall from the direction of the Palace the sound of an immense concourse singing ‘God save the King’ flouted in. On this deep wave there broke the chimes of Big Ben; and, as the first stroke of the hour boomed out, a rustle of movement swept across the room. The war telegram, which meant, “Commence hostilities against Germany”, was flashed to the ships and establishments under the White Ensign all over the world. I walked across the Horse Guards Parade to the Cabinet room and reported to the Prime Minister and the Ministers who were assembled there that the deed was done.” While Churchill seemed to indicate that there was a general expectation for war in Britain, records show that this may not have been reciprocated in Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm II said as it became clear that Germany planned to invade France: “With heavy heart I have been compelled to mobilise my army against a neighbour at whose side it has fought on many a battlefield. With genuine sorrow do I witness the end of a friendship, which Germany loyally cherished. We draw the sword with a clean conscience and clean hands.” His views seemed to be supported by the Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg when he addressed the Reichstag on the day war was declared: “Gentlemen, we are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law! Our troops have occupied Luxemburg and perhaps are already on Belgium soil. Gentlemen, this is contrary to the dictates of international law. The wrong – I speak openly – that we are committing we will endeavour to make good as soon as our military goal has been reached. Anybody who is threatened, as we are threatened, and is fighting for his highest possessions can have only one thought – how he is to hack his way through.” However, the concerns about international law as expressed by the Chancellor, were not shared by the German public. They seemed, as with their counterparts in London and Paris, to be actively enthusiastic about war. It is said that Bethmann Hollweg referred the treaty between Britain and Belgium as a “scrap of paper”. However, some question whether this was a literal translation as no one knows whether he referred to the Anglo-Belgium Treaty in German or in English and whether what he actually said was lost in translation. On the surface what Bethmann Hollweg said seemed to be at odds with his declaration to the Reichstag that Germany was breaking international law. In Britain, when Asquith |
Torch was the final code name for the 1942 Allied landings ……..where? | Operation Torch – History Wars Weapons About Operation Torch Operation Torch was the code-name for the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa. It took place on November 8, 1942, on the coasts of French Morocco and Algeria, during World War II. Although the British 8th Army, under the command of Bernard Montgomery, had been fighting against the German forces in North Africa, defeating Rommel’s Afrika Korps at the Battle of El Alamein, on November 5, 1942, Wiston Churchill proposed an Allied invasion on French North Africa which would relieve the 8th Army’s efforts, definitely clear the Axis Powers from North Africa, improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea and prepare for an invasion of Southern Europe (Italy) in 1943, thus, opening the European second front the Soviets had been pressing for. To carry out Operation Torch, the Allied commanders planned a three-pronged amphibious landing to seize the key ports and airports of Morocco and Algeria simultaneously, targeting Casablanca, Oran and Algiers. Successful completion of these operations was to be followed by an advance eastwards into Tunisia. Summary of Operation Torch The British-American invasion of North Africa was conducted by three task forces: 1) the Western Task Force, which was aimed at Casablanca, consisted of the US 2nd Armored Division, the US 3rd and 9th Infantry Divisions, totalling 35,000 troops in all, with Major General George Patton in command and Rear Admiral Henry K. Hewitt heading the naval operations; 2) the Center Task Force, aimed at Oran, Morocco, included the US 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division, and the US 1st Armored Division (18,500 troops), commanded by Major General Lloyd Fredendall, and the naval forces being commanded by Commodore Thomas Troubridge; 3) the Eastern Task force, aimed at Algiers, Algeria, was commanded by Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson and consisted of two brigades from British 78th and the US 34th Infantry Divisions and two British Commando units—No.1 and No. 6 Commandos, totalling 20,000 troops. On 8 November 1942, the Western Task Force landed before daybreak at three points in Morocco: Safi (Operation Blackstone), Fedala (Operation Brushwood the largest landing with 19,000 men), and Mehdiya-Port Lyautey (Operation Goalpost). Because it was hoped that the French would not resist, there were no preliminary bombardments. This proved to be a costly error as French defenses took a toll of American landing forces. After two days of heavy fighting, on November 10, Patton was able to land at 08:00 hours. Then, the Americans proceeded to surround the port of Casablanca and the city surrendered an hour before the final assault was due to take place. The Center Task Force was split between three beaches, two west of Oran and one east. The US 1st Ranger Battalion landed east of Oran and quickly captured the shore battery at Arzew. French batteries and the invasion fleet exchanged fire throughout 8 November and 9 November, with French troops defending Oran and the surrounding area stubbornly. Heavy fire from the British battleships brought about the surrender on 9 November. The US 34th Infantry Division, reinforced with one brigade of the British 78th, spearheaded the Eastern Task Force, landing in Algeria on November 8. The landings were split between three beaches —two west of Algiers and one east. The only fighting took place in the port of Algiers itself, where in Operation Terminal two British destroyers attempted to land a party of US Rangers directly onto the dock, in order to prevent the French destroying the port facilities and scuttling their ships. Heavy artillery fire prevented one destroyer from landing but the other was able to debark 250 Rangers. Meanwhile the 34th Infantry Division troops pushed quickly inland and General Juin surrendered the city to the Allies at 18:00 hours. | countries involved in World War Two countries involved in World War Two Map with the Participants in World War II: Dark Green: Allies before the attack on Pearl Harbour Light Green: Allied countries that entered the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Orange: Axis Powers World War II was primarily fought between two large alliances. The Axis Powers were a group of countries led by Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, and are considered the aggressors of the conflict. The Allies, led by the United Kingdom and, until its defeat, France, were joined in the European theatre by the Soviet Union in June 1941 and by the United States in December 1941. In the Asia-Pacific theatre, the Allies were led by the Republic of China from the invasion of China by Japan in 1937 and then joined by the United States in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbour. The Axis Originally founded on the concept of the Rome-Berlin-axis (the Pact of Steel), later the Tripartite Pact, the Axis was not primarily a formal alliance. Each of the major countries went to war on their own initiative (Nazi Germany in 1939, Italy in 1940, and Japan in 1937 against China and 1941 against USA), and not necessarily to assist each other. There was little sharing of technology or resources, and also little in the way of cooperative strategic planning between the major Axis Powers. With the demise of Italy, Germany and Japan each functioned as wholly separate powers, each conducting the war in their theatre (Germany in Europe and Japan in the Pacific). There were a number of smaller powers on the side of the Axis, although for the most part the war effort was directed and powered by Germany and Japan. The Allies Like the Axis, the Allies were not a fully cohesive alliance. The original Allied countries, bound by their commitment to the security of Poland, were led by the United Kingdom and France. As other countries were invaded by Nazi Germany, they were added to the Allied ranks. The fall of France left the United Kingdom as the sole remaining major country of the Allies. Most of the remainder consisted of the British Commonwealth and forces commanded by various governments-in-exile. While the European war did not officially start until the 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union, the war began much earlier in Asia and Africa with the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936 and the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. Subsequently, with the war spreading to Europe and the Pacific Ocean, China, with one-third of the country under occupation, dispatched its forces to help the British defend India against Japan and recapture Burma (now Myanmar) in 1944. In 1941, with Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, the British accepted the Communist Soviet Union into their alliance. Previous to the attack, the United Kingdom was unsure of how to deal with the Soviet leadership, as it had been viewed as an aggressor against Britain's ally Poland, though Winston Churchill in 1939 said that the new Soviet-German border formed an anti-Nazi front, |
What kingdom, led by Otto von Bismarck, united Germany under its leadership? | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prime minister of Prussia (1862-73, 1873-90) and founder and first chancellor (1871-90) of the German Empire. Once the empire was established, he actively and skillfully pursued pacific policies in foreign affairs, succeeding in preserving the peace in Europe for about two decades. But in domestic policies his patrimony was less benign, for he failed to rise above the authoritarian proclivities of the landed squirearchy to which he was born. Early years Bismarck was born at Schönhausen, in the Kingdom of Prussia. His father, Ferdinand von Bismarck-Schönhausen, was a Junker squire descended from a Swabian family that had ultimately settled as estate owners in Pomerania. Ferdinand was a typical member of the Prussian landowning elite. The family's economic circumstances were modestFerdinand's farming skills being perhaps less than averageand Bismarck was not to know real wealth until the rewards flowed in after the achievement of German unification. His mother, Wilhelmine Mencken, came from an educated bourgeois family that had produced a number of higher civil servants and academics. She had been married to Ferdinand von Bismarck at age 16 and found provincial life confining. When her son Otto was seven, she enrolled him in the progressive Plamann Institute in Berlin and moved to the capital to be near him. The young Bismarck resented exchanging an easy life in the country for a more circumscribed life in a large city, where in school he was pitted against the sons of Berlin's best-educated families. He spent five years at the school and went on to the Frederick William gymnasium for three years. He took his university entrance examination (Abitur) in 1832. With his mother's encouragement, he took up the study of law at the University of Göttingen in the kingdom of Hanover. Evidently Bismarck was a mediocre student who spent much of his time drinking with his comrades in an aristocratic fraternity. After a brief stint at the university in Berlin, he entered the Prussian civil service, where he was plagued by boredom and an inability to adhere to the hierarchical principles of the bureaucracy. His mother's death in 1839 gave him the opportunity of resigning in order to come to the assistance of his father, who was experiencing financial difficulties in the management of his estate. From 1839 to 1847 Bismarck lived the ordinary life of a Prussian country squire. Subsequently he romanticized these years on the land and wondered why he had abandoned an idyllic existence for the insecurities of a life in politics. This frequently expressed nostalgia may have been more guise than reality. During this period he met and married Johanna von Puttkamer, the daughter of a conservative aristocratic family famed for its devout pietism. While courting Johanna, Bismarck experienced a religious conversion that was to give him inner strength and security. A subsequent critic was to remark that Bismarck believed in a God who invariably agreed with him on all issues. There is no question that the marriage was a very happy one. In fact, Bismarck's last words before dying in 1898 expressed the wish that he would once again see Johanna, who had passed away some years earlier. His politics during the 1840s did not diverge substantially from those of a typical country squire. If anything, his politics were more conservative. He believed in a Christian state that received its sanction ultimately from the deity. The existing social and political order was to be defended in order to prevent a Hobbesian chaos of all against all. Given his views, Bismarck was welcomed as a member of the religious conservative circle around the brothers von Gerlach, who were stout defenders of the noble estate against the encroachments of bureaucratic centralization. Bismarck had nothing but sarcasm for aristocratic liberals who viewed England as a model for Prussia. In 1847 he attended the Prussian United Diet, where his speeches against Jewish emancipation and contemporary liberalism gained him the reputat | Frequently Asked Questions | Britroyals Frequently Asked Questions When did the last British King fight in a battle? George II was the last British King to lead his army in person, during the War of the Austrian Succession, at the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria, 27th June, 1743. The last English King to die in battle was Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in Leicestershire on 22 August 1485 defeated by Henry Tudor who became Henry VII ending the Wars of the Roses between the Houses of York and Lancaster and starting the Tudor dynasty. The last British King to die in battle was James IV of Scotland killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in Northumberland on 9 September 1513 when the Scots invaded England hoping to take advantage of Henry VIII's absence in France, but were defeated by English forces under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. How far back can the British Royal Family trace their roots? Is Queen Elizabeth II really directly descended from Alfred the Great? She is the 32nd great granddaughter of King Alfred who 1,140 years ago was the first effective King of England. He ruled from 871 to 899. I thought that American Independence was in 1776. Why is it quoted as 1783? The Continental Congress of the 13 American colonies declared independence in 1776. However, the war continued and independence from Britain was not achieved until the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Was George III really mad? For most of his reign King George III was an astute king and politician with a strong sense of duty. Later in his reign he suffered from recurrent and eventually permanent mental illness. This baffled medical science at the time, although it is now generally thought that he suffered from the inherited blood disease porphyria. He suffered his first attack in 1788 and by 1810 was unfit to rule. In 1811 his son George, Prince of Wales, became Regent for 9 years until his father died in 1820. Who would now be King or Queen if Edward VIII had not abdicated? Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 less than a year after becoming King to marry Wallis Simpson. His younger brother Bertie became King George VI and was the father of the present Queen Elizabeth II . He died in 1952, and Edward who had no children died in 1972. So even if Edward had not abdicated Elizabeth would now be Queen. She would have come to the throne in 1972 instead of 1952. Why did Edward VIII have to give up the throne to marry a divorcee but Prince Charles is still in line to the throne? Royals who are divorced or marry divorcees do not lose their position in the line of succession. Edward VIII had a number of affairs with married women including Wallis Simpson who was already divorced and still married to her second husband. His parents King George V and Queen Mary did not approve and refused to meet her. When George V died Prime Minister Baldwin made it clear that the Government, popular opinion in the country and the oversees Dominions (now the Commonwealth nations) did not approve of his plans to marry Wallis. Social attitudes towards divorce and a women looking for a third marriage were considered scandalous at the time, and if Edward married against the advice of his Ministers it would have caused the Government to resign and a constitutional crisis. Edward chose to |
Risotto is usually made with which type of rice? | Beyond Arborio: Discovering the " Other" Risotto Rices Beyond Arborio: Discovering the 'Other' Risotto Rices Experiment with these varieties to find your favorite by Jennifer Armentrout The luxurious, creamy texture of a good risotto depends on using the right kind of rice. Italians have several varieties of risotto rice from which to choose, but in North America our selection tends to be limited. Here, the most familiar and widely available risotto rice is arborio, but other equally good (some say better) varieties, like carnaroli, vialone nano, baldo, and Calriso, are becoming easier to find. If you like to make risotto, you might find a new favorite by experimenting with these other varieties. All risotto rices have a couple of things in common. They have plump, medium to short grains and, more important, they all have a high proportion of amylopectin, a type of sticky starch that's responsible for the trademark creamy texture of risotto. In contrast, long-grain rices, like basmati or Carolina rice, have a higher proportion of the less-sticky starch called amylose. This starch causes long-grain rices to cook up light and separate, which is why these rices don't work well in risotto. While similar on the macro level, the five risotto rices mentioned above vary in size and overall starch composition. When cooked, these variations translate into subtle, yet discernible, differences in the finished risotto. Arborio: The most widely available risotto rice, arborio is typically wider and longer than carnaroli or vialone nano. It's not as starchy and it absorbs liquid a little less well. Available in most supermarkets. Baldo: A relatively new variety, baldo is most comparable to arborio in shape and starchiness. It's the quickest cooking of the risotto rices. Available in specialty shops and from Kalustyans . Calriso: A hybrid of Italian and California rice varieties, Calriso is also quite similar to arborio in cooking characteristics, though it expands a bit more. Calriso is a trademarked brand name. Available in specialty shops, and Whole Foods stores. Carnaroli: Variously hailed as the "king" or the "caviar" of Italian rices, carnaroli is the preferred risotto rice in most regions of Italy except the Veneto. It's said to produce the creamiest risotto, yet it's more resistant to overcooking than arborio. Available in specialty shops, some supermarkets, and from Formaggio Kitchen . Vialone nano: The preferred rice of the Veneto region, vialone nano can absorb twice its weight in liquid. With a starch content almost as high as carnaroli's, it also produces a very creamy risotto. Available in specialty shops and from www.chefshop.com . Photo: Scott Phillips | Plants life form - Vietnam Plant Data Center - BVNGroup Partial rosette plants: both stem and basal rosette leaves Rosette plants: only basal rosette leaves Cryptophytes Below ground or under water - with resting buds lying either beneath the surface of the ground as a rhizome, bulb, corm, etc., or a resting bud submerged under water. Cryptophytes are divided into 3 groups: Geophytes: Resting in dry ground, e.g. crocus, tulip. May be further subdivided into rhizome, stem-tuber, root-tuber, bulb and root geophytes. Helophytes: Resting in marshy ground, e.g. reedmace, marsh-marigold. A helophyte or limnodophyte is the phytosociologic definition of a biennial or herbaceous plant of which only the buds survive a harsh period, such as winter, e.g. sweet flag (Acorus calamus) or bulrush (Typha sp.). Many helophytes can also be termed hydrophytes or aquatic plants, e.g. common duckweed (Lemna minor), eelgrass (Zostera sp.), and water soldiers (Stratiotes sp.), or geophytes, e.g. the yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus). Hydrophytes: Resting by being submerged under water, e.g. water-lily, frogbit. Aquatic plants - also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes - are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments. Because living on or under water surface requires numerous special adaptations, aquatic plants can only grow in water or permanently saturated soil. Aquatic vascular plants can be ferns or angiosperms (from a variety of families, including among the monocots and dicots). Seaweeds are not vascular plants but multicellular marine algae, and therefore not typically included in the category of aquatic plants. As opposed to plants types such as mesophytes and xerophytes, hydrophytes do not have a problem in retaining water due to the abundance of water in its environment. This means the plant has less need to regulate transpiration (indeed, the regulation of transpiration would require more energy than the possible benefits incurred) Therophytes Annual plants which survive the unfavourable season in the form of seeds and complete their life-cycle during favourable seasons. Annual species are therophytes. Many desert plants are by necessity therophytes. Aerophytes New addition to the Raunkiaer lifeform classification. Plant that obtains moisture (though not through haustoria) and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on other plants but not parasitic on them. Epiphytes see Phanerophytes above. It is a plant that grows upon another plant (such as a tree) non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object (such as a building or a telegraph wire), derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone (as many mosses, liverworts, lichens and algae) and in the tropics (as many ferns, cacti, orchids, and bromeliads) - called also air plants." Epiphyte is one of the subdivisions of the Raunkiær system. The term most commonly refers to higher plants, but epiphytic bacteria, fungi (epiphytic fungi), algae, lichens, mosses, and ferns exist as well. The term epiphytic derives from the Greek epi- (meaning 'upon') and phyton (meaning 'plant'). Epiphytic plants are sometimes called "air plants" because they do not root in soil. However, there are many aquatic species of algae, including seaweeds, that are epiphytes on other aquatic plants (seaweeds or aquatic angiosperms). Epiphytic organisms usually derive only physical support and not nutrition from their host, though they may sometimes damage the host. Parasitic and semiparasitic plants growing on other plants (mistletoe is well known) are not "true" epiphytes (a designation usually given to fully autotrophic epiphytes), but are still epiphytic in habit. Epiphytic plants use photosynthesis for energy and (where non-aquatic) obtain moisture from the air or from dampness (rain and cloud moisture) on the surface of their hosts. Roots may develop primarily for attachment, and specialized structures (for example, cups and scales) may be used to collect or hold moisture. Epiphytic |
Which legend of the British pop world died on March the 8th 2016? | People we lost in 2016 People we lost in 2016 Updated 7:21 AM ET, Mon October 24, 2016 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: People we lost in 2016 Hide Caption 1 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Debbie Reynolds , one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s, died December 28, one day after her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher, passed away. She was 84. Hide Caption 2 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Actress Carrie Fisher , best known for her role as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" franchises, died December 27, according to her daughter's publicist. Fisher had suffered a cardiac event on December 23. She was 60 years old. Hide Caption 3 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Actor and comedian Ricky Harris , who was a regular on the TV sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris" and first gained attention on HBO's "Def Comedy Jam," died December 26, according to his publicist. He was 54. Hide Caption 4 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Singer George Michael , who shot to fame with the '80s band Wham!, died on Christmas Day, according to Britain's Press Association. He was 53 years old. Hide Caption 5 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 English novelist Richard Adams , author of the famous children's book "Watership Down," died at the age of 96 on December 24. Hide Caption 6 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Zsa Zsa Gabor , the Hungarian beauty whose many marriages, gossipy adventures and occasional legal scuffles kept her in tabloid headlines for decades, died December 18, said her former longtime publicist Ed Lozzi. She was 99. Hide Caption 7 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Craig Sager , the longtime Turner Sports sideline reporter best known for his colorful -- and at times fluorescent -- wardrobe, died December 15 after battling acute myeloid leukemia, the network said. He was 65. Hide Caption 8 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Actor Alan Thicke , known for his role as the father in the sitcom "Growing Pains," died on December 13, according to his agent, Tracy Mapes. He was 69. Thicke's career spanned five decades -- one in which he played various roles on and off screen, from actor to writer to composer to author. Hide Caption 9 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, died December 8, according to the Ohio State University. He was 95. Hide Caption 10 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Joseph Mascolo , the actor who portrayed archvillain Stefano DiMera in the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives," died December 7 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, the network said. He was 87. Hide Caption 11 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Greg Lake , a founding member of influential progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer, died December 7 after a bout with cancer, his manager said. He's seen here at left with bandmates Keith Emerson, center, and Carl Palmer in 1972. Hide Caption 12 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Actor Ron Glass , known for his role on the police sitcom "Barney Miller," died November 25, his agent said. Glass also starred in "Firefly" and its film sequel "Serenity." Hide Caption 13 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Florence Henderson , whose "Brady Bunch" character Carol Brady was one of television's most famous mothers, died November 24 at the age of 82, her manager, Kayla Pressman, said. Hide Caption 14 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Sharon Jones , the powerful lead singer of the Dap-Kings, died November 18 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, manager Alex Kadvan told CNN. She was 60. Hide Caption 15 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Gwen Ifill , the veteran journalist and newscaster who co-anchored "PBS NewsHour," died after a battle with endometrial cancer, according to PBS on November 14. She was 61. Hide Caption 16 of 119 Photos: People we lost in 2016 Leon Russell , who emerged as a rock 'n' roll star in the 1970s after working behind the scenes as a session pianist for other musicians, died November 13, his wife told CNN. He was 74. Hi | July in London 2016 | London Events 2016 | LondonTown.com July in London 2016 © Hamish Brown The Royal Academy of Arts displays intimate portraits by David Hockney, Florence and the Machine, Take That and Beyonce perform live, and the Museum of London marks the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London in July 2016. The trip hop pioneers perform against LED screens set up by longtime collaborators United Visual Artists. Massive Attack Hyde Park, Rangers Lodge London, W2 2UH Concerts Hyde Park, Rangers Lodge, London, W2 2UH Enlarge Close The reformed trip hop duo, who originally started in Bristol in 1988, perform a provocative audio-visual show as part of British Summer Time at Hyde Park . Innovative Bristolian pioneers Massive Attack - Robert '3D' Del Naja and Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall - renowned for fusing together a wide range of styles, from punk to reggae to R&B, continues to win fans with their latest EP, Ritual Spirit, and a recent sold-out tour. The Hyde Park gig has been designed by Robert Del Naja and longtime collaborators United Visual Artists who wire up the band's trademark LED screens flashing up facts, figures and headlines. Support comes from special guests Patti Smith, TV On The Radio, Warpaint and Ghostpoet. Anthony Neilson returns to the Royal Court Theatre, creating a play in the rehearsal room. Unreachable Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square London, SW1W 8AS Theatre Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London, SW1W 8AS Dates: 01st July - 06th August 2016 Enlarge Close Known for his pioneering and imaginative work, Anthony Neilson returns to the Royal Court Theatre in 2016 with Unreachable , a play about a film director on an obsessive quest to capture the perfect light. We can't say anymore than that at the moment as the play will be created in the rehearsal room, with a cast of actors to be announced. Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park Hyde Park, Rangers Lodge London, W2 2UH Concerts Hyde Park, Rangers Lodge, Hyde Park, London, W2 2UH Dates: 30th Jun to 6th Jul 2017 Enlarge Close British Summer Time Hyde Park is back for a fourth year in 2016 with another impressive line-up. This year will see Florence & the Machine , Kendrick Lamar, Jamie XX share the bill while Mumford & Sons and Take That headline on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July. Now a firm fixture for summer in London, the extravaganza features live music, comedy acts and film screenings and a mini village of cafes, bistros and independent food stalls, themed pubs and cocktail bars across Hyde Park. Themed zones, each with its own installations and refreshments, provide laid back entertainment from Monday to Thursday while big name bands pump out the hits on the weekends. David Hockney RA: 79 Portraits and 2 Still Lifes Celia Birtwell and Barry Humphries are among Hockney's portraits of friends and art world figures. David Hockney RA: 79 Portraits and 2 Still Lifes Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House London, W1J 0BD Exhibitions Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London, W1J 0BD Dates: 02nd July - 02nd October 2016 Enlarge Close In 2012 David Hockney's A Bigger Picture filled the Royal Academy of Arts with vast landscapes in the year London hosted the Olympics. Now, a mere four years later, those "overblown" (Evening Standard) landscapes have been set aside for more intimate portraits. Hockney, who once said he prefers to only paint people he knows, has been working on a series of portraits of friends and art world figures since 2013, all of whom sit in the same chair against the same backdrop, painting over the course of three days. Around 70 of these new equal-sized portraits are displayed including fashion designer Celia Birtwell, Dame Edna Everage's alter ego Barry Humphries, the Californian artist John Baldessari and Hockney's older sister Margaret. Florence & The Machine, Kendrick Lamar, Jamie XX Hyde Park, Rangers Lodge London, W2 2UH Concerts Hyde Park, Rangers Lodge, London, W2 2UH Enlarge Close They've headlined at Glastonbury, won at the BRITs, had huge success with 2009 debut |
Which football team have recently been crowned Portuguese League Champions? | Football's top club competition - UEFA Champions League - News - UEFA.com TagName:UCL.HISTORY.INDEX Football's top club competition Although it was launched soon after UEFA's first Congress, held in Vienna on 2 March 1955, the European Champion Clubs' Cup was not a UEFA initiative. Real Madrid players pose after their 11th win in 2016 ©AFP/Getty Images Football's top club competition Although it was launched soon after UEFA's first Congress, held in Vienna on 2 March 1955, the European Champion Clubs' Cup was not a UEFA initiative. Read more Football's premier club competition, the European Champion Clubs' Cup was launched soon after UEFA's first Congress, held in Vienna on 2 March 1955, yet the competition was not a UEFA initiative. Whereas many of UEFA's founder members were more interested in establishing a national team competition, the French sports daily L'Equipe and its then-editor Gabriel Hanot were championing the cause for a Europe-wide club competition. Hanot, together with colleague Jacques Ferran, designed a blueprint for a challenge tournament to be played on Wednesdays under floodlights. ©Getty Images Madrid won the first five editions The tournament initiated by L'Equipe did not stipulate that the participating teams had to be champions of their country, but they invited clubs who they considered had the most fan appeal. Representatives of 16 sides were invited to meetings on 2 and 3 April 1955, and the L'Equipe rules were unanimously approved. UEFA – which had been founded in June 1954 – reacted by contacting the world body FIFA, and the latter's Executive Committee, meeting in London on 8 May 1955, authorised the new club competition under the condition that it was organised by UEFA and that the national associations concerned gave their consent to their clubs taking part. UEFA's Executive Committee accepted the conditions laid down by FIFA and agreed to run the competition at its meeting on 21 June 1955. The first European Champion Clubs' Cup fixture was played in Lisbon as SC Portugal were held to a 3-3 draw by Partizan. The Yugoslavian side won the return leg in Belgrade 5-2 to advance to the next round. Real Madrid immediately made the tournament their own by winning the first five finals. Since then, other clubs have also enjoyed fruitful runs in the competition with Ajax and Bayern München both completing three consecutive victories. However, no one club has been able to claim long-term domination. Ajax waited 22 years to add a fourth title to the hat-trick obtained in the early 1970s; Madrid's triumph in 1998 was their first in 32 years; and Bayern's penalty shoot-out success in Milan in 2001 ended a 26-year quest for their fourth crown. Liverpool's four victories between 1977 and 1984 deserve a mention as the English club landed the prize with essentially different teams. The Reds' European pedigree also shone in 2005 when they battled back from 3-0 down to pip AC Milan on penalties in one of the competition's most exciting finals. ©Getty Images Milan triumphed in 2003 Real Madrid, Milan and FC Barcelona have been the most successful sides in the UEFA Champions League era, the Spanish pair lifting the trophy four times apiece and the Rossoneri three. Madrid are also the most successful club overall with 11 triumphs, followed by seven for Milan, five for Barcelona, Bayern and Liverpool, then four for Ajax. Moreover, Madrid hold the record for final appearances with 13. Milan's 2002/03 triumph came after a marathon 19 games from third qualifying round all the way to penalty shoot-out success over Juventus in the final. The major turning point in the tournament's evolution had come in the 1992/93 season when the UEFA Champions League, involving a group stage in addition to the traditional knockout elements, was officially inaugurated after a pilot round robin during the previous campaign. The popularity of the group phase means the competition has grown from eight to 32 teams with matches held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays across Europe. ©UEFA.com 1998-2017. All rights reserved. http://www.uefa.com/u | Men’s PFA Players’ Player of the Year: Nominees - News - The PFA Men’s PFA Players’ Player of the Year: Nominees ThePFA.com 16/04/2015 17:04:00 We take a closer look at the nominees for the PFA Players' Player of the Year … DIEGO COSTA PFA Players’ Player of the Year Nominee: Diego Costa Club: Chelsea FC National Team: Spain DOB: 7/10/1988 Diego Costa arrived at Stamford Bridge with a big reputation and has more than justified Chelsea’s extensive efforts to secure his signature. Costa is strong and his robust style is certainly suited to the rigours of the Premier League. He made a great start to the season, scoring seven goals from his first four games and was voted the PFA Fans’ Player of the Month in August. The 26-year-old scored 64 goals in 134 appearances during his spell with Atletico Madrid. At Chelsea Costa has been finding the net at a rate approaching a goal a game, as he sets his sights on adding a Barclays Premier League title to the La Liga crown he won with the Madrid club in 2014. DAVID DE GEA PFA Players’ Player of the Year Nominee: David de Gea Club: Manchester United FC National Team: Spain DOB: 7/11/1990 David de Gea’s journey in the Barclays Premier League is a great example of how world-class talent still requires determination, self-belief, hard-work and resilience. Having joined Manchester United in 2011 for a record British fee for a goalkeeper of £17.8m, the expectation on de Gea was huge. It was widely accepted that the Spaniard was a word-class shot-stopper, but his ability to adapt to the physicality of the English game wasn’t always such a given. After a testing start to his Old Trafford career, de Gea is now arguably United’s key player and is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers on the planet. As we approach the climax of the 2014/15 campaign it is probably a fair assessment to say that Manchester United still remain a team in transition, but under the stewardship of Dutchman Louis Van Gaal, the Red Devils are looking stronger with every game. Whilst earlier in the season some of the Old Trafford faithful were frustrated with the manner of the team’s performances, the three-times European champions still managed to grind out results and this was in no small part due to the brilliance of de Gea. The United goalkeeper at times has looked unbeatable, consistently producing match-winning saves at pivotal moments. In November this resulted in the Spanish international being voted the PFA Fans’ Player of the Month. PHILIPPE COUTINHO PFA Players’ Player of the Year Nominee: Philippe Coutinho Club: Liverpool FC National Team: Brazil DOB: 12/6/1992 There have been a number of stand-out performers in a resurgent Liverpool side this season and few deserve greater plaudits than the young Brazilian. Philippe Coutinho has been an inspiration in a floating midfield role which allows him to exert his influence over games, utilising his pace, poise and deftness of touch. A product of the Vasco da Gama academy, Coutinho continues to show maturity beyond his 22 years. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is excited by the prospect of his future potential, stating: "He is certainly going to be up there, there is no doubt about that. He has played very well. If he continues to progress the way he has, he will be a world class talent.” EDEN HAZARD National Team: Belgium DOB: 7/1/1991 It is the second year in a row that Eden Hazard has been nominated for both PFA Player’s Player of the Year and PFA Young Player of the year. Signed from Lille in 2012 for a fee reported to be around £32m, Hazard had already won the UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year in consecutive seasons. In 2011/12 he became the youngest player to win the award, then in the following season he then repeated the feat, an achievement only matched by former Paris Saint-Germain striker Pauleta. Hazard is the current holder of the PFA Young Player of the Year award and has been an inspirational figure in Chelsea’s pursuit of the Barclays Premier League title. Whilst Jose Mourinho has imposed his characteristic steel and a resolve onto the West London cl |
What is the nickname of the Beijing National Stadium? | Beijing National Stadium - Beijing Concert Venues Guide and Tickets Beijing National Stadium Reviews : Beijing National Stadium, also colloquially as Bird's Nest (Chinese Name : 国家体育场; 鸟巢), This huge stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. Located in the Olympic Green, the US$423 million stadium is the world's largest steel structure. The stadium's design originally called for a capacity of 100,000 people; however 9,000 were removed during a simplification of the design. nowadays, the National Stadium host the large-scale sports tournament, concerts and otherwise after the Olympics. What's on Stage | CRICKET PLAYERS & NICKNAMES ... endless! by Chinaroad Australia's 1948 tour of England � The Invincibles Australian national cricket team � Baggy Greens Bangladeshi national cricket team � The Tigers Canadian national cricket team � One Man Band New Zealand national cricket team � The Black Caps, The Kiwis South African national cricket team � The Proteas West Indian national cricket team � The Windies, The Calypsos Indian national cricket team � The Men in Blue Pakistani national cricket team� The Stars Officials, umpires and commentators Harold Bird � Dickie Bird Henry Blofeld � Blowers Brent Bowden � Billy Steve Bucknor � Slow Death Bill Ferguson � Fergie Bill Frindall � The Bearded Wonder Brian Johnston � Johnners Christopher Martin-Jenkins � CMJ Don Mosey � The Alderman David Shepherd � Shep Bryan Waddle � Wads Players Bobby Abel � The Guv'nor Jimmy Adams � Padams Paul Adams � Gogga ("insect" in Afrikaans), A frog in a blender (for his unusual bowling action) Ajit Agarkar � Bombay Duck (for his horror streak of ducks against Australia) Jonathan Agnew � Aggers Shoaib Akhtar � Rawalpindi Express Wasim Akram � Prince of Pakistan, Was, Sultan of Swing Terry Alderman � Clem (after Clem Jones, mayor of Brisbane, curator of Gabba and an alderman) Mark Alleyne � BooBoo Mohinder Amarnath � Jimmy, Amarnought Surinder Amarnath � Tommy Warwick Armstrong � the Big Ship Jason Arnberger � Cheesy Geoff Arnold � Horse Shahid Afridi � The Boom Michael Atherton � Athers B Trevor Bailey � The Boil, Barnacle Omari Banks � Bankie, Cowheb Richie Benaud � Diamonds Tino Best � The Best, Ntini Michael Bevan � Bevvo Andrew Bichel � Bic Jack Blackham � Black Jack David Boon � Boonie, Keg on Legs, Stumpy Allan Border � A.B., Captain Grumpy Ian Botham � Beefy,The Both,Guy Mark Boucher � Guinness, Billy Nicky Boje � Bodge Nathan Bracken � Bracks Don Bradman � The Don Ian Bell � Belly, the team baby C Andy Caddick � Caddyshack Chris Cairns � B.A. (Bad Attitude) Shivnarine Chanderpaul � Tiger Ian Chappell � Chapelli Ewen Chatfield � Chats, Farmer (Mer) or The Naenae Express Stuart Clark � Sarfraz, Stu Michael Clarke � Pup Paul Collingwood � Nice Ginger, Colly Herbie Collins � Horseshoe Corey Collymore � Screw Jeremy Coney � Mantis Colin Cowdrey � Kipper Jeff Crowe � Chopper Martin Crowe � Hogan D Adam Dale � Chipper Joe Darling � Paddy Phillip DeFreitas � Half-Chocolate, Daffy Aravinda de Silva � Mad Max Fanie de Villiers � Vinnige Fanie ("Fast Fanie" in Afrikaans) Kapil Dev � The Haryana Express Mahendra Singh Dhoni � Mahi Graham Dilley � Pica Boeta Dippenaar � Dipps Allan Donald � White Lightning Brett Dorey � Hunky, John J.W.H.T. Douglas � Johnny Won't Hit Today Rahul Dravid � Jammy, The Wall E Bruce Edgar � Bootsy F Damien Fleming � Flemo Stephen Fleming � Flange Duncan Fletcher � Fletch Keith Fletcher � The Gnome of Essex Andrew Flintoff � Freddy, Twiggy, Fred, family man James Foster � The Child Graeme Fowler � Foxy C. B. Fry � Lord Oxford, Charles III, Almighty G Saurav Ganguly � Maharaj, Prince of Calcutta, Dada, Bengal Tiger Joel Garner � Big Bird Sunil Gavaskar � Sunny, The Little Master Chris Gayle � Cramps, Crampy Herschelle Gibbs � Scooter, The Sack Man Adam Gilchrist � Churchy, Gilly, The Demolition Man Ashley Giles � Ash, the King of Spain Jason Gillespie � Dizzy Darren Gough � Rhino, Goughy, the Dazzler, Dancing Darren E. M. Grace � The Coroner W.G. Grace � The Doctor Mark Greatbatch � Paddy Clarrie Grimmett � The Old Fox, Grum Subhash Gupte � Fergie H Brad Haddin � BJ, Harry, Guildo Richard Hadlee � Paddles Andrew Hall � Brosh, Merv, Hally Stephen Harmison � Harmy (or Harmi), Tinker, GBH (Grievous Bodily Harmison) Chris Harris � Harry, Lugs Ian Harvey � Freak Nathan Hauritz � Horry Matthew Hayden � Haydos, Unit |
