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During which month in 2011 was the 100th annual International Women’s Day?
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By Tricycle Mar 08, 2011 I have to admit that I didn’t even know it was International Women’s Day (IWD) until my male coworkers mentioned it late in the morning. A female colleague was also oblivious to the anniversary. When I think of “women’s rights” I think of my great-grandmother, marching for women’s suffrage, or Gloria Steinem’s leadership during the Women’s Liberation Movement. But as I read more about today’s events in honor of IWD I was reminded that gender discrimination is not a thing of the past. 100 years ago, the first International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland. In the century since, IWD celebrations have spread throughout the world–from Zambia to Afghanistan to Cambodia to Fiji. IWD events celebrate the economic, social, and political achievements that women have made in the last 100 years, but it is also an opportunity for organizations to draw attention to the pervasive gender inequalities throughout the world. Several Buddhist groups–including Buddhist Global Relief , Heart Circle Sangha , and Phap Nguyen Buddhist Congregation –have partnered with Oxfam America to organize 100 events in the U.S. this month with the goal of “raising awareness about the struggles millions of poor women still face today.” From the Oxfam press release: “While most of us think of hunger as lack of food, it is actually lack of power. We grow enough food to feed everyone, yet hundreds of millions of women continue to go hungry. On this anniversary of International Women’s Day, we organized ourselves to not forget about these women around the world who will go to bed hungry so their family can eat instead.” In many poor countries, women are the ones who collect food, water and fuel, maintain the home and look after the children. When food is scarce, women often eat less so other family members can have enough. Most of these rural women rely on farming to earn a living. But although women produce most of the world’s food, they often lack access to vital resources, like a steady source of water or a market where they can sell their crops for a fair price. Climate change poses an added threat, with erratic rainfall and droughts that disrupt the growing season and risk further hunger. Meanwhile, women have fewer opportunities to learn new skills, access credit or find well paying jobs. Seventy five percent of the worlds 876 [million] illiterate adults are women. This year’s IWD theme is “Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women.” Visit the International Women’s Day website to find events in your area and check out the Huffington Post’s “5 Ways Help Empower Women” slide show. Happy International Women’s Day!
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Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 12th October – The Questions 12th October – The Questions Specialist questions set by Waters Green Rams. General knowledge questions set by Church House, Bollington. All vetted by Harrington Academicals. SPECIALIST ROUNDS- 1. SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE 2. SCIENCE 5. TIME FOR THE KIDS 6. POLITICS ROUND ONE - SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE – News stories of the summer 1. Which actor, born Bernard Schwartz in 1925, died in September 2010? TONY CURTIS 2. In June, Princess Victoria married her former personal trainer Daniel Westling. Of which country is she a princess? SWEDEN 3. Which 74 year-old singing Dame received poor reviews when she appeared on a UK stage for the first time in 30 years at the London O2 in May? JULIE ANDREWS 4. What name was given to the tent city that was set up at the top of the San Jose pit shaft in Chile, where 33 miners were trapped? CAMP ESPERANZA (original Spanish name) or CAMP HOPE 5. Goodluck Jonathan became President of which country in May? NIGERIA 6. The Savile Enquiry finally delivered its findings on which event of 38 years ago? BLOODY SUNDAY (January 1972 in Derry) 7. Why was Mary Bale in the news in August? She was filmed on CCTV putting a CAT into a WHEELIE BIN in Coventry. 8. Which major New Zealand city was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale? CHRISTCHURCH Supp 1 Which company, with its head-quarters in Windermere, was declared the UK’s best retailer by Which? Magazine? LAKELAND Supp 2 Why was Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida in the news in September? He planned to BURN copies of the KORAN outside his church. ROUND TWO – SCIENCE 1. Which scientist was born in Shrewsbury in 1809 and died at Down House in Kent in 1882? CHARLES DARWIN 2. Which acid was traditionally known as Oil Of Vitriol or Spirit Of Vitriol? SULPHURIC ACID 3. Which heavenly body has moons called Charon, Nix and Hydra? PLUTO 4. William was in prison in 1770, when he invented the toothbrush. What was his surname, still famous in that field today? ADDIS 5. Besides the elephant, which other African mammal is a source of ivory? HIPPOPOTAMUS 6. An amalgam is a compound containing which metal? MERCURY 7. What name is given to a triangle with sides of unequal length? SCALENE 8. What does a Campbell-Stokes Recorder Record? SUNSHINE (not temperature) Supp 1 Scientist William Harvey (born 1578) is famous for his research into what? THE BLOOD (circulation etc.) Supp 2 What is the more common name for triatomic oxygen? OZONE ROUND THREE – SPORT 1. Tony McCoy finally won his first Grand National in 2010 on his 15th ride in the race. Which horse did he ride? DON’T PUSH IT 2. Name either of the 2008 Ryder Cup captains. PAUL AZINGER or NICK FALDO 3. Which sport would you be taking part in if you used a monkey climber, waggler and a plumb? ANGLING / COARSE FISHING 4. Which county won the 2010 County Cricket Championship? NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 5. Which team won the 2010 Rugby League Challenge Cup? WARRINGTON WOLVES ( bt. Leeds Rhinos 30-6 in the final). Accept WARRINGTON. 6. Where will the final race in the 2010 Formula One Series be held? YAS MARINA circuit in ABU DHABI (accept either) 7. According to Wikipedia, which English football ground has the widest pitch and boasts the tallest floodlights? EASTLANDS (home of Manchester City) 8. Which football club holds the record for the fewest wins in a season in the Premier League? DERBY COUNTY – in 2007/8, their record was Played 38, Won 1, Drawn 8, Lost 29. Supp 1 How many times did Alex Higgins win the World Snooker Championship? TWO Supp 2 Which Rugby Union club has made their Premiership debut in the 2010/11 season? EXETER (Chiefs) ROUND FOUR – GEOGRAPHY 1. Which Irish port was known as Kingstown from 1821, after a visit by George IV, until 1921? DUN LAOGHAIRE (pronounced DUNLEARY) 2. Between 1947 and gaining independence in 1971, by what name was the present-day country of Bangladesh known? EAST PAKISTAN 3. Name an African country that, in its normal English spelling, contains the letter Q. MOZAMBIQUE or EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 4. The islands of Hokkaido a
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In what year did Ankara become capital of Turkey?
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Capital of Turkey | Article about capital of Turkey by The Free Dictionary Capital of Turkey | Article about capital of Turkey by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/capital+of+Turkey Related to capital of Turkey: capital of Switzerland , Constantinople , Ottoman Empire Ankara (ăng`kərə, Turk. äng`kärä), city (1990 pop. 2,533,209), capital of Turkey and Ankara prov., W central Turkey, at an elevation of c.3,000 ft (910 m). Turkey's largest city after İstanbul Ankara is primarily an administrative city, but it is also an important commercial, industrial, and cultural center. Grains, vegetables, and fruit are grown nearby. Manufactures include food products, wine, farm machinery, iron and steel, textiles, and cement. Angoran goats bred there are famous for the mohair made from their coats. Tourism is increasingly important, and the service sector is expanding. Known in ancient times as Ancyra and later as Angora, the city was an important commercial center at least as early as Hittite times (18th cent. B.C.). in the 1st cent. A.D. it became the capital of a Roman province. It flourished under Augustus; in the ruins of a marble temple dating from his reign (31 B.C.–A.D. 14) was found the Monumentum Ancyranum, a set of inscribed tablets valuable as a record of Augustan history. The city was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the mid-14th cent., and in 1402 Timur defeated and captured Sultan Beyazid I there. In the late 19th cent. Ankara declined and by the early 20th cent. was a small town known only for the production of mohair. In 1920, Kemal Atatürk made the city the seat of his Turkish nationalist government with a commitment to modernization. In 1923 it replaced İstanbul as the capital of all Turkey, partly to break with tradition and partly to take advantage of its central location. The city grew rapidly from the 1920s; in the 1960s its population almost doubled. There are few historic remains. Ankara's leading modern monument is the Atatürk mausoleum, completed in 1953. The huge Kocatepe Mosque opened in 1987. The city has numerous museums, including the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, and is the seat of the Ankara, Hacettepe, and Middle East Technical universities. Ankara (formerly called Angora, ancient Ancyra), capital of Turkey, administrative center of Ankara wilaya. Located on the central Anatolian Plateau at an elevation of 891 m, at the confluence of the Cubuk and Ankara rivers (of the Sakarya River basin). The climate is continental. Average temperatures range from -0.7°C in January to 23.2°C in July, and the annual precipitation is 340 mm. The population was 1,200,000 in 1970, second to Istanbul. From 30,000 in 1920, Ankara grew to 75,000 in 1927,157,000in 1940,650,000 in 1960, and 902,000 in 1965. Ankara is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country. Macadam roads connect Ankara with the provincial centers, and rail lines lead to the coasts of the Black Sea (at Zonguldak and at Samsun), the Bosporus (at Istanbul), the Sea of Marmara (at Izmit), the Aegean Sea (at Izmir), the Mediterranean Sea (at Mersin and Iskenderun), and the Soviet-Turkish border. The Esenboga airport is close to Ankara. The municipal meclis (assembly, elected by the citizens for four years) is the governing body of Ankara. Its chairman is appointed by the minister of internal affairs and is approved by the president. Each city district of Ankara also has an elective municipal meclis. The town was founded in the seventh century B.C . by the Phrygian king Midas. In ancient times and in the Middle Ages it was an important center for caravan trade in Anatolia. In the 14th century Ankara was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. On July 28 (or July 20), 1402, the battle between Tamerlane and Bayazid I took place near Ankara. After the 1864 province reform Ankara became the center of the wilaya of Anatolia. From the end of 1919, Ankara was the center of the national liberation movement of 1918–22. It was the residence of the Committee of Representatives and, from Apr. 23, 1920, of the Great National A
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The City of Alexandria in Egypt - Information & Location of Alexandria The city of Alexandria - Egypt Alexandria, the city created by Alexander the Great in 333BCE and with a history very different from any of the other cities in Egypt. When this famous Macedonian (the Greek state, not the former Yugoslav country) was en route to visit the Oracle Temple of Amun at the Siwa oasis he stopped overnight at the village of "Re-qdt” (its Greek name is “Racotis”) between the Mediterranean Sea and the Lake of Mariott (its location today is the area of Tel Bab Sadrah or Karmouz). Alexander decided that this was to be the spot where a great city would be built and charged one of his architects, Dinocratis, to build it. He continued on to Siwa, to consult the oracle about his destiny and then left Egypt to fight the Persians in Asia. Sadly it is not known what the Oracle told Alexander, but it is generally believed that he was told he was to be a great leader. After his triumphal campaigns, Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC without ever seeing the city that bears his name: in fact it was not until the reigns of Ptolemy I, (Soter - the Saviour), and his successor Ptolemy II (Philadelphus) that the building of the city was completed and it became the main capital. Dinocratis planned the city in squares, like a chessboard with two main streets interlaced vertically and horizontally extending from east to west as well as from north to south. Alexandria had 5 districts, each one named after a letter of the first five letters in the Greek Alphabet: A (Alpha); B (Beta); G (Gamma); D (Delta) and E (Epsilon). These 5 letters represent the initial letters of the text: "Alexander the king, the descendent of the gods, erected the city". Alpha was the royal district where the royal palaces, the main Temple, the museum, the libraries, and the gardens were built, Beta was the district of the Greek aristocracy. Gamma was dedicated to the settlement of the Greek commoners. Delta was the district of the foreign minorities such as the Syrians, the Persians, and the Jews. Epsilon was the district for the native Egyptians. Drinking water was supplied by a canal starting from the western Canopic branch of the Nile, at a point called "Shedia" about 27 km to the south of Alexandria. The water was stored in Cisterns; some of which remain into modern times. At the beginning of the Roman period, about 30 BC, a new city was built here by the Romans, bearing the name of "Nicopolis" which means the city of Victory, in order to commemorate the victory of Octavian over Mark Anthony in Aktium in 31 BC. Most of it was destroyed or vanished for several reasons, including disturbances, civil wars, revolts, natural disasters, subsoil water and unplanned urbanization etc. Among the fabulous monuments mentioned by ancient Greek books are the Enclosure Walls and the Gates of the City, the Lighthouse, the Great Library, the Royal Necropolis including the Tomb of Alexander and the Museums. Today the remaining monuments of ancient Alexandria are different cemeteries scattered in many various locations, some of which date back to the Ptolemaic period: El-Shatby, Moustafa Kamel, El-Anfoushy, and El-Wardain. Others date back to the Roman period: the tombs of Kom El-Shouqafa (the Catacombs), the tomb of Tigran, Pompeii’s pillar, Tomb of Silvago and the cemetery of El-Qabbary which was only recently discovered. There are other important monuments in the city that date back to various periods, such as the Serapium, the Roman Theatre, the Temple of El-Ras El-Souda, Citadel of Quaitbay, the Jewellery Museum, Mosque of El-Naby Daniel, Mosque of El-Moursi Abou El-Abbas and the Memorial of the unknown soldier.
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Alphabetically speaking, which British prime minister of the 20th century would come first ?
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BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Churchill 'greatest PM of 20th Century' Tuesday, 4 January, 2000, 15:23 GMT Churchill 'greatest PM of 20th Century' Sir Winston Churchill: World War II leader topped the poll Wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill was the greatest prime minister of the 20th Century, according to a BBC survey. The Conservative, whose leadership and speeches inspired the UK through the Second World War, beat the last Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George into second place. The results in full 2. David Lloyd George (Lib) 3. Clement Attlee (Lab) 7. Marquess of Salisbury (Con) 8. Stanley Baldwin (Con) 9. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Lib) 10. Harold Wilson (Lab) 13. Andrew Bonar Law (Con) 14. Ramsey MacDonald (Lab) 15. Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Con) 16. Arthur Balfour (Con) 19. Sir Anthony Eden (Con) Churchill's successor, Labour's Clement Attlee, was voted third greatest. Twenty prominent historians, politicians and commentators were asked by BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour to rank the 19 prime ministers from Lord Salisbury at the turn of the century through to John Major in the 1990s. Britain's current leader Tony Blair was not included because his spell in Downing Street is not complete. The programme announcing the results of the poll was being broadcast on Boxing Day on Radio 4. Andrew Rawnsley was asking five of the "voters" to have their say - political heavyweights Roy Jenkins, Barbara Castle and Kenneth Baker; and the historians Professor Ben Pimlott and Andrew Roberts. Winston Churchill led Britain during the Second World War after returning from the political wilderness. He lost the first election after the war but returned as a peacetime prime minister in the fifties. David Lloyd George took over as PM at the height of the First World War, replacing another contender, Herbert Henry Asquith. He was voted fourth in the list while free market champion and union law reformer Margaret Thatcher was fifth Her successor, John Major, whose premiership was blighted by Tory infighting over Europe, fared badly, rated 17th out of 19. Only Neville Chamberlain (18th) and Sir Anthony Eden (19th) did worse. Who do you think was the greatest? Send us your views using the form below. Here is what you have said so far. The best 20th Century Prime Minister is Clement Attlee for the foundation of the welfare state, still a model of welfare worth preserving. The previous Liberal model proved woefully inadequate as Beveridge found, and the free market left to it's own devices will provide neither security nor choice for the majority. This was evident to the Liberals almost a century ago. Margaret Thatcher is unquestionably the worst 20th Century Prime Minister. Not just for her appalling record in government - the massive wealth distribution from poor to rich, the battering of workplace rights, the attacks on health and welfare provision etc. - but more insidiously for her poisonous political legacy. Thatcher has so mesmerised Labour that they see no alternative to actively supporting such disasterous Thatcherite measures as the privatisation of the health service through Public Private Partnerships, the impoverishment of pensioners and the preservation of massive and increasing inequality! The result being that we will continue to pay a heavy price for Thatcher for many years to come. Keith MacAskill, UK Two of the rankings excite particular surprise: the high placing of Herbert Asquith and the relatively low placing of Margaret Thatcher. Mr Asquith's overall record should not, I think, justify him being placed in the top ten, let alone the top five. Many of the 'reforms' which occured during his Administration were the work of men other than him. If Mr Asquith is ranked too highly, then, Mrs Thatcher is, surely, ranked too low. Whatever one's personal views about Mrs Thatcher, her impact - both politically and otherwise - on the life of the nation was, and continues to be, profound, much more so than any of the other Prime Ministers of the century, including Mr Churchill during his 1955-55 occupation of the Premie
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History of 10 Downing Street - GOV.UK GOV.UK Larry, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office Introduction – by Sir Anthony Seldon 10 Downing Street, the locale of British prime ministers since 1735, vies with the White House as being the most important political building anywhere in the world in the modern era. Behind its black door have been taken the most important decisions affecting Britain for the last 275 years. In the 20th century alone, the First and Second World Wars were directed from within it, as were the key decisions about the end of the empire, the building of the British nuclear bomb, the handling of economic crises from the Great Depression in 1929 to the great recession, and the building up of the welfare state. Some of the most famous political figures of modern history have lived and worked in Number 10, including Robert Walpole, Pitt the Younger, Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone, David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. Number 10 has 3 overlapping functions. It is the official residence of the British Prime Minister: it is their office, and it is also the place where the Prime Minister entertains guests from Her Majesty The Queen to presidents of the United States and other world leaders. The Prime Minister hosts countless receptions and events for a whole range of British and overseas guests, with charitable receptions high up the list. The building is much larger than it appears from its frontage. The hall with the chequered floor immediately behind the front door lets on to a warren of rooms and staircases. The house in Downing Street was joined to a more spacious and elegant building behind it in the early 18th century. Number 10 has also spread itself out to the left of the front door, and has taken over much of 12 Downing Street, which is accessed by a corridor that runs through 11 Downing Street – the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Explore 10 Downing Street Downing Street Approach Entrance Hall Many famous feet have trodden across this entrance hall: from world leaders to sporting heroes. But this is also where the PM's staff enter each day to work among the myriad corridors and staircases which snake around the building. 10 Downing Street fulfils many roles – as meeting place, home and office. The Prime Minister does not have keys to Number 10 but there is always someone on duty to let him in. Grand Staircase Sir Robert Walpole took up residence as Prime Minister in 1735 and wanted the design of Number 10 to match his status. He employed a famous architect of the day to renovate the crumbling building and many of the features he installed, including the central staircase, still exist. Portraits of every Prime Minister line the walls in chronological order, with the most recent incumbents at the top and group photographs from past Cabinets and Imperial Conferences at the bottom. White Drawing Room Until the 1940s Prime Ministers and their wives kept the White Room for their private use. It was here that Edward Heath kept his grand piano. The room contains works by one of the most important English landscape painters of the nineteenth century, J M W Turner. These days it is often used as the backdrop for television interviews and is in regular use as a meeting room for Downing Street staff. The room links through to the Terracotta Room next door. Cabinet Room Gordon Brown held Cabinet meetings every Tuesday but they were previously held on Thursday mornings. The only exceptions were during the Second World War and when the house was being renovated. The room was extended in 1796 by knocking a wall down and inserting columns to carry the extra span. The Cabinet room is separated from the rest of the house by soundproof doors. A terrorist bomb exploded in the garden of Number 10 in 1991, only a few metres from where John Major was chairing a Cabinet meeting. Terracotta Room This was used as the dining room when Sir Robert Walpole was PM. The name of this room changes according to the colour it is painted. When Margaret Thatcher came to power it was the Bl
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Which singer had two hits about boxer Muhammad Ali?
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Bill Withers Pays Tribute to Muhammad Ali | Billboard COMMENTS Sony Classics From left: Ali, Withers and King in a still from the 2008 Soul Power documentary, about the Zaire 74 concert. Muhammad Ali and singer-songwriter Bill Withers (best known for his '70s hits "Lean on Me," "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Use Me") met in 1967, after the boxer had been stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing service in the U.S. Army. The two became friends, and seven years later Withers was among the artists invited to perform at the Zaire 74 music festival in Africa with James Brown , B.B. King and others, which preceded the "Rumble in the Jungle" bout between Ali and George Foreman. Below, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remembers the "positive force of nature" that was Ali. Music Stars Remember Muhammad Ali on Social Media I became involved in Zaire 74 when Gary Stromberg, who had a PR firm, asked me if I wanted to go to Africa for the fight. It was a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. In the Kinshasa Hilton were people like [author] Norman Mailer, [journalist] George Plimpton, B.B. King and James Brown -- you don't get those kinds of people in the same space too often. It really showed the magic about Ali. The people in Zaire loved him; they followed him around, and he was running his mouth and going on. We were all out in this big soccer stadium. And rumor had it that in order to make things look good, the government had executed dozens of the best-known pickpockets. It was a big PR thing for Mobutu [Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire from 1965 to 1997], I guess. So we're all walking around, looking on the ground for blood. I hung out as much as I could with Ali and George [Foreman] both because they flew food in for them -- so if I hung around, I got to eat what they ate. I remember walking around with Ali and his brother [Rahman] in the middle of the night. And Ali's father [Cassius Clay Sr.] was this great character who would sing "My Way" at the drop of a hat. Remember, this happened because [promoter] Don King had gotten an option from Ali and George to get $5 million [each] for the fight; the only problem was he didn't have $10 million. But that was the genius of Don: He found this guy Mobutu in a country that most people had never heard of, who at the time was the sixth-richest man in the world or something. And when you got there, the disparity between opulent wealth and people living in cinderblock houses with no windows ... it was an odd odyssey. Muhammad Ali the Grammy-Nominated, Billboard-Charting Musician Ali would talk to anybody. I've never seen anyone with the energy to talk that much. He talked all the time. From the guy who parked the cars to Fidel Castro, everybody had some kind of moment with Muhammad Ali. I would see old-time bigots who obviously had issues with his political stance. But after five minutes with Ali, they were fans. You know how you call friends up on the phone? You couldn't harness Ali. He always was in perpetual motion. It would be like trying to catch a hummingbird in your hands. The last time I saw Ali was at a book signing, probably in the '90s. He had Parkinson's by then and was speaking very slowly. He wanted me to sit behind him onstage while he answered questions, and women came up to kiss him. When I said goodbye to him, lo and behold, Parkinson's and all, Ali went into his boxing pose. I said, "My man, still going." Ali squeezed about as much out of this life as you can. And I'll tell you one thing: He would be loving all this brouhaha about him. If I ran into him, he'd probably say, "Bill Withers, I told you I was the greatest. As told to Gail Mitchell
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Pandora: Sir Cliff caused controversy with 'Honky Tonk Angels' | The Independent Pandora: Sir Cliff caused controversy with 'Honky Tonk Angels' Monday 1 September 2008 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Sir Cliff Richard's squeaky clean image as the Peter Pan of British pop grows ever more tarnished by the day. Two years ago, the usually mild-mannered crooner managed to shock his middle-of-the-road fans when he appeared on Gordon Ramsay's Channel 4 programme, The F-Word, where he told the potty-mouthed chef to "fuck off". Now, I'm told that he will break further taboos with the forthcoming release of an eight-CD commemorative box-set entitled And They Said It Wouldn't Last: My 50 Years In Music. Among the songs included in the track listing is an alternative version of Sir Cliff's controversial cover of "Honky Tonk Angels", a country song about prostitutes. It is a surprising inclusion since, not long after the song was released in 1973, Sir Cliff himself backed calls for the BBC to ban it from the airwaves. For some bizarre reason, he was originally led to believe the song was about the Salvation Army. It was only when he was told it was actually about prostitution that he decided to disown it. When I call to find out whether the track's inclusion was the result of a careless record company employee, a spokesman informs me it was all Sir Cliff's doing. Apparently, his attitude towards the record has softened over the years. "He knows the song is on there and he is more than happy about it," I am told. "It was released many years ago and his mind has changed since then. He is older and wiser now. "I'm sure, if anyone asked him to, he would be happy to perform it these days." Now rain stops play for Josh Josh Hartnett's much anticipated West End debut has been delayed. The Hollywood actor was to begin performances of Rain Man at London's Apollo Theatre next Tuesday, but this has been put back until the following week after the director, Terry Johnson, deemed the play unready. He joined the crew late when the original director, David Grindley, stepped down for family reasons. A spokesman says: "It is a new play so everyone wants it to be perfect. Terry wants to get to grips with everything before we open." RAF pilots flown home courtesy of Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson, the singer with heavy metal outfit Iron Maiden, has in the past performed for British troops in Iraq. On Sunday, he did his bit for our boys in Afghanistan. Dickinson, a qualified pilot for British airline Astraeus, was behind the controls of a Boeing 747 that the Ministry of Defence had chartered to transport a group of RAF pilots back home. "A lot of them recognised him because they are Maiden fans, but he was there in his professional capacity as a pilot," says an RAF spokesman. "He gave out lots of signatures to the guys." Andy's rock'n'roll years Although Tony Blair liked to flaunt his guitar-playing skills, there was suspicion among his colleagues that the former PM was a mere "three chorder". His youthful protégé Andy Burnham is a more accomplished player. The Culture Secretary tells this month's Q magazine that he spent his formative years "sitting in my bedroom picking out [Billy Bragg's] 'Between the Wars' ... sad, really." This is not the first insight we've had into Burnham's wayward youth. In 1984, a mulleted Burnham invaded the pitch at Highbury after Everton had reached the FA Cup Final. Fry's 'virtual' panto There was a time when serious actors would turn their noses up at pantomime, but thanks to the likes of Sir Ian McKellen and Simon Callow, a spot of hanky Twanky is nowadays practically de rigueur among the theatrical community. The latest to sign up is Stephen Fry, who has agreed to a cameo at Norwich Theatre Royal's production of Snow White in the New Year. The polymath will appear in a "virtual role", with his performance beamed on a big screen. Fry's only stipulation to the producers is that he will not sing, as he has what he describes as a "Van Gogh's ear for music". Phelps isn't feeling in the swim Amphibious golden bo
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Who plays the title role in the 1995 film 'Jefferson In Paris'?
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Jefferson in Paris (1995) - 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 One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old ... See full summary » Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 21 titles created 03 May 2011 a list of 30 titles created 20 Nov 2011 a list of 24 titles created 18 Nov 2013 a list of 34 titles created 01 Jan 2014 a list of 21 titles created 9 months ago Title: Jefferson in Paris (1995) 5.7/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now successful... See full summary » Director: James Ivory Eleanor lives with the artist Stash. Just like his artist friends, he is completely unknown but is waiting for the big break. Stash is mean to her and finally she leaves him. Ironically, ... See full summary » Director: James Ivory The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in April 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his ... See full summary » Director: John Duigan Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children. Director: James Ivory Seven teenagers retreat to a country house for the weekend to make their epic, an impossibly ambitious Celtic fantasy. As the making of the video drifts from playful hilarity to argument, ... See full summary » Director: Anna Campion A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend. Director: James Ivory A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future. Director: James Ivory Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old. Director: James Ivory Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his ... See full summary » Director: John Duigan Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives. Director: Philippe de Broca 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks ... See full summary » Director: Franco Zeffirelli Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to ... See full summary » Director: James Ivory Edit Storyline One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France (as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI), following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French, his relationship with his daughters and slaves from home (especially Sally), against the backdrop of the beginning of the French Revolution. Written by Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com> Motion Picture Rating ( MPAA ) Rated PG-13 for mature theme, some images of violence and a bawdy puppet show | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 31 March 1995 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Jeffer
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BBC One London - 13 July 1995 - BBC Genome Tenth of a 13-part live action series. The children are mortified when Duffy decides that Christmas must be cancelled. Duffy STEVE BISLEY, Professor Ingessol ARTHUR DIGNAM, Gerard JUSTIN ROSNIAK , Michael DANIEL TAYLOR, Kumiko ANNA CHOY , Kingston ABRAHAM FORSYTH, Anna ROBYN MACKENZIE , Sam KEN RADLEY, Beth LINDEN WILKENSON Contributors Unknown: Professor Ingessol Arthur Unknown: Gerard Justin Rosniak Unknown: Michael Daniel Unknown: Kumiko Anna Choy Unknown: Anna Robyn MacKenzie Unknown: Sam Ken Unknown: Beth Linden Wilkenson 17.35 To Mark's horror, Annalise insists on taking every conceivable camping luxury to the car rally. Shown at 1.30pm For cast see Wednesday 18.00 With Anna Ford and Jill Dando. Subtitled : EastEnders Bianca's birthday party becomes a bone of contention. Grant decides to make up for some lost time, and Cindy puts an ultimatum to David. This week's episodes written by Sian Orrells and David Richard-Fox ; Producer Alison Davis ; Director Rob Evans Omnibus edition next Sunday Contributors Writer: Sian Orrells Writer: David Richard-Fox Producer: Alison Davis Director: Rob Evans Cindy Beale: Michelle Collins David Wicks: Michael French Kathy Mitchell: Gillian Taylforth Phil Mitchell: Steve McFadden Ian Beale: Adam Woodyatt Grant Mitchell: Ross Kemp Peggy Mitchell: Barbara Windsor Steve Elliott: Mark Monero Pat Butcher: Pam St Clement Ricky Butcher: Sid Owen Bianca Jackson: Patsy Palmer Carol Jackson: Lindsey Coulson Alan Jackson: Howard Antony Robbie Jackson: Dean Gaffney Michelle Fowler: Susan Tully Mark Fowler: Todd Carty Ruth Fowler: Caroline Paterson Nigel Bates: Paul Bradley Sanjay Kapoor: Deepak Verma Gita Kapoor: Shobu Kapoor Jules Tavernier: Tommy Eytle Blossom Jackson: Mona Hammond Tiffany Raymond: Martine McCutcheon Pauline Fowler: Wendy Richard Arthur Fowler: Bill Treacher Roy Evans: Tony Caunter 20.00 : How Do They Do That? In the first of six compilation programmes, Desmond Lynam and Jenny Hull look back on stories from the last two series of How Do They Do That? Items include how sea birds covered in oil are cleaned up by a dedicated rescue team and the computer wizardry behind the TV commercial in which Ryan Giggs plays football alongside some of Manchester United's former greats. Producers Martin Lucas and Gill Strlbling-Wright ; Executive producer Alan Boyd Contributors Unknown: Desmond Lynam Unknown: Jenny Hull Unknown: Ryan Giggs Producers: Martin Lucas Producers:
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What was the title of Walt Disney's first full length animated feature, released in 1937?
