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Terry McCann and Arthur Daley are characters in which UK television series? | The Terry McCann Years 1979-1989 The Terry McCann Years: 1979-1989 'The Minder' Click for details When the series began it focused on Arthur Daley's over worked and under paid Minder, Terry McCann played by Dennis Waterman. The idea for Minder came from writer Leon Griffiths, who had previously written many scripts for film & television. The inspiration for the show came from stories he had heard in North London drinking clubs. Leon's original title for the series was simply 'The Minder' and many of his original ideas on how he envisaged the series can be read in his novel 'Minder - A Novel By Leon Griffiths' published around three months before the first series started in July 1979. In this novel we learn a little more about how Arthur & Terry came to meet each other, Terry's involvement in boxing and his criminal record as well a little background on Arthur Daley and even his wife's first name (which the book tells us is Sarah). After writing scripts for the first series, Leon suffered a stroke and did not return to writing for the show until its third series in 1982. Because of this, several regular script writers contributed to the series, including Tony Hoare and Andrew Payne. 'Minder how you go' - 1985 Interview with Leon Griffiths Leon Griffiths continued to write for the series until the end of its sixth series in 1985 and he sadly passed away in June 1992. After Minder had reached the end of its fifth series in 1985, most involved believed it would be the end of the show. Leon's final contribution to the series was the final episode of the sixth series 'Waiting For Goddard'. At this time Leon Griffiths was interviewed about Minder. To read this short interview, click on the image above. George Cole & Dennis Waterman ... 'Fright' & 'The Sweeney' Little did they know that at this time they were soon to become the duo that was Arthur Daley & Terry McCann - enjoyed by millions each week in the 1980s. The superb 1970s police series 'The Sweeney' is really where the Minder story begins, also made by Euston Films. When 'The Sweeney' ended, Euston Films were looking for a new series for Dennis Waterman and the idea of Minder came along. Already an established actor, Dennis Waterman had become a familiar face on TV as a result of 'The Sweeney' and George Cole had appeared alongside him in this show in an episode called 'Tomorrow Man' in 1976. Click for details Interestingly, 'The Sweeney' was not the first time that George Cole and Dennis Waterman had been cast together. Even before 'Tomorrow Man', the pair had previously appeared in the 1971 thriller 'Fright' starring Susan George, Ian Banner, Honor Blackman and Roger Lloyd Pack. The film is about the story of a teenage babysitter Amanda (played Susan George) who arrives at the Lloyd home (Mr Lloyd played by George Cole) to babysit their young son for the evening. Mrs Lloyd (played by Honor Blackman) is hiding a shocking secret that could cost Amanda her life. Dennis Waterman plays the role of Amanda's boyfriend. This is the first time the two actors had appeared together on screen though neither of them was aware that they had appeared in the film until several years later when they were discussing the film while sitting in a car. They were unware of this as they appear in different parts of the film. When 'The Sweeney' ended and with Dennis Waterman already in place, Euston Films needed an actor to play Arthur Daley. Several actors were considered, including Denholm Elliot but eventually it was decided that George Cole would play the part of Arthur Daley. At that time Dennis Waterman had reservations about casting George Cole as he believed he was 'too posh' for the role. However, in no time the pair hit it off and it is reported that the pair worked very well together and had a great relationship both on and off screen. Opening Titles The original series of Minder had a very memorable opening sequence, where Terry is considering whether or not to accept a white Ford Capri from Arthur's car lot. Although it | The Unbelievable Truth (Radio) - TV Tropes The Unbelievable Truth You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share "Hello, and welcome to The Unbelievable Truth. The best panel show on Radio 4. About truth and lies. That I host. " — David Mitchell BBC Radio 4 Panel Game based around truth and lies, hosted by David Mitchell . It is now airing its fourteenth series. The format comprises four panellists, generally stand-up comedians or comedy writers; there are no permanent panellists, but some of the more frequent ones include John Finnemore, Graeme Gardennote who is the creator of the programme and co-owner of the company that makes it, which tends to be joked about whenever he's on, Tony Hawks, Lucy Porter, Arthur Smith and Henning Wehn. Each of the guests will present a short lecture on a given subject, ranging from Isaac Newton to pigeons. Each lecture is a tissue of lies ranging from the plausible to the obviously absurd, save for five true pieces of information that the panellist should attempt to smuggle past their opponentsnote although it is common for panellists to accidentally include additional truths, for which points will be awarded to the guesser. Another player may buzz in if they believe they have spotted a truth; if they're correct, they win a point, but if they get it wrong they lose a point. At the end of their lecture, the panellist wins points depending on how many truths they have managed to smuggle past their opponents. This show contains examples of: Awful Wedded Life : David and Victoria Coren Mitchell are Happily Married in real life, but David does sometimes play this trope for laughs, especially if Victoria is also on the panel. Bait-and-Switch Comparison : David Mitchell introducing Balhamite Arthur Smith with "After losing a bet to Tony Hawks, Arthur stood naked in Balham High Road and sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of Moldova. An impoverished region, the regular scene of civil unrest, Balham is in South London near Clapham." In series 4 episode 6, Graeme Garden is introduced with, "Graeme was one of the original writers on the hit ITV sitcom, Doctor in the House , which featured the exploits of trainee doctors. It seems incredible, doesn't it, a hit ITV sitcom." David talks about how the Duchess Richmond having a parrot buried in Westminster Abbey: "Reputedly the oldest stuffed bird in existence, she was married to the Duke of Richmond." Once, when David introduces Tony Hawks, he mentions that Tony is often mistaken with Tony Hawk, though one wears a helmet at work while the other is a world skateboard champion. And in series 9 episode 5, David introduces John Finnemore with, "You may recognize John's voice from the hit Radio 4 comedy Cabin Pressure , in which he plays airline steward Arthur Shappey. A nervy, unreliable, but ultimately loveable idiot, John also writes the show." In season 10 episode 5, David mentions that Simon Cowell's favourite dessert is butterscotch angel delight. "Utterly artificial, devoid of goodness and liable to make you sick, Simon Cowell lives in Los Angeles." Graeme Garden's lecture on gardens in Series 14, Episode 6 included a poke at QI and its presenter, Stephen Fry : Graeme: As fans of Stephen Fry's light-hearted TV quiz QI will know, Europe's largest producer of bananas is Iceland. Fed by subterranean rumblings and emitting blasts of hot air, Stephen has hosted the show since 2001.note Arthur Smith fell for the last phrase as a truth; the series began airing in 2003. Berserk Button : While it's definitely a mild example, David is always exasperated by pedantry related to food categories, in the "tomatoes are actually fruit" vein. Biting-the-Hand Humor : Inevitably for a Radio 4 comedy panel show, there are many digs at Radio 4 and its stereotypical audience. [following a debate about the British tradition of eating lamb with mint sauce, which originated when Queen Elizabeth I decreed that lamb must be consumed with bitter herbs to discourage people from eating sheep instead of harvesting their wool] David Mitchel |
Traditionally the largest book publishers trade show in the world, where in Germany is the (city name) Book Fair held each October? | Trade Fairs - Deutschland.de - Your link to Germany Deutschland.de - Your link to Germany These links offer you useful and amusing information on dates and products, travel, accommodation and entertainment. April 10, 2014 AUMA – Association of the German Trade Fair Industry Germany is the world’s leader in international trade shows. And AUMA – the Association of the German Trade Fair Industry – has been representing their best interests since 1907. The Association includes tradeshow organizers, trade associations and all the service providers who deal with booth construction and logistics . The AUMA also supports presentations made by German companies abroad. CeBIT All about bits and bytes: the CeBIT show is the world’s largest tradeshow for information and telecommunications technology. Each year in spring, everything in Hannover revolves around digital solutions in the world we live and work in. Decision-makers from industry, business and administration, along with interested users from all walks of life, come to the show to take a look into the future. Deutsche Messe AG Hannover Tradeshows made in Hannover: CeBIT, DOMOTEX or HANNOVER MESSE, to name but a few – Deutsche Messe AG (DMAG) organizes a large number of internationally leading tradeshows for different branches of industry. Since Expo 2000, Hannover has been able to boast having the largest exhibition grounds in the world. DMAG also exports its trend shows around the world to further cement its high-ranking position among the tradeshow companies. Frankfurt Book Fair Each year in October writers and publishers, agents and film producers meet up in Frankfurt at the Frankfurt Book Fair. But they are not the only ones there. On Saturday and Sunday of one-week event, the world’s most important trading centre for books and media opens its doors to private visitors as well. And each year a different country is invited as guest of honour to present its literature at the city on the River Main. Gamescom No matter whether the role is a football star, a military strategist or a pop idol, computer game players act out their dreams in virtual worlds. In Cologne “gamescom” first opened its doors to fans, curious newcomers and games trade specialists in 2009. This year hundreds of national and international exhibitors are presenting their latest developments at the world’s largest trade fair for interactive electronic games and entertainment, and many will be at the fair on the east bank of the Rhine to launch world, European and German premieres. Hamburg Messe The exhibition grounds of the Hamburg Messe are the venue of approximately 40 tradeshows, exhibitions and events and attract more than 2 million visitors from all over the world each year. The Messe plays host to such German and international specialized trade fairs and shows open to the general public as INTERNORGA, SMM, WindEnergy and such consumer exhibitions as DU UND DEINE WELT and REISEN HAMBURG . HANNOVER FAIR The world‘s largest event for industrial technology: each year in the spring, the HANNOVER FAIR gives us a first peek at what the technology of tomorrow will look like. On the Exhibition Grounds in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony, the show features a wide range of display categories that rank as leading tradeshows in their own right. Companies from all over the world present innovations, trends and know-how focusing on industrial technologies. IFA – Consumer Electronics Unlimited The fascination of technology: Whether it’s a tiny multifunctional cell phone or a self-cleaning oven – the IFA – Consumer Electronics Unlimited showcases the world’s newest products each year. The Society for Entertainment and Communications Electronics and Messe Berlin work together to organize this major consumer electronics tradeshow. ILA Berlin Air Show The International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) takes aviation fans and technology enthusiasts to new heights at the grounds of Berlin Brandenburg International Airport. The ILA Berlin Air Show, which is staged every two years, provides information about the latest technol | CABARET Musicians/Party Guests: Laura Kariuki, Zach Russell, Christine Pascoe Sailor/Pary Guest: Lucas Lowry Young Boy Soloist: Ethan Wood SYNOPSIS Act I At the dawn of the 1930s in Berlin, the Nazi party is growing stronger. The Kit Kat Klub is a seedy cabaret, a place of decadent celebration. The Klub's Master of Ceremonies, or Emcee, together with the cabaret girls and waiters, warm up the audience ("Willkommen"). In a train station, Cliff Bradshaw arrives, a young American writer coming to Berlin to work on his new novel. He meets Ernst Ludwig, a German who offers Cliff work and recommends a boardinghouse. At the boardinghouse, Fräulein Schneider offers Cliff a room for one hundred marks; he can only pay fifty. After a brief debate, she relents and lets Cliff live there for fifty marks. Fräulein Schneider observes that she has learned to take whatever life offers ("So What?"). As Cliff visits the Kit Kat Klub, the Emcee introduces a British singer, Sally, who performs a racy, flirtatious number ("Don't Tell Mama"). Afterward, she asks Cliff to recite poetry for her; he recites "Casey at the Bat". Cliff offers to take Sally home, but she says that her boyfriend Max, the club's owner, is too jealous. Sally performs her final number at the Kit Kat Club aided by the female ensemble ("Mein Herr"). The cabaret ensemble performs a song and dance, calling each other on inter-table phones and inviting each other for dances and drinks ("The Telephone Song"). The next day, Cliff has just finished giving Ernst an English lesson when Sally arrives. Max has fired her and thrown her out, and now she has no place to live, and so she asks him if she can live in his room. At first he resists, but she convinces him (and Fräulein Schneider) to take her in ("Perfectly Marvelous"). The Emcee and two female companions sing a song ("Two Ladies") that comments on Cliff and Sally's unusual living conditions. Herr Schultz, an elderly Jewish fruit-shop owner who lives in her boardinghouse, has given Fräulein Schneider a pineapple as a gift ("It Couldn't Please Me More"). In the Kit Kat Klub, a young waiter starts to sing a song—a patriotic anthem to the Fatherland that slowly descends into a darker, Nazi-inspired marching song—becoming the strident "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". He initially sings a cappella, before the customers and the band join in. (In the 1998 and 2014 revivals, this is replaced by the Emcee playing a recording of a boy soprano) Months later, Cliff and Sally are still living together and have fallen in love. Cliff knows that he is in a "dream," but he enjoys living with Sally too much to come to his senses ("Why Should I Wake Up?"). Sally reveals that she is pregnant, but she does not know the father and reluctantly decides to get an abortion. Cliff reminds her that it could be his child, and seems to convince her to have the baby. Ernst enters and offers Cliff a job—picking up a suitcase in Paris and delivering it to his "client" in Berlin—easy money. The Emcee comments on this "Sitting Pretty", or (in later versions) "Money". Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider has caught one of her boarders, Fräulein Kost, bringing sailors into her room. Fräulein Schneider forbids her from doing it again, but Fräulein Kost threatens to leave. She also mentions that she has seen Fräulein Schneider with Herr Schultz in her room. Herr Schultz saves Fräulein Schneider's reputation by telling Fräulein Kost that he and Fräulein Schneider are to be married in three weeks. After Fräulein Kost leaves, Fräulein Schneider thanks Herr Schultz for lying to Fräulein Kost. Herr Schultz says that he was serious and proposes to Fräulein Schneider ("Married"). At Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz's engagement party, Cliff arrives and delivers the suitcase to Ernst. A "tipsy" Herr Schultz sings "Meeskite" (Meeskite, he explains, is Yiddish for ugly or funny-looking), a song with a moral ("Anyone responsible for loveliness, large or small/Is not a meeskite at all"). Afterward, looking for revenge on Fräulein Schneider, Fräulein Kost tells Ernst, who now sports a N |
What is the main street of Edinburgh called? | Best of Edinburgh Shopping Best of Edinburgh Shopping Introduction Shoppers on Princes Street Edinburgh has an wide selection of shopping available to cater for every taste. This ranges from upmarket designer stores such as Harvey Nichols, Jenners and House of Fraser, through the usual range of high street department stores such as John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Next, Gap and Debenhams, down to smaller boutiques, craft and specialist outlets selling pretty much anything you may need. Harvey Nichols Map There are also out of town shopping centres such as Ocean Terminal , the Gyle Shopping Centre and Fort Kinnaird (the first two offering undercover shopping). Generally speaking, city centre shops in Edinburgh cater for a fairly wide clientele. This ranges from residents of the city itself and the surrounding hinterland, those who work here, the many students who study in town (it has three Universities - Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and Napier) and, of course, our welcome tourists. Hot Dogs at Harvey Nichols Enjoy a morning or afternoon browsing around the main shopping areas, and when you find yourself in need of a break, stop for a coffee or meal in one of the excellent cafes or restaurants. Whatever you're looking for you're sure to find it in Edinburgh. Princes Street Princes Street Princes Street has one of Europe's most impressive settings, enjoying as it does a visually stunning and uninterrupted panorama across Princes Street Gardens to the majestic Castle and Old Town. Constructed principally during the latter half of the 18th century as part of the New Town development, Princes Street was originally proposed to be called St Giles Street, after the patron saint of the city. This suggestion is said to have been rejected by King George III and the street named instead with reference to two of his sons, ie the Princes. Before the Edinburgh City Bypass was completed, most traffic crossing the city had to travel along Princes Street, making for considerable noise, congestion and pollution. Nowadays however only buses and taxis are allowed to travel it its full length. It is along Princes Street that the main department stores such as Jenners, House of Fraser, Marks & Spencer, Primark and Debenhams are to be found, together with a wide range of other shops, hotels, coffee shops and fast food restaurants. Next to Waverley Railway Station is the small Waverley Mall and slightly further along (just around the corner from the statue of Wellington on his horse) you will find work has started on the new Edinburgh St James development which is due to be completed in 2020. The excellent John Lewis department store is located here and will be open throughout the redevelopment work. Jenners Map Jenners, one of the oldest family run businesses in the city until it was recently acquired by House of Fraser, is well worth a visit. This upmarket but somewhat labyrinthine store is full of charm and sophistication. It also has a wonderfully attractive main hall which is beautifully decorated each year with a full size Christmas tree. We can particularly recommend the excellent food and baking in its cafeteria. Debenhams, known for its good seasonal sales, is also worth a look. House of Fraser Map Overall, Princes Street provides an excellent shopping experience which we recommend is best enjoyed at a leisurely pace. Take your time to enjoy its magnificent surroundings and the many alterrnative attractions along its length, including the Scott Monument, the Royal Scottish Academy, the National Galleries of Scotland and, not forgetting, Princes Street Gardens with its unusual floral clock. John Lewis Department Store Map George Street Named after George III, George Street was designed to be the foremost street of Edinburgh's New Town, linking Charlotte Square in the east to St Andrews Square in the west. Work commenced in1767. From its early beginnings as a residential area, George Street gradually developed during the 19th and 20th centuries into a centre for banking and insurance. This is reflected in the architectural splendour of many of th | The Road See Jack Boyd's Memoirs for more history, and Boyd's "adventures" in Scotland. The Road: Chapter 5: Rob Roy MacGregor Introduction A small boy pedals his tricycle along the sidewalk of a quiet subdivision, a teenager passes him on inline skates. A young couple walk along a country lane and only have eyes for each other. None of them know or care that just beneath their feet is a road that once was the Northern border of the Roman Empire, the very edge of civilization. It is so ancient that it has witnessed many of the major events that led Scotland to become a nation. Some people hold the view that fighting is in the very nature of man, and that peace is only a pipedream. It is easy to see how they arrived at this conclusion. Scottish history abounds with stories of battles and civil wars. There used to be much fighting between families, then clans. Catholic and Protestant wars have been fought. Religious wars. Now there is an oxymoron. Usually those are about power or rituals, and never about spiritual values. The emergence of a common enemy helped Wallace and Bruce to unite Highlander, Islander, and Lowlander, Pict, Gael, Scot and Borderer. They would as soon have fought each other, but it was by setting aside their many differences and uniting that they were to achieve greatness. Around the world there has been a similar experience, with neighbour fighting neighbour or neighbouring country fighting neighbouring country. Unite to achieve greatness. Unity in diversity. However reluctantly, it has been the human experience that banding together in ever larger groups, and solving the problems associated with verbal and written language, currency, economics and law, has been necessary for the establishment of peace, economic stability, economy of scale, and effective functioning. The people of the Province of Ontario can go to bed at night comforted by the thought that the Province of Manitoba will not invade in the night. In fact, they do not give it a thought. The same is true of the Scottish counties of Lothian and Lanark. It was not always this way. If we do not value this achievement, we may lose it one day in political rhetoric. There is always a good reason to fight. If there is one lesson to be learned from history it is that there is a better reason to unite. Man is the supreme talisman. -- Bahá'u'lláh Down through the ages mankind has been advancing in a series of progressions. There have been backward steps in the journey, inevitably, but we have moved from families of hunter gatherers to septs of farmers and herders, to clans, to tribes, to countries, to nations. What remains is for us to learn how to live in harmony in one world. Some say that a global society is not possible. Not possible? The Romans had a global society two thousand years ago. It is inevitable. The only thing in doubt is the form it will take. Saint Patrick, William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, and Rob Roy MacGregor. What do they have in common? All were heroes, all are dead. They would have been dead anyway. Why we remember them is the way they lived and the way they died. That makes them memorable. All faced huge odds without yielding. All succeeded in gaining major victories that left their part of the world a better place. Succeeding generations were given a standard to strive to live up to. There are many cynical people in the world today who are very intelligent. Not much has ever been achieved by cynical people. The heroes of this story were all believers. All had a vision which they would not yield, and for which they were willing to pay the ultimate price. The Birth of Scotland Celts; Romans; Britons; Picts This is the story of a road. For centuries people travelled it on their journey to fame or obscurity. Some of these people were of great importance in the history of Scotland and it is of them that I write. I can only provide a glimpse of them and the significant events on which they expended their lives. They will pass through the story fleetingly as they once passed the site of my home, offering a glimpse of history to |
Coventry Cathedra! is dedicated to which Saint? | Our history – Coventry Cathedral Contact us Our history Coventry has had three Cathedrals in the past 1000 years: the 12th century Priory Church of St Mary, the medieval Parish Church Cathedral of St Michael and the modern Coventry Cathedral, also named for St Michael. Coventry’s fortunes and story are closely associated to the story of its Cathedrals – a story of death and rebirth. Coventry’s earliest cathedral, dedicated to St Mary, was founded as a Benedictine community by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and his wife Godiva in 1043. Built on the site of a former religious house for nuns, its sheer size is some indication of the wealth which Coventry acquired in the middle ages. In 1539, with the dissolution of the monasteries, the See of Coventry and Lichfield was transferred to Lichfield and the former cathedral fell into decay. Only in 1918 was the modern diocese of Coventry created in its own right, and the church of St Michael designated as its cathedral. The majority of the great ruined churches and cathedrals of England are the outcome of the violence of the dissolution in 1539. The ruins of St Michael’s are the consequence of violence in our own time. On the night of 14 November 1940, the city of Coventry was devastated by bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe. The Cathedral burned with the city, having been hit by several incendiary devices. The decision to rebuild the cathedral was taken the morning after its destruction. Rebuilding would not be an act of defiance, but rather a sign of faith, trust and hope for the future of the world. It was the vision of the Provost at the time, Richard Howard, which led the people of Coventry away from feelings of bitterness and hatred. This has led to the cathedral’s Ministry of Peace and Reconciliation, which has provided spiritual and practical support, in areas of conflict throughout the world. Shortly after the destruction, the cathedral stonemason, Jock Forbes, noticed that two of the charred medieval roof timbers had fallen in the shape of a cross. He set them up in the ruins where they were later placed on an altar of rubble with the moving words ‘Father Forgive’ inscribed on the Sanctuary wall. Another cross was fashioned from three medieval nails by local priest, the Revd Arthur Wales. The Cross of Nails has become the symbol of Coventry’s ministry of reconciliation. Her Majesty the Queen laid the foundation stone on 23 March 1956 and the building was consecrated on 25 May 1962, in her presence. The ruins remain hallowed ground and together the two create one living Cathedral. Our buildings The place we call ‘Coventry Cathedral’ is in fact two buildings that lie at the very heart of the city of Coventry. The Ruins of the ‘old Cathedral’ are the remains of a medieval parish church, consecrated to be the Cathedral of the new Diocese of Coventry in 1918. In a little over 20 years, this building would be destroyed by enemy air attack in the Second World War. Rather than sweeping away the ruins or rebuilding a replica of the former church, inspired by the message of Christ for reconciliation, the then leaders of the Cathedral Community took the courageous step to build a new Cathedral and preserve the remains of the old Cathedral as a moving reminder of the folly and waste of war. From that point, Coventry Cathedral became the inspiration for a ministry of peace and reconciliation that has reached out across the entire world. The ‘new’ Cathedral was itself an inspiration to many fine artists of the post-war era. The architect, Sir Basil Spence, commissioned work from Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ralph Beyer, John Hutton, Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink and others – most still to reach the peak of their artistic careers. In the ‘old Cathedral’ it is still possible to see (uniquely) at eye-level, sections of outstanding, hand painted glass by John Thornton (circa 1450). Thornton, born in Coventry, was recognised as a master glass painter of his time and went on to paint the windows of York Minster. Coventry Cathedral is fortunate to have a very fine collection of his glass which is | Apostles Tax collectors: Saint Mathew. Saint James the Lesser. Also known as James the Just, he was the author of the first Catholic Epistle and first Bishop of Jerusalem. His mother was a close relative of the Virgin Mary and James is often referred to as the Cousin of Jesus. James was martyred in 62AD, stoned to death after being thrown from the pinnacle of a temple. His feast day is the 3rd of May. He is the Patron Saint of apothecaries, hatmakers, the dying and fullers. The spoon shows him holding a fullers club. Saint Bartholomew. Mentioned in the Gospels and Acts as an Apostle, and a close friend of Saint Philip who introduced him to Jesus. He preached in India, Asia Minor, Ethiopia and Greater Armenia, where he was flayed alive and beheaded. His feast day is the 24th of August. He is the Patron Saint of butchers, leatherworkers and shoemakers. The spoon shows him holding a butchers knife. Saint Peter. Brother of Saint Andrew and born with the name of Simon. Jesus named him 'Peter' and told him "To you I will give the keys to the kingdom of Heaven". He was either martyred and crucified upside down or, says another legend, he was beheaded in a forest so that other Christians could not find and venerate his bones. His feast day is the 29th of June. He is the Patron Saint of fishermen, clockmakers and locksmiths. The spoon shows him holding a key. Saint Philip. A disciple of John the Baptist, born in Galilee and a confidant of Jesus. He preached in Asia Minor and Greece, where he was crucified upside down in 80AD by the Emperor Domitian. His feast day is the 3rd of May. He is the Patron Saint of Luxembourg and Uraguay. The spoon shows him holding a staff with a cross in the 't'. Saint James the Greater. Son of Zebedee, brother of Saint John. He is termed 'The Greater' as he became an Apostle before the younger James the Lesser. James was a close friend of Jesus and was present at many of the miracles. He preached in Spain and Judea and was the first Apostle to be martyred. He was killed in 44AD, stabbed with a sword by King Herod Agrippa. His feast day is the 25th of July. He is the Patron Saint of blacksmiths, labourers and pilgrims. The spoon shows him holding a pilgrims staff. Saint Jude of Thaddaeus. Brother of Saint james the Lesser and a blood relative of Jesus, being the nephew of Mary and Joseph. He preached in Judea, Syria, Mesopotamia, Libya and Persia, where he was beaten to death and beheaded. His feast day is the 28th of October. He is the Patron Saint of lost or desperate causes, hospital and health workers. This is because of his New Testment letter which calls upon the faithful to persevere in adversity. The spoon shows him holding a large cross. The Savior or Master. The spoon shows Jesus holding an orb and sceptre. Saint John. Son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of Saint James the Greater. He became so close to Jesus that he was known as "the beloved disciple". He founded many churches in Asia Minor but spent most of his time in Jerusalem. He died of old age at Ephesus in 101AD, having survived all his fellow Apostles. His feast day is the 27th of December. He is the Patron Saint of authors, booksellers, engravers and painters. He is also Patron against burns and poisons. The spoon shows him holding a chalice or "the cup of sorrow". Saint Thomas. Also known as "doubting Thomas", as he doubted the other Apostles account of the Resurrection. It was eight days later on Christs second rising that he was allowed to convince himself by touching the wounds. He went to preach in Parthia and India where, in 72AD, he was stabbed to death with a spear. His feast day is the 3rd of July. He is the Patron Saint of arc |
Ojos del Salado is one of the world's highest volcanoes, in which country is its peak? | Ojos del Salado Volcano, Chile / Argentina - facts & information / VolcanoDiscovery: 38 km Chile-Argentina Border Region Nevados Ojos del Salado is the world's highest active volcano. It is located on the Chile/Argentina border, about 20 km south of the road that crosses Argentina-CHile border at Paso de San Francisco. The mountain has very dry conditions with snow only remaining on the peak during winter. The volcano contains two summit peaks of the same height. A large explosive eruption took pleace about 1000-1500 years ago and produced pyroclastic flows. Ojos del Salado is still active and has fumarolic activity at present, but there are no confirmed historical eruptions of Ojos del Salado. A report of minor gas-and-ash emission in 1993 could not be confirmed. The volcano currently shows fumarolic activity. Background: from Smithsonian / GVP volcano information : The summit complex, which is elongated in a NE-SW direction and overlies a largely buried caldera, contains numerous craters, pyroclastic cones and andesitic-to-rhyolitic lava domes and has been the source of Holocene lava flows. A major rhyodacitic explosive eruption took place about 1000-1500 years ago, producing pumiceous pyroclastic flows. The most recent eruptive activity of Ojos del Salado appears to have originated along a NNE-trending rift along the summit complex. It involved formation of a thick, viscous lava flow and at least a dozen small cones, lava domes, and explosion craters. No confirmed historical eruptions of Ojos del Salado have been recorded, but the volcano has displayed persistent fumarolic activity, and there was an unconfirmed report of minor gas-and-ash emission in 1993. | Sardinia travel guide - Wikitravel Understand[ edit ] Sardinia, with its quintessential Mediterranean beauty, is mainly loved for swimming, boating, windsurfing, hiking, climbing, and camping, with coastal areas tending to become over touristed especially in the warmest month, August. The inner life of the island away from the tourist spots takes longer to appreciate and requires you to peel away the layers of apparent Italianization. After all, the ancient Nuragic civilization of Sardinia of ca. 1500 BC, whose stone monuments still dot the land, predates even the Etruscan civilization in mainland Italy by several hundred years. Physical Geography of Sardinia Geology and Geography[ edit ] Sardinia is the only region in Italy of Hercynian origin; actually, the Southwest is even older (Cambrian). The mineral riches of Sardinia are the consequence of heavy hydrothermalism during the Permo-Triassic. As in the rest of Hercynian Europe , erosion has taken its toll since the orogeny and has reduced elevations considerably. 30 million years ago, the Sardinia-Corsica block started to detach from mainland Spain and tilted toward its present position. The island is both aseismic and non volcanic. Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (24090 sq. km [9300 sq. mi]); only Sicily is larger. The island is dominated by the Gennargentu Range (culminating at Punta La Marmora, 1834 m [6017 ft], highest elevation in Sardinia), along with the Monte Limbara, Monte di Ala', and Monte Rasu ranges (all below 1500 m [4900 ft]); isolated are the Sulcis-Iglesiente hills (1236 m [4055 ft]) of Southwestern Sardinia, once home to a large mining district. Plains are quite rare and reduced in extent, with the exception of the Campidano Plain from Oristano to Cagliari, which divides the main hill system from the Sulcis-Iglesiente, and the Nurra plain in the northwest (between Sassari, Alghero, and Porto Torres), which was once a mining district and quite forested, but is today mostly given to pasture. Sulcis proper (in the extreme Southwest) was a marshy area where malaria was still present in the 1940's (but eradicated since). Cagliari's neighbourhood is also flat and boggy; exploitation of salt is a major industry there. Coasts are generally rocky and tall, especially along the Eastern half; large beaches are found however on the North and Northeast (Logudoro and Gallura), the South (from Teulada to Pula) and the Southwest (Sulcis-Iglesiente). Apart from the Strait of Bonifacio (famed for its often rough sea) which divides Corsica from Sardinia, the surrounding sea is quite deep at short distances from the shore. Population is low (a little more than 1 650 000 inhabitants in 2010), with heavy concentration in the Cagliari (one third of the total population) and Sassari (one fifth) areas; Olbia is the only other town exceeding 50 000 inhabitants. Other centres include Alghero, Nuoro, Oristano, Carbonia and Iglesias. Sardinia, along with the Valle d'Aosta region at the French border, has the lowest density of population in Italy. Climate[ edit ] Sardinia enjoys, for the most part, a Mediterranean climate. It is, however, heavily influenced by the vicinity of the Gulf of Genoa (barometric low) and the relative proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. Sardinia, being relatively large and hilly, weather is not uniform; in particular the East is drier, but paradoxically it suffers the worst rainstorms: in Autumn 2009, it rained more than 200 mm (8 inches) in a single day in Siniscola. The Western coast is rainy even for modest elevations (for instance Iglesias, elevation 200 m, average annual precipitation 815 mm against 750 mm for London). Climate Climate of Cagliari, source Global Historical Climatology Network Summer is dry with very warm weather. However, contrary to the islands of Greece for instance, shade and wind are plenty. Autumn typically can be mild till mid-November), but is subject to heavy rainstorms as noted above. Winter is generally mild on plains (cold spells being however not unheard of) but cool to cold at higher elevati |
After she beat Francesca Schiavone at the Sony Ericsson Tennis Championships in Doha, who was ranked World No. 1 on the WTA Tour? | Francesca Schiavone - 必应 Sign in Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃeska skjaˈvoːne]; born 23 June 1980 in Milan) is an Italian professional tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. Her career high ranking is World No. 4, achieved on 31 January 2011. To date, Schiavone is the last one handed-backhand player to win a Grand Slam title on the women's tour. Schiavone has won 6 WTA singles title ... (展开) s in total, including Roland Garros. In doubles, her career-high ranking is World No. 8, peaking with an appearance in the final of the 2008 French Open. Furthermore, she helped Italy to win the Fed Cup in 2006, 2009 and 2010, and has the most wins for the Italian team. Francesca Schiavone Professional career Schiavone has won six singles titles on the WTA tour and has also achieved eleven runners-up positions, eight of them since the autumn of 2005. Schiavone lost her first eight career finals before finally winning her first title in July 2007. She and her Italian teammates Mara Santangelo, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci beat the Belgium team 3–2 in the 2006 Fed Cup final. Justine Henin had to retire in the fifth and final match due to an injury in her right knee, which let Italy win their first Fed Cup trophy. This match was a doubles match and Kirsten Flipkens partnered Henin and Roberta Vinci partnered Schiavone. In 2009 she won the Fed Cup with Italy for the second time against the USA, and also made the quarter-finals of Wimbledon for the first time. In 2010 Italy with Schiavone won the Fed Cup for the third time. In addition she realized a notable victory during the quarterfinals of the 2008 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open, when she upset world No. 1 and four-time champion Henin 7–6, 7–6. She also beat Amélie Mauresmo in a Fed Cup tie in 2006 when Mauresmo was ranked No. 1. Partnering with Australian Casey Dellacqua, Schiavone was the runner-up in the women's doubles competition at the 2008 French Open where they lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual. Schiavone also reached the semifinals of the doubles event at the other three grand slams. 2010: First Major Title at Roland Garros At the Australian Open Francesca defeated Frenchwomen Alizé Cornet 0–6, 7–5, 6–0. and Julie Coin 6–3, 6–4 first before upsetting No. 10 seed Agnieszka Radwańska 6–2, 6–2. Though she matched her best results there (4R), she went on to lose to No. 6 seed Venus Williams after winning the first set 3–6, 6–2, 6–1. She beat Alberta Brianti, Tathiana Garbin, Carla Suárez Navarro, Yaroslava Shvedova, and Roberta Vinci all in straight sets to win her 3rd WTA title at the Barcelona Ladies Open. Seeded 17th entering the 2010 French Open, Schiavone was lightly regarded as a contender for the championship. She defeated Regina Kulikova, Sophie Ferguson, 11th seed Li Na, and 30th seed Maria Kirilenko to reach her first French Open quarterfinal since 2001 (where she had lost to Martina Hingis). In the quarterfinals, she defeated World No. 3 Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets to become the first Italian woman to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam singles event. The semifinals of the French Open consisted of four players (Jelena Janković, Elena Dementieva, Samantha Stosur and Schiavone) who had never won a Grand Slam singles event; nevertheless, most in the tennis community, including ESPN's tennis commentary team of Mary Jo Fernandez, Patrick McEnroe and Brad Gilbert singled out Schiavone as the one player who was not a serious contender to win the title. In the semifinals, Schiavone defeated World No. 5 and 2004 finalist Dementieva after Dementieva retired in the second set with a torn calf muscle having lost the first set in a tiebreaker; the victory made Schiavone the first Italian woman to reach a Grand Slam final, and assured that she would become a top-ten player for the first time following the tournament. In the final, Schi | Tennis players of the century | The Independent Tennis players of the century Tuesday 7 December 1999 00:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Rod Laver beat out the player who grew up idolizing him, Pete Sampras, as the men's tennis player of the century, and Steffi Graf edged Martina Navratilova as the top women's player in a poll conducted by The Associated Press. Rod Laver beat out the player who grew up idolizing him, Pete Sampras, as the men's tennis player of the century, and Steffi Graf edged Martina Navratilova as the top women's player in a poll conducted by The Associated Press. Laver, assembled by The AP, while Sampras received no first-place votes and 39 points. Bill Tilden, who dominated men's play in the 1920s, finished third with the help of one first-place vote. Dubbed the "Rocket," Laver is the only double Grand Slammer in history. He won the Australian, French, Wimbledon and US titles in 1962 as an amateur, then repeated the feat in 1969 as a pro. He attacked the net relentlessly, yet possessed a potent all-around game from the baseline. Laver won the Australian singles title three times, the French twice, Wimbledon four times, and the US twice. He probably would have won many more majors but was banned from the Grand Slam events in his prime after he turned pro in 1963. He did not return to the majors until the open era in 1968, then he promptly won Wimbledon for the third time. Sampras always listed Laver as his favorite player, admiring the completeness of his game, his aggressive style on court, and his gentlemanly demeanor off court. Although Sampras owns 12 major singles titles, including six at Wimbledon, he has never gone beyond the semi-finals in 10 appearances at the French Open. That failure on clay led one voter to omit him from the top 10 list, while another rated him only No 5. Bjorn Borg of Sweden and winner of five straight Wimbledon titles from 1976 to 1980, finished fourth, followed by Don Budge, the first player to complete a Grand Slam in 1938. John McEnroe and Lew Hoad of Australia, tied for sixth place, Roy Emerson and Ken Rosewall, both Australians, tied for eighth, and Jack Kramer finished 10th. Hoad and Pancho Gonzales, scintillating players in the 1950s who limited their play in majors by turning pro in their prime, each garnered one first-place vote. In the women's poll, Graf and Navratilova were separated by a point, 52-51, and were followed by Margaret Smith Court - the winner of 24 Grand Slam titles. Billie Jean King, who holds the most Wimbledon titles, with 20 (6 singles and 14 doubles titles) was fourth on the list. Chris Evert was fifth followed by Suzanne Lenglen of France, Helen Wills Moody, Maureen Connolly, Monica Seles of Yugoslavia, and a tie for No 10 between Evonne Goolagong of Australia and Martina Hingis of Switzerland. Graf, of Germany, retired at 30 in 1999 after her emotional victory at the French Open, her sixth at Roland Garros, and a runner-up finish at Wimbledon, where she had won seven times. She is the only player to complete a Golden Slam - winning the four majors and the Olympics in 1988. Four voters ranked Graf No 1, one listed Navratilova, a Czech native, as the best, and another put King at the top, in part because of her influence on the game as the founder of the WTA Tour. The AP panel included six players whose careers spanned six decades: Ted Schroeder, Fred Stolle, Barry MacKay, Pam Shriver, Wendy Turnbull and Virginia Wade. Turnbull and Stolle are Australian, while Wade is from England. "Ranking players of different eras is completely subjective," said Schroeder, who won the US title in 1942 and Wimbledon in 1949 and has been a keen observer of the sport ever since. "My selections are based on levels of competition in their respective eras." Among the surprises in the voting were the low regard the panelists had for Ivan Lendl, who dominated the 1980s with eight major singles titles at the Australian, French and US Open, and two runner-up finishes at Wimbledon. One panelist ranked him No seven, another No 9, and the others left him |
On what date is Saint George's day? | St. George's Day in United Kingdom Home Calendar Holidays United Kingdom St. George's Day St. George's Day in United Kingdom St George's Day in England remembers St George, England's patron saint. The anniversary of his death, which is on April 23, is seen as England's national day. According to legend, he was a soldier in the Roman army who killed a dragon and saved a princess. According to legend, St George slayed a dragon. Many Christians observe St George's Day in the UK, although it is not a public holiday. According to legend, St George slayed a dragon. Many Christians observe St George's Day in the UK, although it is not a public holiday. ©iStockphoto.com/bogdb Celebrate St George's Day St George's Day used to be a national holiday in England. It is now an observance that is celebrated with parades, dancing and other activities. Flags with the image of St George's cross are flown on some buildings, especially pubs, and a few people wear a red rose on their lapel. Church services on the Sunday closest to April 23 often include the hymn 'Jerusalem', written by the poet William Blake. The words describe a supposed visit to Glastonbury, England, by Jesus Christ during his youth. Public Life April 23 is not a public holiday. Schools, stores, post offices, businesses and other organizations are open as usual. Public transport services run to their usual timetables. About St George's Day St George was born sometime around the year 280 in what is now Turkey. He was a soldier and rose up through the ranks of the Roman army, eventually becoming a personal guard to the Emperor Diocletian. He was executed for being a Christian on April 23, 303, and is buried in the town of Lod in Israel. St George is most widely known for slaying a dragon. According to legend, the only well in the town of Silene was guarded by a dragon. In order to get water, the inhabitants of the town had to offer a human sacrifice every day to the dragon. The person to be sacrificed was chosen by lots. On the day that St George was visiting, a princess had been selected to be sacrificed. However, he killed the dragon, saved the princess and gave the people of Silene access to water. In gratitude, they converted to Christianity. It is thought that the dragon represents a certain type of pagan belief that included the sacrifice of human beings. St George's Day was once celebrated as widely as Christmas. But the celebrations waned by the end of the 18th century after England had united with Scotland on May 1, 1707. In recent times, there has been a push, involving campaigns and petitions, to make the day a public holiday in England. St George is the patron saint of a number of other places, such as Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Portugal and Russia. He is also remembered in some regional holidays, such as in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and among the Gorani people who live in a mountainous area in the Balkans and were converted to Islam many centuries ago, but still observe St George's Day. Around the world, a number of days are devoted to St George, including April 23 and dates in November and December of the Gregorian calendar. Symbols The most widely recognized symbol of St George's Day is St George's cross. This is a red cross on a white background, which is often displayed as a flag. It is used as England's national flag, forming part of the Union Flag, the national flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Saint George's cross was originally the flag of the maritime Republic of Genoa. Around 1190, the King of England started paying the Doge of Genoa to protect ships originally from the city of London and the rest of England that sailed in the Mediterranean. During the crusades in the 1100s and 1200s, English knights used St George's cross as part of their uniform. It has been the official flag of England for centuries, but the Union Flag, a combination of St George's cross, St Andrew's cross and St Patrick's cross, is the national flag of the United Kingdom. Now Saint George's cross is used as | Account Suspended Account Suspended This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information. |
"Which actress began her professional film career aged six in ""Bright Eyes"" in 1934?" | Bright Eyes (1934) - News NEWS 31 December 2014 2:42 PM, PST | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news » The world bid farewell to many brilliant actors, artists and musicians this year. From Philip Seymour Hoffman and Maya Angelou , to Robin Williams and Joan Rivers , we pay tribute to the stars we lost in 2014. Lauren Bacall Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall , best known for her string of celebrated noir performances opposite husband Humphrey Bogart , passed away at the age of 89 on Aug. 12. Bacall is survived by her three children, Stephen and Leslie Bogart, and Sam Robards . Oscar de la Renta Iconic fashion designer Oscar de la Renta passed away Oct. 20 at the age of 82 following a long battle with cancer. De la Renta came to fame in the 1960s as one of [link » Child star of 1930s and 40s remembered at Oscars ceremony after her death earlier this year • Xan Brooks liveblogs the ceremony • Full list of winners as they're announced The Oscars paid tribute to Shirley Temple , the Oscar-winning child star who died last year – devoting part of its traditional In Memoriam section to the actor. Temple was given an honorary juvenile Oscar in 1935 at the age of six, after a string of box-office successes including Bright Eyes and Baby Take a Bow helped to distract America in the throes of the Depression. Her screen career flourished during the 1930s, before taking a downturn during the second world war, followed by her official retirement in 1950. Apart from a few subsequent TV appearances, Temple turned to a political career, and served as Us ambassador to both Ghana and Czechoslovakia, among other high-profile posts. Temple, who used the name Temple Black after her 1950 marriage to Charles Alden Black, » - Andrew Pulver 23 February 2014 5:53 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news » Review by Sam Moffitt I never was a fan of Shirley Temple , far from it. I do recall seeing most of her movies years ago. Back in the Sixties Channel 11, in St. Louis, used to have a Shirley Temple Theater on weekend afternoons. My sister Judy , for some reason, had to watch those Shirley Temple films. So I can recall seeing Bright Eyes , the Little Colonel, Heidi , Little Miss Marker and what have you. To say I was not impressed would be a major understatement. Even as a young kid I realized there was a strict formula to Shirley’s movies, namely her sunny disposition and optimistic outlook would win over cranky old adults and straighten out bratty little kids, who were usually the villains, in her films, and that was about all. I do recognize and respect Shirley Temple ’s place in film history. She was the biggest star » - Movie Geeks 15 February 2014 7:30 AM, PST | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news » What had ETonline readers buzzing this week? What had ETonline readers buzzing this week? 1. Shirley Temple Black Dies Legendary child actress Shirley Temple Black passed away on Monday night, Feb. 10. She was 85. The actress, perhaps best known for her 1930s films Little Princess, Bright Eyes and Heidi , died in her Woodside, Calif. home, her nephew Richard Black told The Hollywood Reporter. She had recently begun hospice care. Temple is survived by her three children, her daughter Linda from her marriage to John Agar , and her son Charles and daughter Lori from her marriage to Charles Black . Temple, who served as a foreign ambassador and diplomat for four U.S. presidents, won a Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award in 2006. "When I was 3 years old, I was delighted to be told that I was an actress, even though I didn't know what an actress was," she said during her acceptance speech. "I have one » 12 February 2014 5:32 PM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news » Turner Classic Movies will air a tribute to the late Hollywood legend Shirley Temple . Temple passed away at the age of 85 from natural causes at her home in Woodside, California earlier this week. Shirley Temple dies: The Hollywood icon's life in pictures TCM has since confir | The Hays Code / Useful Notes - TV Tropes Assuming Viewers Are Morons , 1934�1968 The Hays Code (the informal name for The Motion Picture Production Code), adopted in 1930 but not seriously enforced until 1934, was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped—and in many ways stifled—American cinema for over three decades. It also happened to completely overlap The Golden Age of Hollywood . The Pre Code Era of Hollywood cinema stretched from around 1928 to 1933, and the contrast between films made before and after the Hays Code was enacted shows the impact censorship had on American cinema. Films like Howard Hawks ' Scarface (1932) were far more brazen and upfront about Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster , lacking the Do Not Do This Cool Thing tacked-on correctives seen in films like Angels with Dirty Faces (though even during this era, with Hawks' film, the studio added scenes and changed the title to Scarface: The Shame of the Nation to appease local censorship boards). The landscape was also less politically correct, as actors and actresses played all kinds of roles. Lots of pre-Code films have a surprisingly feminist slant; working women are even regarded with sympathy and affection. William A. Wellman's Heroes for Sale (1933) shows a Shell-Shocked Veteran returning from World War I falling into morphine addiction. Directors such as Josef von Sternberg worked with Marlene Dietrich to create provocative explorations of sexuality and power. 1930's Morocco even featured the first lesbian kiss in sound cinema. During the later years of The Silent Age of Hollywood and the Rise of the Talkies , Hollywood became inundated with public complaints about the perceived lewd content of films. Scandals centered around big stars (most infamously Fatty Arbuckle ) and the ensuing media frenzy made vocal sections of the public call for the government to rein in Hollywood. As luck would have it, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in 1915 that films did not qualify for First Amendment protectionnote The ruling in the 1915 case, Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, said essentially that because film was a purely commercial endeavor, it therefore had no artistic merit, and thus could not count as free speech. Live theatre operated under the same auspices, but had 1st Amendment protection--a fact conveniently ignored by the Court. . Congress began to consider creating a national censorship board akin to the ones found in several states both before and after the Mutual Decision. To stop the government from censoring or banning films, Hollywood decided to do the deed themselves with the Hays Code, a set of production directives voluntarily adopted by all the major studios that would ostensibly prove to Congress (and the public) that Hollywood had cleaned up its act. Will H. Hays, a former Postmaster General, did not create the Code, but he was the first head of the office of its enforcement, so his name became more-or-less permanently attached to it. Amongst filmmakers, Joseph Breen was the main man behind censorship, and the Hays Code was also known as the Breen Code. The Code placed a number of restrictions on all films produced, distributed, or exhibited by the members of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), the organization today known as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The Hays Code restrictions were as follows: Crime and immorality could never be portrayed in a positive light. If someone performed an immoral act, they had to be punished on screen , resulting in numerous cases of Adaptational Karma . This forced a change to the ending of The Bad Seed . In the novel and stage play, Christine gives an overdose of sleeping pills to her dangerous sociopathic daughter Rhoda, and Christine shoots herself, but Rhoda survives, with the implication she will kill again (especially now that her mother, the only person aware of her true nature, is gone). The film version has Christine survive her suicide attempt, while Rhoda dies in a contrived and implausible Karmic D |
Who was Moses elder sibling? | Aaron, Brother of Moses Aaron, Brother of Moses See also Aaronic Priesthood ; Moses In the Old Testament, a son of Amram and Jochebed, of the tribe of Levi ( Ex. 6:16–20 ); the elder brother of Moses ( Ex. 7:7 ). Was appointed by the Lord to assist Moses in bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt and to be his spokesman: Ex. 4:10–16, 27–31 ; | Daily Bible Study - Children Of Jacob Questions? Search all 6,500+ Bible studies on this website. Just type in topic word(s) or a question. Due to extensive use of high-quality maps and illustrations, this educational website is best-viewed with a minimum screen-resolution width of 1280 pixels Children Of Jacob by Wayne Blank The grandson of Abraham , and the son of Isaac , Jacob is a key individual of Bible History . God changed Jacob's name to Israel (see Stairway To Heaven ), and from his sons came the Tribes of Israel - the Israelites. Jacob had 2 wives, Rachel and Leah (who were sisters, and first-cousins of Jacob), and 2 concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah, an apparently common and accepted practice of the day. Rachel and Leah did not object to the other two women because it was their idea to have more children with them (Genesis 30:3,9). Rachel - Jacob's favorite wife. She died while giving birth to Benjamin and is buried at Bethlehem . Her children were Joseph and Benjamin. Joseph - 11th-born overall. Definitely his father's favorite son, from his favorite wife, it was Joseph who was sold for slavery into Egypt by his jealous brothers (see Coat Of Many Colors ). There, with God's help, he rose to become the highest official of the Pharaoh , saving the nation from the famine that was prophesied. When the rest of Jacob's family moved to Egypt to escape the famine, it was Joseph who had made their survival possible (they would remain in Egypt 400 years, eventually becoming slaves until the Exodus). While there, Joseph had 2 sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were themselves made into individual tribes of Israel to bring the number back to 12 - the priestly tribe of Levi was not counted separately, but was absorbed among the other tribes. Ephraim - Younger than Manasseh, he was never the less ranked higher in the family structure (Genesis 48:19). His descendants were to become a great future group of nations. Manasseh - 1st-born of Joseph, he was prophesied to become a great single nation. Benjamin - The youngest of the 12 sons. Rachel died while giving him birth. The apostle Paul (see On The Road To Damascus ), who wrote much of the New Testament, is descended from Benjamin. Leah - It seems that Jacob did not have a great deal of love for her, perhaps because she became his wife by deception (Genesis 29:16-30). Never the less, Leah is the mother of the greatest number of the Tribes of Israel, and is today buried with Jacob (along with Abraham, Sarah , Isaac and Rebekah) in the high-tension area of The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Her children are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Israel's only recorded daughter, Dinah. Reuben - 1st-born overall. He was disqualified from his position as eldest son when he committed an act of sexual immorality with Jacob's concubine Bilhah (Genesis 35:22). Simeon - 2nd-born overall. Levi - 3rd-born overall. From Levi came the Levites who were dedicated to God's service. As such, they were later not counted as a separate tribe. Moses and Aaron and John The Baptist were descended from Levi. Judah - 4th-born overall. Perhaps the most famous of Jacob's sons, it was from Judah that the Jews are descended. Jesus Christ (see also The Chosen People ), and most Christians in the earliest days of the church, were descended from Judah. A vital element for understanding Bible Prophecy is that while all Jews are Israelites, not all Israelites are Jews (just the same as all Belgians are Europeans, but not all Europeans are Belgians). There are many millions of people around the world today who are Israelites, but are not Jews. Issachar - 9th-born overall. Zebulun - 10th-born overall. Dinah - Israel's only daughter. Bilhah - Rachel's maid, it was Rachel's idea that Jacob have children with her (Genesis 30:3-6). Her children were Dan and Naphtali. Dan - 5th-born overall. Naphtali - 6th-born overall. Zilpah - Leah's maid, it was Leah's idea that Jacob have children with her (Genesis 30:9). Her children were Gad and Asher. Gad - 7th-born overall. Asher - 8th-born overall. Fact Finder: Wh |
Who got to no.7 in the UK charts in 1977 with ‘Lovely Day’? | Bill Withers Biography, Tracks and Songs Bill Withers Biography: Bill Withers (born July 4, 1938 in Slab Fork, West Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter who performed and recorded from the late 1960s until the mid 1980s Bill's father died when he was thirteen. He joined the US Navy at seventeen, and stayed there for nine years, before he moved to Los Angeles in 1967. While in Los Angeles, he worked full-time in a Lockheed assembly plant in the day, recording demo tapes and performing in juke joints during the night. When he debuted on the music scene with "Ain't No Sunshine," he refused to give up his job at Lockheed because of his belief that the music business was a fickle industry and that he was still a novice compared to other working acts like The Temptations or Sammy Davis, Jr. His first success was with the company Sussex Records in 1971 with his debut hit single Ain't No Sunshine on the album Just As I Am. He assembled a touring band made up of: drummer James Gadson, guitarist Bernoce Blackmon, keyboardist Ray Jackson, and bassist Melvin Dunlap. His second album Still Bill also did well on the charts. It was recorded during a break in the "Just As I Am" tour and included the well-known single "Lean on Me," which went to #1 on the charts on July 8, 1972. His live album, "Bill Withers, Live at Carnegie Hall," released in 1973, was one of the best live albums to be released during the 1970s. Other popular songs he sings are "Use Me" and "Lovely Day," as well as "Just the Two of Us," which he performed with jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. His songs have been covered by many singers and rappers. Club Nouveau's 1986 cover of "Lean on Me," which is now often used in many churches, earned Withers his third Grammy as a songwriter. Ten years earlier, the British glam rock band Mud took the song to No. 7 in the UK pop charts. Grace Jones covered his song "Use Me." Fiona Apple has also covered "Use Me" and "Kissing My Love" on her 1998 tour. Me'Shell Ndegeocello sang "Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?" on her 1996 album "Peace Beyond Passion." Will Smith samples Bill's "Just the Two of Us" in his 1997 song of the same name, and "Lovely Day" with the song "Lovely Daze," (a collaboration with DJ Jazzy Jeff released in 1998). The Country singer Kenny Rogers covered "Ain't No Sunshine" in 1999. Kanye West sampled his song "Rosie" in the song Roses". Twista sampled "Lovely Day" in the hit single "Sunshine" featuring Anthony Hamilton. Over the Rhine toured a cover of Ain't No Sunshine" during 2004 and recorded this on their album "Changes Come." When playing live, the band Eskimo Joe often begins their song "A Song is a City" with Kav singing "Ain't No Sunshine" as a prelude. Bill's song "Use Me" is also featured in the film "Anchorman." The start of the Blackstreet hit "No Diggity" features a sample of Bill's poem-turned-song "Grandma's Hands." To this day, his most popular songs, including "Lovely Day," "Lean On Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine," have been used in countless television advertisements, thereby increasing his popularity as a well-respected artist. He remains one of the most significant and respected singer-songwriters of the 20th Century. Some of his songs, particularly "Lean On Me" and "Use Me", have been performed in churches because of their lyrics covering spirituality and unity. Read more... | Yesterday | The Beatles Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be There's a shadow hanging over me Oh, yesterday came suddenly Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away Oh, I believe in yesterday Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away Oh, I believe in yesterday, Mm mm mm mm mm. "Yesterday" "Back in the U.S.S.R." (UK-1976) "Yesterday" is a song originally recorded by the Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. Although credited to "Lennon–McCartney", the song was written solely by Paul McCartney. It remains popular today with more than 2,200 cover versions, and is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. At the time of its first appearance the song was released by the Beatles' record company as a single in the United States but not in the United Kingdom (for further details see below). Consequently, whilst it topped the American chart in 1965 the song first hit the British top 10 three months after the release of Help! in a cover version by Matt Monro. "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 Pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone. "Yesterday" is a melancholy acoustic guitar ballad about the break-up of a relationship. McCartney is the only Beatle to appear on the recording, and it was the first official recording by the Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band. He was accompanied by a string quartet. The final recording was so different from other works by the Beatles that the band members vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom. (However, it was issued as a single there in 1976.) In 2000 McCartney asked Yoko Ono if she would agree to change the credit on the song to read "McCartney–Lennon" in the The Beatles Anthology, but she refused. Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. |
In Italy, what does the word 'piccolo' mean? | Piccolo | Define Piccolo at Dictionary.com piccolo a small flute sounding an octave higher than the ordinary flute. Origin of piccolo Examples from the Web for piccolo Expand Contemporary Examples piccolo was diagnosed with cancer in 1969 at the age of 25 and died less than a year later. 7 Great Football Flicks From Horse Feathers to Friday Night Lights The Daily Beast January 27, 2014 Historical Examples If you don't, make one up for yourself and call it 'The Isle of piccolo,' or something of that sort. Frank Merriwell's Son Burt L. Standish Then he opened the bag, in which were sections of a flute and a piccolo. Aaron's Rod D. H. Lawrence Then suddenly the piccolo broke forth, wild, shrill, brilliant. Aaron's Rod D. H. Lawrence He almost hated the little handbag he carried, which held his flute and piccolo. Aaron's Rod D. H. Lawrence After Agatha's deep trumpet calls, he sounded like a solo on the piccolo. Marriage H. G. Wells The piccolo is exactly an octave higher than the flute, excepting the two lowest notes of which it is deficient. British Dictionary definitions for piccolo Expand noun (pl) -los 1. a woodwind instrument, the smallest member of the flute family, lying an octave above that of the flute See flute (sense 1) Word Origin C19: from Italian: small; compare English petty, French petit Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for piccolo Expand n. 1856, piccolo flute, from French piccolo, from Italian flauto piccolo "small flute," from piccolo "small," perhaps a children's made-up word, or from picca "point," or from Vulgar Latin root *pikk- "little," related to *piccare "to pierce" (see pike (n.2)). Other sources suggest it is from the same source as French petit (see petit (adj.)). Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper | Spinone Italiano Dog Breed Information Tendency toward a tolerance for cats and a lower prey drive. 3 stars Child Friendly Dogs that tend to be more sturdy, playful and easygoing around children and more tolerant of children's behavior. 5 stars Tendency to enjoy or tolerate other dogs. 5 stars Level of daily activity needed. 4 stars Amount of bathing, brushing, even professional grooming needed. 2 stars Level of health issues a breed tends to have. 3 stars A dog's thinking and problem-solving ability (not trainability). 5 stars How lighthearted and spirited a dog tends to be. 3 stars Amount and frequency of dog hair shedding. 3 stars Preferred amount of interaction with other pets and humans. 4 stars Tendency to be welcoming to new people. 5 stars A dog's inclination to be protective of his home, yard or even car. 3 stars Level of ease in learning something new and a willingness to try new things. 4 stars A breed that is likely to alert you to the presence of strangers. 3 stars Overview Did You Know? The Spinone is a versatile Italian pointing breed with stamina and patience. He excels at hunting on any terrain, including being an excellent retriever, but given enough exercise can be perfectly happy as a companion dog. We’re not talking an Italian dessert here. The Italian Spinone is a pointing breed with versatile hunting skills and a calm, easygoing temperament. He works slowly and methodically and is noted for his wiry, bramble-repelling “spino” coat, from which he takes his name. This is a large dog , weighing 60 to 85 pounds. The breed is sometimes called Italian Spinone in English, but the AKC calls him Spinone Italiano (Spinoni Italiani is plural). An easygoing type, this Italian wirehaired pointer can be an endearing clown at home but takes his hunting very seriously. He is smart enough to know the difference between a real hunt and a field trial, and doesn't show much enthusiasm for training dummies. The Spinone is a great family dog or companion for people who have the time and motivation to give him daily exercise and channel his energy and intelligence into dog sports such as agility, flyball, rally and obedience. Overall health permitting, he can also be a great hiking or camping buddy. Italian Spinoni can be great companions for families with kids who are at least 6 years old, and they tend to get along well with other dogs and cats if they are raised with them. The Spinone doesn't need to live on a farm or an acreage, as he's less active than most sporting dogs, but he does need daily exercise. This breed likes to jump and dig, so he needs a securely fenced yard with an area he can call his own. The Spinone wants to be with his people and would be miserable without them. However, if you don't act like a leader, he may become stubborn, and he may resist certain training if he thinks there isn't a point to it, like working with field dummies. The Spinone isn't the fastest dog to housetrain, either. He's a bit cautious sometimes; a good word for him is sensible. The Spinone is an adequate watchdog, but not a guard dog. He barks only once in a while. This is an active, enthusiastic dog that needs an owner capable of matching his intelligence and activity level. He learns quickly but has a mind of his own. Keep training interesting, though, and he will be fascinated with whatever you are teaching. Use positive reinforcement techniques for best results with this sensitive dog, and give him plenty of praise and encouragement. Grooming the Spinone isn’t difficult. Brush his coat once or twice a week to remove dirt, and pluck out dead hairs occasionally, called “stripping” the coat, to keep the face and feet looking neat. Other grooming needs are regular nail trims, ear cleaning, and frequent tooth brushing. Like most dogs, Spinoni become bored when left to their own devices. They can become noisy or destructive if they don’t have other dogs to keep them company and don’t receive much attention from their people. But when they live with a family committed to giving them plenty of training, exercise and attention, t |