In which London Park is 'Rotten Row'? | Rotten Row - Review of Hyde Park, London, England - TripAdvisor Review of Hyde Park Rangers Lodge, London W2 2UH, England +44 20 7298 2100 More attraction details Attraction details Owner description: Once the hunting ground for Henry VIII, this large royal park is best known for its famous Speakers' Corner, where people speak their minds; Rotton Row, a famous horse-riding area; and Serpentine Lake, home to waterfowl and oarsmen. There are newer reviews for this attraction “Rotten Row” Reviewed January 18, 2012 Massive Park - full of grass and trees and that kind of thing. Also a big rowing lake called the Serpentine - where mad people swim on Christmas Day in the freezing cold. Horses on Rotten Row it is still a place to show off and be seen, just like the 'olden days'. Sadly though, Speakers Corner should probably be renamed Squeakers Corner these days!! Helpful? Ask EssexWanderer about Hyde Park This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC. 11,852 reviews from our community Visitor rating “Visited for Hard Rock Calling” Reviewed January 18, 2012 Its difficult to believe this lushious green park can be found in the centre of our capital - lovely for a walk around. Helpful? Ask JPea8 about Hyde Park This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC. Luke242 “Excellent Park - I mean it's Hyde Park!!!” Reviewed January 14, 2012 Hyde Park, simply brilliant! Great Park, large, many things to do, free gallery (the Serpentine) and quite pleasant to me! If there is any negatives though, I would say sometimes it can be too busy with people running and it is like being in the middle of the road, yelling at me to be out of the way, which was a bit off putting! Also much construction/engineering works taking place near Kensington Palace is quite depressing, so may not re-open until late spring 2012 due to the olympics, I have heard. Recommended. Ask Luke242 about Hyde Park This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC. paulwilkinson “Winter Wonderland and Ice Skating” Reviewed January 13, 2012 Basically a german christmas market on steroids. A huge number of rides, shops, stalls and food and drink outlets. Food was the usual overpriced stuff, but the beer was more reasonably priced than I was expecting. There was a great selection of rides including an impressive rollercoaster and a big tower although they were quite expensive per go. All the rides required tokens which could be bought in lots of places and were a pound each. The ice rink was built around the bandstand and was huge. Live music was provided for about half of the session and the band were pretty good. Skates were the usual uncomfortable plastic ones. Plenty of help and support from the ice marshalls for those who were less confident on the ice. Visited December 2011 | Bassenthwaite Lake. Links Bassenthwaite Lake Bassenthwaite Lake, dominated by the looming bulk of Skiddaw and northernmost of the lakes, is four miles long and is the fourth largest area of water in the Lake District National Park. Motorised boats are prohibited although yachts are allowed, which add to its captivating ambience of peace and tranquility. An extremely rare fish, the vendace, can be found at Bassenthwaite, the only other place this species is to be found is at Derwentwater. Left- Bassenthwaite Lake with Skiddaw rising beyond Right- The Lake from Whinlatter Forest Park The lake is owned by the Lake District National Park Authority, and is a National Nature Reserve. The lake is one of the best places for birdwatching in the Lake District, more than seventy different species of birds breed on or around the lake, including great crested grebe, common sandpiper, reed warbler and of course the ospreys. Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake were once one large lake, but were split by silt from the fells during the tumultuous storms which followed the Ice Ages. There is a public footpath along the length of the west shore. Bassenthwaite is said to be the setting described by the poet Tennyson in his 'Idylls of the King'. There is no access to the east shore accept at Mirehouse . Spectacular views of Bassenthwaite Lake may be had from Skiddaw. The lake has now been appointed a National Nature Reserve and hosts a wide variety of wildlife as well as being home to England's only breeding ospreys. Nearby Dodd Wood , which looks down onto the lake, is the haunt of roe deer and red squirrels, near to the car park are the remains of an old saw mill, now a refreshment room and a short walk leads up to the Dodd Wood osprey viewpoint where telescopes are provided to view the nesting birds. The forest is a mixture of conifers and native broadleaved trees, the rock is Skiddaw slate. Dodd itself is a spur from Skiddaw, the view from the summit is superb offering views over the central Lakeland fells and on a clear day, the Scottish hills are visible. Left- Bassenthwaite Lake from Dodd Wood Right- A winter view of the lake from Whinlatter Forest Park Bassenthwaite village stands near to the north-east corner of Bassenthwaite Lake. It has a pleasant village green around which the houses are grouped. The church which serves it is somewhat detached from the village, lying isolated near to the lake shore, about three miles to the south. The church is dedicated to Saints Bridget and Bega and was founded in the twelfth century, although it was restored in the nineteenth century, it still has its Norman chancel arch and some of its early English features. Nearby Thornthwaite is a scattered community on the south west edge of Bassenthwaite. The Thornthwaite Galleries hold art exhibitions of paintings and sculpture and there are pleasant forest footpaths at Thornthwaite Forest on the west side of Bassenthwaite Lake. There is access to the lake shore from the village at the Peter Howe car park. A Forest Walk at Bassenthwaite Lake This walk commences at the Mirehouse car park (NY 235282) and involves a steep climb, but offers some panoramic views. Cross the footbridge by the sawmill, climbing the steps, follow the path until it joins a forest road. Turn right along the road. continue on the road which eventually becomes a track. An optional detour, taking a signposted path which leads off to the right, leads to the summit of the Dodd. Continue along the forest track, at the point where it is joined by a road from the left, turn right. Turn right when track bends very sharply to the left. At the ravine of Skill Beck turn left, descending to the footpath which flanks the beck. There follows a steep descent back to the car park or an easier route to the left. |
What is the smallest bird in the world? | Smallest Bird, Largest Bird, Fastest Bird, Slowest Bird | Birds of a Feather B&B Birds of a Feather B&B We had a wonderful time! The dogs were great. We will certainly come again! - Kim & John Beautiful... great experience and hospitality ! - Karen 'Thank you for the nice stay. We enjoyed our short trip to Vancouver Island and now know a fine place to stay for our next trip to... - Andrea & Sven Thanks so much, your B&B was much more than advertized. We chose the right place for our last night in B.C. The 5km run to Royal... - Sarah My recent stay at Birds of a Feather was a great experience. As a new student to Royal Roads University I found the location to the... - Dianne Appleby We thoroughly enjoyed our stay. Everything from the views, our room, the comfort, the company, and Dieter's generous hospitality was... - Sonia We had an amazing time here on the island for our honeymoon! This room was perfect! It was our first experience at a B&B, and... - Ryan & Christine Holst This place is magical!! I loved eveything from the wildlife and the scenery to the full moon that took my breath away!! Thank you... - Diane Todosychuk Lovely place to stay! Dieter gave us the best advice about how to spend our limited time here. We are in awe of the beauty of the... - Patricia Bender & Judy Kelly Thank you for welcoming us into your home, everything absolutely perfect - not often I am left speecless but.... WOW! We have found... - Helena & Ray Farmer Smallest Bird, Largest Bird, Fastest Bird, Slowest Bird Best Price Guarantee Smallest Bird Male bee hummingbirds (mellisuga helenae), which live in Cuba, weigh 0.056 ounces and are 2.75 inches in length. The bill and tail account for half of this length. Smallest Bird of Prey The black-legged falconet ( Micrphierax fringlius ) of southeast Asia and the white-fronted or Bornean falconet ( M. latifrons ) of northwestern Borneo both have an average length of 5.5-6 inches, including a 2 inch tail, and weigh approximately 1.25 ounces. Smallest Parrot [contributed by Harold Armitage, Wild Macaws Wild Macaws] The Pygmy parrots of Papua and nearby islands. Genus Micropsitta. There's six different sorts - Yellow-capped, Buff-faced, Finsch's, Geelvink, Meek's, Red-breasted - all around 3" long (8cm). Thought to eat lichens and mosses but not much is known about their lifestyles. Fastest Swimming Bird Gentoo Penguin found on the Antarctic Islands can swim 40 km per hour. Large populations are found at South Georgia, Falkland Islands, and Iles Kerguelen although their breeding distribution is circumpolar. An orange bill and a white stroke behind its eye distinguish the black and white gentoos from the smaller adelie and chinstrap species. Long stiff tail feathers stick out behind as they walk, often cocked up in the water, no other penguin has such a prominent tail. They breed in winter at the more northerly sub-Antarctic islands, laying two eggs as early as July. Can dive over 300' though most prey dives are shallower. Most dives last only half a minute. Largest Carnivorous Bird (contribution by Christoph Kulmann) Titanis Walleri. This bird is known from the early Pleistocene (Ice Age) of Florida. It is the last known member of the family Phorusrhacidae, a group of large, flightless birds which evolved in South America. This creature had an estimated body height of 3 meters (if it stood fully erect, and 2.5 meters in more normal situations). Titanis really had arms instead of wings. Tallest Flying Birdscrane The largest cranes (family Gruidae) can be almost 6 ft. 6 in. tall. Heaviest Flying Birds The Kori Bustard or paauw (Ardeotis Kori) of northeast and southern Africa and the great bustard (Otis tarda) of Europe and Asia weigh about 40-42 pounds. There is a report of a 46 lb. 4 oz. male great bustard shot in northeastern China. It was too heavy to fly. Heaviest Birds of Prey Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) are the heaviest species of bird of prey. Males weigh 20-27 pounds and have a wingspan of at least 10 feet. A male California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) preserved in the Californi | The RSPB: Browse bird families: Chats and thrushes Browse bird families Image: Ben Hall 'Chats' are small, quite slender or robin-like birds with fine bills and slender legs, slim and sometimes colourful tails and short, round wings. 'Thrushes' are generally larger, often spotted underneath, but in some species, males are unspotted and clearly different from females. Many are superb songsters. There are many thrushes worldwide; four breed in the UK and two others are regular in winter, but several more have appeared on rare occasions; chats include six regular breeders and several rare visitors. |
Fougasse, associated with Provence, is what type of food? | Fougasse Bread Tutorial | CraftyBaking | Formerly Baking911 Recipes Bread Flatbread Fougasse Bread Tutorial Fougasse Bread Tutorial Baking Temp (degrees F): 450 Views: 6358 Recipe by Sarah Phillips and Kelly Hong; Food styling and photos by Kelly Hong © 2009 Sarah Phillips CraftyBaking.com Variation: Calamata Olive Fougasse The one of the left just has herbs de Provence on it and the other has calamata olives in the dough. In French cuisine, fougasse, basically an olive-oil rich Italian Focaccia Bread, is a type of bread typically associated with Southern France but found (with variations) in other regions. Some versions are sculpted or slashed into a pattern resembling a tree, which I show you here, or an ear of wheat or leaf. It can also be called Ladder Bread. In ancient Rome, panis focacius was a flat bread baked in the ashes of the hearth (focus in Latin). This became a diverse range of breads that include "focaccia" in Italian cuisine, "fugassa" in the Ligurian language, "pogača" in the Balkans, "fougasse" in Provence and "fouaisse" or "foisse" in Burgundy. The French versions are more likely to have additions in the form of olives, cheese, anchovies etc, which may be regarded as a primitive form of pizza without the tomato. Fougasse was traditionally used to assess the temperature of a wood fired oven. The time it would take to bake gives an idea of the oven temperature and whether the rest of the bread can be loaded. | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Cooking Schools Availability: unspecified Product Description Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn |
What human organ makes four new words when prefixing Head, Diver, Flint and Tight? | The Last Star by Rick Yancey excerpt by Penguin Teen - issuu issuu Issuu on Google+ G. P. P UTN AM’S SONS an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 Copyright © 2016 by Rick Yancey. Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. G. P. Putnam’s Sons is a registered trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN 978-0-399-16243-5 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Design by Ryan Thomann. Text set in Sabon. Cassiopeia photo copyright © iStockphoto.com/Manfred_Konrad. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. S R L For Sandy “The world ends. The world begins again.” S R L TheLastStar_final_int.indd 5 2/1/16 10:51 AM Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear. 窶認riedrich Schiller S R L TheLastStar_final_int.indd 7 2/1/16 10:51 AM THE GIRL WHO COULD FLY MANY YEARS AGO, when he was ten, her father had ridden a big yellow bus to the planetarium. There the ceiling above him exploded into a million glimmering shards of light. His mouth dropped open. His small fingers clamped down on the edge of the wooden bench upon which he sat. Over his head, pinpricks of white fire spun, pure as the day the Earth emerged as a blackened, pockmarked rock, an average planet orbiting an average star at the edge of an average galaxy in a limitless universe. The Big Dipper. Orion. Ursa Major. The droning monotone of the astronomer’s voice. The children’s faces lifted up, open mouths, unblinking eyes. And the boy feeling infinitesimally small beneath the immensity of that artificial sky. He would not forget that day. Years later, when his daughter was very young, she would run to him, pudgy toddler legs wobbling, solid little arms lifted up, eyes burning with anticipation and joy, crying, Daddy, Daddy, stubby fingers spread wide, reaching for him, reaching for the sky. And she would leap, a fearless launch into empty space, because he wasn’t just her father—he was Daddy. He would catch her; he would not let her fall. Crying: Fly, Daddy, fly! And up she would go, rocketing toward the immensity of S the unbounded sky, arms open to embrace the infinite, her head R L TheLastStar_final_int.indd 9 2/1/16 10:51 AM thrown back, rushing to that place where terror and wonder meet, her squeals the distilled hilarity of being weightless and free, of being safe in his arms, of being alive. Cassiopeia. From that day at the planetarium, when her life lay fifteen years in the future, there was no doubt what name he would give her. S R L TheLastStar_final_int.indd 11 2/1/16 10:51 AM 1 “I WILL SIT WITH YOU” THIS IS MY BODY. In the cave’s lowermost chamber, the priest raises the last wafer—his supply has been exhausted—toward the formations that remind him of a dragon’s mouth frozen in mid-roar, the growths like teeth glistening red and yellow in the lamplight. The catastrophe of the divine sacrifice by his hands. Take this, all of you, and eat of it . . . Then the chalice containing the final drops of wine. Take this, all of you, and drink from it . . . Midnight in late November. In the caves below, the small band of survivors will remain warm and hidden with enough supplies to last until spring. No one has died of the plague in months. The worst appears to be over. They are safe here, perfectly safe. With faith in your love and mercy, I eat your body and drink your blood . . . His whispers echo in the de | INTERSTING FACTS - Google+ INTERSTING FACTS Posted by muhammad ahsan at 19:13 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook most intersting and amazing Posted by muhammad ahsan at 19:07 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Interesting Facts For Your Warehouse of Useless Knowledge 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell." 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking. A whale's penis is called a dork. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.] According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. All porcupines float in water. Almonds are a mem |
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), revered as a great poet, also wrote which play or drama? | The My Hero Project - Alexander Pushkin ALEXANDER PUSHKIN by Jerrilyn Jacobs Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) Alexander Pushkin (Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin) is known as Russia's greatest poet. During a time when most great literature was being written in French and English, Pushkin revolutionized Russian literature with narrative poems, love poems, political poems, short stories, novels, plays, histories, and fairy tales. Pushkin's skeptical mind and sense of irony helped him capture what it means to be Russian, winning the hearts of his countrymen. His writing style has distinctive rhythmic patterns that are nearly impossible to translate, so non-Russian speakers have not always been able to appreciate the true power and beauty of his work. Alexander Pushkin was born [June 6th], 1799 in Moscow, Russia. His nobleman father was active in politics, following a 600-year tradition in that family. His great-grandfather on his mother's side, Abraham Petrovich Hannibal, was the son of an African prince in Eritrea, North Africa. He had been kidnapped as a child and brought to Turkey as a slave. Peter the Great selected him for his intelligence and brought him to Russia, where Hannibal became the czar's personal valet. Pushkin was proud of his noble heritage. He was educated at home, mostly by nannies, and later at a school for the privileged children of the nobility. At school he didn�t care for any subjects except French and Russian Literature. He began writing poetry when he was very young and had his first poem published when he was 14. One of several postage stamps honoring Pushkin As a nobleman in the early 1800's, Pushkin led a reckless and generally nonproductive life, typical of noblemen, while on the staff of the ministry of foreign affairs. Because his salary was small and his family wouldn't support him, Pushkin turned to poetry as a way of making money, becoming Russia's first professional poet. Worse than the lack of money was his lack of freedom. Russians at this time lived at the mercy of a despotic state, and Pushkin used his writing as a way of expressing the agony and suppression of the Russian people. He wrote about 130 poems between 1814 and 1817, which got him in trouble for being outspoken in their political views. His first narrative poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila, is a fantasytic adventure told with humor and irony. Before it could be published the Czar, Alexander I, exiled Pushkin to the south of Russia because of the political ideas in his 1820 poem "Ode to Liberty." Later Pushkin was fired and exiled to his family home. Here he listened to his old nurse, Arina Rodionovna, tell him folk tales from the peasantry. When Alexander�s brother, Nicholas I, came to power in 1825, he invited Pushkin back to the capital, gave him a government post. However, Nicholas acted as his personal censor, making sure that Pushkin didn't publish anything that would hurt the government. They opened his mail, had spies follow him, and cut out whole stanzas from Pushkin's manuscripts. In the fall of 1830 Pushkin left the capital to visit a small estate his father had left him. It was there, free from the pressures of life in the city, that Pushkin did some of his best writing. including finishing "Eugene Onegin," his most famous narrative poem. After 1830 he wrote less poetry and began to focus on the short story. Pushkin's stories unfold quickly and with straightforward narration. The short story "The Queen of Spades," written in 1834, is a narrative masterpiece. Many of Pushkin's works provide the basis for other works, including the operas "Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky, "Eugene Onegin" and the film "Amadeus" based on Pushkin's play "Mozart and Salieri." When he was almost 30 years old, Pushkin married Nathalie Goncharova, on January 19, 1831. They had three children, but were not a happy couple. She was very beautiful and a favorite at court, and encouraged the attention of other men. Pushkin frequently thought himself dishonored and was a compulsive duelist. Pushkin was wounded in a duel and died on January | The Doll Theatre Project – Derham Groves The Doll Theatre Project Derham Groves The first cohort of students to do the new Bachelor of Environments degree at the University of Melbourne completed the course in semester two of last year, 2010. “Architectural Design Studio 4: Fire,” which I coordinated, was the Architecture Major students’ final design subject. The task of the 183 students who did it was to design a theatre exclusively for performances of Ray Lawler’s three classic Australian plays: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1955), Kid Stakes (1975) and Other Times (1976), known as the “doll trilogy.” The idea of designing a theatre specifically for Ray Lawler’s doll trilogy came to me after reading an article about Agatha Christie’s amazingly enduring play, The Mousetrap, which has been running continuously in the West End of London since 1952 (until 1974 at the New Ambassadors Theatre, and since then at St. Martins Theatre). In addition, there are a number of composer-specific/playwright-specific theatres around the world, including the Bayreuth Festival Theatre in Bayreuth, Germany, where only the operas of Richard Wagner are performed, the Globe Theatre in London, where only the plays of William Shakespeare are presented, and the Wrestling School in London, where only the works of Howard Barker are staged. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is the best known and arguably the most important play of Ray Lawler’s doll trilogy. While it was written first, it actually takes place after Kid Stakes and Other Times. The story running through the three plays unfolds over a period of seventeen years—from 1945 to 1953—in a boarding house in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton. The structure of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is relatively simple, but its plot is complex, revolving around the lives of the Queensland cane-cutters, “Roo” and Barney, and their girlfriends, the Melbourne barmaids, Olive, Nancy and (later) Pearl. Each year the men spend five months—the cane-cutting off-season—living with the women in Carlton. But this arrangement is upset when Nancy marries and the sceptical Pearl replaces her. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll addresses some complex and universal themes, including resistance to change, the search for happiness, the loss of idealism, and the concept of Australian male-centric mateship. When Summer of the Seventeenth Doll was written, Australian society was in a state of flux. The country led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies (1894-1978) was experiencing a post-war economic boom, and an aggressive (pro-white European) immigration program was in place to quickly boost the workforce. As a result, the traditional Anglo-centric make-up of the population began to change, along with the accepted view of what it meant to be an Australian (migrants, especially Greeks and Italians, were called “New Australians”). At the same time, Australian artists like Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) and Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) and writers such as Patrick White (1912-1990) and Frank Hardy (1917-1994) started to be noticed; people anticipated that the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games would put Australia on the map; and the imminent introduction of television threatened to change almost every aspect of Australian family life. It was in this context that Ray Lawler wrote Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in 1955. The opening night of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll marked a turning point in Australian theatre history. For decades, foreign plays and actors had dominated Australian theatres, but all of a sudden an Australian audience was presented with an Australian story, told in vernacular language and familiar accents, using local urban—as opposed to bush—references. Unlike so many Australian plays that preceded it, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll was not a shallow appeal to patriotism or stereotypes, but instead it dealt with universal concerns in an Australian context, which presented Australians on stage in a realistic manner for almost the first time. All of the students doing Architectural Design Studio 4 were required to read Summ |
What medieval Islamic dynasty was founded in 1250 in Egypt and Syria by slave soldiers who deposed the Ayyubids? | The Art of the Ayyubid Period (ca. 1171–1260) | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Art of the Ayyubid Period (ca. 1171–1260) See works of art Works of Art (6) Essay The Ayyubid dynasty came to power under the leadership of the Kurdish Zengid general Salah al-Din (r. 1169–93), known in Europe as Saladin. After repulsing a Crusader army that had reached the gates of Fatimid Cairo and occupying Egypt on behalf of the Zengids (1160s), Salah al-Din declared the Fatimid caliphate to be at its end, and established the Ayyubid sultanate (1171). Soon thereafter, Salah al-Din also gained control over Yemen (1174) and Syria (1180s). The conflict with the Crusaders continued throughout the Ayyubid period; Jerusalem was captured by the Muslims in 1187, then, following a failed treaty, ceded until 1244, when the city was retaken for good. The sultanate depended on mamluks (slave soldiers) for its military organization, yet the end of the dynasty in 1250 was largely caused by Turkic mamluks themselves, who overthrew the last Ayyubid sultan in Egypt, al-Malik al-Ashraf (r. 1249–50) and founded the Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517). In the arts, the Ayyubids are known especially for their works in inlaid metalwork and ceramics, particularly luster- and underglaze-painted wares. Some objects from this period, including a group of inlaid metalwork pieces, also have Christian scenes. Signatures of artists on refined and prized brass works inlaid with silver seem to indicate that the craftsmen were from Mosul (in present-day Iraq) and had fled from the approaching Mongol armies. In the case of ceramics produced in Syria, the influence of Seljuq Iran is prevalent. Among other arts, enameled glass rose to excellence in this period and carved wood was also esteemed by Ayyubid patrons. Techniques established and developed during this time formed the foundation of the arts in the Mamluk period. The Ayyubids were also vigorous builders. Their generous patronage led to tremendous architectural activity in Egypt and especially in Syria, and their local courts revived the cities of Damascus and Aleppo. The outstanding secular architecture from this period includes the fortified citadels of Cairo (1187) and Aleppo (early thirteenth century). Meanwhile, the establishment of madrasas, higher institutions for religious learning, such as the Zahiriya (1219) in Aleppo and that of Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (1243) in Cairo, exemplify the Ayyubid interest in Sunni education after the Shi’i interlude in the region under the Fatimids. Furthermore, the Madrasa al-Sahiba in Damascus (1233), built by Salah al-Din’s sister Rabia Khatun, as well as the Mausoleum of Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (1250), commissioned by his wife Shajarat al-Durr, reflects the importance of women as patrons of architecture under the Ayyubids. In terms of commemorative buildings and pious architectural initiatives, the Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi’i (1211) and the Tomb of the ‘Abbasid Caliphs (1242–43) in Cairo are especially noteworthy. Suzan Yalman | Quiz for Sunday 12th June - Shelled Warriors Forums Quiz for Sunday 12th June User Name Posts: 1,403 Quiz for Sunday 12th June Nothing too fancy this week - has been a bit chaotic and stressful so had to cheat a little. Good luck 1.What is the common name of the cooking ingredient from the hard fat of kidneys and loins of oxen, famously sold under the Atora brand? lard 2.In the TV series Thunderbirds, what colour/colour are Brains' spectacle rims: Black; Brown; Blue; or Green? Blue 3.In six-dot Braille (English language), what letter and number are represented by a single dot, top left?A and 1 4.What did Frenchman Dr Pierre Dukan devise which bears his name, and after achieving great popularity in France, began to spread internationally in the early 2000s?Diet 5.What motor company's badge contains a red cross and a green snake?Alfa Romeo 6.What popular sci-fi creations were described by Dr Who's executive producer in 2011 as "...the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe..." ? Dalek 7.The terms biconvex, biconcave, positive meniscus, negative meniscus, and plano-convex refer to types of what? Lenses 8.Sesame seeds are a very good dietary source of what elemental mineral: Magnesium; Iron; Zinc; or Mercury? Magnesium 9.In what video game brand does the Lara Croft character most famously feature? Tomb Raider 10.According to Unicef (at 2011) what percentage of Afghan women die in pregnancy or childbirth: 1%; 3%; 5% or 12�%? 