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Walt Disney Animation Studios THE HISTORY OF DISNEY ANIMATION In 1937, the Walt Disney Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and pioneered a new form of family entertainment. More than seven decades later, Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to honor its heritage through animated films that combine beautiful artistry, masterful storytelling and ground-breaking technology. CLICK TO ENTER San Fransokyo, the fictional metropolis in which the film is set, is actually based on a caricature of property data collected from maps obtained from San Francisco's Assessor-Recorder's office. Three times as complex as any setting from previous Disney animated films, San Fransokyo features 83,000 buildings, 216,000 street lights, and hundreds of thousands of residents. The setting is so large, in fact, that the environments from all three of Disney's previous animated films (Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen) can fit into the city of San Fransokyo. BH6 clocked 199,000,000 render hours. By comparison, Tangled clocked 11,500,000 render hours, Wreck-It Ralph clocked 21,900,000 render hours, and Frozen clocked 62,800,000 render hours. Director Patrick Osborne had been shooting one-second videos of his meals for a couple months when he noticed patterns forming — his life reflected in the food he ate. "I wanted to tell a story through the different meals a person eats," says Osborne. "I was interested in how the food alone could reveal that someone's life situation has changed. There's something cool about that." In order to capture the look of production designer Jeff Turley's concept art, the filmmakers developed new techniques, including a way to break up the edges of shapes on screen. "Jeff used certain paper textures throughout his artwork that made the edges feel less harsh," says director Patrick Osborne. "It looks like ripped paper—but it's challenging to do it in 3D animation because the texture doesn't automatically move with the shape." Filmmakers invited a real-life reindeer into the Walt Disney Animation Studios, observing the animal's physical makeup and mannerisms, which were later caricatured in the making of Kristoff's reindeer buddy Sven. The reindeer showcased an unexpected technique for taking care of an itch on his ear: he used his back legs—like a dog might do. Sven later adopted the technique. The character of Kristoff was largely influenced by the Sami people, who are indigenous to parts of northern Norway. The Sami are known for herding reindeer, which may explain why Kristoff's best buddy is a reindeer named Sven. Filmmakers visited a Sami-owned reindeer husbandry business in Roros, Norway. "I loved the idea of making a Mickey film that felt like a newly discovered 1928 short," says director Lauren MacMullan. "I decided not to have Mickey talk much, because he didn't in those early shorts. We used Walt's voice initially as scratch, but it sounded so perfect. It put us right in that era. Our assistant editor Danya Joseph started to hunt within existing Walt recordings for lines that would fit our story needs, and we were able to tailor our dialogue to reflect what we had." To create new model sheets for each of the characters, 2D animator Eric Goldberg studied the early Mickey films and pulled frame grabs to find the poses he liked best. For each model sheet he created, he would give the character what he called "a uniform Ub Iwerks pass," and make sure that they looked authentic to the 1928 period. As the CG rigs and models began to take shape, Goldberg played a key supervisory role, doing draw-overs to help achieve the look that director Lauren MacMullan wanted. In order to visually identify the three unique video game worlds that the movie primarily takes place in, Art Directors Mike Gabriel and Ian Gooding created a unique shape language for Fix-It Felix Jr., Hero's Duty, and Sugar Rush. Fix-It Felix Jr. was comprised of squares, Hero's Duty was constructed with triangles, and Sugar Rush was inspired by circular shapes. The filmmaking team used different anim
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King Kong (1933) Pages: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) Background The greatest and most famous classic adventure-fantasy (and part-horror) film of all time is King Kong (1933). Co-producers and directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, gigantic, 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetypal Beauty and the Beast fable. [Fay Wray mistakenly believed that her RKO film co-star, 'the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood,' would be Cary Grant rather than the beast. Later in her life, she titled her autobiography "On the Other Hand" in memory of her squirming in Kong's grip.] The major themes of the film include the struggle for survival on the primitive, fog-enshrouded, tropical Skull Island between the ardent and energetic filmmakers (led by Robert Armstrong), the hero (Bruce Cabot in a part originally offered to Joel McCrea), the voodoo natives, and the forces of nature (the unique Beast creature); unrequited love and the frustration and repression of violent sexual desires. However, the primitive, giant ape must also struggle against the forces of urban civilization and technology when it is exploited for profit and returned for display in New York City during a time of economic oppression. From the start of the picture, its clever screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose (based on a story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace) suggested the coming terror. The film was shot during the spring and summer of 1932 in the confines of the studio. Due to their limited budget for sets, Cooper and Schoedsack used the jungle locale from the latter's previous film The Most Dangerous Game (1932) - an adventure film that also starred Fay Wray. When released, it broke all previous box-office records. Its massive, money-making success helped to save RKO Studios from bankruptcy. The following scenes for the 1938 re-release (the film was re-released four times from 1933 to 1952 - in 1938, 1942 and 1946), that were excised by censors after the Production Code took effect in 1934, were restored in more recent editions of the film: the Brontosaurus' killing (biting) of three sailor victims in the swamp (instead of five in the original) Kong's stripping/peeling of Fay Wray's clothing (and sniffing) while holding her unconscious in his palm Kong's killing of natives on a scaffold in the village, and the stomping of a native during the attack Kong's chewing-biting of a New Yorker victim and his drop of a woman from the Empire State Building window after mistaking her for Ann The giant spider-pit sequence was not restored, but lost (during the filming of Peter Jackson's 2005 remake, he recreated the sequence using remaining stills and animations from the original script). This remarkable film received no Academy Awards nominations - it would have won in the Special Effects category if there had been such a category. The film contained many revolutionary technical innovations for its time (rear projection, miniature models about 18 inches in height, and trick photography, etc.), and some of the most phenomenal stop-motion animation sequences and special effects ever filmed (by chief technician Willis O'Brien, famed for his first feature film The Lost World (1925)). A wildly dramatic musical score by Max Steiner enhanced the action of the story. It was the first feature-length musical score written specifically for a US 'talkie' film, and was the first major Hollywood film to have a thematic score rather than background music, recorded using a 46-piece orchestra. After the score was completed, all of the film's sounds were recorded onto three separate tracks, one each for sound effects, dialogue and music. For the first time in film history, RKO's soun
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In which century was Innocent XIII the Pope, the last Pope of this name?
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St. Malachy Last Pope Prophecy: What Theologians Think About 12th-Century Prediction | The Huffington Post St. Malachy Last Pope Prophecy: What Theologians Think About 12th-Century Prediction 02/14/2013 06:39 am ET | Updated Jun 27, 2013 4.9k Cavan Sieczkowski Senior Editor, Content Strategy, The Huffington Post After Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation , those familiar with a 12th-century prophecy claiming the next pope will be the last questioned if Judgment Day is quickly approaching. Scholars, theologians and churchmen, however, all treat this "prediction" as fiction passed off as reality. The "Prophecy of the Popes" is attributed to St. Malachy , an Irish archbishop who was canonized a saint in 1190, according to Discovery News. In his predication, dated 1139, Malachy prophesied that there would be 112 more popes before Judgment Day. Benedict is supposedly the 111th pope. The foretelling offers brief descriptions about each pope, and some of them appear to align with reality in some way. For example, Benedict is apparently denoted as the "glory of the olive," and the Olivetans are affiliated with Benedictine Order, NBC News notes. Curiously, the "Prophecy of Popes" stops at the 112th pope and ends with a cryptic warning of doomsday . In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit ... Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations: and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the terrible judge will judge his people. The End. Following Benedict's resignation, theorists began questioning if Malachy might actually be right. However, although Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana might bear the same name as the person mentioned in the prophecy, there are no Roman-born cardinals in the running to be Benedict's successor . "There are no Pietros among the living cardinals; two Pierres (as second name): Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir and Jean-Pierre Ricard; and one Pedro: Rubiano Sáenz," according to librarian Salvador Miranda, creator and producer of the website The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church . Like any good conspiracy theory, there are many holes in the lore of St. Malachy, according to Father James Weiss , a professor of church history at Boston College. First of all, there is no original manuscript of the prediction. Malachy's vision was allegedly discovered and published by Benedictine Arnold de Wyon in 1590. Prior to that date, there is no mention or record of it, Weiss told The Huffington Post. Reputable church historians and clerics have considered it a forgery since the 18th century. "Between the summer of 1590 and the fall of 1592 , there were four popes [elected during] a period of rapid turnover," Weiss said during a phone conversation with HuffPost on Wednesday. "It was also a point at which there was intense rivalry between France and Spain to control the papacy for their own political reasons." The prophecies surfaced after the first of the newly elected popes died. "It is widely thought, also given who the author was and his relationship, [that the prophecies] were published to establish the case for election of one particular cardinal," he added. Text from St. Malachy's "Prophecy of Popes." Story continues below. Another point Weiss raises is the line between the prediction for No. 111 "glory of olive" and No. 112 Petrus Romanus. "It reads, 'In the extreme persecution in the Holy Roman Church there will sit...' It's an incomplete sentence," Weiss said. "Apparently a lot of scholars believe that line is an incomplete sentence indicating that there will be unidentified popes between the ["glory of olives"] and Peter the Roman." Despite the fascination surrounding it, Malachy's prophecy is regarded as malarkey by church officials and scholars. "Theologically and organizationally, the church pays no attention to this," Weiss said. "The only thing that you would say to someone who was obsessed or curious about it would be, 'Our times are in God's hands and we can trust God's providence.' But that won't satisfy a lot of people." Weiss
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1200 - 1300 Home >> Chronology >> 1200 - 1299 1202: Arthur of Brittany is defeated. Philip II of France continues Arthur's fight with England, and within the next three years increases his domain by annexing Normandy, Maine, Brittany, Anjou, Touraine, and Poitou. Start of the Fourth Crusade. (1202 - 1204) During which, Constantinople is captured (and plundered) by the Crusaders. Also, the Children's Crusade. 1203: Sundiata of Mali takes over rule of what remains of Ghana.(?) 1204: Philip II of France stops fighting England, after winning back all England's French lands. End of the Fourth Crusade. Eleanor of Aquitaine dies. 1206: By now Temujin (later known as Genghis Khan) is master of almost all of Mongolia. 1207: John Lackland of England refuses to accept Stephen Langton as archbishop of Canterbury and is excommunicated by Pope Innocent III. Pope Innocent III starts negotiating with Philip II of France to attack England, and closes down all the churches in England. 1208: Pope Innocent III proclaims a Crusade against the Albigenses (a religious sect) in Southern France. The crusade continues until about 1229. Philip, duke of Tuscany and Swabia is murdered, just as it looks like he will succeed as Holy Roman Emperor. Temujin (Genghis Khan) has started his conquest of China. 1209: Otto of Brunswick is crowned Otto IV of the Holy Roman Empire. 1210: Emperor Otto IV (called Otto of Brunswick) seizes papal territory and is excommunicated by Pope Innocent III. 1212: Frederick, king of Sicily becomes Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. Emperor Otto IV, with King John of England's support, continues to fight for his crown, against both Emperor Frederick II, the pope, and France. 1213: John Lackland of England surrenders England to the pope, and receives it back as a fief. 1214: John Lackland of England attempts to regain his lands in France and is defeated in France. Emperor Otto IV is defeated in the Battle of Bouvines, where France is established as a leading power of Europe. William the Lion of Scotland dies, and his son Alexander is crowned king. 1215: John Lackland of England is forced to sign the Magna Carta. A group of English barons offer Prince Louis (soon to be Louis VIII) of France the throne of England. He agrees and attempts to claim the throne but fails. Temujin (Genghis Khan) has conquered Yenking, the last Chin stronghold in Northern China. 1216: John Lackland of England dies defending his throne and is succeeded by his son Henry III (age nine) of England. During Henry III's minority the Earl of Pembroke ruled. 1217: Prince Louis VIII of France returns to France and takes parts in crusades against the Albigenses, or Cathars. Alexander II of Scotland recognizes Henry III of England as his overlord. The Fifth Crusade commences. 1218: Temujin (Genghis Khan) conquerors the Korean Peninsula. 1219: Earl of Pembroke dies. Hubert de Burgh takes over as regent of England. The Crusaders take the Egyptian seaport of Damiette, and plan on attacking Cairo. Genghis Khan turns west into Khoresm (Turkish Empire). Through conspiracy and murder the Hojo family becomes the military rulers of Japan. Although no Hojo ever became Shogun, they had the Emperor appoint figurehead Shoguns while they ruled as shikken, or regents 1220: The grid pattern of the streets of Salisbury, England, were laid out about this time. 1221: Alexander II of Scotland marries Henry III of England's sister Joan. After a failed attack on Cairo the Crusaders are forced to give up the Egyptian seaport of Damiette and return home. 1222: The Mongols under Genghis Khan head into Russia. 1223: Louis VIII of England succeeds his father as king of France. 1224: Emperor Frederick II founds the University of Naples. 1226: Louis IX succeeds his father as king of France (age 12), with his mother Blanche of Castile ruling as regent during his minority. 1227: Henry III of England comes of age. Under pressure from Pope Gregory IX, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II starts off on a Crusade. Within the first week the Emperor falls ill and is forced to cancel the crusade. Pope G
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If 3 consecutive numbers add up to 27, what is the smallest of those numbers?
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Summing Consecutive Numbers : nrich.maths.org Find the number which has 8 divisors, such that the product of the divisors is 331776. Summing Consecutive Numbers Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Swaathi, from Garden International School, started by listing the numbers up to 15 and trying to represent them as sums of consecutive numbers: 2 9 = 4+5 = 2+3+4 10 = 1+2+3+4 11 = 5+6 14 = 2+3+4+5 15 = 7+8 = 4+5+6 = 1+2+3+4+5 We can't write every number as a sum of consecutive numbers - for example, 2, 4 and 8 can't be written as sums of consecutive numbers. In the above, 9 and 15 were the only numbers that I could find that could be written in more than one way. Many people spotted the pattern that all odd numbers (except 1) could be written as the sum of two consecutive numbers. For example, Matilda and Tamaris wrote: If you add two consecutive numbers together, the sum is an odd number, e.g. 1+2=3 6+7=13 and so on... Well done to pupils from Kenmont Primary School who noticed this, and explained that an Odd plus an Even is always Odd. Some spotted a similar pattern for multiples of 3. Julia and Lizzie said: If you add any 3 consecutive numbers together it will always equal a multiple of 3, e.g. 1+2+3=6 5+6+7=18 Continuing with the patterns, the Lumen Christi grade 5/6 maths extension program team sent us: We discovered that the sum of four consecutive numbers gave us the number sequence 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, and so on. They were all even numbers that had an odd number as half of its total. 1+2+3+4=10 2+3+4+5=14 3+4+5+6=18... Heather from Wallington High School for Girls explained this pattern: 10 - 1+2+3+4 14 - 2+3+4+5 18 - 3+4+5+6 22 - 4+5+6+7 In all the columns, each place adds 1 each time, so in total you add 4 each time. Ruby said: Numbers which are multiples of 5, starting with 15, are sums of 5 consecutive numbers: 1+2+3+4+5=15 2+3+4+5+6=20 3+4+5+6+7=25... Fergus and Sami noticed a similar pattern: If you allow negative numbers, you can find a sum for any multiple of 7 easily. Each time you add one number either side of the sum, your sum increases by 7, e.g. 3+4=7 2+3+4+5=14 1+2+3+4+5+6=21 0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28 -1+0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8=35... Great! (There's a way to make this pattern work even without using negative numbers - can you spot it?) Why are all these patterns arising? Becky spotted a different type of pattern: We found out that powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16...) can never be made by adding together consecutive numbers together. Interesting! I wonder why? The Lumen Christi team give a way of constructing lots of multiples of odd numbers: We worked out that if you divide a multiple of 3 by 3, and call the answer n, then your original number is the sum of (n-1), n and (n+1). Then we discovered that the multiples of 5 can be written as 5 consecutive numbers. It's the same as the rule for 3 consecutive numbers. Take a number and divide it by 5, call it n, and then your number is the sum of (n-2), (n-1), n, (n+1) and (n+2). We then made a conjecture that since it is true for 3 and 5, it would also work for 7, 9 and any other odd number. We tested it, and it worked. For example, 63 is a multiple of 7 and 9: 7 numbers: 6+7+8+9+10+11+12=63 (63/7 = 9) 9 numbers: 3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11=63 (63/9 = 7) How could we take this investigation further? Arthur asked: Are there any other patterns? Can we explore the powers of two further? Is there a nice way to write certain numbers (for example, every other even number) as a sum of consecutive numbers? Ottilie suggested: Instead of adding, you could multiply the consecutive numbers, and see what patterns come up. You could also only add consecutive even numbers, or only consecutive odd numbers. These things could all have something in common, or there could be a pattern between them, or nothing at all, maybe? Magnus asked: Is the rule that the powers of two can never be made always true? Can all numbers except the powers of two be made? Great questions! By the way, Abhi sent us a nice algebraic proof that powers of 2 can never be made: Case 1: can we make $2^n$ from an odd number of consec
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Oodles Of Fun: April 2010 Oodles Of Fun Are You Using Your nOodle? Pages Question of the Day - On this day in 1931, what 102-story, 1,046-foot building was dedicated in New York City? Empire State Building Bon Jovi sang "You Give Love a ____ Name". Bad Bing Crosby's real name was: Harry Which is the only Marx Brothers film to feature on the AFI's top 100? Duck Soup The Broadway show Movin' Out featured the songs of: Billy Joel The tagline "Die Harder" comes from which 1990 movie? Die Hard 2 Which film has the line, "I can't have a baby, because I have a 12:30 lunch meeting"? Baby Boom In An Affair to Remember, where did the lovers decide to meet six months later? New York Where do the scientists first find a mysterious monolith, in 2001: A Space Odyssey? The Moon Which actress stars in the film Mean Girls? Lindsay Lohan This horror classic is called: Invasion of the Body ________. Snatchers Whose real name is Eric Bishop? Jamie Foxx Who said: "Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done"? George W. Bush Bruce Springsteen says "Everybody's got ________". A hungry heart Who had the 1976 hit: "Play That Funky Music"? Wild Cherry Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey starred in: Two for the Money In the "Rock DJ" video, what former Take That singer literally sheds layers of clothes and layers of flesh? Robbie Williams Which film is a love story between the King of Siam and a British schoolteacher? Anna and the King What former star of Broadway's Annie married Matthew Broderick, who starred in The Producers? Sarah Jessica Parker What was the last Beatles' album to be recorded before the band's split? Abbey Road Which actress' father is well-known actor Jon Voight? Angelina Jolie What was the name of Herman's wife on The Munsters? Lily On the TV series Heroes, the character Hiro Nakamura is able to: Stop time The music to the U.S. Navy song "Anchors Aweigh" was written by: Charles Zimmerman Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell changed hats to play which narrating character in "Seussical the Musical"? The Cat in the Hat All members of The Monkees have what same color of eyes? Brown The tagline, "Resistance is Futile", comes from which 1996 movie? Star Trek: First Contact One of the longest movie song titles, as sung by Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, was: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" Who played Truman Capote in Capote? Philip Seymour Hoffman Which Scottish actor voiced a dragon called Draco in the movie Dragon Heart? Sean Connery Question of the Day - Willie Nelson turns 77 today. What is NOT one of his songs? Hit the Road, Jack Which character sings "Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz? Dorothy Finish this line from The Godfather: "Leave the gun. Take _________". The cannoli Name the ship commanded by Russell Crowe in Master and Commander. HMS Surprise In which of the Rocky movies was the statue of Rocky unveiled? Rocky III Where was the character Elijah Prince, aka "Mr. Glass", from Unbreakable born? A department store Who sang "When You Wish upon a Star" in the 1940 Walt Disney film Pinocchio? Jiminy Cricket What was the name of the woman Dustin Hoffman played in Tootsie? Dorothy Michaels What comedian actress shared Steve Martin's body in All of Me? Lily Tomlin Who played Starsky in the film Starsky and Hutch? Ben Stiller In 1995, what Irish New Age musician released the album The Memory of Trees? Enya Which best describes Kiefer Sutherland? Agent Jack Bauer on 24 Which Beatle sang "My Sweet Lord"? George Harrison In which movie does Kevin Bacon discover the secret of invisibility? Hollow Man Antonin Dvorak's most famous symphony is known as Z Noveho Sveta in his native language. What do we call it? From the New World Which actor played the monster in the original film of Frankenstein? Boris Karloff The movies Courage Under Fire and A Soldier's Story featured which actor? Denzel Washington Angela Lansbury was in which movie? Bedknobs and Broomsticks What film is showing at the Bedford Falls theater at the end of It's A Wonderful Life? The Bells of St. Mary's What sport is pla
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Lenny The Lion Home > Children's Programmes > Lenny The Lion 'Lenny The Lion' (1956-66) The King of the Jungle who couldn't roll his 'r's and who had wide eyes and a habit of putting his paw to his head and sighing "Aw, don't embawass me!". With Terry Hall the ventriloquist. Traditionally, these sidekicks had been boy puppets, such as Arthur Worsley with Charlie Brown and Peter Brough with Archie Andrews, but Hall took advantage of the booming television medium in the 1950s to tweak the format. Inspired by a visit to Blackpool Zoo while performing a 1954 summer season in the seaside resort, Hall created the dummy using old fox fur, papier-m�ch� and a golf ball for a nose. At first, Lenny had lion-like teeth and a growling voice, but the character frightened children in the Blackpool audience and the singer Anne Shelton, also on the bill, suggested the teeth come out and the voice be made gentler. As a result, the puppet - one of the first with moving arms, as well as a lisping, falsetto voice, wide eyes and a habit of lifting a paw to his head and sighing "Aw! Don't embawass me" - kept Hall in front of television viewers for a quarter of a century. Making their BBC debut in 1956 alongside Eric Sykes in the one-off BBC comedy-variety show Dress Rehearsal, Hall and Lenny were an instant hit with children, who were captivated by the idea of a talking lion that was, by turns, cowardly, bashful and generally unleonine, and whose catchphrase - "Aw, don't embawass me!" - became one of the best-known on the air. After Hall found screen success in his own right with the BBC's The Lenny the Lion Show, the animal-puppet craze gained momentum, notably with Muriel Young on ITV, joined by Pussy Cat Willum and Ollie Beak in the children's series Small Time, Tuesday Rendezvous and The Five O'Clock Club. Hall himself was invited to guest-star on the legendary Ed Sullivan Show in the United States (1958) and returned home to take his puppet to two more popular programmes, Lenny's Den (1959-61) and Pops and Lenny (1962-63). The Beatles made one of their earliest television appearances in a May 1963 episode of Pops and Lenny, singing their first No 1 single, "From Me To You", and "Please Please Me", as well as joining Hall and his puppet for a song titled "After You've Gone". At the time, the future pop star David Bowie's father was working on the show and he launched the Lenny the Lion Fan Club. Hall and his stooge also released their own single, "Lenny's Bath Time" (1963). The pair remained popular in summer seasons and pantomimes on stage and as guest stars in television variety programmes including Big Night Out (1965), David Nixon's Comedy Bandbox (1966) and The Blackpool Show (1966). Later, they enjoyed fame together with a new audience in the ITV children's educational series Reading with Lenny (1977-80), for which Hall wrote a number of accompanying storybooks featuring Kevin the Kitten. The Lenny the Lion Song "I'm Lenny The lion and I'd like to say I'm strong and ferocious, but I'm not that way. I wish I had courage then I'd shout with glee that I'm Lenny the Lion, so Don't Embawass me!"
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View All Photos (5) Movie Info Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white wardrobe. Leslie's great rival, played by Jack Lemmon, is Professor Fate, a scowling, mustachioed, top-hatted, black-garbed villain. Long envious of Leslie's record-setting accomplishments with airships and sea craft, Professor Fate schemes to win a 22,000-mile auto race from New York City to Paris by whatever insidious means possible. The problem is that Fate is his own worst enemy: each of his plans to remove Leslie from the running (and from the face of the earth) backfires. Leslie's own cross to bear is suffragette Maggie Dubois (Natalie Wood), who also hopes to win the contest and thus strike a blow for feminism. The race takes all three contestants to the Wild West, the frozen wastes of Alaska, and, in the longest sequence, the mythical European kingdom of Carpania. This last-named country is the setting for a wild Prisoner of Zenda spoof involving Professor Fate and his look-alike, the foppish Carpanian king. When Leslie and Fate approach the finish line at the Eiffel Tower, Leslie deliberately loses to prove his love for Maggie. Professor Fate cannot stand winning under these circumstances, thus he demands that he and Leslie race back to New York. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk as Fate's long-suffering flunkey Max, Keenan Wynn as Leslie's faithful general factotum, Dorothy Provine as a brassy saloon singer, Larry Storch as ill-tempered bandit Texas Jack, and Ross Martin as Baron Von Stuppe. The film also yielded a hit song, Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's The Sweetheart Tree. The Great Race was dedicated to "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy". Rating:
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Joe E Ross and Fred Gwynne starred in which comedy police series on TV?
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Fred Gwynne - Biography - IMDb Fred Gwynne Biography Showing all 28 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (16) | Personal Quotes (1) Overview (4) 6' 5" (1.96 m) Mini Bio (1) Fred Gwynne was an enormously talented character actor most famous for starring in the television situation comedies Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) (as Officer Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (1964) (as the Frankenstein clone Herman Munster). He was very tall and had a resonant, baritone voice that he put to good use in Broadway musicals. Born Frederick Hubbard Gwynne in New York City on July 10, 1926, to a wealthy stockbroker father, he attended the exclusive prep school Groton, where he first appeared on stage in a student production of William Shakespeare 's "Henry V". After serving in the United States Navy as a radioman during World War II, he went on to Harvard, where he majored in English and was on the staff of the "Harvard Lampoon". At Harvard, he studied drawing with artist R.S. Merryman and was active in dramatics. A member of the Hasty Pudding Club, he performed in the dining club's theatricals, appearing in the drag revues of 1949 and 1950. After graduating from Harvard with the class of 1951, Gwynne acted in Shakespeare with a Cambridge, Massachusetts repertory company before heading to New York City, where he supported himself as a musician and copywriter. His principal source of income for many years came from his work as a book illustrator and as a commercial artist. His first book, "The Best in Show", was published in 1958. On February 20, 1952, he made his Broadway debut as the character "Stinker", in support of Helen Hayes , in the comic fantasy "Mrs. McThing". The play, written by " Harvey (1950)" author Mary Chase , had a cast featuring Ernest Borgnine , the future "Professor" Irwin Corey and Brandon De Wilde , the young son of the play's stage manager, Frederick DeWilde . The play ran for 320 performances and closed on January 10, 1953. He next appeared on Broadway in Burgess Meredith 's staging of Nathaniel Benchley 's comedy "The Frogs of Spring", which opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 21, 1953. The play flopped, closing on Halloween Day after but 15 performances. He did not appear on Broadway again for almost seven years. Gwynne made his movie debut, unbilled, as one of Johnny Friendly's gang of thugs who menace Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan 's classic On the Waterfront (1954). From 1956 - 1963, he appeared on the television dramatic showcases Studio One in Hollywood (1948), The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956), Kraft Theatre (1947), The DuPont Show of the Month (1957), The DuPont Show of the Week (1961) and The United States Steel Hour (1953). But it was in situation comedies that he made his name and his fame. In 1955, he made a memorable guest appearance as Private Honigan on The Phil Silvers Show (1955). He played a soldier with an enormous appetite that Phil Silvers ' Sgt. Bilko entered into a pie-eating contest, only to discover he could only eat like a trencherman when he was depressed. The spot led to him coming back as a guest in more episodes. While appearing on Broadway as the pimp Polyte-Le-Mou in the Peter Brook -directed hit "Irma La Douce" (winner of the 1961 Tony Award for Best Musical), "Bilko" producer-writer Nat Hiken cast him in one of the lead roles in the situation comedy Car 54, Where Are You? (1961). The series, in which he revealed his wonderful flair for comedy, had Gwynne appearing as New York City police officer Francis Muldoon, who served in a patrol car in the Bronx with the dimwitted Officer Gunther Toody, played by co-star Joe E. Ross ("Oooh! Oooh!"). Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) lasted only two seasons, but it was so fondly remembered by Baby Boomers, it inspired a feature film version in 1994. He also served as Lamb Chop's doctor on another Baby Boomer classic, The Shari Lewis Show (1960). Another one of his "Car 54, Where Are You?" co-stars, Al Lewis , not only became a lifelong friend, he appeared as Gwynne's father-in-law in his next
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In which US state is the 'Carlsbad Caverns National Park'?
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park | national park, New Mexico, United States | Britannica.com Carlsbad Caverns National Park national park, New Mexico, United States Written By: conservation Carlsbad Caverns National Park, area of the Chihuahuan Desert in southeastern New Mexico , U.S. , near the base of the Guadalupe Mountains (a segment of the Sacramento Mountains ). It was established in 1923 as a national monument , designated a national park in 1930, and proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. Beneath the park, which has a surface area of 73 square miles (189 square km), are 83 individual caves, including Carlsbad Cavern, the park’s namesake. The park also includes Rattlesnake Springs, a small enclave about 5 miles (8 km) to the southeast. Giant Dome and Twin Domes, stalagmites in the Big Room of Carlsbad Cavern, one of the caves in … Peter Jones/National Park Service Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, designated a World Heritage site in 1995. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. About 250 million years ago, a shallow sea ringed by a vast, horseshoe-shaped limestone reef covered the area. This formation, called Capitan Reef, is found in southeastern New Mexico and western Texas and includes Guadalupe Mountains National Park , just southwest of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. After the sea evaporated, the constant dripping of acidic groundwater carved out the massive underground chambers, converted limestone to gypsum , and formed enormous stalactites , stalagmites , and other cave deposits ranging from the delicate to the bizarre. Stalactites and stalagmites in the Queen’s Chamber, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, southeastern … NPS Photo by Peter Jones Pictographs near the entrance to Carlsbad Cavern give evidence that Native Americans knew of the site 1,000 years ago, but it wasn’t until the 1880s that nearby settlers rediscovered the location and began mining it for bat guano to be used as fertilizer. One of the miners, James Larkin White—who claimed to have discovered the cavern—explored the cave further and began giving tours lit by kerosene lanterns, lowering the curious to a depth of 170 feet (52 metres) in bat-guano buckets. White also guided early scientific expeditions into the caves, including a major reconnaisance conducted for the U.S. Geological Survey in 1924. Similar Topics Redwood National Park Carlsbad Cavern has a labyrinth of underground chambers, including one of the largest ever discovered. The total length of the rooms and passages is still unknown, but the explored part of the main cavern is more than 30 miles (48 km) long, of which 3 miles (5 km) are open to visitors. Of the three major levels, the deepest is 1,027 feet (313 metres) belowground. Visitors can walk or take an elevator to the 755-foot (230-metre) level and explore the Big Room, which measures about 2,000 feet (610 metres) long and 1,100 feet (335 metres) wide at its greatest extents and has a ceiling that arches 255 feet (78 metres) above the floor. Found within are the Giant Dome, a stalagmite 62 feet (19 metres) tall; the Twin Domes, only slightly smaller, superbly proportioned and delicately fluted; and the so-called Bottomless Pit, which is some 700 feet (210 metres) deep. During the summer a colony of about one million Mexican free-tailed bats inhabits a part of the caverns known as Bat Cave; each evening at sunset they swarm out of the cave’s entrance to feed in the surrounding area. To the southwest of Carlsbad Cavern, within the park, is Slaughter Canyon Cave, with the Monarch, one of the world’s tallest columns (89 feet [27 metres]), and a delicate rimstone dam (natural dam formed by the accumulation of calcium carbonate). Near the northern border of the park is Lechuguilla Cave. Since 1984, when exploration of Lechuguilla began, more than 100 miles (160 km) of passages have been surveyed. It is the fifth longest known cave in the world, the third longest in the United States, and it contains underwater formations unlike those found anywhere else in the world. In 1993 Congress passed legislation establishing a c
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Which is the longest muscle in the human body?
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Largest, Longest, Smallest & Strongest Muscles in the Body | Fitness Goop March 22, 2013 In Fitness , News , Spotlight , Workouts By Vancouver Health Coach Largest, Longest, Smallest & Strongest Muscles in the Body There are about 640 muscles in the body. They come in all shapes and sizes and perform many different functions. Here’s a quick list of the largest, longest, smallest and strongest. Largest The Gluteus Maximus, one of three gluteal muscles, is located at the back of the hip and is commonly called the buttocks. It’s main functions are hip extension and hip external rotation. Some great exercises to train the Gluteus Maximus muscles include squats, deadlifts and lunges. Longest The Sartorius are long thin muscles that run from the outside of the upper thigh down and across the leg to the inside of the knee. Its main functions are hip flexion, abduction and knee flexion. Some great exercises to train the Sartorius muscles include squats, cable abduction and step ups. Smallest The Stapedius, is a tiny muscle less than 2 millimeters long, located in the middle ear. Its function is to control the movement or vibration of the smallest bone in the body, the stapes or stirrup bone. Sorry, I don’t know specific exercises to train the Stapedius muscles, but I’m guessing loud music might do the trick. Strongest While the others above are well documented, this one is a bit harder to define. Since there are different types of strength, such as absolute strength, dynamic strength and strength endurance, there are a few candidates for top spot here. If we are talking about absolute strength, meaning the ability to generate maximum force, then the winner is the Masseter, located in the jaw. It’s main function is mastication or chewing. Again I’m not sure of any specific exercises that help train the Massester muscles, but I’m sure chewing or biting really hard should do the trick. Tags:
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Round 3 Jeopardy Template What is the Ford Mustang? This still-popular muscle car was launched late in 1964, what is it? 100 What is the Syndy Opera House? In 1973, which famous building with a roof resembling sails opened after 16 years of construction? 100 What are young urban professionals? The word “yuppie” was popularized in the 80s; what does it represent? 100 Which figure skater was accused of breaking a competitor’s kneecaps before the 1994 Olympics? 100 What is Denver, Co? What city did Barack Obama formally accept the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election in 2008? 200 What is Mister Ed? Picked up by CBS in 1961, what famous TV show had a vocal equine as its star? 200 Who was Jimi Hendrix? What American singer-songwriter, who is considered by many to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, died in 1970? 200 What Soviet leader replaced Chernenko in 1985? 200 What food chain uses this slogan: “Think outside the bun”? 200 What is Katrina? In 2005, what hurricane devastated the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastal regions, and flooded approximately 80% of the city of New Orleans? 300 Name the Organization created to fight for important women’s issues? 300 What was the name of NASA's first space shuttle that was unveiled in 1976? 300 Who is Sally Ride? The Space Shuttle Challenger took the first woman into space in 1983, what was her name? 300 What is the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame? What famous museum opened in 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio? 300 Who is Charles Manson? Wedding plans were announced in 2014 for a 26 year-old Illinois woman and which 80 year-old incarcerated mass murderer? 400 What famous property, purchased in 1965, was once a swamp land in Osceola County, California? 400 What is Three Mile Island? In 1979, a nuclear accident happened at what Pennsylvania power plant? 400 In 1984, which restaurant chain featured this line in their commercial, “Where’s the beef?” 400 Who was the youngest singer to win a Grammy in 1997? 400 What is ALS (Lou Gerhig's Disease)? In 2014, the Ice Water Bucket challenge was established for what charity? 500 Who is Sirhan Sirhan? The 1960s were a decade of high-profile assassinations (President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) Name the assassin who is still alive. 500 What is In Vitro Fertilization? In 1978, the first test tube baby was born following what procedure? 500 Who was Jim Thorpe? Which Olympic athlete had his gold medals reinstated in the decathlon and the pentathlon, 30 years after his death? 500 What is Yellow Pages? In the 90s, which company used this phrase for their slogan "Let your fingers do the walking"? 500 Who is Psy?
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It is sometimes considered unfashionable to wear white after which U.S. holiday?