On which river was the Grand Coulee built? | Grand Coulee Dam: History and purpose Grand Coulee Dam: History and purpose Oct 31, 2008 John Harrison Grand Coulee ( map ) is the largest dam in the Columbia River Basin and one of the largest in the world. Everything about the dam is large: it is 550 feet (167.6 meters) tall, measured from its foundation in solid granite, or approximately 350 feet (106.7 meters) from the downstream river surface to the top of the dam. It is 5,223 feet (1,592 meters) long, or 57 feet short of a mile. (Read the March 2016 Smithsonian article on the 75th anniversary of the dam's completion.) Grand Coulee Dam is the largest concrete structure ever built. Several other dams in the world are larger, but they include earthen berms (when completed 2009, the Three Gorges Dam in China will be roughly three times the size of Grand Coulee). Grand Coulee is 450-500 feet thick at its base and 30 feet thick at the top, and it contains 11,975,521 cubic yards (9,155,944 cubic meters) of concrete, three times as much as Hoover Dam. The dam has four power plants. The two original power plants, the first of which began producing power in 1941, are called the Left Power Plant and the Right Power Plant. The two power plants, each of which houses nine large generators, are split by the spillway, which is 1,300 feet wide and covers an area of 13.26 acres. According to the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the dam, the Left Powerhouse has three generators with a total capacity of 3 megawatts to provide power at the dam site, plus nine generators rated at 125 megawatts each. The Right Powerhouse has nine generators rated at 125 megawatts apiece. The original 18 generators began operating between 1941 and 1950. The Third Power Plant contains three generators rated at 600 megawatts apiece and three rated at 805 megawatts. These first of these six generators began operating in 1975, and the sixth in 1980. The Pump-Generator Plant, which is located on the west bank of the river, contains 12 pumps that lift water up the hillside to a canal that flows into Banks Lake, the 27-mile-long reservoir for the Columbia Basin Project . Six of the pumps can be reserved to generate about 50 megawatts each. Individual penstocks carry water to each generator at Grand Coulee. The largest of these, at the Third Power Plant, are 40 feet in diameter and carry up to 35,000 cubic feet per second of water, or more than twice the average annual flow of the Colorado River. The dam complex includes three switchyards to transmit electricity into the regional power grid. The total generating capacity is 6,809 megawatts and its average annual energy output is about 2,300 megawatts, or enough power to continuously supply the needs of two cities the size of Seattle. Grand Coulee is located at river mile 596.6 in central Washington about 90 miles northwest of Spokane near the place where an ice floe dammed the river during the last Ice Age. The ice forced the river to rise from its historic channel and flow to the south, where it carved a giant canyon — the Grand Coulee. Eventually the ice retreated, and the river returned to its old channel Grand Coulee impounds a reservoir, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, named for the president who authorized construction of the dam, which began in 1933 (see construction photos ). Lake Roosevelt backs up the river almost to the Canadian border, a distance of 151 miles. Hydropower accounts for 79.7 percent of Grand Coulee’s authorized purposes, the others being irrigation and flood control . While hydropower is the primary purpose of the dam today, the public desire for irrigation was the driving force behind its construction. One of the first, if not the first, published reports of a proposal to irrigate the Columbia Plateau with water from the Columbia River was in 1892, when the Coulee City News and The Spokesman-Review reported on a scheme by a man named Laughlin McLean to build a 1,000-foot-tall dam to divert the entire flow of the Columbia back into the Grand Coulee; he also earlier proposed a 95-mile canal across the Columbia Plateau from a div | NCHGC: Sites and Stories: Adjacent Lands: Lake Mead sites | south rim | north rim | rim viewpoints | rim to river & trails | colorado river corridor | beyond park boundaries Though Grand Canyon National Park contains one of the seven wonders of the natural world, crafted over millions of years of erosion and other natural forces, it is capped on either end by huge artificial landscapes that took humans less than two decades to create. Here Black Canyon is shown in 1922 before construction of Hoover Dam; compare this with the picture below. Photo: Bureau of Reclamation (Click on photos to enlarge) At the southwestern edge of Grand Canyon National Park, on the Arizona-Nevada line, the Colorado River flows into Lake Mead, one of the largest manmade lakes in North America. It began filling upon the completion of Hoover Dam (previously known as Boulder Dam) in 1935. The largest hydroelectric dam in the world at the time of its construction, Hoover Dam was completed in less than five years. It stretches across the Colorado River at Black Canyon, about 30 miles east of Las Vegas. Today Hoover Dam is a National Historic Landmark, and remains the highest concrete arch dam in the United States. The lake that formed behind it is named for Elwood Mead, the head of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1924-1936, who left a major imprint on the water policy and landscape of the West. Before the dam was constructed, outsiders rarely visited this area because of its extreme temperatures, harsh landscapes, and lack of roads. Still, it was a landscape with significant natural and cultural resources. The first inhabitants of the area lived between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago, when the environment was wetter and cooler. Over the centuries many different Native American cultures made their homes in the area, some hunting and gathering, others farming. In the 19th century, Euro-American explorers such as Jedediah Smith, Joseph Christmas Ives, and John Wesley Powell traveled through the area. Once Hoover Dam was completed and the lake filled, however, thousands of tourists suddenly flocked to enjoy the refreshing waters and bask in the steady sun. The Bureau of Reclamation, which built the dam, knew that the lake it created could be turned into a major recreation site, but its focus was on developing water storage projects. Therefore, the Bureau joined forces with the National Park Service, which had experience in recreation management, to develop the area. Hoover Dam (center left) was built across Black Canyon, backing up the Colorado River 25 miles to the southwestern end of Grand Canyon National Park. The resulting Lake Mead offers water recreation activities to visitors at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Photo: National Park Service Steep rock slopes, formerly the walls of canyons, today contain the deep blue waters of Lake Mead, which led to the creation of the first national recreation area in the United States. Photo: NPS In 1936, these two agencies cooperatively created the Boulder Dam Recreation Area, the first national recreation area established in the United States. It included the Hoover Dam itself as well as 25 miles of the Colorado River. Eleven years later, the agencies changed the name to Lake Mead National Recreation Area. In 1950 Davis Dam was completed near Bullhead City, Arizona. This dam and the lake it created, Lake Mohave, were incorporated into Lake Mead National Recreation Area as well. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy initiated the policy that Congress must establish all future National Recreation Areas (NRAs), and the next year Lake Mead National Recreation Area became the first such area established by Congressional statute. Today, out of 43 NRAs, the Park Service administers 20, most of which are centered on large reservoirs that emphasize water-based recreation. Other agencies, including the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, administer the 23 other NRAs. Lake Mead NRA contains 1.5 million acres, making it twice the |
What animal do Buffalo Wings come from? | What Are Buffalo Wings? - Chowhound What Are Buffalo Wings? By Melissa Wagenberg Lasher , published on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 / Edit Post Buffalo wings get their name from their place of origin, Buffalo, New York, where the spicy morsels are called simply wings. The Anchor Bar is universally recognized as the birthplace of this most manly indulgence. The details of the legend vary, but the Anchor backs up this version: Late one Friday night in 1964, the owner’s son asked his mom to make his friends some bar snacks. She knocked around in the kitchen for a bit and emerged with two plates of chicken wings—she was making stock—that she’d deep-fried and doused in a hot sauce. Although some—likely while chasing wings with pints at fraternity houses—have speculated that Buffalo wings come from small flying buffalo or tiny chickens, they are in fact made from regular chicken wings. The tips are discarded, and the two remaining sections are separated. Authentic Buffalo wings have no breading; they are deep-fried and then rolled in a mixture of butter and hot pepper sauce (e.g., Frank’s RedHot ). Buffalo embraced the snack, proclaiming July 29, 1977, Chicken Wing Day. Wing restaurants spread around upstate New York; snowbirds brought the concept to Florida—where in 1983 the Hooters chain was established on a wing-centric menu. Just over a decade later, Domino’s and Pizza Hut started hawking wings, and the pub grub became cemented in American food vernacular. “Nationally, 20 billion wings are consumed every year, with 1 billion consumed on Super Bowl Sunday,” says wing king Drew Cerza, who founded the National Buffalo Wing Festival and recently squashed Bobby Flay in a wing Throwdown! Nowadays, ordering wings is a bit like ordering coffee at Starbucks. At chains like Buffalo Wild Wings , Wing Zone , WingStreet , and Wingstop , you can get breaded wings, wings with garlic and Parmesan, Thai-flavored wings, and even boneless wings. | Buffalo Soldiers Buffalo Soldiers "Ready and Forward" "We Can We Will" Buffalo Soldier History (Wikipedia) Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army , formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . The nickname was given to the " Negro Cavalry " by the Native American tribes they fought ; the term eventually became synonymous with all of the African-American regiments formed in 1866: 25th Infantry Regiment Although several African-American regiments were raised during the Civil War to fight alongside the Union Army (including the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments), the "Buffalo Soldiers" were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army. On September 6, 2005, Mark Matthews , who was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, died at the age of 111. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery . [1] Sources disagree on how the nickname "Buffalo Soldiers" began. According to the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, the name originated with the Cheyenne warriors in the winter of 1867, the actual Cheyenne translation being "Wild Buffalo." However, writer Walter Hill documented the account of Colonel Benjamin Grierson , who founded the 10th Cavalry regiment, recalling an 1871 campaign against the Comanches . Hill attributed the origin of the name to the Comanche due to Grierson's assertions. Some sources assert that the nickname was given out of respect for the fierce fighting ability of the 10th cavalry. [2] Other sources assert that Native Americans called the black cavalry troops "buffalo soldiers" because of their dark curly hair, which resembled a buffalo 's coat. [3] Still other sources point to a combination of both legends. [4] The term Buffalo Soldiers became a generic term for all African-American soldiers. It is now used for U.S. Army units that trace their direct lineage back to the 9th and 10th Cavalry, units whose service earned them an honored place in U.S. history. In September 1867, Private John Randall of Troop G of the 10th Cavalry Regiment was assigned to escort two civilians on a hunting trip. The hunters suddenly became the hunted when a band of 70 Cheyenne warriors swept down on them. The two civilians quickly fell in the initial attack and Randall's horse was shot out from beneath him. Randall managed to scramble to safety behind a washout under the railroad tracks, where he fended off the attack with only his pistol until help from the nearby camp arrived. The Indians beat a hasty retreat, leaving behind 13 fallen warriors. Private Randall suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder and 11 lance wounds, but recovered. The Cheyenne quickly spread word of this new type of soldier, "who had fought like a cornered buffalo; who like a buffalo had suffered wound after wound, yet had not died; and who like a buffalo had a thick and shaggy mane of hair." [5] [6 Return to top of page Service During the American Civil War , the U.S. government formed regiments known as the United States Colored Troops , comprised of black soldiers. After the war, Congress reorganized the Army and authorized the formation of two regiments of black cavalry with the designations 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry , and four regiments of black infantry , designated the 38th , 39th , 40th and 41st Infantry Regiments (Colored). The 38th and 41st were reorganized as the 25th Infantry Regiment , with headquarters in Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, Louisiana , in November 1869. The 39th and 40th were reorganized as the 24th Infantry Regiment , with headquarters at Fort Clark , Texas , in April 1869. All of these units were composed of black enlisted men commanded by both white and black officers. These included the first commander of the 10th Cavalry Benjamin Grierson , the first commander of the 9th Cavalry Edward Hatch , Medal of Honor recipient Louis H. Carpenter , the unforgettable Nicholas M. Nolan , and the first black |
What is the world’s oldest currency still in use? | The World's oldest currency - key facts. | CMC Markets The World's oldest currency - key facts. The World's oldest currency - key facts. 00:00, July 06th 2015 · By Simone Tang Share Have you ever wondered what the oldest currency still in use is? The answer might be in your wallet. The British pound is the world's oldest currency still in use - it is 1200 years old. Sterling silver pennies have been around since 775AD, dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. The first fully printed banknotes were introduced in 1853. Before that, the Bank of England only issued partially printed notes with the “£” sign as well as the first digit. The numbers had to be added by hand and each note had to be signed by one of the bank's cashiers. The pound is currently the fourth most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the US dollar, the Euro and the Japanese Yen. Each banknote (£5, £10, £20, £50) has its own color and size - the greater the value, the larger the note. All coins (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2) carry the profile of Queen Elizabeth II facing right. Traditionally, monarchs alternate the direction they face on pound coins. The first banknote featuring the Queen's portrait was a £1 pound note issued in 1960. Thin metal threads were embedded in banknotes in 1940 as protection against forgery during the Second World War. The pound is not only used in the United Kingdom. It also circulates in Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Decimalisation was the biggest change in Britain's monetary system. The pound was divided into 100 pence in 1971. Until then, there were 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. The £1 coin was introduced in 1983 to replace the £1 note because coins usually last much longer. At the time, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher believed coins were “not very popular” and the pound note should be retained. One-pound notes are still issued in Scotland, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, along with the £1 pound coins, which are more commonly used. The £2 coin was launched in 1986 to commemorate the 13th Commonwealth Games held in Scotland that year. All pound coins, except the £2 ones, were redesigned in 2008. The six coins, from the 1p through to the 50p, can be pieced together to form the Royal Shield. The £1 coin features the complete shield. One of the rarest British coins is the 1933 penny. A small number were produced that year because there were already plenty around. In fact, it is estimated that there were only seven coins and, due to tradition, three of them were buried in the foundation stones of buildings erected in 1933. More recently, the London 2012 Olympics 50p coins proved to be popular amongst collectors. More than 70% of them have been taken out of circulation, estimates the Royal Mint. The Bank of England is considering replacing paper banknotes by plastic notes from 2016. The polymer notes are more durable, stay cleaner for longer and are harder to fake. For a few years the Euro actually posed a significant threat to the pound. There was pressure from other EU countries, and even within Britain indicating that the UK should adopt the euro currency. Fortunately common sense prevailed and the likelihood is that the pound will probably outlast the euro as Europe grapples with a crisis that could potentially tear the euro apart. CMC Markets is an execution only service provider. The material (whether or not it states any opinions) is for general information purposes only, and does not take into account your personal circumstances or objectives. Nothing in this material is (or should be considered to be) financial, investment or other advice on which reliance should be placed. No opinion given in the material constitutes a recommendation by CMC Markets or the author that any particular investment, security, transaction or investment strategy is suitable for any specific person. Simone Tang | Account Suspended Account Suspended This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information. |
Which instrument is played by the American classical musician, Carlo Curley? | The organist Carlo Curley has died | gramophone.co.uk Home » News » The organist Carlo Curley has died The organist Carlo Curley has died James Jolly13th Aug 2012 Curley's reputation in the UK was raised by his Decca recordings The American organist Carlo Curley has died in Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire: he was 59. Born in North Carolina, Curley studied at the North Carolina School for the Arts and later with such eminent players as Virgil Fox, George Thalben-Ball and Arthur Poister. He was one of very few organists to support himself entirely by giving concerts: he never held a church post or taught. Curley attracted a huge following from his recordings (he made discs for RCA, ProArte, Rediffusion and Decca) and concert tours. He was the first organist to perform a solo recital at the White House. He was a flamboyant performer, larger than life, who referred to himself as 'the Pavarotti of the Organ'. Curley favoured performing on Allen organs, but also played instruments by Rodgers, Makin and Copeman Hart. He played the vast Wanamaker organ in Macy's Center City in Philadelphia. Here he is, playing the organ of Chester Cathedral, in John Philip Sousa's Liberty Bell in his own arrangement. | Gwyneth Walker: Vt. Philharmonic Plays Sunday: 'Clown of the Orchestra' Shows Off at Chandler Read notes for Concerto for Bassoon and Strings (2000) (Photograph of bassoonist Jonna Goulding. Photo by Robert Eddy.) The quirky bassoon, sometimes called "the clown of the orchestra," will strut its stuff at Chandler Music Hall Sunday, when the Vermont Philharmonic, under the direction of Louis Kosma, brings an afternoon concert to town. Gwyneth Walker�s Concerto for Bassoon and Strings, featuring soloist Jonna Goulding of Randolph, is one of four pieces on the program. The concert, entitled "Old World, New World," also includes works by Borodin, Copland, and a concerto for double bass by a little known Czech composer. Can�t conjure up the sound of the bassoon? Think of the cranky grandfather in Tchaikovsky�s "Peter and the Wolf": His theme, lumbering grimly through the musical tale, was played by the bassoon. The lowest of the double-reed wind instruments, the bassoon has one of the biggest ranges in the orchestra, covering, essentially, the bass and baritone ranges. "It can pop around, high and low�it�s got a lot of character �with a reedy, woody sound to it," is how Jonna Goulding describes the sound of her favored instrument. If that�s not enough, the wooden bassoon with its curved silver tube, is decidedly good-looking, according to Goulding: "It�s a gorgeous instrument�each one is made out of one single tree, an exotic tree that grows in the former Yugoslavia." Goulding, who started playing the bassoon when she was 14, is a family physician at Gifford Medical Center, wife, and mother of three. After about 20 bassoon-less years, she resumed playing eight or so years ago. Goulding, evidently, is a high-energy type: She was in a midst of a medical residency in Thunder Bay, Canada, and on maternity leave, when she decided it was time to take up the bassoon again. She joined the Vermont Philharmonic last year and currently studies with bassoonist Janet Polk of Nottingham, N.H., who premiered the Gwyneth Walker concerto in New Hampshire two years ago. Walker�s 15-minute concerto gives the bassoon ample opportunity to show off its unique voice and tonal range. The first movement, "A Light Touch," opens with the bassoon "bouncing down the scale," according to program notes by the Braintree composer. Goulding favors the second and third movements, "A Moment of Peace" and "In Motion," respectively. "A Moment of Peace is a very meditative piece that shows off the sweetness of the bassoon," she said. "The last movement takes it though its range and ability; it�s fun to play, with a big cadenza full of spirit and energy. It�s really a ripping, jazzy movement." "Our conductor thinks it�s quintessential bassoon writing," Goulding added. Conductor�s Choice Walker�s piece "really gets the character of the instrument quite well," Vermont Philharmonic conductor and musical director, Louis A. Kosma, said this week. Kosma, commenting that Goulding had been "a great addition to the orchestra," added that he chose the concerto, in part, because of her. The Walker concerto is one of two American compositions in Kosma�s "Old World, New World" program. The other is Aaron Copland�s "An Outdoor Adventure." It�s a "typical American Copland piece," Kosma said, with an "open sound" evocative of the western prairies. From the Old World comes the Concerto in E Major for Double Bass and Orchestra by Bohemian composer Jan Baptist Vanhal. Soloist for this piece is Timothy Cobb, associate principal bassist with New York�s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Kosma, himself a bassist with the Met, said Vanhal�s writing contained "beautiful, lyrical melodies" and "a nice use of harmonics." Polovetsian Dances from "Prince Igor, by Russian Romantic composer Alexander Borodin, is the "show piece" of program. Played by the full orchestra and an impressive percussion section, the piece has dramatic dynamics from "very quiet to an extremely large sound," the conductor said. The first melody in the Dances later became the popular s |
Ligneous relates to which natural substance? | ligneous in a sentence - AZdictionary ligneous in a sentence Sentence Dictionary Link to this page And in the land and beneath it put he crude oil, grades one through six; and natural gas put he thereunder, and prehistoric carboniferous forests yielding anthracite and other ligneous matter; and all these called he Resources; and he made them Abundant. These trees produce ligneous roots which, when cooked, are excellent; from them, by fermentation, a very agreeable liquor is made. The manufacture of a hand-saw cost infinite trouble, but at last an instrument was obtained which, when vigorously handled, could divide the ligneous fibers of the wood. The Greeks left a soldier behind, pretending he was now a non-combatant, to convince the Trojans that if they didn't carry the ligneous steed back into fortified Troy, the Trojans themselves would risk the wrath of the goddess Athena. Each of the laminae can be seen to be composed of two, three, or four layers of ligneous tubes; but supposing each ring the growth of one year, and the semidiameter of a mowana of one hundred feet in circumference about seventeen feet, if the central point were in the centre of the tree, then its age would lack some centuries of being as old as the Much impressed by this family circumstance, and also by the friendly disposition of Mr Wegg, as exemplified in his so soon dropping into poetry, Mr Boffin again shook hands with that ligneous sharper, and besought him to name his hour. When, however, an animal is of large size, and feeds on substances of so thorny and ligneous a character as to be difficult of concoction, it may in consequence have several stomachs, as for instance is the case with the camel. Bare rock is found only in the river valleys, where the streams have cut their way down to the lime and sandstone, and in ligneous outcroppings, where flint, quartz and quartzite frequently found. The general aspect of the various species which compose this genus of labiate plants, although presenting very characteristic differences, merges gradually from one species to another; all are, in their native habitat, small ligneous undershrubs of from one to two feet in height, with a thin bark, which detaches itself in scales; the leaves are linear, persistent, and covered with numerous hairs, which give the plant a hoary appearance. The stems and branches of lavender being ligneous and strong are able to resist the force of the wind, and the plant thrives best in a perfectly open locality, where the air circulates freely; the oil and resin which it contains in abundance enable it to resist the parching action of the wind and sun. 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Mount Parnassus is in which European country? | Mount Parnassus | mountain, Greece | Britannica.com Mount Parnassus Laki Mount Parnassus, Modern Greek Parnassós, mountain barren limestone spur of the Pindus (Modern Greek: Píndos) Mountains, central Greece , running northwest-southeast on the borders of the nomoí (departments) of Phocis (Fokída), Fthiótis, and Boeotia (Voiotía). Rising to a maximum elevation of 8,061 ft (2,457 m) in Mount Parnassus, within sight of Delphi (Delfoí), it extends to Cape Opus on the Gulf of Corinth (Korinthiakós). In ancient times Parnassus was sacred to the Dorians and in mythology to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs. On a plateau between the summit and Delphi was the Corycian stalactite cave sacred to the nymphs and Pan. For the Roman poets, Parnassus’s Castalian spring was a source of inspiration; they favoured Parnassus over Mount Helicon as the home of the Muses. Parnassus is rich in bauxite , which is mined and converted into alumina and aluminum at nearby factories. A ski centre was opened above Arachova in 1977. Mount Parnassus, central Greece. in Greece: Eastern Greece: Thessalía and Attikí ...battle of antiquity). The last (and perhaps the most important) of the four spurs thrusting down into eastern Greece is the one that curves away to the southeast through the twin-peaked mass of Mount Parnassós (Parnassus). This mountain, rising to an elevation of 8,061 feet (2,457 metres), was held to be the home of the Muses. The view from its summit at sunrise, with a broad expanse... in Central Greece ...Central Greece, three massifs, offshoots of the Pindus, assume a more easterly trend: the Oeta (Oíti), which reaches 7,060 feet (2,152 m); the Gióna, 8,235 feet (2,510 m); and the Parnassus (Parnassós), 8,061 feet (2,457 m). 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Close Date Published: April 29, 2009 URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Parnassus Access Date: January 19, 2017 Share | Country Reports on Terrorism 2010 Europe and Eurasia Overview Report August 18, 2011 European countries remained a focus of terrorist plots in 2010, a year marked by several attempted attacks by violent extremists in Denmark, the first suicide bombing in Scandinavia, and bombings on the Moscow metro and in the Russian North Caucasus. Non-religious violent extremist groups also remained active; anarchists in Greece repeatedly targeted government offices, foreign missions, and symbols of the state in both Greece and other European capitals. Long-active radical nationalist groups like the Kurdistan Workers Party (known as the PKK) in Turkey, and dissident Republican groups in Northern Ireland continued their campaigns of violence. Concerns about potential terrorist activities prompted countries ranging from the UK to Germany to raise their terrorism threat alert levels at various times during the year. For the most part, however, the year was marked by counterterrorism successes. European countries from Spain to Sweden attempted to strengthen counterterrorism legislation by criminalizing training in terrorist camps and terrorist recruitment. The Government of Spain, with cooperation from the Government of France, had continued success against ETA. Turkey shared draft legislation with the Financial Action Task Force designed to address identified shortcomings in its counterterrorism-finance laws, and also worked with Iraq and the United States on joint steps against the PKK. Successful prosecutions of terrorist suspects took a toll on facilitation networks across the continent. In Belgium, for example, seven defendants in an ongoing terrorism case, including Malika El-Aroud (the so-called “Internet jihadist”) were convicted in May, the first convictions under the country’s 2005 terrorism law. The continuing effectiveness of European security services, close cooperation between and among European countries, and the sheer technical capabilities available to most partner countries enabled authorities to prevent any major terrorist plot from coming to fruition in 2010. ALBANIA Overview: The Government of Albania worked on amendments to the terrorism statutes on the Criminal Code, maintained asset freezes against two individuals and thirteen foundations and companies on the UN Security Council's list of identified financers of terrorism, and established a law on the civil forfeiture of assets acquired through criminal activity. The Albania Border Police consistently improved security at border crossing points. Legislation and Law Enforcement: The Government of Albania sought to revise terrorism statutes of the Criminal Code and established a law on the civil forfeiture of assets acquired through criminal activity. The draft, pending approval by Parliament since November 2010, contains statutes covering acts with terrorist purposes, financing of terrorism, and money laundering. The amendments are based on Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) recommendations, as well as several UN conventions ratified by Albania. On December 10, local imam Artan Kristo, who in 2002 worked with the al-Qa’ida-linked charity al Haramain Foundation, was found guilty by a court in Durres and sentenced to five years in prison for "publicly inciting and propagating terrorist acts" in the AlbSelafi.net online forum. Kristo, also known as Muhamed Abdullah, appealed the decision and remained in detention. On December 22, 2009, the First Instance Court for Serious Crimes found Hamzeh Abu Rayyan guilty of hiding funds used to finance terrorism. Rayyan was sentenced to four years of imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of US $6000. Rayyan appealed to the Supreme Court and on March 24, 2010, the Chief Justice suspended execution of the sentence pending a hearing of the case. The Albania Border Police (ABP) consistently improved security at border crossing points and the vast areas between the formal crossings, and implemented roving patrols in t |
Who succeeded Stalin as Soviet leader? | Georgi Malenkov Dies at 86 - Stalin Successor - NYTimes.com Georgi Malenkov Dies at 86; Stalin Successor Published: February 2, 1988 Correction Appended Georgi M. Malenkov, who was a leading political figure in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin but who was ousted in a Kremlin power struggle and sent into political oblivion, died last month, a Soviet official said yesterday. He was 86 years old. Malenkov was Prime Minister for two years and, for a short time, head of the Communist Party. He also gained notoriety in the Soviet Union for his personal role in helping conduct the Stalinist purges in which millions of Russians died. In announcing Malenkov's death, Gennadi I. Gerasimov, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the funeral had been private. He provided no other details. Sought Alternatives to War Malenkov had an apartment in Moscow but spent most of his time in recent years at a dacha outside the capital, according to Roy A. Medvedev, the dissident Soviet historian. Mr. Medvedev said another tenant at the Moscow apartment house was Lazar M. Kaganovich, the sole surviving former Politburo member from the Stalin era. Some commentators have credited Malenkov, a longtime close aide to Stalin, with proposing initiatives that later leaders, including Mikhail S. Gorbachev, claimed as their own. In the nuclear era, Malenkov said, Moscow and Washington had to establish a relationship that was not premised on war being inevitable. This became Khrushchev's doctrine of peaceful coexistence. Malenkov also urged a major effort to increase the output of farm products and consumer goods, a theme often sounded by later Soviet leaders. Malenkov was eventually banished to remote Kazakhstan in central Asia to manage a hydroelectric plant. For more than 30 years he lived in obscurity. As a young Communist, Malenkov served as Stalin's private secretary. Toward the end of the dictator's life, Malenkov was a Kremlin intimate and seemed well placed to inherit the mantle of power. Less than 24 hours after the announcement of Stalin's death in 1953 Malenkov appeared as Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister, head of the Soviet Government. He was listed first among the members of the Communist Party's policy-making body, the Presidium, and became the First Secretary of the party - all the posts Stalin had held. This clean sweep was short-lived. Ten days later Malenkov was forced by his rivals to give up control of the party machinery. He retained the post of Prime Minister as the jockeying among Stalin's heirs continued. But in February 1955, he stood before the Supreme Soviet, the nominal legislature, and announced his resignation. Malenkov was succeeded as Prime Minister by Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, who himself fell victim in 1958 to the Kremlin power politics of Nikita S. Khrushchev, who became Prime Minister in addition to holding the post of party leader. Khrushchev was ousted in 1964. It was later reported that Malenkov had asked to retire as director of the power plant because his subordinates there ignored his directives. In 1961 it was announced that Malenkov had been expelled from the Communist Party. He was never rehabilitated. Stocky and unsmiling in his years at Stalin's side, Malenkov gave a forbidding impression consistent with the atmosphere of the cold war. One Western diplomat quipped that his picture was ''the best anti-Communist propaganda I know.'' Outsiders were surprised, therefore, when Soviet leaders emerged from the darkness of Stalin's Kremlin and mingled with foreigners, to discover that Malenkov had a charming and light side to his personality in striking contrast to his heavy stature. He flashed an almost boyish smile and he chatted quickly and easily. Joined Red Army in 1919 Georgi Maksimilyanovich Malenkov was born Jan. 8, 1902, in Orenburg, now called Chkalov, on the Ural River. The conspicuous silence of Soviet biographies about his parents suggests that he came from a bourgeois rather than a working-class or peasant background. Official Soviet accounts of his life usually begin wi | Milestones: 1937–1945 - Office of the Historian Milestones: 1937–1945 The Yalta Conference, 1945 The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4–11, 1945, during World War Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. World Leaders at the Yalta Conference The Allied leaders came to Yalta knowing that an Allied victory in Europe was practically inevitable but less convinced that the Pacific war was nearing an end. Recognizing that a victory over Japan might require a protracted fight, the United States and Great Britain saw a major strategic advantage to Soviet participation in the Pacific theater. At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japan’s surrender. This included the southern portion of Sakhalin, a lease at Port Arthur (now Lüshunkou), a share in the operation of the Manchurian railroads, and the Kurile Islands. This agreement was the major concrete accomplishment of the Yalta Conference. The Allied leaders also discussed the future of Germany, Eastern Europe and the United Nations. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed not only to include France in the postwar governing of Germany, but also that Germany should assume some, but not all, responsibility for reparations following the war. The Americans and the British generally agreed that future governments of the Eastern European nations bordering the Soviet Union should be “friendly” to the Soviet regime while the Soviets pledged to allow free elections in all territories liberated from Nazi Germany. Negotiators also released a declaration on Poland, providing for the inclusion of Communists in the postwar national government. In discussions regarding the future of the United Nations, all parties agreed to an American plan concerning voting procedures in the Security Council, which had been expanded to five permanent members following the inclusion of France. Each of these permanent members was to hold a veto on decisions before the Security Council. Initial reaction to the Yalta agreements was celebratory. Roosevelt and many other Americans viewed it as proof that the spirit of U.S.-Soviet wartime cooperation would carry over into the postwar period. This sentiment, however, was short lived. With the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman became the thirty-third president of the United States. By the end of April, the new administration clashed with the Soviets over their influence in Eastern Europe, and over the United Nations. Alarmed at the perceived lack of cooperation on the part of the Soviets, many Americans began to criticize Roosevelt’s handling of the Yalta negotiations. To this day, many of Roosevelt’s most vehement detractors accuse him of “handing over” Eastern Europe and Northeast Asia to the Soviet Union at Yalta despite the fact that the Soviets did make many substantial con |
Lula da Silva was re-elected President of which South American country in 2006? | Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - President of Brazil Biography Share By Christopher Minster Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945 - ), commonly referred to simply as “Lula,” is a Brazilian politician. He was elected President of Brazil in 2002, and re-elected in 2006. He is a liberal politician who often adopts centrist positions. He was a very effective president, avoiding scandals and allowing Brazilian industry to prosper while taking steps towards combating Brazil’s legendary poverty. Early Life: Lula was born in October, 1945 to poor parents in the town of Caetés, Pernambuco, but soon moved to a coastal city in São Paulo province. There was little time or money for young Lula to get an education, and he was working in the streets as a shoeshine boy and street vendor before he was in his teens. He was a hard worker and soon found full-time work in São Paulo’s booming automotive industry. Unionizer: In the 1960’s and 1970’s, there was a lot of work in the industrial factories of São Paulo, but little in the way of worker’s rights. Lula became very involved in the movement to unionize the workers, and due to his natural leadership he rose quickly in the ranks of the union leadership. continue reading below our video What are the Seven Wonders of the World In the 1970’s he led several strikes, and was jailed for a while. In 1978 he was elected head of a steel-workers’ union. He became convinced that the true path to fair treatment for workers was not through unions and strikes, but through political power. Workers’ Party: In 1980, Lula became one of the founding members of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (“Party of the Workers,” known in Brazil by its initials PT). Lula was its first president. Brazil was at the time under a right-wing military dictatorship and organizing unions and political parties could have been very dangerous for Lula and his companions. The Party was not formally recognized by the Brazilian Electoral court until 1982. The PT was very popular with the working class and its growing political clout helped restore democracy to Brazil in the late 1980’s. Lula’s Early Political Career: Lula first ran for office in 1982, for a seat in the São Paulo Province legislature, but lost. In 1986 he was elected to Congress, and by the time a new constitution was needed in the late 1980’s, the PT was powerful enough to demand a seat at the table to influence its provisions. Although the PT helped create the constitution, they refused to ratify the final result, as they felt it did not do enough to ensure workers’ rights. Lula ran for president in 1989, 1994 and 1998. He lost all three elections, although many believe that he only lost due to election fraud. Presidency: Lula continued to run for president and finally won in 2002. Although many feared that Lula would immediately implement radical socialistic reforms and perhaps even default on some of Brazil’s debt, he turned out to be a progressive moderate, preferring slow but steady social change. He quickly identified some very real and serious problems in his country and attacked them directly and effectively. One example was his campaign against malnutrition. Under this program, the poorest Brazilian families received food aid, but only if their children stay in school. He also efficiently managed the Brazilian economy, managing steady growth without making any drastic reforms, while still paying off foreign debts and funding badly-needed social programs. Internationally, he never became the ranting demagogue that many feared, instead perfecting the role of respected statesman. He became a very important figure in Latin American politics, as he took great pains to be friendly with other nations. Lula’s Brazil was a leader in Latin American diplomacy: for example, Lula sent a peacekeeping, humanitarian mission to Haiti on his own initiative. He is a very forward-thinking leader, and under his administration Brazil became a leader in the worldwide search for biofuels and clean energy. In December of 2008, Newsweek magazine named him the 18th most influential person in the wo | Brazil travel guide - Wikitravel Understand[ edit ] Brazil was inhabited solely by indigenous people, mainly of the Tupi and Guarani ethnic groups. Settling by the Portuguese began late in the 16th century, with the extraction of valuable wood from the pau brasil tree, from which the country draws its name. Brazil was settled by the Portuguese and not the Spanish, as were the rest of Central, South and parts of North America in the New World. Despite Portuguese rule, in some parts of Brazil the Dutch founded colonies between 1630 and 1654. They founded several cities, such as Mauritsville (now Recife , capital of the state of Pernambuco , at the edge of North-East of the country), and many sugar cane plantations. The Dutch fought a grim jungle war with the Portuguese, and without the support of the Republic of their homeland due to a war with England, the Dutch surrendered to the Portuguese, though they did not officially recognize Portuguese rule, which led to an all-out war with Portugal off the coast of Portugal in 1656. In 1665 the Peace Treaty of The Hague was signed, Portugal lost its Asian colonies and had to pay 63 tons of gold to compensate the Dutch Republic for the loss of its colony. Brazil became the centre of the Portuguese Empire by 1808, when the King Dom João VI (John VI) fled from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and established himself and his government in the city of Rio de Janeiro . The following centuries saw further exploitation of the country's natural riches such as gold and rubber, alongside the rise of an economy based largely on sugar, coffee and African slave labour. Meanwhile, extermination and Christianizing of natives kept its pace, and in the 19th and 20th centuries a second wave of immigration took place, mainly Italian, German (in southern Brazil), Spanish, Japanese (in São Paulo and Paraná states) and Portuguese, making Brazilian culture and society complex and unique. Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation on September 7th, 1822. Until 1889 Brazil was an Empire under the rule of Dom Pedro I and his son Dom Pedro II. By this time, it became an emerging international power. But during these three and a half centuries, Brazil was the nation in the Americas with the most widespread slavery, the first to bring African people to work by force, and the last to set them free. Due to English laws against slavery (some argue more for economic contests than humanity reasons) and fighting between white and black people, slaves and free, for abolition, slavery ended in 1888. But freedom didn't mean equality to the now-free black people and their descendants. By far the largest and most populous country in Latin America, it has also overcome more than two decades (1964-1985) of military dictatorship that imprisoned, exiled, tortured, and murdered potential opponents, most of them innocent civilians. These dark times are known as "Os Anos de Chumbo" (Years of Lead). Only recently, with the establishment of a National Truth Commission (2011), has the nation begun to face the human rights abuses that accompanied the U.S.-supported coup that overthrew democratically-elected João Goulart in 1964. Brazil has returned to democratic rule, while facing the challenge of keeping its industrial and agricultural growth and developing its interior. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, Brazil is a Latin America economic power and a regional leader. Brazil has high rates of crime, income inequality and systemic, centuries-old corruption. Despite it the people try to remain happy and festive. Capoeiristas Porto Alegre Owing to Brazil’s continental dimensions, varied geography, history and people, the country’s culture is rich and diverse. It has huge regional variations (even among neighbouring States sometimes) and in spite of being mostly unified by a single language, some regions and States are so different from each other that they look like different countries altogether. Music plays an important part in Brazilian identity. Styles like cho |
Of the two Wright brothers, who was born first? | Wright Brothers Biography - life, story, death, school, young, information, born, contract, house, time Wright Brothers Biography Dayton, Ohio American aviators The American aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first to accomplish manned, powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. Their early years Wilbur and Orville Wright were the sons of Milton Wright, a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ. Wilbur was born on April 16, 1867, in Millville, Indiana. Orville was born on August 19, 1871, in Dayton, Ohio. Until the death of Wilbur in 1912, the two were inseparable. Their personalities were perfectly complementary (each provided what the other lacked). Orville was full of ideas and enthusiasms. Wilbur was more steady in his habits, more mature in his judgments, and more likely to see a project through. While in high school, Wilbur intended to go to Yale and study to be a clergyman. However, he suffered a facial injury while playing hockey, which prevented him from continuing his education. For the next three years he continued his education informally through reading in his father's large library. In their early years the two boys helped their father, who edited a journal called the Religious Telescope. Later, they began a paper of their own, West Side News. They went into business together as printers producing everything from religious handouts to commercial fliers. In 1892 they opened the Wright Cycle Shop in Dayton. This was the perfect occupation for the Wright brothers because it involved one of the exciting mechanical devices of the time: the bicycle. When the brothers took up the problems of flight, they had a solid grounding in practical mechanics (knowledge of how to build machines). The exploits of one of the great glider pilots of the late nineteenth century, Otto Lilienthal, had attracted the attention of the Wright brothers as early as 1891, but it was not until the death of this famous aeronautical (having to do with the study of flying and the design of flying machines) engineer in 1896 that the two became interested in gliding experiments. They then decided to educate themselves in the theory and state of the art of flying. Wilbur Wright (left) and his brother Orville. Reproduced by permission of . Their beginnings in flight The Wrights took up the problem of flight at a favorable time, for some of the fundamental, or basic, theories of aerodynamics were already known; a body of experimental data existed; and, most importantly, the recent development of the internal combustion engine made available a sufficient source of power for manned flight. The Wright brothers began by accumulating and mastering all the important information on the subject, designed and tested their own models and gliders, built their own engine, and, when the experimental data they had inherited appeared to be inadequate or wrong, they conducted new and more thorough experiments. The Wrights decided that earlier attempts at flight were not successful because the plans for early airplanes required pilots to shift their bodies to control the plane. The brothers decided that it would be better to control a plane by moving its wings. First trip to Kitty Hawk The Wright brothers proceeded to fly double-winged kites and gliders in order to gain experience and to test the data they had. After consulting the U.S. Weather Bureau, they chose an area of sand dunes near the small town of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as the site of their experiments. In September 1900 they set up camp there. The Wrights's first device failed to fly as a kite because it was unable to develop sufficient lift (upward force). Instead, they flew it as a free glider. They kept careful records of their failures | Vera Lynn - Biography - IMDb Vera Lynn Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (16) | Personal Quotes (3) Overview (4) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (1) Vera Lynn was born on March 20, 1917 in East Ham, London, England as Vera Margaret Welch. She was previously married to Harry Lewis. Spouse (1) (1941 - 1999) (his death) (1 child) Trivia (16) Subject of a song on Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and in the movie of the same. Refers to the 1942 "We'll Meet Again". She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1969 Queen's New Year Honours List and the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Released a comeback single in the 70s called "Don't You Remember When" which was written and produced by Lynsey de Paul . Had a radio show during the war for the BBC titled 'Sincerely Yours' where she sang requests in the form of a letter to troops overseas, visited their wives and visited the troops abroad in Burma. Bestselling autobiography 'Vocal Refrain' and bestselling war memoirs 'We'll meet again' Husband Harry Lewis was a musician in the Bert Ambrose orchestra where Vera was a singer. Retired in 1995 after singing outside Buckingham Palace at the 50th V.E. Day celebrations. She often appears at war shows and made a surprise appearance at the 60th V.E Day show in London (2005). Left school at 14 to work in a factory, after working a few weeks in the factory she decided to return to singing in clubs A regular guest on Tallulah Bankhead radio show 'The Big Show'. Brother: Roger Daughter: Virginia Penelope Ann Lewis, born 10th March 1945 Had a hugely successful music career. Which included being the first British female to top the American Billboard charts with "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" in 1952. That same year she had 3 top ten hits in the first ever official UK Singles chart on November 14th 1952. In 1957 she topped the UK Singles chart with "My Son, My Son" which featured the Frank Weir Orchestra. On 13th September 2009 her greatest hits collection, "We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn", topped the UK album chart, making her the oldest artist ever to do so, aged 92. Made many trips to remote camps near the front during World War II, in the Pacific theater of operation; to entertain and visit the troops. She is now widowed and residing in Ditchling in East Sussex. [June 2004] She was awarded the CH (Companion of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to entertainment and charity in East Sussex, England. Personal Quotes (3) I've never claimed to be a great singer but I've always given my best, and I've loved what I've done, and had a very good life. You hear people go on about unpopular wars, but show me a popular one. Nobody in their right mind wants to go to war, but when it happens you have to get behind your troops. I got so many letters. I still get them now, and I'm always moved by them. It seemed extraordinary that soldiers would come back from the war and write to thank me for what I had done. It made me feel very humble, and that's why I've always done everything I can to thank them back. See also |
Bratwurst is a greatly varying German food made mainly of? | German Food German Food Well, you've come to the right place. We're the #1 online merchant for German food, gifts, deli items, and groceries here in the USA. By Inga Bowyer , President, GermanDeli.com Legendary Bratwurst Say the word "bratwurst" to an American and most picture a chubby sausage done to perfection on the grill. But add the word "Nuernberger" in front of the word "bratwurst and most Americans get a puzzled look. Germans or American who lived in Germany, however, get a gleam of sheer delight in their eyes and demand to know, Where?! German law dictates that to carry a food label marked "Nuernberger Bratwurst" in Germany the bratwurst can't exceed a certain size (slightly larger than a breakfast sausage), must be made using a certain age-old recipe, and must be produced within the city limits of Nuernberg, Germany. No variations are tolerated in Germany. After all, there's a legend surrounding why these delectable sausages must look and taste as they do. The legend includes dungeons, keyholes, a medieval city, and faithful friends and loved-ones To check out these authentic German bratwurst and to read more about the legend, please click here . Cheese European and German cheeses are sought-after for their outstanding quality and versatility. From the most firm to soft and softest and creamiest, these cheeses highlight an elaborate dinner or a humble supper. Flavors range from mild and buttery to bold and pungent. There are texture choices for your every preference, from firm to spreadable and everything in-between. As a savory appetizer or as a sweet dessert, you’ll find a cheese to match your craving. Click here to browse our cheese selection. German Baked Apples using an "Apfelbräter" Germans welcome autumn with many fine traditions, not the least of which is baking apples in a special ceramic baker called an “Apfelbräter”. It’s the perfect way to cook the apples so that all the delicious flavors from the apples along with the fillings you add can be captured within the apple baker. When there is a little nip in the air in fall or winter and even through the springtime, it’s so easy to fill your house with the smell of apples baking and topped off by the aroma of fillings that can include combinations of cinnamon, sugar, raisins, marzipan, chocolate, hazelnut spread, butter, vanilla, any variety of nuts, and/or your favorite apple brandy. The possibilities are truly endless, but the results are all the same: a delicious treat that takes full advantage of the apple harvest. For recipes and more information click here. Summer Salads German families celebrate the sunshiny days of June with a vast array of cool food options. Summer salads are king on every German table. Thinly-sliced cucumbers are tossed in dressings made of oil, vinegar, dill, and spices for a savory salad that is often enhanced with sour cream or yogurt for extra tang. Cold cuts, like German ring bologna, are often used to make salads that are protein-rich and require absolutely no cooking. Folks in the Northern half of Germany tend to favor mayonnaise-based salads and Germans closer to Bavaria, where temperatures are typically warmer, lean a bit more toward salads that get their zip from vinegar. Try this hot weather German favorite: Spread a slice of hearty German rye bread with a little butter. Add freshly-sliced tomatoes. Sprinkled with diced onions and garnished with chopped chives. Add salt and pepper to taste. Your kitchen stays cool and your stomach will love you. What is Wiener-Schnitzel? Traditional Wiener-Schnitzel (Wienerschnitzel) is a thin cutlet of veal coated in flour, egg, and breading, which is then sauteed in oil and butter until crispy. However, Germans and Europeans discovered, a long time ago, the joy of occasionally substituting veal with other cuts of meat like pork, poultry (chicken or turkey breast) and even game meats. In Austria the term "Wienerschnitzel" is protected by law and specifies "veal" as the meat to be used. So when you use any other meat for this dish it is proper to refer to it as "Vienna-style pork (c | What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was th - Pastebin.com In what country can one find 40 species of lemurs? A: Madagascar. RAW Paste Data What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was the first motor race held that was classed as Formula 1? 1950 In the wild west, how was Henry McCarty better known? Billy The Kid How many stories did each of the World Trade Towers have? 110 What is the name of the cafe in Coronation Street? 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"Written in honour of his friend Arthur Hallam, the poem, ""In Memoriam"" was published in 1850. Who was the author of this poem, who was appointed Poet Laureate in the same year?" | 10 Classic Tennyson Poems Everyone Should Read | Interesting Literature 10 Classic Tennyson Poems Everyone Should Read Posted by interestingliterature The best poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Alfred, Lord Tennyson lived a long time, and wrote a great deal of poetry. The definitive edition of his Poems stretches to three large volumes. Nevertheless, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to choose ten of the best Tennyson poems, ranging from his narrative poems to lyrics and elegies and everything in between. For those who wish to learn more about Tennyson, we’ve previously treated his interesting life and work here. To enter a world of myth, magic, and emotional depth, click on the links we’ve provided to each poem. Are these the greatest poems Tennyson wrote? Obviously any link will be subjective to a point, so we welcome your thoughts below. 10. ‘ The Lotos-Eaters ‘. One of two poems on this list inspired by Homer’s The Odyssey (see ‘Ulysses’ below for the other), ‘The Lotos-Eaters’ was written by Tennyson following a trip to Spain he undertook with his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. It tells of the mariners who come upon ‘a land / In which it seemed always afternoon’, and, upon taking the lotus plant, enter a dreamlike state. Over a century before Aldous Huxley was opening the doors of perception, Tennyson was transforming the experience of taking drugs into literature. The poem inspired the name of the Lotus Eaters, a New Wave band from the 1980s. 9. ‘ Ulysses ‘. A poem about growing old, but written when Tennyson was a young man in his early twenties, ‘Ulysses’ has also been read as a response to Hallam’s death. It takes the warrior Ulysses (the Roman name for Odysseus) as its focus, and – using the then-new form of the dramatic monologue, which Tennyson helped to pioneer – reveals an ageing king who, having returned from the Trojan war, yearns to don his armour again and ride off in search of battle, glory, and adventure (leaving his poor wife Penelope behind, we might add!). A very popular poem, and one of Tennyson’s best poems for sure. 8. ‘ Morte d’Arthur ‘. Tennyson would write numerous poems based on Arthurian legend, culminating in his vast blank-verse epic Idylls of the King, although this earlier, shorter poem offers a great way into Tennyson’s Arthurian world. Like several poems on this list, ‘Morte d’Arthur’ was written shortly after the death of Tennyson’s friend Arthur Hallam, and the portrayal of kingly Arthur may owe something to Hallam (‘Morte d’Arthur’ means, of course, ‘the death of Arthur’). 7. ‘ Break, Break, Break ‘. This short poem from 1842, also responding to the death of Tennyson’s friend Hallam, embodies the Victorian attitude to death and mourning. It teeters on sentimentality and overblown rhetorical emotion (too much for some modern readers), but behind the public poem is a heartfelt personal grief. 6. ‘ The Charge of the Light Brigade ‘. No list of the best Tennyson poems would be complete without ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, one of his best-known poems; the poem is one of the rare instances of a Poet Laureate producing a good poem while in office. He wrote the poem on 2 December 1854 in response to an article in The Times about the battle, and the poem was published in The Examiner a week later. You can listen to Tennyson reading the poem here . 5. ‘ Crossing the Bar ‘. A meditation on death, written when Tennyson was in old age, ‘Crossing the Bar’ is one of the shortest poems on this list. There is little more that needs saying, so we’ll let this poem speak for itself. 4. ‘ Mariana ‘. This early poem, published in 1830, ‘arose to the music of Shakespeare’s words’ (according to Tennyson) – the words in question being taken from Measure for Measure, in which ‘the dejected Mariana’ dwells ‘at the moated grange’. The imagery of the poem is vivid and memorable, from the ‘mouse’ that ‘behind the mouldering wainscot shriek’d’ or the ‘blue fly’ that ‘sung in the pane’. It is perhaps Tennyson’s first great success as a poet, written when he was only just into his twenties. 3. ‘ The Lady o | Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) - Find A Grave Memorial City of Paris �le-de-France, France Author, Playwright. He was born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde in Dublin, Ireland, to a doctor and a mother prominent in poetry and writing. His father took very little interest in him but provided him with an excellent education: Portora Royal School, studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Magdalen College, Oxford (Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna) He became involved with the aesthetic and decadent movements then began teaching its values in England and later lectured in the United States and Canada adding to his renown and notoriety - he called Niagara Falls "the bride's second disappointment." His financial position was secured when he married wealthy Constance Lloyd. They had two sons. Wilde's plays, poems and sharp aphorisms about Victorian society made him a celebrity in the 1880's and 90's but he saw his high-flying career crash disastrously when he was jailed for two years at hard labor for the practice of homosexuality and incarcerated at Reading Goal a prison near London. He was kept in a 13 x 7ft cell with planks for a bed and assigned useless work while being ridiculed by guards. He lost custody of his children and the one visit from his wife was to inform him his mother had died. When Wilde was released from prison, he was penniless and in poor health. He began a self imposed exile to the Continent ending up in Paris. He shunned society and artistic circles but his famous poem penned in prison 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol,' was published. While on his death bed, a repentant Wilde requested a priest and converted to Catholicism. After an operation for ear problems, he became semi-comatose for days, then passed away from meningitis in a seedy Paris hotel at age 46. His remains were buried in Bagneaux Cemetery encased in quicklime so the corpse would decompose to only bones because of the temporary lease on the plot. The lime only tended to preserve the remains instead of skeletizing. Two years later a friend Robert Ross had the remains moved to the prestigious Paris cemetery Pere Lachaise. Taking three years, the tomb was sculpt by the famous American Jacob Epstein. In a note of irony, his famous death bed quip about the wallpaper in his room at the run down Left Bank Hotel, D'Alsace pension house; the wallpaper has now joined Wilde and is gone. The hotel today called L'Hotel is a plush four star establishment and Wilde's room has been especially refurbished with vibrant blue-green frescos and commands a pricey amount to spend the night. A hundred years have passed and much remains from this prolific author: His most famous works: 'The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray (only novel), Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Salome.' His most famous fairy tale was 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales.' After his death: His friend Frank Harris wrote a biography; Richard Ellmann wrote 'Oscar Wilde' (1987 and Neil McKenna wrote 'The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde' (2003). Two exceptional films were made about his life: 'The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) starring Peter Finch and Wilde (1997) starring Stephen Fry.' Fifty years later, the remains of his longtime friend Robert Ross, were placed in his tomb. During his life he was a living rebuke to English Victorian hypocrisy. He illuminated Europe and America with his poems, plays and essays. They are still being produced and read 100 years after his death. His quips, quotes and epigrams still sparkle: On a platform, rain pouring down waiting for a train to prison, He uttered, "If the Queen can't treat her prisoners any better than this, she doesn't deserve to have any." (bio by: Donald Greyfield) |
On what island did reggae originate? | How Did Reggae Music Begin? | eHow How Did Reggae Music Begin? jamaica map image by Vladislav Gajic from Fotolia.com Although reggae music began on the island of Jamaica in the late 1960s. Reggae derived from other genres such as jazz, ska and eventually rocksteady. Successful reggae musicians, such as Bob Marley, helped the genre spread around the world and influenced other genres to begin. Before Reggae Prior to reggae music becoming an international phenomenon from Jamaica, the genre started with jazz. While jazz music began to spread around the world via radio broadcasts in the 1940s, Jamaica picked up on the style and watched its own bands emerge. By the 1950s, Jamaica began a music label titled West Indian Record Limited (WIRL), which released recordings of local bands on the island. Ska and Rock Steady In the 1960s, Jamaican musicians grabbed their own identity in the music industry when they created an original genre known as ska. The people of Jamaica loved ska music because of its fast, catchy riffs and the fact that the lyrics fit the mood of current events in the country. At the time, Jamaica was receiving independence. Another genre derived from ska became known as rocksteady music. This was a slowed down version of ska which did not require so much energy on the dance floor. Reggae After the introduction and acceptance of the style of rocksteady, reggae was formed. However, people did not like the name "rocksteady." According to Rusticgirls.com, "through a different version of an old song Fat Man, the artist Morgan changed the beat and he created a creep with an organ and rhythm guitar. The music sounded like reggae, and that's how the name took off." One of the first reggae bands called Maytals released the first reggae album "Do The Reggae" in 1968. The genre was more energetic than rocksteady, but more complex than ska. Bob Marley One of the most popular artists to ever come out of reggae music was Bob Marley and his band, The Wailers. In his music, he sang about love, social injustice, politics and Rastafarianism (the Afro-Caribbean spiritual movement that Marley religiously followed). Marley's hit songs, including "Ge Up, Stand Up," Buffalo Soldiers," and "War," stressed his political statements, as "Turn Your Lights Down" and "Is This Love" revealed the romantic style of his band. Marley's music climbed the music charts and promoted reggae globally. Reggae to Dub By the 1970s, as reggae music was underway, producers including Lee Perry and King Tubby started to change the style of reggae music with the addition of electronic sound effects. DJ "toasting" (talking over the music) began and became a new genre known as dub music. This style of music is recognized as the root of rap and hip hop music in New York. | Jelly Roll Morton’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm Jelly-Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues" was the first published jazz composition, in 1915. Morton is also notable for naming and popularizing the "Spanish tinge" (habanera rhythm and tresillo), and for writing such standards as "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the latter a tribute to New Orleans personalities from the turn of the 19th century to 20th century. Reputed for his arrogance and self-promotion as often as recognized in his day for his musical talents, Morton claimed to have invented jazz outright in 1902 — much to the derision of later musicians and critics. The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation". However, the scholar Katy Martin has argued that Morton's bragging was exaggerated by Alan Lomax in the book Mister Jelly Roll, and this portrayal has influenced public opinion and scholarship on Morton since. Morton was born into a Creole of Color community in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. A baptismal certificate issued in 1894 lists his date of birth as October 20, 1890; however Morton himself and his half-sisters claimed the September 20, 1885, date is correct. His World War I draft registration card showed September 13, 1884 but his California death certificate listed his birth as September 20, 1889. He was born to F. P. Lamothe and Louise Monette (written as Lemott and Monett on his baptismal certificate). Eulaley Haco (Eulalie Hécaud) was the godparent. Eulalie helped him to be christened with the name Ferdinand. Ferdinand’s parents were in a common-law marriage and not legally married. No birth certificate has been found to date. He took the name "Morton" by anglicizing the name of his stepfather, Mouton. New Orleans Morton was, along with Tony Jackson, one of the best regarded pianists in the Storyville District early in the 20th century. At the age of fourteen, he began working as a piano player in a brothel (or as it was referred to then, a sporting house.) While working there, he was living with his religious church-going great-grandmother and had her convinced that he worked as a night watchman in a barrel factory. In that atmosphere, he often sang smutty lyrics and it was at this time that he took the nickname "Jelly Roll", which was black slang for both male and female genitalia. Morton's grandmother eventually found out that he was playing jazz in a local brothel, and subsequently kicked him out of her house. "When my grandmother found out that I was playing jazz in one of the sporting houses in the District, she told me that I had disgraced the family and forbade me to live at the house… She told me that devil music would surely bring about my downfall, but I just couldn't put it behind me." Tony Jackson, also a pianist at brothels and an accomplished guitar player, was a major influence on his music; according to Morton, Jackson was the only pianist better than himself. Around 1904, Morton started wandering the American South, working with minstrel shows, gambling and composing. His works "Jelly Roll Blues", "New Orleans Blues", "Frog-I-More Rag", "Animule Dance", and "King Porter Stomp" were composed during this period. He got to Chicago in 1910 and New York City in 1911, where future stride greats James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith caugh |
"Where is ""The White House""?" | The White House (Visitors Guide, Tours, Tickets & More) The White House (Visitors Guide, Tours, Tickets & More) Exploring the Home and Office of the President in Washington, DC Photo © Max Bernhardt/Getty Images By Rachel Cooper Updated August 22, 2016. Visitors from around the world come to Washington DC to tour the White House, the home and office of the U.S. President. Built between 1792 and 1800, the White House is one of the oldest public buildings in the nation's capital and serves as a museum of American history. George Washington selected the site for the White House in 1791 and chose the design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban. The historic structure has been expanded and renovated many times throughout history. There are 132 rooms on 6 levels. The decor includes a collection of fine and decorative arts, such as historic paintings, sculpture, furniture, and china. See photos of the White House to learn about the architectural features of the President's home. Tours of the White House Public tours of the White House are limited to groups of 10 or more and must be requested through a member of Congress. These self-guided tours are available from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 7:30 a.m. continue reading below our video Tipping Etiquette Around the World to 1:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tours are scheduled on a first come, first served basis, Requests can be submitted up to six months in advance and no less than 21 days in advance. To contact your Representative and Senators, call (202) 224-3121. Tickets are provided free of charge. Visitors who are not US citizens should contact their embassy in DC about tours for international visitors, which are arranged through the Protocol Desk at the State Department. Visitors who are 18 years of age or older will be required to present a valid, government-issued photo identification. All foreign nationals must present their passport. Prohibited items include: cameras, video recorders, backpacks or purses, strollers, weapons and more. The U.S. Secret Service reserves the right to prohibit other personal items. 24-hour Visitors Office Line: (202) 456-7041 Address See a map of the White House Transportation and Parking The closest Metro stations to the White House are Federal Triangle, Metro Center and McPherson Square. Parking is very limited in this area, so public transportation is recommended. See information about parking near the National Mall. White House Visitor Center The White House Visitor Center has just been renovated with brand new exhibits and is open seven days a week from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Watch a 30-minute video and learn about many aspects of the White House, including its architecture, furnishings, first families, social events, and relations with the press and world leaders. Read more about the White House Visitor Center Lafayette Park The seven-acre public park located across from the White House is a great spot to take photos and enjoy the view. It is a prominent arena often used for public protests, ranger programs and special events. Read more about Lafayette Park. White House Garden Tours The White House Garden is open to the public a few times a year. Visitors are invited to view the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, Rose Garden, Children's Garden and South Lawn. Tickets are distributed the day of the event. Read more about White House Garden Tours. Planning to visit Washington DC for a few days? See a Washington DC Travel Planner for information on the best time to visit, how long to stay, where to stay, what to do, how to get around and more. | Write or Call the White House | whitehouse.gov Latest News Read the latest blog posts from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Share-Worthy Check out the most popular infographics and videos Photos View the photo of the day and other galleries Video Gallery Watch behind-the-scenes videos and more Live Events Tune in to White House events and statements as they happen Music & Arts Performances See the lineup of artists and performers at the White House From the Press Office |