12.5% 11.Name the shipping line which owned the Titanic? (Bonus points: Name the Titanic shipbuilders? And in which city was the Titanic built?) White Star Line, Harkand and Wolff, Blefast 12.A Gay Girl in Damascus is the title of the blog by feminist/freedom campaigner Amina Abdallah Alaf al Omari, who in June 2011 was based and abducted in which country?Syria 13.Who, age 30, wrote the historically significant anti-semetic diatribe known as 'the Gemlich letter' on 16 Sep 1919? Hitler 14.Which UK city hosts the Summer Sundae music festival? Leicester 15.What island is noted for its biodiversity and 80% unique wildlife due to more than 80 million years' isolation from continental land mass? Madagascar 16.Violeta Chamorro, Michelle Bachelet, Laura Chinchilla, and Dilma Rousseff share what achievement? Olympic record-holders; National leadership; Best-selling authors; Film noir stardom; or Diana Ross's Supremes? National Leadership 17.What convicted fraudster's underpants were auctioned in 2011 for $200, with other belongings, to compensate victims of his $65m Ponzi scheme swindle? Bernard Madoff 18.Name the two biggest producers of cars globally in 2010, and for several years prior? GM and Toyota 19.A blue circle with a white centre was introduced in 2006 as the international symbol for what human metabolic disease? Diabetes 20.What woman's name was given to the horrendously abusive laundry asylums for 'fallen women' run by the Catholic Church, starting in 18th century Ireland, spreading to other countries and persisting well into the 1900s? Magdalene 21.On a standard piano what normally is the lowest note? A 22.Who is Britain's longest serving consort? Prince Phillip 23.What multinational high street vendor's logo was developed from an old Norse woodcut of a twin-tailed siren or mermaid with flowing hair and crown? Starbucks 24.What letter was added to Wii by Nintendo in 2011 when naming its next generation gaming console? U 25.What is Julia Donaldson's hugely successful character and book, based on a Chinese folk tale of a fox that borrows the terror of a tiger? The Gruffalo 26.What modern system of a very old messaging method entails red and yellow ('Oscar') at sea, and white and blue ('Papa') on land? Semaphore 27.What word, from Sanskrit for 'sacred knowledge', refers to early Indian scripture, and specifically the four collections known as Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharva, forming the basic teachings of Hinduism? Veda 28.What childplay and teaching-aid modelling product did William Harbutt devise and produce in 1900, in an old flour mill near Bath, UK? Plasticene 29.French for an additive, and |
Which cyclist won the first medal for Team GB at the 2012 Olympic Games? | London 2012: Team GB wins first Olympic medals - BBC News BBC News London 2012: Team GB wins first Olympic medals 29 July 2012 Read more about sharing. Close share panel Image caption Rebecca Adlington (l) won Team GB's second medal on Sunday, while some events still had empty seats and others were disrupted by rain Team GB has won its first London 2012 medals, with cyclist Lizzie Armitstead taking silver in the women's road race. Swimmer Rebecca Adlington has taken bronze in the final of the 400m freestyle. London 2012 chairman Lord Coe insisted Olympics venues were "stuffed" with sports fans, after a row about empty seats on Saturday. However, on Sunday empty seats could be seen at several sports, including basketball, volleyball and tennis. Armitstead, 23, from Otley near Leeds, was beaten to the gold at the end of the 140-kilometre race by Holland's Marianne Vos in a sprint finish on The Mall. She said: "I'm really, really happy. Maybe later I'll start thinking about that gold, but I'm happy with silver at the moment." Adlington, 23, who lost her title to Camille Muffat of France, said she was glad she had won a medal at a home games. "The crowd were just absolutely amazing, this is what I wanted, this is what picks you up, this is what gets you from fourth to third and gets us on that podium. I know so many people wanted me to get the gold and sorry about that, but I tried my absolute hardest, I'm so pleased with that." She later tweeted: : "Ahhhhhhhh bronze medal!!! Can't believe it! SOOO happy its unreal! The crowd was incredible! THANK YOU to everyone, your support is amazing!" Adlington's battle to hold on to her 800m freestyle title will begin with heats on Thursday morning before Friday night's final. In other Olympic developments: Police say 16 people have been arrested over ticket touting at the Olympics during the past two days Three people have been charged after 182 were held following a Critical Mass cycle ride near the Olympic Park on Friday Lord Coe spoke out as the row mounted over unfilled seats in several Olympic venues. At some venues, seats in the accredited "Olympic family" areas - reserved for groups including officials, sports federations, athletes, journalists and sponsors - have remained empty. Media captionSebastian Coe: "I'm not sure that naming shaming is what we are into" "I don't think you will be seeing this as an issue, long-term through the Games," he told a press conference. Organisers Locog said it would fill some of the empty seats with servicemen and women, as well as local students and teachers. It said it would also sell more tickets, after some 1,000 tickets were released on the London 2012 website on Saturday night. A system has been introduced similar to the one used at Wimbledon, where people coming out of the stadium handed on their tickets so the seats could be made available to others. A Locog spokesman added that it would examine options to upgrade the tickets of members of the public and move them into accredited areas. Olympics coverage online On Sunday, empty seats were seen at venues including basketball at the Olympic Park, where troops filled the gaps, tennis at Wimbledon and volleyball at Earl's Court. Around 100 seats at the gymnastics at the North Greenwich Arena were also given to troops. But many other venues were full, including boxing, judo and fencing at ExCel, badminton at Wembley Arena and shooting at the Royal Artillery Barracks. American Paul Fondie, who now lives in Kew, west London, said he was frustrated by the number of empty seats at the men's gymnastics at the O2 on Saturday. Image caption Lizzie Armitstead (r) won silver in the women's road race He said he and his wife had not been able to take their six-year-old son because they could not get an extra ticket. "It tainted my experience of the Olympics - it was our moment to come under the microscope and show that London can do it well." Andy Murray has claimed his first Olympic singles victory, beating Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3 6-3. And Briton Ben Ainslie opened his quest for a fourth | Bradley Wiggins wins 2012 Tour de France - BBC Sport BBC Sport Bradley Wiggins wins 2012 Tour de France 22 Jul 2012 Read more about sharing. Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider to win the Tour de France as compatriot Mark Cavendish claimed a fourth consecutive final-stage victory. Wiggins, 32, finished with a winning margin of three minutes and 21 seconds after ending Sunday's race around the streets of Paris in the peloton. Fellow Brit and Team Sky team-mate Chris Froome consolidated second place with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali third. Wiggins' key Tour moments Stage 7: Finishes third to take yellow jersey for the first time Stage 9: Wins time trial from Arc-et-Senans to Besancon Stage 13: Ensures he will become first Briton to wear yellow jersey for a seventh time Stage 14: Praised for slowing the pace after rival Cadel Evans falls victim to tacks Stage 17: Extends lead over his main rivals during final day in mountains Stage 19: Wins time-trial on penultimate day to all but secure victory Cavendish won the traditional sprint down the Champs Elysees with some ease. The 27-year old from the Isle of Man is unbeaten in Paris, having also won on his three previous Tour finishes in 2009, 10 and 11. He began his sprint early and held off the challenge of the faster-finishing Peter Sagan of Slovakia, with Australia's Matthew Goss third. It lifted his tally of Tour de France stage wins to 23, to surpass seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong and Frenchman Andre Darrigade and move into fourth in the overall stage-win standings, 11 short of Belgian Eddy Merckx's record of 34. But the day belonged to Wiggins, who safely negotiated himself around the streets of Paris, to complete the formalities after Saturday's stunning time-trial victory gave him an almost unassailable lead. The three-time Olympic track champion crossed the line arms raised having helped set up Cavendish's sprint victory in front of thousands of British fans on the Champs Elysees, who had come to witness history being made. Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas "Bradley Wiggins has done something unbelievable by winning the Tour de France, but I know he will be the first to recognise that he would not have been able to achieve his victory without a terrific team behind him" And in winning this year's Tour, Wiggins not only fulfilled a life-long ambition but also sealed his place in the pantheon of cycling greats. "I don't know what to say, I've had 24 hours for it to soak in," said Wiggins. "I'm still buzzing from the Champs Elysees, the laps go so quick. We had a mission with Cav and we did it. What a way to finish it off. "I've got to get used to that [being a legend in the spotlight], it's going to take a while. I'm just trying to soak it all in. You never imagine it will happen to you but it's amazing." In three demanding weeks, he toiled over the Alps and the Pyrenees to complete the mammoth 20-stage, 2,173-mile race which was in its 99th edition. During his stunning transition from track to road racing, Wiggins finished fourth in the Tour in 2009 - equalling Robert Millar's 1984 British best - before crashing out with a broken collarbone when among the favourites in 2011. Tour de France stage wins Eddy Merckx, Bel (1969-75) - 34 Bernard Hinault, Fra (1978-86) - 28 Andre Leducq, Fra (1927-35) - 25 Mark Cavendish, GB (2008 to present) - 23 Lance Armstrong, US (1993-2005) - 22 Andre Darrigade, Fra (1953-64) - 22 Nicolas Frantz, Lux (1924-29) - 20 Francois Faber, Fra (1908-14) - 19 But having worn the yellow jersey for 13 consecutive stages, Wiggins showed why Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford has placed so much faith in his man as he accumulated a winning margin of more than three minutes. The margin of Wiggins' victory also answered many of those who questioned why Froome, who appeared marginally stronger in the mountains, was not Team Sky's Tour leader. Team Sky themselves achieved the rare feat of a 1-2 on the podium, the first since 1996, when Dane Bjarne Riis finished ahead of his German team-mate at Telekom, Jan Ullrich. It is also the first time compa |
In English football, from which team did Aston Villa buy footballer Dion Dublin in 1998? | Dion Dublin (Soccer Player) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Show Less In the 1993â94 season, Dublin regained his fitness, but his first team chances were restricted by the excellent form of Eric Cantona. In December 1993, Ferguson agreed a deal with Everton manager Howard Kendall, that would have seen Dublin moving to Goodison Park, but a member of Everton's board of directors, apparently feeling that Dublin was not worth the money Kendall had offered United, intervened to prevent the transfer going through â this incident led directly to Kendall's resignation as Everton manager and Dublin ended up staying at Old Trafford until the end of the season. … Read More He managed five league appearances that season, scoring once in a 3â2 home win over Oldham Athletic in early April. He also managed a further goal in the Football League Cup second round first leg, as United were beaten 2â1 by Stoke City at the Victoria Ground. The goal against Oldham was the only competitive goal that Dublin scored for United at Old Trafford. Read Less 1994 - 1997 3 More Events 1994 25 Years Old He was left out of the FA Cup winning team, and failed to make enough appearances to merit another Premier League title winners medal, and shortly after the start of the 1994â95 season, he was sold to Coventry City for £2 million. … Read More In four-and-a-half years with Coventry, Dublin established himself as one of the Premier League's top strikers and during the 1997â98 season won the first of his four England full caps. That season, he equalled the Coventry City record for most goals in a top division season with 23 goals in all competitions. Read Less 1995 26 Years Old Following Phil Neal's departure in 1995, the arrival of Ron Atkinson and Gordon Strachan would see Dublin fit into an attacking team in the typical Atkinson mould. … Read More It included the likes of Noel Whelan, John Salako and Darren Huckerby to add to the already attack minded Peter Ndlovu. The addition of Gary McAllister, following Euro 96, should have provided mid table stability but the teams defensive frailties often undermined Dublin's scoring at the other end. This culminated in possibly one of the greatest escapes in Premiership history in May 1997. Sitting second from bottom, Coventry City needed favourable results elsewhere whilst needing an away win at White Hart Lane. This game followed on from an away win at Anfield (Dublin scoring in the dying seconds) and a home win against