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International Students > Home > ISI Students > Culture > Holidays New Year's Day , Martin Luther King Day , President's Day , Valentine's Day , St. Patrick's Day , April Fools Day , Palm Sunday , Good Friday , Easter Sunday , Mother's Day , Memorial Day , Father's Day , Independence Day , Labor Day , Halloween , Thanksgiving , Christmas Eve , Christmas , New Year's Eve While the U.S. does not specifically designate any days as “national holidays,” the federal government recognizes 10 days each year when they give their employees a day off work and don’t transact business. We generally observe U.S. holidays on the Monday closest to the actual date of the holiday to create a three-day weekend, with the exception of New Year's Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, which we celebrate on whatever date the specific holiday falls. (For example, we always celebrate Christmas on December 25th, regardless of what day of the week it falls.) The other five holidays the federal government observes include Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Columbus Day. Most states and large private businesses follow the same basic guidelines as the federal government in establishing their employment holidays. However, many businesses actually enjoy more productivity on holidays than non-holidays because others don’t go to work. To take advantage of this situation, many retail establishments promote sales and specials to draw consumers who have the day off. Many people refer to the time from Thanksgiving through New Year’s as the “holiday season” since Thanksgiving, Winter solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Day all fall in that time period and many seasonal parties occur during that time frame. New Year's Day The celebration to ring in the New Year in the United States begins on December 31st and continues into the early hours of the morning on January 1st, although you will often hear people wish each other a happy new year for several weeks after the holiday. Traditionally in the U.S., family and friends ring in this holiday with a party. Parties across the country often turn on the television to tune in to the famous celebration at Times Square in New York City. Hundreds of thousands of jubilant people crowd the square to join in the festivities and count down the last minute of the passing year as a lighted ball drops to the bottom of a pole. Once it reaches the bottom at midnight, the official start of the New Year, people hug and kiss, blow on noisemakers and set off firecrackers all across the country. Retail stores often have sales to commemorate the New Year, but private businesses generally do not open for business. Restaurants may or may not close in observance of the holiday. Numerous college football bowl games air on television over this holiday period. The famous Tournament of Roses Parade draws a crowd of spectators in Pasadena, California as well as a national television audience before the Rose Bowl football game between the top two collegiate teams. Return to Top Martin Luther King Day Since 1986 schools, offices and federal agencies remain closed on the third Monday of January in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the only federal holiday commemorating an African-American. In the 1950s Dr. King began organizing non-violent protests against unequal treatment of African Americans. His efforts propelled the Civil Rights movement forward. Although his philosophy of peace and non-violence rallied many followers, his demonstrations often ended in violence because of the passion he invoked, and he and his followers constantly had to deal with threats and attacks. In 1968, a sniper assassinated Dr. King during a worker’s strike in Tennessee, but the Civil Rights Movement did not die with him. His widow and many others influenced by Dr. King’s message promoting peace, social justice and racial and social equality have continued to impact civil rights in the United States. Another tradition associated with the New Year holi
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What is the top grade of USDA beef?
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USDA Blog » What’s Your Beef – Prime, Choice or Select? What’s Your Beef – Prime, Choice or Select? Posted by Larry Meadows, Director, AMS Livestock, Poultry and Seed Program Grading and Verification Division , on January 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM Infographic (click to see larger version) outlining the differences between USDA’s beef grades. The USDA grade shields are highly regarded as symbols of safe, high-quality American beef. Quality grades are widely used as a “language” within the beef industry, making business transactions easier and providing a vital link to support rural America. Consumers, as well as those involved in the marketing of agricultural products, benefit from the greater efficiency permitted by the availability and application of grade standards. Beef is evaluated by highly-skilled USDA meat graders using a subjective characteristic assessment process and electronic instruments to measure meat characteristics. These characteristics follow the official grade standards developed, maintained and interpreted by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service . Beef is graded in two ways: quality grades for tenderness, juiciness and flavor; and yield grades for the amount of usable lean meat on the carcass. From a consumer standpoint, what do these quality beef grades mean? Prime beef is produced from young, well-fed beef cattle. It has abundant marbling (the amount of fat interspersed with lean meat), and is generally sold in restaurants and hotels. Prime roasts and steaks are excellent for dry-heat cooking such as broiling, roasting or grilling. Choice beef is high quality, but has less marbling than Prime. Choice roasts and steaks from the loin and rib will be very tender, juicy, and flavorful and are suited for dry-heat cooking. Many of the less tender cuts can also be cooked with dry heat if not overcooked. Such cuts will be most tender if braised, roasted or simmered with a small amount of liquid in a tightly covered pan. Select beef is very uniform in quality and normally leaner than the higher grades. It is fairly tender, but, because it has less marbling, it may lack some of the juiciness and flavor of the higher grades. Only the tender cuts should be cooked with dry heat. Other cuts should be marinated before cooking or braised to obtain maximum tenderness and flavor. Standard and Commercial grades of beef are frequently sold as ungraded or as store brand meat. Utility, Cutter, and Canner grades of beef are seldom, if ever, sold at retail but are used instead to make ground beef and processed products. Recently, USDA collaborated with the United States Meat Export Federation and Colorado State University to develop an educational video about the beef grading process . This video provides a comprehensive overview of the beef grading system – from farm to table. So next time you are at a restaurant or grocery store, look for the USDA grade shield and you will better be able to answer the question, “What’s your beef?” Related Posts very interesting and informative article. thanks. Jerry Cunningham 01/29/2013 at 8:16 AM Here is what is left out of this front piece for the status quo of beef production. In addition to more “marbling” i.e., fat – these animals are dosed with antibiotics to keep their failing livers from killing them before slaughter. 80% of all the pharmaceuticals sold in the US goes into farm animals. BigPharma has you in it’s grip. Beef cattle are herbivores, fitted by Nature to eat grass. But BigAg wants to feed the world the same diet that is killing Americans with Heart Disease and Diabetes, and etc. Come clean USDA! Our beef production system is an anachronism. Up to 30% of all corn produced is fed to these animals. We don’t have a Farm Policy, we have a Money Policy for the benefit of the Chemical Pharmaceutical cabal that owns the USDA and the FDA and your legislators. How long will you stand for this atrocity America? Josie 01/29/2013 at 10:20 AM Pictures would be great here! Perhaps a few of the standard cuts and what it looks like on the shelf. I have to explain “marbling” every on
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Shopping for Steak? Here Are the 4 Cuts You Should Know — Meat Basics | The Kitchn Email Let's talk steak — a big, beautiful slab of beef. I used to only eat steak when my parents treated us to an old-school steakhouse, and while I relished every minute of those meals, the menu always intimidated me. What was the difference between a New York steak and a ribeye? Why was filet mignon so freakin' expensive? Whether you cook steak at home or save it for a special occasion out like we did, it's important to know your high-end steak cuts. Here are the four most popular ones, and we'll cover where they're cut from, what they taste like, and how best to cook them. Are you ready for your steak primer? Let's go! 4 Cuts of Steak: Watch the Video Where Are They From? Let's take a look at the cow diagram above. All four of these steaks come from a few muscles in the same general area toward the top of the steer: the short loin, tenderloin, and the ribs. These muscles aren't exercised very much or contain a lot of connective tissues that need to be cooked for a long time to be broken down. As a result, these steaks are much more tender than other cuts of beef, and fast cooking and intense heat are all that's needed to char and brown the outside of these meats while the inside can be eaten as rare as you like. Why Are These Steaks So Expensive? Relative to the size of the steer, these premium cuts are only a small percentage, which contribute to their premium prices. Since they're expensive, it's really worth knowing how each one is different so you buy the one that you like the best! Do you like big beefy flavor, or is the tenderest cut your favorite? Here's everything you need to know about each cut so that you make a wise choice. Tenderloin (aka filet mignon) Other names: Filet mignon, Châteaubriand, fillet, filet How it's sold: Boneless; the most expensive cut of steak Where it's from: Short loin and sirloin, under the ribs. A whole tenderloin starts out wide and then tapers at the other end (the "tail"). Filet mignon is from the smaller end; Châteaubriand the thicker end. What it looks like: When trimmed of silver skin, gristle, and fat, tenderloin is small and compact. The meat is lean and very fine-grained in texture. Because of its smaller shape, tenderloin steaks are cut thicker than most steaks. What it tastes like: The tenderest of all the steaks and lean, tenderloin is buttery and mild in flavor. How to cook it: Because cuts of tenderloin tend to be thick, the best way to cook it is to sear the outside until browned, then finish the cooking in the gentle, even heat of an oven. New York Strip Other names: Strip, Manhattan, Kansas City strip, top sirloin, top loin, contre-filet How it's sold: Usually boneless Where it's from: Short loin behind the ribs What it looks like: Fat on one edge of the steak. While there is some fat marbling throughout, there are no large pockets of fat. The meat is fine-grained in texture. What it tastes like: With medium fat content, New York strips are tender, but not as tender as tenderloins or ribeyes, and have good, beefy flavor. How to cook it: Cook over high heat — pan-sear, broil, or grill. T-Bone 3. T-Bone Other names: Porterhouse How it's sold: Bone in. According to USDA regulations, the tenderloin portion must be 1.25" wide to be classified as a porterhouse and only .5" wide to be classified as a T-bone. Where it's from: A cross section of the unfilleted short loin What it looks like: The name says it all; there is a T-shaped bone with meat on both sides of the longer portion of the bone. On one side is a piece of the tenderloin, and the other side is New York strip. Generous fat marbling throughout. What it tastes like: You get the best of both worlds with this cut: super-tender, buttery tenderloin, and beefy, juicy strip steak. How to cook it: Because there are basically two different kinds of steak in one cut, you have to be careful when cooking since the tenderloin will cook more quickly than the strip side. Try to keep the tenderloin further away from the heat source: use a two-leve
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Preservation Arts High School Curriculum Jump to: -- Modules -- Readings -- Web Links -- Back to Benchmarks Back to the Main Page This site has been chosen as a benchmark because it embodies the ideals of Ancient Greek society and represents the apotheosis of Classical Greek artistic and architectural perfection. The Parthenon is located atop the Acropolis, the highest summit and sacred rock in Athens, Greece. (Acropolis means 'high city,' and the limestone outcropping was originally the site of a fortress.) Buildings on the Acropolis include the Parthenon; the Temple of Athena Nike; the Erechtheum (an Ionic temple); and the Propylaea (the entrance gateway). Construction of the Parthenon began in 447-446 BC and was completed in 438 BC. The architects were Ictinus and Calli crates; Pheidias was the sculptor of the elaborate and extensive sculptural groupings. Constructed as a temple to the goddess Athena, the Parthenon is built primarily in the Doric order with some Ionic elements, and is considered the best physical embodiment of the mathematical and structural principles of the Doric order. The political leader Pericles led the campaign to build the Parthenon as a monument to the city's triumph over the Persians; as a symbol of Athens' supremacy, wealth, and beauty; and as an offering to the goddess Athena. It was under his rule that construction of the temple began. The Parthenon is constructed of marble quarried from Mount Pentelicon and with the exception of the wooden roof structure, the building including the roof tiles, was entirely made of marble. Note that the Parthenon is actually the second Parthenon. Construction on an earlier building had begun before 480 BC when the city was attacked and sacked by the Persians. The extant Parthenon is built on the foundations of the older Parthenon. The Parthenon is a Greek temple and displays architectural elements that are typical of Greek Doric-order architecture, as well as elements that are atypical. Typical of a Greek Temple is the screen of massive Doric columns that surrounds the building. A Doric column is heavy and robust. It has no base and sits flush on the temple floor/top step, known as the stylobate. A Doric capital (topmost part of the column) is rather simple, and is said to resemble a pillow or cushion. The column's shaft (middle part) is carved into deep flutes that come to a point. At the Parthenon, the columns are 34' 3" high. At their base, the diameter of each column is 6' 3". Like all Doric columns, those at the Parthenon taper slightly towards the top. The three main types of columns used in Greek temples and other public buildings are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The truest and most basic difference among the orders has to do with proportions (Doric columns, for example, being thicker and shorter, Ionic columns taller and slimmer). As a shortcut, the orders may be distinguished most easily by their capitals (the tops of the columns). As you can see from the following examples, the Doric capital has the simplest design; the Ionic has the curlicues called volutes, and the Corinthian has the acanthus leaves: A Greek temple usually sits atop a platform that is composed of three steps or levels. The Parthenon's stylobate is 101' 4" wide and 228' 1" long. The screen of columns, or peristyle, surrounded the building completely. When a single row of columns surrounds a Greek Temple, the temple is called peripteral. When the temple is surrounded by a double row of columns, it is dipteral. On mainland Greece, peripteral temples were far more common. The Parthenon is peripteral. In most cases, the temple would have six columns at the front and rear of the building, although the Parthenon has eight. Originally, an entablature with a pediment (part of the roofing system) topped the peristyle. The roof itself consisted of wooden structural members and marble tiles to cover and enclose the space. The roof was sloped, resulting in a triangular shape at the front and rear ends. When a roof forms a triangular shape, it is called a gable, and
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Flavian Amphitheater Rome Reborn Flavian Amphitheater Known since the middle ages as the “Colosseum” because of the 100-foot-tall statue of the Sun god moved next to it by Hadrian (A.D. 76-138), this amphitheater was built by Vespasian in the valley between the Velia, the Esquiline and the Caelian Hills. The area had been a pond in the private gardens of Nero's Golden House. Vespasian restored it to public use for the popular animal hunts and gladiatorial games. The complex, which could hold ca. 45-50,000 spectators, replaced an earlier amphitheater elsewhere in the city that was destroyed in the great fire of A.D. 64. Despite the protest of Christian thinkers, the gladiatorial fights continued until well into the Christian period, ending in the fifth century A.D. The animal hunts continued a century longer. Amphitheatrum Flavium From Samuel Ball Platner, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, rev. Thomas Ashby. Oxford: 1929, p. 6-11. Ordinarily known as the Colosseum, built by Vespasian, in the depression between the Velia, the Esquiline and the Caelian, a site previously occupied by the stagnum of Nero's domus Aurea (Suet. Vesp. 9; Mart. de spect. 2.5; Aur. Vict. Caes. 9.7). Vespasian carried the structure to the top of the second arcade of the outer wall and of the maenianum secundum of the cavea (see below), and dedicated it before his death in 79 A.D. (Chronogr. a. 354, p146). Titus added the third and fourth stories (ib.), and celebrated the dedication of the enlarged building in 80 with magnificent games that lasted one hundred days (Suet. Titus 7; Cass. Dio LXVI.25; Hieron a. Abr. 2095; Eutrop. vii.21; Cohen, Tit. 399, 400). Domitian is said to have completed the building ad clipea (Chron. ib.) which probably refers to the bronze shields that were placed directly beneath the uppermost cornice (cf. Cohen, Tit. 399) and to additions on the inside (HJ 282). View Full Article Additional source material Ancient Library Sources (from Peter Aicher, Rome Alive: A Source Guide to the Ancient City, vol. 1, Bolchazy-Carducci: 2004) [ Works cited ] 70. Colosseum (Amphitheatrum Flavii). Sources. 70.1. The Emperor Vespasian ordered a new amphitheater to be built from the booty [of the Jewish War in AD 70]. Inscription (see Claridge, p. 278)
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In the TV sitcom 'Friends' what is the name of Phoebe's twin sister?
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Ursula Buffay | Friends Central | Fandom powered by Wikia Lisa Kudrow Ursula Pamela Buffay is a fictional character appearing on the two sitcoms Mad About You and Friends. She is portrayed by Lisa Kudrow , who also portrayed her identical twin sister and one of the six main characters on Friends, Phoebe . Ursula originally appeared as a ditzy waitress on Mad About You, working at Paul and Jamie's favorite New York City restaurant, Riff's. When Lisa Kudrow was cast as Phoebe, who also lives in New York City, producers decided to have the character cross over into Friends. Contents [ show ] History Ursula and her twin sister Phoebe were the result of a sexual relationship between Phoebe Abbott , Frank Buffay and Lily Buffay . A scared Phoebe Abbott wasn't ready to be a mother, so she gave them to Lily after giving birth. Lily adopted both twins and she and Frank raised them together. Later Frank abandoned Lily and the twins and Lily married another man. Then Lily's husband went to prison, and Lily committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Ursula went into care while Phoebe ended up on the streets. Ursula also broke many things of Phoebe's which is mentioned in " The One With Two Parts, Part 1 ". On Mad About You In Mad About You, Ursula was a particularly inept waitress, often forgetting orders entirely. Her character was more fully developed in Friends "as something of an antagonist or evil twin". On the last episode of Mad About You, it was revealed that Ursula would become the Governor of New York in the future. On Friends Ursula often appeared cruel and hostile to twin Phoebe , who was still upset by the things Ursula did to her when they were young, for example, throwing her Judy Jetson thermos under a bus, accidentally breaking her collarbone and stealing her first boyfriend back in junior high. This drove a wedge between the sisters, and the estrangement continued into adulthood. Although Phoebe ended up homeless by her mid-teens, following the various deaths/abandonments/imprisonments of their parents, Ursula apparently did not. How the sisters came to be separated as minors was never revealed. Ursula dated Joey in " The One With Two Parts ". Naturally, Phoebe became worried. Ursula dumped Joey shortly after by not talking to him and avoiding meeting him. Phoebe pretended to be Ursula to break up with Joey gently, but was found out nonetheless. In " The One With The Jam ", Ursula's stalker Malcolm followed Phoebe by mistake. It was revealed in " The One With The Jellyfish " that Ursula had always known the truth about her and Phoebe's parentage. She told Phoebe she had read their adoptive mother's suicide note which revealed the identity of their birth mother, Phoebe Abbott . When Phoebe asked to see the note, she showed Phoebe one that she had hastily written up. In Ursula's word, her version "got the gist" of the original suicide note, which she had apparently lost in the interim. Ursula also sold Phoebe's birth certificate to a Swedish runaway, as revealed in " The One Where They All Turn Thirty "; as a result, Phoebe did not know what her middle name was while Ursula's was "Pamela". In " The One With Joey's Bag ", Phoebe told Ursula their grandma had just died, but Ursula thought she died 5 years ago and had already made peace with it, so wouldn't go to her memorial service, plus Ursula had a concert to go. In " The One Where Chandler Can't Cry ", it was revealed that Ursula works in the pornography industry, using her sister's first name so she was credited as Phoebe Buffay. She appeared in such films as "Buffay the Vampire Layer", "Sex Toy Story 2", "Lawrence of a Labia" (an actual adult film title), and "Inspect Her Gadget". Phoebe paid her back by taking all her checks from the porno film company, as the checks were addressed to "Phoebe Buffay". In " The One With The Halloween Party " Ursula and her fiancé, Eric (played by Sean Penn ) attended a Halloween party thrown by Monica and Chandler. Phoebe discovered that Ursula had been lying to her fiancé claiming that she was a teacher at the Top Secret Sc
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Jane Leeves - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Miscellaneous Crew Jane Leeves has made her mark in the entertainment world, acting in television, theater and film over the past 20 years. Leeves stars in the Emmy® Award-winning TV Land series, Hot in Cleveland (2010), which in 2011 was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award® for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Leeves plays eyebrow ... See full bio » Born: a list of 21 people created 01 Jul 2012 a list of 23 people created 09 Jan 2013 a list of 33 people created 27 Jun 2014 a list of 21 people created 16 Dec 2014 a list of 35 images created 3 weeks ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Jane Leeves's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 23 nominations. See more awards » Known For Hot in Cleveland Joy Scroggs / Herself / Herself - Joy (2010-2015) - Crossing Paths (2016) ... Lt. Estoc (voice) 2016 Crowded (TV Series) 2014 The Daly Show (TV Series) Jane 2009-2013 Phineas and Ferb (TV Series) Wanda / Nikki Stars / Inspector Initials / ... 2008 The Starter Wife (TV Series) Ann Hefton 2003 The Simpsons (TV Series) Edwina 1992 Just Deserts (TV Movie) Amy Phillips 1990 Who's the Boss? (TV Series) Ms. Adams 1990 My Two Dads (TV Series) Harriet 1989 Mr. Belvedere (TV Series) Professor Ann Burns - The Professor (1989) ... Professor Ann Burns 1989 Hooperman (TV Series) 1989 It's a Living (TV Series) Terry Tedaldo 1987 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) Gwen Petrie - Superman: Distant Fires (2011) ... (performer: "Family") 1995-2001 Frasier (TV Series) (performer - 6 episodes) - Daphne Returns (2001) ... (performer: "Heart And Soul" - uncredited) - The Show Where Woody Shows Up (1999) ... (performer: "I Feel Pretty" - uncredited) - First Date (1998) ... (performer: "Heart and Soul" - uncredited) - Chess Pains (1996) ... (performer: "Who's That Grouchy Ghost I See?") 1996 James and the Giant Peach (performer: "That's The Life", "Family", "Eating The Peach") Hide 1985 To Live and Die in L.A. (dancer - as Jane Leaves) Hide 2003 Behind the Couch: The Making of 'Frasier' (Video documentary short) (special thanks) Hide 2014-2016 Celebrity Name Game (TV Series) Herself - Celebrity Player 2015-2016 Valerie's Home Cooking (TV Series documentary) Herself - Guest 2010-2015 The View (TV Series) Herself - Guest / Herself 2010-2015 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) Herself 2012-2014 Rachael Ray (TV Series) Herself - Guest 2014 The Chew (TV Series) Herself - Hot in Cleveland 2011-2014 Good Morning America (TV Series) Herself - Guest 2014 Hollywood Game Night (TV Series) Herself - Celebrity Guest - Hot in Hollywood (2014) ... Herself - Celebrity Guest 2014 Extra (TV Series) 2014 Inside Edition (TV Series documentary) Herself 2013 Larry King Now (TV Series) Herself - Guest 2012-2013 The Talk (TV Series) Herself - Guest 2013 Why We Laugh: Funny Women (TV Movie documentary) Herself 2013 The Doctors (TV Series) Herself 2011 Loose Women (TV Series) Herself 2005 2005 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards (TV Movie documentary) Herself 2004 The BAFTA TV Awards 2004 (TV Movie documentary) Herself - Presenter 2002-2003 V Graham Norton (TV Series) Herself - Guest 2003 TV's Most Memorable Weddings (TV Movie documentary) Herself - Hostess 2000 Intimate Portrait (TV Series documentary) Herself 2000 The Daily Show (TV Series) Herself - Guest 1999 My Favourite 'Frasier' (TV Special documentary) Herself 1999 The 'Frasier' Story (TV Special documentary) Herself 1995 Christmas in Washington (TV Movie) Herself - Host 2014 Retro Report (TV Mini-Series) Daphne Moon 2004 Red Dwarf: Dwarfing USA (Video documentary short) Holly (uncredited) "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Self See more » Publicity Listings: 4 Interviews | 3 Articles | 3 Pictorials | 4 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Official Sites: Did You Know? Personal Quote: I knew I would never be strong enough to be a soloist. And I wasn't going to be stuck in the back with all the other swans. (regarding
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In which Welsh castle was the future King Henry VII born?
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Pembroke Castle Pembroke Castle Photographs copyright � by Irma Hale Above: the Outer Gate & Barbican at Pembroke Castle King 1978; King & Cheshire 1982 he unsurpassed strength of this mighty Norman Castle , sited on a high ridge between two tidal inlets, gave it the distinction of never haven fallen to the Welsh. The strategic position, on a major routeway, was chosen early in the first Norman incursions into south-west Wales, when the castle was founded by Roger of Montgomery in 1093, and it stood firm against Welsh counter-attacks in subsequent years. Below: Northeast view showing Great Gatehouse (L), Northgate Tower, St. Ann's Bastion, Hall Block (R) Pembroke's strategic importance soon increased, as it was from here that the Normans embarked upon their Irish campaigns. In 1189 the castle came into the hands of William Marshal , who, over the next 30 years transformed the earth-and-timber castle into a mighty stone fortification. First to be built was the inner ward with its magnificent round keep (shown right), deservedly famous for its early date, height of over 22m and remarkable domed roof. The original entrance was on the first floor, approached by an external stair, the present ground-floor entrance being a later insertion. The keep had four floors, connected by a spiral stair which also led to the battlements. The large square holes on the top of the outside were to hold a timber hoard, or fighting platform. When the castle was attacked, the hoard could be erected as an extra defence, outside the battlements but way above the heads of the attackers. Below: the Great Gatehouse viewed from the Outer Ward Enclosing the keep was the inner ward curtain wall, to the south-west stood the large horseshoe-shaped gate, which only survives at footings level, and to the east was a strong round tower with a basement prison. Only a thin wall was required along the cliff edge; it had a small observation turret at the point and the square stone platform on the north supported a huge medieval catapult for defence against attack from the sea. The domestic buildings on the west and east of the inner ward included William Marshal's hall and private apartments. These were improved and further buildings added in the later 13th century, when the new Great Hall was built with a towering mass of walling projecting over its south-east corner to enclose the mouth of a large cavern in the rock below, which may have served as a boathouse. At the same period, a large single-storey building was added near the keep to serve as the county court. By this time, the castle had passed to the de Valence family; the Hastings family then held it from 1324 to 1389, after which the castle passed into the hands of the crown. Below: the Westgate Tower & Wall Walk (left) and the Wall Walk between Northgate Tower & St. Ann's Bastion, with Hall Block in the distance (right). Much of the building work in the outer ward may also belong to the early 13th-century work of William Marshal, and the main plan of the present defences remains as originally constructed. However, the apparently almost perfect preservation of this work is largely an illusion, as there was at the castle a systematic programme of restoration in the 19th and early 20th century. Below: William Marshal's Great Tower (left) viewed from the wall walk. The fine series of round towers, the north-east bastion and the remarkable gatehouse on the south made the defences of the outer ward well-nigh impregnable. There were postern gates on either side, defended by the St Ann Bastion and Monkton Tower respectively, but the main gatehouse, with its two portcullises, stout doors, three machicolations, or murder holes, in the vaulting and its series of arrowslits, is one of the finest and earliest of its kind. The western Bygate Tower has a prison in its basement, then each gate tower has a ground and two upper floors reached by stairs spiralling in opposite directions. Doors lead from the upper rooms on to the wall walk. The gatehouse is in essence a double-towered gate, with one of the towers moved al
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Queen Eleanor of Castile - Queen of England - MedievalQueens.com Queen of England, 1271-1290 "Never in doubt of her regal status" Eleanor of Castile, who married King Edward I of England, was never content to play the part of a passive queen. For thirty-six years she was an active queen-consort to her equally strong-minded husband. Daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile, teen-aged Eleanor married Edward in 1254, whereupon Castile yielded to Edward's father, King Henry III, its claims to the disputed French territory of Gascony. For eighteen years Eleanor was queen-in-waiting, for Henry III did not die until 1272. She accompanied her husband on diplomatic missions and military excursions. She went with him on Crusade from 1270 to 1273. When criticized for such an unwomanly adventure, she said: "Nothing must part them whom God has joined, and the way to heaven is as near if not nearer from Syria as from England or my native Spain." Though the Crusade was not very productive militarily, it was for the royal family: during those three years Eleanor bore Edward two children. Edward acceded in 1272. As queen of a hot-tempered king, Eleanor has been credited with calming Edward and with offering sound advice, which he often acted on. They were a devoted couple. During their thirty-six years of marriage she bore him sixteen children. Of these six survived to adulthood, including Edward's successor, Edward II. Eleanor loved fine clothes, elegant possessions and land. She acquired vast estates during her queenship, while Edward was searching for new ways to squeeze revenues out of his subjects. Hence the popular bit of doggerel: The king desires to get our gold, The queen, our manors fair to hold. When she died, Edward was disconsolate. He wrote of a wife "whom living we dearly cherished, and whom dead we cannot cease to love." As a memorial he erected twelve monumental crosses, each marking a stopping-place of the procession that bore her body from Nottingham to London. The last of these "Eleanor crosses" was at Charing Cross in London. Several of them still stand. As seen in her effigies, Eleanor was a graceful, majestic queen. She clasps a scepter. Her expression is calm and self-assured, as befits a queen who never doubted her regal status. Learn more about Queen Eleanor of Castile: Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest, by Agnes Strickland. Vol. 1. London, 1851. Eleanor of Castile, by John Carmi Parsons. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995. The Court and Household of Eleanor of Castile in 1290, by John Carmi Parsons. Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 1977. The Queens of England, by Barbara Softly. Stein and Day, Briarcliff Manor, 1976.
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The Renminbi is currency, and increasingly important in global trading, of which country?
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Will the Renminbi Rule? -- Finance & Development, March 2012 Will the Renminbi Rule? IMF podcast: China Rising The Chinese currency is on track to become more important globally, but is unlikely to challenge the dollar anytime soon THE Chinese economy is now the world’s second largest and a key driver of global growth. It amounts to between 10 percent and 15 percent of world GDP (depending on how it is measured) and, in 2011, accounted for about one-quarter of world GDP growth. But among the currencies of the six largest economies in the world, China’s renminbi is the only one that is not traded easily and accepted worldwide—that is, it is not a hard currency. China’s government has taken steps recently to promote the international use of the renminbi, even though it has not been willing to open up its economy to the free flow of capital and allow its exchange rate to be flexible. Nevertheless, given the sheer size of China’s economy and its rising shares of global output and trade, these steps portend a rising role for the renminbi in international finance and trade. But a compelling question is whether the renminbi’s global stature will rise to match that of the Chinese economy—perhaps approaching the U.S. dollar. The answer to that question depends on three related but distinct concepts about the currency: •Internationalization: its use in denominating and settling cross-border trade and financial transactions—that is, as an international medium of exchange; •Capital account convertibility: how much a country restricts inflows and outflows of financial capital—a fully open capital account has no restrictions; and •Reserve currency: whether it is held by foreign central banks as protection against balance of payments crises. A country’s currency can be used internationally even if its capital account is not fully open. And even in the absence of restrictions on capital flows, a country’s currency may be used little or not at all internationally. But both international use and an open capital account are necessary for a currency to become an international reserve currency. This article evaluates the current state of and prospects for the renminbi in each of these three dimensions in terms of the balance and sustainability of China’s economic development and the associated implications for the global monetary system. Becoming a reserve currency Given China’s size and growth prospects, it is widely seen as inevitable that the renminbi will eventually become a reserve currency. To gauge the likelihood and timing, it is necessary to consider the typical attributes of a reserve currency and evaluate China’s progress in each of these dimensions. The factors that generally affect a currency’s reserve status include •Economic size: A country’s GDP and its shares of global trade and finance are important, although not crucial, determinants of a country’s reserve currency status. •Macroeconomic policies: Investors in a country’s sovereign assets must have faith in the ability of its economic policies, especially its commitment to low inflation and sustainable public debt, to protect the value of the currency from erosion. •Flexible exchange rate: Reserve currencies are typically traded freely and their external value is market determined, although this does not entirely preclude central bank intervention in foreign exchange markets. An open capital account is not synonymous with a freely floating exchange rate. •Open capital account: Reserves must be acceptable as payments to a country’s trade and financial partners, which requires that the currency be easily tradable in global financial markets. This is difficult if a country imposes restrictions on capital flows and if its foreign exchange markets are thin and subject to the government’s direct control. •Financial market development: A country must have deep and liquid financial markets—that is, markets, especially in government bonds, with many buyers and sellers to provide “safe” assets that can be held by international investors and central banks from other countries. Turnov
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Who wrote the poems If, Gunga Din, Mandalay, and The Female of the Species?
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From The Law of the Jungle Kipling gained renown throughout the world as a poet and storyteller. He was also known as a leading supporter of the British Empire. As apparent from his stories and poems, Kipling interested himself in the romance and adventure which he found in Great Britain's colonial expansion. Kipling was born on Dec.30, 1865, in Bombay, where his father directed an art school. He learned Hindi from his nurse, and he also learned stories of jungle animals. At six, he was sent to school in England, but until he was 12, poor health kept him from attending. At 17, Kipling returned to India and soon became a journalist. He wrote sketches and verses which at first were used as fillers for unused editorial space. Many were later published in Departmental Ditties (1886). At this time, he also created his soldiers three, and Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman, the bases for his 1888 humorous tale Soldiers Three. In 1889, Kipling return to England. In the 1890s, he developed a great interest in folk legends and animal myths. The Jungle Book (1894) and Just So Stories (1902) give the wit and wisdom of the animals who can talk. The stories of Mowgli, a man-cub who was the central character in The Jungle Book, brought Kipling great popularity in England and the United States. Kipling composed many of his poems while living for several years in the United States in the mid-1890s. His poems became famous for their lively, swinging rhythm. Typical are Gunga Din and Mandalay . The first tells of the courage of an Indian boy who is shot while carrying water to British soldiers in the thick of battle. Mandalay tries to capture the strange atmosphere of the east. In 1896, Kipling returned to England from the United States. By then, he was a controversial figure because of his views toward empire, which many misunderstood. In many of his works, Kipling seemed to imply that it was the duty of Great Britain to carry the white man's burden by civilizing backward races. But he was not just the shallow imperialist that his critics tried to make him appear. His famous poem, Recessional , written in 1897 in honor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, contains a strong warning to the British not to exploit other races. In 1900, Kipling went to South Africa to report the Boer War for an English newspaper. In 1905, Kipling completed Kim, his first major novel. In it he gives a colorful and dramatic picture of the complicated life of the Indian People, as seen through the eyes of the poor orphan boy, Kim. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel prize for literature. Before World War I, Kipling became active in politics. he widely lectured and wrote for the British cause both before and during the war. His only son was killed in World War I. After the war, Kipling wrote Songs for Youth (1925), another of his highly popular works.