Murray Gold has been musical director for which TV series since it was revived in 2005? | Murray Gold | Tardis | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Gold's most prominent work for the DWU has likely been new arrangements of the " Doctor Who theme ". He has arranged multiple different versions of the theme for broadcast (including three distinct opening theme arrangements, plus another version that was only used in trailers and promotions in 2005) and several more for live performance. Gold has therefore created more official arrangements of the theme than any other Doctor Who franchise composer. He has also written seven songs for the series: " Song For Ten " ( The Christmas Invasion ), " Love Don't Roam " ( The Runaway Bride ), " My Angel Put the Devil in Me " ( Daleks in Manhattan ), " The Stowaway " ( Voyage of the Damned ), " Song of Freedom " ( Planet of the Ood and Journey's End )," Vale Decem " ( The End of Time ) and " Abigail's Song (Silence Is All You Know) " ( A Christmas Carol ). Murray Gold also appeared, in a cameo role, as a guitarist in Voyage of the Damned . ( DWMSE 20 ) He was interviewed about his DW music by "Sound On Sound" magazine in the June 2007 issue. (See [1] ) Gold stayed on as house composer for the 2010 season of Doctor Who and created a third major rearrangement of the theme tune, bringing in a short new melody at the beginning of the theme. The televised version has had the bassline lowered dramatically so as to make the intro's lightning effects audible, which has prompted complaints to the BBC.[ source needed ] He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who . Soundtrack releases Additionally, two soundtracks for spin-off series Torchwood have been released since 2008, with Murray Gold working alongside fellow Torchwood composer, Ben Foster , on the initial release . Spin-offs Edit Gold has written the theme for both Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures , as well as Torchwood Declassified and Sarah Jane's Alien Files which featured re-arrangements of the themes of their parent series. Although two Torchwood CDs have been released, none have been released for SJA as of 2011. He has not been heavily involved in the incidental music scores for the spin-offs. With the exception of a few early episodes in the first series of Torchwood, he has mostly only scored the parent programme. However, he was the main composer for Torchwood: Miracle Day . Relationship with RTD Gold has enjoyed a long working relationship with Russell T Davies and has in scored virtually all of RTD's productions since 1999, including Queer as Folk , The Second Coming with Christopher Eccleston and Lesley Sharp , and Casanova with David Tennant , Shaun Parkes and Nina Sosanya . Other work Edit Despite a close relationship with RTD, Gold is far from "RTD's composer". He has gained notoriety on a variety of non-RTD projects. For instance, he started work on the TV series Shameless at about the same time as Doctor Who, and has been scoring both series for the same amount of time. In the early 2000s, his theme music for Clocking Off — a show that featured the talents of actors Christopher Eccleston , Lesley Sharp and Sarah Lancashire , and director Geoffrey Sax — was RTS-nominated. More recently, he was the composer on David Tennant 's Single Father mini-series and of the Suranne Jones / Lesley Sharp police procedural, Scott & Bailey . | From the North...: I Always Wanted To Be Free I Always Wanted To Be Free The latest Absolutely Fabulous revival will lead BBC1's festive line up, it has been announced. The Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley sitcom, which has been revived for two twentieth anniversary specials, is expected to feature in the channel's Christmas Day schedule alongside Doctor Who, EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing. Personally, yer actual Keith Telly Topping has never found Ab Fab quite as thigh-slappingly amusing as many other people but, it is very popular, admittedly. David Jason's first new BBC comedy in twenty years, The Royal Bodyguard, will also be broadcast over the winter period. Despite The Royle Family taking a break this Christmas, actress Sue Johnston will still be seen on BBC1 in one-off comedy Lapland. Elsewhere, Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson and David Suchet star in an adaptation of Great Expectations, while Stephen Fry, Victoria Wood and Christopher Eccleston lend their considerable talents to The Borrowers. or, rather, Fry and Eccleston lend their considerable talents and Wood lends her 'n talent what-so-bloody-ever' to the gig. Can't stand that full-of-her-own-importance woman and her wretched, laugh-free comedy. Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have revealed what most of us kind of expected anyway, that they are 'in the dark' about the much-talked-about-but-don't-hold-your-breath proposed movie adaptation. It was reported last week that Harry Potter director David Yates is hoping to make a 'radical' film reboot of the BBC's popular family SF drama. 'I have absolutely no idea what it will be about,' Smith told host Fearne Cotton on her Radio 1 show. 'We're not really anything to do with it.' The actor added that he had 'no clue' the film was in development until it was announced, explaining that both he and co-star Gillan had 'read [the news] in the paper. There's always rumours about a Doctor Who film,' suggested Gillan, who plays companion Amy Pond. 'I remember them saying that Johnny Depp was going to be the Doctor a couple of years ago.' Both actors went on to say that they 'doubt' they will appear in any potential Doctor Who film. That is, of course, if such a project were ever to see the light of day. Which, this blogger still considers to be highly unlikely. As my old mate Peter Linford recently noted, 'you can accurately age Doctor Who fans by how many different unmade Doctor Who movie proposals they can remember!' British TV productions have won five awards at the International Emmys in the US, including best actress for Julie Walters. She was honoured for her BAFTA-winning portrayal of Mo Mowlam in Channel Four's Mo, a biopic about the late politician. Christopher Eccleston was named best actor for his role in Jimmy McGovern's Accused on BBC1, which also won best drama series. Each episode told the story of a character who ends up in court. Eccleston played a plumber who found twenty thousand smackers in the back of a cab but was arrested after it turned out the money was forged. Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne won best arts programme. The series, about a group of teenagers training to star in a new opera for the world renowned Glyndebourne opera house, was produced by Twenty Twenty Television for BBC2. Twenty Twenty also won the non-scripted entertainment award for The World's Strictest Parents, which aired on BBC3. Lady Gaga made a surprise appearance at the ceremony, which was hosted by actor Jason Priestley at the Hilton hotel in New York. The singer presented an honorary prize to American Idol's executive producer, Nasty Nigel Lythgoe, another British export. Albeit, one that we're somewhat less proud of than, say, Julie Walters or Chris Eccleston. Gaga said Lythgoe was her favourite TV executive - he returned the compliment, describing her as 'the most creatively talented woman in showbusiness right now.' Do you two need a room, or what? Chile won its first international Emmy for children's programme, What Is Your Dream? Belgium won best comedy series for Benidorm Bastards, a controversi |
In June 1963, 14-year-old Prince Charles, caused controversy by buying what alcoholic drink brand in a hotel bar? | Charles at 65: He's never without his porcupine tooth pick and doesn't own a mobile. But then he's a true Duchy original... and we're proud to be the first to say: Happy Birthday! | Daily Mail Online comments He is on the verge of becoming the world's most famous pensioner - and quite possibly the busiest one, too. In 11 days' time, on November 14, the Prince of Wales will turn 65, at which point he becomes the oldest monarch-in-waiting in British history, surpassing William IV, who was 64 when he ascended to the throne in June 1830. But as these pictures and the revealing facts to go with them make clear, despite having a lifetime of achievement behind him, there is absolutely no sign of Prince Charles slowing down, whether he is skiing in the Alps, promoting the British wool industry, or feeding the squirrels on the Birkhall estate, the private retreat in Scotland bequeathed to him by the Queen Mother. Scroll down for video 1972 The 23-year-old Prince, in his polo kit, looks confident, assured and ready to face the world He has lived his life under the closest scrutiny, and the people of the United Kingdom have witnessed a transformation from the shy teenager at his investiture as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle to the assured figure we see today. There have been turbulent times, including the divorce from Diana and the terrible death that followed. But, if anything, these setbacks combined with his reputation for refreshing honesty and sheer hard work have served to endear him to the nation he will one day rule. Increasingly he is seen as a passionate philanthropist, devoting increasing amounts of his time to public service. Share this article Share As Charles himself put it recently, he is driven by 'an extraordinary feeling, ever since I can remember really, to heal and make things better in the world'. Charles will celebrate his birthday in Sri Lanka where he will be representing the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. It is the first time the Queen has not attended the conference, another indication of the Royal Family's resolute confidence in his ability to lead 'the Firm' into the future. If, though, you thought you knew everything about him, you might want to think again, as these 65 facts about Charles make clear... 1948 Charles at five weeks with Princess Elizabeth 1 The Prince's full title is His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, OM, AK, QSO, PC, ADC, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland. 2 He doesn't have a mobile phone. 3 The Prince of Wales established The Prince's Trust in 1976, using his pension from the Royal Navy. 4 He never eats on a plane, however long the flight. 5 Charles holds the highest rank in all three military services as an honorary Field Marshal, Admiral of the Fleet and Marshal of the Royal Air Force. 6 He has written 11 books, and contributed to many more. 7 As a young boy his favourite toy was a trolley of wooden bricks called the 'Prince Charles Express'. 8 The music of gloomy American singer Leonard Cohen, can often be heard in his homes - between Mozart and numbers by Noel Coward. 9 Since 1954 Prince Charles has carried out official engagements in 105 countries The most frequently visitied are America, France and Germany 10 The Prince of Wales has 32 godchildren. 11 Every Christmas the Prince sends whisky to all the troops in his regiments. 12 He has reintroduced two old Royal traditions: official harpist and tour artist. 13 He's a brilliant mimic, a skill inherited from the Queen. The Goons are a speciality. 14 As a teenager he was a keen potter and created mugs in the shape of animals complete with legs, horns, tails and eyes. 15 The Maasai tribe gave the Prince the title 'Keeper of the Cows' when he visited them in Tanzania in 2012. 16 At Gordonstoun, his tough Scottish boarding school, Prince Charles was elected Guardian - Head Boy - in his final year. 17 As the Duke of Cornwall, he owns 133,658 ac | Welcome to Charles Wells France King Arthur Lyon A traditional English pub in the heart of Lyon, the King Arthur offers an exclusive range of quality draught and bottled beers from the Charles Wells Brewery in Bedfordshire, England. A late licence at the weekend means you can keep the party going until 3am. Cross of St George Paris A traditional English pub in the heart of Paris serving Cask Marque-accredited real ale on tap. Whether you want to sample our beer-battered fish & chips and roast dinners or mix it up with the menu du jour, you're sure to find something on our menu to complement the delicious pint you've just ordered. Elephant & Castle Lyon Situated in Vieux Lyon, the Elephant & Castle offers authentic cask ale and a full kitchen serving English classics such as fish & chips, roast dinners, and our ever-changing daily specials. Be sure to enquire about the pub’s two function rooms, which make an ideal venue for birthday parties, corporate bookings or our regular beer-tasting events. Charles Dickens Bordeaux Take a stroll along Bordeaux's historic quais and you'll happen upon The Charles Dickens, a traditional English pub in the heart of France's wine-making country. Just a hundred yards from the Place de la Bourse and it's renowned Miroir d'Eau, in the lively, bohemian quartier of St Pierre. Sherlock Holmes Bordeaux The Sherlock Holmes opened its doors in July 2009 and quickly established itself as a Bordeaux institution. Located in the up and coming area of rue Judaïque , right in the centre of town. Whether you like sport, music, pool, darts, quizzes, board games or just a pint of great beer, the Sherlock Holmes has something to offer you. George & Dragon Toulouse Opened in 2007, The George and Dragon is now renowned as an appealing and distinctive addition to the city of Toulouse. Situation a short work from the Place Capitole, the heart of the city, you can be assured of a warm welcome, a great pint of beer and a lively night out. London Town Toulouse The oldest pub in the Charles Wells France, the London Town recently celebrated its twentieth birthday, having opened in 1993. It’s located in one of the city’s most popular areas, the shopping district of Carmes, and still offers a real taste of England two decades later. The Shakespeare Montpellier A cosmopolitan English pub in the heart of a young, vibrant city, The Shakespeare offers traditional ales and lagers in a sumptuous 17th Century building, just a short stroll from the bustling Place de la Comedie. Robin Hood Montpellier Opened in 2010, The Robin Hood is situated off the Place de la Comedie, a short walk through the beautiful 17th Century Jardins du Peyrou. The pub continues to go from strength to strength, cementing its reputation in Montpellier as ‘the place to be’ via a strong lineup of events, promotions and of course its fantastic team. STARFISH Bordeaux 100m away from the famous “Big Blue Bell”, right in the middle of the historical city centre of Bordeaux, the Starfish offers a large and unique range of English beers on tap and in bottles. This traditional and classy pub will seduce you. 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John Piper was the designer of the stained-glass window in which English cathedral? | John Piper. (1903-1992) : Stained Glass in Wales Tweet John Piper (1903-1992) English artist and designer. John Egerton Christmas Piper was influenced early in his career by pioneers of abstraction, such as Braque, who he met in 1927. In 1934 he became a member of the Seven and Five Society, exhibiting abstract constructions. His work became increasingly figurative in the period from 1936, when he first visited Wales. As a painter, he contributed to the Recording Britain scheme from 1940, working partly in Wales at locations from Cardiff to Blaenau Ffestiniog. His interest in the Welsh landscape persisted through the 1950s. Piper worked in a wide variety of media, and became particularly celebrated for his designs for stained glass at Coventry Cathedral and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. His ideas were interpreted in glass by Patrick Reyntiens . He also designed for opera, and was a prolific printmaker. Further reading | Jacques Cartier | Exploration | France Jacques Cartier You're Reading a Free Preview Pages 7 to 102 are not shown in this preview. You're Reading a Free Preview Pages 106 to 110 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 |
What is the longest running show on MTV? | Top 5 Longest Running TV Shows Top 5 Longest Running TV Shows What makes great television? Is it the story, the actors, or the drama? See our top five longest television programs that are still on-air and still popular! Show transcript Hide transcript Transcript: Top 5 Longest Running TV Shows Making a hit TV show is no easy task. For every Friends, which lasted an impressive 10 seasons, there are countless shows that get the boot faster than one can, well, change the channel. But for these five shows, success is the only constant. The View began airing back in 1997 on the premise that four women from different generations and with differing viewpoints could come together for a smart debate on pop culture and politics. Veteran journalist, Barbara Walters, convened a roving cast of characters including comedian, Joy Behar, lawyer, Star Jones, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and more for riveting conversations that sometimes became bigger news than the news itself. Through the new cast of characters though, the show, still on ABC, hopes for another 18 years of women just enjoying the view. When it comes to reality TV, consider MTV's Real World, the Icon. The channel's longest running show ever has made an astounding 30 seasons, picking strangers to live in a house and recording every second of their lives together. Earlier on, the show focused on more cultural and social issues like HIV and AIDS, on coming out, and substance abuse, but recently it settled in for the more salacious topics of, well, sex and partying. The Real World set the tone up for pop culture's heavy programming of reality TV. In TV comedy, there's only one name that trumps all and that's Saturday Night Live. NBCs live sketch comedy show just celebrated its 40th year anniversary with a toast to its most famous cast members like Eddie Murphy and Tina Fey, all who have gone on to shape the genre. From famous skits like Samurai Deli and Sarah Palin addresses the nation to first-rate musical performances from U2 and Kanye West, SNL has solidified itself as one of the cornerstones of late night television. But you can't talk about the latest running TV shows without mentioning The Simpsons. Marge, Bart, Homer, Lisa, Maggie, and the entire crew have lit up living rooms since 1989, offering a smidge of love and a whole lot of laughs. Created by Matt Groening, The Simpsons is not only the longest running American sitcom. It's the longest running animated program, and it's the longest running scripted primetime series. And finally the longest running TV show in American history is Meet the Press. Dating all the way back to 1947, the program, which invites world leaders and local politicians to discuss the issues of the day, is regarded as the most prestigious political news show on TV. It's hosted sitting presidents and become a platform for aspiring presidents on the campaign trail. So look out for Meet the Press to play a major role in the 2016 elections and beyond. | 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? What 1966 TV show theme by Lalo Schifrin made a comeback in a 1996 blockbuster move? Mission: Impossible. Consumer News and Business Channel. How many fingers does Homer Simpson have? Eight. What sitcom character moved from a Boston barstool to a Seattle radio station? Dr. Frasier Crane. What Saturday Night Live cast member played Kap'n Karl on Pee-wee's Playhouse? Phil Hartman. What M*A*S*H principal won Emmys for acting, writing and directing? Alan Alda. What cable network drew twice its usual audience for a show called The Wonderful World of Dung? The Discovery Channel. What TV host went gold with the CD Romantic Christmas? John Tesh. What sitcom spawned the hit song I'll Be There For You? Friends. What MTV twosome are known as "The Bad Boys" in Mexico? Beavis and Butt head. What Indianapolis weatherman of the 1970s once forecast hail "the size of canned hams"? David Letterman. What kid's show's interracial cast needed riot police protection during a 1969 trip to Mississippi? Sesame Street's. What gritty 1990's TV drama series is subtitled Life on the Street? Homicide. What entertainer's wedding prompted NBC to order 10,000 tulips from Holland? Tiny Tim's. What sitcom helped John Larroquette earn three straight supporting actor Emmy Awards? Night Court. Who once observed: "This is America. You can't make a horse testify against himself"? Mr. Ed. What Marx Brother's name spelled backwards is the name of a daytime talk show host? Harpo's. Who began his radio shows with: "Good evening, Mr. ad Mrs. America and all the ships at sea, let's go to press"? Walter Winchell. What TV star said of his worldwide fame: "I didn't know I could top Knight Rider"? David Hasselhoff. What sitcom was among the top 20 most watched shows every season during its entire run, form 1984 to 1992? The Cosby Show. Who inherited Tom Snyder's CNBC talk-show slot in 1995? Charles Grodin. What was the fist sitcom to be broadcast from videotape, in 1971? All in the Family. 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 |
In the Old Testament who led the Israelites into the Promised Land? | SparkNotes: Bible: The Old Testament: Joshua page 1 of 2 Summary After the death of Moses, God calls on Joshua to lead the Israelites across the Jordan River and take possession of the promised land. God guarantees victory in the military campaign and vows never to leave the Israelites so long as they obey his laws. The people swear their allegiance to Joshua, and he sends two spies across the river to investigate the territory. The men enter Jericho, where a prostitute named Rahab hides them in her home and lies to the city officials regarding the spies’ presence. Rahab tells the spies that the Canaanites are afraid of Israel and its miraculous successes. Professing belief in the God of the Israelites, she asks for protection for her family when the Israelites destroy Jericho. The spies pledge to preserve Rahab and return to Joshua, telling him of the weakened condition of Israel’s enemies. The Israelites cross the Jordan River, led by a team of priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant. As the priests enter the water, the flow of the river stops and the Israelites cross the river on dry land. Arriving on the other side, the Israelites commemorate the miracle with an altar of twelve stones from the river bed (representing the twelve tribes of Israel). The people begin to eat the produce of the new land—thus halting the daily supply of manna—and the Israelite men perform the ritual of circumcision in preparation for battle. Approaching Jericho, Joshua encounters a mysterious man who explains that he is the commander of God’s army but that he is neither for nor against Israel. Joshua pays homage to the man and passes on. Following divine instructions, Joshua leads the Israelites in carrying the Ark around Jericho for six days. On the seventh day, the Israelites march around the city seven times. Joshua rallies them to conquer the city and kill everyone except for Rahab. They are to refrain from taking any of the city’s religious items. At the sound of the Israelite war cry, the walls of Jericho collapse, and the Israelites destroy the city and its inhabitants. Joshua’s fame spreads throughout the land, but the Israelites are humiliated in their attempts to take the next city, Ai. God attributes the disaster to the disobedience of Achan, an Israelite who has stolen religious items from Jericho. After the people stone Achan, the renewed attempt against Ai is successful as Joshua masterminds an elaborate ambush against the city’s forces. The Israelites celebrate by erecting an altar to God and publicly reaffirming their commitment to God’s law. Fearful of the marauding Israelites, the people of Gibeon visit the Israelite camp in disguise, claiming to be travelers in the land and requesting peace with Israel. Joshua does not inquire with God and makes a hasty treaty with the men, only to discover later that the Gibeonites are natives of the land to be conquered. The Israelites refrain from attacking the city, but five other local kings attack Gibeon for making peace with Israel. The Israelites come to Gibeon’s aid and destroy the five armies. Joshua helps by commanding God to make the sun stand still during the fight. God listens and stops the sun’s movement—the only time in history, we are told, when God obeys a human. The Israelites continue to destroy the southern and northern cities of Canaan, killing all living inhabitants, as God has stipulated. While much of the promised land still remains to be conquered, the people of Israel begin to settle in the land, dividing it amongst the twelve tribes. After God gives Israel rest from its enemies for many years, an ailing Joshua makes a farewell pronouncement to the nation of Israel. Joshua goads the Israelites to be strong and to obey all of God’s laws, throwing away any idols and refraining from intermarriage with the native people. The people assure Joshua they will be faithful to the covenant, but Joshua reluctantly accepts this assurance, worried that obedience for Israel will prove quite difficult. 1 | Enter the Bible - Books: Numbers Themes Summary Though the census lists in chapters 1 and 26 play an important part in the book, the title "Numbers" does not adequately represent the content. The Hebrew title Bemidbar ("in the wilderness"--the first words of the Hebrew text) captures the theme much better: the book tells the story of how Israel's exodus generation entered the desert where most of them died away in faithlessness and disobedience, and how the next generation emerged, prepared to claim the promise of a new land. The book of Numbers continues the story of the journey out of Egypt, emphasizing the theme of God's faithfulness that endures even in the face of arduous journeys, physical privation, vacillating leadership, and unbelief. So What? Numbers is the story of a people on a difficult journey, with everything--life, health, purpose, destiny--on the line. As such, it has provided a point of reference and a framework of meaning for communities of faith over time. In the New Testament, Paul refers to the wilderness journey as an instructive example for his people in Corinth (1 Corinthians 10:11). Where Do I Find It? Numbers is the fourth book of the Bible; it is also the fourth of the five books of the Torah (Pentateuch). It follows Leviticus and precedes Deuteronomy. Who Wrote It? At one point (33:2) the text records that "Moses wrote down their starting points, stage by stage, by the command of the Lord"--one basis for the traditional claim of Mosaic authorship. Ascribing the material to Moses was a way to anchor it in antiquity and name its authority. The book, however, encompasses so many forms of literature and betrays so many different periods in its style that it is best understood as a compilation from sources that stretch from Israel's earliest history to postexilic times. These have been edited to give an account of Israel's wilderness journey, warning subsequent generations against apostasy while promising God's ongoing work of restoration and renewal. When Was It Written? While much of the material comes, no doubt, from earlier periods, scholars now think the book reached its final form after the exile, perhaps as late as the fifth century B.C.E. The book's narrative of the "quest for a homeland" may have found particular resonance for Israel while in exile from Judah. What's It About? The book of Numbers describes the travels and fortunes of the people of Israel during the "in between" period: their journey from the wilderness of Sinai (1:1) to the plains of Moab, close to the borders of the promised land (36:13). How Do I Read It? The writers of the book of Numbers used a variety of sources and a variety of literary forms, including stories and narratives, laws, census lists, itineraries, instructions for worship, summaries of legal disputations, battle reports, poetry, and blessings. As a whole, it is best read as part of a historical saga written for a theological purpose: as a warning against disobedience and a promise of God's faithful guidance toward new life. AUTHOR: Fred Gaiser, Professor of Old Testament , David Stewart, Director of Library Services I. The Camp at Sinai (Numbers 1:1-10:10) In the second year after the exodus, Israel remains encamped in the Sinai wilderness, where they have been since the third month after their departure from Egypt (Exodus 19:1). A census is taken and the arrangement of the camp is described, along with the duties of the priests and legislation to ensure holiness. The tabernacle is dedicated, and Passover is celebrated. A. The First Census and the Ordering of the Camp (Numbers 1:1-2:34) God orders the Israelites to take a census, numbering "everyone in Israel able to go to war." The people camp by "regiments," each group facing the tabernacle in the center of the encampment. B. The Duties of the Levites (Numbers 3:1-4:49) The Levites, not included in the first census because of their priestly responsibilities, are now numbered and assigned their duties. The Levites are accepted by God as "substitutes" for all firstborn males, who belong to the Lord becau |
The pudu is the world’s smallest species of which animal? | World's Smallest Deer Species 'Pudu Puda' born at Queens Zoo : Animals : Nature World News World's Smallest Deer Species 'Pudu Puda' born at Queens Zoo By Staff Reporter May 17, 2014 10:28 AM EDT The Queens Zoo, April 29, witnessed the arrival of a southern pudu fawn, a member of world's smallest deer species "Pudu puda". The female fawn weighed one pound at birth, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo announced Friday. Average age of the Pudus in captivity is 12.5 years and officials estimate that the female fawn at the zoo will weigh 20 pounds as an adult. Pudu puda are tiny, reaching a length of just 23 to 32 inches. These solitary creatures live in the temperate forests of Argentina and Chile. They are shy and bark when they sense danger and start running in a zig zag manner to outrun predators. These puny little deers are considered good jumpers and sprinters. Pudus are expert navigators and use a complex trail of markings. Each Pudu's territory ranges from 40-60 acres . "The Queens Zoo breeds Pudu as part of the Species Survival Program (SSP), a cooperative breeding program designed to enhance the genetic viability and demographic stability of animal populations in zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums," WCS said in a news release . International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources classifies Pudu as endangered animals. Habitat loss, introduction of European animals in the region and presence of dogs have led to a decrease in Pudu numbers. Chile has been able to prevent the species from going extinct by preserving habitat. According to IUCN , fewer than 10,000 of these deer live in the wild. WCS said that it is using research and conservation practices in Pudu's range countries to help save the animals from extinction. | You must be the change you want to see in the world | Speak Up For The Voiceless - International Animal Rescue Foundation - Environmental News and Media | Page 12 You must be the change you want to see in the world Sudanese Badger Bat – Niumbaha superba Every month there is an estimated twenty species of new flora and fauna located on Planet Earth. However back in 2013 scientists from the University of Bucknell University and Fauna & Flora International located deep in the heart of South Sudan a new bat species commonly named as the Pied Bat or Badger bat. And what a stunningly beautiful bat this is too which oddly does look identical to the markings of our Chinese Panda. The scientific name related to this species of bat was thought to be related to the Glauconycteris superba which for now thankfully is listed as [least concern] on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List identified back in 1939 Dr Haymen whom was the first to discover this particular species of bat. However the new “genera” pictured was discovered in 2013 DeeAnn Reeder, an Associate Professor of Biology at Bucknell. This species of Pied bat (Glauconycteris superba) was bordering endangerment back in the mid 1990’s of which from 1996-2004 was listed as [vulnerable], to date though its population trend or how many Pied bats actually exist is currently unknown. So whats the news on the “Panda bat” as its commonly named? This is a special bat, and not just because of its strikingly beautiful spots and stripes. This is a rare specimen, whose discovery in South Sudan led researchers to identify a new genus of bat. The bat is just the fifth specimen of its kind ever collected. DeeAnn Reeder, an Associate Professor of Biology at Bucknell and first author of the paper announcing the new bat genus, recognized the bat as the same species as a specimen captured in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1939. That specimen was classified as Glauconycteris superba, but after detailed analyses she and her colleagues determined it did not belong in the genus Glauconycteris. It was so unique that they needed to create a new genus for it. Reeder and her colleagues named the new genus Niumbaha , which means “rare” or “unusual” in Zande, the language spoken in Western Equatoria State, where the bat was captured. The bat’s full scientific name is Niumbaha superba, reflecting both the rarity and the magnificence of this creature. “Our discovery of this new genus of bat is an indicator of how diverse the area is and how much work remains,” Reeder said in a press release. So what’s the news on this species of bat? Well firstly we can state that this species of bat (Niumbaha superba) although not the same genera was primarily located by Dr Haymen in 1939 Niumbaha superba oddly is not listed on the International Union for the Conservation of Natures Red List of (threatened species) as this newly discovered genera is listed as [vulnerable] wheres its relative Glauconycteris superba is listed as least concern. The pied (panda bat) is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana and South Sudan, the genus Niumbaha was identified by Reeder, Helgen, Vodzak, Lunde & Ejotre, in 2013. The species lives in natural habitats, tropical or sub-tropical rain-forests or tropical moist lowland forests. To date we are only aware that the current threats surrounding this species is habitat loss. However this soon could change of which threats from hunters hunting for the bush meat trade could see the species pushed into extinction. Habitat loss or habitat fragmentation is playing quite a pivotal role with regards to many species of bats declining worldwide. However other species of bat that normally roost in caves seem to be less threatened by such habitat human disturbances. Bats make up a quarter of the mammalian diversity on the planet, and they are the only mammal that can fly. The African continent and Madagascar and its associated islands contain about 258 extant species of bats, which comprises about 25% of the global bat diversity. Bats are |
Which all-Pullman train ran between London and Brighton from 1931 to 1972? | Brighton Belle Brighton Belle The Brighton Belle passing Purley Oaks at speed in June 1964. The Brighton Belle was a named train which was operated by the Southern Railway and subsequently by British Rail from Victoria Station in London to Brighton , on the Sussex coast. Commissioned as the flagship of the Southern Railway’s mass electrification project, which commenced in January 1931, the world’s only electric all- Pullman service ran daily between London Victoria and Brighton from 1 January 1933 until 30 April 1972. Contents 7 External links History The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) began using Pullman cars in its express trains in 1875, and in December 1881 they introduced the first all-Pullman train in the UK. Known as the Pullman Limited, this ran between London Victoria and Brighton via Horsham and subsequently ordinary rolling stock was added to the service. In 1888 a second all-Pullman service was instituted, using cars lit by electricity and designed by William Stroudley . [1] The LB&SCR was the origin of the British umber and cream Pullman livery. In 1903 R. J. Billinton changed the colour of the ordinary LB&SCR coaches to umber brown with white or cream upper panels, and in 1906 this colour scheme was also adopted by the Pullman Car Co., with the name of the car in large gilt letters on the lower panel and flanked on each side by a coloured transfer of the Pullman Company’s crest. Another all-Pullman service was introduced in 1908 under the name of the Southern Belle. Contemporary advertising by the LB&SCR claimed that this was “… the most luxurious train in the world…”. In 1908 this could be experienced for a special London Victoria to Brighton day return fare of 12 shillings, a premium rate at a time when average earnings were around £1 a week (or 20 shillings). The Southern Belle was steam hauled until 1 January 1933, when electric units were introduced. Trial trains had commenced running between London and Brighton on 2 November 1932, using an experimental five-coach unit (No. 2001) and examples of the new rolling stock were exhibited at London Victoria and Brighton stations from 29 December 1932. [2] With the arrival of the mid-day Victoria to Brighton service at Brighton Station on 29 June 1934, the Mayor of Brighton, Margaret Hardy, [3] renamed the train the Brighton Belle, [4] and it retained this title until withdrawal. The service was scheduled to take 60 minutes for the 51-mile express journey. Three five-car all-Pullman electric multiple units designated 5-BEL were commissioned by the Southern Railway as the flagship of the world’s then-largest electrification project, which covered over 160 track miles. The 15 cars – built in 1932 by Metropolitan-Cammell at its Saltley works in Birmingham – were operated in trains comprising two units, the remaining unit normally held in reserve. The ‘spare’ multiple unit set was used for a Sunday Pullman service from Eastbourne , known as the Eastbourne Pullman for much of the 1950s, but this service was discontinued in 1957. During the Second World War the service was suspended after Unit 3052 was badly damaged by aerial bombing at London Victoria; all cars were placed in safe storage at Crystal Palace (High Level) station , but the service was progressively reinstated in 1946. The trains were refurbished and overhauled in 1955, but by 1972 the stock was old and rode poorly by contemporary standards. Despite protests, [5] the decision was taken not to replace the rolling stock and the service was withdrawn on 30 April 1972. Every car was preserved, in most cases to meet the ambitions of major breweries to ‘bolt on’ Pullman restaurants to pubs and hotels, although most were removed relatively quickly because of the high cost of maintenance and refurbishment. [6] A number were progressively acquired by the Venice Simplon Orient Express , while one still remains in use as B&B accommodation at the Little Mill Inn, Rowarth, Derbyshire. [7] Motor brake car 90 was used for passenger service on the Nene Valley Railway between 1980 and 1990, but was | Rail History — Manchester Metrolink — LRTA Metrolink Introduction > A Brief Rail History: updated 8 October 2016 A Brief Rail History of Manchester This page is an outline of the history of railways in the Manchester area from 1830. It summarises information obtained from various books about railways and includes observations of recent developments. When mainline railways arrived, during the 1830s and early 40s, the town was already a considerable size with valuable properties in the central area. Terminal stations were built on the outer edges of the town. This resulted in problems for passengers arriving at one station and wanting to depart from another. Victoria station with its connecting lines opened in 1844 on the north side of the city centre, the adjacent Exchange station opened in 1884. The Manchester South Junction and Altrincham lines opened in 1849 on the south side. By the 1980s the north and south side networks were still unconnected and without effective central area penetration. The Metrolink six line plan came out of several studies into light rail. The 19th Century saw the arrival and expansion of railways in the Manchester area. Topics in this section are Liverpool and Manchester, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Manchester and Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester, Diagram of Central Manchester Railways and Stations in 1890, Victoria and Exchange Stations, Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR), Manchester to Leeds via Stalybridge and Huddersfield, Midland Railway (MR) and Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC). 1900 to 1960s , during this period the railways faced increasing competition from road based transport. Topics in this section are Bury Line Electrification (LYR), Railway Grouping 1923, The Altrincham Line Electrification (MSJAR) and Modernisation and Contraction. Late 1960s to Metrolink . It became clear that previous attempts to solve the railway’s problems were not working which lead to the setting up of the Passenger Transport Authorities and Executives. Other topics covered in this section are Altrincham line first re–electrification, North–South Connections, Hadfield and Glossop line re–electrification, Hazel Grove Chord and Windsor Link, Transpennine Services, Manchester Airport Link, Diagram of Central Manchester Railways, Stations and Metrolink in 2015 and Conclusions 19th Century Liverpool and Manchester By the early nineteenth century Manchester was already a thriving town based on the cotton and related industries. The existing road and canal links to Liverpool, through whose docks most of the raw cotton was imported and also finished goods exported, were considered inadequate. A group of Liverpool businessmen got together and promoted a rail line between Liverpool and Manchester. The ‘Rocket’ won the Rainhill locomotive trials in October 1829. The line opened on 15th September 1830 the Manchester terminus was Liverpool Road Station. The Grand Junction Railway (GJR), opened in 1837, linked the mid–point of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with Birmingham. Early in 1844 Liverpool Road became a goods station and closed in 1975. It is now preserved as part of the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway This was formed in 1847 from a number of smaller railways in the two counties from which it is named. The Manchester and Bolton opened in 1838 from a terminus at Salford (present day Salford Central) to Bolton. The Manchester and Bury was promoted by a company which became the East Lancashire Railway (ELR). It ran from Clifton Junction on the Manchester and Bolton to Bury and on to Accrington. The Manchester and Leeds was first of the Transpennine railways and one of the easiest in terms of gradients. The route is through Rochdale and Hebden Bridge. The line opened throughout in 1841 from a terminal station in Oldham Road. Oldham Road became a goods station after Victoria opened. Later it closed completely and has now been demolished, it was about 800 metres or half a mile from Piccadilly Gardens. By 1842 there was a steeply graded branch from |
In 2004, FIFA's President suggested that women footballers should wear? | Sepp Blatter : definition of Sepp Blatter and synonyms of Sepp Blatter (English) University of Lausanne Joseph S. Blatter [1] (born 10 March 1936), commonly known as Sepp ("Giuseppe") Blatter, is a Swiss football administrator , who serves as the 8th and current President of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). He was elected on 8 June 1998, succeeding João Havelange . He was re-elected as President in 2002, 2007 and 2011. Despite winning four terms as President, Blatter has often been dogged by controversy and allegations of corruption . His tenure has seen controversy over allegations of financial mismanagement and the acceptance of bribes resulting in Qatar 's successful 2022 World Cup bid. Blatter personally has attracted criticism from the media, senior football figures and players [2] due to several controversial statements. These include suggesting that female football players should wear tighter shorts to appear more attractive to men, that Latin American countries would 'applaud' John Terry for having an extramarital affair, that homosexuals should 'refrain from any sexual activity' while attending the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and that on-field racism could be corrected with a 'handshake'. [3] Blatter also received criticism for not postponing his 2011 election in which his term as FIFA President was extended through 2015, despite the fact that all other candidates for the role had been suspended or withdrew. Prior to his election as FIFA President, Blatter was a senior FIFA official for 23 years. In his earlier professional life, Blatter held a variety of senior management positions in several Swiss organizations. Contents 7 External links Early life and career Blatter was born in Visp , Canton Valais, Switzerland. He studied in Sion, Switzerland , before he received a degree in business and economics from the University of Lausanne in 1959. Blatter has had a long and varied career, including posts such as Head of Public Relations of the Valaisan Tourist Board in his native Switzerland, as well as General Secretary of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation . He was Director of Sports Timing and Relations of Longines S.A., and was involved in the organization of the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games . [4] [5] [6] FIFA Since 1975, Blatter has been working at FIFA , first as Technical Director (1975–1981), then General Secretary (1981–1998), before his election as FIFA President in 1998. He was re-elected as head of FIFA in 2002, and was re-elected unopposed for another four years on 31 May 2007, even though only 66 of 207 FIFA members nominated him. [7] 1998 election Sepp Blatter's 1998 election to the presidency of FIFA over UEFA President Lennart Johansson occurred amidst much controversy. [8] [9] Blatter's 2002 candidacy has been marked with rumours of financial irregularities and backroom dealings, [10] culminating with direct accusations of bribery, by a third party, made in the British press by Farra Ado, vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and president of the Somali Football Federation , who claimed to have been offered $100,000 to vote for Blatter in 1998. [11] Allegations of financial mismanagement Amidst internal divisions, FIFA's secretary-general Blatter's deputy and former protégé Michel Zen-Ruffinen drew up a 30-page dossier outlining allegations of financial mismanagement within the organisation. [12] [13] The dossier alleged that the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL had led to losses of up to $100m under Blatter's management. The allegations were backed by Johansson, [14] and the dossier was handed to the Swiss authorities, but they cleared Blatter of any wrong doing and FIFA had to pay all the costs. [15] An internal investigation within FIFA was halted by Blatter because members of it broke confidentiality agreements. [16] This questionable behaviour led him to remove Zen-Ruffinen from office immediately before the FIFA World Cup 2002 . In April 2012 the Council of Europe published a report which stated it would be “difficult to imagine” that Blatter would ha | World Cup Mascots Brazil 2014 Fuleco Fuleco is a cartoon armadillo, modelled on the three-banded armadillo, an endangered species which is indigenous to Brazil and known as the "tatu-bola". The name is derived from a combination of the Portuguese words for football (futebol) and ecology (ecologia) South Africa 2010 Zakumi Zakumi is a leopard, a common animal found in South Africa. Called Zakumi, he is a friendly green haired yellow leopard, wearing a shirt saying South Africa 2010. Zakumi's green and gold colors represent South Africa's national sports' teams colors. The name Zakumi is derived from "ZA" an acronym for south Africa and "Kumi" which translates as "10" from some African languages. Germany 2006 Goleo VI and his sidekick Pille 2006 saw the return of the lion, this time wearing a Germany shirt with the number 06 and no pants! He also had a talking football named Pille. Goleo is a portmanteau of the words "goal" and "leo", the Latin word for lion, while "Pille" is a colloquial term for a football in Germany. Korea/Japan 2002 Ato, Kaz and Nik (The Spheriks) This was the first tournament to have more than one mascot, in fact they had three. Ato, Kaz and Nik were orange, purple and blue futuristic, computer-generated creatures. They also had their own sport - "Atmoball" (a fictional football-like sport). The three names were voted for online and at McDonald's outlets in the host countries. France 1998 Footix The 1998 mascot was a rooster, one of the national symbols of France. It has the words "FRANCE 98" on its chest, with its body mostly blue, like the host's national team shirt. The name Footix is a portmanteau of "football" and the ending "-ix" from the popular Astérix comic strip. Striker, the World Cup Pup The mascot chosen by the US public for USA '94 was a dog, which is a common US pet animal. Striker wore the red, white and blue US colors with the words "USA 94". Italy 1990 Ciao This was a different looking mascot, a stick figure player with a football head and an Italian tricolor body. The red white & green blocks of the body made it look like it was made from lego. Its name is an Italian greeting. Mexico 1986 Pique Following the fruit and vegetable theme from the previous tournament, the mascot of Mexico 1986 was a jalapeño chili pepper, which we all know is a characteristic of Mexican cuisine. The chili also had moustache and was wearing a sombrero. Its name comes from picante, Spanish for spicy peppers and sauces. Spain 1982 Naranjito The 1982 mascot was a small orange, a typical fruit in Spain, with a big grin. He was wearing the kit of the host's national team. Its name comes from naranja, the Spanish word for orange, with the diminutive suffix "-ito". Argentina 1978 Gauchito A boy wearing Argentina's playing pale blue and white playing kit. His hat, neckerchief and whip are typical of gauchos. The hat had the words ARGENTINA '78. West Germany 1974 Tip and Tap Two boys wearing the white shirts of Germany, one shirt with with the letters WM (Weltmeisterschaft, German for World Cup) and the other with the number 74 on the front. Mexico 1970 Juanito A boy wearing Mexico's colors and a Mexican sombrero (with the words "MEXICO 70"). His name is the diminutive of "Juan", a common name in Spanish. |
For which site have there have been several proposals to create a channel to the Mediterranean Sea or the Nile so that water can flow into a series of hydro-electric penstocks, which would release the water 90m below sea level where it would evaporate? | Qattara Depression - WOW.com Qattara Depression For other uses, see Qattara (disambiguation) . Qattara Depression 19,605 square kilometres (7,570 sq mi) Average depth 1,213 cubic kilometres (291 cu mi) Settlements [1] [2] The Qattara Depression ( Arabic : منخفض القطارة Munḫafaḍ al-Qaṭṭārah) is a depression in the north west of Egypt in the Matruh Governorate and is part of the Western Desert . It lies below sea level and is covered with salt pans , sand dunes and salt marshes . The region extends between latitudes of 28°35' and 30°25' north and longitudes of 26°20' and 29°02' east. [3] The region was created by the interplay of salt weathering and wind erosion. Some 20 kilometres west of the depression lie the oases of Siwa and Jaghbub in smaller but similar depressions. The Qattara Depression contains the second lowest point in Africa at −133 metres (−436 ft) below sea level, the lowest being Lake Assal in Djibouti. The depression covers about 19,605 square kilometres (7,570 sq mi), a size comparable to Lake Ontario or twice as large as Lebanon . Due to its size and proximity to the Mediterranean Sea shore, it has been studied for its potential to generate hydroelectricity . Contents Map of the Qattara Depression. Lower left bound: 28°36'30.74"N 26°14'31.08"E. Upper right bound: 30°31'1.74"N 29° 8'51.83"E. The depression has the shape of a teardrop, with its point facing east and the broad deep area facing the south west. The northern side of the depression is characterised by steep escarpments up to 280 meters high, marking the edge of the adjacent El Diffa plateau. To the south the depression slopes gently up to the Great Sand Sea . Within the Depression are salt marshes , under the northwestern and northern escarpment edges, and extensive dry lake beds that flood occasionally. The marshes occupy approximately 300 square kilometres (120 sq mi), although wind-blown sands are encroaching in some areas. About a quarter of the region is occupied by dry lakes composed of hard crust and sticky mud, and occasionally filled with water. The depression was initiated by either wind or fluvial erosion in the late Neogene , but during the Quaternary the dominant mechanism has been a combination of salt weathering and wind erosion working together. First, the salts break up the depression floor, then the wind blows away the resulting sands. This process is less effective in the eastern part of the depression, due to lower salinity groundwater. [4] Ecology View of the Qattara Depression Sand dunes in the Qattara Depression Groves of Acacia raddiana, growing in shallow sandy depressions, and Phragmites swamps represent the only permanent vegetation. The acacia groves vary widely in biodiversity and rely on runoff from rainfall and groundwater to survive. The Moghra Oasis in the northeast of the Depression has a 4 km2 brackish lake and a Phragmites swamp. [5] [6] The south western corner of the depression is part of the Siwa Protected Area which protects the wild oasis in and around the Siwa Oasis . The Depression is an important habitat for the cheetah , with the largest number of recent sightings being in areas in the northern, western and northwestern part of the Qattara Depression, including the highly isolated, wild oases of Ain EI Qattara and Ein EI Ghazzalat and numerous acacia groves both inside and outside the depression. [7] Gazelles (Gazella dorcas and Gazella leptoceros) also inhabit the Qattara Depression, being an important food source for the cheetah. The largest gazelle population exists in the southwestern part of the Qattara Depression within a vast area of wetlands and soft sand. The area of 900 square kilometres (350 sq mi), includes the wild oases of Hatiyat Tabaghbagh and Hatiyat Umm Kitabain, and is a mosaic of lakes , salt marshes , scrubland , wild palm groves and Desmostachya bipinnata grassland . [7] Other common fauna include the Cape hare (Lepus capensis), Egyptian jackal (Canis aureus hupstar), sand fox (Vulpes rueppelli) and more rarely the fennec fox (Vulpes zerda). Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) w | Archimede's Screw Archimedes' Screw Archimedes' Screw has been used to lift water to higher levels since ancient times. Archimedes (287-212 B.C.) is the traditional inventor of this device, which was originally used for irrigation in the Nile delta and for pumping out ships. I have seen a nineteenth century Archimedes' screw still at work pumping water in a windmill at Schermerhoorn in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It lifted the water a vertical distance of 1 meter. An analysis, using the lifting of marbles instead of water, is used in almost all nineteenth century texts. The lower end of the helical tube dips into a dish of marbles and scoops one up. The helix continues to revolve, and the marble is continually being lifted a short distance up an inclined plane. The frictional forces are small, and the marble keeps rolling down an infinite succession of inclined planes formed by the revolving helix. At the same time the marble resides at the local low spot on the helix, and is carried up the slope by forces perpendicular to its local motion. The model Archimedes' Screw at the top right is in the Smithsonian Institution collection, and was sold by Queen in 1867 at $5.00. The middle right example is by Benjamin Pike, Jr. of New York, and and is $9.00 in the 1866 catalogue. It is at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. At the bottom right is an Archimedes' screw demonstration from the United States Military Academy at West Point. This was made by Pixii of Paris, and bought by the Academy in 1829. The example below is also by Pixii, and is in the Smithsonian Institution collection. . Here is a third example of a Pixii Archimedes Screw, this time from the University of Mississippi. This is listed in the 1849 catalogue of Pixii of Paris at 45 francs (about $9.00). This example is in the collection of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, and may be home-built. An exponential sagging of the tube seems to have taken place. |
Who did the government appoint as executive chairman of Northern Rock after its nationalisation? | BBC NEWS | Business | Northern Rock to be nationalised Northern Rock to be nationalised The Chancellor said the public would gain after the market improved The crisis in graphics Northern Rock is to be nationalised as a temporary measure, Chancellor Alistair Darling has said. Neither of the two private proposals to take over the beleaguered bank offered "sufficient value for money to the taxpayer", Mr Darling said. He said the public would gain if the government held on to Northern Rock until market conditions improved. Ron Sandler, nominated by the government to run Northern Rock, said savers' deposits would be secure. 'Dither and delay' But shadow chancellor George Osborne told the BBC that the Conservatives would oppose plans to nationalise Northern Rock. "After months of dither and delay we have ended up with this catastrophic decision," said Mr Osborne. "We now have the situation where the government will be making decisions on whether or not to foreclose on people's loans in a falling housing market," he added. The Government is totally financially inept and I certainly wouldn't give it the keys to my piggy bank Armand Borisewitz A consortium led by the Virgin group was leading bids to run the beleaguered bank, while a management buyout had also been considered. But ministers have decided that nationalisation - the first such move since the 1970s - was the only option. Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson criticised the government's decision: "We believe we had a very strong proposal, an experienced team and one of Britain's best brands. "We believe nationalisation is not the right answer and that a commercial solution would have been the best way forward." Ill-prepared Explaining the government's decision, Mr Darling said: "It is better for the Government to hold on to Northern Rock for a temporary period and as and when market conditions improve the value of Northern Rock will grow and therefore the taxpayer will gain." "The long-term ownership of this bank must lie in the private sector". Northern Rock got itself into financial difficulties last year because its business model left it ill-prepared for the global credit crunch. It was forced to ask the Bank of England for emergency funding, triggering the first run on a British bank in more than a century. The bank will be run at arm's length and on a commercial basis Alistair Darling Nationalisation will be pushed though parliament with emergency legislation on Monday. Shares in Northern Rock will be suspended on Monday morning. Under nationalisation rules, shareholders will be offered compensation for their holding, at a level set by a Government-appointed panel. Investors could begin legal action if they are unhappy with the amount offered, with BBC Business Editor Robert Peston saying that it was "inevitable" that the government would be sued by shareholders who felt they had been "fleeced". Job threat UK taxpayers are now subsidising the bank in loans and guarantees to other lenders to the tune of about �55bn. The Treasury now feels that nationalisation offers the most certainty of securing these guarantees, Mr Peston said. It is thought that the business model it proposes will be similar to those put forward by the Virgin Group and the in-house management consortium. These were likely to see a downsizing of the bank, with job cuts among its 4,300 employees likely, observers say. Ron Sandler says it will be "business as usual" at the bank The Treasury had already recruited Mr Sandler, the former boss of the Lloyd's of London insurance market, to lead Northern Rock, in case it were nationalised. Mr Sandler is widely regarded as having restored confidence in Lloyd's after its years in financial disarray. He said the changes would have no impact on the guarantees made to lenders, or the government-backed support for savers' deposits. "It is business as usual," he said. Mr Sandler is well known to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and worked for the Treasury in developing the so-called stakeholder pension and investment products that were intended to help those on lower | George Entwistle named as new BBC director general | Radio Times George Entwistle named as new BBC director general The former Director of BBC Vision will replace the outgoing Mark Thompson later this year Comments Susanna Lazarus and Chloe Oliver 10:43 AM, 04 July 2012 George Entwistle has been announced as the next director general of the BBC, after a final round of interviews took place in London yesterday. Entwistle, who is currently director of BBC Vision will take over from Mark Thompson later this year. Entwistle began his career as a writer and magazine editor before joining the BBC in 1989 as a Broadcast Journalism trainee. Following a spell as assistant producer on Panorama, he went on to become editor of BBC Two’s flagship programme Newsnight in 2001, starting the day before the 9/11 attacks for which the show won five RTS Awards. Described as a "loyal BBC soldier" he has held numerous positions within the BBC, including Head and Commissioning Editor of TV Current Affairs, Acting Controller of BBC4 before being appointed director of BBC Vision last year. Overseeing the commission of programmes including Call The Midwife, Birdsong and Frozen Planet, he recently suffered criticism following the BBC's maligned coverage of the Diamond Jubilee. It is understood that a shortlist of four candidates were each grilled in 90 minute sessions conducted by the BBC Trust chairman, Lord Patten, and his deputy, Dianne Coyle yesterday. Those also believed to have made it through to the final round were Caroline Thomson, the BBC chief operating officer, and Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards. Despite speculation surrounding the fourth candidate bidding to succeed Thompson, their name is as yet unknown. Following today's appointment George Entwistle said, "I’m delighted the Chairman and Trustees think I’m the right person for the job. Mark Thompson will be a tough act to follow. But it’s a privilege to be asked to lead the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world and a privilege to be able to continue to serve our audiences in this new role." Outgoing Mark Thompson added: "I think this is a brilliant appointment. George has shown himself to be an outstanding leader with an intuitive understanding of public sector broadcasting. He has a formidable track record as a programme maker and in recent years has also shown his calibre as a leader. I wish him and the BBC every success in the years to come." Thompson has served as DG since May 2004, having previously worked as BBC’s Director of Television and Chief Executive of Channel 4. He announced his departure in March 2012 and will step down from the role after the London 2012 Olympic Games. Like this? Share it. |
Geoffrey Rush won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a mentally handicapped piano player in which film? | Film | By Jason Bailey | January 15, 2015 This morning, Julianne Moore received an Academy Award nomination for Still Alice, which (in an amazing bit of great timing!) goes into official release tomorrow. It’s her fifth Academy Award nomination, but this time she’s the odds-on favorite, for two reasons: because she’s been nominated five times but hasn’t yet won and thus is “due,” and because she’s playing a woman battling a crippling affliction (in this case, early-onset Alzhemier’s). Meanwhile, Eddie Redmayne nabbed a very predictable nomination for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. The fact that Everything is a boilerplate biopic and Still Alice is a rotten movie and desperately transparent play for that statue don’t enter into it; as history has proven, if you want to win an Oscar, find a character with a disease, a physical hardship, a mental challenge, or a psychological disorder, and let it rip. Don’t believe me? Here’s your timeline! 1947: Harold Russell’s turn in The Best Years of Our Lives as Homer Parrish, who lost both hands in World WWII, won two Oscars in the same night (Best Supporting Actor and a special honorary award) — the only actor ever to do so. But, contrary to modern Oscar history, this was no case of an actor using research and effects to play such a role; Russell was a non-actor and veteran who actually lost both hands while making a training film. 1952: Arthur Kennedy is nominated for Best Actor for playing a blind veteran in Bright Victory. 1958: Joanne Woodward wins Best Actress for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve as a woman with multiple personalities. 1963: Patty Duke plays deaf/mute Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and wins Best Supporting Actress. 1966: Elizabeth Hartman is nominated for Best Actress for her turn in A Patch of Blue, playing a young blind woman. She loses to Julie Christie. 1968: Blind is big again in the Best Actress race, as Audrey Hepburn is nominated for her performance as Susy in Wait Until Dark. 1969: Cliff Robertson is the surprise winner for Best Actor, playing the title role of a mentally challenged man who is (briefly) made a genius in Charly. Among his competition is Alan Arkin, playing a deaf mute in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. 1971: Sir John Mills wins Best Supporting Actor for playing the mute “village idiot” in Ryan’s Daughter. 1979: The Oscars’ modern obsession with affliction begins quietly, as Jon Voight wins Best Actor for Coming Home, playing a paraplegic Vietnam War veteran. His competition is formidable — including Robert De Niro, Laurence Olivier, and Warren Beatty — but it takes a few years for the pattern to really take hold. 1981: Though not technically part of the tradition, Robert De Niro’s Best Actor win for Raging Bull is legendary among actors, for years to come, for his willingness to undergo radical physical transformation for a role (in this case, gaining 60 pounds mid-production to play Jake La Motta in his later, overweight years). That kind of physical dedication is duly noted; its value will only increase among Oscar voters and hopefuls. 1983: Jessica Lange is nominated as Best Actress for Frances, playing actress Frances Farmer, institutionalized for over five years against her will for alleged mental illness. She loses to Meryl Streep. 1984: Debra Winger is nominated as Best Actress for her work as young cancer victim Emma Greenway Horton in Terms of Endearment. She loses to Shirley MacLaine, who plays her mother. 1985: John Malkovich is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, playing a blind man in Places in the Heart. 1988: Marlee Matlin wins Best Actress for playing a deaf woman in Children of a Lesser God, but mark it down for the Russell Exception: Matlin is herself deaf. (It’s also easy to read this award, like Russell’s, as the Academy awarding an actor they presume won’t get many more roles; if that was true, in Matlin’s case they were happily proven wrong.) 1989: Dustin Hoffman ushers in the Golden Age of Affliction-Based Academy Awards by winning Best Actor for playing autistic poker whiz Raymon | 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? What 1966 TV show theme by Lalo Schifrin made a comeback in a 1996 blockbuster move? Mission: Impossible. Consumer News and Business Channel. How many fingers does Homer Simpson have? Eight. What sitcom character moved from a Boston barstool to a Seattle radio station? Dr. Frasier Crane. What Saturday Night Live cast member played Kap'n Karl on Pee-wee's Playhouse? Phil Hartman. What M*A*S*H principal won Emmys for acting, writing and directing? Alan Alda. What cable network drew twice its usual audience for a show called The Wonderful World of Dung? The Discovery Channel. What TV host went gold with the CD Romantic Christmas? John Tesh. What sitcom spawned the hit song I'll Be There For You? Friends. What MTV twosome are known as "The Bad Boys" in Mexico? Beavis and Butt head. What Indianapolis weatherman of the 1970s once forecast hail "the size of canned hams"? David Letterman. What kid's show's interracial cast needed riot police protection during a 1969 trip to Mississippi? Sesame Street's. What gritty 1990's TV drama series is subtitled Life on the Street? Homicide. What entertainer's wedding prompted NBC to order 10,000 tulips from Holland? Tiny Tim's. What sitcom helped John Larroquette earn three straight supporting actor Emmy Awards? Night Court. Who once observed: "This is America. You can't make a horse testify against himself"? Mr. Ed. What Marx Brother's name spelled backwards is the name of a daytime talk show host? Harpo's. Who began his radio shows with: "Good evening, Mr. ad Mrs. America and all the ships at sea, let's go to press"? Walter Winchell. What TV star said of his worldwide fame: "I didn't know I could top Knight Rider"? David Hasselhoff. What sitcom was among the top 20 most watched shows every season during its entire run, form 1984 to 1992? The Cosby Show. Who inherited Tom Snyder's CNBC talk-show slot in 1995? Charles Grodin. What was the fist sitcom to be broadcast from videotape, in 1971? All in the Family. 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 |