Chelsea. But at Tottenham Hotspur that afternoon, Dublin scored in the first half before Paul Williams netted to secure an unlikely 2â1 win. The game reached a nerve-racking climax which included a memorable late save from City keeper Steve Ogrizovic. Read Less 1997 28 Years Old … The following season the Sky Blues improved at home and enjoyed a season of mid table security. Dublin formed an impressive partnership with Darren Huckerby which not only produced some memorable goals but also propelled the Sky Blues to the FA Cup Sixth Round against Sheffield United; a game they narrowly lost in a penalty shoot out. Read Less The 1997â98 season also saw Dublin share elite status as the Premier League's top scorer with Blackburn's Chris Sutton and Liverpool's Michael Owen â each Englishman scoring 18 league goals. … Read More During this season, Blackburn manager Roy Hodgson tabled a bid which Dublin rejected. He remained at Highfield Road and contributed to Coventry's best finish to date in the Premiership (11th). Read Less | Etiam Pila ( Football) Etiam Pila ( Football) UNSUNG LEGENDS Sir Stanley Matthews Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year awards. Matthews' nicknames included "The Wizard of the Dribble" and "The Magician". A near-vegetarian teetotaller, he kept fit enough to play at the top level until he was 50 years old. He was also the oldest player ever to play in England's top football division and the oldest player ever to represent the country. He played his final competitive game in 1985, at the age of 70. Matthews was also an inaugural inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 to honour his contribution to the English game. He spent nineteen years with Stoke City, playing for the "Potters" from 1932 to 1947, and again from 1961 to 1965. He helped Stoke to theSecond Division title in 1932–33 and 1962–63. In between his two spells at Stoke he spent fourteen years with Blackpool; where he became an FA Cup winner in 1953 (known as the Matthews Final), after he was on the losing side in the 1948 and 1951 finals. Between 1937 and 1957 he won 54 caps for England, playing in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and 1954, and winning nine British Home Championship titles. Following an unsuccessful stint as Port Vale's general manager between 1965 and 1968, he travelled around the world, coaching enthusiastic amateurs. Most notable of his coaching experiences came when he established an all-black team in Soweto known as "Stan's Men" – this was despite South Africa's harsh apartheid laws at the time. Playing Career Stoke City Despite Port Vale being Matthews' favourite team growing up, and despite rumoured interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, and West Bromwich Albion; Tom Mather convinced his father to allow Matthews to join the Stoke City staff as an office boy on his fifteenth birthday for pay of £1 a week. He played reserve team football in 1930–31, coming up first against Burnley; after the game his father gave his usual realist assessment: "I've seen you play better and I've seen you play worse". He played 22 reserve games in 1931–32, shunning the social scene to focus on improving his game. In one of these games, against Manchester City, he attempted to run at the left-back and take him on with a deft swerve as the defender committed himself to a challenge, rather than follow the accepted wisdom of the day which was to first wait for the defender to run at the attacker – his new technique 'worked a treat'. The national press were already predicting a bright future for the teenager, and though he could have then joined any club in the country, he signed as a professional with Stoke on his seventeenth birthday. Paid the maximum wage of £5 a week (£3 in the summer break), he was on the same wage as seasoned professionals before he even kicked a ball. Despite this his father insisted that Matthews save this money, and only spend any winning bonus money he earned. He made his first team debut against Bury at Gigg Lane on 19 March 1932; the "Potters" won the game 1–0 and Matthews learned how physical and dirty opponents could be – and get away with it. After spending the 1932–33 pre-season training intensely by himself (as opposed to playing golf with his teammates), Mather selected Matthews in fifteen games, enough to earn him in a winners medal after Stoke were crowned Second Division champions, one point ahead of Tottenham Hotspur. On 4 March 1933 he scored his first senior goal in a 3–1 win over local rivals Port Vale at The Old Recreation Ground. He played 29 First Division games in 1933–34, as Stoke secured their top-flight status with a twelfth place finish. He continued to progress in the 1934–35 campaign, and was selected by The Football League for an Inter-League game with the I |
What college is the alma mater of 53 NASA astronauts, more than any other? | The Alma Mater of Astronauts Stages a Heroes' Homecoming for Her Star-Traveling Famous Sons The Alma Mater of Astronauts Stages a Heroes' Homecoming for Her Star-Traveling Famous Sons Email Over the porch of Purdue University’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity house hung a huge banner that read, “Welcome Back Neil.” A rumor was circulating among the brothers that the great man himself would stop by for a visit, but no one believed it. Suddenly brother Joe Kook shouted out, “Christ, look who’s coming!” Unannounced, the man who had made one giant leap for mankind was strolling up the walk arm in arm with his wife, Janet. As the worshipful frat boys clustered round, Neil Armstrong, Class of ’55, moseyed through his old stomping ground, noting with pleasure his signed moon-walk poster hanging in the living room, reminding the brothers he’d taken his Phi Delt pin with him to the moon. But mostly he just smiled and didn’t say much. “He’s a quiet dude,” said brother Dave Garrett. “You don’t expect to meet people from history books. You figure they’re busy.” Stepping out of the annals of space flight, Armstrong, 55, and 13 fellow astronauts returned to their Indiana alma mater for a heroes’ homecoming weekend. Purdue has graduated 16 spacemen, more than any other college except the U.S. Naval Academy, allowing the state university to call itself the “Mother of Astronauts.” Two of them, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, died in the flames of Apollo I in 1967, but all the rest returned to thank Purdue for giving them a dose of the right stuff along with their engineering degrees. “It’s a down-home type university,” explained astronaut Don Williams, who flew 330 missions over Vietnam before piloting the space shuttle Discovery last April. “It’s okay to be patriotic and love your country here.” Armstrong, who retired from NASA in 1971 and now is chairman of a computer systems company based in Virginia, shunned the press during his visit, but graciously signed dozens of autographs for star-struck students as he walked the campus. “He’s had so much attention over the years and doesn’t really understand it,” explained fellow alum Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon. “If you begin to think you’re something you’re not, you’re looking in the wrong mirror. People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We’re only human beings.” Show Full Article | Columbia University Columbia University Latin : Universitas Columbiae Neo Eboracensis [1] Former names In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen ( Latin ) Motto in English In Thy light shall we see light [2] ( Psalms 36:9) Type .edu Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan , New York City . It was established in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain . Columbia is the oldest college in the state of New York and the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the country, making it one of nine colonial colleges founded before the Declaration of Independence . [6] After the American Revolutionary War , King’s College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying 32 acres (13 ha) of land. [7] [8] Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities , and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree . [7] [9] The university is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College , the School of Engineering and Applied Science , and the School of General Studies . The university also has global research outposts in Amman , Beijing , Istanbul , Paris , Mumbai , Rio de Janeiro , Santiago , Asunción and Nairobi . [10] It has affiliations with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College (the university’s Department of Education), [11] Barnard College , and Union Theological Seminary , with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , University College London , [12] Sciences Po , [13] City University of Hong Kong , [14] and the Juilliard School . [15] Columbia administers annually the Pulitzer Prize . [16] Notable alumni and former students (counting those from King’s College) include five Founding Fathers of the United States ; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court ; [17] 20 living billionaires; [18] 29 Academy Award winners; [19] and 29 heads of state , including three United States Presidents . [20] Additionally, 100 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, researchers, faculty, or staff. Columbia is second only to Harvard University in the number of Nobel Prize-winning affiliates and Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni, with over 100 recipients for both awards as of 2016. [21] Contents King’s College (1754–1784) King’s College Hall, 1770 Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, at which time Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England , persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college; [22] however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college. [22] In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the assembly appointed a commission of ten New York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England , to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery towards the foundation of a college. [23] Classes were initially held in July 1754 and were presided over by the college’s first president, Dr. Samuel Johnson . [24] Dr. Johnson was the only instructor of the college’s first class, which consisted of a mere eight students. Instruction was held in a new schoolhouse adjoining Trinity Church , located on what is now lower Broadway in Manhattan. [25] The college was officially founded on October 31, 1754, as King’s College by royal charter of King George II , making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of N |
Where is the US Masters Golf tournament always held | Masters Preview: Our Picks To Win - Golf Digest Alex Myers, Associate Editor at GolfDigest.com. The goal is to put together five-man teams for a contest that will reward not only picking the winner, but the best collective performance. We hope our selections can also be of use to you, no matter what type of fantasy league or Masters pool you might be a part of. The draft order -- aka the Tiger Woods sweepstakes -- was determined by picking names out of a hat, and Ms. Mayo was the lucky lottery winner. 1. Ashley Mayo: Surprise, surprise, I'm going with Tiger Woods. The man is rolling the ball better than anyone on tour . Literally. He leads all other golfers in the all-important strokes gained putting statistic, and consider this: he made 35 putts of eight feet or longer in his last two starts, and on Saturday at Bay Hill, he made 17 out of 18 putts within 20 feet. At a venue that rewards not only length (which Tiger clearly has) but also precision on the greens, Tiger is undeniably the guy to beat. 2. Alex Myers: Nooooooo! You picked Tiger?! Sigh. OK, I'll take Augusta's No. 2 man of this generation, Phil Mickelson. Lefty showed he has as much firepower as ever when he torched TPC Scottsdale earlier this year for a 28-under total and has showed similar spurts since at Doral and in Houston. Mickelson always seems to play well at Augusta (nine top 5s in the past 12 years) and if not for a wayward tee shot on the par-3 fourth hole on Sunday last year, we'd probably be talking about him going for a fifth green jacket this year. 3. Sam Weinman: A four-time Masters champ and a three-time champ go 1 and 2. You guys are BOLD. I'm going with the mercurial Dustin Johnson, who when he's not off galavanting with Paulina Gretzky , has proven to be capable of some stellar golf this year. Needless to say, he's plenty long to take advantage of Augusta's par 5s. 4. Geoff Shackelford: Mercurial? I suppose you could say that for Brandt Snedeker's rib, but his putter is anything but and if he's healthy enough, this former contender here has to be a top pick going in. Draw a line through the missed cuts at Bay Hill and Houston, his game is built for majors and he'll be ready. 5. Geoff (continued): As for my second pick, Justin Rose is not terribly daring because the World No. 3 seems to be everyone's second choice behind Tiger. Rose has been the most consistent golfer over the last year and though he seems to keep finishing second, he sports T-11 and T-8 finishes in his last two Masters and is must to include on your ticket. 6. Sam: You can have Justin Rose. From what I recall he starts out Masters great. Finishing them? Not so much. I will take Mr. Permagrin, Matt Kuchar, who has picked up two big wins in the past year, and made some noise at Augusta as well. A Masters win would hardly be a surprise. Related: Augusta National's unwritten rules 7. Alex: Darn. I almost took Kuchar with my first pick. OK, I'll bite and take the world's No. 2 player, Rory McIlroy. It is the SEVENTH pick after all. Sure, he's off to a lackluster start to the 2013 season, but he's got the talent to turn things around in a hurry like he did last year at the PGA Championship. Besides, D.A. Points just won after not having finished better than T-63 in his first nine starts of the year. 8. Ashley: With a gaze like Keegan Bradley's, I've gotta go with him for my second pick. He started the year pretty poorly, but the in-your-face Ryder Cupper has clearly regained his game and his confidence. We know he can win a major, so if he can continue his steady play he'll have the wherewithal to stay cool on the back nine at Augusta on Sunday. 