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Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World - Listverse Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World flamiejamie June 26, 2008 Language is perhaps the most important function of the human body – it allows us to get sustenance as a child, it allows us to get virtually anything we want as an adult, and it allows us many hours of entertainment through literature, radio, music, and films. This list (in order of least to most spoken) summarizes the most important languages in use today. 10 French Number of speakers: 129 million Often called the most romantic language in the world, French is spoken in tons of countries, including Belgium, Canada, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Haiti. Oh, and France too. We’re actually very lucky that French is so popular, because without it, we might have been stuck with Dutch Toast, Dutch Fries, and Dutch kissing (ew!). To say “hello” in French, say “Bonjour” (bone-JOOR). Learn French today! Make the move and buy the critically acclaimed language course Rosetta Stone at Amazon.com! 9 Malay-Indonesian Number of speakers: 159 million Malay-Indonesian is spoken – surprise – in Malaysia and Indonesia. Actually, we kinda fudged the numbers on this one because there are many dialects of Malay, the most popular of which is Indonesian. But they’re all pretty much based on the same root language, which makes it the ninth most-spoken in the world. Indonesia is a fascinating place; a nation made up of over 13,000 islands it is the sixth most populated country in the world. Malaysia borders on two of the larger parts of Indonesia (including the island of Borneo), and is mostly known for its capital city of Kuala Lumpur. To say “hello” in Indonesian, say “Selamat pagi” (se-LA-maht PA-gee). 8 Portuguese Number of speakers: 191 million Think of Portuguese as the little language that could. In the 12th Century, Portugal won its independence from Spain and expanded all over the world with the help of its famous explorers like Vasco da Gama and Prince Henry the Navigator. (Good thing Henry became a navigator . . . could you imagine if a guy named “Prince Henry the Navigator” became a florist?) Because Portugal got in so early on the exploring game, the language established itself all over the world, especially in Brazil (where it’s the national language), Macau, Angola, Venezuela, and Mozambique. To say “hello” in Portuguese, say “Bom dia” (bohn DEE-ah). 7 Bengali Number of speakers: 211 million In Bangladesh, a country of 120+ million people, just about everybody speaks Bengali. And because Bangladesh is virtually surrounded by India (where the population is growing so fast, just breathing the air can get you pregnant), the number of Bengali speakers in the world is much higher than most people would expect. To say “hello” in Bengali, say “Ei Je” (EYE-jay). Plan a trip to Southeast Asia and experience the rich culture and lush natural beauty of one of the most gorgeous places on Earth. And whatever you do, don’t forget to pick up your Lonely Planet Bangladesh Travel Guide at Amazon.com! 6 Arabic Number of speakers: 246 million Arabic, one of the world’s oldest languages, is spoken in the Middle East, with speakers found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. Furthermore, because Arabic is the language of the Koran, millions of Moslems in other countries speak Arabic as well. So many people have a working knowledge of Arabic, in fact, that in 1974 it was made the sixth official language of the United Nations. To say “hello” in Arabic, say “Al salaam a’alaykum” (Ahl sah-LAHM ah ah-LAY-koom). 5 Russian Number of speakers: 277 million Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Yakov Smirnoff are among the millions of Russian speakers out there. Sure, we used to think of them as our Commie enemies. Now we think of them as our Commie friends. One of the six languages in the UN, Russian is spoken not only in the Mother Country, but also in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the U.S. (to name just a few places). To say “hello” in Russian, say “Zdravstvuite” (ZDRAST-vet-yah). 4 Spanish Number of speake
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Esperanto : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics Latin_alphabet ">Top languages by writing system: Latin alphabet Did you know ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the language. For other uses, see Esperanto (disambiguation) . Esperanto Native : 200 to 2000 (1996, est.); Fluent speakers: est. 100,000 to 2 million (in about 115 countries) [1] Category (purpose) Esperanto (help·info) is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language . [2] Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro , in 1887. The word esperanto means "one who hopes" in the language itself. The language's original name was "La Internacia Lingvo." [3] Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy to learn and politically neutral language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding. [4] Esperanto has between 100,000 and 2 million speakers in about 115 countries, and approximately one thousand native speakers , [5] i.e. people who learned Esperanto as one of their native languages from their parents. Although no country has adopted the language officially , Esperanto did get official recognition by UNESCO in 1954. [6] Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, [7] correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, [8] television, [9] movies, [10] and radio broadcasting. [11] The first international Esperanto congress was organized in France, Boulogne-sur-Mer , in 1905. Since then international conferences and meetings have been organized around the world with Esperanto every year. [12] At least one major search engine, Google , offers searching of Esperanto-related websites via an Esperanto portal. [13] There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a good foundation for learning languages in general. [14] Esperanto is also the language of instruction in one university, the Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj in San Marino . [15] Contents The first Esperanto book by L. L. Zamenhof Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof , a Jewish ophthalmologist from Bialystok , at the time part of the Russian Empire . According to Zamenhof, he created this language to foster harmony between people from different countries. His feelings and the situation in Bialystok may be gleaned from an extract from his famous letter to Nikolai Borovko: [16] The place where I was born and spent my childhood gave direction to all my future struggles. In Bialystok the inhabitants were divided into four distinct elements: Russians, Poles, Germans and Jews; each of these spoke their own language and looked on all the others as enemies. In such a town a sensitive nature feels more acutely than elsewhere the misery caused by language division and sees at every step that the diversity of languages is the first, or at least the most influential, basis for the separation of the human family into groups of enemies. I was brought up as an idealist; I was taught that all people were brothers, while outside in the street at every step I felt that there were no people, only Russians, Poles, Germans, Jews and so on. This was always a great torment to my infant mind, although many people may smile at such an 'anguish for the world' in a child. Since at that time I thought that 'grown-ups' were omnipotent, so I often said to myself that when I grew up I would certainly destroy this evil. —L. L. Zamenhof, in a letter to one N. Borovko, ca. 1895 After some ten years of development, which Zamenhof spent translating literature into Esperanto as well as writing original prose and verse , the first book of Esperanto grammar was published in Warsaw in July 1887. The number of speakers grew rapidly over the next few de
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Who was the last British Prime Minister to be removed from office whilst its party remained in office?
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BBC - History - British History in depth: Prime Ministers and Politics Timeline On This Day Prime Ministers and Politics Timeline Do you know which prime minister brought 'fallen women' to 10 Downing Street? Or which one fought a duel? Or who was known as 'the Goat'? Take a political journey through nearly 300 years of high ideals and low cunning, from Gordon Brown to the first man to hold prime ministerial powers, Robert Walpole. Margaret Thatcher Conservative, 1979 - 1990 Britain's first female prime minister came to power with the country descending into industrial and economic chaos. A relatively inexperienced politician, she nonetheless adopted a personal style of indomitable self-confidence and brooked no weakness in herself or her colleagues. Derisively dubbed the 'Iron Lady' by the Soviet press, she wore the moniker with pride. Her government's free-market policies included trade liberalisation, deregulation, sweeping privatisation, breaking the power of the unions, focus on the individual and the creation of an 'enterprise culture'. 'Thatcherism' has had a profound and lasting economic and social impact on Britain, and still sharply divides opinion to this day. The first PM to serve three consecutive terms (including two 'landslide' victories) she was eventually toppled by her own party following the disastrous imposition of a 'poll tax'. Nonetheless, she is generally considered to be one of the best peace time prime ministers of the 20th Century. James Callaghan Labour, 1976 - 1979 Callaghan inherited the office of prime minister following the surprise resignation of Harold Wilson. With only a tiny parliamentary majority to support him, he faced an increasingly one-sided confrontation with organised labour in the form of rampant strike action. Things came to a head in the so-called 'Winter of Discontent', a phrase from Shakespeare borrowed by Callaghan himself to describe the events leading up to February 1979. Britain was 'strikebound', with public servants staging mass walk outs, leaving food and fuel supplies undelivered, rubbish uncollected and - most notoriously - bodies unburied. Things became so bad in Hull it was dubbed 'the second Stalingrad'. The tabloid press has since been accused of overstating the severity of the situation (and wrongly quoting him as saying 'Crisis? What Crisis?') but it was enough at the time to sound the death knell for Callaghan's government later in the same year. Harold Wilson Labour, 1974 - 1976 In March 1974, Wilson became prime minister for the third time at the head of a minority government, following the first hung parliament (one where no party holds a majority) for 45 years. Often described as a wily fixer and negotiator, it took all of his skills to hold on to power in the face of economic and industrial turmoil. His party was also sharply divided, with many Labour members of parliament (MPs) bitter about Wilson's manoeuvring against his colleagues. He called another general election in October 1974, thereby ending the shortest parliament since 1681, and was returned to office with a majority of just three seats. He presided over a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Economic Community (EEC), and a collapse in the value of the pound which prompted a humiliating 'rescue operation' by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Exhausted, Wilson resigned saying 'politicians should not go on and on'. Edward Heath Conservative, 1970 - 1974 Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Economic Community (EEC), the precursor to the European Union, despite two previous failed attempts by Britain to gain entry, in 1961 and 1967. But his government was dogged by torrid industrial relations and recurrent economic crises. Things came to a head in January 1974, when industry was put on a 'three-day week' to conserve fuel. Fuel was in dangerously short supply following a combination of domestic industrial action (coal miners on 'work-to-rule') and a quadrupling of prices by Middle Eastern oil exporting nations in the wake of Israel's victory in the Yom Kipp
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Prime Ministers in the House of Lords | History of government Prime Ministers in the House of Lords — No 10 guest historian series , Prime Ministers and No. 10 The Marquess of Salisbury, the last Prime Minister to lead a government from the House of Lords In Anthony Trollope’s 1876 novel The Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of the title is Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium. It may today appear very strange that a member of the House of Lords could head the British government. The last peer to be called upon to serve as Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home , renounced his peerage shortly after taking office in 1963. The Marquess of Salisbury , who retired in 1902, was the last Prime Minister to lead a government from the Lords. Trollope’s depiction, however, reflected the political realities of his day. Of the thirteen Prime Ministers who served during his lifetime (1815-1882), only four spent their entire premiership in the House of Commons, while seven governed from the Lords. Uniquely, Lord John Russell spent his first term (1846-1852) in the Commons, but his second (1865-1866) in the Lords, having been ennobled as Earl Russell in 1861. Benjamin Disraeli transferred from the Lower to the Upper House while in office, having been created Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876. The case of Lord John Russell – a courtesy title which he held as a younger son of the Duke of Bedford – provides a useful reminder that not all those Prime Ministers referred to as ‘Lord’ necessarily sat in the Upper House. As an Irish peer, Lord Palmerston did not have an automatic right to sit in the Lords and was MP for Tiverton while Prime Minister. Although British politics became progressively more democratic during the nineteenth century, more peers than commoners served as Prime Minister in that period. In fact more Prime Ministers spent their premierships exclusively in the Lords during the nineteenth century than the eighteenth century. Two of the nineteenth (and indeed any) century’s longest serving incumbents were peers: Salisbury, who governed for over thirteen years in three administrations, and Lord Liverpool , who served continuously for over fourteen years. In 1817, eleven years before he became Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington remarked, ‘Nobody cares a damn for the House of Lords; the House of Commons is everything in England and the House of Lords nothing’. Events leading to the passage of the 1832 Reform Act appeared to confirm Wellington’s view, bringing down his government, with the Lords eventually forced to yield to the Lower House to pass the Act. Yet Wellington noted in a more reflective mood in 1835 that ‘the House of Lords still constitutionally possesses great power over the legislation of the country’. Before the 1911 Parliament Act tipped the constitutional balance decidedly in favour of the Commons, there were several significant occasions on which the Lords forced the Commons to postpone or reconsider major legislative proposals, notably in 1884 over parliamentary reform and in 1893 over Irish Home Rule. As Walter Bagehot noted in his 1867 work The English Constitution, the Lords also retained its significance as ‘a reservoir of Cabinet ministers’. Nearly half of William Gladstone ’s 1880 Cabinet were peers. Despite the Upper House’s continued significance, some doubted whether a Prime Minister was best placed there. Yet such objections could be grounded less on principle than an aversion to a particular individual. George Canning ’s dislike of the ineffectual Duke of Portland , whom he hoped to succeed, prompted him to argue in 1809 that it was ‘indispensable’ that the Prime Minister sit in the Commons. In 1894, following Gladstone’s retirement, a deputation of Liberal MPs protested to their Chief Whip about a peer filling his place, Queen Victoria having chosen the Earl of Rosebery in preference to Sir William Harcourt. There were undoubtedly potential pitfalls for a Prime Minister who sat in the Lords. Winston Churchill believed that Lord Rosebery’s career was seriously hampered by his peerage, ob
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Who has taken over the TV role of Doctor Who, from actor David Tennant?
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David Tennant - Biography - IMDb David Tennant Biography Showing all 152 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (98) | Personal Quotes (46) Overview (3) 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Bio (1) David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald , who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent. When he was about 3 or 4 years old, he decided to become an actor, inspired by his love of Doctor Who (1963). He was brought up in Bathgate, West Lothian and Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland and was a huge fan of the band The Proclaimers . He attended Paisley Grammar school and while there he wrote about how he wanted to become a professional actor and play the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). He made his first television appearance (which was also his first professional acting job) when he was 16, after his father sent some photos of him to a casting director at Scottish television. He also attended a youth theatre group at weekends run by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD - now renamed the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland [RCS]). When he was 16 he auditioned for and won a place at the RSAMD; the youngest student to ever do so, and started as a full time drama student when he was 17. He worked regularly in theatre and TV after leaving drama school, and his first big break came in 1994 when he was cast in a lead role in the Scottish drama Takin' Over the Asylum (1994). He then moved to London where his career thrived. Amongst other things, he spent several years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and became famous from his lead roles in TV dramas Blackpool (2004) and Casanova (2005). In 2005, his childhood wish came true. David was cast to play the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005) alongside Billie Piper , after Christopher Eccleston decided to leave. Playing the Doctor made him a household name. Since leaving the series in 2010 his career has continued to rise, with lead roles in films, TV series and theatre. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Samtroy Spouse (1) ( 30 December 2011 - present) (4 children) Trade Mark (3) Raising his eyebrows a lot Trivia (98) David Tennant is a respected classical actor who has performed numerous starring roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Touchstone in "As You Like It," Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet," Antipholus of Syracuse in "The Comedy of Errors," and Captain Jack Absolute in "The Rivals.". He was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 2002 for his performance in "Lobby Hero" performed at the Donmar Warehouse and the New Ambassador's Theatres. Attended Paisley Grammar. Graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Acted with the 7:84 Theatre Company, a genre-bending, ground-breaking, political Scottish Theatre Group. Decided to be an actor at the age of three. Cast as "Tenth Doctor" for BBC Doctor Who (2005) series to star alongside Billie Piper (April 2005). While attending Paisley Grammar School, he wrote an essay on how his greatest desire was to play Doctor Who on TV. Best friends with Louise Delamere ( No Angels (2004)). They went to Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama together and shared a flat. Chose his acting surname from Neil Tennant , singer with Pet Shop Boys . This came after reading an interview with Tennant in "Smash Hits" shortly after learning that he would have to change his professional name in order to join the actors' union, Equity, as there was already a registered member with his real name, David McDonald. Nominated for Best Classical Actor Under 30, Ian Charleson Award for his theater role in "Comedy of Errors" as Antipholus of Syracuse. [2000] Won Best Male Performance, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, for his role in "Look Back in Anger" as Jimmy Porter. [2005] Won Best Actor, Theatre Management Association, for his role in "The Glass Menagerie" as Tom. Is a big fan of film director Alfred Hitchcock . Is the second Sc
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Matt Smith - IMDb IMDb Actor | Soundtrack | Director Matt Smith is an English actor who shot to fame in the UK aged 26 when he was cast by producer Steven Moffat as the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC's iconic science-fiction adventure series Doctor Who (2005). Matthew Robert Smith was born and raised in Northampton, the son of Lynne (Fidler) and David Smith. He was educated at Northampton School For Boys... See full bio » Born:
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Tamed by Bellerophon, what was the name of the winged horse of Greek mythology?
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PEGASUS (Pegasos) - Winged Horse of Greek Mythology Of the Spring (pêgê) Pegasus at the spring, Apulian red-figure vase C4th B.C., Tampa Museum of Art PEGASOS (Pegasus) was an immortal, winged horse which sprang from the neck of the beheaded Gorgon Medousa (Medusa). It was tamed by Bellerophon who rode it into battle against the fire-breathing monster known as the Khimaira (Chimera) . Later the hero attempted to fly to heaven but Zeus caused the horse to buck throwing him back down to earth in disgrace. Pegasos winged his way on to Olympos where he became the thunderbolt-bearer of Zeus. Pegasos was commemorated amongst the stars as the constellation of the same name. Its rising marks the arrival of spring and, in Greece, of seasonal thunderstorms. Pegasos' name means either "of the spring" from the Greek word pêgê, or "sprung forth" from the word pêgazô. The first alludes to the steed's connection with various springs, and the latter to its birth from the Gorgon's neck. FAMILY OF PEGASUS PARENTS [1.1] POSEIDON & MEDOUSA (Hesiod Theogony 278, Apollodorus 2.32 & 2.42, Hyginus Fabulae 151 & Astronomica 2.18, Ovid Metamorphoses 4.781 & 6.119) [1.2] MEDOUSA (Pindar Olympian Ode, Nonnus Dionysiaca 24.270) ENCYCLOPEDIA PE′GASUS (Pêgasos). The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus related. When Perseus struck off the head of Medusa, with whom Poseidon had had intercourse in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang forth from her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter obtained the name Pegasus because he was believed to have made his appearance near the sources (pêgai) of Oceanus. Pegasus rose up to the seats of the immortals, and afterwards lived in the palace of Zeus, for whom he carried thunder and lightning (IIes. Theog. 281, &c.; Apollod. ii. 3. § 2, 4. § 2 ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Pac. 722; comp. Ov. Met. iv. 781, &c. vi. 119). According to this view, which is apparently the most ancient, Pegasus was the thundering horse of Zeus; but later writers describe him as the horse of Eos (Schol. ad Hom. Il. vi. 155; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 17), and place him among the stars as the heavenly horse (Arat. Phaen. 205, &c.; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 18 Ov. Fast. iii. 457, &c.). Pegasus also acts a prominent part in the fight of Bellerophon against the Chimaera (Hes. Theog. 325; Apollod. ii. 3. § 2). After Bellerophon had tried and suffered much to obtain possession of Pegasus for his fight against the Chimaera, he consuited the soothsayer Polyidus at Corinth. The latter advised him to spend a night in the temple of Athena, and, as Bellerophon was sleeping, the goddess appeared to him in a dream, commanding him to sacrifice to Poseidon, and gave him a golden bridle. When he awoke he found the bridle, offered the sacrifice, and caught Pegasus, who was drinking at the well Peirene (Pind. Ol. xiii. 90, &c. with the Schol.; Strab. viii. p. 379). According to some Athena herself tamed and bridled Pegasus, and surrendered him to Bellerophon (Paus. ii. 4. § 1), or Bellerophon received Pegasus from his own father Poseidon (Schol. ad Hom. Il. vi. 155). After he had conquered the Chimaera (Pindar says that he also conquered the Amazons and the Solymi, Ol. xiii. 125), he endeavoured to rise up to heaven with his winged horse, but fell down upon the earth, either from fear or from giddiness, or being thrown off by Pegasus, who was rendered furious by a gad-fly which Zeus had sent. But Pegasus continued his flight (Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 18 ; Pind. Isthm. vii. 6; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 17; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 636). Whether Hesiod considered Pegasus as a winged horse, cannot be inferred with certainty from the word apoptamenose; but Pindar, Euripides, and the other later writers, expressly mention his wings. Pegasus lastly was also regarded as the horse of the Muses, and in this capacity he is more celebrated in modern times than he ever was in antiquity ; for with the ancients he had no connection with the Muses, except that by his hoof he called forth the inspiring well Hippocrene. The story about this well runs as follows. When the nine Muses engaged in a con
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Bucephalus - Ancient History Encyclopedia Bucephalus by Donald L. Wasson published on 06 October 2011 Bucephalus was Alexander the Great ’s horse and is considered by some to be the most famous horse in history. Alexander and Bucephalus’ initial meeting was unique but demonstrated the true character of one of the greatest generals in all of history. Initially, Bucephalus was brought to Macedonia and presented to King Phillip II (Alexander’s father) in 346 BCE by Philoneicus of Thessaly. With a price tag almost three times the norm (13 talents), the beautiful black horse stood taller than the normal Macedonian steed but was considered too wild and unmanageable, rearing up against anyone who came near him. Phillip ordered him led away. Alexander sat in the audience with his mother Olympias watching the spectacle before him. As the attendants tried to lead Bucephalus away, Alexander rose calling them spineless. According to Plutarch ’s biography of Alexander, the young prince said, “What as excellent horse do they lose for want of address and boldness to manage him.” At first Phillip ignored the challenge, but finally said to Alexander, “Do you reproach those who are older than yourself, as if you were better able to manage him than they.” Alexander, ignoring his father remark, repeated his challenge and said he would pay for the horse if he, Alexander, were unable to tame him. Advertisement Bucephalus and Alexander were inseparable; only Alexander could ride him. Amid wild laughter, Alexander approached the horse he would name Bucephalus calmly. He had realized something the others had not --- the horse was afraid of his own shadow. Turning Bucephalus toward the sun so his shadow was behind him and slowing taking the reins in his hand, Alexander mounted him. The laughter of the crowd turned to cheers as Alexander rode off. According to Plutarch, as Alexander returned to the arena with Bucephalus and dismounted, Phillip said, “O my son look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee.” Historians claim this taming of the wild Bucephalus was a turning point in the young prince’s life, demonstrating the confidence and determination he was to show in his conquest of Asia. Bucephalus and Alexander were inseparable; only Alexander could ride him, and indeed he did, into every battle from the conquest of the Greek city -states and Thebes through Gaugamela and into India . After the final defeat of Darius , Bucephalus was kidnapped while Alexander was away on excursion. Upon returning and learning of the theft, Alexander promised to fell every tree, lay the countryside to waste, and slaughter every inhabitant in the region. The horse was soon returned along with a plea for mercy.
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Who, from 1951-1969, was the only King of Libya?
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Crown Prince Regent: Hasan: 1969 Prime Ministers: Mahmud al-Muntasir (1951–1954); Hussein Maziq (1965–1967); Wanis al-Qaddafi (1968–1969). Legislature: Parliament; Upper House (Senate); Lower House (House of Representatives). Independence: 24 December 1951. Area: 1,759,530 km2 (679,358 square miles). Population: 1,091,830 (as of 1954). The 1951 constitution states that King Idris as-Sanusi is the head of state, who can exercise political power to run the affairs of the country, through a government led by a prime minister, as well as can veto legislations and dissolve the house of representatives. The king's government is made up of the parliament, the upper house (Senate) and the lower house (House of Representatives). Each of the three provinces of Libya, namely Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan, were represented in the Senate by eight representatives. Each province had its own "provincial government." The flag of Cyrenaica, Eastern Libya. The name Sanusi (or Senusi) refers to a political-religious order, said to have been founded by the grandfather of King Idris, the Grand Sanusi (Sayyid Muhammad Ibn Ali as-Senussi), in 1837 in Saudi Arabia. The black flag with white star & crescent was adopted by Idris as-Sanusi. The Sanusi family were involved in the wars against the French (between 1902 to 1913) and against the Italian invasions of Libya. After the Italians returned to Libya, after the treaty they signed with Turkey, the country was destroyed, Emir Idris fled to Egypt, and subsequently Omar al-Mukhtar was hanged in 1931. On the 1st of March 1949, Sayyid Idris proclaimed the eastern region of Libya as "The Emirate of Cyrenaica", and appointed himself the Emir of Cyrenaica. Even though the UK did recognise the Emirate, the UN failed to recognise the new country. In 1951 King Idris was appointed the King of Libya. Like the American president was reported by Aljazeera to have said in 1968: "King Idris' regime was stable and secure because it was corrupt, truly corrupt". The same source also stated that: "In their bid to dominate Africa, the [Seven] Sisters installed a king in Libya, a dictator in Gabon, fought the nationalisation of oil resources in Algeria, and through corruption, war and assassinations, brought Nigeria to its knees" (aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/04/201344105231487582.html). The Berbers of Libya Under King Idris The official status of the Berbers during the kingdom can be argued to have been slightly better than that during Gaddafi's period, and so far the same as during the "transitional" period of the NTC. However, all these three governments have declared constitutionally that Arabic is the only official language of Libya - even though Berber is the native language of Libya. The king's constitution states this under Article 186. However, Article 24 also states that any Libyan can use any language to 'practice' his or her religion or culture, including its use in literature and the media. After practice, of course, comes the real test - whenever the dictators are ready. In addition to the lack of any official recognition, there was no clear policy to assist the Berbers along those lines to develop their unique culture and nurture their prehistoric identity. When a language is declared official it will have the "legal protection", the "funds", and the dedication to ensure its free evolution. But when it is marginalised or forced into integration into another's freedom then neglect naturally follows. 03 March 2014: The Libyan government has decided to reinstate the Libyan nationality to King Idris and to his family. Decree 146 of 2014, issued by the PMO, also returns all the property confiscated by Gaddafi's government to the Sanusi family.
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 17 | 1984: Libyan embassy shots kill policewoman About This Site | Text Only 1984: Libyan embassy shots kill policewoman A police officer has been killed and ten people injured after shots were fired from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London. WPC Yvonne Fletcher had been helping control a small demonstration outside the embassy when automatic gunfire came from outside. She received a fatal stomach wound and some of the demonstrators were also severely injured. WPC Fletcher, 25, died soon afterwards at Westminster Hospital. Her fianc�, another police officer who was also at the demonstration, was at her side. After the shooting people were cleared from surrounding offices in St James' Square. Some had witnessed events from their workplace. Film maker Ray Barker said people were stunned by what had happened. "Several of my colleagues burst into tears. It was unbelievable that sort of thing could happen at such an insignificant demonstration," he said. Marksmen Journalist Brian Cartmell was in St James' Square just feet away from Yvonne Fletcher when she was hit. "She crumpled to the floor clutching her lower stomach and groin and rolled on to her right-hand side with a look of total surprise on her pretty face," Mr Cartmell said. The Libyan building is now surrounded by armed police officers including specialist marksmen. However, Home Secretary Leon Brittan has said the police are prepared to wait and deal with the situation in a peaceful way. Police officers are in touch with those inside the Libyan People's Bureau via a special telephone link. The Libyans, led by Colonel Gaddafi, are blaming Britain's police and security forces for "attacking" their embassy. Libyan soldiers have now surrounded Britain's embassy in Tripoli trapping 18 diplomats inside.
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Kate Middleton lands job with fashion chain Jigsaw | Daily Mail Online Kate Middleton lands job with fashion chain Jigsaw Last updated at 12:08 01 December 2006 Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton has a job with fashion chain Jigsaw, the company said today. The 24-year-old, who has been dating the future king for three years, has become an accessory buyer for the high street brand. A spokeswoman for Jigsaw said: "We can confirm that Kate joined our staff two or three weeks ago as an accessory buyer for Jigsaw and Jigsaw Junior. We can't comment any further." Miss Middleton studied art history at St Andrews and graduated from university, where she met William and shared a flat with the Prince, a year-and-a-half ago. Well-loved womenswear chain Jigsaw is owned by fashion tycoons John and Belle Robinson - close family friends of Kate's. Their company Robinson Webster Holdings also owns the Kew womenswear stores. According to The Sun newspaper, Miss Middleton has already helped out on a fashion shoot where she ran errands, fetching cups of tea and snacks. Kate has been described as a walking advert for Jigsaw, often being seen wearing its cardigans, floral print skirts and dresses. It will be a major coup for the brand to have the woman being tagged as a future Queen on board. According to the Jigsaw website, its footwear and bags are manufactured mainly in Italy and Spain "using the finest materials, usually high quality leather". Belts come from Italy, with some more artisan-crafted pieces made in Asia, while scarves, gloves and hats are made in the Far East and Europe. Its jewellery has been sourced from Europe, India and Mexico.
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London Fashion Week - Stella McCartney Stella McCartney Showrooms Stella McCartney Born and raised in London and the English countryside, Stella McCartney graduated from Central St Martins in 1995. A signature style of sharp tailoring, natural confidence and sexy femininity was apparent in her first collection. A lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her designs, and she supports PETA. But Stella does use wool, silk, and other animal-derived fabrics in her designs. In March 1997 McCartney was appointed Creative Director of Paris fashion house Chloé, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld was less than impressed with the house's choice, stating, "Chloé should have taken a big name. They did, but in music, not fashion. Let's hope she's as gifted as her father." Despite initial scepticism, McCartney's designs have enjoyed considerable commercial and critical success. She was accompanied to Chloé by her assistant and friend Phoebe Philo, who later replaced her as design director. In 2001, Stella McCartney launched her own fashion house under her name in a joint venture with Gucci Group (now Kering) and showed her first collection in Paris. Her collections are now distributed in over 50 countries through 600 wholesale accounts including specialty shops and department stores. In 2003, Stella McCartney launched her first perfume, Stella. In January 2007, McCartney launched a skincare line, CARE. She launched a new lingerie line in 2008, and in 2010, the Stella McCartney Kids collection was launched for newborns and children up to age 12. Contact details
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Royal Wedding: William and Kate are (very) distant cousins – Channel 4 News UK Royal Wedding: William and Kate are (very) distant cousins Much has been made of the coalminers and tradesmen in Kate Middleton’s family tree, but what about her royal links? Genealogist Patrick Cracroft-Brennan analyses her ancestry for Channel 4 News. Share on Twitter Much has been made of Kate Middleton’s “middle class” background, but does she have any royal links? Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, editor of the online reference work Cracroft’s Peerage : “Yes, she has, but they are very distant. Her great-great-grandmother, Frances Elizabeth Greenhow, was the 10 x great-granddaughter of Sir William Gascoigne, a Yorkshire knight who died in 1487. He married Lady Margaret Percy, 4th and youngest daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. “The Earl descended from King Edward III through both his parents. Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana both descend from Sir William Gascoigne and his wife Lady Margaret. “This makes William and Kate fourteenth cousins once removed through his mother and fifteenth cousins through his father. This makes William and Kate fourteenth cousins once removed. Patrick Cracroft “Through her Gascoigne ancestry Kate is also an eighth cousin seven times removed to George Washington, first President of the United States, and a thirteenth cousin twice removed to the war time leader General George Patton. “A descent from Sir William Gascoigne is one of the commonest “royal descents” in both Britain and the United States. The New England Historic Genealogical Society has estimated that up to 50 million Americans can trace their ancestry back to King Edward III. “All of these people are related (albeit very distantly) to both Kate and Prince William.” Are there any surprising figures in Kate Middleton’s family tree? “Apart from her one royal descent, her ancestry is pleasantly normal. Her father’s family were solicitors in Leeds for several generations, and there is a close connection with the Lupton family, well known for their involvement in Leeds as woolen manufacturers. “There are several people ‘in trade’, which if not glamorous is at least dependable, and there are coal miners from the Durham coalfields. Social classes are very fluid in Britain and seeing an ancestry where the 16 great-great-grandparents range from lawyers to coalminers is not at all unusual in my experience.” How unusual is this union? “Since the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 it has been the norm for our kings to marry princesses from other European royal families. In many ways this was a good practice as it ensured that the Queen would not favour her family at court. “Henry, Duke of Hereford, was already married to Lady Mary de Bohun when he seized the throne from his cousin in 1399 and became King Henry IV. His second wife was a French princess. King Edward IV broke the rule by marrying Lady Elizabeth Wydville in 1464. His brother, King Richard III, had already married Lady Anne Neville before he killed his nephew in 1483 and usurped the throne. This union is very unusual in that it is the first time in British history that someone in direct line to the throne has married someone who was not either a foreign princess or came from a British aristocratic or titled family. Patrick Cracroft “King Henry VIII had six wives – two of these were foreign princesses, the others were English aristocrats. “King James II had married Lady Anne Hyde in 1633, well before he succeeded his brother, King Charles II. After her death in 1671 his second wife was an Italian princess. “We then have to jump to 1923 and the marriage of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queens parents, before we again have an aristocratic commoner marrying a future king. The Prince of Wales, Prince William’s father, has famously married two aristocratic ‘gels’. “This union is very unusual in that it is the first time in British history that someone in direct line to the throne has married someone who was not either a foreign princess or came from a British aristocr
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William the Conqueror invades England - Sep 28, 1066 - HISTORY.com William the Conqueror invades England Share this: William the Conqueror invades England Author William the Conqueror invades England URL Publisher A+E Networks Claiming his right to the English throne, William, duke of Normandy, invades England at Pevensey on Britain’s southeast coast. His subsequent defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history. William was the illegitimate son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, by his concubine Arlette, a tanner’s daughter from the town of Falaise. The duke, who had no other sons, designated William his heir, and with his death in 1035 William became duke of Normandy at age seven. Rebellions were epidemic during the early years of his reign, and on several occasions the young duke narrowly escaped death. Many of his advisers did not. By the time he was 20, William had become an able ruler and was backed by King Henry I of France. Henry later turned against him, but William survived the opposition and in 1063 expanded the borders of his duchy into the region of Maine. In 1051, William is believed to have visited England and met with his cousin Edward the Confessor, the childless English king. According to Norman historians, Edward promised to make William his heir. On his deathbed, however, Edward granted the kingdom to Harold Godwine, head of the leading noble family in England and more powerful than the king himself. In January 1066, King Edward died, and Harold Godwine was proclaimed King Harold II. William immediately disputed his claim. In addition, King Harald III Hardraade of Norway had designs on England, as did Tostig, brother of Harold. King Harold rallied his forces for an expected invasion by William, but Tostig launched a series of raids instead, forcing the king to leave the English Channel unprotected. In September, Tostig joined forces with King Harald III and invaded England from Scotland. On September 25, Harold met them at Stamford Bridge and defeated and killed them both. Three days later, William landed in England at Pevensey. With approximately 7,000 troops and cavalry, William seized Pevensey and marched to Hastings, where he paused to organize his forces. On October 13, Harold arrived near Hastings with his army, and the next day William led his forces out to give battle. At the end of a bloody, all-day battle, King Harold II was killed–shot in the eye with an arrow, according to legend–and his forces were defeated. William then marched on London and received the city’s submission. On Christmas Day, 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end. French became the language of the king’s court and gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English. William I proved an effective king of England, and the “Domesday Book,” a great census of the lands and people of England, was among his notable achievements. Upon the death of William I in 1087, his son, William Rufus, became William II, the second Norman king of England. Related Videos
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In October 2011, which planet in our solar system was mistaken for a distress flare by a member of the public in Tynemouth, England?