The ‘Delta Works’ is a series of construction projects in which European country, to protect large areas of land from the sea? | Delta Works keep Holland dry - BetterWorldSolutions - The NetherlandsBetterWorldSolutions - The Netherlands Delta Works keep Holland dry 5 / 5 (1 votes) flood and safety , WATER Leave a Comment Delta Works keep Holland dry The Delta Works is a series of construction projects in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta from the sea. Needed because 60% of the Dutch live below sea level The works consist of dams , sluices , locks , dykes , levees , and storm surge barriers . The aim of the dams, sluices, and storm surge barriers was to shorten the Dutch coastline, thus reducing the number of dikes that had to be raised. Along with the Zuiderzee Works , Delta Works have been declared one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers . Delta plan to prevent because of the rising of the sea level – climate change In September 2008, the Delta commission presided by Dutch politician Cees Veerman advised in a report that the Netherlands would need a massive new building program to strengthen the country’s water defenses against the anticipated effects of global warming for the next 190 years. The plans included drawing up worst-case scenarios for evacuations and included more than €100 billion, or $144 billion, in new spending through the year 2100 for measures, such as broadening coastal dunes and strengthening sea and river dikes . Floods Water has always played a central part in Dutch history. On one hand it brought wealth to the Netherlands through trade and fishery; on the other hand it brought a number of losses through the many floods. To date water has remained important for the Netherlands. From a geographical point of view, the Netherlands are placed in a very favorable position; at the sea and in the delta (a triangular section of land at the mouth of a river) of four large rivers. Drained area’s The Dutch surface area has almost doubled through centuries of “impoldering” (area drained and prepared for agriculture) lakes and parts of the sea. As a result of this impoldering almost 40 percent of the land lies below sea level. Areas include large parts of the highly populated and the economically important west, with cities such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam. To keep these areas dry, superfluous water is continuously pumped out of the polders. Furthermore, the Netherlands is protected from floods through a combination of levees, dunes, dams and barriers. After the last big flood of 1953, people decided to build the Delta Works; one of the largest built flood protection and water management projects in the world. 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King Gama and King Hildebrand are monarchs in which Gilbert and Sullivan opera? | The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin - PRINCESS IDA / 2013 The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin proudly presented Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant as our Summer Grand Production of 2013. We performed this classic, which was Arthur Sullivan & W. S. Gilbert’s eighth comic opera out of fourteen, for the first time in our history. Nine performances were presented, June 13-23 at the Worley Barton Theater at Brentwood Christian School. See photos | Watch videos Thank you to all the performers, crew, the Gillman Light Opera Orchestra, sponsors, volunteers, Society members, and record setting audiences for making this year's premiere of Princess Ida such a wonderful success. Artistic Director Ralph MacPhail, Jr. , Music Director Jeffrey Jones-Ragona , and Production Manager Bill Hatcher - along with a remarkable cast, orchestra and crew - created a show full of joy and delight. This melodic and hilarious comic opera features proto-feminist Princess Ida, the daughter of King Gama. The princess has founded a women's university from which all men are barred, and she and her faculty teach that women are superior to men and should rule in their stead. Romantic Prince Hilarion, to whom Ida had been engaged in infancy, sneaks into the university along with two friends with the aim of claiming Hilarion’s bride. They disguise themselves as women students but are soon discovered, their male invasion instigating a hilarious war between the sexes. Princess Ida satirizes feminism, women’s education, masculine pugnacity and militarism, grand opera, and Darwinian evolution, some of which were controversial topics in conservative Victorian England. It is based on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson called “The Princess” (1847); Gilbert had written a farcical musical play based on the poem in 1870. In 1884, he lifted much of the dialogue of Princess Ida directly from his 1870 farce. This is the only three-act Gilbert & Sullivan opera. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5, 1884, for a run of 246 performances, and since that time it has never been out of the standard repertory of Gilbert & Sullivan (or Savoy) operas throughout the English-speaking world. The 2012-2013 season B. Iden Payne Awards ceremony was held November 5, 2013 and our own Michelle Haché won the Outstanding Lead Actress in Musical Theater award for her role as Princess Ida. Jeffrey Jones-Ragona was nominated for Outstanding Music Direction for his wonderful work as musical director. Congratulations to Michelle and Jeffrey! Click here for a complete list of winners and nominees. Click here to see some photos from the ceremony. Click here to see our winners and nominees from previous years. | Gilbert and Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Together, they wrote fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore , The Pirates of Penzance , and The Mikado are among the best known. [1] Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds for these operas, where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion—fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong. [2] Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies [3] that could convey both humour and pathos. [4] Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration. [5] He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works—which came to be known as the Savoy Operas —and he founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , which performed and promoted their works for over a century. The Gilbert and Sullivan operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world. [6] The collaboration introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century. [7] The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humorists. Contents Main article: W. S. Gilbert Gilbert was born in London on 18 November 1836. His father William was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son. [8] In 1861, the younger Gilbert began to write illustrated stories, poems and articles of his own to supplement his income. Many of these would later be mined as a source of ideas for his plays and operas, particularly his series of illustrated poems called the Bab Ballads . [9] One of Gilbert's illustrations for his Bab Ballad "Gentle Alice Brown" In the Bab Ballads and his early plays, Gilbert developed a unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. Director and playwright Mike Leigh described the "Gilbertian" style as follows: With great fluidity and freedom, [Gilbert] continually challenges our natural expectations. First, within the framework of the story, he makes bizarre things happen, and turns the world on its head. Thus the Learned Judge marries the Plaintiff, the soldiers metamorphose into aesthetes, and so on, and nearly every opera is resolved by a deft moving of the goalposts... His genius is to fuse opposites with an imperceptible sleight of hand, to blend the surreal with the real, and the caricature with the natural. In other words, to tell a perfectly outrageous story in a completely deadpan way. [2] Ages Ago , during the rehearsals for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan. Gilbert developed his innovative theories on the art of stage direction, following theatrical reformer Tom Robertson . [8] At the time Gilbert began writing, theatre in Britain was in disrepute. [10] Gilbert helped to reform and elevate the respectability of the theatre, especially beginning with his six short family-friendly comic operas, or " entertainments ," for Thomas German Reed . [11] At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, Ages Ago (1869), the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan . [12] Two years later, Gilbert and Sullivan would write their first work together. Those two intervening years continued to shape Gilbert's theatrical style. He continued to write humorous verse, stories and plays, including the comic operas Our Island Home (1870) and A Sensation Novel (1871), and the blank verse comedies The Princess (1870), The Palace of Truth (1870), and Pyg |
Who wrote the poem that begins: There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night Ten to make and the match to win A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in.? | Vitaï Lampada Poem by Sir Henry Newbolt - Poem Hunter Vitaï Lampada Poem by Sir Henry Newbolt - Poem Hunter Vitaï Lampada - Poem by Sir Henry Newbolt Autoplay next video There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night— Ten to make and the match to win— A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote 'Play up! play up! and play the game! ' The sand of the desert is sodden red,— Red with the wreck of a square that broke; — The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game! ' This is the word that year by year, While in her place the school is set, Every one of her sons must hear, And none that hears it dare forget. This they all with a joyful mind Bear through life like a torch in flame, And falling fling to the host behind— 'Play up! play up! and play the game! Thomas Vaughan Jones (1/15/2014 10:42:00 AM) The sense of patriotism evoked by this poem is now frowned upon as being somewhat racist. Nevertheless it brings to the reader a message that is enduring. While it does not ennoble war, it emphasises the need to stand together in the face of adversity and conduct oneself with honour and integrity. The days of colonialism are over but it is still necessary for us to maintain the ethics of loyalty and fair play. Stand tall and be proud. (Report) Reply Malcolm Baird (12/22/2006 8:40:00 AM) In Britain in the late 19th century and the early 20th century there was the powerful social phenomenon of the 'Basically Sound Chap'. Kipling was basically sound, so was John Buchan, so was Henry Newbolt and this poem might almost be regarded as the anthem of the B.S.C. There was a blind devotion to Britain and her Empire and yet there was an ethos that the playing of the game was better than winning. The stiff upper lip was his trademark. The B.S.C. was, in today's terms, politically incorrect; moreover he had no female equivalent and he often did not get along very well with women. Nevertheless he stood for something and the world is a poorer place without him, in my humble opinion. (Report) Reply John Haycraft (3/1/2006 10:50:00 PM) As the father of a 19 year old son who was killed instantly together with his best friend aged 17 in a tragic car accident on Nov 13th 2003, this poem holds tremendous and enduring meanng, for that friendship was forged at school and on the rugby field where both boys were flankers for their team.To live together and to die together in the same split second in the zenith of youth is given to but a few and they give inspiration to all their generation through that immortal friendship.Even in today's society the heroic values of the ancient gods has not changed. (Report) Reply | Brief biographies of 25 poets of the First World War, THE WAR POETRY WEB SITE RUPERT CHAWNER BROOKE , 1887-1915. Georgian poet. Born at Rugby. Educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge. He was an atheist and active Socialist. He was a friend of Edward Marsh and worked with him to prepare and promote the first Georgian Anthology of poetry. After travelling in Germany, and, following his nervous breakdown he went on a long tour to recuperate, taking in the USA, Canada, Honolulu, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, and Tahiti. After hesitation about what course of action to take at the start of the First World War he joined the navy. He was a witness at the siege of Antwerp before writing his famous set of five sonnets called 1914. Though he had seen the devastation and suffering created by the war he kept it all at an emotional distance from himself, denying the realities of war. He had a deeply confused personality - given to both ecstatic enthusiasm and suicidal doubt. Following a mosquito bite he died of acute blood poisoning on board ship on his way to Gallipoli, and was buried on the Greek Island of Skyros. Minds at War and Out in the Dark contain all five of Brooke's 1914 war sonnets, plus his sombre and realistic last poem, Soon to Die. Minds at War contains a further thirteen and a half pages of discussion of Brooke's ideas, and extracts from his letters which reveal something of the way his mind worked, and the origins of some of the ideas in his sonnets. There are five pages of information about Brooke, and extracts from his letters in Out in the Dark. ELEANOR FARJEON, 1881-1965. Born in London. Well known as an author of children's stories. She was a close personal friend of Helen and Edward Thomas in the last few years of his life. She loved Edward, but knew that expressing her feelings to him would mean the immediate end of their friendship. They often visited each other and went on long country walks together. She typed his poems for him and submitted them, on his behalf, under the pseudonym of Edward Eastaway, to various publications. Helen was aware of Eleanor's feelings towards Edward and was perfectly content with the situation, believing that it might help to make Edward a little happier. There are two of her poems in Minds at War and one in Out in the Dark. The poem that is common to both books is "Now that you, too" which is a moving poem about saying goodbye to Edward Thomas for the last time. JULIAN GRENFELL , 1888-1915. Educated at Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the army in 1910. He seemed to take a psychopathic joy in killing people. His poem Into Battle is said to be the most anthologised poem of the First World War. He died of wounds on 30th April, 1915, a few days after sending his poem to The Times. Into Battle appears in both Minds at War and Out in the Dark. IVOR GURNEY , 1890-1937. Born in Gloucester. Educated at King's School Gloucester and the Royal College of Music. He wrote poetry and music from before the war. He volunteered to fight and was initially turned down because of his poor eyesight. He was gassed and wounded and returned to Britain. Mental illness developed. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1922. He was committed to mental hospital where he continued to write poetry and compose - sometimes believing that he was still taking part in the war. He died of tuberculosis. Three of his poems appear in Minds at War and two in Out in the Dark. RUDYARD KIPLING , 1865-1936. Born in Bombay. As a small child he was sent to England (Southsea) |
What is the name of the 'Phantom' in the famous story Phantom Of The Opera? | Where the Phantom was born: the Palais Garnier - Telegraph Culture Where the Phantom was born: the Palais Garnier The underground lake; the deadly chandelier; the buried corpse...where do myth and reality overlap at the Garnier Opera House? The interior of the Paris Opera: a worker died in 1896 when a counterweight fell from the chandelier Photo: MacDuff Everton/Corbis Follow It began with the water. In 1861, Parisian workers attempting to lay the concrete foundations for a grand, 2,200-seat opera house in the centre of the city were baffled. The theatre had been commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III as part of his sweeping reconstruction of Paris, and 12,000 square metres of ground had been cleared. Yet a seemingly endless flow of water bubbled up from the swampy, newly cleared ground – and no one could do anything to stem it. The grand facade of Le Palais Garnier Thirteen years later, in 1874, architect Charles Garnier’s neo-baroque masterpiece, Le Palais Garnier, was finally complete. But rumours of a vast, fish-filled lake swirling beneath the building endured. One Parisian who grew up with the rumour was the detective writer Gaston Leroux and in 1910 he would use it as the inspiration for his gothic love story The Phantom of The Opera. In fact, historical and fictional events are so blurred in Leroux’s story that he was able to claim in his prologue (and on his death bed) that ‘the Opera ghost really existed’ – a claim that has left the Paris Opera, as it is now known, shrouded in mystery ever since. Pierre Vidal, curator of the Palais Garnier’s museum and library, is more familiar than most with the myth of the Phantom’s watery lair but admits that the reality is rather less exciting. Related Articles The Phantom returns: poor show, Andrew? 04 Mar 2010 He says the ‘lake’ is actually a huge, stone water tank created by the construction team after numerous failed attempts to pump the site dry. ‘The pressure of the water in the tank stops any more rising up the through the foundations, and the weight of the tank stabilises the building,’ he explains. Today, the tank (which is covered, except for a small grate) is used by Paris’s fire fighters to practise swimming in the dark. And while Vidal concedes that the cellars are large enough to contain a makeshift home, they actually house the building’s technical rooms. Olivia Temple, who looks after the archive of Maria Bjornson (the late designer of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s original West End stage production), visited the Palais Garnier’s cellars in 2005 and understood immediately how they could have inspired Leroux. ‘It was completely convincing that somebody could have lived down there,’ she recalls. ‘There were alcoves and arches that I’m sure had passageways that very few people would have bothered to explore. And it’s bound to stretch out under the streets of Paris and join up with other watery cellars. Somebody like the Phantom could have had the run of it.’ But Temple admits they have lost a lot of their eeriness. ‘Because of health and safety rules, there are rather horrid bright lights down there now,’ she explains. ‘It has definitely washed away the gloom of those netherworld regions and you don’t get the feeling of what it must have been like when it was just lit with candles.’ Further inspiration for Leroux’s story came in 1896, when the counterweight from the building’s grand chandelier fell, killing a construction worker. Leroux wove the incident into the novel’s climactic moment, during which Erik (the Phantom) kills an audience member by causing a chandelier to fall during a performance and, in the furore that follows, kidnaps Christine, dragging her down to his underground home. However, perhaps the most ingenious blending of fact and fiction in The Phantom of the Opera is in the prologue, when Leroux mentions the burying of phonographic recordings in the cellars of the opera house. He explains that, while the cellar is being prepared to house the recordings, a corpse is uncovered that is identified as Erik’s. There may not have been a body, but the burying | Phantom of the Opera - Gaston LeRoux, Joeming W. Dunn - Google Books Phantom of the Opera 1 Review https://books.google.com/books/about/Phantom_of_the_Opera.html?id=W5Af7JwlGnkC A graphic novel based on the Gaston Leroux classic, in which a disfigured musical genius, living under the Paris House, uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer. What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. View all » About the author (2010) Gaston Leroux is best known as the creator of the 1911 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, about a masked figure who haunts the hidden parts of the Paris Opera House. The novel appeared first in serial installments a year before publication, ultimately grew into several movie versions, and later became an Tony Award-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Leroux was born in Paris in 1868. The only child of financially well-off parents, he moved easily into a clerk job in a law office. While working there, he wrote essays and short stories, many of which were accepted by publishers. This fired his enthusiasm, and he became a full-time reporter/writer in 1890. Law experience covering famous cases and theater reviews fueled his writing career, but it was his news reporter job that took him around the world at the turn of the century, providing details for his novels. Leroux wrote several mystery and fantasy novels, including the well-received The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) and The Man Who Came Back from the Dead (1912). Leroux also helped pioneer the character of the amateur detective who solves crime, so commonly seen today in movies and television. Gaston Leroux continued to write until his death on April 16, 1927. |
How many penalty points are incurred for knocking down a fence in a three day event | Rules and scoring of a British Eventing Horse Trial Phase 1 - Dressage The dressage phase, which is held first is made up of an exact sequence of movements, each movement marked out of a maximum score of 10. It is ridden in a semi-enclosed grass arena, which is 20 x 40 for a national ODE, larger (20 x 60m) for an international event. In an ODE, the test is marked by a judge situated at the top, in the middle of the ‘short side' (20m), at marker ‘C'. More than one judge marks an international test, and they are situated at varying points of the arena. The judges are looking for balance, rhythm and suppleness and most importantly, obedience of the horse and like to see it working as one with its rider. The reason for the Dressage test is to demonstrate that the horse and rider have the correct training to perform individual movements in a graceful, controlled, relaxed and precise manner and are prepared for the of the exactness of the Show Jumping and rigours of the Cross Country test to follow. Once the rider and horse have completed their Dressage test, the marks are totted up and any errors of course deducted, which is then converted to penalty points. The marks are converted to a percentage of the maximum possible score, multiplied by the coefficient for that test, then subtracted from 100. Summary of British Eventing Dressage Rules: Following the bell the rider is allowed 45 seconds to enter the ring. Failure to do so ends in elimination. If all four feet of the horse exit the arena during the test, this results in elimination. Errors on course: Phase 2* – Show Jumping Show Jumping tests the technical jumping skills of the horse and rider, including suppleness, obedience, fitness and athleticism. In this phase, 8-20 fences (depending on level of event) are set up in an arena, (usually on grass in Britain). Show jumps can be knocked down, unlike cross country fences and penalties are given for any poles that fall. This phase is also timed, with penalties being given for every second over the time set by the course designer. In an international or 3DE, Eventing Show Jumping tests the fitness and stamina of the horse and rider following the previous day's cross-country test. How do you score a Show Jump round? If a horse knocks down or refuses a fence, it is called a ‘fault'. These faults are added up at the end of the round, and any time penalties added to give the pairing a score for that round. Knocking down an obstacle: 4 penalties First Disobedience (refusal, run-out, circle, stepping backwards): 4 penalties Second disobedience: 8 penalties Exceeding the time allowed: 1 penalty per second Jumping an obstacle in the wrong order: Elimination Error of course not rectified: Elimination A show jump is classed as being knocked down if any part of it has had its height lowered. It is possible therefore to knock out a pole below the top rail and receive no penalties. *ODE only. At an international or 3DE it is reversed and SJ is the final phase Phase 3* – Cross Country Both horse and rider must be in excellent physical shape to complete the cross country test. The horse and rider will have practiced or ‘schooled' over several different types of cross country fences before competing to develop braveness, experience and trust. In Britain there are six levels of affiliated Eventing which cater for all levels of horse and rider, and they range from 80cm Training classes through to 1.20m Advanced classes: Advanced Combinations jump 18-22 fences (BE80, BE90, BE100), more at the higher levels, all designed and built along an outdoor circuit. The fences are solidly built natural objects (logs, stone walls) as well as various other obstacles such as ditches, drop fences and banks and combinations, which test the accuracy and training of the horse and rider. Leading the way on safety in the sport, Britain pioneered the frangible pin system which is fixed to upright rails, allowing part or all of the jump to drop down if hit with enough force. Horse and rider need to finish the course within a certain time limit, or ‘optim | 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 ? 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Who captained the 2009 England women's cricket team? | Best team: England women's cricket | Sport | The Guardian 2009 in review Best team: England women's cricket They were the side that couldn't win a game. Now, thanks to an inspiring captain and the world's top-ranked batter and bowler, our cricketers are the all-conquering team that everyone fears England Women's Cricket Team, including Charlotte Edwards (centre) and, to her left and right, Katherine Brunt and Mark Lane. Photograph: Suki Dhanda Justin Irwin Saturday 14 November 2009 19.06 EST First published on Saturday 14 November 2009 19.06 EST Share on Messenger Close If you'd have said that I'd become a double world champion and an Ashes winner I probably wouldn't have believed you," reflects Charlotte Edwards. "I still have to pinch myself to believe what we've achieved." As her team gathers at the ECB National Cricket Centre at Loughborough University to prepare for their winter tour to the West Indies, the England captain can look back at a phenomenal year. The side's dominance is unparalleled in cricket, and rare in any sport – holding both major limited-over trophies (both 50-over and Twenty20) and the Ashes is something no men's side – even Australia – has achieved. Massive investment in the sport since 2005 has paid off. During the 90s, England had failed to win a one-day series against a major side for nearly a decade. Now, 16 years since their last World Cup final, England has a team which, under the astute leadership of Edwards, has changed cricket for ever – illustrated in April this year when the world's leading batter, Claire Taylor, was the first woman named as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. (Taylor is absent from the photograph on a six-month sabbatical.) "She's been such a good senior player," says Edwards, who was appointed an MBE in June. "She does everything the right way, and really is good for our younger girls to learn from; hopefully I do the same." Two players do not make a cricket team, however, and the player of the match in the Twenty20 final defeat of New Zealand at Lord's was 24-year-old Katherine Brunt. "I was struggling to find some rhythm," recalls the pace bowler from Yorkshire, who, by her own admission, did not have a great tournament en route to the final. "Then my coach took me to the Nursery Ground on the morning of the game, and I just clicked. I got my swing back." Four overs at 70mph later (on a par with Paul Collingwood), she had taken 3 for 6. England cruised to victory, Taylor hitting the winning runs with six wickets and three overs in hand. New Zealand were also the opposition in the 50-over final in March, and on that occasion the honour of securing victory had been left to one of the youngest players, Holly Colvin. The first-year Durham University student recalls the clip off her legs with fondness: "That's definitely got to be the highlight of my career so far. It wasn't hitting the winning runs that was the best bit; it was everyone coming onto the pitch, ecstatic, in tears." Still only 20, Colvin remains the youngest-ever English Test player, and is currently the world's number one ranked bowler. She and Brunt are becoming familiar with fame. Success breeds attention, and interest in the game has grown exponentially. Research released by the ECB last year showed a 45% increase in participation in women's and girls' cricket, and England coach Mark Lane points out that more of the team come from state schools than private. Lane is ensuring his charges keep their feet on the ground. He is keen to talk about the future, makes a point of praising cricket's administrators, and highlights the 50-over series against Australia in the summer as the biggest challenge of 2009. This first-ever series defeat of the Aussies was truly emphatic – 4-0 with one washout – and the Ashes were retained days later in a one-off Test. The players' approach is consistent and impressive. This is a team with a superb work ethic, and there's every reason to suggest that England could now continue to dominate the sport for several years. It will be impossible to outdo this year, but, | BBC ON THIS DAY | 19 | 1978: Botham bowls into cricket history Search ON THIS DAY by date About This Site | Text Only 1978: Botham bowls into cricket history Cricketing star Ian Botham has become the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match. The Somerset all-rounder's blistering performance helped bring England victory by an innings and 120 runs in the second Cornhill Test. He hit 108 runs in England's first innings and today took eight wickets for just 34 runs to contribute to Pakistan's second innings total of all out for 139. In fact, Tony Greig is the only other England player to score a century and take more than five wickets in an innings. He hit 143 runs and took six wickets for 164 against the West Indies at Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1974. Botham was just unplayable Pakistan captain Wasim Bari England captain Mike Brearley said of Botham's performance: "He is colossus at the moment." Botham made his Test debut at the age of 21 against Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, in July last year. In that match, he took five wickets for 74 runs to help bowl out the opposition for 243. His wife Kathryn, who was eight months pregnant with the couple's first child, was in the spectator stands. Today at Trent Bridge, it was Botham's swinging deliveries which managed to beat his Pakistani opponents. Afterwards, Pakistan captain Wasim Bari said: "I have never seen a ball swing so much in bright weather...Botham was just unplayable." The Pakistan team includes many players new to Test cricket and unused to English weather conditions. Bari continued: "England bowled better, batted better and fielded better than we did. And this man Botham is a magnificent cricketer." In Context Ian Botham went on to become one of England's greatest ever all-rounders. Perhaps his best performance was in the 1981 Ashes series against Australia. After a poor run of results ending with a draw in the second Test, he resigned the England captaincy. England were one down and facing almost certain defeat in the third Test at Headingley. Botham saved the match, England ended up winning the series three-one, and the all-rounder's legendary status was assured. He played in 102 Test matches in a career spanning from 1977-92. His highest-ever batting score was 208 - his best performance with the ball was eight wickets for 34 runs. Since retiring from the game, he has become a television commentator and in 2003 became an adviser to his old county team of Somerset. He has also walked thousands of miles raising money for Leukaemia Research and more recently for The Noah's Ark appeal which is building a children's hospital in Wales. His son, Liam, played county cricket for Hampshire in 1996 but has since taken up professional rugby. Stories From 19 Jun |
Which Lerner and Lowe musical is based on the TH White novel 'The Once And Future King'? | SparkNotes: The Once and Future King: Context The Once and Future King T. H. White Table of Contents Plot Overview Terence Hanbury White was born in 1906 in Bombay, India, to British parents. He was educated at Cheltenham College in England and Queen’s College in Cambridge, where he graduated at the top of his class. White led a solitary life, and other than his few friends from the academic and literary world, his only companions were his pets. White was particularly heartbroken when his dog Brownie, a red setter, died after fourteen years of faithful friendship. White did make one attempt to get married, but his heart was not in it and his would-be fiancée eventually broke off their relationship. Toward the end of his life, White underwent psychological treatment for homosexuality. White was also an on-again, off-again alcoholic, and though his drinking never ruined him, it was enough of a problem that he made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to stop drinking entirely. Early in life, White taught at several English preparatory schools. His first successful book was an autobiography called England Have My Bones. He was eventually able to make enough money from his novels, particularly from the four books that make up The Once and Future King, to dedicate himself to writing full time. In his spare time, White was a passionate falconer, pilot, sailor, goose-hunter, fisherman, and scholar of medieval texts. It was in this last capacity that he began studying the Arthurian legends, stories about the legendary King Arthur that date as far back as the early twelfth century and have become an integral part of British literature. White’s own interpretation of King Arthur would become the subject of his best-known novels. Although The Once and Future King was White’s best-selling novel, three of the four books that make up the completed work were first published independently: The Sword in the Stone in 1938; The Witch in the Wood, later renamed The Queen of Air and Darkness, in 1939; and The Ill-Made Knight in 1940. The fourth book, The Candle in the Wind, first appeared in 1958, when it was published in the completed The Once and Future King. White also wrote a fifth book, The Book of Merlyn, in which Merlyn and Arthur discuss the issue of war, using the animals that Arthur had known as a child, but it was rejected by White’s publisher. That book has since been published but has never been considered equal to White’s classic novel. In the years since its initial publication, The Once and Future King has enjoyed a popularity that spreads far beyond bookstores. White’s novel is the basis for the classic Lerner and Lowe musical Camelot, which debuted in 1960, and for the animated Disney film The Sword in the Stone, which premiered around the time of White’s death. White died in Athens, Greece, in 1964, at the age of fifty-seven. More Help | 1. Which Newton-le- Willows singer has been nominated for an MTV award? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. Which Newton-le- Willows singer has been nominated for an MTV award? 2. Lenny Henry will star in which Shakespearean tragedy next year? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. Lenny Henry will star in which Shakespearean tragedy next year? 3. Will Young has been invited to take part in which panel show after saying he is a fan? 4. Nasty Nick Cotton is to return to which TV soap? 5. Which author earns £3m a week in royalties, it was revealed this week? 6. Which band release the album Dig Out Your Soul on Monday? 7. 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In which Australianis Philip Island, a tourist attraction for its Penguins? | Things to do, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia Phillip Island Overview Things to do Discover endless coastlines and seaside villages, abundant wildlife, international motorsport and a multitude of family attractions on Phillip Island, a holiday haven with a big reputation. Explore natural wonders of land and sea, from the nightly penguin parade and colony of fur seals to sleepy koalas, migrating birds and the pristine landscapes of the National Surfing Reserve and Rhyll Inlet. Dine out by the water or catch your own dinner with a line off the local pier. Surf wild ocean breaks and splash about with the kids on the calm northern beaches. Adrenaline junkies will love the smell of the burning rubber that signals the start of the international motorcycle or car racing championships. Highlights Spot seals, whales and more on environmentally accredited wildlife, twilight and lunch cruises, from Phillip Island to Wilsons Promontory. Family Inside the Nobbies Centre, immerse yourself in a fun and interactive virtual journey to the Southern Ocean and the world's most extreme continent. Local produce See the thousands of plants that make up the taste of Australia on the Bush Tucker Trail and then learn how to catch a trout, indoors and out. Local produce Develop a delicious addiction, with chocolates to taste, try and buy, at this wondrous factory, cafe and art gallery celebrating all things chocolate. Leisure activities Take the kids for a day of optical illusions, puzzles and mazes, that will have you rolling around with laughter and scratching your heads in wonder. Action sports Get your motor running with go-karting, guided circuit tours, a history of motor sport display, as well as Australia's largest slot car track. History & heritage Discover important Victorian history at Churchill Island and take home local delicacies from the thriving farmers' market. Beaches & coastlines Catch a wave against the backdrop of ancient pink granite at Cape Woolamai, one of Victoria's most popular surfing beaches and bird-spotting mecca. Wildlife, zoos & farms | Micronesia - List of Oceanian Countries Micronesia Area in square kilometers 702 km2 Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest. [source] The only empire known to have originated in Micronesia was based in Yap. Much of the area was to come under European domination quite early. Guam, the Northern Marianas, and the Caroline Islands (what would later become the FSM and Palau) were colonized early by the Spanish. [source] Welcome to the Heart of Micronesia! This is your best source for planning your Micro-FSM Vacation. Click through and explore what to do, where to go, unique experiences, and the best deals to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) - Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei & Yap. [source] The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) consists of 607 islands extending 1,800 miles across the archipelago of the Caroline Islands east of the Philippines. The four states are the island groups of Pohnpei, Chuuk, and Yap, and the island of Kosrae. [source] Also under the Compact, Micronesians can live, work, and study in the United States without a visa. Micronesians volunteer to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces at approximately double the per capita rate as Americans; they are also eligible for admission to U.S. [source] MicronesiaLadrone Islands, Mariana Islands, Marianas - a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521Caroline Islands - a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the [source] a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of HawaiiKiribati, Republic of Kiribati - an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equatorGilbert and Ellice Islands - a former British possession in MicronesiaNauru Island, Pleasant Island, Nauru - a small island |
What is the name for the ‘wavy line’ above the letter n in words such as jalapeño and piñata? | How to Type Characters With Tilde Accent Marks How to Type Characters With Tilde Accent Marks How to Type Characters With Tilde Accent Marks Easy Ways to Type Tilde Accent Marks Cultura/Twinpix/Riser/Getty Images By Jacci Howard Bear Updated October 13, 2016. A tilde accent mark is a small wavy line that appears over certain consonants and vowels. Tilde accent marks are found in words like mañana and are common in Spanish and Portuguese languages. In English, tilde accent marks are found on the uppercase and lowercase letters A, N and O as in à ã Ñ ñ Õ õ. There are several ways to render a tilde on your keyboard, depending on your platform. On a Mac On a Mac, hold down the Option key while typing the letter N and release both keys. Immediately type the letter to be accented (A, N or O) to create lowercase characters with tilde accent marks. For the uppercase version of the character, press the Shift key before you type the letter to be accented. Note: The Mac keyboard has a tilde key for inline tilde marks, but it can't be used to accent a letter. With Windows Enable Num Lock. Hold down the ALT key while typing the appropriate number code on the numeric keypad to create characters with tilde accent marks. continue reading below our video 9 Tips to Extend Your Phone's Battery If you don't have a numeric keypad on the right side of your keyboard, these won't work. For Windows, the number codes for the uppercase letters are: Alt + 0195 = à For Windows , the number codes for the lowercase letters are: Alt + 0227 = ã Alt + 0241 = ñ Alt + 0245 = õ If you do not have a numeric keypad on the right side of your keyboard, you can copy and paste accented characters from the Character Map. In Windows 10, locate the Character Map by clicking Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. In HTML In HTML , render characters with tilde accent marks by typing the & ( ampersand symbol ), then the letter (A, N or O), then the word tilde, then ; (semicolon) without any spaces between them, such as: ñ for ñ Õ for Õ On iOS and Android Mobile Devices Using the virtual keyboard on your mobile device, you can access special characters with accent marks, including the tilde. Press and hold the A, N or O key on the virtual keyboard to open a window with various accented options. Slide your finger to the character with a tilde and lift your finger to select it. Tips: In HTML, the characters with tilde accent marks may appear smaller than surrounding text. You might want to enlarge the font for just those characters under some circumstances. In Windows, don't use the numbers at the top of keyboard. Use the numeric keypad and be sure Num Lock is turned on. Some programs may have special keystrokes for creating diacriticals , including the tilde accent marks. See the application manual or help if these keystrokes don't work for creating tilde accent marks. | Index-a Don't Forget To Hit <ESC> before going to a different page. Let's play a game of 30 questions. No, not that old standard of 20 questions, but one with an extra 10 questions added in and one that uses numeric answers (from 1 to 30). If you get stumped, go on to the next one. Perhaps the answer you need will be one of those left over when you complete all the questions you're sure of. Each answer is a number. The answers are the numbers 1-30. Each number appears only once. (Obviously) the questions are not in the right order.. 1. Aside from an extra 385 yards, how many miles is a marathon race? 2. If 27 solid cubes are formed into one big 3x3x3 cube how many individual cubes, at most, are visible from any single angle? 3. In the movie Spinal Tap what number is: "Well, it is one louder.."? 4. 'Via Dolorosa' is the (how many) Stations of the Cross, the Christian ritual tracing the key stages of the death of Jesus, beginning with his condemnation and ending with his being laid in the tomb? 5. How many dots are on a (standard 1-6) die? 6. The Russian 'Crimea Highway' trunk road from Moscow to the Crimea in Ukraine is the M (what)? 7. What number, between two hyphens, is used by journalists, etc., to mark the end of a newspaper or broadcast story? 8. How many unique dominoes are in a standard 'double six' set? 9. What number turned on its side (rotated 90 degrees) is the symbol for infinity? 10. The Marvel Comics superhero team led by Mr Fantastic was the Fanstastic (what)? 11. What is the larger number of the binary system? 12. Japanese haiku poems loosely comprise how many syllables? 13. The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are respectively (what number)-and-half degrees north and south of the Equator? 14. What number is Hurricane on the Beaufort Scale? 15. Greek deka, and Latin decem, are what number? 16. Conventionally how many books are in the Bible's New Testament? 17. How many legs (or arms) are most usually on a starfish? 18. A lunar month is an average (how many) days plus 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds? 19. 'Roaring' refers to what pluralised number in describing a 1900s decade of western world prosperity? 20. Traditionally what number of years anniversary is symbolized by silver? 21. What is generally stated to be the number of major joints in the human body? 22. What number is the French coded slang 'vingt-deux!', which warns that police are coming? 23. What is the only number that equals twice the sum of its digits (digit means numerical symbol)? 24. The early/mid-1900s American vaudeville comedy act was called the (how many) Stooges? 25. Any line of three numbers in the 'magic square' (a 3 x 3 grid of the numbers 1-9) adds up to what? 26. What is the international SPI resin/polymer identification coding system number (typically shown within a recycling triangle symbol) for polystyrene? 27. Traditionally the diameter of the 45rpm gramophone record is (how many) inches? 28. Pure gold is (how many)-carat? 29. The expression 'On cloud (what)' refers to being blissfully happy? 30. Each player begins with (how many) pieces in a game of chess? Daniel David "Danny" Kirwan (born 13 May 1950) is a British musician whose greatest success came with his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972. Kirwan's first recorded work with the band was on the huge instrumental hit single "Albatross". Green later stated that, "I would never have done "Albatross" if it wasn't for Danny. I would never have had a number one hit record." The B-side of the single was Kirwan's first published tune, the instrumental "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues". This was an old clarinet piece, written by Joe Venuti and Adrian Rollini, and recorded by the Joe Venuti / Eddie Lang Blue Five in 1933. Kirwan had adapted the piece for himself and Green to play on |
What is the name of the galaxy that contains the Earth? | Which spiral arm of the Milky Way contains our sun? | Space | EarthSky Which spiral arm of the Milky Way contains our sun? By Deborah Byrd in Space | May 20, 2014 Many know our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. But where within this vast spiral structure do our sun and Earth reside? We live in an island of stars called the Milky Way, and many know that our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. In fact, it’s a barred spiral galaxy , which means that our galaxy probably has just two major spiral arms, plus a central bar that astronomers are only now beginning to understand. But where within this vast spiral structure do our sun and its planets reside? Our galaxy is about 100,000 light-years wide. We’re about 25,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy. It turns out we’re not located in one of the Milky Way’s two primary spiral arms. Instead, we’re located in a minor arm of the galaxy. Our local spiral arm is sometimes Orion Arm, or sometimes the Orion Spur. It’s between the Sagittarius and Perseus Arms of the Milky Way. The image below shows it. Our sun is located the Orion Arm, or Orion Spur, of the Milky Way galaxy. It’s a minor spiral arm, located between two other arms. Image updated in 2010 by R. Hurt on Wikimedia Commons. Our local Orion Arm of the Milky Way is some 3,500 light years across. It’s approximately 10,000 light years in length. Our sun, the Earth, and all the other planets in our solar system reside within this Orion Arm. We’re located close to the inner rim of this spiral arm, about halfway along its length. The Orion Arm, or Orion Spur, has other names as well. It’s sometimes simply called the Local Arm, or the Orion-Cygnus Arm, or the Local Spur. The Orion Arm is named for the constellation Orion the Hunter, which is one of the most prominent constellations of Northern Hemisphere winter (Southern Hemisphere summer). Some of the brightest stars and most famous celestial objects of this constellation (Betelgeuse, Rigel, the stars of Orion’s Belt, the Orion Nebula) are neighbors of sorts to our sun, located within the Orion Arm. That’s why we see so many bright objects within the constellation Orion – because when we look at it, we’re looking into our own local spiral arm . | My Questions - Documents Documents Share My Questions Embed <iframe src="http://docslide.us/embed/my-questions.html" width="750" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://docslide.us/documents/my-questions.html" title="My Questions" target="_blank">My Questions</a></div> size(px) Download My Questions Transcript Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? What is the tallest and thickest type of grass? 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The Jaffa Gate or Bab al-Khalil is an entrance to which famous city? | Jaffa Gate (Bab al-Khalil) (Jerusalem, Israel): Top Tips Before You Go - TripAdvisor “Busy, historical entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem” Reviewed 2 weeks ago This is a great place to meet people. I also recommend taking the rampart walk around the city (north ramparts are the best). (Purchase tickets for a nominal price right by the gate.) There is a coffee shop where you can sit and watch people. This is the gate Gen. Allenby and his men, entered when the British took the... More Helpful? | Free Flashcards about DDG Trivia Places 10 Is Scandinavia in the north or south of Europe? North Which Arctic country's Finnish name is Lapin Li? Lapland The Straight of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which Sea? Mediterranean Which country is also called the Hellenic Republic? Greece What is Europe's most mountainous country? Switzerland In Norway, a fjord is made up largely of what? Water The island of Rhodes belongs to which Mediterranean country? Greece Euro tunnel links which two countries? England and France The Left Bank generally refers to the Left Bank of the Seine in which city? Paris Okinawa is a volcano in which country? Japan What is the largest country in South America? Brazil What was the ancient city, carved out of red rock in Jordan, that was forgotten by Europeans until the 19th century? Petra. Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was a Ephesus? The Temple of Artemis What was the original purpose of the leaning tower of Pisa? Bell Tower What island in San Francisco Bay was the site of an almost escape-proof prison? Alcatraz. What was the former site of the two temples celcbrating Ramses II and Nefertari, before they were moved because of flooding by the waters of the Aswan High Dam? Abu Simbel Where is the Valley of the Kings, the scene of a terrorist attack in 1997? Egypt. What was Ho Chi Minh City before it was called Ho Chi Minh City? Saigon To the nearest thousand, how many islands does Indonesia have? 13,000 Which country contains the Biblical rivers of the Tigris and the EUPHRATES? Iraq What was St. Petersburg called for most of the 20th century? Leningrad. Which country lies to the north of Austria and to the south of Poland? Czech Republic What name is given to the popular holiday area between Marseille and La Spezia? Riviera How tall is the Eiffel Tower? 984 feet. Archaeologists believe they have located the burial site of Boudicca, the British queen who led a bloody revolt against Roman rule in the first century A.D. Where is it? Under Platform 8 of the King's Cross Railway Station in London. What Middle Eastern country's name includes the name of it's first ruler? Saudi Arabia. Ruler Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud unified his dual kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd and their dependencies under the name Saudi Arabia in 1932. What is the name of Moscow's largest department store? GUM What country has more volcanoes than any other? Indonesia. It has 167 of the 850 active volcanoes known in the world. |
Arthur Sugarman founded which clothing company in 1963 initially becoming fashionable for the mods? | Ben Sherman 1963 -2012 RIP – Subcultz By Randi Gollin How does an iconic brand get its groove back? That was one of the key conundrums facing mover and shaker Pan Philippou when he took the reins as CEO of Ben Sherman in January 2010. A British company with staying power Ben Sherman was founded in 1963 by Arthur Benjamin Sugarman, a shirtmaker who seized the mod moment and ran with it, creating London-look button-downs that struck a chord with bands like The Who , The Rolling Stones and The Kinks, becoming a vibrant emblem of youth culture. “It was post-war — you think of the revolution, The Beatles, all that. And this brand comes around,” says Philippou during a recent interview at the company’s midtown Manhattan showroom. “He took the shirt to another level. The button-down collar, the button at the back, all the colors, the fabrications, and people were just used to wearing white shirts. Now they were wearing colored shirts. It was a bit of the anti of the shirt in many respects,” he says. (It might be said that Philippou, too, takes the radical approach, dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans rather a Ben Sherman button-down.) “I was born in the ’60s,” he continues. “I remember, if you had a Ben Sherman, in the ’70s, you were like the crème de la crème — if you had a Ben Sherman, certainly you’d get a bird.” Over the decades, Ben Sherman continued to outfit musicians like The Clash, The Jam, Blur, Oasis and Moby and it also captured the hip peacock’s fancy with its kaleidoscope of eye-catching hues and patterns. “There are stories around Ben Sherman, there’s sincerity, there’s heritage,” he explains. But as this pioneering label, which turns 50 years old in 2013, expanded its reach into women’s clothing and beyond, it also morphed into a business with an unwieldy number of categories and licensees and its vision got, well, a tad murky. The name, Philippou notes, seemed to carry more weight than the goods bearing its label. Plectrum Collection Approachable, funny and candid, with impressive business chops to boot, this Londoner knows a thing or two about redefining a brand and maximizing its potential. Prior to joining Ben Sherman, Philippou headed up the privately held World Design & Trade Co. for four years, where he restructured the prominent UK streetwear brands Firetrap, Full Circle and Sonnetti. His gig before that: leading the charge at Diesel, from 1995 to 2007, where he started as finance director and was swiftly promoted to CEO. “I was like a duck to water,” he says, recalling his transition from numbers man to the style side of the fence. “I just really enjoyed the whole fashion thing. I was probably living that life, at the weekend, parties, dressing up a bit, and it was just an extension of that, so it became a blur of happiness. I didn’t know anything about markets but it was really just the intuition, the feel of the market, the distribution, understanding the customer. I loved being a connoisseur, understanding what was cool and what wasn’t cool and that made it all sort of relevant to the brand.” Diesel, of course, went on to become “best in the class in the UK” and at the end of 2003, its owner, Renzo Rosso, dispatched Philippou, a born fashion-maven, to the States to reposition the brand. This look could be based on 1930's Bolshevik, or perhaps just the local jumble sale Philippou’s laser-beam focus has come to the fore once again in his current post. Once onboard, he and his team took stock of every detail, from the branding strategy and the very definition of the Ben Sherman customer to its own store concepts, which have been repositioned and will soon be launched in the UK. As the reshaping got underway, it became apparent that a return to the company’s core business was imperative if Ben Sherman was to move ahead. “We had to say first and foremost we’re a shirt company. And that got lost along the way; we developed into a lifestyle brand. So we spent a lot of time rekindling. We had some people who had come on board, help design the shirts further, looking at supply chain to see where | M People M M People M People are a British house music act from Manchester formed in 1990 which achieved success throughout most of the 1990s. The name M People is from the initials of Mike Pickering, who formed the group. Career Pickering had been a member of Factory Records dance act Quando Quango, but became more noted as one of the original DJs at The Haçienda. Paul Heard was a member of acid jazz band, Ace of Clubs and Shovell had previously been in the collective Natural Life. The original plan had been to have a roster of different singers for different songs but having been spotted by Pickering and Heard, Heather Small became the distinctive vocalist of the group. She had been in the British soul band Hot House, who had released a number of critically acclaimed records without scoring any major success. Their first release came in the form of "Colour My Life", a limited white label pressing which got them some recognition, but it was the first official single "How Can I Love You More?" that gave them their first Top 30 hit and a following in and around the Manchester club scene, where Pickering was still DJ-ing. Their first album , Northern Soul, provided other singles, including a full release of "Colour My Life", "Someday" and "Excited", followed by a re-release and repackaging of the album. Major success 1993 started with the re-released and remixed single from 1991's How Can I Love You More? which was released at the end of January and provided the band with their first Top 10 single, peaking at number 8. While this single was in the chart the band were working on new material for the second album to be released that autumn; a preliminary single, "One Night in Heaven" was released in the summer and peaked at number 6. It provided them with a dance / pop success that set up a bigger worldwide hit with the second single, "Moving on Up". The album Elegant Slumming went into the Top 5 on release and peaked at #2, remaining on the chart until the following summer and later winning the band a Mercury Music Prize. A further two Top 10 singles followed: "Don't Look Any Further" (a cover of the Dennis Edwards song) in December, and "Renaissance" which was used as the theme tune to the BBC 2 show , The Living Soap, sending the single to number 5 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1994 and 1995 M People won the BRIT Award for Best British Dance Act, the latter as a result of the release of Bizarre Fruit. The first single from that album was "Sight for Sore Eyes" which climbed to number 6, helping the album to enter the UK Albums Chart and peak at #4 and stay in the Top 10 for four months into the following year. The second single from the album was "Open Your Heart", which became their seventh consecutive Top Ten hit in two years and at the Brit Awards '95 they collaborated with Sting on his track "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". Their third single "Search for the Hero" was later used in the TV advertising campaign for the Peugeot 406. The song got to #9 in the charts. In 1995, the band embarked on a world tour and two more singles were lifted from a re-issued album: Bizarre Fruit II; these were "Love Rendezvous" and "Itchycoo Park". The former was the least successful single from the album and charted at #32, and the latter was a cover of The Small Faces 1967 single. In the United States , their biggest success was on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where they achieved five Top 5 singles, four of which hit number one. After touring and promotion of Bizarre Fruit II for 18 months the band took a break in 1996. The album, having been released in November 1994, did not leave the chart until April 1997, becoming one of the biggest selling albums of the decade. They made some outdoor live UK performances called the Summer M Parties in June 1996, at Crystal Palace, Alton Towers plus a televised performance on BBC 1 on 29 June 1996 from Old Trafford, Manchester for The Crowd are on the Pitch: The Euro '96 Extravanganza, where they performed along with bands Dodgy , Madness and fellow Mancunians Simply Red and comedians Ni |
What is the capital of Germany? | Capital of Germany | Article about Capital of Germany by The Free Dictionary Capital of Germany | Article about Capital of Germany by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Capital+of+Germany Also found in: Dictionary , Thesaurus , Medical , Wikipedia . Berlin (bûr'lĭn`, Ger. bĕrlēn`), city (1994 pop. 3,475,400), capital of Germany, coextensive with Berlin state (341 sq mi/883 sq km), NE Germany, on the Spree and Havel rivers. Formerly divided into East Berlin (156 sq mi/404 sq km) and West Berlin (185 sq mi/479 sq km), the city was reunified along with East and West Germany on Oct. 3, 1990. Economy Due in part to aid from the United States and other Allied powers, West Berlin's recovery after World War II was rapid and substantial. East Berlin, however, saw a period of relative economic decline, though it became the undisputed focal point of development within the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and an important city in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. Berlin's economy has been primarily industrial, but is becoming increasingly focused on service-sector activities. Electronics and garments are major industries; other manufactures includes textiles, metals, porcelain and china, bicycles, and machinery. The move of the national government to Berlin prompted a building boom during the 1990s, including more than 30 major construction projects in the eastern part of the city and a large aircraft factory on its outskirts. A new central railroad station opened in 2006. Institutions and Attractions Berlin is a major cultural center, home to orchestras, opera companies, repertory theaters, and museums. It has an excellent public transportation system and is served by two airports. In the Kurfürstendamm, the main thoroughfare in the western section of the city, stands the gutted tower of the original Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, left unrestored as a reminder of World War II. A similar memorial, the unrestored remains of the St. Nicholas Church, were formerly preserved in E Berlin, but beginning in the 1980s it was reconstructed and is now part of the Berlin City Museum. The Berlin Cathedral (1894–1905), located on Museum Island (N Spree Island), also was damaged but was reconstructed (1975–2002). The large Tiergarten park in central Berlin contains the reconstructed Reichstag Reichstag [Ger.,=imperial parliament], name for the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of the North German Confederation, and for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany from 1871 to 1945. ..... Click the link for more information. building with its glass dome and the Berlin zoo. On the NE side of the park, along a bend in the Spree River, the Federal Strip houses a number of government buildings, including the enormous Chancellery (opened 2001). The concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic is on the opposite side of the Tiergarten. At the SE end of the park is Potsdamer Platz, which was the heart of the city in the 1920s and 30s. In the 1990s, it came under commercial and residential renewal, becoming the largest construction site in Europe. The State Opera is in E Berlin, on the famous Unter den Linden, which leads to the Brandenburg Gate, a triumphal arch in the classical style. Near the Gate is the city's 5.5-acre (2.2-hectare) Holocaust memorial (2005). Among Berlin's many museums are those in the Cultural Forum in the western part of the city, including the New National Gallery and the Gemäldegarie; those in Museum Island in the eastern part of the city, including the Altes Museum, the Egyptian Museum, and the Pergamon Museum; and the Berlin Museum–Jewish Museum complex in the Kreuzberg district. Humboldt Univ. of Berlin (formerly known as the Univ. of Berlin or Frederick William Univ.) and the Free Univ. of Berlin (founded in 1948) are among the city's many educational and scientific institutions. History Early History to World War II Berlin had its beginning in two Wendish villages, Berlin and Kölln, which were chartered in the 13th cent. and merged in 130 | igb photos on Flickr | Flickr Composit Image: Reflection created in Photoshop, along with the quadriga (4 horse chariot) image taken from the other side of the gate and pasted onto this view. The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin and Germany. It is located west of the city center at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. It is the only remaining gate of a series through which Berlin was once entered. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Having suffered considerable damage in World War II, the Brandenburg Gate was fully restored from 2000 to 2002 by the Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin (Berlin Monument Conservation Foundation). Today, it is regarded as one of Europe's most famous landmarks. The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc officially claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. However, in practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by GDR authorities, implying that neighbouring West Germany had not been fully de-Nazified. The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame"—a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt—while condemning the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB) that demarcated the border between East and West Germany, both borders came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin, from where they could then travel to West Germany and other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989, the wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this period, around 5,000 people attempted to escape over the wall, with estimates of the resulting death toll varying between 100 and 200. In 1989, a radical series of political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, associated with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc's authoritarian systems and the erosion of political power in the pro-Soviet governments in nearby Poland and Hungary. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, a euphoric public and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall; the governments later used industrial equipment to remove most of the rest. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on 3 October 1990. [Wikipedia] Listening to : Christ lag in Todesbanden - J-S. Bach Le mur de Berlin (en allemand Berliner Mauer), « mur de la honte » pour les Allem |
"The 1952 movie Bwana Devil that had on its poster the lines ""A lion is in your lap!"" and ""A lover is in your arms!"" is known for sparking what craze?" | Film History of the 1950s Film History of the 1950s 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s Hollywood's War Against Television: The width-to-height aspect ratio of most Hollywood films before the 50s was 4:3 (or 1.33:1), similar to the boxy-size of a television screen. [However, it should be noted that there were early experiments in wide-screen formats as early as the late 1920s, such as in French director Abel Gance's epic Napoleon (1927), with its Polyvision and 3-screen projection, or in Fox's 70mm. wide-gauge "Grandeur" system first used in Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930). Both systems were aborted attempts, and turned out to be uneconomically viable at the time.] So in its war against television, the film industry had three major campaigns involving technical advances with wide-screen experiences, color, and scope: Cinerama Other Widescreen Formats and Processes Cinerama (1952-1962) Paramount's wrap-around, big-screen Cinerama debuted in 1952, a break-through technique that required three cameras, three projectors, interlocking, semi-curved (at 146 degrees) screens, and four-track stereo sound. It made audiences feel that they were at the center of the action. The first film using the three-strip cinerama process was This is Cinerama (1952), a travelogue of the world's vacation spots, with a thrilling roller-coaster ride. Although there were a few successful box-office Cinerama hits in the 1950s, the process was ultimately abandoned because its novelty wore off and the equipment and construction of special theatres was too cost-prohibitive and cumbersome: Cinerama Holiday (1955) The Seven Wonders of the World (1957) the Lowell Thomas production of Search for Paradise (1958) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) the last Cinerama-released film, How the West Was Won (1962) [In the 60s, MGM and UA also produced films including Khartoum (1966), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1965), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) in 70 mm. Ultra Panavision for Cinerama screens, dubbed Super Cinerama or Cinerama 70mm. In 1963, the world's largest Cinerama screen - Cinerama Dome - was 90 feet wide and unveiled in Hollywood.] 3-D Movies In the same year as the debut of Cinerama (1952), showmanship and gimmicks like 3-D were used to bring audiences back. Special polarized, 'stereoscopic' goggles or cardboard glasses worn by viewers made the action jump off the screen - in reality, the glasses were unpopular, clunky and the viewing was blurry, although it was difficult (and expensive) for theatre owners to get cinema-goers to give them back. The 3-D effect was unable to compensate for the inferior level of most of the films. The first full-length 3-D feature sound film was UA's cheaply-made jungle adventure Bwana Devil (1952)) by writer/director Arch Oboler, and starring Robert Stack - its taglines advertised: "A Lion in Your Lap" and "A Lover In Your Arms." The film depicted man-eating lion attacks upon the builders of the Uganda Railway. [Note: The first feature-length 3-D film was The Power of Love (1922).] The 3-D effect was also used in many different genres: in horror films (Warners' and B-film maker Andre de Toth's House of Wax (1953) with horror master Vincent Price, a remake of Warners' The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)) - the first 3-D horror film to be in the top ten box office hits in its year of release, Vincent Price portrayed the owner of a macabre wax museum in his first horror film, House of Wax (1953) in musicals (George Sidney's Kiss Me Kate (1953)) in romantic musical comedies (The French Line (1953) starring busty Jane Russell) - on | gebze 101 Jeopardy Template Which creature was a threat to holiday makers in Jaws? 100 How many legs has a spider got? 100 Who painted the Mona Lisa? 100 In which city is Hollywood? 100 What is Turkish delight Invented by Haci Bekir Effendi at his Istanbul shop in 1777 what is the globally consumed 'lokum' more famously called? 200 what famous rapper appeared in the movie 8 mile? 200 which animal lays the biggest eggs 200 Who wrote Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Hamlet? 200 What's the name of the famous big clock in London? 200 What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write the laws of gravity? 300 Which Tom played spy Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible? 300 What is the alternative common name for a Black Leopard? 300 What is Hula Hoop One of the most popular toys of all time is a plastic ring with a Hawaiian name. What is it? 300 |
Which UK city has the motto Virtute et Industria ? | Bristol: Virtute et Industrial Virtute et Industrial Help Wanted Bristol's motto is Virtute et Industria - virtue or valour and industry. There are several emblems that are associated with Bristol, the Unicorn and the ship protected by a castle, both of which feature on our Coat of Arms and which can be seen all over the city. If you've ever heard the Bristol accent you'll realize why this page is called "Virtute et Industrial" not the more proper "Virtute et Industria" - but more on that in a bit. This picture was taken around 20 years ago - in the early 1980's. It is of the Bristol Coat of Arms painted on the side of a train at Bristol Industrial Museum This image comes from a set of Raphael Tuck postcards published in the beginning of the twentieth century "Heraldic" Series 159. This series along with Tuck's "United Kingdom" series was published in 1902 / 1903. The Accent The Bristol accent is very distinctive, even just a few miles out of the city the local accents are a lot different to ours. When I was at school, some of our teachers would spend forever trying to get rid of our accents. We were told that Bristolians were lazy speakers. Harsh sounding letters or syllables were usually dropped or substituted for softer ones. Hence the pronunciation of "lissen" for "listen" and the dropping of "th" in favour of "f" as in "fink" for "think". Words that ended in vowels or a "w" invariably had an "l" added to them hence "arial" for "area", "windal" for "window" and even the "Industria" in our own motto becomes "Industrial". This is probably why the original pronunciation of Bristol, Brigstow, ended up the way it is, the lazy speaking Bristolians found it easier to miss off the harsh "w" off and replaced it with the softer "l", and dropping the "g" altogether. Hence Bristol is usually pronounced "Bristle". Not only is the pronunciation different but we use words not found elsewhere. Words such as "bist", this is usually used as a question, as in "were's bist?" - "where are you?", "how's bist" - "how are you?" "Weem" means "we are" "tain't" means "it is not" "gert" means "very", hence "gert big" or "gert small" An ex-pat, Andy Evans sent me the following from Florida :- Eva Turner The Prima Donna of the Carma Rosa I saw the beeb [BBC] take this out on a card and asked people to read it aloud, they got... of course Evil Turnel of the Carmal Rose-al ...and Adge Curler's (later re-recorded by Fred Wedlock)... "Oh Ah, theze bin an gotten whur thee casn't back'n assn't....still leaves friends thinking we speak a foreign language! Thanks to Rick Cryer for putting me straight on who recorded the song first! Rick also asked the question about the word "ut" at the end of some exclamations. He writes... Adge rhymed "shuttup ut" to rhyme with "warden's foot". My family would also say, to noisy kids, "shut thee rattle up ut!". Can you suggest an origin/derivation for "ut"? I can accept "thee casn't" and "thee bist" as deriving from "thou can'st not" and "thou beist not" but "ut" has got I stumped! This had me running for Derek Robinson's "Bristol With Pride - The Krek Waiter's Peak" (Abson Books, 1987) and it's not in there! There's nothing remotely like it in the book. The only thing I could find that comes anywhere close to it is on a website that deals with the accent from Portsmouth . Dr. Bill Thompson wrote... dount evree mush talk pompey dare u t' tell me wymrin mates talk posh an u get yer face dun in Which looks very much like Bristolian to me. Dr. Thompson goes on to say that the reason for this is that the dockyards of Portsmouth were extensively expanded towards the turn of the nineteenth century and where else would they import dockyard workers from but Bristol and London? The "ut" here is in a completely different context to what Adge wrote but the only explanation I can come up with is that "ut" is a derivation of "you". Hopefully, someone knows better than I the true meaning of "ut". Andy Dowden emailed in April 2014, to say that he thought that "ut" is pro | Mixed reactions on Ilfracombe pier as Damien Hirst's 65ft pregnant woman takes centre stage | Daily Mail Online Share this article Share On one side the woman’s skin is peeled back, revealing her skull, muscles and foetus – bringing accusations that the work is grotesque. It wasn’t long after it arrived that residents took to the internet to voice their opinions. One said: ‘Whatever did Ilfracombe do to deserve this?’ Another added: ‘Why did he have to make her naked? Pregnant women wear clothes most of the time.’ A third said: ‘Melt it down and get Anthony Gormley to create a suitable sculpture for Ilfracombe, where families spend their holidays.’ Complaints: Some local residents are upset about Verity, calling her obscene and claiming she could encourage teenage pregnancy Crowds: Fascinated people stand and watch as the bronze figure arrived on a huge lorry Gormley’s 66ft Angel of the North was erected in the North-East in 1998. Hirst’s 65ft statue, called Verity, has been loaned to the local authority by the artist for 20 years and will stand by the town’s pier. Dozens wrote to the council to object, with one saying it would ‘encourage teenage pregnancies’. Another said it was ‘demeaning to women’ while a third claimed it was ‘eccentricity posturing as art’. Resident Jenny Cookson was rather more blunt: ‘It is a monstrosity,’ she said. Councillors say the statue will boost tourism and improve the town’s image. Verity’s frame is a single piece of stainless steel. The bronze exterior was cast in more than 40 pieces while the sword and upper arm are made from a single piece of glass fibre reinforced polymer. Standing tall: How the sculpture will look, left, and right, it's controversial artist Damien Hirst, Nearly there: When in place Verity will be taller than the Angel of the North |