9. Ashley (continued): Next, I like Bill Haas. I'm picking him for three main reasons: One, Alex doesn't ever stop talking about him (man crush, I think); two, because he's lurked on the first page of the leader board for a few consecutive weeks now, recording three top-10 finishes in his last three starts; and three, because he's proven he knows how to handle pressure. A flop shot from a lake to save par and win 10 million bucks? NO PROB | SAY YOUR PRAYERS AMEN CORNER MAY BE MORE FAMOUS, BUT A STRETCH ON THE FRONT NINE'S MORE DANGEROUS Mike Tyson Search SAY YOUR PRAYERS AMEN CORNER MAY BE MORE FAMOUS, BUT A STRETCH ON THE FRONT NINE'S MORE DANGEROUS April 7, 1997 Golf Plus Golfers Special Commemorative Section Basketball NBA Extra Juice Books FACES IN THE CROWD 12 Environment Rodents Running Golfers The Final Fours Ability Pro Football Salary cap Pro Basketball Casinos Tennis Women's tennis Golf Journalism Hockey Hockey players Baseball Contracts Tickets [bonus Piece] Business Inside The NBA It is Thursday morning, April 10, and our hero, the Masters rookie, is off to a good start. With a solid par at the 1st hole and a birdie at the par-5 2nd, he stands on the 3rd tee knowing that if he can make another birdie or two on the next few holes, his name will go up on the giant leader boards scattered around the course. Poor fellow. Little does he know that immediately ahead lies the potential for disaster. The next three holes, with the benign-sounding names of Flowering Peach, Flowering Crab Apple and Magnolia, were the most difficult three-hole stretch at Augusta National last year. Call it the Hot Corner. This is an article from the April 7, 1997 issue Original Layout For many years the first three holes on the back nine--the 10th, plus the first two thirds of the storied Amen Corner--played the hardest statistically. If you've watched the Masters on television, you know the holes well: the long, downhill 10th, its green surrounded by majestic pines; the 11th, where Larry Mize chipped in to beat Greg Norman in 1987; and the 12th, the short but dangerous par-3 over Rae's Creek, scene of so many disasters. "Three, 4 and 5 are every bit as difficult," says Sandy Lyle, the 1988 champion. Phil Mickelson agrees. "You just want to play for par and get out of there," he says. If your only Masters experience comes from TV, you've never seen the 3rd, 4th and 5th, owing to Augusta National's absurd policy of treating the front nine like a leper colony. Why not join our Masters rookie as he prepares to hit his drive? The 3rd hole, at 360 yards, is the shortest par-4 (along with number 7) on the course and is deceptively easy-looking, but last year it was the sixth-most difficult hole. "It's at number 3 where the course starts to play mind games with you," says Ken Venturi, who twice came within a stroke of winning the Masters. "Here is a short hole with no water and just one greenside bunker. Yet it's so difficult." There are pines on the right, a cluster of bunkers on the left. "I've seen players use everything from a driver to a long iron off the tee," says Arnold Palmer. "The strategy is to leave yourself a full shot--wedge, nine-iron, whatever--to the green. Because the green's on a plateau and narrow, you must be able to stop the ball. That's essential." Sounds easy enough, but the green is fronted on the left by an extreme upslope. "Leave it short and you're dead," says John Cook. "The ball will spin back off the green and roll all the way to the bottom." That happened to Nick Faldo last year in the third round. When his recovery chip was also short and rolled back 10 yards off the green, he wound up with a double-bogey 6. The green has a definite right-to-left slant, so when the pin is to the left, a shot played to the middle of the green will trickle down toward the hole. However, the pin is usually to the right on Saturday or Sunday, requiring a left-to-right cut shot, something that can be extremely difficult if the Augusta breezes are blowing from the left. Gary Player, a three-time winner, tells this story: Years ago he was sitting with Bobby Jones at the champions dinner. He told Jones that when the pin was to the left, the hole was almost impossible to birdie, since the green was only seven yards deep at that point. Jones leaned forward with a devilish grin and said, "You're not supposed to make birdie on 3. The hole was designed for a 4." For the last two years the 4th, a 210-yard par-3, has been the toughest hole on the course, playing at an average of |
A sallet, part of Medieval armour, was worn on which part of the body? | Medieval Armour Armour Mail, or chainmail, made of interlocking iron rings, which may be riveted or welded shut is believed to have been invented in Eastern Europe about 500 BC. Gradually, small additional plates or discs of iron were added to the mail to protect vulnerable areas. Hardened leather and splinted construction were used for arm and leg pieces. A coat of plates was developed, an armour made of large plates sewn inside a textile or leather coat. Early plate in Italy, and elsewhere in the 13th15th century were made of iron. Iron armour could be carburised or case hardened to give a surface of harder steel. Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms. Mail continued to be used to protect those joints which could not be adequately protected by plate, such as the armpit, crook of the elbow and groin. Another advantage of plate was that a lance rest could be fitted to the breast plate. The small skull cap evolved into a bigger true helmet, the bascinet, as it was lengthened downward to protect the back of the neck and the sides of the head. Additionally, several new forms of fully enclosed helmets were introduced in the late 1300s. Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries. By about 1400 the full harness of plate armour had been developed in armouries of Lombardy. Heavy cavalry dominated the battlefield for centuries in part because of their armour. In the early 15th century, advances in weaponry allowed infantry to defeat armoured knights on the battlefield. The quality of the metal used in armour deteriorated as armies became bigger and armour was made thicker, necessitating breeding of larger cavalry horses. If during the 1415th centuries armour seldom weighed more than 15kgs, than by the late 16th century it weighed 25 kg. The increasing weight and thickness of late 16th century armour therefore gave substantial resistance. In the early years of low velocity firearms, full suits of armour, or breast plates stopped bullets fired from a modest distance. Crossbow bolts would seldom penetrate good plate, nor would any bullet unless fired from close range. In effect, rather than making plate armour obsolete, the use of firearms stimulated the development of plate armour into its later stages. For most of that period, it allowed horsemen to fight while being the targets of defending arquebuseers without being easily killed. Full suits of armour were worn by generals and princely commanders right up to the second decade of the 18th century. It was the only way they could be mounted and survey the overall battlefield with safety from distant musket fire. The horse was afforded protection from lances and infantry weapons by steel plate barding. This gave the horse protection and enhanced the visual impression of a mounted knight. Late in the era, elaborate barding was used in parade armour. Gradually starting in the mid 16th century, one plate element after another was discarded to save weight for foot soldiers. Back and breast plates continued to be used throughout the entire period of | Coat of Arms Coat of Arms The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince Harry Residences Coat of Arms The Prince of Wales’s coat of arms has long historical links with the heraldry of his ancestors. The main shield is the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom. It has been used in this form since the reign of Queen Victoria. In the first and fourth quarters of the shield are the three gold lions on a red field of the Sovereigns of England. The second quarter of the shield contains Scotland’s red lion rampant on gold. In the third is the golden harp of Ireland on a blue field. The shield is marked with a white label to show that it is borne by the eldest son of the Sovereign during the latter’s lifetime. There is a smaller shield within the larger shield which represents the shield of arms of the original native princes of Gwynedd, with quarters of gold and red with four counter-coloured lions. This shield is surmounted by the coronet of the Heir Apparent. In heraldry this is depicted in the same way as the crown of the Sovereign except that it has one arch instead of two. Surrounding the whole is the blue buckled garter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter which bears in gold letters the motto, ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ which means ‘Shame upon him who thinks evil of it’ in Old French. On top of the shield the royal crest, a gold lion crowned with The Prince’s coronet and a white label about its neck, stands upon a larger coronet. This in turn sits upon the Royal Helm from both sides of which flow the gold and ermine mantling of the royal family. On either side, standing on gold scrollwork, are the royal supporters, the Lion and the Unicorn; both have a white label around their necks to again signify the eldest son of the Sovereign. Beneath them in the centre is the shield of arms of the Duchy of Cornwall surmounted by his coronet. On the left is the badge of The Prince of Wales, the three ostrich feathers encircled by a gold coronet, and on the right is the royal badge of the Red Dragon of Wales. Around its neck there is also a white label, to distinguish it from that of the Sovereign. Under the achievement is a scroll bearing the motto of The Prince of Wales ‘Ich dien’, which means ‘I serve’. |
Which epic poem by John Milton tells the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve? | Paradise Lost | Epic Poetry Paradise Lost Home Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men". Synopsis The poem is separated into twelve "books" or sections, the lengths of which vary greatly (the longest is Book IX, with 1,189 lines, and the shortest Book VII, with 640). The Arguments at the head of each book were added in subsequent imprints of the first edition. Originally published in ten books, a fully "Revised and Augmented" edition reorganized into twelve books was issued in 1674, and this is the edition generally used today. The poem follows the epic tradition of starting in medias res (Latin for in the midst of things), the background story being recounted later. Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus. In Pandæmonium, Satan employs his rhetorical skill to organise his followers; he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch are also present. At the end of the debate, Satan volunteers to poison the newly created Earth and God's new and most favoured creation, Mankind. He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. After an arduous traversal of the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God's new material World, and later the Garden of Eden. At several points in the poem, an Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different perspectives. Satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three days. At the final battle, the Son of God single-handedly defeats the entire legion of angelic rebels and banishes them from Heaven. Following this purge, God creates the World, culminating in his creation of Adam and Eve. While God gave Adam and Eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, he gave them one explicit command: not to eat from the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of death. The story of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall is a fundamentally different, new kind of epic: a domestic one. Adam and Eve are presented for the first time in Christian literature as having a full relationship while still being without sin. They have passions and distinct personalities. Satan, disguised in the form of a serpent, successfully tempts Eve to eat from the Tree by preying on her vanity and tricking her with rhetoric. Adam, learning that Eve has sinned, knowingly commits the same sin. He declares to Eve that since she was made from his flesh, they are bound to one another ‒ if she dies, he must also die. In this manner, Milton portrays Adam as a heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than Eve, as he is aware that what he is doing is wrong. After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve have lustful sex. At first, Adam is convinced that Eve was right in thinking that eating the fruit would be beneficial. However, they soon fall asleep and have terrible nightmares, and after they awake, they experience guilt and shame for the first time. Realizing that they have committed a terrible act against God, they engage in mutual recrimination. Eve's pleas to Adam reconcile them somewhat. Her encouragement enables Adam and Eve both to approach God, to "bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee" | The Glastonbury Legend - An Introduction The Glastonbury Legend - An Introduction Closeup of Wearyall Hill, as seen from Glastonbury Tor. This is where Joseph of Arimatheia on his arrival from the Holy Land supposedly planted his staff, which flowered into a hawthorn tree. "And did these feet in ancient time / Walk upon England's mountains green? /And was the holy Lamb of God /On England's pleasant pastures seen?" begins William Blake's poem ‘Prelude To Milton,’ the basis of England's "alternate national anthem," Jerusalem. (See inset below right.) It is perhaps the most familiar source referring to what is known as the Glastonbury Legend or The Holy Legend, though the allusion is not always understood by those singing the hymn. In summary, the legend is this: Joseph of Arimatheia was a rich man, a relative of Jesus (and one of his covert disciples), who after the Crucifixion claimed the body of Jesus from Pilate. He came to Britain with other disciples and founded the first British church at Glastonbury, where he planted his staff. This miraculously flowered into a tree, The Glastonbury Thorn, whose offshoots may still be seen today, flowering every Christmas. (A sprig or cutting is sent to Buckingham Palace every year from this tree, which analysis has shown is a Palestinian variety.) Joseph also brought and kept there certain sacred relics, perhaps the Chalice Cup or Grail. He knew Britain from his trips as a tin merchant, and in fact, on one of his trips he had brought his nephew, the boy Jesus. Joseph, and some say the Virgin Mary, is said to be buried there, along with the Grail featured in legends of Arthur – whose official tomb is still to be seen there. Although Blake's own source of inspiration may lie in the rumour (perhaps begun by him) he was a Druid, the 'Holy legend' first surfaced in print in the Grail romances of the early Middle Ages. There was a Romance from around 1200 called Joseph Of Arimatheia, depicting him and his followers (not the Church) as Keepers of the Grail, never reaching Britain but founder of a secret Order whose members |
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