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2012 « Revolutionizing Awareness By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: November 9, 2010 Something big is going on at the center of the galaxy, and astronomers are happy to say they don’t know what it is. A group of scientists working with data from NASA ’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope said Tuesday that they had discovered two bubbles of energy erupting from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The bubbles, they said at a news conference and in a paper to be published Wednesday in The Astrophysical Journal , extend 25,000 light years up and down from each side of the galaxy and contain the energy equivalent to 100,000 supernova explosions. “They’re big,” said Doug Finkbeiner of the Harvard -Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, leader of the team that discovered them. The source of the bubbles is a mystery. One possibility is that they are fueled by a wave of star births and deaths at the center of the galaxy. Another option is a gigantic belch from the black hole known to reside, like Jabba the Hutt , at the center of the Milky Way. What it is apparently not is dark matter , the mysterious something that astronomers say makes up a quarter of the universe and holds galaxies together. “Wow,” said David Spergel, an astrophysicist at Princeton who was not involved in the work. “And we think we know a lot about our own galaxy,” Dr. Spergel added, noting that the bubbles were almost as big as the galaxy and yet unsuspected until now. Jon Morse, head of astrophysics at NASA headquarters, said, “This shows again that the universe is full of surprises.” One of the most surprised was Dr. Finkbeiner. A year ago he was part of a group led by Gregory Dobler of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif., that said it had discerned the existence of a mysterious fog of high-energy particles buzzing around the center of the Milky Way . The particles manifested themselves as a haze of extra energy after all the known sources of gamma rays — the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation — had been subtracted from Fermi data that had recently been made public. At the time, Dr. Finkbeiner and his colleagues speculated that the haze was produced by dark matter. The center of the galaxy is home to all manner of wild and woolly high-energy phenomena, including a gigantic black hole and violently spinning pulsars, but cosmological theories also suggest that dark matter would be concentrated there. Collisions of dark matter particles, the theory goes, could produce showers of gamma rays. But in the follow-up analysis, the haze — besides being bigger than Dr. Finkbeiner and his colleagues had thought — turned out to have sharp boundaries, like, well, a bubble. Dark matter, according to the prevailing theory, should be more diffuse. “Dark matter has been there billions of years,” Dr. Finkbeiner explained. “If something has been going on for billions of years, you wouldn’t expect a sharp edge.” He and the other scientists said this did not mean that dark matter was not there clogging the center of the galaxy, but that it would be harder to see . A version of this article appeared in print on November 10, 2010, on page A18 of the New York edition. Related Articles http://www.bluestarspeaks.com/bluestar4.html 8-25-10 to 10-25-10 NOTE: Blue Star wishes to include a special message for all people. This message is to remain on the website for the entire year of 2010. *People of all nations, please listen to what I have to say: this year of 2010 is a year that will never be forgotten. Those who are progressing on their own path of Spiritual evolution at their own pace, will be facing many trials and tribulations FOR A WHILE this year. You are each here on the Earth Star planet for more than 1 reason; all you really need to know about that is that this is the year you all trained for. 2010 is a year to live courageously! All that you know and all that you think you know is being put to the test. How you each handle these tests will be your own measure of greatness, your own meter of your strengths and weaknesses. We will all
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OCTOBER October 1 OCTOBER The Feast Day of Agnes of Lisieux, patron saint of florists. The National Day of China marking the formation in 1949 of the Peoples Republic with Mao Tse-tung as chairman. The National Day of Nigeria which became independent within the Commonwealth in 1960, and became a republic this day in 1963. 1207: Birth of Henry III, King of England, born at Winchester, son of King John. He reigned from 1216 to 1272 and, by all accounts, was totally incompetent. 1792: Money orders were first issued in Britain. 1843: The News of the World, Britains biggest circulation Sunday newspaper, began publication. 1868: St Pancras railway station in London was formally opened as a terminus of the Midland Railway. 1880: The Edison Lamp Works began operations in New Jersey to manufacture the first electric light bulbs. 1903: From this day it was possible to take a train from London to Dover, pick up the connection at Ostend and travel via Berlin as far as St Petersburg as European railways linked with Russian. 1906: The first hot-air balloon race was staged at Whitley, Yorkshire and was won by US Army Lieutenant Frank Lahm. 1908: Henry Ford introduced the Model T, the worlds most popular low-priced car until the arrival of the Volkswagen Beetle. It was also the first left-hand drive vehicle. 1918: The Arab forces of Emir Faisal with British officer T E Lawrence captured Damascus from the Turks. An Australian Mounted division followed them in. 1924: Birth of Jimmy (James Earl) Carter, 39th US President (1977-81) and peanut farmer who managed to get Egypt and Israel to sign the Camp David agreement ending hostilities between their countries. 1936: General Franco took over as the head of the Nationalist Government in Spain. 1938: German forces entered Sudetenland, once part of Czechoslovakia which Hitler claimed he had liberated. 1938: The first edition of Picture Post, an 80-page photonews magazine, went on sale for just 3d (less than 2p) and became a legend in British journalism. 1963: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed by Britain, USSR and the US came into force. 1969: Olaf Palme became Prime Minister of Sweden. 1969: Concorde 001 broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight in France. 1971: Disney World opened in Florida. 1974: The Watergate Trial began. John Erlichman, H R Haldeman and John Mitchell, charged with obstructing the course of justice, were found guilty the following year. 1974: The first McDonalds opened in London to speed up the fast food revolution. 1985: Liverpool youths went on the rampage in Toxteth, a decaying inner city area. The riots were some of the most serious experienced in Britain this century. 2 OCTOBER 1187: Saladin, the Muslim sultan, captured Jerusalem this day after an 88-year occupation by the Franks. 1452: Birth of Richard III, King of England from 1483 who proved a skilful ruler despite being suspected of the murder of Edward V and his brother. 1608: Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrated the first telescope. 1847: Birth of Paul Ludwig Hans von Benckendorff und Hindenburg, German field marshal and president of the Republic from 1925 who was forced to invite Hitler to accept the Chancellorship in 1933. 1851: Birth of Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France who was in command of the Allied armies in 1918 when the final advance to end the war was launched. 1869: Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian leader who campaigned for Indian independence using the techniques of civil disobedience. 1870: Rome was declared the capital of Italy. 1871: Brigham Young, Mormon leader, was arrested for bigamy. 1871: Birth of Cordell Hull, US statesman and diplomat, Roosevelts secretary of state who has been called the father of the United Nations and for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. 1901: The first Royal Navy submarine was launched at Barrow, built by Vickers. There were five of these experimental six-man crew submarine boats on order. 1904: Birth of Shri Lal Banadur Shastri, Indian prime minister who campaigned with Gandhi, with whom he shares a
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The Henley Royal Regatta takes place over the first weekend of which month?
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Henley Royal Regatta 2016 Home Henley Royal Regatta Henley Royal Regatta is undoubtedly the best known regatta in the world and is both one of the highlights of the summer sporting calendar and the social season. It attracts thousands of visitors over a 5-day period and spectators will be thrilled by over 200 races of an international standard, including Olympians and crews new to the event. Aside from the rowing, visitors can take in the ambience enjoying the facilities within the enclosures. Watch all of the videos from the Regatta on our YouTube Channel . Latest Videos 2017 - 28th June - 2nd July 2018 - 4th July - 8th July Regatta Information
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Puzzles - Coffeetime Triv (Sat) 1: Who played Basil Fawlty in `Fawlty Towers`? 2: Who had a hit single with `Crocodile Rock` in 1972? 3: Who is the author of the `Harry Potter` books? 4: What is the name of the clockwork device used by musicians to measure time? 5: `Question or Nominate` was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show? 6: Which two colours are Dennis the Menace`s jumper? 7: In which film did Roy Scheider play a sheriff and Richard Dreyfus a marine biologist? 8: The name of which (non-UK) football club is an anagram of `Red Admiral`? 9: In 2004, Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch caused an embarrassing security breach at Buckingham Palace dressed as who? 10: The Colosseum is located in the capital city of which country? 1: Who played Basil Fawlty in `Fawlty Towers`? John Cleese 2: Who had a hit single with `Crocodile Rock` in 1972? Elton John 3: Who is the author of the `Harry Potter` books? J.K.Rowling 4: What is the name of the clockwork device used by musicians to measure time? A metronome 6: Which two colours are Dennis the Menace`s jumper? Red and black 8: The name of which (non-UK) football club is an anagram of `Red Admiral`? Real Madrid Wow! I got a footie and an anagram question. I'm going to need to lie down! 9: In 2004, Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch caused an embarrassing security breach at Buckingham Palace dressed as who? Batman? 10: The Colosseum is located in the capital city of which country? Italy 5: `Question or Nominate` was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show? 15 to 1 Patience, so you did. Well done all three of you only one missing is 7: and 'Marine Biologist' (the new wannabe career for Britain's 6th-formers) might have given it to you - the fiilm was Jaws
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The award winning 2005 children's book And Tango Makes Three has been subject to much controversy as it was seen to be highlighting what behavior in the animal kingdom?
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Banned Books A -- M Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) ("Vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind."). Adolescents Today (1986) by John S. Dacey. The Advancement of Learning (1605) by Sir Francis Bacon. The Adventures of Captain Underpants (1997) by Dav Pilkey ("Causes unruly behavior.") The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain ("Racist." "Degrading, insensitive, and oppressive." "Use of the word 'nigger.'" Banned in 1885 in the Concord, Massachusetts library for being what the Public Library Committee called "trash". From a newspaper clipping: Boston Evening Transcript March 17, 1885 p. 6 "Huckleberry Finn" Barred Out. The Concord (Mass.) Public Library committee has decided to exclude Mark Twain's latest book from the library. One member of the committee says that, while he does not wish to call it immoral, he thinks it contains but little humor, and that of a very coarse type. He regards it as the veriest trash. The librarian and the other members of the committee entertain similar views, characterizing it as rough, coarse and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole book being more suited to the slums that to intelligent, respectable people." Read other press items HERE . Challenged in the Normal, Illinois Community high school’s sophomore literature class in 2003 as being degrading to African Americans. Pulled from the reading lists at the three Renton, Washington high schools in 2004 after an African American student said the book degraded her and her culture. The novel, which is not required reading in Renton schools but is on a supplemental list of approved books, was eventually retained for classroom usage. Pulled from classes in Taylor, Michigan, schools [2006] because of complaints about its liberal use of common racial slurs. Challenged as required reading at Cactus High in Peoria, Arizona [2006]. The student and mother have threatened to file a civil-rights complaint because of alleged racial treatment, the segregation of the student, and the use of a racial slur in the classroom. Challenged in the Lakeville, Minnesota High School [2007] and St. Louis Park High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota [2007] as required reading for sophomores. Retained in the Manchester, Connecticut School District [2008] with the requirement that teachers attend seminars on how to deal with issues of race before teaching the book in their classrooms.) The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby (2002) by Dav Pilkey (Challenged, but retained in the Riverside, California Union School District classrooms and libraries in 2003 despite a complaint of the book's "inappropriate scatological storyline.") The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain ("Racist, dangerous." "Too full of racially charged language.") Adventures in English Literature. Aesop's Fables by Aesop (According to the legend, the Greek slave and storyteller was flung from the cliffs at Delphi for sacrilege.) A Feast for the Seaweeds (1983) by Haidar Haidar (Banned in Egypt and several other Arab states, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University upon reprinting in Egypt in the year 2000. The clerics issued a fatwa banning the novel and accused Haidar of heresy and offending Islam. Al-Azhar University students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation. -- wikipedia.) The Affluent Society (1958) by John Kenneth Galbraith ("I will do anything to thwart permissive liberalism." They should be "balanced by at least four books with conservative viewpoints.") After the First Death (1979) by Robert Cormier. The Age of Reason (1794) by Thomas Paine (More than one publisher was prosecuted for printing this book, which argues for Deism and against Christianity and Atheism. "Blasphemous." Theodore Roosevelt called Paine "a filthy little atheist.") The Agony of Alice (1985) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Alan and Naomi (1977) by Myron Levoy ("Has a sad ending.") Alas, Babylon (1959) by Pat Frank. The Alfred Summer (1980) by Jan Slepian. Alice Alone (20
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Variety of animals have earned war medals, C.R. McGuire Animals, like humans, have been involved, injured and died at war since time began.. In the year 2000, I prepared a special exhibit for the Nepean Museum on animals and the important role they have played in our history, other than that of being just pets. Half the 500-square-foot exhibit illustrated how animals helped their masters survive and tame the wilderness and eventually settle what is now Canada. The remainder of the display illustrated what animals did in war time. The exhibit was conceived and created four years prior to an Animal in War Memorial being erected to recognize their contributions to war efforts. It was unveiled in London, Englands Hyde Park, on Nov. 3, 2004, and, I believe, it is the first of its kind. The exhibit proved to be very popular and I was told by many that it brought home the fact that over the centuries the horse and mule, sadly, have suffered some of the most terrible injuries and deaths while at war. Through the efforts and dedication of Lloyd Swick, a Canadian Korean War veteran, the importance of animals at war has also been recognized in Canada. Three large bronze plaques mounted on granite are dedicated to dogs, horses and mules that served with the Canadian Army, beginning with the First Boer War (1899 to 1902). The plaques are guarded by a realistic bronze German Shepherd sculpture complete with equipment that its live counterparts carry on their backs while on duty in todays many danger spots. The Animals in War Memorial is appropriately located next to the monument commemorating Canadas involvement in the Boer War and three blocks south of Canadas National War Memorial. I was among the crowd in Ottawas Confederation Park at the unveiling of this impressive memorial on Nov. 3, 2012. In 1917, Maria Dickin founded the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in Great Britain. She recognized the incredible bravery of animals and their devotion to man and duty at war and on the home front and decided to create the award that bears her name. The Dickin Medal is considered to be the animals Victoria Cross. Instituted in 1943, it is awarded to animals displaying conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while serving or associated with any branch of the Armed Forces or Civil Defence Units in all theatres of war, worldwide. The Dickin Medal is a large, bronze medallion bearing the words For Gallantry and We Also Serve all within a laurel wreath. The ribbon is striped green - for water and the Navy, dark brown representing the land and the Army and Civil Defence units and pale blue - for the sky and Air Force. Initially, the medal was presented from 1943 to 1949 to animals performing outstanding acts of courage during the Second World War and its aftermath. Like its human equivalent, the medal is often awarded posthumously. The largest group of recipients will surprise some readers because, they are homing pigeons. Before the days in which sophisticated forms of communication became commonly used by the military, this bird performed invaluable service up to the end of the Second World War, by carrying important messages in tiny containers. As you will find by reading their stories, these loyal and determined birds flew under extremely harrowing conditions. To date, the Dickin Medal has been awarded only 64 times. The recipients include 32 pigeons, 28
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Kosovo: population, area, capital, cities ... Kosovo Description of Kosovo Kosovo is a country situated in South-eastern Europe, the central of Balkan Peninsula. Kosovo, a poverty-stricken and landlocked country, has limited water resources, a variety of topographical features and ringed by mountains. It’s ranked 169 with a total of 10,887 km(square) area. The capital city of Korova is Pristina. History Kosovo became a sovereign province of Serbia after World War II. In 1989, a new constitution instituted that revoked Kosovo’s status of the self-governing province of Serbia. Formation of the Kosovo Liberation Army and launching an insurgency in early 1990’s. 1996 – Albanese of the Kosovo established an army of Independence. Kosovo War – In 1997, Serbia counterattacked with the military, police and paramilitary forces. In 1998-1999, the international community sent NATO troops to violence the Serbians to stop attacking Kosovo. In 2005, a UN-led process began to resolve Kosovo’s final status, but in 2007 finished without agreement among Belgrade and Pristina. Kosovo’s independence declared in 2008 in Kosovo assembly but still deliberately as its own Sovereign province of Kosovo and Metohija. Kosovo Genocide: It was a part of Kosovo conflict (1998 – 99). Like in the propaganda war, it plays the same role as cruise missiles and cluster bombs in the air war destroying enough of Serbia’s economy and killing 2,000 civilians. Also, the Albanians disputed national Serbs and the Yugoslavian government in Kosovo where as Serbs strategy was to do major tribal cleansing of Albanians but the NATO’s intervention ultimately resolved the conflict. Map and Language Kosovo is based in the Blakan Peninsula; adjoining by the Albanian and Macedonia to the south, the arbitrary territory of Serbia to the north and east, Montenegra to the west. Also, Adriatic sea is in the closet to the west. Albanian and Serbian are the official languages of the Kosovo. The majority of the population speaks Albanian where as minorities of people spoke Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian. English, German and other European languages are also spoken by an enormous number of people. Culture For centuries, Kosovo’s people with its principles and customary rules follow personal honour, the equality of persons, and the word of honour known as “besa” making a situation of holy trust. Traditional Clothing – Mostly there are 5-6 parts that make up the full bodied traditional dress of Kosovars and it resembles much of the Albanian clothing, if not all the same. Music may have appear to an era where it is actively westernized and mixed with many music genres but still traditional Albanian music is very beloved and favoured. Other music played are folk, Serb and Roma. Main instruments include – flutes, trumpets, bagpipes, horns and many more. Dance – Their famous traditional dance style is “Shota” which requires a big quick step and high tempo. Climate and Weather Generally, the climate in Kosovo is continental. In winters, there is cold, relatively dry and summers are warm and humid. But in mountain areas are particularly cooler averaging about 20° C with up to four months of annual snow cover. The best time to visit climate-wise is May and September. Travelling and Tourism It has been more popular for breach destination for the European travellers. Popular destinations are Pristina, Prizen and Pec. Main Attractions are architecture, religious heritage, unique traditions and natural features – considering mountains, lakes, rivers and farms with the beautiful landscape which makes more tempting to visit Kosovo. Some of the most visited cities like Pristina, Gjakova, Ulpiana and Novo Brda covers various attractions like Kosovo museum, Jashar Pasha Mosque, Historical monuments like – churches, bridges, museums, hospitality. Also, Peja city is manifested by various craftsmen’s shop such as goldsmiths, leather tanners, tailors, etc. Prize is a well- freeze town with Roman built castle and Ottoman quarter. Furthermore, you can hike, climb or ski during the winter. Thus, to visit Kos
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What is the Capital of Lesotho? - Capital-of.com Dates of religious and Civil holidays around the world. www.when-is.com Capital of Lesotho The Capital City of Lesotho (officially named Kingdom of Lesotho) is the city of Maseru. The population of Maseru in the year 2006 was 227,880. Lesotho, formerly known as Basutoland, is an English speaking country that does not border with any sea. Additional Information
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Soliloquy - Lyrics - Soundtrack Lyrics I wonder what he'll think of me I guess he'll call me the "old man" I guess he'll think i can lick Ev'ry other feller's father I bet that he'll turn out to be The spittin' image of his dad But he'll have more common sense Than his puddin-headed father ever had I'll teach him to wrestle And dive through a wave When we go in the mornin's for our swim His mother can teach him The way to behave But she won't make a sissy out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not bill! Bill... My boy bill I will see that he is named after me, i will. My boy, bill! He'll be tall And tough as a tree, will bill! Like a tree he'll grow With his head held high And his feet planted firm on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try To boss or toss him around! No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully I don't give a hang what he does As long as he does what he likes! He can sit on his tail Or work on a rail With a hammer, hammering spikes! He can ferry a boat on a river Or peddle a pack on his back Or work up and down The streets of a town With a whip and a horse and a hack. He can haul a scow along a can*l Run a cow around a corral Or maybe bark for a carousel Of course it takes talent to do that well. Aha-ha-ha-ha! He might be a champ of the heavyweights, Or a feller that sells you glue, Or president of the united states, That'd be all right, too His mother would like that But he wouldn't be president if he didn't wanna be! Not bill! My boy, bill! He'll be tall And as tough as a tree, will bill Like a tree he'll grow With his head held high And his feet planted firm on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try To boss him or toss him around! No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, As peaches and cream is she My little girl Is half again as bright As girls are meant to be! Dozens of boys pursue her Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her From her faithful dad Pink and white young fellers of two or three But my little girl Gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me! I-i got to get ready before she comes! I got to make certain that she Won't be dragged up in slums With a lot o' bums like me She's got to be sheltered And fed and dressed In the best that money can buyi never knew how to get money, But, i'll try, i'll try! I'll try! I'll go out and make it or steal it Or take it or die! [Thanks to Mike Barnes for lyrics]
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High Society - A sumptuous "feel-good" musical High Society (1956) Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra 'High Society' is a musical comedy film made in 1956, directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly. It is a musical adaptation of the classic 1940 movie, 'The Philadelphia Story', which in its turn, was adapted from the Broadway play 'The Philadelphia Story' by Philip Barry. 'High Society' received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Song, "True Love", and Best Music Score, and although it was compared unfavorably with its 1940 predecessor, it became one of the highest grossing films of 1956. Search Amazon for 'High Society' The movie is unusual for a musical in that there are no real dancing scenes, but there are some marvellous songs by Cole Porter, including "True Love", sung by Crosby and Grace Kelly, ""Well, Did you Evah" sung inimitably by Crosby and Sinatra, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" by Sinatra and Celeste Holm, and a wonderful duet between Crosby and Louis Armstrong, "Now You Has Jazz". Unlike her co-stars, Grace Kelly was not a singer and "True Love" was written to accommodate her narrow vocal range. The song lost its Oscar to Doris Day's "Que Sera Sera" which became a massive chart hit in 1956. Plot The plot is essentially the same as in the earlier film although the action now takes place in Newport, Rhode Island, rather than Philadelphia, which gives an excellent excuse for Louis Armstrong to appear at the Newport Jazz Festival. The action revolves around a society wedding between the beautiful Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) and the rich but dull George Kitteridge (John Lund). Tension builds with the arrival of Tracy's ex-husband, Dexter Haven (Bing Crosby) who still loves her and wants to win her back. Complications ensue when two journalists from 'Spy' Magazine, Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra) and Liz Imbrie (Celeste Holm) arrive to cover the story. Cast As with its 1940 predecessor the movie has an all star cast, but angled to the musical rather than pure acting. Either Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra on their own would virtually guarantee a film's success. Putting them together was a rare event and it made the film a surefire hit. Their duet, "Well, Did You Evah" is one of the highlights of the movie. They are both full of charm and charisma to their fingertips and they contrast and complement each other well. Crosby is as effortless as ever in his delivery, and Sinatra in particular is in fine acting and singing form. Grace Kelly, too, performs her role well in her last film before becoming Princess of Monaco. She is stunningly beautiful, and is brilliant when she drunkenly sings 'You're Sensational'. Celeste Holm performs the difficult role of "the other star" extremely capably, at least as well as Ruth Hussey in the original. Summary Of course its very easy to constantly compare 'High Society' unfavorably with its brilliant 1940 original. The cast of 'The Philadelphia Story' was incomparably good and at the top of their game. The whole point of 'High Society' is that it is a musical, not a dramatic comedy. And as a musical it excels. A wonderful cast, fantastic music and a good script. It does not get much better than this. Main Cast
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Project MUSE - The Uses of Setting in Anne of Green Gables The Uses of Setting in Anne of Green Gables Marilyn Solt Anne of Green Gables, the first book Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote about Anne Shirley, was published by the L. C. Page Company of Boston in 1908. The book has been continuously in print since that time, and more than a million copies have been sold. The red-haired, eleven-year-old orphan girl with the lively imagination that Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables Farm, Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, Canada, received from a mainland orphan asylum—even though they had sent specifically for a boy—is, according to John Robert Sorfleet, "probably Canada's best-known fictional export." How can we account for the fact that Anne of Green Gables is still read and loved, while most children's books of this vintage have been long out of print, and long ago vanished from library bookshelves? I won't conjecture why books that were popular contemporaries of Anne of Green Gables —the Pollyanna books by Eleanor H. Porter, for example—have not lasted, but I will suggest one reason that Anne of Green Gables has. And that reason is Montgomery's superb use of setting. I came to this conclusion after re-reading the book with Eudora Welty's essay "Place in Fiction" at hand. Welty says that excellence in writing is closely related to place: [When] we consider what good writing may be, place can be seen, in her own way, to have a great deal to do with that goodness, if not to be responsible for it (116). Having linked the goodness of a novel to place, Welty suggests what the setting must do: The good novel should be steadily alight, revealing. Before it can be that it must of course be steadily visible from its outside, presenting a continuous, shapely, pleasing and finished surface to the eyes (120). Although the components of setting in Anne of Green Gables, as in any fine novel, never exist isolated but always in conjunction with the other elements of fiction, removing them from the story lets us see that the world of the novel is "steadily visible from the outside." This world is a small turn-of-the-century Prince Edward Island community, very like the one in which Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up and was living at the time she wrote the book. The village of Avonlea occupies "a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with water on two sides of it (5). Mrs. Rachel Lynde lives "just where the Avonlea main road" dips "down into a little hollow" (1). Green Gables is "a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde's Hollow" (4) and back a long lane. To get to Diana Barry's home, Orchard Slope, one crosses the log bridge that spans the brook running right below Green Gables and goes up through a little spruce grove. The Avonlea church, school and post office are all within easy walking distance. The young people often walk to Carmody, a village a little larger than Avonlea, but their elders usually go there by horse and buggy. It's four miles to Newbridge and five miles to White Sands (take the shore road to get there) where the large hotel is located, to which "heaps of Americans" come in the summer. It's thirty miles into "town," which is Charlottetown, the provincial capital. A trip there once or twice a year is an event to be looked forward to eagerly. Given even this much information, the reader begins to form a picture in his mind. Concrete details about Green Gables and its environs make the picture, in Welty's words, more "shapely" and "pleasing." Green Gables is a "big rambling orchard-embowered house" (3) (there's an apple orchard on one side and a cherry orchard on the other) with a "very green and neat and precise backyard set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and on the other with prim Lombardies" (4). The large Green Gables kitchen has windows facing both east and west, and contains a sofa and a rocking chair, for most of the time it is used as a sitting room as well as a kitchen. Anne's little room in the east gable is described in detail; each piece of fu
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"Bob Sawyer" by J. Clayton Clarke Watercolour reproduced on John Player cigarette card no. 19 Character from Dickens's The Pickwick Papers Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. ] Of the set of 50 cigarette cards, initially produced in 1910 and reissued in 1923, fully 13 or over 25% concern a single novel, The Pickwick Papers, attesting to the enduring popularity of the picaresque comic novel and also suggesting that the later, darker novels such as Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood offered little for the caricaturist, the only late characters in the series being the singularly unpleasant Silas Wegg and Rogue Riderhood from Our Mutual Friend, and Turveydrop, Jo, Bucket, and Chadband from Bleak House. The popular taste was clearly still towards the earlier farce and character comedy of Dickens. Kyd's representations are largely based on the original illustrations by Phiz and Seymour , although the modelling of the figures is suggestive of Phiz's own, expanded series for Household Edition volume of the 1870s. The anomaly, of course, is that Kyd should elect to depict minor figures from the first Dickens novel such as the Dingley Dell cricketers Dumkins and Luffey and the minor antagonist Major Bagstock in Dombey and Son, but omit significant characters from such later, still-much-read novels as A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Five of the fifty or 10% of the series come from the cast of The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (1837-39): Oliver himself, asking for more; Fagin with his toasting fork, from the scene in which he prepares dinner for his crew; Sikes holding a beer-mug, and the Artful Dodger in an oversized adult topcoat and crushed top-hat. Surprisingly, some of the other significant characters, including Nancy and Rose Maylie, are not among the first set of fifty characters, in which Kyd exhibits a strong male bias, as he realizes only seven female characters: only the beloved Nell, the abrasive Sally Brass, and the quirky Marchioness from The Old Curiosity Shop, Sairey Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit, Aunt Betsey Trotwood from David Copperfield, the burly Mrs. McStinger from Dombey and Son, and the awkward Fanny Squeers from Nicholas Nickleby appear in the essentially comic cavalcade. Clearly the popular taste in "characters from Dickens" as well as in "novels from Dickens" has changed markedly over the past century, so that even educated readers would probably not associate the name "Bob Sawyer" with Dickens, and only those familiar with the original Phiz illustrations would connect the roistering young imbiber in the checked trousers with Dickens's medical student turned apothecary in Conviviality at Bob Sawyer's (chapter 38, Part 14; May 1837) and Mr. Bob Sawyer's Mode of Travelling (chapter 50, Part 18; October 1837) — the uproarious medical school dropout who provides so much comic relief after the trial of Bardell versus Pickwick.