1962 saw the first trans-Atlantic satellite broadcast via which satellite? | Telstar 1 makes live trans-Atlantic TV broadcast, July 23, 1962 | EDN Telstar 1 makes live trans-Atlantic TV broadcast, July 23, 1962 PRINT PDF EMAIL The first live trans-Atlantic television satellite broadcast took place on July 23, 1962, and was made via AT&T’s Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar had been launched 13 days prior to the broadcast by Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral. It was the first privately sponsored space launch. Telstar was part of a multi-national agreement between AT&T, Bell Telephone Laboratories, NASA, the British General Post Office, and the French National PTT (Post, Telegraph & Telecom Office) to develop experimental satellite communications over the Atlantic Ocean. Limited by what the Delta rocket could carry, the satellite is roughly spherical (see photo), measures 34.5 inches in length, and weighs about 170 pounds. Telstar was spin-stabilized and its outer surface was covered with solar cells to generate power. Telstar had one innovative transponder to relay data and an omnidirectional array of small antenna elements around the satellite's "equator" received 6 GHz microwave signals to be relayed. The transponder converted the frequency to 4 GHz, amplified the signals in a traveling-wave tube, and retransmitted them omnidirectionally via the adjacent array of larger box-shaped cavities. The prominent helical antenna was for telecommands from a ground station. The first public broadcast featured CBS's Walter Cronkite and NBC's Chet Huntley in New York, and the BBC's Richard Dimbleby in Brussels. The transmission linked London and Paris to the US. The link is established at 10:58 BST . Telstar 1 also relayed the first telephone call to be transmitted through space later in the same day. Although no longer functional, Telstar remains in orbit as of this publishing. Also see: | Space Station | The Station | Russian Space History russian space history Prelude to Space Stations (1903-1964) Soviet engineers began work on large rockets in the 1930s. In May 1955, work began on the Baikonur launch site in central Asia. In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from Baikonur on a test flight, followed by the launch of Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules launched separately and brought together in orbit. A quarter-century later, in 1987, this concept became reality when the Kvant module was added to the Mir core station. - back to the top - First-Generation Stations (1964-1977) First-generation space stations had one docking port and could not be resupplied or refueled. The stations were launched unmanned and later occupied by crews. There were two types: Almaz military stations and Salyut civilian stations. To confuse Western observers the Soviets called both kinds Salyut. The Almaz military station program was the first approved. When proposed in 1964, it had three parts: the Almaz military surveillance space station, Transport Logistics Spacecraft for delivering soldier-cosmonauts and cargo, and Proton rockets for launching both. All of these spacecraft were built, but none was used as originally planned. Soviet engineers completed several Almaz station hulls by 1970. The Soviet leadership ordered Almaz hulls transferred to a crash program to launch a civilian space station. Work on the Transport Logistics Spacecraft was deferred, and the Soyuz spacecraft originally built for the Soviet manned Moon program was reapplied to ferry crews to space stations. Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971. The early first-generation stations were plagued by failures. The crew of Soyuz 10, the first spacecraft sent to Salyut 1, was unable to enter the station because of a docking mechanism problem. The Soyuz 11 crew lived aboard Salyut I for three weeks, but died during return to the Earth because the air escaped from their Soyuz spacecraft. Then, three first-generation stations failed to reach orbit or broke up in orbit before crews could reach them. The second failed station was Salyut 2, the first Almaz military station to fly. The Soviets recovered rapidly from these failures. Salyut 3, Salyut 4, and Salyut 5 supported a total of five crews. In addition to military surveillance and scientific and industrial experiments, the cosmonauts performed engineering tests to help develop the second-generation space stations. - back to the top - Second Generation Stations (1977-1985) With the second-generation stations, the Soviet space station program evolved from short-duration to long-duration stays. Like the first-generation stations, they were launched unmanned and their crews arrived later in Soyuz spacecraft. Second-generation stations had two docking ports. This permitted refueling and resupply by automated Progress freighters derived from Soyuz. Progress docked automatically at the aft port, and was then opened and unloaded by cosmonauts on the station. Transfer of fuel to the station took place automatically under supervision from the ground. A second docking port also meant long-duration resident crews could receive visitors. Visiting crews often included cosmonaut-researchers from Soviet bloc countries |
The buccaneer Henry Morgan was pardoned and knighted by which king? | Captain Sir Henry Morgan - Biography Updated May 05, 2016. Henry Morgan - Early Life: Little information exists regarding Henry Morgan's early days. It is believed that he was born around 1635, in either Llanrhymny or Abergavenny, Wales and was the son of local squire Robert Morgan. Two principal stories exist to explain Morgan's arrival in the New World. One states that he traveled to Barbados as an indentured servant and later joined the expedition of General Robert Venables and Admiral William Penn in 1655, to escape his service. The other details how Morgan was recruited by the Venables-Penn expedition at Plymouth in 1654. In either case, Morgan appears to have taken part in the failed attempt to conquer Hispaniola and the subsequent invasion of Jamaica . Electing to remain in Jamaica, he was soon joined by his uncle, Edward Morgan, who was appointed lieutenant-governor of the island after the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. After marrying his uncle's eldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth, later that year, Henry Morgan began sailing in the buccaneer fleets that were employed by the English to attack Spanish settlements. In this new role, he served a captain in the fleet of Christopher Myngs in 1662-1663. Henry Morgan - Building Reputation: Having taken part in Myng's successful plundering of Santiago de Cuba and Campeche, Mexico, Morgan returned to sea in late 1663. Sailing with Captain John Morris and three other ships, Morgan looted the provincial capital of Villahermosa. Returning from their raid, they found that their ships had been captured by Spanish patrols. Unperturbed, they captured two Spanish ships and continued their cruise, sacking Trujillo and Granada before returning to Port Royal, Jamaica. In 1665, Jamaican Governor Thomas Modyford Morgan appointed Morgan as vice-admiral of and expedition led by Edward Mansfield and tasked with capturing Curacao. Once at sea, much of the expedition's leadership decided that Curacao was not a sufficiently lucrative target and instead set course for the Spanish islands of Providence and Santa Catalina. The expedition captured the islands, but encountered problems when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish. With their leader dead, the buccaneers elected Morgan their admiral. With this success, Modyford began sponsoring a number of Morgan's cruises again the Spanish. In 1667, Modyford dispatched Morgan with ten ships and 500 men to free a number of English prisoners being held in Puerto Principe, Cuba . Landing, his men sacked the city but found little wealth as its inhabitants had been warned of their approach. Freeing the prisoners, Morgan and his men re-embarked and sailing south to Panama in search of greater riches. Targeting Puerto Bello, a key Spanish center of trade, Morgan and his men came ashore and overwhelmed the garrison before occupying the town. After defeating a Spanish counterattack, he agreed to leave the town after receiving a large ransom. Though he had exceeded his commission, Morgan returned a hero and his exploits were glossed over by Modyford and the Admiralty. Sailing again in January 1669, Morgan descended on the Spanish Main with 900 men with the goal of attacking Cartagena. Later that month, his flagship, Oxford exploded, killing 300 men. With his forces reduced, Morgan felt he lacked the men to take Cartagena and turned east. Intending to strike Maracaibo, Venezuela, Morgan's force was compelled to capture San Carlos de la Barra Fortress in order to move through the narrow channel approaching the city. Successful, they then attacked Maracaibo but found that the population had largely fled with their valuables. After three weeks of searching for gold, he re-embarked his men before sailing south into Lake Maracaibo and occupying Gibraltar. Spending several weeks ashore, Morgan next sailed north, capturing three Spanish ships before re-entering the Caribbean. As in the past, he was chastised by Modyford upon his return, but not punished. Having established himself as the preeminent buccaneer leader in the Caribbean, Morgan was na | KING HENRY IV OF ENGLAND (1367-1413) [Henry Bolingbroke, Henry Lancaster] Search HENRY IV, King of England, son of John of Gaunt , by Blanche, daughter of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, was born on the 3rd of April 1367, at Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire. As early as 1377 he is styled Earl of Derby, and in 1380 he married Mary de Bohun (d.1394), one of the co-heiresses of the last Earl of Hereford. In 1387 he supported his uncle Thomas, Duke of Gloucester , in his armed opposition to Richard II and his favourites. Afterwards, probably through his father's influence, he changed sides. He was already distinguished for his knightly prowess, and for some years devoted himself to adventure. He thought of going on the crusade to Barbary; but instead, in July 1390, went to serve with the Teutonic knights in Lithuania. "The Challenge of Derby and Mowbray." He came home in the following spring, but next year went again to Prussia, whence he journeyed by way of Venice to Cyprus and Jerusalem. After his return to England he sided with his father and the king against Gloucester, and in 1397 was made Duke of Hereford. In January 1398 he quarrelled with the Duke of Norfolk , who charged him with treason. The dispute was to have been decided in the lists at Coventry in September; but at the last moment Richard intervened and banished them both. When John of Gaunt died in February 1399 Richard, contrary to his promise, confiscated the estates of Lancaster. Henry then felt himself free, and made friends with the exiled Arundels. Early in July, whilst Richard was absent in Ireland, he landed at Ravenspur in Yorkshire. He was at once joined by the Percies; and Richard, abandoned by his friends, surrendered at Flint on the 19th of August. In the parliament, which assembled on the 30th of September, Richard was forced to abdicate. Henry then made his claim as coming by right line of blood from King Henry III, and through his right to recover the realm which was in point to be undone for default of governance and good law. Parliament formally accepted him, and thus Henry became king, "not so much by title of blood as by popular election" (Capgrave). The new dynasty had consequently a constitutional basis. With this Henry's own political sympathies well accorded. But though the revolution of 1399 was popular in form, its success was due to an oligarchical faction. From the start Henry was embarrassed by the power and pretensions of the Percies. Nor was his hereditary title so good as that of the Mortimers. To domestic troubles was added the complication of disputes with Scotland and France. The first danger came from the friends of Richard, who plotted prematurely, and were crushed in January 1400. During the summer of 1400 Henry made a not over-successful expedition to Scotland. The French court would not accept his overtures, and it was only in the summer of 1401 that a truce was patched up by the restoration of Richard's child-queen, Isabella of Valois. Meantime a more serious trouble had arisen through the outbreak of the Welsh revolt under Owen Glendower . In 1400 and again in each of the two following autumns Henry invaded Wales in vain. The success of the Percies over the Scots at Homildon Hill (Sept. 1402) was no advantage. Henry Percy (Hotspur) and his father, the Earl of Northumberland , thought their services ill-requited, and finally made common cause with the partisans of Mortimer and the Welsh. The plot was frustrated by Hotspur's defeat at Shrewsbury (21st of July 1403); and Northumberland for the time submitted. Henry had, however, no one on whom he could rely outside his own family, except Archbishop Arundel . The Welsh were unsubdued; the French were plundering the southern coast; Northumberland was fomenting trouble in the north. The crisis came in 1405. A plot to carry off the young Mortimers was defeated; but Mowbray , the Earl Marshal, who had been privy to it, raised a rebellion in the north supported by Archbishop Scrope of York . Mowbray and Scrope were taken and beheaded; Northumberland escaped into Scotland. For the execu |
Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey were involved with the launch of what computer application? | How Twitter Was Founded - Business Insider print "Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way." – The New York Times , October 30, 2010 How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different from how Twitter was actually founded. Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major co-founder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal. Twitter is now worth more than $5 billion — and climbing toward $10 billion on secondary markets — so it's worth setting the story straight. The official telling of Twitter's founding goes like this: Ex-Googler Evan Williams had a startup called Odeo. It was going to be a podcasting platform. Evan asked his friend, another ex-Googler named Biz Stone , to join him. When Apple launched iTunes podcasting, and made Odeo's podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an Odeo employee named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called Twitter instead. Odeo's investors didn't like Twitter, and Evan did them a huge favor by buying back all their stock and making them whole. According to interviews with about a dozen early investors and employees, the story of how Twitter was actually founded begins with an entrepreneur named Noah Glass , who started Odeo in his apartment. The story begins about six years ago ... THE REAL HISTORY OF TWITTER "Noah had a product where you call a phone number and it would turn your message into an MP3 hosted on the Internet. That was the technology that Noah brought that turned into Odeo," says early employee Ray McClure. Along with Charles River Ventures and about a dozen other individuals, one of Glass' earliest investors in Odeo was a former Google employee named Evan Williams . Williams was more involved with Odeo than most investors are with startups in their portfolios, and eventually, Odeo moved from Noah's apartment to Williams'. Williams, who had recently sold a company called Blogger to Google , had just bought a nice house and wanted to put his old apartment to good use. "I think it was something Ev was interested in, but it was mostly Noah's thing," says McClure. "At that time, it would have been me, Evan [Henshwaw-Plath, better known by friends as "Rabble,"] and Rabble's wife Gabba. Mostly it was the four of us working out of the apartment." Early Odeo employee Blaine Cook would become Twitter's first CTO. Matt Biddulph Next, Odeo moved into an office and started hiring more employees — including a quiet, on-again, off-again Web designer named Jack Dorsey and an engineer named Blaine Cook. Evan Williams became Odeo's CEO. By July 2005, Odeo had a product: a platform for podcasting. But then, in the fall of 2005, "the shit hit the fan," says George Zachary, the Charles River Ventures partner who led the firm's investment in Odeo. That was when Apple first announced iTunes would include a podcasting platform built into every one of the 200 million iPods Apple would eventually sell. Around the same time, Odeo employees, from Glass and Williams on down, began to realize that they weren't listening to podcasts as much as they thought they would be. Says Cook: "We built [Odeo], we tested it a lot, but we never used it." Suddenly, says Zachary, "the company was going sideways." By this point, Odeo had 14 people working full time — including now-CEO Evan Williams and a friend of his from Google, Christopher "Biz" Stone. Williams decided Odeo's future was not in podcasting, and later that year, he told the company's employees to start coming up with ideas for a new direction Odeo could go. The company started holding official "hackathons" where employees would spend a whole day working on projects. They broke off into groups. Odeo co-founder Noah Glass gravitated toward Jack Dorsey, whom Glass says was "one of the stars of the company." Jack had an idea for a completely different product that revolved around "status" — what people were doing at a given time. "I got the impression he was unhappy with what he was working on — a lot of cleanup work on Odeo." "H | Ease on Down the Road, Again: A Look Back at 'The Wiz' - Biography.com Nostalgia Ease on Down the Road, Again: A Look Back at 'The Wiz' As The Wiz Live! airs tonight on NBC, here's a look at the musical's first film version, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Avatar: Social count: 19 As The Wiz Live! airs tonight on NBC, here's a look at the musical's first film version, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. 19 0 The cast of the 1978 film version of The Wiz (from left): Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as the Tinman, Diana Ross as Dorothy and Ted Ross as the Cowardly Lion. As NBC broadcasts The Wiz Live! tonight, one’s thoughts may drift back to the musical’s first film version, in 1978. That picture, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Diana Ross as Dorothy along with Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, was based on the smash, Tony-winning 1975 Broadway show, which in turn was derived from L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The main comparison point for the 1978 movie, of course, was not the novel or the Broadway musical, but the Judy Garland MGM classic from 1939. The Wiz Live! can only dream of becoming the kind of television perennial The Wizard of Oz turned into after it was first broadcast in 1956. Competing with its indelible impression on the moviegoing public was only one challenge Lumet and company faced when they started production on The Wiz in 1977. The movie of The Wiz was significantly different from the Broadway show. Although the show had an all-black cast as well as an African-American composer (Charlie Smalls), director (Geoffrey Holder), and choreographer (George Faison), and featured songs (“Ease on Down the Road,” “No Bad News”) in the soul and rock mode, the story was laid in a Kansas and Oz familiar from earlier versions. For the film, producer Rob Cohen, screenwriter Joel Schumacher, and director Sidney Lumet changed the setting to a “fantastically transformed New York,” in Cohen’s words. The dreary Kansas Dorothy is swept from was re-imagined as a dreary Harlem, while the Oz she is swept into was located mostly downtown, in fantasy versions of landmarks like New York Public Library, the World Trade Center, the subway system, and Coney Island. The character of Dorothy herself was transformed, mainly because Diana Ross had a bee in her bonnet about playing the role. In the show, 17-year-old Stephanie Mills gave as fair a rendition of Baum’s little girl as did 16-year-old Judy Garland in the MGM movie. But Diana Ross was 32 when she convinced producer Cohen and Motown executive Berry Gordy Jr. to cast her as Dorothy, and so the character mutated into a timid 24-year-old kindergarten teacher who had never ventured south of 125th Street. This development prompted original director John Badham’s departure, and became the focus of much of the criticism directed at the finished film. New Yorker critic Pauline Kael said Ross’s insistence on playing the role was “possibly the chief example in movie history of a whim of iron.” Michael Jackson’s performance as the Scarecrow represented his only significant film appearance. Casting for The Wiz included a mix of actors reprising their stage roles (including Ted Ross as the Cowardly Lion and Mabel King as Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West) and those who were new to the property (like Nipsey Russell , cast as the Tinman; Lumet’s then-mother-in-law Lena Horne as Glinda the Good Witch; and Richard Pryor in the title role). Generating the most buzz was the casting of 19-year-old Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow: the youngest member of the Jacksons singing group received some of the movie’s best reviews, but a suitable follow-up role became increasingly hard to find for the ever-evolving King of Pop. The movie poster for the first film version of The Wiz (1978). The Wiz was a New York production all the way. Locations used around the city included Lincoln Center, the Broadway theatre district, Astor Place, both Shea and Yankee Stadiums, and the New York State Pavilion at the old 1964 World’s Fai |
In what country did the real St Nicholas live? | St. Nicholas Center ::: Who is St. Nicholas? Who is St. Nicholas? Exclusive print in our shop The true story of Santa Claus begins with Nicholas, who was born during the third century in the village of Patara . At the time the area was Greek and is now on the southern coast of Turkey. His wealthy parents, who raised him to be a devout Christian, died in an epidemic while Nicholas was still young. Obeying Jesus' words to "sell what you own and give the money to the poor," Nicholas used his whole inheritance to assist the needy, the sick, and the suffering. He dedicated his life to serving God and was made Bishop of Myra while still a young man. Bishop Nicholas became known throughout the land for his generosity to those in need, his love for children, and his concern for sailors and ships. Under the Roman Emperor Diocletian , who ruthlessly persecuted Christians, Bishop Nicholas suffered for his faith, was exiled and imprisoned. The prisons were so full of bishops, priests, and deacons, there was no room for the real criminals—murderers, thieves and robbers. After his release, Nicholas attended the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. He died December 6, AD 343 in Myra and was buried in his cathedral church, where a unique relic , called manna , formed in his grave. This liquid substance, said to have healing powers, fostered the growth of devotion to Nicholas. The anniversary of his death became a day of celebration, St. Nicholas Day , December 6th (December 19 on the Julian Calendar). Through the centuries many stories and legends have been told of St. Nicholas' life and deeds. These accounts help us understand his extraordinary character and why he is so beloved and revered as protector and helper of those in need. © Elisabeth Ivanovsky One story tells of a poor man with three daughters. In those days a young woman's father had to offer prospective husbands something of value—a dowry. The larger the dowry, the better the chance that a young woman would find a good husband. Without a dowry, a woman was unlikely to marry. This poor man's daughters, without dowries , were therefore destined to be sold into slavery. Mysteriously, on three different occasions, a bag of gold appeared in their home-providing the needed dowries. The bags of gold, tossed through an open window, are said to have landed in stockings or shoes left before the fire to dry. This led to the custom of children hanging stockings or putting out shoes, eagerly awaiting gifts from Saint Nicholas. Sometimes the story is told with gold balls instead of bags of gold. That is why three gold balls, sometimes represented as oranges, are one of the symbols for St. Nicholas. And so St. Nicholas is a gift-giver. One of the oldest stories showing St. Nicholas as a protector of children takes place long after his death. The townspeople of Myra were celebrating the good saint on the eve of his feast day when a band of Arab pirates from Crete came into the district. They stole treasures from the Church of Saint Nicholas to take away as booty. As they were leaving town, they snatched a young boy, Basilios, to make into a slave. The emir, or ruler, selected Basilios to be his personal cupbearer, as not knowing the language, Basilios would not understand what the king said to those around him. So, for the next year Basilios waited on the king, bringing his wine in a beautiful golden cup. For Basilios' parents, devastated at the loss of their only child, the year passed slowly, filled with grief. As the next St. Nicholas' feast day approached, Basilios' mother would not join in the festivity, as it was now a day of tragedy. However, she was persuaded to have a simple observance at home—with quiet prayers for Basilios' safekeeping. Meanwhile, as Basilios was fulfilling his tasks serving the emir, he was suddenly whisked up and away. St. Nicholas appeared to the terrified boy, blessed him, and set him down at his home back in Myra. Imagine the joy and wonderment when Basilios amazingly appeared before his parents, still holding the king's golden cup. This is the first story told of | The Curious Yarn of Paul's "Shipwreck" Journeys with an Apostle – The Final Mission The Curious Yarn of Paul's "Shipwreck" All at Sea! Paul's right arm? Wonder of wonders, the Church of St Paul's Shipwreck, Valletta, Malta, claims to possess "a portion of the right wrist bone" of the apostle. What the jewelled reliquary actually contains is anybody's guess. This dubious relic is unlikely ever to be subjected to the rigors of scientific examination. Its authenticity was vouched for by the Sacrist to His Holiness Pope Pius VII and several other early 19th century papal worthies. Castaways The ship carrying Paul to Rome encountered two weeks of storms, but the apostle was unconcerned. An angel had assured him that he "must" appear before Caesar (Acts 27.24). The insouciant rabbi urged his terrified shipmates to eat and be of "good cheer." Paul (and all 275 others on board) survived shipwreck on Melita. According to the yarn, after a three-month stay on the island, Paul kept his date with destiny by taking another ship bound for Puteoli (near Naples). "Masters" of Malta European knights of the Order of St John, ejected from the Holy Land, established themselves on Malta as a military/religious aristocracy under the autocratic rule of the "Grand Master." After the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto in 1571 the Order's usefulness as Christian shock troops was spent. Ambitious and irredeemably avaricious, the knights established Europe's largest slave market, spent a fortune on palaces and fortresses, and introduced the Inquisition. They also introduced a Christian "tradition" that the apostle Paul had been shipwrecked on their island. The claim helped the decadent "warrior-monks" go on extracting loot from their European patrons for the "protection of holy places." The annual rent for the island paid by the Order to the Spanish crown was one peregrine falcon. St Paul makes landfall – the "shipwreck" site? St Paul's Bay, Malta Eschewing the Greek tradition attached to an island in the north Adriatic, the Latin knights, backed by the Pope, chose this bay on the northwest coast of Malta for Paul's landfall. Over the years many other bays have been proposed for the apostle's shipwreck, each supported by special pleas that they "best fit" the less than adequate clues in Acts. As late as the 19th century, the wreck site was transferred from the shore to the more picturesque islet of Salmonetta on the edge of the bay. A statue was erected and the name changed to St Paul's Islands (in reality a single island with a low-lying bridging section). It looks appropriate but Paul's ship could not have ran aground on this islet because the survivors would then have had to be rescued from the island! X marks the spot This awful modern church astride the road in St Paul's Bay claims to be built on the very spot where Paul encountered his snake and impressed the locals. Nearby is where St Paul tried his first cheeseburger. Only kidding. Where empires meet Two of the greatest cities of the pre-Roman age were within easy sailing distance of Malta: Carthage (founded by Phoenicians from Tyre in 814 BC); and Syracuse (founded by Greeks from Corinth in 743 BC). After great destruction both cities were rebuilt as provincial capitals within the Roman empire. Contact with Malta must have been frequent and sustained. The Itinerarium Antoninianum lists the island as a port on the Italy-Africa run. Arabs deposed the last of the Byzantine rulers in 870 and the locals adopted many aspects of the invader's culture, including agriculture, Islam and Arabic (the basis of the Malti spoken today). Roger the Norman took the island in 1090 and introduced feudalism. The island passed to Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, who expelled the Muslim population and used the island as a penal colony. Eventually, possession of Malta passed to the Spanish crown. Malta has few natural resources, but with its many deep harbours the island remained strategically important to the world's navies from the time of the Crusades through to the end of World War |
Who plays Boycie in Fools and Horses | Boycie | Only Fools and Horses Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Only Fools and Horses Wiki 31 January 1945 (age 70) Occupation Tyler Boyce (son) Terrance Aubrey Boyce best known as Boycie is a local second-hand car dealer from Lewisham and for a long time was the richest and most successful regular at the Nag's Head pub. Boycie, although materially successful and ostentatious in his spending, remains competitive with Del and other friends, enjoying their company, although he does enjoy reveling in his superiority. Despite this, it appears that he dearly loves his friends throughout the series. He generally wears clothes and carries accessories synonymous with 1980s yuppie success, such as trench coats and very early mobile telephones . In the episode Sickness and Wealth , in which the series regulars took part in a seance, the medium asked for "an Aubrey". When Boycie replied that it was his middle name, Trigger said "You never told us your name is Aubrey." Boycie replied "Nor would you if you name was Aubrey." Whenever Boycie has a drink in the pub, it is always a large cognac . Boycie and Del share a loose friendship, but prefer to play a long standing game of one upmanship. Boycie is at pains to maintain the upper hand over Del in that he is a mason , a successful businessman and wealthier than the Trotters. One of his trademarks is his deep, mocking laugh, usually following a sarcastic, biting remark at the expense of Del or other characters, as well as his distinctive South London nasal twang. Boycie has appeared since the second episode of the first series; he made sporadic appearances from series 2 - 5 and appeared more in series 6 and 7. It is, however, usually Del (a character more street smart and popular with the Nag's Head social group) that gains the upper hand, often trading on the fact that he has a long-standing, flirtatious friendship with Boycie's wife, Marlene. Del has alluded to past sexual encounters with Marlene , and to her reputation amongst Nag's Head regulars as 'The Peckham Bicycle'. He has also claimed to have inside knowledge, through Marlene, of Boycie's marital secrets, and has alleged that Boycie has at times suffered from impotence; these rumours were not fully quashed even after the eventual birth - following many attempts - of Boycie and Marlene Boyce 's son, Tyler. Boycie enjoys overt displays of wealth, formerly living in (the fictional) Kings Avenue, the most expensive street in south east London. Kings Avenue is a parody on one of London's real richest streets, the Bishops Avenue in Hampstead. He owns a holiday cottage in Cornwall , his hobby is breeding tropical fish, and he also once bought his "bit on the side" a Jaguar E-Type convertible. Boycie is played by John Challis. Boycie is Challis' best-known character, and he has made more appearances as an Only Fools star than any other actor. Along with Sue Holderness, he has fronted GOLD's 30 years of Only Fools celebrations, and has been active in the campaign to bring back the series. | Roger Lloyd-Pack dead: Only Fools star Trigger dies from pancreatic cancer aged 69 | Daily Mail Online comments Roger Lloyd-Pack has died aged 69: The Only Fools And Horses star died of pancreatic cancer on Wednesday night Charming and brilliant, passionate about Left-wing causes and with ambitions to play King Lear, Roger Lloyd Pack was nothing like the dim-witted street-sweeper Trigger he played in Only Fools And Horses. But the actor, who has died aged 69, will forever be fondly remembered as the Only Fools character whose idiotic reflections on life would invariably reduce TV audiences to helpless laughter. His agent Maureen Vincent said he had suffered from pancreatic cancer and had died at home surrounded by his family. The BBC said that he had been too unwell to appear in the one-off new episode of Only Fools which is due to be broadcast this March, in which most of the old cast will be reunited. Sir David Jason, Del Boy in the series, regretted his absence and told yesterday of his ‘fondness’ for his sitcom co-star. ‘I was very saddened to hear of Roger’s passing,’ he said. ‘He was a very quiet, kind and unassuming actor who was a pleasure to work with. ‘Although he played the simple soul of Trigger in Only Fools And Horses, he was a very intelligent man and a very fine actor capable of many roles. I shall remember him for all the good times we had together.’ Father Ted creator Graham Linehan was also among those who paid tribute. He said: ‘Trigger was an ancestor to [the even more dim-witted] Father Dougal and I’m glad I once had a chance to tell him so.’ RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share John Challis, best known as Boycie in Only Fools, was distraught, saying: ‘I spoke to Roger two days ago. It is very sad and very distressing. ‘My thoughts are with his family. He was a remarkable man and he’ll be missed. Roger is irreplaceable. It’s a very sorry day.’ Tribute: Sir David Jason played tribute to his comic co-star, seen here in one of the show's most memorable scenes, when Del Boy fell through the bar Much loved show: Lloyd-Pack starred in the show which was loved by all the family Lloyd Pack was classically trained at Rada and made his TV debut in 1968, aged 22, but it wasn’t until he appeared in Only Fools And Horses in 1981 that he became a household name. He appeared in The Vicar Of Dibley and in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, and in recent years he had performed on stage numerous times, including the Shakespeare plays Richard III and Twelfth Night at the Globe and a run of Chekhov’s The Seagull. Acting family: Seen here in The Naked Civil Servant in 1975 Yet he always knew he would be best known as Trigger. ‘It’s both a blessing and a curse,’ he said of his role as the road-sweeper. ‘It’s extraordinary to me as an actor to find oneself in a sitcom that’s been successful and goes on being successful... I can’t go anywhere without anyone going on about it.’ Fame took its toll on his family, he admitted. ‘I think being an actor has been hard for my children. Although I was at home a lot, particularly when they were young, I think having a famous father is difficult. It can be embarrassing and annoying for the kids.’ Lloyd Pack’s daughter Emily took to the stage herself and shot to fame in the 1987 film Wish You Were. But her success was short-lived – for years she has struggled with health problems, a fact that caused her father anguish. Lloyd Pack was born into an acting family in North London and his father Charles was a regular in Hammer horror films. Born in 1944, Roger’s earliest memories were of playing among bombed-out houses after the Blitz. He wasn’t close to his father, and had therapy to try to reconcile himself to their relationship. He said: ‘He wasn’t very good at being a dad to boys, and found it hard to deal with my irrepressible teenage energy, my personality. He could be very remote. He could get very angry. I remember a very big row between him and Mum [Ulrike, a travel agent], which was very upsetting. I try not to be judgmental. But it’s hard not t |
What type of animal spreads Lyme disease? | Lyme disease transmission ShareCompartir The Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, is spread through the bite of infected ticks. The blacklegged tick (or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis) spreads the disease in the northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and north-central United States. The western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) spreads the disease on the Pacific Coast. Ticks can attach to any part of the human body but are often found in hard-to-see areas such as the groin, armpits, and scalp. In most cases, the tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours or more before the Lyme disease bacterium can be transmitted. Most humans are infected through the bites of immature ticks called nymphs. Nymphs are tiny (less than 2 mm) and difficult to see; they feed during the spring and summer months. Adult ticks can also transmit Lyme disease bacteria, but they are much larger and are more likely to be discovered and removed before they have had time to transmit the bacteria. Adult Ixodes ticks are most active during the cooler months of the year. Relative sizes of blacklegged ticks at different life stages In general, adult ticks are approximately the size of a sesame seed and nymphal ticks are approximately the size of a poppy seed. Are there other ways to get Lyme disease? There is no evidence that Lyme disease is transmitted from person-to-person. For example, a person cannot get infected from touching, kissing, or having sex with a person who has Lyme disease. Lyme disease acquired during pregnancy may lead to infection of the placenta and possible stillbirth; however, no negative effects on the fetus have been found when the mother receives appropriate antibiotic treatment. There are no reports of Lyme disease transmission from breast milk. Although no cases of Lyme disease have been linked to blood transfusion, scientists have found that the Lyme disease bacteria can live in blood that is stored for donation. Individuals being treated for Lyme disease with an antibiotic should not donate blood. Individuals who have completed antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease may be considered as potential blood donors. Information on the current criteria for blood donation is available on the Red Cross website . Although dogs and cats can get Lyme disease, there is no evidence that they spread the disease directly to their owners. However, pets can bring infected ticks into your home or yard. Consider protecting your pet, and possibly yourself, through the use of tick control products for animals. You will not get Lyme disease from eating venison or squirrel meat, but in keeping with general food safety principles, always cook meat thoroughly. Note that hunting and dressing deer or squirrels may bring you into close contact with infected ticks. There is no credible evidence that Lyme disease can be transmitted through air, food, water, or from the bites of mosquitoes, flies, fleas, or lice. Ticks not known to transmit Lyme disease include Lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum), the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni), and the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus). How ticks find their hosts Ticks can't fly or jump. Instead, they wait for a host, resting on the tips of grasses and shrubs in a position known as "questing". While questing, ticks hold onto leaves and grass by their lower legs. They hold their upper pair of legs outstretched, waiting to climb onto a passing host. When a host brushes the spot where a tick is waiting, it quickly climbs aboard. It then finds a suitable place to bite its host. How ticks attach to their hosts The tick feeding process makes ticks very good at transmitting infection: Depending on the tick species and its stage of life, preparing to feed can take from 10 minutes to 2 hours. When the tick finds a feeding spot, it grasps the skin and cuts into the surface. The tick then inserts its feeding tube. Many species also secrete a cement-like substance that keeps them firmly attached during the meal. 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Madeira Wine is a product of which country? | Madeira : The Whisky Exchange FREE UK standard delivery on orders over £100 Madeira Madeira is a fortified wine made on a small volcanic island in the Atlantic about 500 miles from the coast of Portugal of which it is a province. The styles of wine produced vary from dry to lusciously sweet and the best examples can age for more than a century. Discover more » Madeira Traditionally, Madeira wine is made from one of the following four ‘noble’ varieties: Sercial, Verdelho, Bual and Malvasia, although blends and commercial styles are made using the Tinta Negra Mole variety or American hybrid varieties. These four primary grapes all produce quite different styles of wine which range from dry to sweet. Due to the production methods for Madeira, once it’s opened, it has the benefit of lasting for many months without losing quality. Madeira is exceptionally long lasting – once opened, a bottle will stay drinkable for several months Madeira is a fortified wine, although the time of fortification varies depending on the variety. Sercial and Verdelho are fermented until almost dry then fortified, whereas Bual and Malvasia are fortified early in the fermentation to retain a certain level of sweetness. The method now commonly used to age Madeira is partially due to ships transporting the wine across the sea. Sailors found that the wines tasted better after a long journey at sea, with the Madeira sitting in wooden casks and being slowly heated by the sun. After a while, winemakers came up with a technique to replicate this ageing process called the estufa system. Styles Standard Blend Due to the rarity of the four noble varieties, much of the Madeira produced is made up from Tinta Negra Mole, or American hybrid varieties. Many of the blends labelled as Dry, Medium, or Sweet come from a blend of these American hybrids. Sercial Serial is a very slow-ripening grape, often only getting to around 10% abv. In its youth, the wine is tart, dry and acidic. The ageing and fortification is what provides the real depth of flavour in these wines, providing flavours of almonds, nuts, dried fruit, citrus and fruit cake, but countered with a streak of acidity. Verdelho A quicker ripening grape than Sercial, Verdelhos tend to be medium-dry. Characteristically, these wines are high in acidity and and are nutty and smoky, with flavours like lemon drops, orange and grapefruit. Bual This variety ripens quicker than Sercial and Verdelho, and the wines are usually medium-sweet wine, but again, are balanced with fresh acidity. Bual Madeiras typically show notes of dark, rich fruits, raisin, Christmas cake and candied peel. Malmsey From the Malvasia variety, this is the sweetest style of Madeira, but the sweetness doesn’t dominate, thanks to the balancing acidity. This acidity and its resilience to oxidisation means these can last more than a century either in cask or bottle. Terms Solera Wines Now a prohibited method of ageing, these are Madeiras aged using the solera method, more traditionally seen in sherry production. Some old bottlings can still be found, however. Colheita Colheitas are essentially a young frasqueira (vintage) from a single year and aged for a minimum of five years in cask, except for Sercial, which is aged for seven years. Frasqueira The official term for vintage Madeira; these wines must come from a single year’s harvest, and are aged for a minimum of 20 years, although many are aged for much longer. Did you know? Madeira was used to toast the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In mainland Portugal, the Sercial grape is known as Esgana Cao, which means ‘dog strangler’. Vintage Madeira is so resilient of oxidation that many ships stored the bottles upright to avoid a potentially tainted cork from damaging the wine. Typical Character and Style of Madeira Hazelnut | Bordeaux and the Wine Country Travel Guide | Fodor's Travel Bordeaux and the Wine Country Travel Guide Nearby Airports: BOD Plan Your Bordeaux and the Wine Country Vacation When travelers arrive here, Bordeaux's countryside enchants them without their quite knowing why: what the French call la douceur de vivre (the sweetness of living) may have something to do with it. To the east, extending their lush green rows to the rising sun, the renowned vineyards of the Route de Médoc entice visitors to discover magical medieval wine towns like St-Émilion. To the north, the Atlantic coast offers elite enclaves with white-sand beaches. In between is the metropolis of Bordeaux, replete with 18th-century landmarks and 20-year-old college students. Some complain that Bordeaux is like Paris without the good stuff, but if you're a wine lover it's still the doorway to paradise. And things are on the move in Bordeaux these days; it's consistently voted one of the top three French cities for young people to live in. From the grandest premiers grands crus—the Lafite-Rothschilds, the Margaux—to the modest supérieur in your picnic basket, Bordeaux wines command respect around the world. So much so that oenophiles by the thousands come here to pay homage: to gaze at the noble symmetries of estate châteaux, whose rows of green-and-black vineyards radiate in every direction; to lower a nose deep into a well-swirled glass, inhaling the heady vapors of oak and almond and leather; and, finally, to reverently pack a few bloodline labels into a trunk or a suitcase for home. The history, economy, and culture of Bordeaux have always been linked to the production and marketing of wine. The birth of the first Bordeaux winery is said to have occurred between AD 37 and 68, when the Romans called this land Burdigala. By the Middle Ages a steady flow of Bordeaux wines was headed to England, where it's still dubbed "claret," after clairet, a light red version from earlier days. During these centuries the region was also put on the tourist radar because it had become a major stopping-off point on the fabled Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage road. With all these allurements, it's no wonder the English fought for it so determinedly throughout the Hundred Years' War. This coveted corner of France became home to Eleanor of Aquitaine, and when she left her first husband, France's Louis VII, to marry Henry II of Normandy (later king of England), both she and the land came under English rule. Henry Plantagenet was, after all, a great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and the Franco-English ambiguity of the age exploded in a war that defined much of modern France and changed its face forever. Southwestern France was the stage upon which much of the war was conducted—hence the region's many castles and no end of sturdy churches dedicated to the noble families' cause. What they sought, the world still seeks. The wines of Bordeaux set the standard against which other wines are measured, and to truly savor them you should drink them on-site—from the mouthful of golden Graves that eases the oysters down to the syrupy sip of Sauternes that civilizes the smooth gaminess of the foie gras to the last glass of Médoc paired with the salt-marsh lamb that leads to pulling the cork on a Pauillac—because there is the cheese tray yet to come. With a smorgasbord of 57 wine appellations to choose from, the revitalized city of Bordeaux, and the wine country that surrounds it with a veritable army of varietals, the entire region is intoxicating. Along with Burgundy and Champagne, Bordeaux is one of the great wine regions of France. As the capital of the Gironde département and of the historic province of Aquitaine, the city of Bordeaux is both the commercial and cultural center of southwest France. It is smack-dab in the middle of one of the finest wine-growing areas in the world. With a smorgasbord of 57 wine appellations to choose from, the entire region is intoxicating. View All (1) Top Reasons To Go La Route de Médoc With eight appellations (districts) in this small area alone, and |
Renee Zellweger played which author in a 2007 film? | Renée Zellweger | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie twitter Biography by Sandra Brennan Until she headlined Jerry Maguire opposite Tom Cruise in late 1996, Renée Zellweger claimed extremely limited public recognition. Though Zellweger essayed several key roles before Maguire, the vulnerability and versatility that the actress exhibited as Cruise's (long undeclared) love interest in Cameron Crowe's seriocomedy netted much-deserved praise from critics and audiences alike. Though the Academy passed her over when that year's Oscar nominations rolled around, she received several other laurels for her work in Maguire, including the title of Best Breakthrough Performer by the National Board of Review. Born April 25th, 1969, the willowy, strawberry blonde Zellweger began life in Katy, TX, a small town on the outskirts of Houston. The town was so small that it possessed neither cable television nor a movie theater. As a result, Zellweger reportedly did not see her first art film until she was a student at the University of Texas in Austin. Her career at U.T. was an exceptional one; a regular on the Dean's List, she graduated a year early with a B.A. in Radio, Film, and Television. While in college, Zellweger took an acting class and discovered a knack for performing; following graduation, she made her feature-film debut with a bit part in Richard Linklater 's Dazed and Confused (1993). She then landed a role playing a whacked-out waitress in Love and a .45 (1994), for which she won her first Independent Spirit Award nomination; she won a second nomination for The Whole Wide World (1996), earning additional acclaim at various film festivals. Following the tremendous success of Jerry Maguire , Zellweger went on to prove herself as a versatile actress able to play roles ranging from an ambitious journalist (who temporarily shelves her career to care for her mother) in One True Thing (1998) to a rebellious Hassidic Jew in Boaz Yakin 's A Price Above Rubies (1998). She then exhibited a capacity for romantic comedy in The Bachelor (1999), starring as the long-suffering girlfriend of a commitment-phobic Chris O'Donnell . Zellweger's second role as a deeply confused soap opera fanatic in Neil LaBute's offbeat crime comedy Nurse Betty won her the Best Actress in a Comedy Award at the 2000 Golden Globes. Nominated for yet another Golden Globe the following year for her memorable performance in Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), that same role also earned Zellweger her maiden Oscar nod. The following few years found Zellweger's leading lady status growing and numerous lucrative film offers flowing in, and the release of White Oleander (2002) the starlet received numerous positive reviews despite the film's lackluster performance. Later that same year, Zellweger was on top of the world when she received rave reviews for her role in Chicago. Based on the popular Broadway musical of the same name, director Rob Marshall's flashy cinematic extravaganza received nearly unanimous praise accompanied by multiple Academy Award nominations, including a second Best Actress in a Leading Role nod to Ms. Zellweger for her lively performance. Zellweger lost the award bid to Nicole Kidman, and then teamed up with that actress for Anthony Minghella's epic Cold Mountain. The performance netted Zellweger her third Oscar nomination, and on February 29, 2004, her losing streak ended as she took home the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Attempting to keep up the momentum, Zellweger then returned to the character that earned her her first Oscar nod, starring in the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Unfortunately, that outing (directed by To Wong Foo helmer Beeban Kidron) failed to draw the critical acclaim of its predecessor and was widely greeted with public apathy in the States, but in the final analysis, it grossed nearly as much as the premier outing (with a massive overseas take). After the second Bridget Jones installment, Zellweger's screen activity decrescendoed som | 2006 Academy Awards® Winners and History Monster House (2006) Actor: FOREST WHITAKER in "The Last King of Scotland," Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond," Ryan Gosling in "Half Nelson," Peter O'Toole in "Venus," Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness" Actress: HELEN MIRREN in "The Queen," Penelope Cruz in "Volver," Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal," Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada," Kate Winslet in "Little Children" Supporting Actor: ALAN ARKIN in "Little Miss Sunshine," Jackie Earle Haley in "Little Children," Djimon Honsou in "Blood Diamond," Eddie Murphy in "Dreamgirls," Mark Wahlberg in "The Departed" Supporting Actress: JENNIFER HUDSON in "Dreamgirls," Adriana Barraza in "Babel," Cate Blanchett in "Notes on a Scandal," Abigail Breslin in "Little Miss Sunshine," Rinko Kikuchi in "Babel" Director: MARTIN SCORSESE for "The Departed," Clint Eastwood for "Letters From Iwo Jima," Stephen Frears for "The Queen," Paul Greengrass for "United 93," Alejandro González Iñárritu for "Babel" The 2006 nominees continued Hollywood's trend of nominating relatively low-to-modestly budgeted films with ensemble casts and personal subjects, again eschewing big budgeted Hollywood studio epics, though in this year, three of the Best Picture-nominated films were at least partially bankrolled by a major studio. Three of the five films were released by specialty divisions, while director Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima was able to be made by a studio, using his reputation to get financing for its narrowly-appealing content. It was one of the most diverse and international rosters of nominees and winners in recent Academy history. The five films that were nominated for Best Picture had a total of only 26 nominations -- the fewest since 1932/1933 (when 10 films were nominated for the top prize but there were fewer awards categories). No single film received nominations in more than six categories. And the Oscar wins were spread out over numerous films - many received either one or two awards. As with last year, there was a perceived backlash against flashy, "popcorn" Best Picture nominees and winners. Mega-budget, special effects-heavy box-office blockbusters that received minimal nominations included: Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (4 technical nominations, with a sole Oscar win for Best Visual Effects), one of the fastest grossing films in history, reaching $100M and $200M box office dollars in record time, and grossing over $1B worldwide, as the second part of a planned trilogy Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand (no nominations), the third film in the series, grossing box-office of about $460 worldwide Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code (no nominations), which grossed over $750M worldwide despite savage reviews Superman Returns (one nomination for Best Visual Effects), the fifth in the series, directed by former X-Men director Bryan Singer and a total worldwide box-office of almost $400M Martin Campbell's Casino Royale (no nominations), the exciting 007 "reboot" starring Daniel Craig as the new James Bond, which grossed about $550M worldwide J.J. Abrams' Mission Impossible III (no nominations), starring and |
"What is the setting for the musical ""Oliver!""?" | Oliver! (1968) - Plot Summary - IMDb Oliver! (1968) Plot Summary Showing all 5 plot summaries Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens 's classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. - Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> In Victorian England, Oliver Twist is the name given by a workhouse warden to a boy born in the workhouse orphanage, Oliver's mother who died in childbirth and whose identity is unknown. Now an adolescent, Oliver, who has never felt loved or accepted, manages to escape from both the harsh workhouse and his equally harsh placements "for sale". Managing to make his way to London, Oliver, feeling accepted for the first time in his life, is welcomed into a group of other young boys, headed by the Artful Dodger, who "make wallets" under the direction of Fagin. What Oliver is initially unaware of is that they are really a band of pickpockets, Fagin who hides away whatever riches he is able to obtain for his own personal benefit. One of Fagin's associates is the violent Bill Sikes, whose girlfriend, Nancy, is devoted to him despite his abuse of her. Oliver looks to Nancy as his one true friend, especially needed when he discovers what Fagin and the boys actually do. Oliver also comes to the attention of the wealthy Mr. Brownlow. Out of circumstance, Bill sees Oliver as both an asset and a liability, but one that needs to be kept enslaved under his direction. Nancy has to decide whether to be loyal to Bill to help him keep Oliver, or do what is best for Oliver by helping him escape, especially as she knows that Brownlow is looking for Oliver when he learns of Oliver's true heritage. - Written by Huggo 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist falls in with a group of street-urchin pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and masterminded by the criminal Fagin. When Oliver's intended mark, Mr. Brownlow, takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin's henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy to keep him from talking. - Written by Jwelch5742 Oliver Twist is sold to a Dunstable undertaker after asking for more dinner at the orphanage. Escaping to London he is taken in by Fagin to join his gang of child pickpockets. Wrongly accused of a theft he meets a more kindly gentleman who takes him in, to the concern of one of Fagin's old pupils, the violent Bill Sykes. In the middle is Nancy, Sykes' girl whom Oliver has come to trust. | Criminality in Dickens’ Oliver Twist (1838) – Here Begynneth A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood… Stephen Basdeo 4 Comments Fagin and his Gang – Illustration by George Cruikshank (1838) The master of the Victorian social novel was undoubtedly Charles Dickens. His novel, Oliver Twist was published in serial instalments in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1838 and was perceived by contemporaries to be a Newgate novel [1]. The reason that it was perceived so is because critics felt that it glorified members of the criminal underworld. Dickens’ novel was published alongside William Harrison Ainsworth’s second Newgate novel, Jack Sheppard , in the same magazine; Dickens was Ainsworth’s friend, and the two men even considered collaborating on a novel [2]. Dickens’ tale of an orphan who falls into the clutches of the criminal underworld was set in nineteenth-century London, and the novel attacked the recently passed Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 which had expanded the workhouse system. Dickens was ‘one of the people to light a fuse of criticism that was to blow the calculated neglect and casual cruelty of the workhouse system away’ [3]. Dickens’ critique of the workhouse system is less important here than his representations of nineteenth-century criminal underworld figures, and it is Fagin and Bill Sikes that I wish to discuss here. Dickens draws upon gothic literary conventions by representing in his novel two binary camps of good and evil. The ‘good’ camps in the novel are those of Mr. Brownlow and the Maylies. The ‘bad’ camps are those of Bill Sykes and Fagin [4]. The two camps vie with each other throughout the novel to claim the innocence of young Oliver. The first time this is apparent is when Oliver comes into contact with Fagin, a receiver of stolen goods, who runs a criminal gang of young pickpockets. The types of gangs run by Fagin were common in nineteenth-century London. Often they were to be found in some of the common lodging houses, where ‘keepers maintained gangs of professional child thieves and even ran schools for pickpockets’ [5]. Fagin attempts to teach Oliver how to be a thief through a series of childish games: “Is my handkerchief hanging out of my pocket?” said the Jew. “Yes, Sir,” said Oliver. “See if you can take it out, without my feeling it: as you saw them do, when we were at play this morning” [6]. Fagin’s attempts to convert Oliver into a criminal fail and this perplexes him as he has managed to corrupt other young boys prior to meeting Oliver. Oliver is ‘not easy to train…not like other boys in the same circumstance’ [7]. The reason for this is that young Oliver is actually middle class by birth and represented as inherently innocent, and theft is the ‘single specific crime that menaces Oliver’s innocence’ [8]. The reason Fagin’s other boys had been corrupted was because they were members of the ‘criminal class,’ a notion which gained currency between the 1820s and 1830s [9]. According to this idea, there was a dangerous criminal class lurking beneath the working class in the poorest districts of cities [10]. In contrast to Ainsworth’s gentlemanly Dick Turpin in Rookwood, the villains of Dickens’ work were hideous creatures who lived in dirty hovels in the rookery of Saffron Hill, Holborn. Dickens described Fagin and his lair in the following way: ‘the walls of the ceiling of the room were perfectly black with age and dirt…standing over them, with a toasting fork in his hand, was a very old shrivelled Jew, whose villainous looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair’ [11]. For ‘Fagin’ readers would have inferred ‘Satan’; the hook-nose and the toasting fork drawing upon older Christian images of the devil [12]. In contrast to Ainsworth’s Dick Turpin, in Dickens’ work there was ‘no canterings on moonlit heaths, no merry-makings in the snuggest of all possible caverns…none of the dash and freedom with which [highwaymen have] been time out of mind invested’ [13]. Thus the highwayman of old was a product of the pre-industrial, rural England, whilst Fagin was essentially a |
In the 90s how many points have been awarded for finishing first in a Grand Prix? | Olympic success: How much does a gold medal cost? - BBC News BBC News Olympic success: How much does a gold medal cost? By Richard Anderson Business reporter, BBC News 7 August 2012 Read more about sharing. Close share panel Image caption The Great British team is on course for its best performance since the first London Olympics in 1908 How much does an Olympic gold medal cost? With a minimum six grams of gold and a large chunk of silver, the pithy answer is about £450. But as Britain basks in the glory of what is shaping up to be the most triumphant Olympics for Team GB in more than 100 years, it is worth reflecting for a moment on the reasons behind the success. Talent, punishing training regimes, pride in a home games and fervent support have of course played a key part in so many record-breaking performances. But, in the end, as cynical and unpalatable as it may sound, the main reason behind the team's overall success is cold, hard cash. Medal bonanza In the Atlanta Games in 1996, the British team won a grand total of one gold medal, and 15 in all. The following year, National Lottery funding was injected directly into elite Olympic sports for the first time. The return was instant. In the Sydney Games of 2000, the British team won 11 golds - the first time Britain won more than 10 golds since the Antwerp Games in 1920 - and 28 medals in total. Athens in 2004 saw a similar return, the last games before the Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 games to London. Investment in Olympic sports in the UK immediately rocketed in preparation for the country's first games since 1948, and again the return was both immediate and spectacular - the British team won 19 golds and 47 medals in total in Beijing in 2008. This graph was correct at time of publication. The latest full Olympic medals table can be seen here. "When Great Britain went to Beijing, the team benefited from £235m investment in training programmes in the years running up to the Olympics - that's a fourfold increase on what was spent [in the run up to Athens]," says Prof David Forrest, a sports economist at the University of Salford. "We spent an extra £165m and got 17 more medals, so that's about £10m a medal." 'Big impact' This massive increase in investment in elite sports was funded in large part by the National Lottery. "Lottery funding in the 90s has a lot to do with [Great Britain's recent success]," says Stefan Szymanski, professor of sports management at the University of Michigan. "That devotion of financial resources, particularly on building up elite teams, has had a big effect on Britain." Image caption More successful sports such as cycling receive greater funding, making them even more successful In fact, the Lottery accounts for about 60% of funding for GB's Olympic teams' preparation for the London Games. Almost 40% comes directly from the UK exchequer - in other words, directly from our pockets via taxes. This equates to about 80p a year per UK taxpayer. About £7m also comes from money raised by Team 2012, mainly through corporate sponsors. Just how big an impact all this money has had becomes even clearer when you look at individual sports. In Beijing, the most successful sports were those that received the most funding. Between them, athletics, cycling, rowing, sailing and swimming accounted for half of all Olympic team funding. They also accounted for 36 of the 47 medals won. The same pattern can be seen in the current Olympics - almost half of all funding went to these five sports and, so far, together they have won 27 out the 40 medals won. Of course, there is a chicken and egg element here, as funding is rewarded on the basis of success. Once the pattern in established, however, it is hard to break, as the more successful sports get more money, allowing them to become even more successful. Closed sports In fact, there are some sports that are in effect closed to all but the most wealthy nations. That really cost us... the money is the difference between silver and gold Kevan Gosper, Australian member of the International Olympic Committee "W | Nationality: Great Britain Date of birth: January 20, 1991 - Horsham Having spent 2004 racing in MiniMax karts, Palmer moved up to cars in 2...005 and specifically the T Cars championship's Autumn Trophy – a racing series for drivers between the ages of fourteen and seventeen years old. Palmer finished fifth in that championship, with a grand total of 92 points, 46 behind championship winner Adrian Quaife-Hobbs. He moved up to the main championship in 2006, earning one pole position and four podiums, and again finished fifth in the championship with 101 points, 69 behind champion Luciano Bacheta. Palmer also took part in a second Autumn Trophy, and dominated the championship by winning four of the six races. He took part in two races of the 2007 season, winning both but decided to concentrate on Formula Palmer Audi. In 2007, Palmer moved to the series which his father, Jonathan, created nine years before. He finished 12th on debut at Silverstone, and his results would slowly improve and would end up with two wins (one at Brands Hatch and one at Oulton Park) and two pole positions at Brands, on his way to tenth in the championship and a points total of 187 – some way behind Tim Bridgman's winning total of 360. He missed the final two rounds of the championship, due to an abdominal injury suffered in a quad bike accident at his home in West Sussex. He recovered in time for the start of the 2008 season, in which he was a championship challenger right up until the last few races of the season. Consistency was the key for Palmer, with only one win (coming at the overseas race at Spa) and 11 podiums along with three pole positions (amazingly, all at Brands Hatch – meaning all five of his FPA poles came at the circuit) and ended up just 22 points behind Jason Moore, in third place. The Autumn Trophy and the FPA Shootout also brought third places for Palmer, taking three podiums from the six races. 2009 saw Palmer move up to the FIA Formula 2 Championship, driving car number three. His three points came from a sixth-place finish at Imola, as he finished 21st in the championship. He returned to the series in 2010, winning the opening race of the season at Silverstone, taking the first win by a British driver since his father did so at Mugello in 1983. Palmer picked up one fifth place finish in the next round at Marrakech, but bounced back to take both wins and the championship lead in the third round at Monza. He eventually finshed 2nd behind fellow brit Dean Stoneman. Nationality: Canada Date of birth: January 20, 1964 - Toronto, Ontario Scott has competed and won titles in Formula Vee (1984), Formula For...d 1600 (1985 and 1986), Canadian National Showroom Stock (1992 and 1993) and Grand-Am (2002 and 2008). He also contested the Canadian GM Challenge, Porsche Cup and Pro Formula Ford 2000 series from 1986 through 1990. He made a single Indy Lights start in 1992. One of the highlights of Maxwell's career came in 2000 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans when he won the LMP 675 class for Multimatic Motorsports aboard a Nissan-powered Lola with fellow Canadians John Graham and Greg Wilkins. In 2003, Scott Maxwell along with David Empringham and David Brabham won the first ever Daytona Prototype race at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. However, The Racer's Group GT-class Porsche 911 won overall honors in that race. He also contested the American Le Mans Series with Panoz in 2003 and Krohn-Barbour Racing (Lamborghini) in 2004 as well as contesting several Rolex Sports Car Series events for Multimatic Daytona Prototype customers. 2003 was to also see Maxwell make his NASCAR Winston Cup Series debut, but he failed to qualify the #43 car for Petty Enterprises at Watkins Glen International. The Canadian co-drove with Grand Am Cup Champion David Empringham in 2005 aboard a Multimatic Motorsports entered factory Ford Mustang FR500C. Maxwell missed out on sharing the title because he skipped one race to compete at Le Mans for Panoz Motor Sports. In 2006, Maxwell clinched another milestone victory for Multimatic Motorsports when he teamed with David Br |
What does the Greek prefix 'iso' mean? | Iso- - definition of iso- by The Free Dictionary Iso- - definition of iso- by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/iso- [Greek īso-, from īsos, equal.] iso- combining form 1. equal or identical: isomagnetic. 2. (Chemistry) indicating that a chemical compound is an isomer of a specified compound: isobutane; isocyanic acid. [from Greek isos equal] International Standardization Organization. iso- a combining form meaning “equal”: isochromatic; in chemistry, used in the names of substances that are isomeric with the substance denoted by the base word: isocyanic acid. Also, esp. before a vowel, is- . [< Greek, comb. form of ísos equal] iso- A prefix that means "equal," as in isometric, "having equal measurements." Translations Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Copyright © 2003-2016 Farlex, Inc Disclaimer All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | 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? |
Which actress is ex-beauty queen Miss Orange County 1976? | Beauty Queens Turned Big-Time Stars! | Access Hollywood Beauty Queens Turned Big-Time Stars! 1 of 21 AP She’s an Oscar winner now, but Halle Berry vied for a very different prize as Miss Ohio in the 1986 Miss USA pageant, where she finished as runner-up 2 of 21 AP After Vanessa Williams was named Miss America in 1984, the actress made headlines with her nude photo controversy 3 of 21 AP Years before her breakout role in “Scarface,” Michelle Pfeiffer was chosen as Miss Orange County in 1978 4 of 21 Getty Images Before becoming a high-profile politician, Sarah Palin was crowned Miss Wasilla in 1984 and finished 3rd for Miss Alaska 5 of 21 AP Diane Sawyer, then 17, was crowned Kentucky’s Junior Miss after she defeated 18 other girls in the competition 6 of 21 AP Jeri Ryan makes the fanboys sweat as Seven of Nine on “Star Trek: Voyager”, but before that, she competed in the Miss America Pageant as Miss Illinois in 1990 7 of 21 Getty Images Before her iconic career in TV and movies, Cloris Leachman competed in the Miss America pageant as Miss Chicago in 1946 8 of 21 WireImage Oprah Winfrey, the queen of daytime TV, was also given the title of Miss Black Tennessee back in 1972 9 of 21 Getty Images Long before becoming a TV talker, Kathie Lee Gifford represented the state of Maryland in the 1970 Junior Miss pageant 10 of 21 Getty Images Nick Lachey nabbed himself a beauty queen! Vanessa Minillo was the first Miss South Carolina Teen who also went on to win Miss Teen USA in 1998 11 of 21 Getty Images Kelly Hu, who received her big actress break in “Growing Pains,” won Miss Teen USA in 1985 and later won Miss Hawaii USA in 1993 12 of 21 AP Delta Burke, then 17, was named 1974 Miss Florida and later represented her state in the annual Miss America beauty show 13 of 21 Getty Images Before becoming an Oscar nominated Actress, Sharon Stone competed in Miss Crawford County and later in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant in 1976 14 of 21 Before becoming a reality TV star, Shanna Moakler was awarded Miss USA in 1995 15 of 21 Getty Images Former “Saved by the Bell” and “Beverly Hills, 90210” beauty Tiffani Thiessen competed for Miss Junior America back in 1987 16 of 21 Access Hollywood “Wheel of Fortune” model Vanna White was awarded fourth runner-up in the Miss Georgia Universe competition in 1978 17 of 21 The “Warrior Princess,” Lucy Lawless, was named Miss New Zealand in 1989 18 of 21 AP Raquel Welch, who many refer to as a ‘60s sex symbol, was the winner of the La Jolla Beauty Competition in 1955 19 of 21 Getty Images One-time “Saved By The Bell” actress and “Billy Madison” beauty Bridgette Wilson-Sampras was crowned Miss Teen USA in 1990 20 of 21 Getty Images Ali Landry found great success in beauty pageants when she won Miss USA in 1996 and went on to compete in Miss Universe 21 of 21 FilmMagic / Getty Images Before becoming a breakout star on “One Tree Hill,” actress Sophia Bush was the Rose Queen in 2000 | 'Daisy Is An Animal': Jennifer Jason Leigh On Her Comeback In 'The Hateful Eight' : NPR Jennifer Jason Leigh is back in the spotlight with an Oscar nomination for her role as a murderous woman in The Hateful Eight. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with her about being cast by Quentin Tarantino. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: All right, so let's play a game. Guess who this is. And if you've seen Quentin Tarantino's film "The Hateful Eight," don't spoil it for the others. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE HATEFUL EIGHT") JENNIFER JASON LEIGH: (As Daisy Domergue) He's absolutely right. Me and one of them fellows is in cahoots. We're just waiting for everybody to go to sleep. That's when we're going to kill you. MCEVERS: It's Jennifer Jason Leigh, and it's been a while since we've seen her in a big movie. I mean, you might've even though she quit acting. LEIGH: Quit is, like, a very strong term. MCEVERS: (Laughter) Yes. LEIGH: I just thought, like, I had had my run. MCEVERS: She's has had a pretty good run. From her first big role in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" in 1982. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH") LEIGH: (As Stacy Hamilton) Linda, that girl looks just like Pat Benatar. MCEVERS: As the roommate from hell in "Single White Female." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SINGLE WHITE FEMALE") LEIGH: (As Hedra Carlson) Don't make me come get you. MCEVERS: And as a sharp-tongued newspaper reporter in "The Hudsucker Proxy." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE HUDSUCKER PROXY") LEIGH: (As Amy Archer) I tell you, the guy's a phony. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Phony, huh? LEIGH: (As Amy Archer) As a $3 bill. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Says who? LEIGH: (As Amy Archer) Says me, Amy Archer. Why is he an idea man, because Hudsucker says he is? MCEVERS: Jennifer Jason Leigh was everywhere in the '80s and '90s. And then she wasn't. But now she's been nominated for an Oscar for playing Daisy Domergue in "The Hateful Eight." She came into our studio here in Culver City, and I asked her if this is her comeback. LEIGH: I feel like I was a little bit off the map, you know, if there is a map. Or if there is a planet, I was not on that planet... (LAUGHTER) LEIGH: ...For working actors. MCEVERS: I like the planet better, yeah. LEIGH: Yeah, it was actually, you know, my brother-in-law said to me, you know, all it takes is a phone call from Quentin Tarantino. MCEVERS: (Laughter). LEIGH: And, you know, a couple years later, I got that call from Quentin Tarantino and I'm sitting across from you today... MCEVERS: Wow. LEIGH: ...talking about it, and it is life-changing. MCEVERS: 'Cause, I mean, yeah, he famously did it for John Travolta with "Pulp Fiction," Robert Forster and Pam Grier in "Jackie Brown." I mean, that's sort of a thing he does. Did you guys talk about that at all, you and Quentin Tarantino? LEIGH: You know, we didn't talk about that. He did talk about the '90s. This movie has a lot of people from the '90s in it. He knows more about all of our careers more than we know. Like, he would talk about "Flesh And Blood," which is a movie I did, I think it was 23 at the time, as though it were yesterday. Unlike a lot of people, he doesn't draw a distinction because you're a different age now or years and years have passed. You're still that person who gave that performance no matter when you gave it. That's in you. And that's something that I certainly forgot about. MCEVERS: Tell me about the character that you play in "The Hateful Eight," Daisy Domergue. LEIGH: Well, the fun thing about it is she's feral. She's kind of like a little wild animal. MCEVERS: (Laughter). LEIGH: But she's also incredibly bright. And you see her get punched once, you know everything you need to know about her childhood. She just knows how to take a punch. It doesn't mean that much to her. MCEVERS: But, I mean, how did you feel about it at first? You know, she's the only woman in the film and she's getting her butt kicked. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: We incorrectly say that Jennifer Jason Leigh's character is the only woman in this film.] LEIGH: I loved it because I find the movie s |