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People From Rugby: Rupert Brooke, M. John Harrison, Rugby, Warwickshire, Chris Adams, Ben Croshaw, James Morrison, William Webb Ellis: Amazon.es: Books LLC: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Libros en idiomas extranjeros EUR 20,15 Precio final del producto Elige envÃos GRATIS más rápidos con Amazon Premium o elige envÃo GRATIS en 4-5 dÃas No disponible temporalmente. Puedes comprarlo ya y te lo enviaremos cuando esté en stock. Recibirás un e-mail con la fecha de entrega estimada en cuanto tengamos más información. El cobro a tu cuenta se realizará sólo cuando se envÃe el producto. Vendido y enviado por Amazon. Se puede envolver para regalo. Cantidad: Para ver las direcciones, por favor Iniciar sesión Usar esta ubicación: Actualizar Introduce un código postal válido. Introduce un código postal válido. O Añadir a la Lista de deseos ¿Tienes uno para vender? Volver atrás Ir adelante Escuchar Reproduciendo... Interrumpido Estás escuchando una muestra de la edición de audio Audible. Más información Ver esta imagen People From Rugby: Rupert Brooke, M. John Harrison, Rugby, Warwickshire, Chris Adams, Ben Croshaw, James Morrison, William Webb Ellis (Inglés) Tapa blanda – 15 sep 2010 Tapa blanda, 15 sep 2010 "Vuelva a intentarlo" Descripción del producto Reseña del editor Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 136. Not illustrated. Chapters: Rupert Brooke, M. John Harrison, Rugby, Warwickshire, Chris Adams, Ben Croshaw, James Morrison, William Webb Ellis, Norman Lockyer, Tim Barnett, Rose Macaulay, Peter Kember, Tim Pigott-Smith, Katharine Merry, Darren Altree, David Talbot Rice, Andrew Rawnsley, Peter Taylor, Danny Hall, Arthur Bostrom, Edward Cave, Robert George Spencer Hudson, Richard Bradshaw, Sam Bayley, Jason Pierce, Arnold Wolfendale, Lawrence Sheriff, Richard Montgomerie, Ingrid Roscoe, Fiona Reynolds, David Grace, Wayne Clarke, Steve Banks. Excerpt: Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, in the West Midlands of England, on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 (2001 census) making it the second largest town in the county. The enclosing Borough of Rugby has a population of 91,600 (2005 estimate). Rugby is 13 miles (21 km) east of Coventry, on the eastern edge of Warwickshire, near the borders with Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. The town is credited with being the birthplace of rugby football. Main article History of RugbyEarly Iron age settlement existed in the Rugby area, and a few miles outside what is now Rugby, existed a Roman settlement known as Tripontium. Rugby was originally a small Anglo-Saxon farming settlement, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Rocheberie. Rugby obtained a charter to hold a market in 1255, and soon developed into a small country market town. The name's likeliest origin is Anglo-Saxon Hrca burh or similar = "Rook fort", where Rook may be the birds or may be a man's name. Another theory is that the name is originally derived from an old Celtic name Droche-brig meaning "wild hilltop". The change to -by is because of Viking influence: there are other place names ending in -by in the area ('By' meaning town in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish even today). Rugby School wa... No es necesario ningún dispositivo Kindle. Descárgate una de las apps de Kindle gratuitas para comenzar a leer libros Kindle en tu smartphone, tablet u ordenador. Apple
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Florence Nightingale: War Correspondents War Correspondents in the Crimean SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL (1821-1907) William Russell was born at Lilyvale, near Tallaght, in the county of Dublin, on the 28th of March 1821, being one of the Russells of Limerick, whose settlement in Ireland dates from the time of Richard II. Raised by a Protestant father and Catholic mother in Ireland, Russell's family moved to Liverpool, England while he was still a child. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1838. Three years later a relative, Mr R. W. Russell , who had been sent to Ireland by the Times, deputed him to report the Irish elections at Lomgford, and his success turned William Russell's attention to journalism. Coming to London in 1842, Russell went to Cambridge, but left before taking a degree. In the following year he was sent by the Times to Ireland to report the O'Connell meetings, and became their special correspondent on Denmark in the war of 1849-50. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1851. The Crimean War was carried on chiefly in the Crimea, on the part of Turkey aided by Britain and France, in which Sardinia eventually joined them, against the encroachments of Russia in the east and which was proclaimed against Russia on March 24, 1854. Initially sent by John Delane, the editor of the Times, to Malta to cover English support for Russia in 1854, Russell despised the term "war correspondent" -- though his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown. He was described by one of the soldiers on the frontlines thus, "a vulgar low Irishman, who sings a good song, drinks anyone's brandy and water and smokes as many cigars as a Jolly Good Fellow. He is just the sort of chap to get information, particularly out of youngsters." This reputation however, led to Russell being blacklisted some circles, including British commander Lord Raglan, who advised his officers to refuse to speak with the reporter. On the outbreak of the war Russell went out as special correspondent, and, accompanying the light division to Gallipoli, proceeded with the first detachment to Varna. On the embarkation for the Crimea he was attached to the second division, and landed with it on the 14th of September. On September 20, 1854, Russell covered the battle above the Alma River - writing his missive the following day in an account book seized from a Russian corpse. The story, written in the form of a letter to Delane, was supportive of the British troops though paid particular note to the battlefield surgeons' "humane barbarity," and the lack of ambulance care for wounded troops. He later covered the Siege Of Sebastopol where he coined the contemporary phrase "thin red line" in referring to British troops, writing that "The Russians dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel..." Russell was also at Balaclava on the morning of 25th of October 1854 -- forever remembered as The Charge of the Light Brigade. The battle took place on the morning of October 25, 1854. The first news to reach the British public came in the Times on November 4, via a Foreign Office telegram, but would have remained just one military disaster among many, were it not for the vivid descriptive power of Russell's letter, dispatched on October 26. It took almost 20 days to reach London and was published in on November 14. It was this description of the battle that inspired Alfred Lord Tennyson to compose his �Charge of the Light Brigade,� published in a collection called Maud And Other Poems in 1855. Russell's reports of the plight of the soldiers and his criticism of the medical facilities undoubtedly contributed to Florence Nightingale's determination to help. However, it was a report of the conditions at the military hospital at Scutari by Russell's colleague, Thomas Chenery, that proved the catalyst. Chenery wrote from Constantinople on September 30, 1854, the report appearing in the paper on October 12. In direct response, Sir Robert Peel, son of the former Prime Minister, sent the editor of the Times a cheque for �200 to start a
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THE REFORMATION THE REFORMATION Europe's Search For Stability One of the greatest of all revolutions was the 16th-century religious revolt known as the Reformation. This stormy, often brutal, conflict separated the Christians of Western Europe into Protestants and Catholics. So far-reaching were the results of the separation that the Reformation has been called a turning point in history. It ushered in the Modern Age because, once the people's religious unity was destroyed, they began to think in terms of their own regional interests. From the diversity of those interests arose new political, social, and economic problems and beliefs. Background of the Revolt At the start of the 16th century Western Europe had only one religion, Roman Catholicism. The Catholic church was rich and powerful and had preserved Europe's classical culture. However, despite General Councils called to impose reforms, disputes and lax practices had grown up within the church. Churchmen criticized the administration of the church and began to doubt some of its teachings. For example, the church insisted that it alone had the authority to interpret the meaning of the Bible for the people. As early as the 14th century, however, John Wycliffe, an English priest and teacher at Oxford University, declared that people had the right to read the Bible and interpret it for themselves. Despite protests by the church, followers of Wycliffe translated the Bible from Latin into English in 1382 and carried copies throughout the countryside. Wycliffe's ideas spread into Bohemia, where Jan Hus widely preached them in powerful sermons. The work of Wycliffe and Hus greatly influenced a Saxon monk named Martin Luther. Luther Sparks Revolt in Germany Luther became the leader of the Reformation in Germany. For some years he had protested that some of the clergy were selling indulgences (temporal pardons of sins) without making clear that people must also be sincerely repentant for those sins. He especially attacked the monk Johann Tetzel for deceiving the people. In 1517 the angry Luther wrote a list of 95 theses against indulgences and nailed them to the door of the church in Wittenberg. Luther developed new ideas opposed to the church. He rejected the authority of the pope and--like Wycliffe and Hus before him--set up the Bible as the sole source of Christian truth. He denied that priests had any power that laymen did not have. He declared that the vows taken by monks and nuns were not binding and that monasteries should be abolished. He rejected the celibacy of the clergy. Of the seven sacraments Luther kept only two--baptism and the Lord's Supper (Eucharist). The Reformation Spreads When Pope Leo X condemned Luther's teachings in a bull, or papal decree, Luther subsequently burned the document and a copy of the church's canon law. Charles V, the Holy Roman emperor, ordered him to recant in 1521. Luther declared he would not do so until he was "convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures." Other scholars helped to spread the Reformation. Philipp Melanchthon, Luther's colleague at the University of Wittenberg, became the chief theologian of the Reformation in Germany. Johannes Reuchlin of Heidelberg enlarged the field of ideas by fostering the study of Hebrew and Greek. Knowledge of these ancient languages enabled people to read the Bible in its original forms. From Johannes Tauler of Strasbourg had come the mystic idea of "heart religion," which had led to Luther's doctrine of "justification by faith." Reformers in other lands were also zealous. Erasmus of Rotterdam, the great Dutch forerunner of Luther, spurred the study of the early church through his printed editions of the Greek New Testament and writings of the church fathers. Lefevre d'Etaples of France and Huldrych Zwingli of Switzerland held views similar to Luther's. In England John Colet worked for reform within the church. John Calvin made Geneva the world center of the Presbyterian and Reformed churches Other Reasons for the Reformation The Reformation was partly an outgrowth of the Renaissance. The un
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Artwork of Events in Jesus' Life Artwork of Events in Jesus' Life by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson See John the Baptist artwork and paintings Christ Walking on the Water Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water (1907), oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 42 in. (130.8 x 106.7 cm.), Des Moines Art Center Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902), The Adulteress (1873), Oil on canvas, 250 x 499 cm Nicodemus Henry Ossawa Tanner, Christ Appearing to Nicodemus (1899), oil on canvas, 33 11/16 x 39 1/2 in. Boyhood of Jesus John Rogers Herbert (1810-1890), Our Saviour Subject to His Parents at Nazareth (1847), Oil on canvas, 32 x 51 inches, Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Quite striking in color. Botticelli, Virgin and Child with an Angel (1475-1785). Art Institute of Chicago Albert Roberti, detail of Christ carrying the cross , Brussels, dated 1851. Museum of Ancient Art, Brussels. Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942), Bearing the Cross (1912), Oil on canvas, 143 x 143 cm Alexei Yegorov (1776-1851), The Scourging of the Saviour (1814), Oil on canvas, 260 x 207 cm Andrei Ivanov (1775-1848), The Baptism (1810-11), Oil on pressed cardboard, 50.5 x 109 cm Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Christ in the House of His Parents (1849-50) Jesus washing the disciples' feet (John 13) Ford Madox Brown (British Pre-Raphaelite painter, (1821-93), Jesus Washing Peter's Feet (1865), oil on canvas, Tate Gallery, London Good Samaritan Vincent van Gogh, "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" (1890, Der gute Samariter, nach Delacroix), �l auf Leinwand, 73 x 60 cm, Kr�ller-M�ller Museum, Otterlo. Good Samaritan at Wikipedia Commons Piet Esser, sculpture: "Barmhartige Samaritaan" (1976, Good Samaritan), placed at the Troosterlaan / Zwaardemakerlaan, Utrecht. James J. Tissot, The Good Samaritan (1884-1896), opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 25.4 x 13.2 cm, Brooklyn Museum Vasily Polenov (Russian painter, 1844-1927) Returned to Galilee in Strength of Spirit (1890s-1900s), Oil on canvas, 131 x 76 cm Jezus en de zondares Jesus and the Sinner Woman (1886-87), oil on canvas, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (John 8:4). Another . Larger Among the Teachers (1896), Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow Baptism (), Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow Healing the Blind Man , oil on copper plate Come Unto Me , with hands outstretched, begger, cripple at his feet. Consolator , similar to above, but with people taking comfort. Large Raising Lazarus , oil on copper plate Christ Healing at the Pool of Bethesda, The Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Rebellion . Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902) Christ at the Home of Martha and Mary (1886), Oil on canvas, 191 x 303 cm, Gemeente Museum den Haag The Adulteress (1873), Oil on canvas, 250 x 499 cm Harry Anderson (American Illustrator, 1906-1996). Seventh Day Adventist painter and illustrator. Several of his paintings are available from the LDS Distribution Services site. Paintings of the Life of Jesus Christ , LDS North Visitors' Center, Salt Lake City, Utah Prince of Peace. Jesus knocking on the UN building in New York City. Another . Prodigal Son looking at pig Love Welcomes the Prodigal , Reproduced in 'Christ's Object Lessons', Signs Publishing. Date unknown. Divine Counselor . Jesus conversing in an office with a businessman dressed ca. 1950. The Consultation . Jesus next to a physician at the bedside of a sick woman. What Happened to Your Hand? (little girl on Jesus' lap questions the scar in his hand) Go Ye Therefore (Matthew 28:19-20). Great Commission. Harold Copping (1863-1932, British Illustrator), produced The Copping Bible (1910), The Bible Story Book (1923), and My Bible Book (1931). Illustrations and paintings . the Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant The Parable of the Fig Tree The Parable of the Great Supper The Parable of the Draw-Net Pieter Breugel the Elder, Peasant Wedding Banquet (1568), Kunsthistorisches Museum at Vienna Fractio Panis Fresco ("the breaking of bread), Greek Chapel, Catacomb of St. Priscilla,
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Willo the Wisp - Childrens TV | Jedi's Paradise Willo the Wisp Willo the Wisp is a Children’s TV cartoon that began in the 80’s. The series was based on a short animated advert that Nick Spargo created for British Gas called Super Natural Gas. The voice of Willo was still Kenneth Williams, but none of the other characters existed. Nick thought that Willo could become the storyteller of the adventures of a number of characters in Doyley Wood. He set about creating these characters, but it took a number of years before the original Willo the Wisp cartoon came to our screens (1981) as he had to convince the BBC and raise the funds for the show. It became a hit and Mavis, the fat fairy became a household name. This was due to the storylines and strange characters, but it was helped by the fantastic voice talents of Kenneth Williams and the music of Tony Kinsey. 26 original episodes were made. Willo the Wisp has been off our screens for a number of years, but it has returned in a new second series. 'The This time the voice talents of James Dreyfuss have been used (who starred in Thin Blue Line' and the 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme'). The style of animation hasn't changed, but characters have changed its a slightly. Such as a slimmer Mavis and a Flat Screen Evil Edna, so thumbs up from us. Story Down at Doyley Wood there are a number of strange friends who live there (apart from Evil Edna). Watching them is an enigmatic observer called Willo the Wisp. Willo the Wisp Characters Willo the Wisp He is a spooky Dingly Dell who is made of Methane Gas (or Natural Gas). He observes the strange inhabitants of Doyley Wood and recount all their stories back to us all. He also looks very similar to a famous actor called Kenneth Williams, I wonder why? When he can, he likes to dance through the forest. Mavis Cruet She is the only fairy in the world that cannot fly. This is because she doesn't know how to fly (she thought her wings were for keeping off the rain!), but the main reason is because she is too heavy to fly! She became upset about this and Arthur thought he'd teach her how to fly, but it was no use, she had to diet. She did fly once the diet was over, but Evil Edna turned the tree she was flying near into a fairy cake tree. She gorged herself and her wings collapsed under the weight. That was the end of her flying career. She would love a handsome Prince to ride in and whisk her away, but it never happens. Falling in love, is another thing Mavis does quite often. Like all fairies, she has a magic wand, but it looks a little beaten up, maybe its because she is a bit untidy and it was squashed by a few of her things? But she has a reputation as a fairy whose magic nearly always goes wrong. Evil Edna does pick on her, once she turned her into a tree and another time she was listening to the sea in two sea shells and Edna stuck them to her head. She looked like a Viqueen (the female equivalent of a Viking). So convincing was she, that she was kidnapped by a group of Viking Trolls. Mavis even thought Edna was being kind when she said that she could make her thin, but as usual, there was a twist, as looking at her she still looked, ahem, rotund. But when she turned sideways she was pencil thin. She won the Beauty Queen of the Universe competition, when Evil Edna turned her into a frog. This was mainly to do with Edna turning the judges into frogs too and they thought Mavis was the most beautiful frog they had ever seen. Arthur He is a caterpillar that is trying to sound posh and be clever, but fails. But he makes up for things with his quick, dry wit, that most of the others don't understand, but it makes us giggle. Evil Edna turned him into a frog when he interrupted her counting sheep (she was trying to get to sleep). Also he has a habit of not believing a word that Mavis says to him and he thinks that she is quite mad. He can be quite brave (sometimes) and he even connected an electronic miracle (games machine), that he bought off a salesman, to Evil Edna while she was sleeping. Edna wasn't pleased when she fou
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The Golden Years: 1982 Deaths Music The big hits of 1982 came from The Jam with Town Called Malice, Dexy's Midnight Runners had Come On Eileen, Bucks Fizz with Land of Make Believe, Odyssey did Inside Out, and Adam and the Ants had Goody Two Shoes. German group, Kraftwerk got to #1 with The Model. Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder had Ebony and Ivory at #1, while Tight Fit revived The Tokens' 1961 hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Sting covered Spread A Little Happiness, while Japan covered the old Smokey Robinson and the Miracles classic, I Second That Emotion. 1982 was the year of the “New Romantics”. Posters of Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, ABC, Haircut 100, Flock Of Seagulls, and Wham, were on the bedroom walls of millions of young girls. Culture Club, led by Boy George, had their first hits, as did Yazoo, Tears For Fears, and Simple Minds. Elton John, Carly Simon, and Marvin Gaye were all back in the charts of 1982, while the Motown record label got a rare 80s number one with I've Never Been To Me by Charlene, that originally flopped when released in 1977. Irene Cara's Fame finally charted in the UK, having been a US hit in 1980. J Geils Band had Centerfold and Freeze Frame, Steve Miller finally got a UK top 10 hit with Abracadabra, as did fellow Americans John Cougar with Jack & Diane, and Survivor with Eye of the Tiger. Toni Basil scored with Mickey, Soft Cell had Torch, Human League had Mirror Man, and 14 years after his #1 with The Equals on Baby Come Back, Eddy Grant was back at #1 with I Don't Wanna Dance. Novelty hits of 1982 came from Renee & Renato with Save Your Love, Seven Tears by The Goombay Dance Band, Nicole—who won Eurovision—with A Little Peace, Trio with Da Da Da, Keith Harris & his duck Orville, Brown Sauce from TV's Swap Shop with I Wanna Be A Winner, and Brat who imitated tennis player John McEnroe's on court tantrums on Chalk Dust (The Umpire Strikes Back). Ex-lead singer of The Damned, Captain Sensible, was the surprise hit of 1982, as his version of Happy Talk hit #1. News Argentina invaded The Falkland Islands. British forces recaptured the islands in June, and Argentina surrendered. Michael Fagin broke into The Queen's bedroom for a chat. Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, was raised from the seabed off Portsmouth. Prince William was born. IRA bombs exploded in parks in London. 20,000 Women circled the American airbase at Greenham Common to protest against the new Cruise missiles. Laker Airways collapsed. The Belfast car firm, DeLorean, went bust. Erika Roe streaked at an England vs Australia match. Mark Thatcher went missing in the Sahara Desert for 3 days. Prince Andrew went on holiday with model Koo Stark. Snow caused chaos in the worst winter for 20 years. 78 were killed, when a Boeing 747 crashed in blizzard conditions in America. Unemployment hit 3 million for the first time since the 1930s. A state of emergency was declared in Nicaragua. Israel invaded the Lebanon. The Iran/Iraq war escalated as Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni called on the Iraqis to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein. Plain-clothed police fired on members of the banned Solidarity trade union in Poland. Leader of the union, Lech Wałęsa, was freed after a year in detention. Australians Lindy & Michael Chamberlain went on trial, after claiming their baby was killed by a dingo. Ozzy Osbourne was taken to hospital, after biting the head off a live bat thrown at him during a concert. Actress Sophia Loren was jailed in Italy for tax evasion. Elvis Presley's mansion, Graceland, was opened to the public. Pope John Paul II visited Britain. Paul Weller announced The Jam were splitting up. Michael Jackson released his album Thriller. New in 1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Blade Runner An Officer and a Gentleman Ghandi
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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Signed - AbeBooks Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Signed You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 43 1 ISBN 10: 0316874965 ISBN 13: 9780316874960 Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macdonald Purnell, 1994. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s)the book is signed on a plate that has been tipped on to the title page. the page comes from a soft cover that was signed with a lengthy inscription. the inscription by Mandela is dated 1996 which was during the period that Mandela served as state president of south africa. the inscription in mandela's distinctive hand reads ' to Daymon and Cullinan, Best wishes to a wonderful pair on your Birthday. may you have many more! N.Mandela 15.6.96'.the Jacket is shelf worn,a few tears. the back flap has been tape repaired.Internally clean.Excellent binding.presents very well in cellophane. signed. Bookseller Inventory # 84bb ISBN 10: 0316909653 ISBN 13: 9780316909655 Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Little, Brown and Company, London, 1994. Black Boards. Book Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition,14th Printing. 630 pp. "Aan Marius Kleynhans, Wens geluk. Mandela 24. 11 98" Inscribed on the title page. ISBN : 0316909653. Black, paper covered boards, with gilt titles to spine. Hard cover with dust-jacket. 630 pp. Maps to end-papers. Some illustrations in black and white. Ink name, (Marius Kleynhans) on the front free end-paper, above the map. Slight creasing to the foredge of pages 511/512. Light rubbing to the edges of the dust-jacket, especially around the base of the dust-jacket and the folds of the back panel. Small, closed tear (1 cm) to the top fold of the rear panel of the dust-jacket. Dust-jacket now preserved in an acid-free, protective sleeve. Marius Kleynhans worked as a political jounalist with the SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) until 1990. He spent much of this period in both Washington and London. In 1990 he was invited to join the Constitutional Development Service as communication advisor to the constitutional negotiations. He stayed with the CDS until after the first national elections. He first met President Nelson Mandela in April 1990. He advised him and others until 1995. The following is sourced from Wikipedia: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918 � 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was South Africa's first black President. Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Denounced as a communist terrorist by critics, he nevertheless gained international acclaim for his activism, having received more than 250 honours, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize (which he shared with F. W. de Klerk), the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Soviet Order of Lenin." "South Africa's first black President, who personifies the struggle for human rights and racial equality, recounts his life. It is an epic tale with a triumphant ending that would scarcely have been credible just a few years ago: from a traditional Tembu childhood, through political activism, the founding of the African National Congress, life imprisonment for treason and violent conspiracy, 27 years behind bars, to release in 1990 and the first multi-racial elections in 1994. Mandela is clear, eloquent and inspiring in this deeply moving testament to idealism, charity and hope." (Kirkus Review, UK) Size: Octavo. INSCRIBED. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 05817 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Audio Book CDs, UK, 2004. Book Condition: Excellent. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent. Signed. A genuine HAND SIGNED Nelson Mandela audiobook 5CD set of his autobiography LONG WALK TO FREEDOM. A superb signed edition of Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom memoirs. A superb SIGNED NELSON MANDELA edition from the former South African President Nelson M
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General Knowledge #5 - StudyBlue Good to have you back! If you've signed in to StudyBlue with Facebook in the past, please do that again. General Knowledge #5 What does the legal term �caveat emptor� mean? Let the buyer beware Which Russian author wrote the novel A Month in the Country? Ivan Turgenev What do the initials UNICEF stand for? United Nations International Children�s Emergency Fund. Who was the last king of Rome? Tarquin the Proud. Which opera was composed by Verdi for the opening of the Suez Canal? Aida Which important religious building contains the Kaaba? Great Mosque at Mecca Which French dramatist wrote Tartuffe and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme? Moli�re By what name was William Joyce known in World War II? Lord Haw-Haw A covey is the group name for what type of bird? Partridge Which English poet lived with his sister at Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District? Wordsworth What is the medical name for short-sightedness? Myopia What name is given to the magical beliefs and practices associated particularly with Haiti? Voodoo Which fortified palace on a rocky hill in Granada is an outstanding example of Moorish architecture? Alhambra Which female aviator established records with solo flights to Australia, Tokyo and the Cape of Good Hope in the 1930s? Amy Johnson, In which year did Hillary and Tenzing become the first mountaineers to reach the summit of Mount Everest? 1953 What is the English name for the movement in French cinema called �nouvelle vague�? New Wave Who was the first president of the French Fifth Republic? Charles De Gaulle From which country did Iceland win total independence in June 1944? Denmark Which North American aquatic rodent is also known as a musquash? Muskrat What was the name of the raft used by Thor Heyerdahl on his 1947 expedition? Kon-tiki, Who sailed around the world in the yacht Gipsy Moth IV? Sir Francis Chichester In which Middle Eastern country is the Roman city of Jerash? Jordan On which mountain in Ireland (also known as The Reek) did St Patrick fast for 40 days and nights in 441AD? Croagh Patrick On which island is the poet Rupert Brooke buried? Skyros In which US state is the Spurr Volcano? Alaska Who was the first British-born astronaut to walk in space? Dr Michael Foale Which is the world�s second largest desert? Australian Desert, Which flower has the Latin name Bellis perennis? Common daisy, The Ligurian Sea is an arm of which body of water? Mediterranean Sea Mossad is the secret service of which country? Israel In Greek mythology, who was the giant watchman with one hundred eyes? Argos Orly airport serves which city? Paris What �R� is the active form of vitamin A found in margarines, oily fish and dairy fats? Retinol Which South African surgeon performed the world�s first successful heart transplant? Dr Christiaan Barnard. In which 1981 film do Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep say farewell? The French Lieutenant�s Woman, Named after a town in north-east India, which high quality tea with a delicate taste is known as the �Champagne of teas�? Squid What is the name of the dish, originating from North Africa, that consists of steamed semolina? Couscous Which great circle may be terrestrial or celestial? The Equator, What meat-derived foodstuff did Kenneth Daigneau famously give a name to in 1937 Spam What name is given to members of the United Society of Believers in Christ�s Second Appearing? The Shakers Which Roman historian wrote a history of Rome in 142 volumes? Livy, Lake Taupo is the largest lake in which country? New Zealand Of which republic in the Caribbean is Port au Prince the capital? Haiti, Who succeeded James A Garfield as US president in 1881? Chester A Arthur, In which year was Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius? 79AD Which studio album by Queen first featured the song We Will Rock You? News of the World, Which is the second largest mountain system in North America? Appalachians, Which is the only seal that feeds on penguins? Leopard seal Which creature of Australia and New Guinea is also called a spiny anteater? Echidna Guernsey, Jersey and Sark are pa
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Sahara Park Newlands cricket stadium, Cape Town Sahara Park Newlands Sahara Park Newlands Sahara Park Newlands, better known as Newlands, is one of the most beautiful cricket grounds in the world. Situated in Cape Town’s scenic southern suburbs, with Table Mountain in the background, the ground can accommodate up to 25 000 people and has hosted many memorable matches over the years. Did you know? Former New Zealand captain, Stephen Fleming, has the highest individual Test score at Newlands, with 262 not out. Sahara Park Newlands cricket stadium traditionally hosts the first Test cricket match in South Africa every year, which starts on January 2. The only exception is when the South African national team is on tour abroad. As there are many holidaymakers in Cape Town during this time of year, attendance at this match is usually very high. The open design of the stadium adds greatly to the atmosphere, and allows a good view, regardless of where your seat is. The stadium also hosts all forms of cricket between October and May each year. The ground features two grass embankments, as well as two stands for public seating, in addition to designated stands for members and dignitaries. Oak trees around the ground, as well as prominent green roofs, create a feeling of serenity. In recent years, the pitch at Newlands has offered something for both batsmen and bowlers – not quite as bouncy as Kingsmead in Durban, but generally not quite as flat as the Wanderers in Johannesburg. As Cape Town gets the bulk of its rain in winter, cricket matches during the summer are generally not affected by weather. And because of the extra daylight hours Cape Town enjoys in summer, play can continue into in the early hours of the evening if need be. Newlands is the home ground of the Cape Cobras franchise, who play in the domestic four-day, limited over and Pro20 competitions. Some of the better-known cricketers to ply their trades here in recent years include Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Graeme Smith and Gary Kirsten. The first Test match at Newlands was between South Africa and England, played during March in 1889. England thumped the hosts by an innings and 202 runs on that day, but South Africa’s track record in Cape Town has improved a lot since then. Travel
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Adelaide Oval, South Australia – Australia’s Stadiums - Tourism Australia Today's Weather in Adelaide Adelaide Oval has been called one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in the world. The Adelaide Oval is located between Adelaide and North Adelaide, less than one and a quarter miles (two kilometres) from the city centre. The ground is mostly used for cricket and Australian Rules Football , but also hosts Rugby League, Rugby League and Soccer, as well as larger performances and concerts. Around 16 sports have been played at one time or another at Adelaide Oval, including archery, athletics, baseball, cycling, gridiron, highland games, hockey, lacrosse, tennis, and quoits. It was the venue for two matches of the historic 2003 Rugby World Cup. Adelaide Oval's rich history dates back to 1871, when the South Australian Cricket Association was formed. The first Test Cricket match was played at the oval in 1884 between Australia and England. Adelaide Oval has been called one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in the world, with the northern view featuring St Peter's Cathedral rising behind an elegant Edwardian scoreboard and giant Moreton Bay fig trees which were planted in the 1890s. The grassed mounds at each end, called ‘The Hills', were created in 1898 from earth carted from the banks of the Torrens River. The maximum crowd at a cricket game at Adelaide Oval was 50,962, during the Bodyline Test in 1932. It was during this game that Sir Donald Bradman scored the highest score ever in Test Cricket at the ground. Today, the Adelaide Oval hosts some of the most exciting events on the cricketing calendar, including the annual Australia Day One Day International on 26 January; and every four years, one of the five Ashes test matches against England, usually held in early December. The largest crowd ever was recorded at the 1965 SANFL Grand Final between the Port Adelaide and Sturt Football Clubs, when more than 62,000 fans packed the stadium to cheer on their teams. Adelaide Oval has also hosted major concerts during its time, with some of the most famous acts including KISS; Madonna; Paul McCartney; the late Michael Jackson; Billy Joel and Elton John. In 1978, the ground hosted the first concert by David Bowie in the Southern Hemisphere. It was also the first large scale outdoor concert he had ever played. A large-scale redevelopment of Adelaide Oval commenced in 2011, which will increase the stadium's capacity to 53,500. The atmosphere inside the new stadium will be something to savour. With a high quality audio system and three giant replay screens around the ground, fans won't miss any of the action. A new international standard indoor cricket centre will also be located within the complex. As well as the South Australian Redbacks and Adelaide Strikers cricket teams; it will become the home of both the Adelaide and Port Adelaide AFL clubs from 2014. Tours of Adelaide Oval are scheduled to recommence from November 2013. Centrally located on War Memorial Drive and nestled in the northern city parklands of Pennington Gardens and Creswell Gardens, the Adelaide Oval is within walking distance of the Adelaide city centre . It is also fully serviced by all modes of public transport. Change your country and language Change your country
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What is the traditional form of address when first meeting the Queen?
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3 Ways to Address a Queen - wikiHow Addressing Queen Elizabeth II in a Letter 1 Decide whether to use traditional forms. According to the Royal Family's official policy, you should be free to write in whatever style you like. [2] Politeness and respect will make any letter more kindly received, but that does not necessarily equate to using formal terms. Stay sincere, and do not use the formal terms below if they make you uncomfortable. 2 Begin the letter with "Madam." At the top of your letter, write "Madam," skip a line, and start writing your letter on the line below it. This is the formal and traditional term of address when writing a letter to the Queen of the United Kingdom. 3 Conclude the letter with a respectful term. The traditional written conclusion is I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty's most humble and obedient servant, followed by your name. [3] If you find this conclusion distasteful due to the declaration of servitude, or the insertion of the letter u in honour, consider one of the following respectful conclusions instead: With greatest respect, Addressing Queen Elizabeth II in Person 1 Make a small curtsy, bow, or nod. Traditionally, women do a discreet curtsy and men bow from the neck when they meet the Queen of the United Kingdom. [4] This is no longer required, but citizens of the Commonwealth usually choose to use this greeting. People who are not subjects of the Queen often prefer to use a slight nod instead. [5] Do not bow from the waist. 2 Politely shake the Queen's hand if offered. The Queen may or may not offer her hand, although there is no special significance to one decision or the other. If she does offer her hand, take it in a brief, gentle handshake. Do not offer your hand first. 3 Wait for Her Majesty to address you. A good general rule, in fact, is not to initiate an action or conversation until the Queen has addressed you directly. Needless to say, wait until the Queen finishes speaking before you reply. 4 Address her as "Your Majesty" the first time in the conversation. If you are stuck for words, say "Hello, Your Majesty. I am delighted to meet you." Any polite greeting is acceptable, however. 5 Address her as "Ma'am" for the rest of the conversation. For the rest of the conversation, say, "Ma'am," pronounced to rhyme with "jam." You may use the term "Your Majesty" again if you are asking her a question or introducing someone, but "Ma'am" will do most of the time. [6] 6 Don't ask personal questions. Most likely, the Queen will be guiding the conversation. But if you contribute your own small talk, avoid asking her about her family or personal life. [7] 7 Don't turn your back on the Queen until the conversation is over. Remain facing her or standing to the side throughout the conversation. Turn away or leave only when the conversation is over. [8] And of course, don't forget to give her a proper good-bye and thank Her Majesty for the unexpected opportunity. Method Addressing Queens of Other Nations 1 Try to find the specific form of address. Monarchies often have specific terms of address borne of their countries' traditions. Search online or in etiquette books for the terms of address for the specific monarchy. 2 When in doubt, use "Your Majesty." The term "Your Majesty" is common and unlikely to cause offense. This term is the proper way to address most queens, from Queen Pengiran Anak Saleha of Brunei, to Queen Mathilde of Belgium. Use "Her Majesty" instead of "her" when writing or speaking about these queens in the third person. 3 Address Empresses as "Her Imperial Majesty." If a monarch's title includes "Empress," or if the nation she heads traditionally considers itself an empire, she should be addressed as "Her Imperial Majesty." Community Q&A
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Investiture Investiture The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince Harry Residences Investiture The investiture of The Prince of Wales, during which the 20-year-old Prince received the insignia as the 21st Prince of Wales from The Queen, took place on 1st July 1969, at Caernarfon Castle in front of 4,000 guests inside the medieval walls. Thousands more were in the dry moat and outside the castle, and millions around the world watched on television. The Queen had created her eldest son Prince of Wales when he was nine years old. The Queen later let it be known that the Investiture would be held when The Prince was old enough to understand fully its significance. In a ceremony with many historic echoes, directed largely by the Constable of the Castle, Lord Snowdon, The Queen invested The Prince with the Insignia of his Principality and Earldom of Chester: a sword, coronet, mantle, gold ring and gold rod. The Prince's formal response was: "I, Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship and faith and truth I will bear unto you to live and die against all manner of folks." A loyal address from the people of Wales was read in Welsh and English by Sir Ben Bowen Thomas, President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where The Prince had studied Welsh language and history in the months before the ceremony. In his address the President said the Principality looked forward to a period when The Prince would associate himself personally with its tradition and language, its aspirations and problems. "In this confidence and hope we greet him and declare our loyalty." The Prince of Wales replied in Welsh and English. In the Welsh part of his speech, he said it was his firm intention to associate himself with as much of the life of the Principality as possible. He said: "It is with a certain sense of pride and emotion that I have received these symbols of office, here in this magnificent fortress, where no one could fail to be stirred by its atmosphere of time-worn grandeur, nor where I myself could be unaware of the long history of Wales and its determination to remain individual and to guard its own particular heritage - a heritage that dates back into the mists of ancient British history, that has produced many brave men, princes, poets, bards, scholars, and, more recently, great singers, a very memorable 'Goon', and eminent film stars. All these people have been inspired in some way by this heritage." In English, The Prince spoke of his determination to try to live up to the changing demands on a Prince of Wales, adding: "One thing I am clear about, and it is that Wales needs to look forward without forsaking the traditions and essential aspects of her past. The past can be just as much a stimulus to the future as anything else." After a short religious service in both languages, The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh, led The Prince to Queen Eleanor's Gate, looking out over Caernarfon's Castle Square, and presented him to the crowds below. Other members of the Royal Family at the ceremony were Princess Anne (now The Princess Royal), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, The Duchess of Gloucester, Prince Richard of Gloucester, The Duke and Duchess of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Princess Alexandra and the Hon Angus Ogilvy, and Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
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Boris Godunov (opera) - YouTube Boris Godunov (opera) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Dec 3, 2014 Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar (1598 to 1605) during the Time of Troubles, and his nemesis, the False Dmitriy (reigned 1605 to 1606). The Russian-language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the drama Boris Godunov by Aleksandr Pushkin, and, in the Revised Version of 1872, on Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State. Boris Godunov, among major operas, shares with Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos (1867) the distinction of having the most complex creative history and the greatest wealth of alternative material. The composer created two versions—the Original Version of 1869, which was rejected for production by the Imperial Theatres, and the Revised Version of 1872, which received its first performance in 1874 in Saint Petersburg. These versions constitute two distinct ideological conceptions, not two variations of a single plan. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video Category
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Modest Mussorgsky and Boris Godunov Modeste Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) was a member of a so-called ‘New Russian School’ (also known as The Mighty Kuchka and The Five) comprising the composers Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui and Balakirev. These composers were a loosely formed coalition against the more heavily Western-influenced, cosmopolitan Anton Rubenstein whose work in music dominated Russia during the mid-nineteenth century. Rubenstein believed that music, in its purest form, was a “German art”, and his operatic works were particularly popular in German speaking countries (they were enthusiastically promoted by no less a personage than Franz Liszt in Weimar, who was also simultaneously promoting Wagner’s ‘music of the future’). The Five, on the other hand, were nationalists and looked to their musical and literary Russian roots for inspiration. For these five men music began as an avocation, even as a hobby; they were, in essence, amateurs. For cultured Russians from the middle or aristocratic classes the study of music was a mandatory part of their education. But few were encouraged to actually be musicians or composers. Mussorgsky for his part was destined for a life in the military. Borodin was a distinguished chemist, Cui an engineer in the army who eventually attained the rank of general. But their passion was music, particularly the composition of works that truly reflected the culture, history, spirit and musical traditions of Russia. Mussorgsky had the typical musical education of his peers, excelling at the piano and writing short pieces. He met Borodin and Dargomïzhsky in the mid 1850s, who in turn introduced him to Cui and Balakirev. He studied composition with Balakirev and was so enthusiastic about his prospective future as a composer that he rashly resigned his military commission (he was by this time an officer in the Tsar’s personal guard). He later found it necessary to take a low level position as a government clerk, all the while attempting to make his name as a composer. An early operatic project, a setting of Victor Hugo’s Han d’Islande, never came to fruition. He next attempted a grand opera based on Flaubert’s Salammbô. It remained unfinished, however, although much of the material from this project eventually found its way into Boris. He also attempted a comic opera based on Gogol’s Zhenit’ba (Marriage), a work that inspired him to write music that closely conformed to the rhythm and color of the Russian language, wanting his characters to sing with the identical intonations of common speech. All of this activity took place in the mid-1860s and, as in the case of all of the composers in the ‘Kuchka’, compositions were presented to the group for comment, criticism and encouragement. By 1868 he was well into the composition of Boris. Mussorgsky’s greatest desire was to write a work that would define a new national opera, music drama that could easily and truthfully proclaim its ‘Russianness’. At the suggestion of an acquaintance he looked to Pushkin’s ‘Shakespearean experiment’, the verse-play Boris Godunov. [Tracing the various versions of the opera Boris Godunov is a daunting and confusing chore. Because San Diego Opera is performing Mussorgsky’s first version of the work from 1869, this article will focus on it alone. But more detailed information on the other versions, including the composer’s own 1872 revision as well as re-orchestrations by Rimsky-Korsakov and other composers, can be easily found in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.] In writing Boris, Mussorgsky pulled music (and a great deal of experience) from his earlier works, as well as tunes from the Russian ‘folk’ repertoire. When it was completed at the end of 1869 he gave the score to a committee of the Imperial Theatres in hopes of a production, but he was disappointed when, in 1871, they ultimately rejected the work. The reason for its dismissal was that the work lacked a principal female role but in revising it the composer went further than simply adding love interest: he completely re-thought whole swaths of the d
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Perseids Meteor Shower 2015: How And Where To Watch | The Huffington Post Perseids Meteor Shower 2015: How And Where To Watch 10/08/2015 15:51 | Updated 12 August 2015 390 Thomas Tamblyn Technology Editor, The Huffington Post UK The Perseids meteor shower takes place every year between late July and early August. As one of the brightest in the calendar it's easily your best chance of catching a shooting star. The Perseids is one of the brightest meteor showers seen throughout the year. This year however is set to be an extra special occasion as the Moon's position means the show will be even easier to see than before offering up a rare glimpse for everyone to see their first meteor shower. The latest reports from the Met Office suggest that cloud cover could reduce the hope of seeing it for millions in the south of the country with those living in the Midland and the North most likely to catch a glimpse of the event. If you don't get a chance to see it though don't panic, NASA will be giving intrepid star gazers in the UK a second chance by holding their own meteor shower lifestream which will take place on Thursday 12 August. SEE ALSO: Moon Explosion: Massive Meteor Crashes Into The Moon As Nasa Watches When Can I Watch The Perseids? The Perseids will hit its peak starting the evening of Wednesday 12 August and will finish on Friday 14 August. There will reportedly be a burst of activity at around 7.40PM BST however as we're in the peak of Summer it's unlikely that it'll be dark enough for us to see this. Don't panic though, Professor Bailey goes on to say, "it is just possible that enhanced rates may persist for a few hours around this time and so be observable soon after dark." Where Can I Watch The Perseids? People living in the Midlands and the North will have the best view of the annual Perseid meteor shower which peaks this week, according to the latest predictions by the Met Office. Cloud cover across southern England and Scotland throughout the week means lucky star-gazers in the northern countryside are expected to have the best views of the shower. Providing your garden isn't in the centre of any major towns or cities, otherwise, while you might see some, the full show will sadly lose the majority of its impact. There is good news however. The reason this year is particularly special is the Moon. While normally acting like a giant light bulb that sucks the joy out of everything the Moon is actually at its darkest phase. Robin Scagell, vice-president of the Society for Popular Astronomy advises: "Its best to watch them from the countryside but even in town, these meteors are bright enough for a few to be visible." "The moon is out of the way which makes a lot of difference because the sky will be much darker all night. For every bright shooting star you see, there are always fainter ones, and this will make it easier to see the fainter meteors and ring up the numbers." Perseids Meteor Shower 2015 Livestream If you completely miss the show tonight then NASA has come to the rescue. It'll be live streaming its own view of the Perseids in the US from 03.00AM BST on Friday onwards along with expert analysis and hopefully some stunning views of the meteor shower from its headquarters in Houston, Texas. So what makes the Perseids so special? Well you can thank the comet Swift-Tuttle which very conveniently swings by our solar system around once every 130 years or so. Swift-Tuttle has a 'nucleus' of around 26km in diameter. For every 11 orbits of Jupiter, the As NASA describes it : "If you see one meteor shower this year, make it August's Perseids or December's Geminids. The Perseids feature fast and bright meteors that frequently leave trains, and in 2015 there will be no moonlight to upstage the shower." A meteor shower is most commonly caused by hundreds of comet fragments entering the Earth's atmosphere. As these large bodies of ice pass through the solar system the Sun's rays heat the comet causing large fragments to break off. This rather handily has the side-effect of not only causing massive meteor showers but
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Photographer Walter Iooss who also shoots swimsuit models among others is known for his contributions to which magazine?
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gscott2012 | The United Nations of Photography The United Nations of Photography Where the informed, passionate and inquisitive meet. Where the new landscape of photography and filmmaking is discussed, questioned and debated. Where conversations inspire, inform and entertain Search ⋅ 6 Comments A long time friend and photographer Gavin Evans, had the good fortune to be commissioned to photograph David Bowie in London back in 1995. The shoot lasted just forty minutes but produced a powerful, graphic and insightful set of studio based images – you can see the images here http://gavinevans.com/david-bowie – that have sat on Gavin’s website and in … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment I recently wrote an article for World Press Photo exploring the issues many photographers have in creating a visual narrative with their work. In short the difficulty of finding, defining and telling a story with photographs. It seems to have hit a nerve and sparked the interest of many photographers receiving over 32 thousand views … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment The artist David Hockney recently recalled a conversation he had with Henri Cartier- Bresson to the art critic and author Martin Gayford*. Hockney said this “We first met at my drawing show in Paris in 1975. He immediately wanted to talk about drawing, as he did whenever we met after that, and I always wanted to talk about photography. … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment I have long believed that the most important quality that a portrait photographer requires is an interest in people. A desire to talk but most importantly to listen. To feel confident enough in technical ability to not allow it to dominate the creative process. In short to demonstrate empathy, to document a person as they truly … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment Hôtel de l’Industrie in Saint-Germain-des-Près is a particularly civilised setting in which to tell a particularly grim story. This autumn the Hôtel hosted Narciso Contreras’ Libya, A Human Marketplace, winner of the 2016 Carmignac Photojournalism Award. It is a powerful and deeply disturbing set of images, about a horrific – and ongoing – situation. Having seen the exhibition … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment For those of us not already acquainted with the work of Louis Faurer, the centenary of his birth is high time to get to know this “quiet” great of American photography. In the 1950s and 60s Faurer was a successful fashion photographer, working in New York for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Glamour, and as staff photographer for the visionary … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment Tucked away down a quiet alley, a few paces from the Pathé multiplex, Castorama DIY superstore, and permanently snarled traffic of Place de Clichy, Le Bal is one of those places you’re unlikely to stumble across by accident. To those in the know, however, Le Bal is an oasis of civilised calm – a bijou … Continue reading → ⋅ 2 Comments Carla Sozzani began collecting photography in the early 70s, two decades before Paris Photo was a twinkle in anybody’s eye. Sozzani didn’t think of photography as an investment, simply as a way of keeping “souvenirs” of her work and friends – which makes a lot of sense if your friends include Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment Interviewed this week about new developments at Paris Photo 2016, Howard Greenberg, one of New York’s most venerable photography dealers, said: “The only real problem with these works is their size. Some of my collectors have run out of wall space.” First world problems, huh? Given that this year’s photo fair opened the day after Trump … Continue reading → ⋅ Leave a comment We are excited to announce that you will now be able to read exclusive articles by UNP founder, curator and writer Grant Scott within the Witness publication created by the World Press Photo Foundation on Medium https://medium.com. You can follow Witness at https://medium.com/witness You can also follow the UNP on Medium at https://medium.com/@UNofPhoto ⋅ 2 Comments A recent conversation wit
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CityPages March 2016 by CityPages Kuwait - issuu issuu ISSUE No. 75 MARCH 2016 issuu.com/citypageskuwait Scan this QR code with your smart phone /tablet and enjoy reading CityPages. To read it on your computer, simply visit the web link above. FATMA ALQADEERI The Marketing and PR Specialist who believes the sky is her limit. pinterest.com/citypagesmag Scan this QR code with your smart phone /tablet and enjoy reading and sharing slective pages from this issue of CityPages. To read it on your computer, simply visit the web link above. LIFESTYLE / PEOPLE / EVENTS / FASHION Spring/Summer 2016 We're back new and fresh! ISSUE 75, VOLUME 6, MARCH 2016 62. 95. Top Music Charts 102. March Movie Releases SPECIAL SEGMENT 128. Citypages Fashion Report 130. Fashion News FEATURES 90. Page: 106 18. Remembering Dame Violet Dickson 20. Essential Tips Every Mom Needs For Work-Life Balance 22. Make The Most Of Your Space! 24. Newton's Laws Of Motion;The Rudimentary Man 29. وباألم إحسانا 34. No More First-Times? 36. Galaxy - Star Quality 38. Things No One Told Me About Being A Mum 40. The Poetry Of Mother Earth 44. Wise Words From The Revenant 47. ماذا يتعلم املدراء التنفيذيون من رياضيي األوملبيات؟ 48. Switching Priorities 54. Goodbye To All That 57. Starfish Notes 76. Organic Vegetables And Free-Range Children Surround yourself with elegance & style! The Mercedes-Benz Lifestyles Collection says it all in its name. It has so many things that are useful in everyday life! Whether for work or for leisure. A fine leather wallet, a high-quality watch or a stylish pair of sunglasses – you're sure to find something that encapsulates your lifestyle. And, of course, the perfect gifts for your loved ones too. Discover the range of premium-quality products at Mercedes-Benz Boutique and accessory shop at our Shuwaikh location. For more details Call: 1-833-111 Extn.: 228 A. R. Albisher & Z. Alkazemi Co., Jahra Road (Highway 80), Shuwaikh Industrial Area MercedesBenzKWT ISSUE 75, VOLUME 6, MARCH 2016 FITNESS 70. How Food Influences Your Hormones FOOD 66. Man Vs Food 68. Taste Of Dubai 74. Yummy For Their Little Tummy HEALTH 73. 7 Myths About Women’s Health Over 40 88. Why The Twitch? INTERVIEW 50. Dr Haitham Al-Kayat 62. Dr. Abdulrazzaq A. Al-Obaid 78. Good France/Goûtdefrance 90. Leandro And Iman Metwally 96. Fatma Alqadeeri 78. 124. Cool New Gadgets 126. Tech Updates & News TRAVEL 60. Top Five ‘Musts’ For Houston 44. REGULARS 31. Art Wonderland By Afrah 58. The City Guide 94. In Permanent Pursuit Of Perfection 104. March Book Releases 105. Book Club 136. Events 141. From The Press 144. Homework For Grown Ups 146. Horoscopes 90. MAGAZINE From the Editor Dear Readers, In recognition of International Women’s Day on 8th March, this issue of CityPages is dedicated to women. In particular, the eight very special Women of Substance who are featured on our pages and who share their inspiring stories with us. Of course, March is also the month when many countries across the globe celebrate Mother’s Day. The United Kingdom honored motherhood on Sunday 6th March while Kuwait will pay tribute to the miracle of birth on 21st March. With so many different ways to spoil the mothers in your family, no doubt it will be a special day wherever and however you celebrate. Dhari Al-Muhareb One lady who is sure to be celebrating is our cover star, Fatma Alqadeeri. The PR and Marketing Specialist divides her time between her freelance career and her family, juggling the demands of each with capable determination. Read her candid interview including tips for new moms and women starting out in their career. Jameel Arif We have taken this opportunity to pay tribute to Dame Violet Dickson. Umm Kuwait (Mother of Kuwait) as she was known by many, lived in Kuwait for most of her adult life and played a significant role in its history. What better time to remember this very special lady than the month when respect, love and appreciation of women is embraced? Editor-in-Chief General Manager & Editor Eng. Homoud Al-Muhareb As always, it was great to see so many na
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FA Cup by numbers - Telegraph FA Cup by numbers By Christopher Lyles 12:01AM GMT 05 Jan 2008 0 The official attendance for two third-round replays that were played behind closed doors. The first was between Norwich City and Bradford City at Lincoln City's Sincil Bank ground in March 1915. Supporters were banned so as not to disrupt production at a nearby armaments factory. The second was between Leicester City and non-League Burton Albion at Coventry City's Highfield Road in 1985 when fans were banned because a missile had been thrown at the Burton goalkeeper in the first game. Football fans' forum 1 The number of clubs who have won the FA Cup at Wembley in the current millennium. Chelsea have done so twice, beating Aston Villa in 2000 and Manchester United last year. 1 Occasion that the FA Cup has been won by a non-League club, in 1901 when Southern League Tottenham Hotspur beat First Division Sheffield United in a replay at Bolton. 1 The number of non-English clubs who have won the FA Cup. Cardiff City became the first and only club to do so when they beat Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley in 1927. 1 Scottish club who have played in an FA Cup final. Queen's Park were runners-up in 1884 and 1885. 2 Clubs who have won the FA Cup in three successive years. Wanderers did so in 1876, 1877 and 1878 before Blackburn Rovers repeated the feat in 1884, 1885 and 1886. 3 Successive years (between 1956 and 1958) in which Leeds United were drawn at home to Cardiff City in the third round. Cardiff won all three matches 2-1. 3 Weeks between Wanderers winning the first FA Cup final in 1872 and being presented with the trophy at their annual dinner. 4 Times in seven seasons (including the current one) that Aston Villa and Manchester United have been drawn together in the third round. 4 FA Cup finals that have finished goalless. The last final without a goal was the 2005 contest between Arsenal and Manchester United, which Arsenal won 5-4 on penalties. The three previous goalless draws were in 1886, 1911 and 1912. 4 Players who have represented three different clubs in an FA Cup final. They are Harold Halse (Manchester United, Aston Villa and Chelsea), Ernie Taylor (Newcastle United, Blackpool and Manchester United), John Barnes (Watford, Liverpool and Newcastle United) and Dennis Wise (Wimbledon, Chelsea and Millwall). 5 FA Cup final winning teams that have been managed by Sir Alex Ferguson, more than any other manager. 5 Occasions that Tottenham Hotspur have won the FA Cup when the year has ended in a "1". Spurs lifted the trophy in 1901, 1921, 1961, 1981 and 1991 (with their three other winning finals coming in 1962, 1967 and 1982). 5 FA Cup final goals scored by Ian Rush, more than any other player. 6 Games that it took for Alvechurch to beat Oxford City in the fourth qualifying round in 1971, the scores being 2-2, 1-1, 1-1, 0-0, 0-0 and (finally) 1-0. The FA Cup's longest ever tie lasted for an aggregate of 11 hours. 6 The number worn by Manchester United's Kevin Moran when he became the first player to be sent off in a Cup final, against Everton in 1985. 7 Years that Portsmouth were the FA Cup holders between 1939 and 1946, because of the Second World War. 8 Times that the FA Cup has been won by a club playing outside the top flight of English football. The last time was in 1980 when West Ham United beat Arsenal thanks to Trevor Brooking's rare headed goal. 9 Finals in which the Hon Arthur Kinnaird, who would later become president of the FA, played, a feat that remains unsurpassed. Kinnaird won three times with Wanderers, scoring in the 1873 and 1878 finals, and twice with Old Etonians. 9 Goals that Ted MacDougall scored when Bournemouth beat Margate 11-0 in a first-round match in 1971. MacDougall's feat is still an individual goalscoring record for the competition proper. 10 Times that the FA Cup has been successfully defended - three times each by Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers, twice by Tottenham Hotspur and once each by Newcastle United and Arsenal. 11 Times that Manchester United have won the FA Cup, more than any other club. United hav
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KryssTal : Football (FA Cup) FA Cup founded as knockout tournament for amateur clubs 1883 First FA Cup win by professional club (Blackburn Olympic) 1884 First club from outside England to reach the final (Queen's Park) 1889 League began - First FA Cup / League double (Preston North End) 1897 Second FA Cup / League double (Aston Villa) 1901 Only FA Cup win by non-league club since League began (Tottenham Hotspur) 1923 FA Cup final moved to Wembley 1927 Only FA Cup win by a club from outside England (Cardiff City) 1946 Two-legged ties for one season after the end of World War 2 1961 Third FA Cup / League double (Tottenham Hotspur) 1971 Fourth FA Cup / League double (Arsenal) 1986 Fifth FA Cup / League double (Liverpool) 1993 First FA Cup / League Cup double (Arsenal) 1994 Sixth FA Cup / League double (Manchester United) 1996 7th FA Cup / League double (Manchester United) 1998 8th FA Cup / League double (Arsenal) 1999 Unique FA Cup / League / European Cup treble (Manchester United) 2001 FA Cup final moved to Cardiff while Wembley rebuilt Unique treble of FA Cup / League Cup / UEFA Cup (and Second FA Cup / League Cup double) (Liverpool) 2002 10th FA Cup / League double (Arsenal) 2005 First FA Cup final decided on penalties (Arsenal) 2006 Second consecutive FA Cup final decided on penalties (Liverpool) 2007 FA Cup final returned to Wembley The third FA Cup / League Cup double (Chelsea)
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Religious Counterfeits -Spiritual insights into the dangers of the New Age and the New World Order. Email the Author The Freemasonry Organization refers to God as " Great Architect Of The Universe " or the G.A.O.T.U. This particular idea about God has been around long before the Freemasons formally chose to call him that. But the question is: What exactly does it mean when the call God " The Great Architect "? We need then to read some of their Masonic literature to find out!consectetuer. THE UNIVERSAL GOD OF MASONRY In Masonry, the "Great Architect Of The Universe ", who is the Masonic God has some of the attributes of the God of the Bible, such as infinity, eternity, and omnipotence. However, the Masonic God does not have any qualities such as mercy, love, and benevolence. "Coils Masonic Encyclopedia", Henry Coils, page 516, 517 says: "Men have decided whether they want a God like the ancient Hebrew Yahweh, a partisan tribal God, with whom they can talk and argue and from whom they can hide if necessary, or a boundless, eternal, universal undenominational, and international, divine spirit, so vastly removed from the speck called man, that he cannot be known, named, or approached. So soon as man begins to laud his God and endow him with the most perfect human attributes such as justice, mercy, beneficence, etc., the Divine Essence is depreciated and despoiled. The Masonic test (for admission) is a Supreme Being, and any qualification added is an innovation and distortion." Here the Biblical God is being rejected as an inferior concept of God, while the universal God of Masonry is extolled. Masonry teaches also that God is unapproachable, but the Bible tells of God as being able to be approached by man, through Jesus Christ. The Masonic God is said to be "incapable of anger", pg. 718, Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike. But the Bible tells us that God is angry at sin and also loving and merciful to those who repent. This "Great Architect Of The Universe " that the Freemasons worship is just like the "Universal It" or "Force" that the New Age Religion believes in. That is because the New Age Movement is just one of the many vehicles through which Satan works to bring in his evil pantheistic ideas to the people, and he is enjoying great success! THE G.A.O.T.U. -THE GOD OF NATURE Now let me prove to you that the God of Freemasonry is the pantheistic God of Nature. Former Mason Edmond Ronayne stated: "Freemasonry 'carefully excludes' the Lord Jesus Christ from the lodge and chapter, repudiates His mediatorship, rejects his atonement, denies and disowns His gospel, frowns upon his religion and his church, ignores the Holy Spirit, and sets up for itself a spiritual empire, a religious theocracy, at the head of which it places the G.A.O.T.U. -the god of nature- and from which the only living true God is expelled by resolution." Former Mason- Edmond Ronayne, The Master's Carpet or Masonry and Baal-Worship-Identical, pg. 87 Masonic writer, J.S.M. Ward tells us: "THE UNKNOWN PANTHEISTIC DEITY HINTED AT IN MASONRY is a matter of vital importance, both to those who desire to know what Freemasonry teaches, and also to those who hope by means of hints in our present ritual to rediscover something of our past history. It (the Masonic Supreme Being) IS DISTINCTLY PANTHEISTIC rather than Monotheistic." Ward, Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods, pg. 44, 46, 61 One Masonic writer (Order of the Eastern Star for Women) explains about their Masonic Pantheistic God: "(God)... That invisible power which all know does exist, but understood by many different names, such as God, Spirit, Supreme Being, Intelligence, Mind, Energy, Nature and so forth." Mary Ann Slipper, The Symbolism of the Eastern Star, Page 35, 36 Wagner, Freemasonry: an Interpretation, pg. 286, 309, 310: "In its doctrines concerning the divine eminence Freemasonry is dedicated pantheistic, partaking of the various shades of that view of the divine God 'The Great Architect Of The Universe ' is the great soul of the universe and the universe is the garment in whic
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A Salute to Those Who Made Possible the Scientology Cathedral A SALUTE TO THOSE WHO MADE POSSIBLE THE SCIENTOLOGY CATHEDRAL NOVEMBER 25, 2013 “All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.” —L. Ron Hubbard So it was with the Scientology religion’s 21st-century cathedral, the new Flag Building in Clearwater, Florida—built through the contributions of individual Scientologists from 94 nations and opened November 17, 2013. One week later came the Cornerstone Ball, the epic salute to the thousands of Cornerstone Members who pursued the dream of our cathedral until it was a reality. “It was you who pledged to lay the cornerstones,” said Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center. They stood more than 2,100 strong that evening in Flag’s Grand Marquee. They arrived at that place and time after having cut a trail extending a quarter of a million miles in pursuit of their dream of our spiritual headquarters, inspiring a greater force of contributors numbering more than 17,000 across the world. “It was all while you counted down from foundation stage to structural stage and thence to core construction,” said Mr. Miscavige. “And if I still haven’t captured the magnitude of your journey—not to mention the magic—then suffice it to say: Tonight we celebrate you—and you alone.” Whereupon those stellar names that helped make the Scientology cathedral possible were recognized for their undying commitment and generosity. The following is what some of those who took that stage at the Cornerstone Ball had to say: “This had to have been the most incredible acknowledgement ever—what Chairman of the Board has done for this group and for L. Ron Hubbard. I want to thank all of the staff—without each and every one of you we would not be doing this. I am so, so proud to be part of this incredible team.” —B.D. “The Flag Building Project for me has always been a very personal affair and the people that worked in it and with it have always meant a lot to me. This event was the epitome of why we supported the Flag Building and I am so proud to have been a part of this.” —K.F. “I am so honored to be here tonight and to be amongst all these heroes of heroes. It is phenomenal what has been created.” “I thank Chairman of the Board for everything he has done. I thank him for our cathedral. He is the leader of leaders and I just cannot say this enough. I am so honored to be here tonight and to be amongst all these heroes of heroes. It is phenomenal what has been created.” —B.Z. “This is the best acknowledgement I could ever have received—that any of us could ever have received. I am floored and honored.” —M.F. “I went up to Chairman of the Board and said ‘I’m not gonna cry!’ and then I said, ‘Okay, I’m gonna cry!’ I was so utterly moved by the award. Thank you everyone for putting on an amazing week of events—it’s been fabulous and almost life changing. Thank you, COB!” —C.F. “What amazes me the most is the amount of effort and group determination it took to make all of this happen. There was truly a big group push behind the opening of the new Flag Building. Everything tonight was so beautiful.” —N.C. “Beautiful! Amazing—just being here is amazing. It was really our moment! What COB said was out of this world. He is a genius.” —A.C. “This is the best week of my entire existence! This was an amazing ball. I moved here to Clearwater when the groundbreaking happened and I have been waiting for this moment ever since.” —J.M. “The event was fantastic! I loved the acknowledgment to all of the contributors. I drove from South Carolina to be here. I am very proud. My contribution was just a small part, compared to what we have accomplished tonight. Thank you very much to everyone.” —J.B. “We are so proud for what we have accomplished.” “It was just incredible to receive this acknowledgement from COB. We are so proud for what we have accomplished. Thank you very much to everyone and we will see you for the next project.” —S.S. “This was the perfect en
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Guru Nanak established what in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries?
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Sikh Temple of the Fox Valley Joins ESTHER | ESTHER Home Sikh Temple of the Fox Valley Joins ESTHER ESTHER welcomes the Sikh Temple of the Fox Valley as a new faith-community member of ESTHER. The Menasha-based temple is led by Priest Bhagwant Singh Balli and Dr. Kamaljit Paul, president of the Board of Trustees. Sunday services at the temple are open to everyone (with heads covered, out of respect) and are usually followed by a meal. Sikism is a monotheistic, South Asian religion based on the teachings of Guru Nanak and his followers. Nanak lived near what is now the border between India and Pakistan in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. In a caste-ridden society, Guru Nanak rejected the idea of caste, and ate with all people. He taught that salvation comes not from extreme religious practices or rituals, but from living one’s ordinary life in an ethical way. He also taught that all people are equal and that one should be generous in giving to the poor. Even today, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar—the most important center of the Sikh religion—members of the congregation serve a free meal each day to more than 50,000 people, and everyone eats together with no separation of castes. To learn more, visit:
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BBC - Religions - Sikhism: Guru Nanak Guru Nanak A brief overview of the life of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion. On this page Guru Nanak Guru Nanak © Guru Nanak (1469-1539) was one of the greatest religious innovators of all time and the founder of the Sikh religion. Guru Nanak's birthday is celebrated by Sikhs on April 14th by the Nanakshahi calendar . (The date according to the lunar calendar changes annually but is usually in November.) Nanak's religious ideas draw on both Hindu and Islamic thought, but are far more than just a synthesis. Nanak was an original spiritual thinker and expressed his thoughts in extraordinary poetry that forms the basis of Sikh scripture. Little is known about the life of Nanak, but Sikh tradition has a much-loved set of stories or janam sakhis which relate various incidents from his life, and include many of his important teachings. Nanak was born about 40 miles from Lahore (now in Pakistan) in 1469. Sikh traditions teach that his birth and early years were marked with many events that demonstrated that God had marked him out for something special and was keeping an eye on him. His family were Hindus, but Nanak soon showed an advanced interest in religion and studied Islam and Hinduism extensively. As a child he demonstrated great ability as a poet and philosopher. One famous story about Guru Nanak tells of his rebellion at the age of eleven. At this age Hindu boys of his caste would start to wear the sacred thread to distinguish them. Nanak refused, saying that people should be distinguished by the things that they did, and their individual qualities, rather than by a thread. Nanak continued to demonstrate a radical spiritual streak - arguing with local holy men and sages, both Hindu and Muslim, that external things like pilgrimages, penances, and poverty were of far less spiritual importance than internal changes to the individual's soul. He worked for a while as an accountant but while still quite young decided to devote himself to spiritual matters. He was inspired by a powerful spiritual experience that gave him a vision of the true nature of God , and confirmed his idea that the way to spiritual growth was through meditation and through living in a way that reflected the presence of the divine within each human being. In 1496, although married and having a family, Nanak set out on a set of spiritual journeys through India, Tibet and Arabia that lasted nearly 30 years. He studied and debated with the learned men he met along the way and as his ideas took shape he began to teach a new route to spiritual fulfilment and the good life. The last part of his life was spent at Kartarpur in the Punjab, where he was joined by many disciples attracted by his teachings. The most famous teachings attributed to Guru Nanak are that there is only one God, and that all human beings can have direct access to God with no need of rituals or priests. His most radical social teachings denounced the caste system and taught that everyone is equal, regardless of caste or gender.