Stanley Mathews played which position for the English football team? | My Football Facts & Stats | Legendary Football Players | Stanley Matthews 118. Stanley Matthews Stanley Matthews was born in Stoke-on-Trent and was the third of four sons. His father, Jack Matthews, was a renowned local boxer who fostered a sense of discipline, determination and sportsmanship that would serve his son well during his long career. A natural right winger, he showed early promise and played for England schoolboys against Wales. He signed professional terms with Stoke City F.C. in 1932. His international debut came in 1934, scoring for the England side which beat Wales 4-0. Matthews scored a hat-trick for 10-man England in a game against Czechoslovakia in 1937. In 1938, Matthews asked for a transfer, causing a public outcry in Stoke. The war interrupted his career, during which time he served in the Royal Air Force. After the war, he fell out with Stoke and transferred to join Blackpool F.C. in 1947, with whom he won the inaugural Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year award in 1948. His link-up with Stan Mortensen was very profitable, and Matthews won an FA Cup winners medal in 1953 - a match dubbed the 'Matthews Final' where, despite Mortensen's hat-trick, his outstanding dribbling in the last 30 minutes of the match when Blackpool were 3-1 down more than contributed to him finally earning the medal which had eluded him in the finals of 1948 and 1951. In 1950, Matthews only played in one World Cup game (a 1-0 defeat against Spain). In total, Matthews made 54 official England appearances scoring 11 goals (as well as 29 unofficial wartime appearances with 2 goals). He played his final England game in 1957; he remains the oldest player to have played in an England shirt. His England career is the longest of any player ever to play for the side, stretching from his debut on September 29, 1934 to his last appearance on May 15, 1957, almost 23 years later. At the Football World Cup 1954 in Switzerland, England found themselves struggling, so Matthews promptly switched to inside-forward, galvanized the team, and helped it to a 4-4 draw. Matthews traveled to various parts of the globe to take part in exhibition matches and he was famous world-wide. For example, he attracted a large crowd at Hartleyvale in Cape Town when he appeared there in about 1956. In 1956, Matthews won the first ever European Footballer of the Year award. In 1961 (aged 46) he rejoined his hometown club Stoke City. The following season, Stoke City won the English Second Division Championship and he was voted Footballer of the Year for the second time in his career. He remained with Stoke City until the end of his playing career, appearing in his final game on February 6, 1965, just after his 50th birthday, when he played for the first time in 12 months due to a knee injury, setting up the equaliser for his team. In 1965, he became the first football player to be knighted for services to sport. He received a FIFA Gold Merit Order in 1992. After playing 698 games in the Football League, Matthews managed Port Vale F.C. (1965-1968). After this he moved to Malta, where he coached Hibernians, also playing for them until he was 55. He played for numerous local sides, meaning that he was still running down the wing in his 60s. He also coached "Stan's Men" in Soweto, South Africa, and in Canada. He even played in a charity match at Grangemouth as late as 1981. During his illustrious career he gained respect, not only as a great player, but also as a gentleman. This is exemplified by the fact that despite playing in over seven hundred league games, he was never booked. Matthews was made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his outstanding talents. Legendary Football Players - Stanley Matthews | "Masterminds" - Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), December 27, 2014 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt 1. Which actor starred as detective Magnum PI? 2. Which town in Cornwall has become famous for the number of artists who are based there because of its light? 3. Which Manx rider won five stages in the 2010 tour de France? 4. Which comedian created the characters Stavros, Tory Boy and Loadsamoney? 5. Which famous TV chef played football for Glasgow Rangers FC? 6. In the Thunderbirds TV series, which son piloted Thunderbird Two and dressed in yellow? 7. In the TV series Diagnoses Murder, who plays Dr Mark Sloan? 8. 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What by any other name would smell as sweet? | 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet' - the meaning and origin of this phrase Famous Last Words Browse phrases beginning with: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet more like this... What matters is what something is, not what it is called. Origin From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1600: JULIET: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself. A story, much favoured by tour guides and as such highly suspect, is that in this line Shakespeare was also making a joke at the expense of the Rose Theatre. The Rose was a local rival to his Globe Theatre and is reputed to have had less than effective sanitary arrangements. The story goes that this was a coy joke about the smell. This certainly has the whiff of folk etymology about it, but it might just be true. | HERBS AND OILS ~ PRACTICAL, MAGICKAL, AND AROMATHERAPY USES A, B, C, DEF, GHIJK, L, MNO, PR, ST, UVWXYZ ACACIA: (Acacia senegal) Also known as gum arabic, gum senegal and gum acacia; produced by a tree that grows in North Africa. The species of acacia that produces gum arabic and gum acacia are so closely related that one can be used for the other. Parts Used: flowers, leaves, stems, root, bark, resin, seeds, and essential oil Magical Uses: (Herb and Oil) Burn for altar offerings or purification; aids psychic powers, meditation, platonic love, psychic awareness; purification; inspiration; wisdom; visions; anointing; protection; prophetic dreams; spirituality; money. A sprig place over the bed wards off evil. AGRIMONY: (Agrimonia eupatoria) The dried herb has an apricot scent and is used in sachets and potpourri. Also called "Church Steeples". Parts Used: flowers, leaves, stem, and root Magical Uses (Herb and Oil) Use in all protection sachets and spells, also to banish negative energies and spirits. Returns spells to sender; Promotes sleep. ALLSPICE: (Pimemta dioica) Tropical evergreen with aromatic bark, leaves, and berries and bunches of greenish white flowers with a pervading scent. The berries, picked when mature but still green, are dried and ground to create the familiar spice. Parts Used: leaves, fruit and essential oil Magical Uses: (Herb and Oil) Burn for prosperity, courage, healing/health, luck, determination, magical power, energy, strength. ALMOND: (Prunus dulcis) The Sweet Almond tree has dark-colored bark, rose to white flowers in early spring, and dry-fleshed fruit with a pitted stone containing the nut. Almonds flavor many dishes. Almond oil is a fixed oil pressed from the Sweet Almond seeds and is used in cosmetics, massage oils, and medicines. Almonds must be chewed well and slowly. The whole raw almond had been described as a cancer preventative. Arabs crossing vast deserts live on only almonds, dates and water. One ounce of almonds can be soaked overnight in four ounces of water and blended in the morning to make a milk substitute. Peeled almonds can relieve heartburn. Ground almonds make a wonderful facial scrub. The oil relieves coughs and hoarseness. Almonds have very little starch, and the butter and flour of the nuts is recommended for diabetics. Caution: Almonds contain hydrocyanic acid and can be toxic if eaten in large amounts (over 50 kernels for an adult, ten for a child) Parts Used:� Seed and wood Magical Uses: (Wood) Burn for money, riches and wisdom. Almond wood makes a nice magickal wand. Sweet Almond Oil is one of the primary carrier oils for ritual and anointing blends. In an old fable, Phyllis was deserted by her lover Demophoon and died of grief. The gods changed her into a barren almond tree. When Demophoon returned and embraced the tree, it burst into leaf and flower - a symbol of true love transcending death. Aromatherapy Uses: (Oil)Great base for massage, bath, body and skin-care products. Sweet Almond oil is scentless and nourishing to the skin. ALOE: Aloe vera or Aloe ssp.) This plant has remarkable qualities. Two parts are used: the clear, gel-like central leaf pulp, and the yellow-green juice from the green part of the leaf. The gel is used in creams to soothe, heal, and moisturize the skin, and in shampoos for dry, itchy scalps. It cools the skin, protects it from airborne infections and fungi, and reduces scarring. It speeds cell regeneration, and so treats radiation burns, coral wounds, and dermatitis. It can be scraped from split leaves for first aid treatment of small burns, cuts, chapped skin, sunburn, eczema and Poison Ivy rash. Compounds in the leaf juice are added to sunscreens from protection against UV rays and have shown anticancer activity. Part Used: � Pulp or juice from the leaves Magical Uses � A protective house plant. It guards against evil influences and prevents household accidents. In Africa, the aloe is hung over houses and doors to bring good luck and drive away evil. Aromatherapy Uses� Aloe vera gel is used in cosmetic recipes where a cream or lotion |
What is the divine nickname for the elusive Higgs boson? | What is the Higgs boson and why is it important? - CNN.com What is the Higgs boson and why is it important? By Nick Thompson, CNN Updated 8:13 AM ET, Tue October 8, 2013 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' Studying the 'God particle' – Three years ago, scientists in Geneva, Switzerland, announced they had proved the existence of the so-called "God particle" known as Higgs boson -- a never-before-seen subatomic particle long thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe. This year, researchers from two different teams combined their measurements of the particle, providing an unprecedented picture of Higgs boson's production, decay and interaction with other particles. Click through the gallery for more. Hide Caption 1 of 9 Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' This graphic shows traces of the collision of particles from an experiment at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) -- a large particle detector in Geneva. The Standard Model of particle physics lays out the basics of how elementary particles and forces interact in the universe. But the theory crucially fails to explain how particles actually get their mass. Particles, or bits of matter, range in size and can be larger or smaller than atoms. Electrons, protons and neutrons, for instance, are the subatomic particles that make up an atom. Scientists believe that the Higgs boson is the particle that gives all matter its mass. Hide Caption 2 of 9 Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' An image of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. "The Higgs boson is the last missing piece of our current understanding of the most fundamental nature of the universe," Martin Archer, a physicist at Imperial College in London, told CNN. "Only now with the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] are we able to really tick that box off and say 'This is how the universe works, or at least we think it does'." Hide Caption 3 of 9 Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' Studying the 'God particle' – Higgs boson research takes place at the Large Hadron Collider -- a circular tunnel located 100 meters (328 feet) underground. It uses a particle accelerator to collide protons at extreme speeds. By combining their data, researchers found that there are different ways to produce a Higgs boson, and different ways for a Higgs boson to decay to other particles. Hide Caption 4 of 9 Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' Studying the 'God particle' – British physicist Peter Higgs, right, speaks with Belgian physicist Francois Englert at a press conference at Geneva's CERN facility in 2012. Higgs and Englert shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for describing an explanation for why particles have mass. They independently published papers on this topic in 1964. Hide Caption 5 of 9 Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' Studying the 'God particle' – CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation exhibition center and surface buildings, which provide access to the Large Hadron Collider, can be seen near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN Director General Rolf Heuer said, "There is much benefit in combining the results of large experiments to reach the high precision needed for the next breakthrough in our field. By doing so, we achieve what for a single experiment would have meant running for at least 2 more years." Hide Caption 6 of 9 Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' Studying the 'God particle' – Teams from ATLAS and CMS Collaborations combined their research to obtain their results. "Combining results from two large experiments was a real challenge as such analysis involves over 4,200 parameters that represent systematic uncertainties," said CMS Spokesperson Tiziano Camporesi. "With such a result and the flow of new data at the new energy level at the LHC, we are in a good position to look at the Higgs boson from every possible angle." Hide Caption 7 of 9 Photos: Secrets of the 'God particle' Studying the 'God particle' – The particle accelerator magnets of the LHC are shown at the underground test facility at CERN near Geneva. | Reviews and expert advice from Which? MSA statement Which? works for you © Which? 2017 Cookies at Which? We use cookies to help improve our sites. If you continue, we'll assume that you're happy to accept our cookies. Find out more about cookies OK |
'Sigh No More' is the 2009 debut album by which indie folk quartet? | Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More - Music on Google Play Full Review Darshil Kathiara January 7, 2015 Excellent album One if the most complete albums of all time probably. So beautiful with the use of instruments, and the melody is just terrific. I strongly advise listening to the entire album on repeat mode. I assure you, you'll get lost in the music. Full Review MommaBear Amanda May 14, 2014 Another fine... Performance by these guys...happy to see they finally made it over here in the states....been listening to mumford & sons for quite some time now and it baffled me as to why their music wasnt on the top 40. Just goes to show you the difference of apprecation in music over here. Full Review Ronnie Livas November 18, 2016 So Inspirational These guys are a God sent. Their music touches my heart and enlightens my soul. Their words can fix a broken heart and mend a spirit. Continued success gentlemen of the road. Thank you Full Review Leta Buchanan August 31, 2015 Indescribably moving Every word to every song I have committed to memory! Love the new sound as well!! A natural progression for them! I would marry Marcus in a heartbeat were he not taken!! Full Review Christy Lynn September 25, 2016 Sigh No More While listening to the album, you don't realize that you've gotten up & started jammin', playing air drums & air ukulele.. You get wrapped up in it! Full Review Tim Lurkins March 23, 2015 Play all disk. This is one of those albums you turn on and listen to the whole thing. Every track is great and is so much fun. I love this album. Full Review Conor Markle December 2, 2014 Great band. This isn't usually my type of music as I'm into hard rock and metal, but I gotta say I absolutely love this band. Full Review Brenley Horrocks July 8, 2014 Has a song for every mood. I love that I can listen to these guys when I'm sad, happy, or just freaking mad. They have a song for every occasion. Full Review Adrian Ghandtchi January 11, 2017 After the storm These guys and specifically this song really throw me back to my high school years, an era of normalcy and mischief. I miss my father. This track always makes me cry. Full Review Karen Graham September 18, 2014 Sigh no more, Mumford and Sons Wonderful album with great depth. I never tire of listening to these guys Shelby Runyon September 22, 2014 Sigh no morr Folk Full Review Phoenix Frost May 14, 2015 Love it This is one of my FAVORITES, I don't usually buy cds anymore because I only like a couple song, but I love this entire album! Full Review Mark Binns March 14, 2015 Broken Always have loved this album... Purchased on Google play and it won't download into my Google music library... what's going on here ? Full Review Griffin Metheny July 2, 2015 Try and find a better album This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Every song on it is fantastic. This is the best Mumford and Sons album. Full Review Brandon Wichmann August 23, 2014 Phenomenal These songs are the best. You know how they only have one good song. Well every single song on this album is good Laurinda P October 21, 2014 Amazing They are great.the timshel song made me cry the first time i heard it.just beautiful Mr Gunt May 19, 2014 Whoever gave this band 3 stars is an absolute idiot Jon Hardesty August 24, 2014 Hipster garbage. No more, please. Full Review Jonathon Ruffolo June 23, 2015 This album contains some of the best and most thought provoking lyrics I've ever heard. See: Awake My Soul Full Review Madison Milthorpe July 18, 2014 Sigh no more- Mumford and Sons Such a good album. Greatest lyrics and I'm beginning to think that Marcus Mumford is heavenly. Joseph Gilroy October 2, 2014 Awesome Introduces a new era of music that is innovative obviously and exploding with talent. Billy Guadarrama February 7, 2016 Great album Cannot wait to hear more from them Why O Tdog April 2, 2015 Best band Little lion man and white blank page are my favorites Tootie Albano June 5, 2014 Every song is amazing! Mumford and Sons is a great band that plays great music! Full Review Caramon Hofstetter March 18, 2015 Gosh This album | 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 |
Which Beatrix Potter female character was rescued from a fox by Kep the collie? | Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, by Linda Lear A Life In Nature The Published Writing of Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit - 1902 The story of the naughty Peter Rabbit and his adventure in Mr McGregor's garden, was the first of Beatrix Potter's books to be published, in 1902, by Frederick Warne. The book was an expansion of the original letter to Noel Moore, with black and white drawings and was refused by several publishers. Finally, Beatrix had the book printed herself, and gave it to her family and friends. Frederick Warne saw the book and agreed to publish it if Beatrix would replace the black and white images with colour sketches. This was to be the birth of a legend. Buy at Amazon.com The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - 1903 In 1901, while holidaying near Derwentwater in the Lake District, Beatrix wrote a letter to Norah Moore, sister of Noel, describing the Squirrels she saw daily. This letter eventually developed into the story of the cheeky squirrel, who dared to tease 'Old Brown' the owl, living on an island in the lake. Buy at Amazon.com The Tailor of Gloucester - 1903 The Tailor of Gloucester was apparently Beatrix's favourite book. It is based on a true life story of a tailor in the City of Gloucester whom, leaving a waistcoat unfinished one Friday evening, was amazed to find it completed when he returned on Monday morning. In reality, the waistcoat was finished by an assistant, trying to give his master a helping hand. But in her book, Beatrix replaced the assistant with talking mice, and to add to the enchantment of the story, had it pass on Christmas Eve. Originally dedicated to another of the Moore children, it was inscribed; 'To Freda, because you are fond of fairy tales, and have been ill.' 22 of Beatrix's original drawings from this book may be seen in the Tate Gallery, London. Buy at Amazon.com The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - 1904 Benjamin is a self-confident little rabbit, the cousin of Peter. Together the couple get into all sorts of scrapes in Mr McGregor's garden, finally being rescued by Old Mr Benjamin Bunny, young Benjamin's father. Buy at Amazon.com The Tale of Two Bad Mice - 1904 The original dedication in this book shows the changes that were happening to the life of its author; 'To W.M.L.W. The little girl with the dolls house'. WMLW was Winifred Warne, favourite niece of Norman Warne, Beatrix's editor. Beatrix and Norman were, at this time, becoming close friends, and developing a romantic attachment. The doll's house in question was, in the story, the home of two dolls, Lucinda and Jane, who were troubled by the 'Two Bad Mice', Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca. Buy at Amazon.com The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle - 1905 Many of Beatrix Potter's books were based on the numerous pets she had kept during her life. Although she did, at one time, have a pet hedgehog named Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, the character in the book is based on an old washerwoman in the village of Sawrey, Mrs Kitty MacDonald. The young girl in the story, Lucy, was Lucy Carr, the daughter of the vicar of Newlands which is a valley between Derwentwater and Buttermere. Many of the pictures in the book are beautiful images of the Newlands Valley. Buy at Amazon.com The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan - 1905 This was one of the first books to show the farmhouse in Sawrey - Hilltop Farm - later to become Beatrix's home for many years. Starring Ribby the cat and Duchess, her friend, a small black dog. Buy at Amazon.com The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher - 1905 The character of Jeremy Fisher, the frog, was first seen in a letter to Noel Moore in 1894. | Doctor Barkman Speaks: Charles Dickens' Dogs Thursday, February 7, 2013 Charles Dickens' Dogs It’s said that a good writer writes what he knows, and Charles Dickens knew dogs. His sympathetic characters Oliver Twist and David Copperfield may be more well-known, but no more three-dimensional than their stories’ fictional dogs, Bulls-Eye and Jip, that Dickens sketched with pathos and personality. Dickens’ canine characters were based on the rich material he gathered from observing his own menagerie which included among others, a Pomeranian, Havanese Spaniel, Mastiff, St. Bernard, Newfoundland, St. Bernard x Bloodhound hybrid and two St. Bernard x Newfoundland hybrids. Dickens took long walks in the afternoon, ten miles or more, with the dogs as his sole companions. Illustration from Princes, Authors, and Statesmen of Our Time, Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1885 Within his many books, Dickens included a great number of major dog characters that, according to Cumberland Clark’s 1926 book, The Dogs in Dickens, often determined the course of events in his stories: The vicious Bulls-Eye, as brutal and loathsome as his master Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist but so devoted that he died trying to save his life; sagacious Diogenes, companion to the lonely Florence Dombey who lived in the gloomy home of father, in Dombey and Sons; good natured affectionate Boxer, from the Cricket and the Hearth; Jip, a little spaniel dog, “not of the friendly sort,” who belonged to David Copperfield’s love Dora Spenlow, and whom David had to woo to win Dora’s heart; Merrylegs, the trained circus dog of Signor Jupe, a clown in Hard Times; and the less-than-handsome Poodles, from the Uncommercial Traveler who was found starving on the steps of the East London Children’s’ Hospital where he eventually made his home and who wore a collar bearing the inscription, “Judge not Poodles by external appearances.” A dog collar worn by one of Dickens' dogs sold at auction for $11,590 in 2010. The following letter was written by Dickens on May 25, 1868, to the wife of his publisher Thomas Fields, describing his return home after an extended visit to America: Mr. Dear Mrs. Fields, As you ask me about the dogs, I begin with them. When I came down first, I came to Gravesend, five miles off. The two Newfoundland dogs [Newfoundland x St. Bernard hybrids], coming to meet me with the usual carriage and the usual driver, and beholding me coming in my usual dress out at the usual door, it struck me that their recollection of my having been absent for any unusual time was at once cancelled. They behaved (they are both young dogs) exactly in their usual manner; coming behind the basket phaeton as we trotted along, and lifting their heads to have their ears pulled – a special attention which they receive from no one else. But when I drove into the stable-yard, Linda [St. Bernard] was greatly excited; weeping profusely, and throwing herself on her back that she might caress my foot with her great fore-paws. Mamie’s little dog, too, Mrs. Bouncer [Pomeranian], barked in the greatest agitation on being called down and asked by Mamie, “Who is this?” and tore round and round me…" Today is the 201st anniversary of Dickens' birth. Click here to read an article I wrote about Dickens' Dogs . Posted by |
Henri Landru was a mass murderer under what nickname was he better known | Henri Desire LANDRU - SERIALKILLERCALENDAR.COM - HOME OF THE SERIAL KILLER MAGAZINE - SERIAL KILLER CALENDAR - SERIAL KILLER TRADING CARDS - SERIAL KILLER DVDS - MURDERABILLIA Date of murders: 1915 - 1919 Date of arrest: April 12, 1919 Date of birth: April 12, 1869 Victims profile: Jeanne-Marie Cuchet, 39 / Andre Cuchet, 16 / Thérèse Laborde-Line, 47 / Marie Angélique Guillin, 51 / Berthe Anna Héon, 55 / Anne Collomb, 44 / Andrée-Anne Babelay, 19 / Célestine Buisson / Louise-Joséphine Jaume, 38 / Anne-Marie Pascal, 33 / Marie Thérèse Marchadier, 37 Method of murder: Strangulation? Location: France Status: Executed by guillotine in Versailles on February 25, 1922 Henri Désiré Landru (born April 12, 1869; died February 25, 1922) was a notorious French serial killer and real-life Bluebeard. Early life Landru was born in Paris. After leaving school, he spent four years in the French Army from 1887 – 1891. After he was discharged from service, he proceeded to have a sexual relationship with his cousin. She bore him a daughter, although Landru did not marry her; he married another woman two years later and had four children. He was shortly swindled out of money by a fraudulent employer. He turned to fraud himself, operating scams that usually involved swindling elderly widows. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1900 after being arrested and found guilty of fraud, the first of several such convictions. By 1914, Landru was estranged from his wife and working as a second-hand furniture dealer. Murders Landru began to put advertisements in the lonely hearts sections in Paris newspapers, usually along the lines of "Widower with two children, aged 43, with comfortable income, serious and moving in good society, desires to meet widow with a view to matrimony." With World War I underway, many men were being killed in the trenches, leaving plenty of widows upon whom Landru could prey. Landru would seduce the women who came to his Parisian villa and, after he was given access to their assets, he would kill them and burn their dismembered bodies in his oven. Between 1914 and 1918, Landru claimed 11 victims: 10 women plus the teenaged son of one of his victims. With no bodies, the victims were just listed as missing, and it was virtually impossible for the police to know what had happened to them as Landru used a wide variety of aliases in his schemes. His aliases were so numerous that he had to keep a ledger listing all the women with whom he corresponded and which particular identity he used for each woman. In 1919, the sister of one of Landru's victims, Madame Buisson, attempted to track down her missing sibling. She did not know Landru's real name but she knew his appearance and where he lived, and she eventually persuaded the police to arrest him. Initially, Landru was charged only with embezzlement. He refused to talk to police, and with no bodies (police dug up his garden, but with no results), there was seemingly not enough evidence to charge him with murder. However, policemen did eventually find various bits of paperwork that listed the missing women, including Madame Buisson, and combining those with other documents, they finally built up enough evidence to charge him with murder. List of victims Madame Cuchet (last seen January 1915) Son of Madame Cuchet (last seen January 1915) Madame Laborde-Line (last seen 26 June 1915) Madame Guillin (last seen 2 August 1915) Madame Heon (last seen 8 December 1915) Madame Collomb (last seen 25 December 1915) Andree Babelay (last seen 12 April 1916) Madame Buisson (last seen 19 August 1916) Madame Jaume (last seen 25 November 1917) Madame Pascal (last seen 5 April 1918) Madame Marchadier (last seen 15 January 1919) Trial and execution Landru stood trial on 11 counts of murder in November 1921. He was convicted on all counts, sentenced to death, and guillotined three months later in Versailles. During his trial Landru traced a picture of his kitchen, including in it the stove in which he was accused of burning his victims. 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"In ""Kill Bill"", who played the character of Black Mamba?" | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (6/12) Movie CLIP - Budd Meets the Black Mamba (2004) HD - YouTube Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (6/12) Movie CLIP - Budd Meets the Black Mamba (2004) 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. Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 movie clips: http://j.mp/1CMfp8u BUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/t9aZtp Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Budd (Michael Madsen) is killed by Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and her "friend." FILM DESCRIPTION: Quentin Tarantino's sprawling homage to action films of both the East and the West reaches its conclusion in this continuation of 2003's ultra-violent Kill Bill Vol. 1. Having dispatched several of her arch-enemies in the first film, The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues in Kill Bill Vol. 2 on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As The Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding, and we learn of how she was recruited to join the DiVAS, her training under unforgiving martial arts master Pai Mei (Liu Chia-hui), and her relationship with Squad leader Bill (David Carradine), which changed from love to violent hatred. 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SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: | 'True Grit' memories from Kim Darby and Glen Campbell - latimes 'True Grit' memories from Kim Darby and Glen Campbell The actors recall working on the original film with John Wayne. January 04, 2011 |By Susan King, Los Angeles Times Most remakes of classic films are shadows of the originals. But Joel and Ethan Coen's version of the western "True Grit" — with Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn, newcomer Hailee Steinfeld as the plucky Mattie Ross and Matt Damon as Texas Ranger LaBoeuf — has won over critics, audiences and even Kim Darby, who played the resolute Mattie in the 1969 original for which John Wayne won his only Oscar as the irascible Cogburn. "It's a wonderful movie," said Darby, now 63. "It's top drawer.'" And so, she said, is Steinfeld. "She's just extraordinary in the film," Darby said. "I said to her agent, 'Be sure you're careful what she does next. The next thing is what is so important.'" (Darby's post "Grit" movies — including 1969's "Generation" and 1970's "Norwood" — didn't exactly set the box office on fire.) Darby was especially impressed with Steinfeld's skills on horseback, including riding her black pony across a river. "God bless her that she did the whole thing," said Darby, who admitted she probably was on a horse for only five minutes in the original. "I am really afraid of horses," she said. "I had a stunt double. She was about 65. They made a mask of my face out of clay and she would wear that and it would match my profile." Most of the major players from the original — including Wayne, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey and director Henry Hathaway — have died. But a few in addition to Darby are still around, including Robert Duvall (who played the outlaw gang leader "Lucky" Ned Pepper) and singing star Glen Campbell (who made his film debut as LaBoeuf). For the 1969 "True Grit," which like the 2010 film was adapted from Charles Portis' novel, producer Hal Wallis originally wanted Mia Farrow to play Mattie. But she supposedly turned it down because her "Secret Ceremony" costar Robert Mitchum warned her that Hathaway was a difficult director to work with. Wallis then saw Darby on an episode of the TV drama "Run for Your Life" in which she played an unwed mother and thought she had the pluck and vulnerability for the Mattie character. Though Steinfeld was just 13 when she played the role of 14-year-old Mattie in the new version, Darby was 21 and the mother of a newborn daughter, Heather, with her first husband, actor James Stacy. During the filming of the movie, she began divorce proceedings against Stacy. "The first 10 days of the movie I would love to do over again," said Darby, who lives in Studio City and has had some minor roles in recent years but has primarily focused on teaching acting over the last two decades. "I think I was more concentrated on my child because she was such an infant." She fondly recalls working with Wayne. "He was there on the set before anyone else and knew every line perfectly," Darby said. After the production finished filming, Darby remembered, there was a photo shoot at Paramount Pictures with the stars who were working at the studio at the time, "which were John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Goldie Hawn.… Robert Evans was in the middle. I was sitting on the curb a ways away watching. The Duke stepped out of the picture and he said, 'Hey, kid.' He put out his arms and lifted me up and brought me over and put me in the center of the picture. How wonderful is that?" She did, though, have a bit of a problem with Hathaway, who was 71 when he directed the film. "He was an old prop man and he usually focused on the prop man and he would just yell at him no matter what he did," Darby said. Although they had gotten along well when she first met him at the studio, Hathaway yelled at her on the first day of shooting. "It got me so off guard," she said. "I just got up and went back to my dressing room." Eventually, the two had a heart-to-heart talk in the dressing room. "I said, 'Henry, I'll do anything you want, just don't yell at me again.' After that day, we went along |
Major Walter Wingfield is associated with which sport? | tennis: History History History Origins Unlike most other sports, lawn tennis has precise origins. An Englishman, Major Walter C. Wingfield, invented lawn tennis (1873) and first played it at a garden party in Wales. Called "Sphairistiké" [Gr., = ball playing] by its inventor, the early game was played on an hourglass-shaped court, widest at the baselines and narrowest at the net. In creating the new sport, Wingfield borrowed heavily from the older games of court tennis and squash racquets and probably even from the Indian game of badminton . Court tennis is also known as royal tennis. It originated in France during the Middle Ages and became a favorite of British royalty, including Henry VIII. The progression from court tennis, which used an unresilient sheepskin ball filled with sawdust, sand, or wool, to lawn tennis depended upon invention of a ball that would bounce. Lawn tennis caught on quickly in Great Britain, and soon the All England Croquet Club at Wimbledon held the first world tennis championship (1877). Restricted to male players, that event became the famous Wimbledon Tournament for the British National Championship, still the most prestigious event in tennis. In 1884 Wimbledon inaugurated a women's championship. Soon the game became popular in many parts of the British Empire, especially in Australia. Tennis spread to the United States by way of Bermuda. While vacationing there, Mary Ewing Outerbridge of New York was introduced (1874) to the game by a friend of Wingfield. She returned to the United States with a net, balls, and rackets, and with the help of her brother, set up a tennis court in Staten Island, N.Y. The first National Championship, for men only, was held (1881) at Newport, R.I. A women's championship was begun six years later, and in 1915 the National Championship moved to Forest Hills, N.Y. Since 1978 what is now the United States Tennis Association Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., has hosted the event (known as the U.S. Open). The Tennis Hall of Fame is in Newport, R.I. The Professionalization of Tournament Tennis In 1900 the international team competition known as the Davis Cup tournament began. Along with the Wightman Cup (begun 1923), an annual tournament between British and American women's teams, the Davis Cup helped to focus international attention on tennis. In 1963, a women's Davis Cup equivalent, the Federation Cup, usurped the prestige of the Wightman Cup. In the first decades of the 1900s tennis was primarily a sport of the country club set. The widespread construction of courts on school and community playgrounds in the 1930s (many built by the federal government's New Deal agencies) helped to make tennis more accessible to the public. When the professional game showed itself to be profitable in the late 1920s, a number of amateur players joined the tour. One of the first to do so was William Tilden , perhaps the greatest player in the history of tennis. Before Tilden turned pro (1931), he won a total of seven United States singles championships and three Wimbledon championships. The continued defection of amateur players into the professional ranks was one of the factors that led amateur tennis's world governing body, the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF, founded 1913), to open its tournaments to both professionals and amateurs in 1968. For many years the major ILTF-sponsored tournaments, including Wimbledon and the U.S. National Championship, had been restricted to amateurs. With the advent of open tennis, however, the great professionals were allowed to compete for the major titles. Eventually, the Davis Cup also allowed professionals. The four major annual tournaments in international tennis are Wimbledon, the Australian Open, the French Open, and the U.S. Open. Winning all four in the same year is called a grand slam. Only Don Budge (1938), Rod Laver (1962, 1969), Maureen Connolly (1953), Margaret Court (1970), and Steffi Graf (1988) have won grand slams. In 1971, the establishment of a women-only professional tour gave female pros finan | Workington – Lower League Manager Workington History: The club was formed in 1894, with the first game played in January of that year. Wigton provided the opposition and a goalless draw was the outcome. There was no league as such in those days with matches played merely on a friendly basis, until the introduction of the Cumberland cup 1885-86. In 1890 reds became founder members of the Cumberland Association League where they remained until 1894… A seven year spell in the Cumberland Senior league followed, and whilst there a 17-1 victory was recorded over c*ckermouth Crusaders. Lancashire league status was obtained in 1901, although, after only two seasons Reds returned to the Cumberland Senior League for one year. From 1904-10 Workington competed in the Lancashire Combination but, in an effort to economise it was decided in 1910 to switch to the North Eastern League. The club after only one year disbanded, going into voluntary liquidation. Workington AFC was reborn in 1921 after a 10 year break. North Eastern League After election to the NEL for the start of the 1921-22 campaign, the club commenced with a game at South Shields Reserves losing 2-1. In 1938-9 the Reds finished in second position, and a memorable season included an unbeaten run of 18 league and cup matches. The NEL cup was won in 1935 and 1937 and was losing finalists in 1938. On eight occasions the team scored a century of goals with 147 in the 1933-4 season. Complete NEL record: P:923 W: 454 D: 150 L:319 F: 2205 A :1667 Football League Saturday 18th of August remains a significant date in the club’s history. This was the day Reds made their Football League debut at Halifax Town. Life was a struggle in the early Years and a record 8-0 defeat was inflicted upon us at Wrexham. Reds had their moments though and during the 1965-6 season the team defeated Swansea 7-0 home and 6-1 away. Notable mangers were Bill Shankly Joe Harvey Ken Furphy Keith Burkinshaw, and Alan Ashman. Promotion from the fourth Division was achieved in 1963-4 with manager Ken Furphy at the helm. Failure to gain re election came in 1977 after four very painful seasons. Reds won only 4 games and conceded 102 league goals during the 76-7 season. Gates fell well below the 1000 mark and the club deservedly made way for Wimbledon who replaced the club in such a wonderful way. They were to become the Darlings of those that loved to see David slay Goliath. Complete FL record. P: 1194 W: 385 D: 310 L: 499 F 1525 A 1810 Pts 1080 Football League Cup During the mid sixties Workington developed a proud record of in the Football League Cup, twice progressing to the quarter final. In 1963-4 West Ham prevented the team from reaching the semi final by virtue of a 6-0 win at Upton Park while, the following season Chelsea were held to a 2-2 draw at Workington but knocked the team out 2-0 in the replay. Before the Chelsea tie, Reds had beaten First Division Blackburn Rovers 5-1 at Ewood Park and Second Division Norwich City at Borough Park. Blackburn Rovers played at Borough Park on the 14th October 1964. A 9-1 victory over Barrow in 1964 remained a record score in the competition until the 1983-4 season. F.A. Challenge Cup The club’s best season in the FA Cup was in the 1933-4 season when, as a non league club, the Reds reached the 4 th round, only to lose to Preston North End (1-2) in front of 15,00 fans at Lonsdale Park. In 1951-2 the team lost 1-0 to Liverpool at Anfield in front of 52,581 spectators. Manchester United came to Borough Park in 1958 (just prior to the Munich crash) and a although losing to a Denis Violet hat trick the team performed magnificently in front of a record gate of 21,000. Several embarrassing cup defeats have been inflicted upon the Reds, with the team not having appeared in the first round proper since 1982. Reds in the Non League Northern Premier League Workington became members of the NPL on the 18th June 1977-24 hours after losing Football League Status. The first home game was against Stafford Rangers, who inflicted a 3-0 home defe |
How is a mandolin usually played? | mandolin - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com Random Word mandolin A mandolin is a bit like a small guitar — it's a musical instrument with a wooden body, strings, and a long neck. A musician plays a mandolin by plucking or strumming the strings. Its sound is higher than a guitar, and it's often played alongside lower-pitched instruments, such as banjos and guitars. The mandolin is popular around the world and in many different kinds of music; in the United States, it's played most often in country music. The word itself comes from the Italian mandolino, which is an altered form of the Latin pandura, or "three-stringed lute." | The Stan Kenton Mellophoniums The Stan Kenton Mellophoniums Originally published May 1993. Possibly the most interesting chapter in the history of the mellophone occurred with the Stan Kenton Orchestra during the early 1960s. From September 1960 through November 1963, the orchestra prominently featured a four man section of mellophoniums and forever changed the use of the instrument. Stan Kenton started his band in 1941. Through the late 1970s, the Kenton band witnessed a lot of changes in music and in the world that listened to it. Driven by Kenton's eagerness to push the musical envelope, the band continually changed to meet, and often surpass the demands of his loyal, but often fickle audience. From 1941 through the 1950s, audiences had seen Kenton's group develop from a small dance band to a full-blown orchestra. Except for a few occasions, such as featuring the electric upright bass in 1941, Kenton used the same mainstream instrumentation that was used by almost every other big band. The Kenton Orchestra's uniqueness, instead, was manifested in its music arrangements. However, in the summer of 1960, Kenton found himself "restless with the sound the band was making," 1 and he was ready for "a change of format." 2 Kenton solicited the help of his longtime arranger Johnny Richards to "work over" the instruments in the band. Kenton explained the situation to author Dr. William F. Lee this way: We wanted colors that, somehow the moment you hear them on record or hear them in person, you could identify, something that didn't sound like a low trumpet or a high trombone. We experimented with some German horns, we worked with alto trumpets, we worked with fluegelhorns. 3 Gene Roland soon became involved with the search for a new instrument for the band. Roland was a noted performer who, during his long tenure with the band played trumpet, trombone, and solo saxophone. His first suggestion to Kenton was for a section of E-flat trumpets, and he even got a section of them together for Kenton to hear. However, the big trumpets sounded too much like trombones to be used in the band. The band needed something completely different. The Suggestion C.G. Conn, Ltd. was an American firm of instrument manufacturers named after Charles Gerard Conn. Conn was a cornet player whose success in the development of a "rubber-rimmed" mouthpiece in 1875 propelled him into the instrument making industry. 4 The Conn Company primarily produced band instruments and introduced a new version of its mellophone in 1957. This instrument, the mellophonium, was a standard mellophone except it utilized a "bell-front" design as opposed to the traditional "wrapped" configuration of the French horn. This was a radical, but not a new concept in the design of the mellophone. Other companies and individuals had already produced instruments of this type prior to Conn's attempt. 5 Conn had devised the mellophonium as an alternative for the French horn and mellophone in marching bands. Its ability to project sound effectively and its design for outdoor playing made it quite useful for marching bands. An exhaustive publicity campaign was undertaken by C.G. Conn, Ltd. to introduce the mellophonium to the public. Its first national appearance occurred on the Lawrence Welk Show. 6 Mellophonist Don Elliott also performed with the Conn Mellophonium on the nationally-broadcast Steve Allen Show during the summer of 1957. 7 The instrument even spent a week on the Captain Kangaroo Show, along with other instruments from Conn's antique instrument museum that was housed at the Elkhart, Indiana facility. 8 Needless to say, when C.G. Conn, Ltd. heard of Kenton's plight in 1960, they were quick to suggest their mellophonium. Stan Kenton remembered receiving mellophoniums to test: "Johnny Richards and I had them send some instruments to us. We started getting fellows to play them, and both of us became terribly excited with the sound of the mellophonium. It had a |
The St Bernard Pass connects Switzerland to what other country? | Opening of St Bernard Pass road 2016 - Switzerland Message Board - TripAdvisor Opening of St Bernard Pass road 2016 Which Switzerland hotels are on sale? dd/mm/yyyy dd/mm/yyyy Opening of St Bernard Pass road 2016 29 February 2016, 12:12 Would anyone know what date the St Bernard Pass is expected to open this year, ie 2016? My understanding is that the road is usually cleared for the Whitsun (Pentecost) weekend, in conjunction with the opening of the Swiss Italian ustoms post. As Easter 2016 is early this would put the Whitsum/Pentecost weekend around mid May. Travellers interested in this topic also viewed... Show Prices 1. Re: Opening of St Bernard Pass road 2016 29 February 2016, 12:23 It really largely depends on the weather and when the authorities can clear the snow and ensure there is no danger from avalanches. It's almost impossible to predict more than a few days in advance. 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The scenic mountain separates the cantons of Bern and Valais and is in the Bernese Alps , two other peaks of which (the Finsteraarhorn [14,022 feet] and the Aletschhorn [13,763 feet]) surpass it in height. The first ascent was made in 1811 on the eastern or Valais side by two Swiss brothers, Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer. It was not until 1865 that two Englishmen made the first ascent from the difficult western, or Interlaken, side, and in 1927 two guides climbed the south side. One of Europe’s highest railways (constructed 1896–1912) cuts a 4.4-mile-long tunnel through the Eiger and Mönch peaks to the Jungfraujoch, a pass (11,335 feet) between the Mönch and Jungfrau peaks. Jungfrau, Switzerland. Securing the Jungfrau railway as the permafrost thaws. 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"Who said ""I don't want to belong to any club that will have me for a member""?" | Groucho Marx - Wikiquote Groucho Marx Jump to: navigation , search I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. Julius Henry Marx ( 2 October 1890 – 19 August 1977 ), primarily known as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian and actor , famous for his work in the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his solo film and television career. Contents Quotes[ edit ] I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER I get credit all the time for things I never said. A likely story — and probably true. The Al Jolson Show repartee following a trite, scripted Al Jolson joke. (1949)[ specific citation needed ] Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959) I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER". Telegram to the Friar's Club of Beverly Hills to which he belonged, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321 [Variant:] "Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member". As quoted in The Groucho Letters (1967) by Arthur Sheekman. The sentiment predates Marx by 61 years, however; it likely originated with John Galsworthy in The Forsyte Saga. In Part I, Chapter II, "Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera" , it's said of Old Jolyon that, "He naturally despised the Club that did take him." after another refused him because he was in a trade. No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. From his book Groucho and Me. It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld : "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.) Here's to our wives and girlfriends... may they never meet![ citation needed ] (Variation on an old Royal Navy wardroom toast: "Wives and Sweethearts! May they never meet!"[ citation needed ]) From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. To S J Perelman about his book Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1929), as quoted in LIFE (9 February 1962) I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. Misattributed[ edit ] I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. Apparently said by Oscar Levant : "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin" (as quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972) by Max Wilk). Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. No known citation to Marx. First appears unattributed in mid-1960s logic/computing texts as an example of the difficulty of machine parsing of ambiguous statements. Google Books . The Yale Book of Quotations dates the attribution to Marx to a 9 July 1982 net.jokes post on Usenet . Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. This may be original with Groucho, but the Quote Investigator mentions the earliest report found in a 1958 issue of Boy's Life magazine where it is attributed to Jim Brewer. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. Variant: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. [1] Apparently attributed to Marx in Bennett Cerf 's Try and Stop Me , first published in 1944. A citation of this can been seen in the Kentucky New Era on November 9, 1964 . Also attributed to Marx by Rand Paul in "The Long Stand," ch. 1 of Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America (New York, N. Y.: Center Street, 26 May 2015), p. 5. The original quotation belongs to Sir Ernest Benn (Henry Powell Spring, What is Truth?, Orange Press, 1944, p. 31 ); a first known citation reportedly appears in the Springfield (MA) Republican on July 27, 1930. Quotes about Marx[ edit ] Some years | Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare NOTE: This list (including some of the errors I originally made) is found in several other places online. That's fine, but I've asked that folks who want this on their own sites mention that I am the original compiler. For many English-speakers, the following phrases are familiar enough to be considered common expressions, proverbs, and/or clichés. All of them originated with or were popularized by Shakespeare. All our yesterdays (Macbeth) All that glitters is not gold (The Merchant of Venice)("glisters") All's well that ends well (title) As good luck would have it (The Merry Wives of Windsor) As merry as the day is long (Much Ado About Nothing / King John) Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice) Bag and baggage (As You Like It / Winter's Tale) Bear a charmed life (Macbeth) Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth) Beggar all description (Antony and Cleopatra) Better foot before ("best foot forward") (King John) The better part of valor is discretion (I Henry IV; possibly already a known saying) In a better world than this (As You Like It) Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Hamlet) Brave new world (The Tempest) Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew) Breathed his last (3 Henry VI) Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet) Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure / Taming of the Shrew) Catch a cold (Cymbeline; claimed but seems unlikely, seems to refer to bad weather) Cold comfort (The Taming of the Shrew / King John) Conscience does make cowards of us all (Hamlet) Come what come may ("come what may") (Macbeth) Comparisons are odorous (Much Ado about Nothing) Crack of doom (Macbeth) Dead as a doornail (2 Henry VI) A dish fit for the gods (Julius Caesar) Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war (Julius Caesar) Dog will have his day (Hamlet; quoted earlier by Erasmus and Queen Elizabeth) Devil incarnate (Titus Andronicus / Henry V) Eaten me out of house and home (2 Henry IV) Elbow room (King John; first attested 1540 according to Merriam-Webster) Farewell to all my greatness (Henry VIII) Faint hearted (I Henry VI) Fancy-free (Midsummer Night's Dream) Fight till the last gasp (I Henry VI) Flaming youth (Hamlet) Forever and a day (As You Like It) For goodness' sake (Henry VIII) Foregone conclusion (Othello) The game is afoot (I Henry IV) The game is up (Cymbeline) Give the devil his due (I Henry IV) Good riddance (Troilus and Cressida) Jealousy is the green-eyed monster (Othello) It was Greek to me (Julius Caesar) Heart of gold (Henry V) Her infinite variety (Antony and Cleopatra) 'Tis high time (The Comedy of Errors) Hoist with his own petard (Hamlet) Household words (Henry V) A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! (Richard III) Ill wind which blows no man to good (2 Henry IV) Improbable fiction (Twelfth Night) In a pickle (The Tempest) In my heart of hearts (Hamlet) In my mind's eye (Hamlet) Infinite space (Hamlet) In my book of memory (I Henry VI) It is but so-so(As You Like It) It smells to heaven (Hamlet) Itching palm (Julius Caesar) Kill with kindness (Taming of the Shrew) Killing frost (Henry VIII) Knit brow (The Rape of Lucrece) Knock knock! Who's there? (Macbeth) Laid on with a trowel (As You Like It) Laughing stock (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Laugh yourself into stitches (Twelfth Night) Lean and hungry look (Julius Caesar) Lie low (Much Ado about Nothing) Live long day (Julius Caesar) Love is blind (Merchant of Venice) Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water (Henry VIII) Melted into thin air (The Tempest) Though this be madness, yet there is method in it ("There's a method to my madness") (Hamlet) Make a virtue of necessity (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) The Makings of(Henry VIII) Milk of human kindness (Macbeth) Ministering angel (Hamlet) Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows (The Tempest) More honored in the breach than in the observance (Hamlet) More in sorrow than in anger (Hamlet) More sinned against than sinning (King Lear) Much Ado About Nothing (title) Murder most foul (Hamlet) Naked truth (Love's Labo |
Anna Nicole Smith gained notoriety after her short lived marriage to what Texas oil billionaire sparked a major court case, which continues to this day? | to this time last year. as two gruesome stabbing incidents over the weekend bring the number of murders up to 40 for the year. As the murder rate steadily increases. police yesterday expressed concern o\er this worrying trend We are indeed ver\ con- "' cizned. Obviously there are a number of social ills that are plaguing the communities. We are now up to 40 murders. Last year this tune we were only in the,lower to mid 20s. The num- bers have gotten pretty high." press liaison officer Inspector Walter Evans told The Tribune yesterday. before 9pm, a man of Cowpen Road -believed to be in his ear- lv 40s %as taken to Princess Mlargaret Hospital in a private vehicle 'The man had stab wounds to his chest and succumbed to his injuries a short time after arriving at the hospital." Mr Evans said. 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(Photo: Felipe Major/Tribune staff $14 million worth of FNM calls for investigation into .riuan. captured Shane Gibson personally receiving mariana cap reAnna Nicole Smith permit cheque OFFICEIRS of the D'ru g, Enforcement Unit (DEU) made one of the biggest drug busts of the year when they captured over $1.4 million Sort of marijuana over the weekend, according to police. mitl personally at Ms Smith's house, the FNM said yester- day. - to know why the cheque was not handed to "the appropri- ate officers" at the Immigra- tion Department. edged that Ms Smith is a close personal friend. He is a fre-, quent visitor to her house and he visited her three or four times when she was m hospital to have her baby," the FNM said. 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Its municipal functions | History Jeopardy Template Who is the Medici Family Who was the wealthy family in Florence that funded many artists during the Renaissance? 100 Who is Prometheus Who is that man that brought fire to the people of Greece by breaking off a piece of the sun? 100 Who is Helen of Sparta The Trojan War began because of the abduction of which Spartan queen according to classical sources? 100 What was the river that Egyptian civilizations depended on for flooding and irrigation? 100 After what explorer is our continent named? 200 What is Legalism What was the ancient Chinese philosophy that was used to bring an end to the Warring States Period in ancient China? 200 Who was the very wealthy king who loved gold more than anything? 200 In what year was the last battle of the War of 1812? 200 What type of belief system did most early civilizations have? 200 Who is that Spanish explorer that conquered the Incan empire? 300 What was the pictographic script used by the ancient Egyptians involving symbols? 300 Who was the god that was thrown off Mount Olympus because he was ugly? 300 During the Fourth Crusade, the pope excommunicated the Crusaders because they sacked what Christian city? 300 What is the Shang Dynasty What Chinese dynasty used tortoise shells and 'oracle bones' to communicate with the spirits which led to the first examples of Chinese writing? 300 Who is known as the first man to sail all the way around the world? 400 What is "Ring around the Rosie" What is the song that children sing for fun, but actually describes the Black Death that spread across Europe? 400 Artemis and who were the twins that Zeus had with Leto? 400 Who is Henry Tudor The War of Roses was fought between the Lancasters and the Yorks, but was one by a leader of neither party named who? 400 Who is the Nazca Who of this early Andes Mountains civilization carved enormous pictographs or glyphs into the desert floor that might be a form of ancient calendar? 400 Who crossed Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean? 500 What is 1886 What is the year in which the United States was presented with a monumental gift from France? 500 Who is Paris According to legend, who fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel, his only vulnerable spot? 500 What is the Treaty of Westphalia What was the resolution of the 30 Years War? 500 What is Papua New Guinea Jarred Diamond began searching the world for answers to a question posed by Yali, a native of what tropical country where Diamond did his early research? 500 |
Which comedian is known as The Pub Landlord | Biography | The Pub Landlord | Al Murray Click here to view The AL Murray Website ABOUT Al is one of the most recognisable and successful comics in the UK with his alter-ego, The Pub Landlord. Al has hosted an array of TV series over the last few years: COMPETE FOR THE MEAT (Dave) saw teams battle it out to win the coveted prize of a frozen chicken. His BRITISH COMEDY AWARD Winning ITV1 series AL MURRAY'S HAPPY HOUR has delighted both viewers and critics alike with his no nonsense treatment of his celebrity guests. He is also one of the few stand-up comedians to be asked by ITV to perform two AUDIENCE WITH'S.... Al's sitcom TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE (Sky One) has become something of a modern day cult classic and his series, AL MURRAY'S MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER (ITV1) saw him introduce a whole host of new characters and demonstrate his vast comedic range. Al's other TV appearances as The Pub Landlord include three appearances on THE ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE (ITV1), hosting both LIVE AT THE APOLLO (BBC1) and EDINBURGH AND BEYOND (Paramount Comedy Channel) and his edgy quiz show FACT HUNT (ITV1). He has also released eight best-selling live DVDs MY GAFF, MY RULES, GLASS OF WHITE WINE FOR THE LADY, GIVING IT BOTH BARRELS, LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, THE BEAUTIFUL BRITISH TOUR, BARREL OF FUN, THE ONLY WAY IS EPIC and ONE MAN, ONE GUV'NOR. Out of character, Al is the host of 7 Day Sunday a weekly programme for BBC Radio 5. He recently film two specials for BBC Four AL MURRAY'S GREAT BRITISH WAR MOVIES and AL MURRAY'S GREAT BRITISH SPY MOVIES. He has also hosted AL MURRAY'S GERMAN ADVENTURE, BBC Four, an historical series about the art and culture of Germany (without mentioning the War) and guest edited the New Year's Day episode of 'THE TODAY PROGRAMME' on BBC Radio 4. Al's huge stand-up tours have made him one of the most popular live comedy acts in the country, with sell out shows including the O2 Arena. He won the PERRIER AWARD (after a record four successive nominations) and secured OLIVIER AWARD nominations for both of his celebrated sell-out West End runs. Internationally, Al has forged an enviable reputation with numerous sell-out runs in Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal and New Zealand. His Pub Landlord, BOOK OF BRITISH COMMON SENSE, was a best-selling title when published in both paperback and hardback with 300,000 sales. His second hit book THINK YOURSELF BRITISH was published in hardback in 2009 and was followed in 2010 with his ultimate pub quiz book Al Murray The Pub Landlord's GREAT BRITISH PUB QUIZ BOOK. In 2013 Al released his first out of character book, WATCHING WAR FILMS WITH MY DAD. SIGN UP | BBC - Comedy - The Young Ones The Young Ones The Young Ones Whilst Not The Nine O'Clock News gave an outing to virtually every writer involved in the rise of alternative comedy, The Young Ones did the same for many alternative performers. The Young Ones launched the career of Ben Elton as a major writer, and was the first situation comedy of the Alternative generation. The series follows the lives of four dislikable social inadequates, each ostensibly studying at Scumbag College, but actually just doing whatever the hell they liked and having extremely strange, surreal adventures in the process. The series starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christoper Ryan ran from 1982 until 1985 for 26 episodes - not a bad airing for one of the most highly-charged, material-hungry British sitcoms ever made. The Young Ones came into being partially as a result of the standup routines that then-Comedy Store regulars Mayall, Edmondson, Planer, Peter Richardson and others were creating, and which had already become the series which was to be known as The Comic Strip Presents. Draft scripts from Mayall and Lise Mayer were full of the raw, punkish energy that the BBC were looking for, but it was Ben Elton who was responsible for making it all work. Along with Blackadder, The Young Ones is Ben Elton's greatest sitcom work. The setup of The Young Ones seems childish, and the stories themselves extremely fragmented. In many episodes the actions of the main characters seem to do nothing except hate and victimize each other - with everyone bullying hippy Neil, ignoring the claims by self-styled anarchist Rick that he's the 'most popular member of the house', punk psycho Vyvyan hitting everything and saving his love only for his hamster. Only cool dude Mike seemed above the fray in adventures that included Vyvyan discovering oil in the basement, an atomic bomb falling on the house, and everyone going through a time warp. Underneath the post-punk, rock culture insanity however, classic sitcom rules worked; Neil was a put-upon housewife in all but name, Rick and Vyvyan wayward teenagers with a penchant for (on one hand) fatuous semi-Marxism and (on the other) hitting people, with Mike the father figure whose plans for making money resemble an even-less-competent Del Trotter. They faced enemies such as the constantly tricksy Balowski 'family' - played in their entirety by Alexei Sayle - and the foul Footlights College team in an episode in which our heroes end up on University Challenge. It was the style and the characterization of The Young Ones, rather than its stories, which was entirely new. Never before had violence of such degree, squalor, physical foulness, blood, sex and death, all been used as such a regular part of a flagship comedy programme. It was, like Not The Nine O'Clock News, a signal to the old guard that comedy was going in a different direction, and it wasn't going to be comfy. Even the musical interludes - which had featured in other shows such as The Goons - were harder, with bands like Madness, and Motorhead performing. The Young Ones eventually exited in typically surreal fashion, stealing a bus and driving it over a cliff after a haphazard armed robbery and allowing its stars to move on to other things. It proved in itself a difficult act to follow for all its major stars. Filthy, Rich and Catflap and Bottom were never quite as good. Whilst most of the other writer-creators of the time used the doors it opened, they did so in very different ways. The Young Ones was too random, too punkish, to make it a format that could be rubberstamped elsewhere. |
Who were the famous backing singers on most of Elvis Presley's early hits? | Elvis FAQ: Elvis' Backup Singers Elvis' Backup Singers The following groups and individuals provided backing vocals for Elvis, either live on stage, in the studio, or both. The years in parentheses indicate time spent backing Elvis. Almost all of these groups and individuals had full careers besides their association with Elvis. Backup Groups Pedro Berrios German Vega The Amigos backed Elvis on "We'll Be Together" from Girls! Girls! Girls!, in March of 1962, and their version of "Mama", without Elvis, was featured in the film briefly. They backed Elvis again on the Fun In Acapulco soundtrack, in January and February of 1963. The Blossoms (1968) Darlene Love - (born Darlene Wright) One of Phil Spector's studio singers, Darlene sang lead on the Crystals' hit, "He's A Rebel", and as a solo artist had quite a few hits as well, including the holiday rock 'n' roll classic, "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" Jean King Fanita James This group of "unsung heroines" backed Elvis for his NBC-TV special "Elvis" (the "comeback" special), recorded in June of 1968. Darlene does the duet with Elvis on "Let Yourself Go", in the video version of the song (the CD version is just Elvis). Darlene also sings lead on "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" with the others backing her, as part of the Gospel Medley. The Blossoms also sang at the sessions for The Trouble With Girls, at least on "Swing Down Sweet Chariot". They appeared briefly in Elvis' last feature film, Change of Habit (1970), as Elvis' neighbors. The "History of Rock" webpage below is a very interesting and very detailed account of the Blossoms' career. The Blossoms can be heard, completely uncredited, on many other Phil Spector girl-group hits, as well as the Darlene Love "solo" songs mentioned above. The Blossoms - from the "History of Rock" website Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans - also from the "History of Rock" website. Darlene and Fanita recorded with this group, another from Phil Spector's studio. Joe Moscheo The Imperials first joined up with Elvis in May of 1966, for his first non-soundtrack recording session in over two years. Out of these sessions came the entire How Great Thou Art album, as well as six other songs. The Imperials would accompany Elvis on many occasions for the next five years, both in the studio, and for many of his live concerts during his "comeback" period. They also appeared in the documentary Elvis: That's the Way It Is in 1970. Their last session with Elvis was for another gospel album, He Touched Me, recorded in May and June of 1971. Hugh Jarrett (bass) (up to June 1958) Ray Walker (bass) (from June 1958 on) Probably the group most often associated with Elvis, the Jordanaires appeared on almost all Elvis' recordings from July 1956 through September 1970. They had previously backed Hank Snow, among others, having sung at the Grand Ole Opry for many years. In Memphis at the Cotton Carnival in early 1954, Elvis met the Jordanaires backstage and told them, "If I ever cut a record, I want to use you guys singing background with me." Their first session with Elvis took place on July 2, 1956, and produced the double-sided hit record "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" which would be Elvis' biggest selling single of all-time. Their last sessions with Elvis were the marathon recording dates of June 4 - 8, 1970, which yielded 34 songs, and a follow-up session on September 22 producing only 4 cuts. These sessions produced the albums That's The Way It Is, Elvis Country, and Love Letters, along with a few leftovers! The Jordanaires can be seen in a few of Elvis' films, most notably in Loving You, in the final number on stage, and in G.I. Blues, during the song, "Frankfort Special". After Elvis' death, they released a tribute album, The Jordanaires Sing Elvis's Gospel Favorites. The Jordanaires with Elvis Buy The Jordanaires' music at CD Universe! Th | Elvis Presley - Biography - IMDb Elvis Presley Biography Showing all 302 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (10) | Trivia (225) | Personal Quotes (36) | Salary (24) Overview (5) The King of Rock 'n' Roll Height 5' 11¾" (1.82 m) Mini Bio (1) Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Presley (née Gladys Love Smith) and Vernon Presley (Vernon Elvis Presley). He had a twin brother who was stillborn. In September 1948, Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he attended Humes High School. In 1953, he attended the senior prom with the current girl he was courting, Regis Wilson. After graduating from high school in Memphis, Elvis took odd jobs working as a movie theater usher and a truck driver for Crown Electric Company. He began singing locally as "The Hillbilly Cat", then signed with a local recording company, and then with RCA in 1955. Elvis did much to establish early rock and roll music. He began his career as a performer of rockabilly, an up-tempo fusion of country music and rhythm and blues, with a strong backbeat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, made him popular - and controversial - as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Jailhouse Rock" and "Hound Dog" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop music. Teenage girls became hysterical over his blatantly sexual gyrations, particularly the one that got him nicknamed "Elvis the Pelvis" (television cameras were not permitted to film below his waist). In 1956, following his six television appearances on The Dorsey Brothers' "Stage Show", Elvis was cast in his first acting role, in a supporting part in Love Me Tender (1956), the first of 33 movies he starred in. In 1958, Elvis was drafted into the military, and relocated to Bad Nauheim, Germany. There he met and fell in love with 14-year old army damsel Priscilla Ann Wagner ( Priscilla Presley ), whom he would eventually marry after an eight-year courtship, and with whom he had his only child, Lisa Marie Presley . Elvis' military service and the "British Invasion" of the 1960s reduced his concerts, though not his movie/recording income. Through the 1960s, Elvis settled in Hollywood, where he starred in the majority of his thirty-three movies, mainly musicals, acting alongside some of the most well known actors in Hollywood. Critics panned most of his films, but they did very well at the box office, earning upwards of $150 million total. His last fiction film, Change of Habit (1969), deals with several social issues; romance within the clergy, an autistic child, almost unheard of in 1969, rape, and mob violence. It has recently received critical acclaim. Elvis made a comeback in the 1970s with live concert appearances starting in early 1970 in Las Vegas with over 57 sold-out shows. He toured throughout the United States, appearing on-stage in over 500 live appearances, many of them sold out shows. His marriage ended in divorce, and the stress of constantly traveling as well as his increasing weight gain and dependence upon stimulants and depressants took their toll. Elvis Presley died at age 42 on August 16, 1977 at his mansion in Graceland, near Memphis, shocking his fans worldwide. At the time of his death, he had sold more than 600 million singles and albums. Since his death, Graceland has become a shrine for millions of followers worldwide. Elvis impersonators and purported sightings have become stock subjects for humorists. To date, Elvis Presley is the only performer to have been inducted into three separate music 'Halls of Fame'. Throughout his career, he set records for concert attendance, television ratings and recordings sales, and remains one of the best-selling and most influential artists in the history of popular music. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan and Chris Holland Spouse |
Which post in the UK did Rowan Williams take up in February 2003? | Rowan Williams: UK 'needs to do more for refugees', says former archbishop - BBC News BBC News Rowan Williams: UK 'needs to do more for refugees', says former archbishop 19 June 2016 Close share panel Image copyright PA Image caption Dr Williams was appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002, standing down in 2012 The UK government needs to do more to respond to the refugee crisis, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has said. Dr Williams, who is now the chairman of the charity Christian Aid, said the rhetoric in the media which suggested the UK was "full" was "unfounded". "The UK must not turn a blind eye to this crisis. We must do more," he said. The government said it had pledged to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 - and about 1,600 had already arrived. Dr Williams, who made his comments ahead of Refugee Week which begins on Monday, said the refugee crisis was the biggest displacement of people to Europe since the Second World War. "Desperate people who have been driven out of their homes by war are being forced to make dangerous journeys in search of sanctuary. Yet many countries are closing their borders and putting up barbed wire," he said. "The UK must not turn a blind eye to this crisis. We can and must do more to respond." 'Welcoming strangers' He said the UK had a proud history of offering refuge to those in need, welcoming Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s and Kosovan refugees in the late 1990s. "The rhetoric in the media is one that suggests that the UK is 'full', and that those arriving on our shores are a drain on our economy," he said. "Not only are these assertions unfounded, but they fail to recognise the positive, life-affirming contributions that generations of refugees have made to British society - and that we ourselves are changed by welcoming the stranger." Image copyright AP Dr Williams, who was appointed the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 and stood down in 2012, said the charity Christian Aid was founded on the belief that "all people would live together as neighbours". The charity wants the government to take on "far higher" numbers of refugees and accelerate the resettlement of the 20,000 Syrian refugees it has agreed to accept. Syria has been embroiled in a bloody armed conflict for nearly five years. More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed, and 11 million displaced from their homes - more than four million have already left the country. Vulnerable children A Home Office spokesman said: "Last month the UK announced we will resettle unaccompanied migrant children registered in Greece, Italy or France before 20 March, where this is in their best interests. "It will mean the UK can focus on the most vulnerable children already in Europe - without encouraging more to make the journey. "This builds on the further announcement that 3,000 vulnerable children and family members will be resettled direct from the Middle East and North Africa." Syrian refugees are arriving in the UK under the government's Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme . The Home Office also highlighted the fact that the government had pledged £2.3bn in humanitarian aid to Syria and its neighbouring countries. Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme "Paperwork" is completed before the refugees arrive. Prioritises women and children at risk, people in need of medical attention and survivors of torture and violence. All refugees settled under the scheme have undergone a two-step security screening process. People under the scheme will have access to housing, medical care and education, and they can work. The Home Office provides funding of at least £10,000 per refugee for the first year. Refugees taken into the UK under the scheme granted five years' humanitarian protection which includes access to public funds, the labour market and the possibility of family reunion , if a person was separated from their partner or child when leaving their country. After those five years they can apply to settle in the UK . A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant | England's Managers - Index England's Managers P 4 W 2 D 2 L 0 F 7: A 2 The Coaches/Managers BME Players Not until 1946 did the England national team have a manager or coach. From 1870, when England played their first match, a friendly not recognised as official, until the Second World War, the team was selected by International Select Committee functionaries, at first the F.A. Secretary and later the F.A.'s International Committee. Although most of the national teams of Continental Europe and South America had coaches from their beginnings, England's footballing establishment viewed coaching with suspicion in general and as unnecessary at this level in particular. The selected players simply showed up, took the pitch and played their own game. Match preparation, if there was time for it, was limited to training runs, conditioning exercises and perhaps a kickabout or two. The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), a scholarly enterprise based in Wiesbaden, Germany, claims in its book on England's matches before the Second World War that Herbert Chapman was the team "trainer"--a term it uses in the Continental European sense of manager or coach--for the 1-1 draw with Italy in Rome on 13 May 1933 and that Thomas Whittaker was the "trainer" for six matches, the 5-2 win against Scotland at Wembley Stadium on 5 April 1930, the 2-1 loss to Austria in Vienna on 6 May 1936, the 3-2 loss to Belgium in Brussels on 9 May 1936, and the last three pre-war matches in 1939, the 2-2 draw with Italy in Milan on 13 May, the 2-1 loss to Yugoslavia in Belgrade on 18 May, and the 2-0 victory over Romania in Bucharest on 24 May. IFFHS, England (1872 - 1940), Eire (1924 - 1940), England/Amateurs (1906 - 1940): Full Internationals, pp. 116, 126, 134-35, 147-49 (IFFHS, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2000). Chapman, the famed Huddersfield Town and Arsenal manager of the 1920's and 1930's, did indeed play an advisory role in England's two-match Continental European tour of 1933, which also included the 4-0 win against Switzerland in Berne on 20 May as well as the draw with Italy a week earlier, but he never received an official appointment with the England team and acted in an entirely informal capacity. Another historian has the proper perspective: "in 1933, despite objections from selectors, he acted as unofficial manager to the England team in Italy and Switzerland with considerable success. His tactical pre-match team talks helped effect a 4-0 victory over a strong Swiss team, and a 1-1 draw against Italy, in Rome." Tony Say, "Herbert Chapman: Football Revolutionary?", The Sports Historian, vol 16, pp. 81-98 (May, 1996). Whittaker, too, accompanied the England team on occasion. But at the time he was the physical trainer for Arsenal, under Chapman at first and, following Chapman's death in early 1934, George Allison. It was almost certainly that role he filled with England; he certainly never received an appointment making him coach or manager of the England team. Whittaker did not become a manager himself until 1947, when he succeeded Allison at Arsenal. The IFFHS itself seems uncertain about Whittaker's role. While its book names him as trainer in the summaries of six matches taking place in 1930, 1936 and 1939, it inconsistently has him as trainer for only the three 1939 matches in the tabular record that follows the match summaries. The role Chapman or Whittaker filled with the England team was purely on an ad hoc basis. The F.A. did not give either of them official appointments putting them in charge of the team, and neither ever had anything resembling the authority of a manager or coach over the England team. For these reasons, it would be inaccurate to include them in the list of England managers/coaches. When international play resumed in 1946 following World War II's seven-year disruption, Walter Winterbottom was named England's first coach and manager. For the first few months of his tenure, he had responsibility for the national team as national director of coaching, but in May, 1947, imme |
In Greek legend, who, the last king of Troy, was the father of Hector and Paris? | Hector | Greek mythology | Britannica.com Greek mythology Hecuba Hector, in Greek legend , the eldest son of the Trojan king Priam and his queen Hecuba . He was the husband of Andromache and the chief warrior of the Trojan army. In Homer’s Iliad he is represented as an ideal warrior and the mainstay of Troy . His character is drawn in most favourable colours as a good son, a loving husband and father, and a trusty friend. His leave-taking of Andromache in the sixth book of the Iliad, and his departure to meet Achilles for the last time, are movingly described. He is an especial favourite of Apollo , and later poets even described him as son of that god. His chief exploits during the Trojan War were his defense of the wounded Sarpedon, his fight with Ajax , son of Telamon (his particular enemy), and the storming of the Greek ramparts. When Achilles , enraged with Agamemnon , deserted the Greeks, Hector drove them back to their ships, which he almost succeeded in burning. Patroclus , the friend of Achilles, who came to the help of the Greeks, was slain by Hector with the help of Apollo. Then Achilles, to revenge his friend’s death, returned to the war, slew Hector, dragged his body behind his chariot to the camp, and afterward round the tomb of Patroclus. Aphrodite and Apollo preserved it from corruption and mutilation. Priam , guarded by Hermes, went to Achilles and prevailed on him to give back the body, which was buried with great honour. Hector was afterward worshipped in the Troad and also at Tanagra, east of Thebes . King Priam of Troy mourning over the body of his son Hector. © Photos.com/Jupiterimages Hector - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) In Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, Hector is the son of the Trojan King Priam and the greatest of the Trojan heroes. When the Greeks besieged Troy, Hector’s wife, Andromache, begged him not to fight, but Hector embraced their child and left to join the battle. Hector killed Patroclus, a friend of the Greek hero Achilles, and in revenge Achilles killed Hector. Achilles then drove his chariot around the walls of Troy, dragging Hector’s body behind him. Priam finally begged his son’s body from Achilles. The Trojans, mourning, burned Hector’s body, and buried his ashes. When the fighting resumed, Troy fell to the Greeks. (See also Achilles; Homeric legend.) Article History | SparkNotes: Troilus and Cressida: Act II Troilus and Cressida Act III Summary In the Greek camp, Ajax summons his slave, Thersites, and orders him to find out the nature of the proclamation that has just been posted. Thersites, a foul-mouthed ruffian, refuses to obey and instead curses his master and the Greeks with equal vigor, provoking Ajax to beat him. Achilles and Patroclus come upon them, and Thersites includes the two newcomers in his curses. They send him away, and Achilles tells Ajax the news of Hector's challenge to any brave Greek warrior. The selection of the warrior has been put to a lottery—otherwise, Achilles says as he leaves, he would have been the only possible choice, a remark that produces a sneer from Ajax. In Troy, King Priam and his sons debate the wisdom of continuing the war, when they can end it by returning Helen to the Greeks. Hector, supported by his brother Helenus, argues eloquently that while the theft of Helen may have been a brave act, she cannot be worth the great and bloody price they are paying to keep her. When he is done speaking, his sister Cassandra, a prophetess who is considered mad, dashes in and cries that if they do not let Helen go, Troy will burn. When she is gone, Troilus dismisses her warning as ravings, and argues that they must keep Helen for the sake of their honor—and Paris supports him, declaring that his stolen woman is worth more than "the world's large spaces" (III.ii.162) and must be fought for. Hector retorts that this is why young men cannot be trusted to make moral decisions, since "the hot passion of distempered blood" (III.ii.169) overwhelms their reason, but when Troilus says that Helen is more than a woman, she is "a theme of honor and renown" (III.ii199), Hector yields and agrees to continue the war. He goes on to report the challenge that has been sent out to the Greeks, and how he hopes it will bring Achilles to the field. Alone, Thersites sneers at the pretensions of both Ajax and Achilles. When Patroclus and Achilles appear, he calls them fools; Patroclus moves to strike him, but Achilles holds him off. They see the Greek commanders—Agamemnon, Ulysses, Nestor, and Diomedes—approaching, accompanied by Ajax, and Achilles quickly retires to his tent. When Agamemnon asks to see him Patroclus tells the general that Achilles is ill. Agamemnon grows angry, but Achilles refuses to emerge, and tells Ulysses, who goes in to see him, that he still refuses to fight the Trojans. Agamemnon suggests that Ajax go in and plead with Achilles, but Ulysses declares that doing so would be insulting to Ajax, and then he, with the other Greek commanders, praises Ajax profusely, saying that he is the best of their warriors. They agree to leave Achilles in his tent, and decide that Ajax will be their champion against Hector the next day. Commentary These scenes mark the first appearances of Thersites in the play. With his constant cursing and abusive behavior, he is an unpleasant character to watch or read—but not necessarily an unsympathetic one. Although deformed, dirty, and vulgar, he is not meant to be seen as villainous or even bad—rather, he is a kind of lower-class scold, a moralist whose outbursts are occasioned by his disgust with the behavior of those around him. Most of his scenes are with Ajax and Achilles, both of whom certainly deserve his curses, and his cynicism toward the entire business of the war mirrors Shakespeare's own. All the characters in the play are desperately self-conscious—too aware, in a sense, of their role as "heroes," and not aware that their unpleasant behavior stains their heroic feats. But Thersites is aware, and his rhetoric exposes everyone else's pretensions. "Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles," Thersites declares, "Achilles is a fool to be commanded by Agamemnon, Thersites is a fool to serve such a fool, and this Patroclus is a fool positive" (II.iii.64-67). These are all (save for Thersites himself) great heroes in Greek myth, but in this play they are reduced to foolishness. No fool is greater than Ajax, though (even A |
The 1918 pandemic was given what name? | The 1918 Influenza Pandemic I opened the window, And in-flu-enza. The influenza pandemic circled the globe. Most of humanity felt the effects of this strain of the influenza virus. It spread following the path of its human carriers, along trade routes and shipping lines. Outbreaks swept through North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil and the South Pacific (Taubenberger). In India the mortality rate was extremely high at around 50 deaths from influenza per 1,000 people (Brown). The Great War, with its mass movements of men in armies and aboard ships, probably aided in its rapid diffusion and attack. The origins of the deadly flu disease were unknown but widely speculated upon. Some of the allies thought of the epidemic as a biological warfare tool of the Germans. Many thought it was a result of the trench warfare, the use of mustard gases and the generated "smoke and fumes" of the war. A national campaign began using the ready rhetoric of war to fight the new enemy of microscopic proportions. A study attempted to reason why the disease had been so devastating in certain localized regions, looking at the climate, the weather and the racial composition of cities. They found humidity to be linked with more severe epidemics as it "fosters the dissemination of the bacteria," (Committee on Atmosphere and Man, 1923). Meanwhile the new sciences of the infectious agents and immunology were racing to come up with a vaccine or therapy to stop the epidemics. The experiences of people in military camps encountering the influenza pandemic: An excerpt for the memoirs of a survivor at Camp Funston of the pandemic Survivor A letter to a fellow physician describing conditions during the influenza epidemic at Camp Devens A collection of letters of a soldier stationed in Camp Funston Soldier The origins of this influenza variant is not precisely known. It is thought to have originated in China in a rare genetic shift of the influenza virus. The recombination of its surface proteins created a virus novel to almost everyone and a loss of herd immunity. Recently the virus has been reconstructed from the tissue of a dead soldier and is now being genetically characterized . The name of Spanish Flu came from the early affliction and large mortalities in Spain (BMJ,10/19/1918) where it allegedly killed 8 million in May (BMJ, 7/13/1918). However, a first wave of influenza appeared early in the spring of 1918 in Kansas and in military camps throughout the US. Few noticed the epidemic in the midst of the war. Wilson had just given his 14 point address. There was virtually no response or acknowledgment to the epidemics in March and April in the military camps. It was unfortunate that no steps were taken to prepare for the usual recrudescence of the virulent influenza strain in the winter. The lack of action was later criticized when the epidemic could not be ignored in the winter of 1918 (BMJ, 1918). These first epidemics at training camps were a sign of what was coming in greater magnitude in the fall and winter of 1918 to the entire world. The war brought the virus back into the US for the second wave of the epidemic. It first arrived in Boston in September of 1918 through the port busy with war shipments of machinery and supplies. The war also enabled the virus to spread and diffuse. Men across the nation were mobilizing to join the military and the cause. As they came together, they brought the virus with them and to those they contacted. The virus killed almost 200,00 in October of 1918 alone. In November 11 of 1918 the end of the war enabled a resurgence. As people celebrated Armistice Day with parades and large partiess, a complete disaster from the public health standpoint, a rebirth of the epidemic occurred in some cities. The flu that winter was beyond imagination as millions were infected and thousands died. Just as the war had effected the course of influenza, influenza affected the war. Entire fleets were ill with the disease and men on the front were too sick to fight. The flu was devastating to both sides, kill | Teaching Heritage Teaching Heritage Australian 20th century Australian 20th Century Timeline The ‘ Australian 20th century ’ timeline follows events and developments in Australia from Federation through to the year 2000. This collection of events provides another means of investigating Australia's past and trying to identify what we mean by 'Our Heritage'. 1900s The first decade of this century brought many changes. Federation occurred in 1901 and Australia became a nation. The flag we have today was chosen, all men and women could vote except for Aboriginal people. The streets were lit by electricity, surf bathing in the daytime was no longer considered illegal and Australia won Wimbledon for the first time. The first lifesaving club in the world was founded at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Peters Icecream company began and, appropriately, the automatic totalisator for betting on horse-races was invented by an Australian. The 'White Australia' Policy was established, the Australian Labor Party was formed, Empire Day was inaugurated and the High Court was set up. The two-party political system began in Australia. The New South Wales Aboriginal Protection Board was established and Canberra was chosen as a site for the federal capital. Questions for research and discussion: Choose three of the events listed in this decade and write a paragraph on each event arguing why it should be considered a major influence on how Australians regard themselves. What was the the 'White Australia' Policy? Why did it have an enormous influence on Australian society and culture? What did the 'Protectionists' believe in? What did the 'Free traders' believe in? Investigate one of the ship wrecks of this decade. Why do Australians celebrate Australia Day on 25 January? Why don't they celebrate 'Federation Day' - the day Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901? An outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney's Rocks area leads to a massive clean-up. First discovery of natural gas in Australia. Soldiers from the Australian states depart for China's Boxer War. Lord Hopetoun arrives in Sydney (19 December) and invites NSW Premier Sir William Lyne to form a federal ministry, but Lyne, an anti-federalist, is unable to gain support. 24 December, Edmund Barton is commissioned. Intercolonial conference held at the Sydney Trades Hall to consider forming a Federal Labour Party. Whaling operations from Hobart end. Detachments of Citizen's Bushmen's Corps from New South Wales and South Australia leave for South Africa to fight in the Anglo-Boer War. (Detachments from Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia leave during March). SS 'Glenelg' wrecked off Victorian coast; 31 lives lost. Contingents of Imperial Bushmen begin leaving for South Africa. Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act passed by the British Parliament, receives Royal assent. At the Paris Olympics, F C V Lane wins the 200 metres freestyle swimming event. Film: Joseph Perry and the Salvation Army make 'Soldiers of the Cross'. Books: 'On the Track', 'Verses, Popular and Humorous' by Henry Lawson are published. The estimated population of Australia is 3,765,300. (New SouthWales, 1,360,305; Tasmania,172,900; WA,179,967; South Australia, 357,250; Victoria,1196,213; Queensland, 493,847; Northern Territory, 4,857.) The Commonwealth of Australia is proclaimed at a ceremony in Centennial Park, Sydney. Lord Hopetoun assumes office as Governor-General, and Prime Minister Edmund Barton and his cabinet ministers (Executive Council) are sworn in. Baldwin Spencer and F J Gillen make a year-long investigation of the Aborigines of northern Central Australia. William Farrar releases his early-maturing, drought- |
The Churn, the Windrush, the Cherwell and the Mole are all tributaries of which major river? | Thames, river, England Encyclopedia > Places > Britain, Ireland, France, and the Low Countries > British and Irish Physical Geography Thames Thames (tĕmz) [ key ], Rom. Tamesis, principal river of England, c.210 mi (340 km) long. It rises in four headstreams (the Thames or Isis, Churn, Coln, and Leach) in the Cotswold Hills, E Gloucestershire, and flows generally eastward across S England and through London to the North Sea at The Nore. In its upper course—around and above Oxford —it is often called Isis. The Thames drains c.5,250 sq mi (13,600 sq km); its tributaries include the Windrush, Cherwell, Thame, Kennet, Wey, Mole, Lea, Roding, and Medway. It is joined by canals (including the Oxford, Thames and Severn, and Grand Junction) that cover a wide area. The river is navigable by barges to Lechlade, below which there are a number of locks. The Thames is tidal to Teddington; there is a 23-ft (7-m) difference between low and high tide at London Bridge. The part of the stream near London Bridge is known as the Pool. The main part of the port of London stretches from London Bridge to Blackwall. The Thames Conservancy Board was established in 1857; the docks and the tidal part of the river below Teddington have been administered by the Port of London Authority since 1908. Part of the river is of great beauty, is much used for boating, and is still popular for fishing. The upper valley of the Thames is a broad, flat basin of alluvial clay soil, through which the river winds and turns constantly in all directions. At Goring Gap the valley narrows, separating the Chiltern Hills from the Berkshire Downs. The lower valley forms a second broad basin through which the Thames also meanders. The land around the river was formerly marshy, and the ancient roads were far from the river banks. In the Middle Ages the valley was very prosperous, with many religious houses and several large towns, including Reading and Windsor. Between Oxford and London, the valley is predominantly agricultural, with scattered villages; Reading is the only industrial town there. The Greater London conurbation along the river's lower course is one of the most important industrial regions of Great Britain. Among the many interesting archaeological discoveries made in the valley are fossils of seashells and a human skull from the Paleolithic period. In London the river is crossed by 27 bridges, including the new London Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, and Tower Bridge. There are two main tunnels under the river in London, and one between Dartford and Purfleet, as well as several footpaths and 5 railroad tunnels. In 1963 governmental efforts began to combat pollution of the waters through a series of rules and regulations. At parts along the river downstream flood barriers were constructed, which became operational in 1982, to prevent London from damage by North Sea gales. See study by J. Schneer (2005). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. | Tobermory Isle of Mull Scotland Website Tobermory was built as a fishing port in the late 18th century and is now the main town on Mull. It is a picture-postcard of a place with the brightly painted buildings along the main street to the pier and the high woodland-fringed hills surrounding the bay. The town has a good variety of shops , hotels , and other accommodation as well as being the administrative centre for the island. The harbour is always busy with fishing boats, yachts and the ferry to and from Kilchoan. In recent years, the island has become very popular for weddings in a romantic atmosphere. There is reputed to be the wreck of a Spanish galleon somewhere in the mud at the bottom of the bay. The ship was part of the defeated Armada of 1588 and was fleeing the English fleet when she anchored in Tobermory to take on provisions. Following a dispute over payment the ship caught fire which caused the gunpowder to explode. She was supposed to have been carrying millions of gold coins when she went to the bottom but no-one has ever managed to find any significant treasure. More recently, Tobermory has been the setting for the children's programme Balamory . After the initial success of these programmes in Britain, Balamory is now reaching a new audience in Australia. The Isle of Mull and Iona have become one of the premier destinations for wildlife watching in the United Kingdom in the last few years. Thousands of people are attracted to the islands in the hope of catching a glimpse of the rare and unusual Golden and White-tailed Eagles , Otter, Corncrake and an abundance of other birds and mammals. The seas off the coast of Mull are important feeding areas for whales, dolphins and basking sharks . The colourful and picturesque island capital of Tobermory is an ideal location from which to make the very most of your wildlife watching on the Isle of Mull. The island is home to the most famous pair of White-tailed Eagles in the world, as featured on numerous television and radio broadcasts. The re-introduction of these iconic birds of prey has been so successful that breeding pairs can now be seen throughout the length and breadth of the island, including Tobermory. A great opportunity exists to come and see the White-tailed Eagles who begin to lay their eggs from early March onwards. Incubation takes place after the first egg is laid and lasts for an average of 38 days. Both sexes share responsibility for sitting on the eggs, although the bulk of the incubation duty is carried out by the female. The Sea Eagle Hide is open all year round but booking is essential. Tel: 01680 812556. |
Jurisprudence is the theory/philosophy of what? | Natural Law | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Z Natural Law The term "natural law" is ambiguous. It refers to a type of moral theory, as well as to a type of legal theory, but the core claims of the two kinds of theory are logically independent. It does not refer to the laws of nature , the laws that science aims to describe. According to natural law moral theory, the moral standards that govern human behavior are, in some sense, objectively derived from the nature of human beings and the nature of the world. While being logically independent of natural law legal theory, the two theories intersect. However, the majority of the article will focus on natural law legal theory. According to natural law legal theory, the authority of legal standards necessarily derives, at least in part, from considerations having to do with the moral merit of those standards. There are a number of different kinds of natural law legal theories, differing from each other with respect to the role that morality plays in determining the authority of legal norms. The conceptual jurisprudence of John Austin provides a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of law that distinguishes law from non-law in every possible world. Classical natural law theory such as the theory of Thomas Aquinas focuses on the overlap between natural law moral and legal theories. Similarly, the neo-naturalism of John Finnis is a development of classical natural law theory. In contrast, the procedural naturalism of Lon L. Fuller is a rejection of the conceptual naturalist idea that there are necessary substantive moral constraints on the content of law. Lastly, Ronald Dworkin’s theory is a response and critique of legal positivism . All of these theories subscribe to one or more basic tenets of natural law legal theory and are important to its development and influence. Table of Contents References and Further Reading 1. Two Kinds of Natural Law Theory At the outset, it is important to distinguish two kinds of theory that go by the name of natural law. The first is a theory of morality that is roughly characterized by the following theses. First, moral propositions have what is sometimes called objective standing in the sense that such propositions are the bearers of objective truth-value; that is, moral propositions can be objectively true or false. Though moral objectivism is sometimes equated with moral realism (see, e.g., Moore 1992, 190: "the truth of any moral proposition lies in its correspondence with a mind- and convention-independent moral reality"), the relationship between the two theories is controversial. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (1988), for example, views moral objectivism as one species of moral realism, but not the only form; on Sayre-McCord's view, moral subjectivism and moral intersubjectivism are also forms of moral realism. Strictly speaking, then, natural law moral theory is committed only to the objectivity of moral norms. The second thesis constituting the core of natural law moral theory is the claim that standards of morality are in some sense derived from, or entailed by, the nature of the world and the nature of human beings. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, identifies the rational nature of human beings as that which defines moral law: "the rule and measure of human acts is the reason, which is the first principle of human acts" (Aquinas, ST I-II, Q.90, A.I). On this common view, since human beings are by nature rational beings, it is morally appropriate that they should behave in a way that conforms to their rational nature. Thus, Aquinas derives the moral law from the nature of human beings (thus, "natural law"). But there is another kind of natural law theory having to do with the relationship of morality to law. According to natural law theory of law, there is no clean division between the notion of law and the notion of morality. Though there are different versions of natural law theory, all subscribe to the thesis that there | EX LIBRIS: Commonplace Books by K . - issuu issuu “COMMONPLACE BOOKS” h!p://grr.aaaaarg.org/txt/collection/detail.php?id=52333d4d307888cb75000006 15 September 2013 and ongoing A curatorial- editorial experiment by Anna-Sophie Springer Dating back to antiquity and with particular popularity in the Renaissance period, commonplace books are a type of scholarly notebook containing a collection of excerpted and copied passages that a person compiled and stored for future purposes such as reference and quotation. How to actually keep and organize a commonplace book was a small science in itself. John Locke’s text A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books (1706) suggested some techniques—one of which is a system of classifying and coding entries into a growing subject index, one’s personal potential encyclopedia. While physical notebooks remain a treasure to keep and even if we do not yet live in a truly paperless age, our commonplace of today is that we access and store a huge amount of information digitally. By engaging an online pirate library, specifically the Arg library, “Commonplace Books” seeks to address shi"s in how we approach notions such as the “common” or the “public” more openly and actively than ever. The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is a phenomenon of the library. ~ Michel Foucault A PDF has been created from excerpted and copied passages of thematically relevant publications available in digital form in the Arg library. It has been uploaded back onto the platform and a link will appear in the “New Texts” section on h!p://grr.aaaaarg.org making it available to all network users. This book made available by the Internet Archive. Is it not possible to reexamine, as a legitimate extension of this kind of analysis, the privileges of the subject? Clearly, in undertaking an internal and architectonic analysis of a work (whether it be a literary text, a philosophical system, or a scientific work) and in delimiting psychological and biographical references, suspicions arise concerning the absolute nature and creative role of the subject. But the subject should not be entirely abandoned. It should be reconsidered, not to restore the theme of an originating subject, but to seize its functions, its intervention in discourse, and its system of dependencies. We should suspend the typical questions: how does a free subject penetrate the density of things and endow them with meaning; how does it accomplish its design by animating the rules of discourse from within? Rather, we should ask: under what conditions and through what forms can an entity like the subject appear in the order of discourse; what position does it occupy; what functions does it exhibit; and what rules does it follow in each type of discourse? In short, the subject (and its substitutes) must be stripped of its creative role and analysed as a complex and variable function of discourse. The author—or what I have called the 'author-function'—is undoubtedly only one of the possible specifications of the subject and, considering past historical transformations, it appears that the form, the complexity, and even the existence of this function are far from immutable. We can easily imagine a culture where discourse would circulate without any need for an author. Discourses, whatever their status, form, or value, and regardless of our manner of handling them, would unfold in a pervasive anonymity. No longer the tiresome repetitions: ' W h o is the real author?' 'Have we proof of his authenticity and originality?' 'What has he revealed of his most profound self in his language?' New questions will be heard: 'What are the modes of existence of this discourse?' 'Where does it come from; how is it circulated; who controls it?' 'What placements are determined for possible subjects?' ' W h o can fulfill these diverse functions of the subjec |
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Classic Races British flat racing - meaning the races are run on 'the flat', without jumps - are the most traditional form of horse racing. The Classics, or Classic Races, are a series of five flat races, held annually and restricted to horses which are three years of age. The five races, which are subdivided into two separate competitions, the Triple Crown and the Fillies' Triple crown, are held at three different race courses; Newmarket , Epsom Downs and Doncaster . The Classic Races are so popular that bookmakers all across the UK offer year-round antepost betting on the events; allowing punting professionals to benefit from excellent early odds. The five Classic Races in the United Kingdom are: 2,000 Guineas Stakes This race is held at the famous Newmarket Racecourse , on the Rowley Mile, in late April or early May, and is run over a distance of one mile. The 2,000 Guineas Stakes was first held on 18th April 1809. It is open to fillies and colts, female and male three-year-olds, and is the first race of the Classics season. The 2,000 Guineas Stakes is also part of the Triple Crown, a separate cup comprised of the three classic races which allow horses of either sex to enter. 1,000 Guineas Stakes The second race of the Classics also takes place at Newmarket 's Rowley Mile at the same time as the 2,000 Guineas Stakes (late April or early March). The 1,000 Guineas Stakes was first introduced on 28th April 1814, five years after the 2,000 Guineas Stakes was established. It is open to fillies only, female horses of three years, which makes it part of the Fillies' Triple Crown, the fillies-only version of the Triple Crown mentioned above. As the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, it is run over the course of one mile. Epsom Oaks The race, conducted at Epsom Downs racecourse in Surrey, is the third of the Classics races, as well as the second event in the Fillies' Triple Crown. Like the 1,000 Guineas Stakes it is a contest for female three-year-olds only. The Epsom Oaks race was established in 1779, one year before the Derby Stakes premiered. It takes its name from 'The Oaks' a home rented by the 12th Earl of Derby in the Epsom area. The race takes place over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and ten yards. Epsom Derby Also known as simply The Derby to locals and as the Epsom Derby to the international audience, is the fourth race of the Classics series. It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and ten yards - as the Epsom Oaks -; a meeting taking place annually in early June. As it is open to colts and fillies, it is also the second leg of the Triple Crown. The very first Epsom Derby was held on 4th May 1780, with Diomed, a colt from the stables of Lord Bunbury taking first place. St. Leger Stakes The last race of the Classics, the Triple Crown and- strangely - the Fillies' Triple Crown is hosted at Doncaster , and run over a distance of one mile, six furlongs and 132 yards every September. The St Leger Stakes is the longest of the Classic races and was introduced in 1777, named in honour of local army officer and politician Anthony St. Leger. |
Jaffa is an ancient port in which country? | Jaffa Jaffa Jaffa Jaffa (also known as Yafo) is the ancient port city out of which Tel Aviv has now grown. Jaffa has, in recent years, like much of South Tel Aviv, been regenerated with the old narrow streets and courtyards becoming a another highly desirable part of Tel Aviv’s urban tapestry. Jaffa flea market is a well known attraction of the area, with vendors selling a diverse range of interesting and unique products. Meanwhile the narrow passageways and ancient buildings in the Old City of Jaffa are worlds away from modern Tel Aviv. Jaffa’s beautiful harbor; bachmont, on Flickr History of Jaffa The history of Jaffa is a long one. As of the world’s oldest ports, Jaffa is thought to have been the port from which Jonah left in the story of the Whale! The port continued to be important through history, and served as the main entry point to the land of Israel through until the late 19th century when Jews from around the world began to return to Israel. It was through Jaffa that they entered the country and in Jaffa that many initially settled. The huge population increase led to overcrowding, and tense relations developed between the Jewish and Arab residents of the city. The result was that Jews began building outside of Jaffa, firstly neighborhoods such as Neve Tzedek , and later the city of Tel Aviv . As Tel Aviv developed, Jaffa decayed. By the 1940’s Tel Aviv was so much larger than Jaffa, then dominantly Arab as most Jews had moved out, that it was made into a neighborhood of Tel Aviv to create the official title of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo. The decay continued until the municipality created a Development Organization to oversee the restoration of Jaffa, which continues today. In late 2011, a new Old Jaffa Visitors Center opened to the public and this features multimedia displays depicting Jaffa through the ages, as well as self-guided walking tours of the city as it is today. Jaffa is full of interesting faces and places bachmont, on Flickr Old Jaffa; RonAlmog, on Flickr Things to do in Jaffa There are lots of great things to see in Jaffa. Since its restoration, it has become a popular tourist attraction, with people visiting it as a part of Tel Aviv, and as a city of interest on its own. Jaffa is a real melting pot with Jewish and Arab populations living and breathing the same closely-packed air. It always feels like Jaffa is in a constant state of flux as people rush about on their daily business. The Flea Market is a key site, and the sites, sounds, and smells of the small alleyways and streets which make up this city are lined with artists galleries and studios, as well as boutique and craft shops. Jaffa also has some unique and interesting restaurants. The Jaffa Port is still being excavated, but has transformed into a unique destination, still used by fishermen, yet hosting a great array of cafes and restaurants, as well as the Jaffa Port Market . The views from here across to modern Tel Aviv, especially at sunset are incredible. Meanwhile, the gardens next to the sea are picturesque. Tel Aviv, as seen from Jaffa; RonAlmog on, Flickr Shops in Jaffa are unique. The small, narrow streets are home to small unique boutiques, design shops and other fascinating shops which you could even think are not shops. Restaurants and cafes in Jaffa offer the full range of food that Tel Aviv has become known for although there is a wide range of more oriental and Middle Eastern styles of food. For instance, one local institution Dr Shakshuka serves this unique tomato and egg based dish originating from Libya to crowds of natives and tourists alike. What’s near to Jaffa: HaTachana , Tel Aviv’s Old Railway station is a short stroll up the the Mediterranean Coast. Meanwhile the neighborhood of Florentin offers one the chance to see the ‘old’ South Tel Aviv – still to be regenerated with a fascinating array of shops selling all varieties of products. And, of course, there are many other great things to do in Tel Aviv . more things to do BOOK AT TOURIST ISRAEL TOURS IN ISRAEL Over 100 tours in Israel including day tours, multi- | "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. 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The crane Fly is often referred to as a what? | Crane Fly (Crane Fly or Daddy Longlegs) Crane flies are among the animals which cause the most panic in a bedroom, apart from probably spiders, that is. Attracted by the light, they fly in the window and start to flap against lampshades of the main light or the bedside light...apart from this they do no harm at all. Craneflies are merely large flies. They do not feed as adults, nor do they bite or sting. The female lays eggs in the ground, where the larvae feed on vegetation, sometimes causing damage by gnawing at the roots of plants. Crane fly larvae may also appear in thatch. They normally live in damp earth, and so it is only in old, damp, mossy thatched roofs that they can thrive. They themselves do little damage in a roof that has already suffered, but it becomes more serious if rooks or other birds discover this source of food and start to pull at the thatch in order to reach the larvae. These rather leggy flies, sometimes referred to as Daddy Longlegs, have a tendency for the legs to break off when handled. Many crane flies are only mosquito-sized, but all can be recognised by the V shaped suture on the thorax together with a lack of ocelli. Larger species generally rest with the wings extended: smaller species generally fold their wings flat over the body and often bob up and down on their legs when at rest, hence their alternative name of "bobbing gnats". The female abdomen is pointed for laying eggs into the ground or other materials. Some females are wingless and can be seen on house walls in late autumn. Adults may lap nectar and other fluids but do not feed much. Larvae live mainly as scavengers in the soil or decaying matter, often under water. The larvae, pictured above, are often referred to as "leatherjackets". Looking at the picture below that is of two craneflies mating, the female is recognisable on the right by her more swollen abdomen, this is because she is full of egss, as yet unfertilised. The abdomen tapers to a stylus like ovipositor, frequently mistaken for a sting. The male genitalia include a pair of claspers which grip the female genital valves but in order to do so the males abdomen has to be twisted through 180°. | 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. |
What is the name of the Space Shuttle launched into orbit for the last time from the Kennedy Space Station in July 2011? | The Last Space Shuttle Launches Safely Into Orbit | WIRED The Last Space Shuttle Launches Safely Into Orbit subscribe 6 months for $5 - plus a FREE Portable Phone Charger. On Twitter 5 hours A comedy about the apocalypse—penned by @neilhimself —is slated for 2018. So there's that to look forward to at least bit.ly/2jcWNvp Author: Dave Mosher. Dave Mosher Science Date of Publication: 07.08.11. Time of Publication: 11:38 am. 11:38 am The Last Space Shuttle Launches Safely Into Orbit CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The last mission in NASA’s decades-long space shuttle program is now underway. Atlantis rocketed into orbit today at 11:29 a.m. EDT and is flying at 17,500 mph around the Earth. The mission, STS-135, will catch up with the International Space Station in two days. The space shuttle launch marks the last in NASA’s history, closing out a government-funded space program that lasted 30 years. “The shuttle’s always going to be a reflection of what a great nation can do when it commits to be bold and follow through,” said astronaut Chris Ferguson, commander of the mission, from the cockpit of Atlantis just before pushing into space atop a billowing cloud of fumes. “We’re completing a chapter of a journey that will never end. Let’s light this fire one more time, and witness this great nation at its best.” During their 12-day mission, Ferguson and his three crewmembers — veteran astronauts Doug Hurley, Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim — plan to wrap up construction of the space station. They’ll deliver a new room crammed with a year’s worth of food, water and other supplies and perform a suite of experiments in orbit, including the test of a bag able to recycle urine and a space-based iPhone application . They expect to land July 20 at 7:06 a.m. EDT. NASA’s space shuttle program has encountered both glowing support and heated opposition throughout its history. The space shuttle’s designers intended to make human spaceflight routine, safe and relatively inexpensive by launching the reusable spaceship 64 times per year at a cost of roughly $54 million (inflation-adjusted) per launch. In reality, the program averaged fewer than five launches a year and $1.5 billion per launch. “It’s a tough technical challenge to build a reusable spacecraft, and the president’s Office of Management … drew a line on how much money would be spent,” said Wayne Hale , a former NASA mission manager who now works as a director of human spaceflight for Special Aerospace Services. Early on, Hale said, the program never got the roughly $5 billion it needed to build a robust launch system that could handle 64 launches a year, so it was forced to make costly compromises. “If we really wanted to have something that would have flown as frequently, we would have spent more,” he said. But space-policy expert John Logsdon of George Washington University thinks the shuttle was the wrong spacecraft altogether. “Rather than lowering the costs of access to space and making it routine, the space shuttle turned out to be an experimental vehicle with multiple inherent risks, requiring extreme care and high costs to operate safely,” he wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday by MIT Technology Review . The space agency ultimately launched 135 space shuttle missions since 1981 at a total cost of about $209 billion. Two of the missions — Challenger‘s last in 1986 and Columbia’s in 2003 — ended catastrophically and claimed the lives of 14 astronauts. For all its setbacks, however, the program is on schedule to complete the most ambitious orbital laboratory ever conceived. It also delivered (and repaired) the Hubble Space Telescope , as well as an army of other artificial satellites. The future of U.S. human spaceflight won’t end with the conclusion of Atlantis‘ mission. But the shape of things to come is uncertain. No American spacecraft is ready to ferry astronauts to the space station during its anticipated 10-year lifespan. NASA is seeding money to commercial spaceflight companies to develop a human-ready spaceship, but the space agency expects a viable spacecraft to emerge | Columbia: First Shuttle in Space Columbia: First Shuttle in Space By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | January 16, 2013 08:50am ET MORE Columbia was the first shuttle to reach space, in 1981. Columbia carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, reaching several milestones. Columbia also underwent upgrades as technology advanced. However, the shuttle and a seven-member crew were lost over Texas when Columbia burned up during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003. Columbia's loss prompted NASA to do extra safety checks in orbit for all future missions. Space shuttle Columbia launches on mission STS-107, January 16, 2003. Credit: NASA Decades of development Discussions on developing a reusable spacecraft began in earnest in 1966, when NASA was looking to figure out what programs would come after Apollo. While NASA was tasked with beginning the work, development was held off for years by budgetary constraints, according to NASA history documents. Work resumed more seriously when the first landing on the moon was imminent, in 1969. At that time, then-President Richard Nixon appointed a Space Task Group to look at future space options, and in subsequent years NASA began awarding design contracts for shuttle ideas. Some compromises were made in the design in response to budgetary constraints and input from the military, which was expected to be a major customer of the shuttle. For example, the size of the cargo bay was increased to accommodate large military satellites. Also, it was decided to make the shuttle only partially reusable instead of fully reusable to save on development costs, although critics noted this would increase the costs of individual flights. Construction began on a prototype on Jun 4, 1974. That spacecraft was designated Enterprise . Its purpose was to perform test flights and landings. It never flew into outer space. Construction on Columbia began on March 27, 1975. The name Columbia has several origins: Columbia is a historic poetic name for the United States. Columbia is a female symbol for the United States. It was part of the name of an explorer ship, Columbia Rediviva, which made the first American circumnavigation of the globe in 1790. It was the name of the command module of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing. Milestones of flight Columbia's first flight took place on April 12, 1981. The shuttle program was officially referred to as the Space Transportation System (STS), so this flight was STS-1. The mission had a two-person crew: the commander, John Young , a veteran of Gemini and Apollo, and the pilot, Bob Crippen . The objective was to make sure that Columbia worked well in space. Media attention in particular focused on the new system of tiles covering the shuttle, which NASA had struggled with in early days, according to a NASA history on developing the space shuttle. Happily, Columbia came back safely. Several more test flights ran between 1981 and 1982. This included perhaps the most dramatic landing of the shuttle program, STS-3. An "autoland" system malfunctioned before landing on STS-3; the crew took over (as planned) just before landing, but the shuttle touched the runway faster than normal. After landing, Columbia's nose pitched up unexpectedly due to a software problem, according to commander Jack Lousma's oral history with NASA; it looked as though the shuttle was bobbing on the runway. The first operational flight for Columbia was STS-5 in November 1982. New shuttle Challenger took on the next three flights, and then Columbia flew once more in November 1983, carrying the Spacelab experiment module for the first time as well as the first European Space Agency astronaut. Columbia was then shelved for major upgrades (including adding heads-up displays) before flying on just one mission in 1986; that mission carried Democrat Bill Nelson on board , among the astronauts. Shuttle operations were interrupted by Challenger's demise in January 1986. It wouldn't be until 1989 that Columbia flew again. Science and telescope operations Columbia flew 28 missions in its |
Which was the first antibiotic to be discovered? | First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough Science First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough The discovery of Teixobactin could pave the way for a new generation of antibiotics because of the way it was discovered. Sarah Knapton , Science Editor 7 January 2016 • 5:44pm The first new antibiotic to be discovered in nearly 30 years has been hailed as a ‘paradigm shift’ in the fight against the growing resistance to drugs. Teixobactin has been found to treat many common bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, septicaemia and C. diff, and could be available within five years. But more importantly it could pave the way for a new generation of antibiotics because of the way it was discovered. Scientists have always believed that the soil was teeming with new and potent antibiotics because bacteria have developed novel ways to fight off other microbes. But 99 per cent of microbes will not grow in laboratory conditions leaving researchers frustrated that they could not get to the life-saving natural drugs. Now a team from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, have discovered a way of using an electronic chip to grow the microbes in the soil and then isolate their antibiotic chemical compounds. They discovered that one compound, Teixobactin, is highly effective against common bacterial infections Clostridium difficile, Mycobacterium tuberculous and Staphylococcus aureus. Professor Kim Lewis, Director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Centre said: “Apart from the immediate implementation, there is also I think a paradigm shift in our minds because we have been operating on the basis that resistance development is inevitable and that we have to focus on introducing drugs faster than resistance “Teixobactin shows how we can adopt an alternative strategy and develop compounds to which bacteria are not resistant.” The first antibiotic Penicillin, was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 and more than 100 compounds have been found since, but no new class has been found since 1987. The lack of new drugs coupled with over-prescribing has led to bacteria becoming increasingly resistant to modern medicines. Dame Sally Davies, the government’s Chief Medical Officer, said antibiotic resistant was ‘as big a risk of terrorism; and warned that Britain faced returning to a 19th century world where the smallest infection or operation could kill. The World Health Oganisation has also classified antimicrobial resistance as a "serious threat’ to every region of the world which ‘has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country" However the new discovery offers hope that many new antibiotics could be found to fight bacterial infections. Crucially, the scientists believe that bacteria will not become resistant to Teixobactin for at least 30 years because of its multiple methods of attack. Testing on mice has already shown that the antibiotic works well at clearing infections, without side-effects. The team is now concentrating on upscaling production so that it could be tested in humans. “Right now we can deliver a dose that cures mice and a variety of models of infection and we can deliver 10 mg per kg so it correlates well with human usage,” added Professor Lewis. The breakthrough was heralded by scientists who said it could prove a ‘game-changer’ in the struggle against antimicrobial resistance. Prof Laura Piddock, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Birmingham, said: “The screening tool developed by these researchers could be a ‘game changer’ for discovering new antibiotics as it allows compounds to be isolated from soil producing micro-organisms that do not grow under normal laboratory conditions.” Prof Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, from the University of Edinburgh added: “Any report of a new antibiotic is auspicious, but what most excites me about the paper is the tantalising prospect that this discovery is just the tip of the iceberg. “Most antibiotics are natural products derived from microbes in the soil. The ones we have disc | Photo identifications L-R: Dianthus thunbergii, Cuspidia cernua, Pentanisia prunelloides, Haemanthus montanus, Dimorphotheca jucunda, Cyphia tysonii, Berkheya setifera. The Eponym Dictionary of Southern African Plants Plant Names C-F Note: Names for which I have no derivations or about which I have further questions are being put on a separate page here and will be investigated further at a later date. I have included names which are no longer current because the individuals which these names commemorate nevertheless contributed to Southern African flora and deserve to be recognized and remembered. Also included here are the generic names of invasive species. Many of my entries have been added to and fleshed out by additional information from Hugh Clarke from the work which we hope at some point to have published, and I thank him greatly for the work he has done. Caesalpinia: for Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603), noted Italian botanist and plant collector, naturalist, philosopher and physician to Pope Clement VIII, professor of medicine and botany at Oisa and Rome, Praefectus of the first Botanical Garden of Pisa and founder of the second. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Pisa. He wrote on many subjects including the philosophical work Quaestionum peripateticarum libri V (1569), a medical work entitled Quaestionum medicarum libri duo (1593), the mineralogical work De metallicis libri tres (1596), and the celebrated botanical work De plantis libri XVI (1583) containing the first scientific classification of flowering plants based on morphology and physiology. He was one of the first botanists to create a herbarium, that which he produced for Bishop Alfonso Tornabono contained over 1500 plants. The genus Caesalpinia in the Fabaceae was published by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1753. (CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names) Caesia: for Federico Cesi (Fridericus Caesius) (1585-1630), Italian botanist, microscopist and supporter of Galileo, discovered that ferns have spores. The genus Caesia in the Anthericaceae was published in 1810 by British botanist Robert Brown. (CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names) Cailliea: for Rene Caillie, French explorer (1799-1838), botanist, plant collector, the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu, author of Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco (1824-1828). The genus Cailliea in the Fabaceae was published in 1833 by French botanists Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin and George Samuel Perrottet. (CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names; Wikipedia; David Hollombe, pers. comm.) Calandrinia: for Jean Louis Calandrini (1703-1758), Swiss botanist, traveller and professor of mathematics and philosophy at Geneva, wrote on such subjects as the aurora borealis, comets, the effects of lightning, and flat and spherical trigonometry. This genus Calandrinia in the Portulacaceae was published in 1823 by German botanist Karl Sigismund Kunth. (CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names; Wikipedia) Caldesia: for Ludovico Caldesi (1822-1884), Italian botanist, politician, mycologist, naturalist, and member of Parliament. He was a student of the Italian botanists Filippo Parlatore and Giuseppe De Notaris, and was the author of Florae Faventinae Tentamen. The genus Caldesia in the Alismataceae was published in 1860 by Italian botanist Filippo Parlatore. (CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names) Calomeria: named for the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the request of his first wife Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie (1763-1814), whom he called Joséphine de Beauharnais. Although Napoleon divorced her because she could not bear him a child, he seemingly loved her and mentioned her name on his deathbed even after he had been married to Maria Louisa of Austria. Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757 – 1808), the author of Calomeria, was a French botanist. In 1803, he published Le Jardin de la Malmaison, being written at the request of Joséphine de Beauharna |
What modern system of a very old messaging method entails red and yellow ('Oscar') at sea, and white and blue ('Papa') on land? | Re-Purposing An Outmoded Communication Method Re-Purposing An Outmoded Communication Method Sunday, 18 April 2010 Sematext Sematext incorporates text messaging with semaphore flags. A text message gets sent to a persons Sematext machine, which will repeat the message with its flags. A separate machine analyses the movement of the flags and interprets the message and prints out a translation for the receiver: Here is a video of Sematext in practice: As you can see there are many disadvantages with this method of communicating, which is why we stick to the simple way of texting. Sematext is a much more long-winded way and you won't be able to understand the message unless you learn how to understand semaphore, or buy an interpreter, which would cost more. Even then, you won't know if you've got a message unless you carry the machine around with you, which isn't very portable, especially if you need the interpreter aswel. I think this project has went well. I have research old methods of communicating and tried to modernise one of them. Even though the outcome isn't very practical, it is still a working solution. Posted by From Old To New From looking at those old methods of communication, I can see that technology-wise, we have come a long way. These days, we have swapped pigeon messaging for text messaging and instead of smoke signals, we leave status updates on Facebook and Twitter. My task is to modernise an out-dated form of communication, similar to those examples. Instead of using a real pigeon, how about a robotic one? I don't necessarily have to modernise something that old either. I could take things such as the mobile phone to another level (even though it can pretty much do anything these days). Now it's time to get my thinking cap on and perhaps brainstorm some ideas. Posted by Steam Punk "Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction, frequently featuring elements of fantasy, that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used — usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers. These frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality. Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk." Posted by Semaphore Flags "Semaphore Flags are a system for conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands. Information is encoded by the position of the flags; it is read when the flag is in a fixed position. Semaphores were adopted and widely used (with hand-held flags replacing the mechanical arms of shutter semaphores) in the maritime world in the early 1800s. Semaphore signals were used, for example, at the Battle of Trafalgar. This was the period in which the modern naval semaphore system was invented. This system uses hand-held flags. It is still used during underway replenishment at sea and is acceptable for emergency communication in daylight or, using li | 1100-1199 - StudyBlue Good to have you back! If you've signed in to StudyBlue with Facebook in the past, please do that again. 1100-1199 Which city does the statue of Jesus Christ, better known as Christ the Redeemer, overlook? Rio de Janeiro In an all-black cast, who played the role of Brick in the 2008 revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"? Terrence Howard Advertisement ) What term describes the purchase of securities with borrowed money using the shares themselves as collateral? Buying on Margin In the sequence of presidential succession, who is next in line after the vice president? Speaker of the House Created by Ruth Handler, which 12-inch follower of fashion has been every girl's best friend since 1959? Barbie For which film did Kathy Bates win an Oscar in 1991? Misery Which country is home of port wine? Portugal The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is geographically part of which continent? Asia Which city was hit by the second American atomic bomb in 1945? Nagasaki What does a person with mythomania tend to? Tell lies What is the latin term for the science of languages? Linguistics Which Agatha Christie's fictional characters is the only one to have been given an obituary in the N.Y. Times? Hercule Poriot Guns N' Roses guitarist Saul Hudson is better known by what name? Slash Which land animal species lives the longest? Turtle Which militant Lebanese political group sparked a 2007 attack after capturing two Israeli soldiers? Hezbollah How many calories equal 42 Joules: about 1, 10 or 42? Ten Jumping and dressage are events in which Olympic competition? Equestrian What message delivery system did U.S. computer technician Raymond Tomlinson invent at the beginning of the 1970's? E-mail What is the gesture of submission, originating in imperial China, in which you kneel and touch the ground with your forehead? Kowtow On what sitcom did John Larroquette win three straight Best Supporting Actor Emmy Awards? Night Court What is the most distinctive exterior feature on a Russian Orthodox church? The Onion Dome Which 1957 Broadway musical is loosely based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"? West Side Story What is the name for the valuation ratio of a company's current share price compared to its per-share earnings? Price Earning Ratio What country issues gold coins called Krugerrands? South Africa In the 1960s, IBM designed a new typing head to reduce jams in typewriters. What shape was it? A ball Who directed "The Color Purple" in 1985? Steven Speilberg What does an oenologist specialize in? Wine What dam created Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the U.S.? Hoover Dam Named after the city where they signed the pact in 1955, where did eight eastern European states agree to form a political alliance? Warsaw What part of the body is affected by a swelling known as a periodontal disease? Gums Which Polynesian word means "forbidden"? Taboo Which novel by J.D. Salinger that is still controversial today features Holden Caulfield as the protagonist? The Catcher in the Rye According to the classic Van Morrison song, who "comes around here bout mid-night?" Gloria What is a tapaculo: a fish, a rodent or a bird? A bird Who did Hugo Chavez refer to as "the devil" in a 2006 speech to the UN General Assembly? George W. Bush Which temperature scale has its absolute zero at minus 273.15 degrees Celsius? Kelvin In which chess move are the rook and the king used at the same time? Castling Which frequency band uses the abbreviation "U.H.F." Ultra High Frequency In which country did T'ai Chi originate? China What character on NCIS is commonly referred to as "Ducky"? Dr. Mallard By what name is the collection of Egyptian tombs across the Nile from Luxor better known? Valley of the Kings "Les Miserables" is a musical based on a novel by which writer? Victor Hugo What term describes the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset in order to profit from a difference in price? Arbitrage (riskless profit) What president extended a "Good Neighbor Policy" to countries in South America, Central America and the Carribean? Franklin Delano Roose |
What was the nickname of Queen Joan the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain? | Queen Isabella I of Spain - Biography Queen Isabella I of Spain Queen Isabella I of Spain Co-Ruler of Castile and Aragon with Her Husband Ferdinand Queen Isabella I of Castile, c. 1490. Found in the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images By Jone Johnson Lewis Updated May 11, 2016. Known for: She was queen of Castile and León in her own right. She married Ferdinand II of Aragon, bringing the kingdoms together in what became Spain under the rule of her grandson, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. She is known for sponsoring Columbus' voyage to the Americas, and for her role in "purifying" the Roman Catholic faith through expelling Jews and defeating the Moors. Dates: April 22 , 1451 - November 26 , 1504 Occupation: Queen of Castile and Aragon, Queen of Spain. Known as: Queen Isabella, Isabella I of Spain, Isabella of Castile and Aragon, Isabella the Catholic, Isabel la Catolica Father: John (Juan) of Castile (1405 - 1454) Queen Isabella Biography Isabella was born in 1451. Her mother was Isabella of Portugal , whose father was a son of John I of Portugal and whose mother was a granddaughter of that same king. Isabella's half-brother, Henry IV , became king of Castile when their father, John II, died in 1454. continue reading below our video Test Your General Science Knowledge Isabella was only three years old, and her younger brother Alfonso was the next in line to the Castilian throne after Henry. Isabella was raised by her mother until 1457, when the two children were brought to court by Henry IV to keep them from being used by opposition nobles. Henry's first marriage ended without children and in a divorce. When his second wife, Joan of Portugal, bore a daughter, Juana, in 1462, the opposition nobles soon claimed that Juana was actually the daughter of Beltran de la Cueva, duke of Albuquerque. Thus, she's known in history as Juana la Beltraneja. The opposition's attempt to replace Henry with Alfonso met with defeat, the final defeat coming in July, 1468 when Alfonso died of suspected poisoning, though historians consider it more likely he died of the plague. He had named Isabella his successor. Isabella was offered the crown by the nobles, but she refused, probably because she did not believe that she could maintain that claim in opposition to Henry. Henry was willing to compromise with the nobles and accept Isabella as his heiress in September. Marriage to Ferdinand Isabella married Ferdinand of Aragon (a second cousin) in October 1469 without Henry's approval, The cardinal of Valentia, Rodrigo Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI ), helped Isabel and Ferdinand obtain the necessary papal dispensation, but the couple still had to resort to pretenses and disguise to carry out the ceremony in Valladolid. Henry withdrew his recognition and again named Juana as his heir. At Henry's death in 1474, a war of succession ensued, with Alfonso V of Portugal, prospective husband of Isabella's rival Juana, supporting Juana's claims. The war was settled in 1479, with Isabella recognized as Queen of Castile. Juana retired to a convent rather than marry the son of Ferdinand and Isabella, Juan. Juana died in 1530. Ferdinand had by this time become King of Aragon, and the two ruled with equal authority in both realms, thus unifying Spain. Among their first acts were various reforms to reduce the power of the nobility and increase the power of the crown. The Catholic Monarchs In 1480, Isabella and Ferdinand instituted the Inquisition in Spain, one of many changes to the role of the church instituted by the monarchs. The Inquisition was aimed mostly at Jews and Muslims who had overtly converted to Christianity but were thought to be practicing their faiths secretly -- known respectively as morranos and moriscos -- as well as at heretics who rejected Roman Catholic orthodoxy, including alumbras who practiced a kind of mysticism or spiritualism. Ferdinand and Isabella were given the title "the Catholic monarchs" (los Reyes Católicos) by the Pope, in recognition of their role in "purifying" the f | Full text of "Popular Titles And Subtitles Of Musical Composition" See other formats 781.97 B513P reference collection book K kaosas city public library Kansas city, missouri *;f-^ J Popular Titles and Subtitles of Musical Compositions by Freda Pastor Berkowitz The Scarecrow Press, Inc. New York 1962 Copyright 1962 by Freda Pastor Berkowitz L. C. Card No. 62-10121 To my daughters, Ellen and Joan Introduction For more than three hundred years, composers of serious music have used a relatively small number of general titles for their compositions. There are tens of thousands of works called "Sonata," "Concerto," "Symphony," "String Quartet" and so on; and even though composers have defined their works more specifically by adding the key and the opus number, as in "Sonata in A, op. 58," there remained the desire on the part of publishers, performers, and music listeners, for a lit- erary label which would make it easier to identify the composition, and would give a clue to the mood of the piece, or at least to one significant characteristic. Nicknames, and sometimes sub -titles, are a pe- culiar appendage to the art of music. Strangely enough, they usually were added by publishers, editors, critics, friends (or enemies) of the composer seldom by the composer himself. Often the origins of these unofficial appellations are shrouded in mystery or are based on legends or conjectures that have almost become legends. The aim of this present volume is to collect a representative sampling of these nicknames and sub- titles which have become associated with works from 1600 up until the present time. These will be listed in English, except where usage has accepted a foreign lan- guage as "Grosse Fuge" instead of "Great Fugue" together with some information regarding their origins whenever possible. There will undoubtedly be some omissions, but aJI those included are traceable to biographical and his- torical sources. I want to thank my friends, particularly Mrs. Adele P. Margolis, and my pupils, for their encourage- ment and help all during the time that I was assembling this book. I owe particular gratitude to Mr. Ralph Berko- witz for his many valuable suggestions; to Mr. Edward N. Waters of The Music Division of The Library of Congress, Washington, B.C., for his great co-operation and patience in answering all my questions; to Mr. Ef- rem Zimbalist, Director of The Curtis Institute of Mu- sic in Philadelphia, for his kind permission to use the library of The Curtis Institute at all times; to the won- derful staff at The Curtis Library, particularly Mr. Jack L. Gottlobe formerly) and Mr. Gordon Mapes, for their willingness to help me find information; to Miss Elizabeth R. Hartman and Mr. Theodore A. Seder of The Philadelphia Public Library, for assisting me in finding the necessary reference material; to the many composers for so graciously giving me information about their compositions; to Mr. H.C. Robbins Landon for his valuable Haydn information; to Mr. John N. Burk for his help on Mozart and Beethoven; to Miss Dika Newlin for her enlightening remarks on the music of Bruckner and Mahler; to Mr. Alan March for permitting me to examine the record covers of many albums. Freda Pastor Berkowitz VI "Academic Festival Overture'' Overture Op. 80 in C minor Johannes Brahms 1 In the Spring of 1879, The University of Breslau conferred upon Brahms an honorary Doctorate of Phi- losophy, naming him in its diploma Tt Artis Musical ser- ver ior is in germania nunc principi" (Now the foremost exponent in Germany of musical life in the severer style.) For what he termed his doctor 1 s thesis Brahms wrote the !t Academic Festival Overture," a jolly pot- pourri on student songs " la Suppe" as he jokingly called it. "Adieu a GuilJaume Kolberg" Polonaise For Piano in Bb minor Frederic Chopin 2 According to footnotes in the Breitkopf and Hr- tel edition of this work, the Bb minor Polonaise dates f |
In which Danish city is St Canute's Cathedral? | Odense, Denmark Odense, Denmark Tourist Office Tel: 63 75 75 20 Population: 158,678 (2009) Odense is the 3rd largest city in Denmark The name 'Odense'comes from the Norse god Odin Located on the island of Funen (Fyn) Egeskov Slot is 28km south of the city Odense is 160km west of Copenhagen (København) Things to see and do in Odense Facts Odense is the 3rd biggest city in Denmark, and used to be the traffic nerve centre of Denmark. Odense was also once the centre of public administration and trade. The original name for Odense is "Odins", which means ‘Odin’s Sanctuary’. Odin is considered to be the most important God in Old Norse mythology. Prior to the acceptance of Christianity ‘Old Norse Mythology’ was the main pagan religion throughout Scandinavia. Odense was named ‘Odin’s Sanctuary’ because the town was considered a sanctuary for people who worshiped Odin. Generally the city considers itself to be a somewhat forgotten part of Denmark. Many tourists unfortunately drive right past Odense on their way to or away from Copenhagen (København). This is unfortunate because Odense is well worth a visit. Odense makes much ado about their most famous citizen, Hans Christian Andersen , even though he only lived in Odense until he was 14 years old, and even though Hans Christian himself never spoke well of his impoverished beginnings in Odense. Neither of these facts has deterred the city from expressing great pride that Hans Christian was born in their city. Odense has many quality museums and galleries. There are many pedestrian streets, good restaurants, and several interesting churches. The old town of Odense has more than its fair share of well preserved buildings which gives you a good idea about how life was in Odense during the Middle Ages. Approximately 28 km south of Odense is Egeskov Castle (Egeskov Slot) which is considered to be one of Europe’s best preserved castles surrounded by a moat. Anyone visiting the island of Funen (Fyn) should take the time to visit this extraordinary castle. The castle grounds are quite simply beautiful and there are many different impeccably manicured gardens. The castle grounds also have a wide variety of museums to suit anyone’s interests, including an automotive museum, a motorcycle museum, several vintage flying machines, and museum dedicated to the history of agriculture. History Archaeological evidence suggests that Odense has been inhabited since the Stone Age. However, the first documented mention of Odense dates back to the year 988 when the town is mentioned in a letter from the German emperor Otto the 3rd. The letter gave the church in Odense exemption from taxes, and selected the city as a bishop's domicile. It is for this reason that the town celebrated its 1000 anniversary in 1988. Part of the celebration involved the cultivation of a new forest named "The Thousand Year Forest" (Tusindårsskoven). It is clear that Odense grew quite quickly after it had first been mentioned in 988. In 1070, a mere 82 years later Odense was commonly being referred to as being a big city. In 1086, King Canute IV of Denmark (Knud den Hellige) was murdered in the former Church of St. Alban by peasants who were unhappy with the high taxation in the city. Canute IV is commonly thought of as being the last Viking king. The Albani Church no longer exists, however there has continued to be a church on the location since approximately 900. The current church is called St. Canute's Cathedral (Odense Domkirke or Sct. Knuds Kirke), and the crypt holds the remains of Canute and his brother Benedict. After Saint Canute's death he was recognized as the patron saint of Denmark by the Catholic Church. This had the effect that during the Middle Ages the shrine of Saint Canute inside Saint Canute's Cathedral was visited by many pilgrims. During the 18th century an enormous project was undertaken which would dramatically change the city. An 8 kilometre long channel was built from the Odense Harbour to Odense Fjord. The construction of this channel turned Odense into a real port city, and commerce and the populatio | Cathedral Church of St. Michael - Coventry Location Priory Street Coventry's 14th Century St. Michael's cathedral was destroyed on the night of November 14th, 1940 during a massive bombing raid targetted on the city. The decision was made in the 1950s that the old cathedral would not be rebuilt but would be kept as a memorial and a new building would be erected beside it. A canopy supported by stone pillars connects the two churches. The foundation stone for the new cathedral was laid by Queen Elizabeth II on March 23rd, 1956. A little over six years later the building was consecrated, on the same day that the modern replacement for Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was also consecrated. The website dedicated to Sir Basil Spence describes the building as follows, "The main body of the new building is constructed of red sandstone. Projecting out are the circular Chapel of Unity ..... ............ and the Chapel of Industry. " "Zigzag walls let angled windows direct light down the nave towards the altar." At the end of the nave hangs Graham Sutherland's 74 foot high tapestry of "Christ in Glory". Approximately the size of a tennis court, this work of art took twelve weavers three years to complete. Facing Sutherland's tapestry at the other end of the nave is a great glass wall in which Tim Hutton has engraved a "Screen of Saints and Angels." To one side is the font, made from a three-ton boulder from a hillside near Bethlehem, and behind it stands John Piper's Baptistry window made up of 195 panes of stained glass bathing the stone font in a pool of colour. Outside Jacob Epstein's spectacular bronze sculpture of "St. Michael Subduing the Devil" stands beside the stairs that lead up from Priory Street to the entrance. In the ruins of the old Cathedral is this statue of Reconcilliation. It is a copy of a statue originally entitled "Reunion" that was presented to Bradford University in 1998. The sculptress Josefina de Vasconcellos, who created it said, "The sculpture was originally conceived in the aftermath of the War. Europe was in shock, people were stunned. I read in a newspaper about a woman who crossed Europe on foot to find her husband, and I was so moved that I made the sculpture. Then I thought that it wasn't only about the reunion of two people but hopefully a reunion of nations which had been fighting." This copy is one of a number that have been donated to important historical sites including Hiroshima and the Berlin Wall Memorial. |
Which pop duo were originally called Tom and Jerry? | Simon & Garfunkel’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm Listeners Biography Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are popular American musicians and singer-songwriters known collectively as Simon & Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom and Jerry in 1957 in Queens, New York, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey Schoolgirl". As Simon and Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965 backed by the hit single "The Sound of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness. They are well known for their close harmonies and sometimes unstable relationship. Their last album, Bridge over Troubled Water, was marked with several delays caused by artistic differences. Simon and Garfunkel were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s, and are perhaps best known for their songs "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "Bridge over Troubled Water" and "The Boxer". They have received several Grammys and are inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2007). In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Simon and Garfunkel #40 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. They have reunited on several occasions since their 1970 break-up, most famously for 1981's The Concert in Central Park, which attracted more than 750,000 people. Early history Close friends through childhood, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel grew up in the same Kew Gardens Hills (Queens, N.Y.) neighborhood just blocks away from one another. They met in elementary school, at Public School 164, in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland (Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as the Cheshire Cat). They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School in New York City, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis (whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph (so called because he was fond of tracking ("graphing") hits on the pop charts). They began writing their own songs in 1955, and made their first professional recording, "Hey, Schoolgirl", for Sid Prosen of Big Records in 1957. Released on 45 and 78 rpm records, the song—with B side "Dancin' Wild"—sold 100,000 copies, hitting #49 on the Billboard charts. Both Simon and Garfunkel have acknowledged the tremendous impact of The Everly Brothers on their style, and many of their early songs (including "Hey, Schoolgirl") bear the mark of this influence. They later performed their hit on American Bandstand, right after Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire". Subsequent efforts in 1958 did not reach near their initial success, and after high school the duo went to separate colleges, with Simon enrolling at Queens College (C.U.N.Y.) and Garfunkel at Columbia University. While enrolled in college, they both joined the same fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. In 1963 they found prominence as part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene. Simon, who had finished college but dropped out of Brooklyn Law School, had—like Garfunkel—developed an interest in the folk scene. Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: "Sparrow", "Bleecker Street", and "He Was My Brother"—which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964. These three efforts were among five original songs by Simon included on their first album for Columbia Records, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., which initially flopped upon its release on October 19, 1964. First breakup Shortly after finishing recording, the duo split and Simon moved to the United Kingdom, where he performed at Les Cousins and The Troubadour Club in London and toured provincial folk clubs. In these venues he was exposed to a wide range of musical influences and, while in England, recorded his solo Th | Learn and talk about Tommy and Tuppence, Agatha Christie characters, Fictional characters introduced in 1922, Fictional detectives, Series of books Novels[ edit ] Tommy and Tuppence appear together in four full-length novels and one collection of short stories [2] The collection of short stories is Partners in Crime , (1929, each story referencing another writer's work); the four novels are The Secret Adversary (1922), [3] N or M? (1941), By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968); and Postern of Fate (1973). [4] Postern of Fate was the last novel Christie ever wrote, although not the last to be published. Detectives[ edit ] Tuppence appears as a charismatic, impulsive and intuitive person, while Tommy is less imaginative, and less likely to be diverted from the truth (as their first adversary sums him up "he is not clever, but it is hard to blind his eyes to the facts"), which is why they are shown to make a good team. It is in this first book The Secret Adversary that they meet up after the war, [2] and come to realise that, although they have been friends for most of their lives, they have now fallen in love with each other. Unlike many other recurring detective characters, including the better known Christie detectives, Tommy and Tuppence aged in time with the real world, being in their early twenties in The Secret Adversary [3] and in their seventies in Postern of Fate . In their early appearances, they are portrayed as typical upper middle class " bright young things " of the 1920s, [5] and the stories and settings have a more pronounced period-specific flavour than the stories featuring the better known Christie characters. As they age, they are revealed to have raised three children – twins Deborah and Derek and an adopted daughter, Betty. Throughout the series they employ a man named Albert, who first appears as a lift boy who helps them in The Secret Adversary. In Partners in Crime, Albert becomes their hapless assistant at a private detective agency; and subsequently, as a now married pub owner, renders vital assistance to the pair in N or M?.; by Postern of Fate he's their butler and has now been widowed. In Postern of Fate they also have a small dog named Hannibal. In 1953 the BBC adapted Partners in Crime as a radio series starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim . The Tommy and Tuppence characters have been portrayed on television by James Warwick and Francesca Annis , first in the feature-length The Secret Adversary (1982), and then in the 10 episode series Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983). The novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs was adapted in 2005 by the French director Pascal Thomas with the title Mon petit doigt m'a dit... . The movie casts André Dussolier as Tommy (renamed Bélisaire) and Catherine Frot as Prudence Beresford. The action is transposed to Savoie in France. A second movie, Le crime est notre affaire , came out in 2008. Le crime est notre affaire is named after Partners in Crime and stars the Beresfords, but its story is based on 4.50 From Paddington , which was originally a novel starring Miss Marple . A third film Associés contre le crime is very, very loosely based (to the point of being unrecognisable) on one of the stories in Partners in Crime. An adaptation of By the Pricking of My Thumbs appeared in 2006 as an episode of the Granada television series Marple even though Christie did not write Marple into the original story. In this version, Tommy and Tuppence were played by Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi respectively, but, unlike in the book, Miss Marple and Tuppence play the detective roles while Tommy is away on intelligence (MI6) business. BBC television began broadcasting two adaptations, comprising six episodes in 2015. Set in the 1950s and titled Partners in Crime , it starred David Walliams as Tommy [6] and Jessica Raine as Tuppence. [7] Original courtesy of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_and_Tuppence — Please support Wikipedia. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia . A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet g |
"In what activity might one attempt a ""Sicilian Defense""?" | Basic ideas of the Sicilian Defence? - Chess.com Chess.com #1 May 12, 2013 Im starting to learn the sicilian defence (transitioning from1...e5) and i want to do it one step at a time. I bought starting out the sicilian defence and have a few online resources but i thought the best way to learn the defence is to first learn the basic ideas so i was wondering if anyone could improve on my ideas here: 1. The C pawn is ment to be traded for the D pawn but gives white a lead in development but my 2 vs 1 center pawn ratio wont allow him to have any early attack. The C pawn is basically only ment to stake a claim on d5. 2. Its usually not a bad idea to fianchetto the bishop on g7 also known as the dragon bishop. 3. The Knight on b8 is very flexable. I can choose to put it on c6 or d7 and sometimes even a6. 4. Im pretty sure in the main sicilians like najdorf, schvengien, dragon i castle short so i should get used to doing that. 5. The rook on a8 99% of the time end up on c8 or d8. Its just sensable. 6. Look for the queen side pawn storm aka minority attack. 7. The knight on g8 pretty much always goes to f6. Okay so those are the basic ideas i know about the sicilian but i do have a few question: 1. What are the main pawn breaks in the opening that i am trying to achieve later on or earlier on? 2. Are there any common knight manuevers? 3. Any other common themes you can think of? Of course this is very broad the sicilian has tons of variations but i want to start playing it without so much the memorization of lines and variations and just start playing 1...c5 with the basic sicilian ideas. FOr example, after 1.e4...c5 2.Nf3...i have no idea why black would play 2...d6 at all? i cant comprehend that. What are some of white's ideas in most sicilians? Also, im going to start reading starting out the sicilian defence and watch GM games. Mainly fischer and kasparov. Any other reccomondations? #2 May 12, 2013 The sicilian is probably the most complex defence to 1. e4!. I will try to answer you as best as I can: 1. The C pawn is ment to be traded for the D pawn but gives white a lead in development but my 2 vs 1 center pawn ratio wont allow him to have any early attack. Answer: Yes, white's best option is to open up the centre with 2. Nf3 and 3. d4. The idea is that white has to win the middlegame, else black has a nice advantage in the endgame (more control of the centre with the pawns). However, with so active white pieces, black will have to make counterattacks. Therefor, the sicilian is often double-edged. 2. Its usually not a bad idea to fianchetto the bishop on g7 also known as the dragon bishop. Answer: If you want to fianchetto, I advice you to either play the accelerated dragon or the dragon variation, don't combine. Dragodorf is just a worse variation of the dragon, and should only be a surprise weapon. The accelerated dragon (1. e4 c5 2. nf3 nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. nxd4 g6) is meant to be positional. However, white got this bind called Maroczy Bind (5. c4!), after which he will have a nice advantage. There is still a game, but a very positional game. The dragon is just tactics. If you like sharp games, this is not for you. If you love sharp games, you must have this in your repertoire. In the yugoslav attack (1. e4 c5 2. nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. nxd4 nf6 5. nc3 g6 6. be3 bg7 7. f3 nc6 (0-0) 8. qd2 0-0 (nc6) 9. bc4, it's all about tactics. White have this ready-made pawn storm, black has a piece attack. Whoever come first wins. 3. The Knight on b8 is very flexable. I can choose to put it on c6 or d7 and sometimes even a6. Answer: I have never seen it to a6. Often it goes to d7 in the Najdorf, because it's well placed on either e5 or c5. In other variations, it's most common on c6, to give more control of the centre. 4. Im pretty sure in the main sicilians like najdorf, schvengien, dragon i castle short so i should get used to doing that. Answer: Dragon: Yes. Najdorf: no. Schvenningen: i dont know. In the najdorf, black often keeps his king in the centre, since it's more safe there. Kasparov was expert in making pawn sto | Symphonic poem R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra Symphonic poem A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section (a movement) in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another (non-musical) source is illustrated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt to his 13 works in this vein. In its aesthetic objectives, the symphonic poem is in some ways related to opera; whilst it does not use a sung text, it seeks, like opera, a union of music and drama.[1][2] While many symphonic poems may compare in size and scale to symphonic movements (or even reach the length of an entire symphony), they are unlike traditional classical symphonic movements, in that their music is intended to inspire listeners to imagine or consider scenes, images, specific ideas or moods, and not to focus on following traditional patterns of musical form (e.g. sonata form). This intention to inspire listeners was a direct consequence of Romanticism, which encouraged literary, pictorial and dramatic associations in music. Musical works that attempt to inspire listeners in this way are often referred to as program music, while music that has no such associations may be called absolute music. Some piano and chamber works, such as Arnold Schoenberg's string sextet Verkl�rte Nacht, have similarities with symphonic poems in their overall intent and effect. However, the term symphonic poem is generally accepted to refer to orchestral works. A symphonic poem may stand on its own, or it can be part of a series combined into a symphonic suite . For example, The Swan of Tuonela (1895) is a tone poem from Jean Sibelius's Lemmink�inen Suite. A symphonic poem can also be part of a group of interrelated works, such as Vltava (The Moldau) as part of the six-work cycle M� vlast by Bed?ich Smetana. Also, while the terms "symphonic poem" and "tone poem" have often been used interchangeably, some composers such as Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius have preferred the latter term for pieces that were less symphonic in design and in which there is no special emphasis on thematic or tonal contrast.[3] According to Macdonald, the symphonic poem met three 19th century aesthetic goals: it related music to outside sources; it often combined or compressed multiple movements into a single principal section; and it elevated instrumental program music to an aesthetic level that could be regarded as equivalent to, or higher than opera.[2] The symphonic poem remained popular from the 1840s until the 1920s, when the genre suffered a severe decline in popularity. In the second quarter of the 19th century, the future of the symphonic genre came into doubt. While many composers continued to write symphonies during the 1820s and 30s, "there was a growing sense that these works were aesthetically far inferior to Beethoven's.... The real question was not so much whether symphonies could still be written, but whether the genre could continue to flourish and grow".[4] Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Niels Gade achieved successes with their symphonies, putting at least a temporary stop to the debate as to whether the genre was dead.[4] Nevertheless, composers increasingly turned to the "more compact form" of the concert overture "as a vehicle within which to blend musical, narrative and pictoral ideas"; examples included Mendelssohn's overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826) and The Hebrides (1830).[4] Between 1845 and 1847, Franco-Belgian composer C�sar Franck wrote an orchestral piece based on Victor Hugo's poem Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne. The work exhibits characteristics of a symphonic poem, and some musicologists, such as Norman Demuth and Julien Tiersot, consider it the first of its genre, preceding Liszt's compositions.[5][6] However, Franck did not publish or perform his piece; neither did he set about defining the genre. Liszt's determination to explore and promote the symphonic poem gained him recognition as the genre's inventor.[7] Liszt Franz Liszt in 1858 Main arti |
Who was dismissed as manager of Derby County on November 21st. 2007? | Premier League Managerial Moves By Season | The Sack Race Betting Offers List of Premier League Managerial Moves By Season Since 1992 Since its inception in 1992, the Premier League has been nothing short of a rollercoaster for managers with an average of eight top flight teams per season making a change, whether it is forced upon them after a manager resigns or is porched by another club or through choice following a sacking. Below is the full list of managerial departures that have occured (broken down by each season) since the Premier League began. Managers have been taken to have been dismissed, resigned or departed for health reasons where they were officially announced by the club as the permanent appointment be it on a long term contract or until the end of a given season. 1992/1993 Season Mick McGiven - Ipswich (demoted to assistant manager) Total managerial changes for the season - 7 1994/1995 Season Billy Bonds - West Ham (resigned) November 1994 Ossie Ardiles - Tottenham Hotspur (sacked) Mike Walker - Everton (sacked) Gerry Francis - Queens Park Rangers (left to move to Tottenham) Ron Atkinson - Aston Villa (sacked) Brian Little - Leicester City (resigned to join Aston Villa) December 1994 John Lyall - Ipswich Town (resigned) February 1995 Phil Neal - Coventry City (sacked) George Graham - Arsenal (sacked) John Deehan - Norwich City (resigned) May 1995 Alan Smith - Crystal Palace (sacked) Trevor Francis - Sheffield Wednesday (sacked) Brian Horton - Manchester City (sacked) June 1995 Kenny Dalglish - Blackburn Rovers (retired) July 1995 Alan Ball - Southampton (left to join Man City) Total managerial changes for the season - 15 1995/1996 Season Roy McFarland - Bolton Wanderers (sacked) May 1996 Glenn Hoddle - Chelsea (left to take the England job) June 1996 Total managerial changes for the season - 3 1996/1997 Season Alan Curbushley - Charlton Athletic (resigns) Steve McClaren - Middlesbrough (left to become England manager) July 2006 David O'Leary - Aston Villa (sacked) Total managerial changes for the season - 9 2006/2007 Season Iain Dowie - Charlton Athletic (sacked) December 2006 Alan Padrew - West Ham United (sacked) Les Reed - Charlton Athletic (sacked) April 2007 Sam Allardyce - Bolton Wanderers (resigned) May 2007 Stuart Pearce - Manchester City (sacked) Glenn Roeder - Newcaster United (resigned) Neil Warnock - Sheffield United (resigned) Paul Jewell - Wigan Athletic (resigned) Total managerial changes for the season - 9 2007/2008 Season Jose Mourinho - Chelsea (mutual consent) October 2007 Sammy Lee - Bolton Wanderers (mutual consent) Martin Jol - Tottenham (sacked) Chris Hutchings - Wigan (sacked) Steve Bruce - Birmingham City (left to join Wigan) Billy Davies - Derby County (sacked) December 2007 Roberto Mancini - Manchester City (sacked) Sir Alex Ferguson - Manchester United (retired) David Moyes - Everton (left to join Man Utd) Rafa Benitez - Chelsea (interim contract not renewed) Total managerial changes for the season - 9 2013/2014 Season Paolo Di Canio - Sunderland (sacked) October 2013 Ian Holloway - Crystal Palace (sacked) December 2013 Steve Clarke - West Brom (sacked) Andre Villas-Boas - Tottenham (sacked) Malky Mackay - Cardiff City (sacked) February 2014 Michael Laudrup - Swansea City (sacked) Rene Meulensteen - Fulham (sacked) Chris Hughton - Norwich City (sacked) David Moyes - Manchester United (sacked) May 2014 Pepe Mel - West Bromwich Albion (mutual consent) Tim Sherwood - Tottenham Hotspur (sacked) Mauricio Pochettino - Southampton (resigned) | Liverpool's year of culture: Ashkenazy, Rattle, and the WAGs | The Independent Liverpool's year of culture: Ashkenazy, Rattle, and the WAGs Tuesday 7 November 2006 00:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online The question of whether Liverpool's Capital of Culture year in 2008 should be high brow or populist has been a source of intense argument in the city since it beat Newcastle to the title three years ago. Organisers revealed last night that they will attempt to make it both, unveiling a programme of events for the year that could pitch Wayne Rooney's girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin alongside new commissions from the composer Michael Nyman and the artists Richard Wilson and Ben Johnson. There will also be several international art exhibitions and performances by the pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and the conductor Sir Simon Rattle. The Liverpool schedule, unveiled to the World Trade Market in London, did not include a commission from one of the city's living legends - the musician Sir Paul McCartney or the playwrights Willy Russell or Alan Bleasdale. But 2008 will provide a better home at last for the city's collection of work by the American artist J J Audubon, some of which will be accommodated in a new Liverpool University gallery. Liverpool's preparations were in disarray four months ago when the city parted company with the artistic director Robyn Archer, whose tastes many considered too esoteric. But the city seems determined not to dumb down for its culture year. By mid 2007, Wilson will have reshaped a building scheduled for demolition into a project entitled Turning the Place Over. Wilson's appearance will coincide with the Turner Prize at Liverpool's Tate gallery in October. In its determination to avoid a standing start, the city has also attracted BBC3 in Christmas 2007 to stage a Nativity version of this year's Manchester Passion, in which the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ are re-enacted in a procession through the streets. Organisers have also persuaded Liverpool-born Sir Simon to return to the city of his birth to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Meanwhile, the actor Pete Postlethwaite, who was born in Warrington, Cheshire, is likely to star in a production of King Lear at the Everyman theatre and the poet Roger McGough joins the authors Doris Lessing and Philip Pullman at a literary festival. But a determination in some quarters to prevent the event from becoming a shrine to all things Scouse is reflected in one of the artistic highlights - the UK's first comprehensive exhibition of work by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt at Tate Liverpool. In conjunction, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a series of Vienna-themed concerts, and provide music for two Viennese balls at the city's newly restored St George's Hall. A new choral work by Sir John Taverner has also been commissioned as part of a City of Song programme which will run throughout the year. And then there is the popular culture, with football playing an appropriately central role. The People's Festival, in May 2008, is billed as a weekend celebration of football, fashion and music, featuring images of the greatest moments in European soccer, set to music written by Nyman. This will include a fashion show featuring footballers' wives and girlfriends, dressed by the Liverpool boutique, Cricket. The names of the WAGs have not yet been confirmed but Coleen McLoughlin is a long-standing patron. The city's pop music heritage will be celebrated in a riverside concert, where the acts will perform on a floating stage on the Mersey. Names of the acts are yet to be confirmed but many people believe the presence of Sir Paul McCartney to be a racing certainty. |
Who is the only US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize after leaving office? | Obama joins 3 other US presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize - CSMonitor.com Obama joins 3 other US presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize President Obama delivers remarks from the Rose Garden on Friday after receiving word that he won the Nobel Peace Prize. NEWSCOM View Caption of Barack Obama is not the only one. The other US Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize are, in chronological order, Theodore Roosevelt , Woodrow Wilson , and Jimmy Carter . (You can watch President Obama's remarks here ). Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to won a Nobel in any category. His Peace Prize was for his work in helping broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Normally, a US Secretary of State would have handled such diplomatic chores. But Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, John Hay , died in July 1905, and the forceful TR took charge of the duties himself. Photos of the Day Photos of the day 02/08 Further talks took place at the US Naval Base at Portsmouth, New Hampshire . The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905. Roosevelt did not pick up his Nobel medal, or his prize money, until 1910. He said he did not feel right accepting them while in office. Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 for his services in establishing the League of Nations. Following the tragedy of World War I, Wilson decided to lead the US peace delegation personally. He traveled to Paris in 1919 to press his idealistic vision of a world united against war. While the peace treaty itself did not reflect all the magnanimity of his famous “Fourteen Points” in support of peace, he did secure the adoption of a covenant for a League of Nations , a precursor to today’s UN . He barnstormed around the US in the months that followed in an effort to push ratification of American membership in the League through the Senate. But the strain of the effort resulted in a stroke that robbed him of his health. In the end, the US did not join, as ratification was defeated. Jimmy Carter is the only president to have won the Nobel following his time in office. His was awarded in 2002, for “his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development,” in the words of the Norwegian Nobel Committee . Many commentators at the time felt that the award was in recognition for a man who appeared to have redefined how much an ex-president could accomplish. Carter previously had come close to winning the Peace Prize in 1978 for his efforts in bringing together Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign the Camp David Peace Accords. Next up | Presidents of the United States (POTUS) He was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. Ford was the first president to be an Eagle Scout. Ford was on the University of Michigan football team from 1931 to 1934. He was offered tryouts by both the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. Both Ford and his wife, Betty, had been models before their marriage. When Ford proposed to to his wife, he was wearing one brown & one black shoe. Ford was the fourth left-handed president of the United States. Running for Congress in 1948, Ford campaigned on his wedding day. Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of President One night, Ford was locked out of the White House while walking his golden retriever, Liberty. The Secret Service finally let him in. Ford's daughter Susan held her senior prom at the White House. He was the first president to release to the public a full report of his medical checkup. Ford was the first president to visit Japan. Ford was the only president whose two assassination attempts against him were made by women. Gerald Ford was the first president not elected by the people to become president. He became vice president when Nixon's elected vice president, Spiro T. Agnew , resigned. Then became president when |
Who is credited with the authorship of the book known as the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible ? | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Acts of the Apostles Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > A > Acts of the Apostles Acts of the Apostles Help support New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download . Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99... In the accepted order of the books of the New Testament the fifth book is called The Acts of the Apostles (praxeis Apostolon). Some have thought that the title of the book was affixed by the author himself. This is the opinion of Cornely in his "Introduction to the Books of the New Testament" (second edition, page 315). It seems far more probable, however, that the name was subsequently attached to the book just as the headings of the several Gospels were affixed to them. In fact, the name, Acts of the Apostles, does not precisely convey the idea of the contents of the book; and such a title would scarcely be given to the work by the author himself. Content The book does not contain the Acts of all the Apostles, neither does it contain all the acts of any Apostle. It opens with a brief notice of the forty days succeeding the Resurrection of Christ during which He appeared to the Apostles, "speaking the things concerning the Kingdom of God ". The promise of the Holy Ghost and the Ascension of Christ are then briefly recorded. St. Peter advises that a successor be chosen in the place of Judas Iscariot , and Matthias is chosen by lot. On Pentecost the Holy Ghost descends on the Apostles, and confers on them the gift of tongues. To the wondering witnesses St. Peter explains the great miracle , proving that it is the power of Jesus Christ that is operating. By that great discourse many were converted to the religion of Christ and were baptized , "and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls ". This was the beginning of the Judeo-Christian Church . "And the Lord added to them day by day those that were being saved." Peter and John heal a man, lame from his mother's womb, at the door of the Temple which is called Beautiful. The people are filled with wonder and amazement at the miracle and run together unto Peter and John in the portico that was called Solomon's. Peter again preaches Jesus Christ , asserting that by faith in the name of Jesus the lame man had been made strong. "And many of them that heard the word believed ", and the number of the men came to be about five thousand. But now "the priests , and the prefect of the Temple and the Sadducees came upon them, being sorely troubled because they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead . And they laid hands on them, and put them in prison unto the morrow." On the morrow Peter and John are summoned before rulers, elders, and scribes, among whom were present Annas , the High-Priest , Caiphas , and as many as were of the kindred of the High-Priest . And when they had set Peter and John in the midst they inquired: "By what power, or in want name have ye done this?" Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, answering gave utterance to one of the most sublime professions of the Christian faith ever made by man: "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel , that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth , whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead , in this name doth this man stand here before you whole. He [ Jesus ] is the stone which was set at naught by you the builders, which was made the head of the corner [ Isaiah 28:16 ; Matthew 21:42 ]. And in no other is there salvation : For neither is there any other name under Heaven , that is given among men, wherein we must be saved." The members of the council were brought face to face with the most positive evidence of the truth of the Christian religion . They command the two Apostles to go aside out of the council, and then they confer among themselves, saying "What shall we do with these men? For that indeed a notable miracle hath been wrought through them, is manifest to all that dwell in Jerusalem ; and we cannot deny it". Here is one of the sp | Who Replaced Judas as the Twelfth Apostle? « Friends of Jehovah’s Witnesses Where is the real Christmas? » Who Replaced Judas as the Twelfth Apostle? In the very first verse of Romans Paul identifies himself as an Apostle. Throughout his letters he re-iterates and supports his claim to Apostleship. If Paul was an Apostle, what does that make Matthias, who was chosen by the other eleven Apostles as the Apostle to replace Judas (before Paul’s conversion)? There are two choices: 1) Matthias was indeed the chosen replacement for Judas, or 2) Paul was the chosen replacement and not Matthias. Perspective One: Matthias was the chosen replacement: When Judas Iscariot defected and died unfaithfully, the twelve apostles became eleven. During the forty days time from Jesus resurrection until his ascension to heaven, Jesus did not appoint another apostle to fill the vacancy left by Judas. We read about it in Acts 1:1-13 (Act 1:1) The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, (Act 1:2) until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. (Act 1:3) To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. (Act 1:4) Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; (Act 1:5) for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” (Act 1:9) And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. (Act 1:12) Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away. (Act 1:13) When they had entered the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. Starting in Acts 2:1 the account of the Holy Spirit being given to the disciples at Pentecost is recorded. During the ten days between the ascension (Acts 1:3) and Pentecost (Acts 2:1), Peter concludes based on two OT scripture sets that another be selected to fill Judas’ place because of Judas’ defection: (Act 1:20) “For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘LET HIS HOMESTEAD BE MADE DESOLATE, AND LET NO ONE DWELL IN IT’; and, ‘LET ANOTHER MAN TAKE HIS OFFICE.’ The words are a combination of Psa. 69:25 and Psa. 109:8; in which the apostle discerns a greater than David, and a worse than Ahithophel and his fellow conspirators against David. (Psa 69:25) May their camp be desolate; May none dwell in their tents. (Psa 109:8) Let his days be few; Let another take his office. Acts 1:11 lists 11 Apostles, Judas not being named among them. In vs 15-26, Peter presents the argument for filling Judas’ position with another choice, Barsabas or Matthias. The two criterion Peter identifies they must look for is that: • He must have been personally conversant with Jesus from John the Baptist onward, (by implication an eye witness of his works and miracles and a knowledge of his teachings) • He must have been an eyewitness of Jesus’ resurrection, After specifically asking the Lord to direct the decision Matthias was chosen. (Act 1:24-26) (Act 1:24) And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen (Act 1:25) to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.” (Act 1:26) And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Matthias is included with the other eleven and received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost along with the other apostles and the many others. He was involved with the appointment of the seven deacons in Acts 6:1-3. (Act 6:1) Now at this time whil |
"What common poison was known as ""inheritance powder"" in the early 19th century?" | Arsenic and the Forgotten Serial Killer | Speakeasy Science Arsenic and the Forgotten Serial Killer Posted February 10, 2012 by Deborah Blum in arsenic , poison , science history , Speakeasy Science Mary Ann Cotton (source: Wikipedia Common) Early this week, a British criminology professor wrote a slightly plaintive essay about the 19th century serial poisoner, Mary Ann Cotton. Why, he wondered, did no one remember the evil Mary Ann and her remarkable homicidal career: poisoning an estimated 21 people, including her mother, children and five husbands before being hanged in 1873? In retrospective, I worry that my first reaction to these questions is not what he wanted to elicit. Oh, yeah, Mary Ann Cotton, I thought. Arsenic. In the 19th century, arsenic (specifically arsenic trioxide (AsO3), also called white arsenic) was used so often that its nickname was “the inheritance powder.” That began to change in the mid-19th century after chemists – notably a determined British scientist named James Marsh – learned out to detect it in a corpse. Cotton was hanged, in fact, in part due to forensic evidence from the Marsh test. And then my next thought was, well, yeah, but Cotton was kind of a dreary, sneaky kind of serial killer, a carefully drab woman who liked to slip into the kitchen and mix arsenic into porridge, soup, a cup of milk. The author of the Cotton essay, David Wilson, attempts to give her more flamboyance, arguing she enjoyed the deaths themselves, got a charge out of watching people suffer, that “she was, in other words, a psychopath.” No argument from me. Cotton did kill some 21 people including her own children. Even if she didn’t get a charge out of watching, I think we could all agree that she possessed the most famous characteristic of a psychopath: “a profound absence of guilt or empathy.” Whether she was enjoying herself or whether she just possessed a kind of gray, sneaking evil, it’s the body count that really gives her away. But Wilson, I think, underestimates the role of arsenic here, misses the seductive lure of the poison itself. An analysis of 19th century crime statistics by the American forensic chemist, Rudolph Witthaus of Columbia University (author of the 1896 book, Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology ) found that arsenic alone accounted for about 40 percent of poison homicides in Europe from about 1835 and 1880. At the time, poison was astonishingly easy to acquire – it was used in tonics, Frederick Seddon (source: Wikipedia Commons) cosmetics, to color everything from wallpaper to jewelry, as the lethal agent in fly papers and rat poisons. (Several decades after Cotton’s execution, a British insurance collector named Frederick Seddon was executed for killing a boarder in his house with arsenic obtained by soaking flypaper in water.) It slipped easily enough into food and drink. Witthaus interviewed 822 people who had survived arsenic poisoning attempts. Only 15 had noticed the strange metallic taste in their morning cereal or evening cordial. And equally seductive for the killer, the poisoning symptoms of arsenic were frequently misdiagnosed as natural illness – the nausea and cramping as gastroenteritis, the joint pains as rheumatism, the sore throats and labored breathing as respiratory infections. Arsenic, Witthaus noted, of 19th century crime statistics has been “in almost every instance, the agent used by those who, having succeeded in a first attempt at secret poisoning, have seemed to develop a lust for murder and have continued to add to their victims until their very number has aroused suspicion and led to detection.” And that pattern would continue until the Marsh test was so refined, the ability to detect a bare whisper of arsenic in corpse so good, that the poison lost its homicidal charm. Herbert Rowse Armstrong (source: Murderpedia.org) A notorious arsenic case of the 1920s – the murder of his wife by the British solicitor Herbert Rowse Armstrong – illustrated this effect perfectly. Armstrong’s wife, Katherine, died in 1921; her death certificate cit | Level 3 - General Knowledge 1000, - Memrise General Knowledge 1000 Ready to learn Ready to review Ignore words Check the boxes below to ignore/unignore words, then click save at the bottom. 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Johnny Depp plays policeman Ichabod Crane in which 1999 film? | Sleepy Hollow (1999) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman. Director: Washington Irving (story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"), Kevin Yagher (screen story) | 2 more credits » Stars: a list of 38 titles created 26 Mar 2011 a list of 33 titles created 22 Feb 2012 a list of 38 titles created 21 Sep 2012 a list of 24 titles created 19 Jan 2014 a list of 45 titles created 22 Apr 2015 Search for " Sleepy Hollow " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Oscar. Another 23 wins & 39 nominations. See more awards » Videos A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation. Director: Tim Burton The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical. Director: Tim Burton A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house. Director: Tim Burton Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor. Director: Tim Burton An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. 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Director: Neil Jordan A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones. Director: Roman Polanski Edit Storyline The curse of the headless horseman is the legacy of the small town of Sleepy Hollow. Spearheaded by the eager Constable Ichabod Crane and his new world ways into the quagmire of secrets and murder, secrets once laid to rest, best forgotten and now reawakened, and he too, holding a dark secret of a past once gone. Written by Cinema_Fan Motion Picture Rating ( MPAA ) Rated R for graphic horror violence and gore, and for a scene of sexuality | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 19 November 1999 (USA) See more » Also Known As: La leyenda del jinete sin cabeza See more » Filming Locations: $30,060,467 (USA) (19 November 1999) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia This and Bringing Out the Dead (1999) were the last movies to be released on the LaserDisc format. See more » Goofs (at around 55 mins) The rifle Brom uses to shoot the Headless Horseman has a scope on it. Scopes were not invented until the 19th century. The first documented telescopic rifle sight was invented between 1835 and 1840. See more » Quotes Katrina Anne Van Tassel : Because no one else would go with you. Ichabod Crane : I am now twice the man, and it is your white magic. See more » Crazy Credits The opening credits - shown over Ichabod's | Bezzerwizzer at Paint Branch High School - StudyBlue StudyBlue Which geometric shape does Frank Llyod Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York echo? A spiral Which painter liked to present himself as the "Man in the Bowler Hat"? Rene Magritte Which IT company is also known by the abbreviation "HP"? Hewlett Packard Which American university is known by the abbreviation "M.I.T."? Massachusetts Institute of Technology What American fashion icon enjoys the sweet smell of success with his Double Black cologne? 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What were T S Eliot's first names? | T. S. Eliot Biography - life, family, children, name, story, death, wife, school, young T. S. Eliot Biography London, England American-born English author, poet, critic, playwright, editor, and publisher T. S. Eliot, American-English author, was one of the most significant poets writing in English in the twentieth century, as well as one of the most influential critics, an interesting playwright, editor, and publisher. Eliot's youth On September 26, 1888, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, a member of the third generation of a New England family that had come to St. Louis in 1834. Eliot's grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, Unitarian minister and founder of schools, a university, and charities, was the family patriarch, or leader. While carrying on a tradition of public service, the Eliots never forgot their New England ties. T. S. Eliot claimed that he was a child of both the Southwest and New England. In Massachusetts he missed Missouri's dark river, cardinal birds, and lush vegetation. In Missouri he missed the fir trees, song sparrows, red granite shores, and blue sea of Massachusetts. Eliot family Henry Ware Eliot, the father of T. S. Eliot, became chairman of the board of a brick company and served the schools and charities his father had helped found, as well as others. He married a New Englander, Charlotte Champ. After having six children, she focused her energy on education and legal protection for the young. She also wrote a biography, some religious poems, and a dramatic poem (1926). Eliot grew up within the family's tradition of service to religion, community, and education. Years later he declared, "Missouri and the Mississippi have made a deeper impression on me than any part of the world." The Eliots spent summers on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Education of a poet In St. Louis young Eliot received a classical education privately and at Smith Academy, originally named Eliot Academy. He composed and read the valedictory (something that involves a farewell) poem for his graduation in 1905. After a year at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, he went to Harvard T. S. Eliot. AP/Wide World Photos . University in 1906. Eliot was shy and independent and he made a good impression as a contributor and editor of the Harvard Advocate. He completed his bachelor of arts degree in three years. Eliot's stay at Harvard to earn a master of arts in philosophy (the study of knowledge) was interrupted by a year at the Sorbonne (The University of Paris) in Paris, France. He returned to Harvard in 1911 but in 1914 he went overseas again on a Harvard scholarship to study in Germany. When World War I (1914–18; a war fought between the German-led Central powers and the Allies: England, the United States, and France, among other nations) broke out, he transferred to Merton College, Oxford. Ezra Pound (1885–1972), the young American poet, discovered Eliot at Oxford. They shared a commitment to learning and poetry. After Oxford, Eliot decided to stay in England and in 1915 married Vivienne Haigh-Wood. He taught at Highgate Junior School for boys near London (1915–1916) and then worked for Lloyd's Bank. While teaching, he completed his dissertation (a writing on a subject that is required for a doctorate degree), Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley. The dissertation was accepted, but Eliot did not return to the United States to defend it and therefore did not receive his doctorate. Early poetry When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Eliot tried to join the U.S. Navy but was rejected for physical reasons. 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What species of wasp can reach up to 55 mm (2.2 in) in length? | Hornet - Norfolk Wildlife Trust Hornet Update: 18 January 2017 Following the flooding a... Features Hornet at its nest, Hickling NNR, Adam Pimble 1/2 Hornet, Horstead, Neville Yardy 2/2 Hornet Vespa crabro The hornet is Britain’s largest social wasp measuring up to 35mm long – its size alone ensures it cannot be mistaken for any other wasp. Like the common wasp, it is striped but, instead of being black and yellow, it has chestnut-brown and yellowy-orange stripes. The head consists of stout antennae, two ‘c’ shaped eyes and three round simple eyes. Conservation status This is a generally peaceful, non-aggressive species. It is not currently threatened. Details Did you know? Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps; some species can reach up to 55 mm (2.2 in) in length. How to recognise The hornet is easily Identifiable by its large size (being Britian's largest social wasp - up to 35mm long). Like the common wasp, it is striped, but, instead of being black and yellow, it has brown and yellow stripes. The head consists of stout antennae, two ‘c’ shaped eyes and three round simple eyes. The hornet usually nests in hollow trees and wall cavities, building with very brittle yellowish paper. Although it has a powerful sting it tends to be less aggressive than our other wasps. Where to see Hornets in Britain are found predominately in the south; however they are spreading northwards. They favour wooded areas, building their papery nests in hollow trees. The habitat must have a plentiful supply of insects, which are the main food for both adults and larvae. At NWT Foxley Wood , hornets have taken advantage of some of the bat boxes that have been put up. However, these often prove to be too small for the hornet colony and they will often have to build a second nest and relocate the colony to a new site. When to see In spring, usually May, the queen emerges from hibernation and begins to build her papery nest. The queen lays eggs which hatch into smaller (18-25mm ) sterile female workers. When 5-10 workers have emerged, the queen will leave the nest building and food collecting to them, and will concentrate on laying more eggs. On calm, warm nights worker hornets may be seen foraging for food. Later in the summer males (measuring 21-28mm) and fertile females hatch. On a warm day, the males and fertile females swarm from the nest and mate. As the weather becomes cooler in October/November, the newly mated female hibernates, and, if she survives, she will become the new queen the following spring. The males, the old queen and the workers all die. Find out more | Birds' legs and feet: Different shapes Southern Cassowary Black-winged Stilt Others frequent the same type of habitat, but with vegetation, involving the need of long legs, in order to walk and run through bushes and scrubs. The birds of the wet areas also need long legs to forage in shallow or deeper waters. Some large terrestrial birds such as ostrich and other similar species, have didactylous feet, with only two strong toe forwards. Ostrich On the other hand, the aerial birds often perch on branches in trees, and need flexible toes with claws, able to grasp strongly the branch when they rest or sleep. They have the most common anisodactylous feet, with three toes forwards and one toe backwards. The creepers which are arboreal species have zygodactylous toes (two forwards and two backwards) allowing them to climb along the tree trunks. We find this type of feet in Psittaciformes , but also in Picidae and Sittidae families. Eurasian Treecreeper Little Woodpecker In addition, the Sittidae, and mainly the nuthatches, are able to forage upside down, and to move over the tree trunk upwards and downwards. But we can find several very different shapes, such as webbed feet in aquatic birds ( Anseriformes , Laridae and numerous shorebirds), lobed feet in coots or grebes, very long thin toes in jacanas, and semi-palmated feet in several shorebirds’ species. Eurasian Coot Least Grebe African Jacana Some aquatic birds such as gannets, cormorants and pelicans, have anisodactylous feet, with the four toes joined by the same membrane. Great Cormorant Juvenile The Apodiformes have short legs with pamprodactylous feet, with four toes forwards, allowing them to grasp the rim of the nest. These birds belong to the Apodidae Family and are almost exclusively aerial, landing only for nesting. Common Swift The short legs are well adapted to the behaviour of Trochilidae when they feed on nectar inside the flowers. Costa's Hummingbird And some species found in the Galliforme Order, show a spur on the rear legs, just above the other toes. Ring-necked Pheasant Legs and feet tell us how and where the bird is living, what is its foraging behaviour, if it moves by running, walking or swimming. As the bill, legs and feet are very important tools allowing each species to feed, to catch preys, to kill them. In fact, they are for the bird that are for us forks, knifes or shoes! We will learn more about each group in detail though the following pages. |
UK 2009 summer weather conditions prompted fears of a plague of harlequins - what insects are these? | Could the ladybird plague of 1976 happen again? - BBC News BBC News Could the ladybird plague of 1976 happen again? By Justin Parkinson BBC News Magazine 5 March 2016 Read more about sharing. Close share panel The hot summer of 1976 saw swarms of ladybirds infesting towns and cities across the UK, with many people reporting being bitten by them. In the 40 years since there hasn't been a repeat, but could it happen again this summer? The drought of 1976 was unprecedented in its severity. Reservoirs dried up, as families queued to use standpipes to access drinking water. To titters worthy of a 1970s sitcom, Minister for Drought Denis Howell suggested people take baths with a friend. And, with Milton Abbas, Dorset, and Teignmouth, Devon, having no rain for 45 straight days, the government warned some industries might have to close down because of water shortages. Image copyright PA Image caption Reservoirs dried up as a result of drought in the summer of 1976 But the heat wasn't the only seemingly apocalyptic event to hit Britain that summer. A plague of starving seven-spotted ladybirds besieged villages, towns and cities. The British Entomological and Natural History Society has estimated that 23.65 billion of them were swarming on the southern and eastern coasts of England by late July. Brenda Madgwick, who spent some of the summer on holiday on Kent's Isle of Sheppey, remembered that "everywhere one put one's foot, it was thick with ladybirds . The posts along the sea-front holding up the chains were completely smothered.'' The ladybird population explosion happened at locations nationwide. "They were all over the place, on every pavement, and at times it was impossible to take a step without treading on them," recalled Frank Haiste of Leeds. The pool at Ruislip Lido in Middlesex was covered with dead ladybirds, deterring all but the hardiest swimmers. Image copyright Science Photo Library The bugs, usually liked by gardeners because they eat aphids, a class of plant-sapping pests that includes greenfly, became briefly hated. They reportedly started biting humans, particularly by the seaside. Simon Leather, professor of entomology at Harper Adams University, thinks changes to cereal production in the 1970s could have encouraged an increase in aphids , particularly the release of Maris Huntsman wheat - which they liked eating - in 1972. The main concern among agricultural scientists at the time was to prevent crops being ruined by fungi - not potential destruction by insects - he says, adding: "These days, people are much more aware of the importance of insect-resistance." In 1976 a warmer than average spring saw larger than usual populations of aphids, creating more food for ladybirds. But the hot, dry summer meant plants matured and dried early, leaving the aphids without food. Their population collapsed in late June and early July. So hungry ladybirds moved on in their billions, searching for nutrition. Swarms built up in coastal resorts as they got stuck by the sea, says Helen Roy, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. When well-fed, ladybirds are able to travel up to 120km (75 miles), flying at altitudes of more than 1,000m above sea level, allowing them to travel abroad. But by now they were too hungry and tired to go any further. Image caption There were reports of ladybirds biting people The attacks on humans happened as thirsty ladybirds tried to rehydrate using holidaymakers' sweat, says Roy. "They were also said to be attracted by people's ice creams," Roy, who co-runs the UK Ladybird Survey , adds, "because they would have provided a much-needed source of energy in the sugar they contained." But Ian Rotherham, professor of environmental geography at Sheffield Hallam University, says it's "unlikely" the swarms went from inland Britain to the coast. "They don't tend, on a hot summer's day, to decide they want to go to Bridlington, or wherever, to cool off for a bit," he adds. Rotherham thinks the migration was more likely to have been by ladybirds coming north from continental Europe, who landed on the beache | 1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? 3. If Alpha is 1, and Beta is 2, what is 6? 4. If Tony Blackburn won in 2002, Phil Tuffnell won in 2003, and Kerry Katona won in 2004, who won in 2007? 5. If David Lloyd George is 1, Andrew Bonal Law is 2, and Stanley Baldwin is 3, who is 4? 6. If Liverpool won in 2006, and Chelsea won in 2007, who won in 2008? 7. How many pints does a 10- gallon hat hold? 8. Who was murdered by Fitzurse, de Tracy, de Morville and Le Breton? 9. Who presents Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer? 10. From what ancient activity does the word ‘crestfallen’ come? 11. What non-mechanical sport achieves the highest speeds? 12. What major city is on an island in the St Lawrence river? 13. Who succeeded Alf Ramsey to become caretaker manger for the English national football team in 1974? 14. What did Britain’s roads first acquire in 1914? 15. Which former Liverpool player held the record for the fastest hat-trick, scoring 3 goals in less than 5 minutes? 16. Myleen Klass (pictured) now presents 10 Years Younger on Channel 4, but what was the name of the pop band that gave her success in 2001? 17. 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Who composed the opera 'Albert Herring' in 1947? | Albert Herring Albert Herring By Benjamin Britten Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia. The libretto, by Eric Crozier, was based on Guy de Maupassant’s novella Le Rosier de Madame Husson, but it was transposed entirely to an English setting.[1] Composition History After having composed and staged The Rape of Lucretia, Britten decided he should attempt a comedy, preferably set in England.[2] Eric Crozier suggested adapting the Maupassant short story Le rosier de Madame Husson and transplanting it to the Suffolk landscape already familiar to Britten from his home in Snape.[2] Britten composed Albert Herring at his home, The Old Mill at Snape, in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947.[2] He scored the opera for the same instrumental forces as he had used in his first chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia, intending it like the earlier opera for performance by the English Opera Group.[2] Performance History and Reception The opera was premiered on 20 June 1947 at Glyndebourne, conducted by the composer. According to one writer the owner and founder of Glyndebourne, John Christie, “disliked it intensely and is said to have greeted members of the first night audience with the words: ‘This isn’t our kind of thing, you know’.”[3] Just 38 years later Glyndebourne’s 1985 production was “one of the most successful the opera has had”.[3] The opera was given its US premiere on 8 August 1949 as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival.[3] In 1949, Britten’s English Opera Group toured with both Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring, giving ten performances between 12–23 September in Copenhagen and Oslo:[4] an almost complete recording of one of their Copenhagen performances has been commercially released. Sviatoslav Richter called it “the greatest comic opera of the century”,[5] and in 1983 staged Albert Herring as part of the December Nights Festival at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum.[6] The opera was performed at Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón in 1972. In 2008–2010, over 55 performances were given by companies such as those at Glyndebourne and the Portland Opera in Oregon (2008 season); the Opéra-Comique in Paris and the Opéra de Normandie in Rouen (2009); and, for 2010, at the Landestheater in Linz, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki and the Santa Fe Opera.[7] The Santa Fe production was given by the Los Angeles Opera in 2011. Vancouver Opera presented the work, in a co-production with Pacific Opera Victoria, in 2013. Time: April and May 1900Place: Loxford, a small market town in East Suffolk, England Act 1 Housekeeper Florence Pike is run ragged. Her mistress Lady Billows is organising the annual May Day festival, and has gathered all the important people of the village to vet nominees for the coveted position of Queen of the May. But Florence has dug up dirt on every single girl nominated, proving that none is worthy to wear the May Queen’s crown. Lady Billows is depressed. Superintendent Budd suggests that the solution may be to select, this year, a May King instead of a May Queen. He knows of a young man in town who is as certainly virginal as the girls are not: Albert Herring. At the greengrocer’s, Albert is teased for his timidity by the easygoing Sid. Sid’s girlfriend Nancy comes in to do some shopping, and the couple shares a tender moment while Albert eats his heart out. The lovers leave, and Albert reflects on his miserable existence under his mother’s thumb. The Festival Committee arrives with the news of his selection as May King. Mrs. Herring is thrilled, Albert less so. Mother and son quarrel, to the mocking commentary of the village children. Act 2 It is the day of the festival. Sid and Nancy are preparing the banquet tent, and they take the chance to slip some rum into Albert’s lemonade glass. Albert is tongue-tied at the feast in his honour, but drinks his lemonade greedily (which Britten satirically illustrates with a quote from Richard Wagner’s T | History — Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House entrance on Bow Street © ROH 2012 The Royal Opera was formed as the Covent Garden Opera Company in 1946, but behind it lies a tradition of operatic performance which goes back for more than 260 years at its home in Covent Garden. In each of the three theatres there have been on the site since 1732, opera has played an important role. The present theatre was built in 1858. During World War II it was used as a dance hall but after the war the idea of public subsidy of the arts was accepted and the decision was made to establish the Royal Opera House as the permanent year-round home of the opera and ballet companies now known as The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet. It was the ballet company which reopened the building on 20 February 1946 with The Sleeping Beauty. The two Companies combined for Purcell’s The Fairy Queen that December, and on 14 January 1947, Covent Garden Opera Company gave its first complete opera performance, Bizet’s Carmen. The man appointed to run the new theatre was David Webster. His period as General Administrator coincided with the first three Music Directors of the opera company: Karl Rankl (1946–51), Rafael Kubelík (1955–8) and Georg Solti (1961–71). The Rankl period was principally one of establishing the Company and saw the beginnings of the careers of many British singers, including Charles Craig, Geraint Evans and Michael Langdon. This process continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s, with Covent Garden playing a large part in the development of performers such as Amy Shuard, Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey and Jon Vickers. Under Kubelík especially there was a considerable emphasis on the idea of an ensemble company, but internationally famous singers regularly appeared as guests: Kirsten Flagstad and Hans Hotter in Wagner; Maria Callas in a variety of roles, culminating in the legendary Franco Zeffirelli production of Tosca in 1964; Birgit Nilsson; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Boris Christoff; Tito Gobbi and Ramon Vinay. Guest conductors included Maria Giulini, Rudolf Kempe and Otto Klemperer. Among the producers and designers who worked at Covent Garden during this time, two Italians were especially notable – Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti. As well as his Tosca, Zeffirelli also produced the 1959 Lucia di Lammermoor that took Joan Sutherland to international stardom. Later productions included distinguished stagings of Rigoletto, Falstaff and the double bill of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. Visconti’s work for the opera company was based on three great Verdi operas: the 1958 centenary production of Don Carlos and later stagings of Il trovatore and La traviata. He also mounted at Covent Garden an art nouveau Der Rosenkavalier. Much of this work carried over into the Solti era, but it was with his arrival as Music Director in 1961 that the Company took its place as one of the world’s leading opera companies. During his time, international awareness of Covent Garden and its singers grew considerably, a process confirmed by the success of the Company’s tour to Munich and West Berlin in 1970. The Solti period saw numerous developments in the Company’s repertoire and performing style. Of particular importance was the number of new productions of operas by Richard Strauss conducted by Solti himself, including Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Arabella and Salome. It was during this period in 1968 that the Company became The Royal Opera. Solti continued a fruitful association with The Royal Opera and in 1992 was created Music Director Laureate on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He conducted the very last operatic music to be heard in the theatre at a Farewell Gala marking its closure for redevelopment in July 1997. He died the following September. In 1970 Webster retired to be succeeded by John Tooley, and the following year Colin Davis took over as Music Director. This new partnership succeeded in maintaining the Company’s place in the top league of international houses. The world’s leading singers appeared regularly with guest conduct |
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