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Paul Weller | Biography, News, Photos and Videos | Contactmusic.com Biography Paul Weller (born John William Weller, 25.5.1958) Paul Weller is an English singer / songwriter, who first found fame in the punk era, as the singer and guitarist in The Jam. Childhood: Paul Weller was born in Woking, England in a working class neighbourhood. He was brought up in Stanley Road; the street name was later used for the title of one of Weller's solo albums. Paul wanted to form a band from the age of around 10 and aged 12, he was given a guitar by his family and he learned to play along with the music that he listened to. At 14, he played his first gig with his friend Steve Brooks at the Walton Road Working Men's Club. The Jam: The Jam played in the lunch hour at their school and the interest shown by the female pupils made Weller realise that a career in music could be quite a tantalizing prospect! The band, with Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler alongside Brookes and Weller, continued to play around Surrey and London, managed by Weller's father. Their popularity grew; notable when they were booked to play at the Red Cow in Hammersmith, with queues forming around the block to see them play. In 1977, Polydor Records signed the Jam for £6,000. Later that year, they appeared on Top of the Pops, the show that Paul Weller used to watch avidly as a child. Although they rose to fame at the same time that the punk scene was popularized, The Jam were never a part of the London clique and were more akin to the 'new-wave' style of bands that followed punk bands like The Sex Pistols. The Clash was one London band that did take notice of The Jam though, and took them on their White Riot tour in 1977. Eventually, the Jam outsold The Clash in terms of UK singles sales and went on to be the more successful of the two bands. The Jam's first venture into the UK Top 40 was 'In The City', released in May 1977. 'Eton Rifles' was the first of their singles to reach the Top 10, reaching number three in 1979. The next year, 'Going Underground' reached number one. This achievement was followed with 'Start!' and 'Town Called Malice.' In 1982, it was announced that The Jam would be splitting up. 'Beat Surrender', their fourth number one, was their last ever single. Their final concert, at the Brighton Centre, was a sell-out. The Style Council: Weller formed The Style Council in 1983, with keyboardist Mick Talbot and Steve White, who has continued to play with Weller ever since. Weller's new band was not as commercially successful as The Jam, yet Paul Weller's public profile continued to grow. Weller appeared on the charity record, Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' (he was filmed miming Bono's part on Top of the Pops, as the U2 singer was unavailable) and The Style Council played at the huge Live Aid event at Wembley in 1985. The Style Council's popularity in the UK began to decrease throughout the 1980s and in 1989, their record label refused to release their fifth album, Modernism: A New Decade. Later that year, Weller broke up the band. Solo career: A few years after The Style Council split, Paul Weller returned, with Steve White, firstly as The Paul Weller Movement, then simply as Paul Weller. He became a frontrunner of the 1990's 'Britpop' movement, along with the likes of Blur and Oasis. His first solo album was Paul Weller. The album's follow-up, Wild Wood, is considered by many to be one of Weller's finest moments and Stanley Road, his third solo outing, became the biggest selling album of his career. 'The Changingman', a single from the album, reached number seven in the UK singles charts. Next up, the Heavy Soul album, reached number two in the album charts and in 2000, Weller released Heliocentric. At the time, there were rumours that this would be his final studio album but two years later, he released the number one album, Illumination. 'It's Written In the Stars', taken from the album, was a top 10 single. In 2004, Weller released Studio 150, a covers album, followed a year later by As Is Now. In 2008, Weller's new album, 22 Dreams will be re
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Crosby, Stills & Nash · 2017 Tour Dates and Concert Tickets Track Artist for New Show Alerts Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young. They are noted for their intrica... Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young. They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, often tumultuous interpersonal relationships, political activism, and lasting influence on American music and culture. All four members of CSNY have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, though Young's inductions were for work not involving the group. History Formation Prior to the formation of CSN, each member of the band had belonged to another prominent group. David Crosby had performed rhythm guitar, vocals and songwriting with folk-rock group The Byrds; Stephen Stills had been a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in the band Buffalo Springfield, which also featured Neil Young; and Graham Nash had been a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with The Hollies, one of the "British Invasion" acts. Friction existed between David Crosby and his bandmates in the Byrds, and he was dismissed from the band in late 1967. By early 1968, Buffalo Springfield had also disintegrated over personal issues, and after aiding in putting together the band's final album, Stephen Stills found himself unemployed by the summer. He and Crosby began meeting informally and jamming, and the result of one encounter in Florida on Crosby's schooner was the song "Wooden Ships", composed in collaboration with another guest, Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner. Graham Nash had been introduced to Crosby when The Byrds had toured the United Kingdom in 1966, and when The Hollies ventured to California in 1968, Nash resumed his acquaintance with Crosby. At a party in July 1968 at Joni Mitchell's house, Nash asked Stills and Crosby to repeat their performance of a new song by Stills, "You Don't Have To Cry", with Nash improvising a third part harmony. The vocals jelled, and the three realized that they had a unique vocal chemistry. Creatively frustrated with The Hollies, Nash decided to quit the band and work with Crosby and Stills. After failing an audition with The Beatles' Apple Records, they were signed to Atlantic Records by Ahmet Ertegün, who had been a fan of Buffalo Springfield's and was disappointed by that band's demise. From the outset, given their respective band histories, the trio decided not to be locked into a group structure, using their surnames as identification to ensure independence and a guarantee against the band's simply continuing without one of them, as had both The Byrds and The Hollies after the departures of Crosby and Nash. Their record contract with Atlantic reflected this, positioning CSN with a unique flexibility unheard of for an untested group. The trio also picked up a unique management team in Elliot Roberts and David Geffen, who had engineered their situation with Atlantic and would help to consolidate clout for the group in the industry. Roberts kept the band focused and dealt with egos, while Geffen handled the business deals, since, in Crosby's words, they needed a shark and Geffen was it. Roberts and Geffen would play key roles in securing the band's success during the early years. When it was announced that the band was forming, they ran into a slight contractual problem. Nash was already signed to Epic Records, the North American distributor of records by The Hollies, while Crosby and Stills were signed to Atlantic. In order to resolve this problem, Geffen engineered a deal whereby Nash was essentially traded to Atlantic for the rights to Richie Furay's band Poco; Furay was signed to Atlantic as a result of his membership in Buffalo Springfield. Initial success The trio's first album, Crosby, Stills & Na
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Andean Condor » Our Endangered World Andean Condor up close courtesy of Drriss Andean Condor portrait courtesy of Nathan Rupert Andean Condor looking straight courtesy of Nathan Rupert Andean Condor flying courtesy of Eric Miraglia Andean Condor courtesy of Anthony Status: Near threatened Estimated numbers left in wild: Several thousand; no accurate figures are available Description The Andean condor is classified as a raptor, a bird of prey, and as such, is the largest of this type in the world. This is a very large and heavy bird, with a wingspan up to 320 centimetres and a beak to tail length between 100 centimetres and 130 centimetres. These birds can weigh 15 kilograms. Not only are the male birds larger than the females, but they are also distinguished by their wattles and comb. Both sexes sport a fluffy white collar, while the predominant body colour is black with white secondary wing feathers. This condor has a long lifespan, 50 years or more. Diet: Andean condors are scavengers, meaning that they feed mostly on dead animals, although they have been known to take sea birds and eggs. Their beaks are not as strong as those of eagles and hawks, however, but are suited to tearing open carcasses. The lack of feathers on the head is an adaptation that keeps the bird cleaner when eating, and their digestive system has evolved to handle bacteria so that the condor will not become ill from eating rotten meat. Because the condor locates carcasses by sight, rather than by smell, it tends to avoid forested or brushy areas where spotting dead animals could be difficult or impossible. Areas such as these might also present problems with the bird getting airborne again, too. The Andean condor will sometimes fly 120 kilometres in a day in search of food. Yellow: Extant (resident) (Source IUCN Red List) Breeding: The Andean condor mates for life and nests at high elevations. It is thought that because of the heavy weight of the bird, it needs the altitude and strong air currents found in mountainous regions to get off the ground easily. The female lays one egg every other year right on the bare rock ledge and both parents participate in incubation and care of the chick. The chicks are not able to fly until they are 6 months old, and remain under their parent’s care for two years. Location: The Andean condor is found all along the western coast of South America, along the ridge of the Andes Mountains, although it is rare in the northern section of its range. Although mountains are its favourite locale, it is sometimes found in deserts, grasslands, or along the shore. Conservation Threats: Humans have moved into some of the areas formerly used by the condors, and it is now very rare in Colombia and Venezuela. The Andean condor is sometimes killed by farmers who believe that it is attacking their livestock. Another threat comes from the primitive belief that different body parts of the condor will treat certain ailments – it is thought that cancer can be cured by eating the condor’s stomach, and that a person will get sharper eyesight by eating the eyes. Poisons used to kill predatory animals are sometimes ingested by the condor, and pesticide residues could be affecting fertility and overall health. Conservation efforts: Although numbers of the Andean condor had dipped perilously, efforts to save this species have been successful so far. North and South American captive breeding, combined with release in the birds’ home range, has helped numbers of the condors to climb. The hand reared, released birds have bred in the wild. Organisations Do you know of or are you a part of an organisation that work to conserve the Andean Condor, then please contact us to have it featured on Our Endangered World. Condor Species
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Passenger Pigeons: Nomads Lost - Science NetLinks Science NetLinks Purpose To understand the concept and implications of extinction using the example of the Passenger Pigeon, once an extremely abundant species that was completely eliminated by humans. To understand that technologies that were seemingly unrelated to the loss of the bird were actually central to its extinction. Context This lesson was developed by two scientists, Drs. Penny Firth of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and David Blockstein of the National Council for Science and the Environment, as part of a set of interdisciplinary Science NetLinks lessons aimed at improved understanding of environmental phenomena and events. Some of the lessons integrate topics that cross biological, ecological, and physical concepts. Others involve elements of economics, history, anthropology, and art. Each lesson is framed by plain-language background information for the teacher, and includes a selection of instructional tips and activities in the boxes. The history and ecology of North America are intertwined in a variety of ways. Students should be generally familiar with how the continent was settled, and how the telegraph and the railroads made communication and movement easier. In the case of the Passenger Pigeon, these developments brought slaughter, habitat destruction, disturbance of nesting, and ultimately extinction. Students, having never seen a Passenger Pigeon, may have trouble appreciating that this is a bird that they will never get to see alive. There are several familiar pigeons still around, including the Mourning Dove, the Rock Dove or "city pigeon," and the domesticated Carrier Pigeon or "homing pigeon." But the Passenger Pigeon, once one of the most abundant birds in the world, has been lost from the planet forever. Students who are familiar with the film Jurassic Park may ask if the Passenger Pigeon can be brought back from DNA that might be recovered from museum specimens. The answer, at least for the present, is no. It will be important for students to try to picture the North American forests as they were before they were cleared by European settlers. These forests were immense, far beyond anything that still exists in the temperate zone today. They periodically produced superabundant crops of mast. The word mast is from Old English mæst, meaning tree fruits such as nuts and acorns. Enormous Passenger Pigeon flocks located and fed on these seasonal mast crops. Understanding a little about mast will help students with this lesson. Although mature trees produce some fruit every year, approximately every three or four years all of the oaks, beeches, and similar hardwoods in a region will produce a vast fruit crop. Such years are called "mast years" and the mast provides important food for forest animals such as deer, mice, turkeys, and—until a century ago—Passenger Pigeons. Predicting when and where a mast year will occur is very difficult, and scientists are just beginning to understand some of the environmental factors that seem to be involved (e.g. winter temperatures, El Niño). Masting is an important way that trees can satiate most seed eaters. By producing more seeds than will be eaten, the trees ensure that some seedlings will survive. You can ask students to look for oaks and beeches along the streets and in the parks near their homes. If they bring in fruits to show the class, remind them that Native Americans ate both acorns and beechnuts. The scientific name of the Passenger Pigeon is Ectopistes migratorius. Ecto is from the Latin for "outside" and piste is from Italian for "trail." Ectopistes might be translated as "wanderer" or one who goes off the trail. Migratorius is from the Latin migrare, meaning "to change location periodically." Thus, the bird is very descriptively named the migratory wanderer. Incidentally, the common name was originally in French, "Pigeón de passage" or "pigeon of passage" because of the astounding size of the migratory flocks passing overhead. This lesson will help the class consider the human forces that
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List of Owl Breeds | eHow List of Owl Breeds Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images The owl is a bird that has often been synonymous with mystery, being interpreted as a harbinger of good luck or of doom, depending upon the culture prevailing in the region where the bird lived. Scientists from all over the world have endeavored to identify and classify these elusive animals. The number of owl breeds has kept changing over the years as new species are discovered and some have disappeared. Is There an Accurate Number of Owl Species? According to "Owls -- A Guide to the Owls of the World," by Konig, Weick and Becking, in which these birds were identified, counted and reclassified in a meticulous and exhaustive manner, the number closed at 212 species worldwide. After the book was published, between 1992 and the present, the latest news has it that five more species have been identified. This brings the total number of owl species to 217. The Families of Owls Owls belong to the zoological class of Aves, Strigiformes. This order is subdivided into two families: the Strigidae, or typical owls, and the Tytonidae, or barn owls. The chief physical characteristics of the Strigidae family are large, rounded heads, strong hooked beaks, round facial discs of feathers, front-facing eyes, dense feather coverage, stocky bodies, camouflaging color feathers and strong feet with razor-sharp talons. Their size varies from 4.7 inches to 29.5 inches (12-75 cms tall), and they weigh from 1.4 ounces to 148 ounces (40 gms-4.2 kgs). Chief physical characteristics of the owls that belong to the Tytonidae family are long, compressed bills and long legs in comparison to their tails. In addition, the facial disk of feathers is heart-shaped, and there are no "ear" tufts. Their eyes are small and oval-shaped, and their hearing powers are superb. Research shows that owls belonging to this family can locate and catch prey based on sound alone. The middle claw looks and behaves like a "comb claw": It is serrated, and the owls use it for preening. The color of these owls is often brown-gray on the back, with a light, contrasting belly. Their size varies from 9 inches to 22.4 inches (23 cms--57 cms), and their weight, from 6.6 ounces to 2.8 pounds (187 gms--1.3 kgs). Owls in the Strigidae Family There are 23 genera in this family, which is composed of 194 species. They live all over the world, with the exception of Antarctica. One genus, Bubo, contains species such as the American horned owls. Some other common species names in the Strigidae family of owls include the cape-eagle owl, crested owl, brown fish owl, spectacled owl, Malay fish owl, hawk owl, barking owl, bare-legged owl, spotted little owl, fearful owl and Jamaican owl, among others. More than one-third of the world's total number of owls belongs to the Otus genus of this family. Some examples of the Otus genus owls are white-fronted scops owl, Indian scops owl, bare-legged scops owl, elegant scops owl, spotted scops owl and, striated scops owl. Owls in the Tytonidae Family There are two genera in the Tytonidae family: the Phodilus and the Tyto. Eighteen species of owls are in this family, 17 belonging to the Tyto genus and only one to the Phodilus genus. The 17 species in the Tyto genus are the greater sooty owl, lesser sooty owl, Minahassa barn owl, Taliabu masked owl, lesser masked owl, Manus masked owl, New Britain barn owl, Australian masked owl, Tasmanian masked owl, Celebes barn owl, Soumagnes grass owl, common barn owl, Andaman barn owl, ashy-faced owl, African grass owl, Eastern grass owl and Congo bay owl. The Phodilus genus has only one species -- the Oriental bay owl. The five new species have not been included in this count yet.
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Birds beginning with R Birds beginning with R Fish Birds beginning with R R - It is a typical "sylvia" warbler, similar in size but slimmer than Sardinian Warbler. The adults have a plain grey back and paler grey underparts. The bill is fine and pointed, with brown legs and red eyes. The striking male has a black head and, usually, a black throat, separated by a white malar streak . Females have a pale throat, and the head is grey rather than black. Their grey back has a brownish tinge. The song is a slower, deeper rattle than that of Sardinian Warbler. Rachel's Malimbe - It has interesting breeding behaviour. The nest is build by three to four birds of which only one is female and which takes the leading role in building the nest. After the nest is finished one of the males that participated in the building chase off the other participating males. Both of the remaining couple take duty of incubating the eggs. Racket-tailed Coquette - The Racket-tailed Coquette is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. Racket-tailed Treepie - It has a velvety-black forehead of short, plush black feathers with the rest of the bird being an oily green colour, though appearing black in dim light. The tail feathers which in this species are long and broaden at the tail's end are black also with a greenish tinge, as are the wings. The iris of the bird is a turquoise-blue darkening towards the pupil to a very deep or near black. The bill, legs and feet are black. Rackettailed Roller Radde's Accentor - Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. Radde's Warbler - This is a bird of open woodlands with some undergrowth near water. The nest is built low in a bush, and eggs are laid. Like most Old World warblers, this small passerine is insectivorous. Radjah Shelduck - Both the male and female of the species are mostly white, with dark wingtips and a distinctive "collar" of dark feathers. Seen from above in flight, the birds have green bands on the tops of their wings. The female has a harsh rattle and the male has a breathy, sore-throat whistle. Raffles's Malcoha - Raffles's Malkoha is a species of cuckoo . It was formerly often placed in Phaenicophaeus with the other malkohas, but it is a rather distinct species, with several autapomorphies and sexual dimorphism . Raggiana Bird-of-paradise - The Raggiana Bird-of-paradise, also known as Count Raggi's Bird-of-paradise, is a large bird in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae. Raiatea Parakeet - Psittacus ulietanus J. F. Gmelin, 1789 Platycercus tannaensis Finsch, 1868 Psittacus fuscatus von Pelzeln, 1873 Raimondi's Yellow Finch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. Rain Quail - Grassland, cropped fields and scrub in the Indus valleys of Pakistan, the Gangetic plains, of the central Republic of India and parts of peninsular continental India. Mostly seen in winter further south. Rainbow Lorikeet - Rainbow Lorikeets have been introduced to Perth, Western Australia, Rainbow Pitta - An Australian endemic, the Rainbow Pitta lives in the forests of northern Australia. As with other pittas, it is a secretive and shy bird. The diet consists mainly of insects, arthropods and small animals. The female lays three to four glossy cream eggs with blotches inside its large domed nest. Rainbow Starfrontlet - The Rainbow Starfrontlet is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. Rainbow-bearded Thornbill - The Rainbow-bearded Thornbill is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. Rajah Scops Owl - The Rajah Scops Owl is common throug
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Xylography_index_page A European print and its original woodcut block Click image to enlarge European use of the woodcut as a means to produce old master prints began in the 15th century. One of the earliest such works is The Fire Madonna, which is in the Cathedral of Forli in Italy. Most of the earliest European woodcuts have religious themes. At the beginning of the 15th century there was an explosion in the sales of poorly made woodcuts, and there was a subsequent fall in standards. There was a lack of sophistication until the third quarter of the 16th century, when German and Italian artisans raised the level of the craft. Albrecht Durer was a master who brought the craft of xylography to its pinnacle at the end of the 15th Century. Printing with moveable type began in the mid 15th century, and the combination of this printing technique with woodblock illustrations gave rise to the illustrated book. Millions of books were produced in Europe in the late 15th through late 17th centuries. There were likewise many thousands of original wooden blocks painstakingly created to produce the illustrations. Oftentimes, illustrations were �borrowed� from one book to another, either with or without permission. This is why the prints may look so similar in books by various authors. Wooden printing blocks were designed by an artist/author and then carved by specialized artisans called �formschneiders.� This was done after a paper drawing was laid down on the block or if the illustration was drawn directly onto the block itself. Perhaps the height of the formschneider�s craft was seen in Germany, where carvers such as Hieronymus Andreae, Hans Lutzelburger, and Just de Negker became well known for their skill in carving the blocks. There were also specialists who were expert in producing blank blocks of the correct type and consistency for carving. (1) Sadly, almost all of the original wooden blocks used to produce book illustrations in the 15th through 17th centuries have been lost. They were used until they could no longer produce a good image, and likely then cast into the fireplace. Sometimes they were re-carved to extend their life, but most commonly they were simply discarded at the end of a print run. Amazingly, a large grouping of original early printing blocks were collected in the 19th century and kept together until recently. These blocks were in all genres: religion, art, history, and science. The Arbittier Museum of Medical History is very fortunate to have been able to acquire all of the medically related blocks in this important archive. These include ones showing anatomy, surgery, bloodletting, and other medical procedures. Many of the blocks are associated with specific editions of important early medical texts, such as those by Pare and Hundt. All of the blocks will be described on the site in the near future. Examples of woodcut blocks actually used in 16th - 17th century medical books
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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? Roy's Rolls According to the BBC how many rooms are there in Buckingham Palace? 775 What is the busiest single-runway airport in the world? London Gatwick By number of films made, which country has the largest film industry? India Who lit the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? Muhammad Ali On what day of the year is St George's day held? 23rd of April The scientific unit lumen is used in the measurement of what? Light Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover vehicle? Apollo 15 Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? Stephenie Meyer What is the capital of India? New Delhi Who wrote the poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat'? Edward Lear Which country had a secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute? Haiti In which city is the European Parliament based? Strasbourg Gala, Jonagold and Pink Lady are varieties of which fruit? Apple Which organ of the body is affected by Bright's Disease? Kidney What is the boiling point of water in Kelvin? 373 K What was the 1st human invention that broke the sound barrier? The whip What name was given to the Samurai code of honour? Bushido What colour is the bullseye on a standard dartboard? Red What song does the main character wake up to every morning in Groundhog Day? I Got You Babe What is the only Central American country in which baseball, not soccer, is the people's favourite sport? Nicaragua What is the largest fresh water lake in North America? Lake Superior Which South American country was named after the Italian city of Venice? Venezuela How many rounds are there in an olympic boxing match? 4 The highest temperature ever recorded outside in the shade was recorded in Azizah, in Africa. In which country is this city located? Libya Which Hasbro `action figure` got its name from a Robert Mitchum film? G.I. Joe In which country is the highest mountain in South America? Argentina How many emirates make up the United Arab Emirates? 7 If you were putting numbers on new changing room lockers to be numbered from 1 to 100, how many times would you use the number 9? 20 Which famous group performed the first ever song on Top Of The Pops in 1964? The Rolling Stones Who wrote the novel Revolutionary Road, which was made into a successful feature film? Richard Yates Which supermodel is seen pole dancing in the White Stripes video for the song `I Just Don`t Know What To Do With Myself`? Kate Moss Which band has released albums titled `Word Gets Around`, `Just Enough Education To Perform` and `Pull The Pin`? Stereophonics In the Adrian Mole Diaries, what is the surname of his girlfriend? Braiwaithe Charlotte Edwards led England`s women to World Cup glory in which sport in March 2009? Cricket What is sake made from? Rice Affenpinscher, Keeshond and Leonberger are all types of what? Dog Who won the 2009 Rugby World Sevens Cup? Wales Who is the only player to win a Champion`s League medal, the Premiership and the FA Cup, and to be relegated from the Premiership without going on to play in the Championship? Kanu With which club did David Beckham make his football league debut? Preston North End Who is the host of the TV show Q.I.? Stephen Fry Anyone Can Fall In Love was a chart hit set to the theme tune of which TV show? EastEnders Who is the only character to appear in the first ever Coronation Street who is still in the show at 2009? Ken Barlow The film `Black Hawk Down` was loosely based on a true incident that took place in 1993 in which country? Somalia What word does the bird constantly repeat in Edgar Allan Poe`s classic poem `The Raven`? Nevermore In the board game `Risk`, what c
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Liturgical Year : Activities : Lammas or Loaf Mass Day, Thanksgiving for Grain Harvest | Catholic Culture Alphonsus Liguori Seasons (0) The feast of St. Peter in Chains, formerly on August 1st, has now been removed from the General Roman Calendar. This feast day was also called "Lammas Day" or "Loaf Mass Day" because this day was offered as thanksgiving for the wheat harvest, used for the bread that becomes the Eucharist. Florence Berger discusses close link of the liturgical year and agrarian life. She also discusses the Christianization of some pagan customs, using the example of Scotch Highland Quarter Cakes. DIRECTIONS As the hot, dry corn weather of July settles down on our countryside, there is a stop in our feasting. These are the days when dawn is not too early to get out a-berrying, and moonlight is not too late to tie tomatoes. Even the birds do most of their talking in the dew of the morning or the cool of the night. And in between the rickety-rackety tractor snorts on the hills and whinnies on the down grade, each one of the family is preoccupied with the plans of the day and more than occupied with the raw material of our life. I think the Church as well as tradition herself knew we were all busy in July. The Church lets us all be Marthas for the month, to work like the bees in the hive gathering food for our families. Tradition lets us all be Jacks for the month, to be as dull as dross while we fill the barns. There is no doubt but that Christian worship and its visible counterpart, the liturgical year, have been adapted to an agrarian life. In fact we can almost admit that "the whole texture of industrial life — to which we gave birth — is against that of the Christian life." There is, however, great need for compromise and Christian charity. We cannot all be farmers just because it is a freer, easier way to live in the spirit of the Church year. But we who are farmers can appreciate our graces and let our neighbors know that Christ governs our daily economics as well as our Sunday worship. We cannot all be industrialists just because it is a more exciting and dangerous way to live without the spirit of the Church year. But we who are industrialists can wrest from the world the justice which Christ will demand for His workers. Without this none of us bring Christ to our homes, nor dare to ask a share in His home for eternity. It is not long before the summer work comes to a turning point. There is a change from the hope of the seeding to the accomplishment of the harvest. August 1 has been held as harvest day in many lands for centuries. The new grain is to be tried. The first fruits are to be tested. Work is forgotten, and we recreate our strength with dances, songs and food. This day was once called Lammas or Loaf Mass Day because the new grain was ground and baked into a special thank offering. The bread of the harvest was brought to God who blessed both the bread and His children. There is no doubt, as J. A. McCulloch writes on "Cakes and Loaves," that "some of the cakes which have a prominent place in folk usage at certain periods of the year, e.g., Christian festivals and holy days, as well as on other occasions, are probably lineally descended from cakes used sacrificially or sacramental in pagan times. This is suggested by the customs observed in the making of these cakes, or the eating of them; by their division among the members of the family, or by their being marked with sacred symbols." This fact seems to disturb some timid Christians who fail to recognize the wise philosophy and policy of the Catholic Church in missionary countries. An Italian missionary is not sent to make his new people Italians nor is the American to convert his catechumens to Americanism. They are sent to make Christians, world citizens. So long as the native customs and habits were not in opposition to the law of nature or the law of God, they were not to be taken from the people. This rule held at the time of the apostles when they entered a country and spoke the vernacular. This procedure was followed when the Celts we
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Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: November 2015 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League Set by The Park Tavern and the Brewers Q1 Great Britain is to appear in the Tennis Davis Cup final in which Belgian city? Ghent Q2 Once storms Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond and Eva have passed the UK, which will be next? Frank The current Ebola outbreak started in which African country? Guinea (Dec 2013) Where would you find Connexus and Versatile? On TV program The Apprentice (Teams names in the current TV series) Q5 Which actor has appeared as James Bond in exactly 2 official Bond films? Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, License to kill) Q6 According to Collins English Dictionary what has been chosen as the word of the year 2015? Binge-watch Q7 What is the tag line of the upcoming Star Wars film episode 7 of the series? The Force Awakens Who replaced Nick Hewer in the TV program The Apprentice? Claude Littner Q9 Which RAF base was in the news in October, owing to the arrival of ~140 migrants by boat? RAF Akrotiri (Cyprus) Q10 There is one remaining hovercraft service operating in the UK, from which city does it operate? Portsmouth (Southsea -> Ryde on the Isle of Wight) Q11 Baroness Dido Harding of Winscombe has been in the news recently, as the CEO of which company? Talk Talk Q12 Which British airline is celebrating its 20th Anniversary, flying its inaugural flight on November 10th 1995? EasyJet The Schengen Treaty takes its name from a village in which country? Luxembourg MP can stand for two things on an ordnance survey Map, name either? Mile Post or Mooring Post Q15 On a marine map what does HWM stand for? High Water Mark Which country is to host the next Winter Olympics in 2018? South Korea Who did Seb Coe succeed as head of the IAAF? Lamine Diack What is the third largest object in the solar system? Saturn (Sun, Jupiter, Saturn) Which man made object is furthest from Earth? Voyager 1 (allow Voyager) Q20 For his part in which 1953 film did Frank Sinatra receive a Best Supporting Actor Oscar? From Here to Eternity Which current world leader is sometimes known as Bibi? Benjamin Netanyahu Q22 Who has been recently sworn in as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister after winning a surprise majority? Justin Trudeau What is the longest motorway in the UK? M6 What is the longest A road in the UK? A1 Who is the shadow chancellor? John McDonnell Which building was built in 1093 to house the shrine of St Cuthbert? Durham Cathedral In which building would you find the famous Cosmati Pavement? Westminster Cathedral Who hosts 'Modern Life is Goodish'? Dave Gorman Frankie Fredericks represented which African country in athletics? Namibia Who hosts 'As yet untitled'? Alan Davies Who will be the new host of QI succeeding Stephen Fry? Sandi Toksvig What is the word used to describe an animal/plant that is both male and female? Hermaphrodite With which artistic medium would you associate Ansel Adams? Photography Which city is normally accepted as being the ancient capital of Wessex? Winchester Which group recorded the track 'Unfinished Symphony'? Massive Attack Which school featured in UK TV's 'Please Sir'? Fenn Street Q37 80s band Heaven 17 got their name from a well-known novel originally published in 1962. Name it? A Clockwork Orange - (by Anthony Burgess) Q38 Steely Dan got their name from which notorious novel originally published in 1959? The Naked Lunch (by William Burroughs) Q39 Wladimir Klitschko is a champion boxer from which country? Ukraine The 'Rockhampton Rocket' was a nickname given to which famous sportsman? Rod Laver Which British astronaut is going to the international space station in December? Tim Peake How many cantons make up Switzerland? 26 (accept 25 to 27) Q43 Which city was the imperial capital of Japan before Tokyo? Kyoto Saloth Sar born 19 May 1925 is better known by what name? Pol Pot What was discovered in 1799 by Pierre-François Bouchard a Napoleonic soldier? The Rosetta Stone 'I told you I was ill' are the words carved into whose gravestone? Spike Milligan Q47 What did Newcastle chemist William Owen invent in 1927 for those
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Cube Numbers To the main page "Mathematische Basteleien" What is a cube number? A cube number (or a cube) is a number you can write as a product of three equal factors of natural numbers. Formula: k=a*a*a=a³ (k and a stand for integers.) On the other hand a cube number results by multiplying an integer by itself three times. Formula: a*a*a=a³=k (a and k stand for integers.) The same factor is called the base. After this a negative number like (-2)³= -8 or a fraction number like (2/3)³=8/27 are suspended. If it is appropriate, the number 0 is also a cubic number. These are the first 100 cube numbers. You can illustrate the name cube number by the following drawings. If a is the side of a cube, the volume is a³. ...1... 1 Computation with the calculator In former times you found cube numbers by ready-reckoners, today there are calculators. You act with the TI30 like this: After entering the number you press the keys yx , (1/3) and finally = . Example: [2299968] -- [yx] -- [(1/3)] -- [=] . You get 22999681/3 =132. It is even simpler to give in 2299968^(1/3) into the searching field of Google or Bing. The cube root appears after pressing the enter key. 2 Determination by nested intervals 22999681/3 The number must be between 100 and 200 (100³=1000000 and 200³=4000000). It must be between 130 and 140 (130³=2197000 and 140³=2744000). It must be near 130 and 8 is on the ones place. Then 132 comes into consideration. Result: 22999681/3=132 22999681/3 You write the number in factors and develop the cube number this way. 2299968 = 8*287496 = 8*27*10648 = 8*27*8*1331=8*27*8*11*121=8*8*27*11³=(2*2*3*11)³=132. Result: 22999681/3 = 132. Cube Roots of Negative Numbers? top There is (-2)³=-8. You could think that then (-8)1/3=-2 is. In former times this notation was common in schools, too. Today you demand that a1/3 is only defined for a>0 or a=0. The term (-8)1/3 ist not allowed. Thus you avoid conflicts as the following calculations show. There is (-8)1/3=(-8)2/6=[(-8)2]1/6=(64)1/6=(26 )1/6=2. That means that (-8)1/3 would be ambiguous. You would get two results depending on the way of calculation. This is possible. The equation (-2)³=-8 is changed to -(81/3)=-2. Generally x³=a leads to x=-(-a)1/3 for a<0. Sequences and Series top Series of the cube numbers There is a series to each sequence and this is the sequence of the partial sums. For cube numbers this is the sequence sn= 1³+2³+3³+...+n³. 1³+2³+3³+...+n³=[n(n+1)/2]² is given. Proof by mathematical induction >The statement holds for n=1: s1=[1*(1+1)/2]²=1. >Assume that the formula holds for all natural numbers n: sn=[n(n+1)/2]². >You must show that then the formula also holds for n+1: sn+1 = [(n+1)(n+2)/2]². Calculation: Convert the product [(n+1)(n+2)]² into a sum at first. [(n+1)(n+2)]²=(n²+3n+2)²=n4+(3n+2)²+2n²(3n+2)=n4+(9n²+12n+4)+(6n³+4n²)=n4+6n³+12n²+12n+4 There is sn+1 = sn+(n+1)³ = [n(n+1)/2]²+(n+1)³ = [n²(n+1)²+4(n+1)³]/4 = [n²(n²+2n+1)+(4n³+12n²+12n+4)]/4 = (n4+6n³+13n²+12n+4)/4 = [(n+1)(n+2)]²/4 = [(n+1)(n+2)/2]², qed.. The formula 1³+2³+3³+...+n³=[n(n+1)/2]² contains the series of the natural numbers, because the sum can be written as 1+2+3+ ...+n=n(n+1)/2. Thus there is the formula 1³+2³+3³+...+n³ = (1+2+3+...+n)², which is illustrated on the right. Interpretation as an arithmetic series of third order The sequence of the cube numbers is also an arithmetic series of third order. A figure follows to explain this. In every new row you find the difference of two numbers a row higher. The feature is that you reach a constant difference 6 after three steps. There are formulas for these sequences, so that you can prove the formula 1³+2³+3³+...+n³=[n(n+1)/2]² in another way. You can read this on Steffen Weber's (URL below) German web site. Series of odd numbers There is 1³=1, 2³=3+5, 3³=7+9+11, 4³=13+15+17+19, ... and 1³+2³+3³+4³+... = 1+3+5+7+9+11+13+15+17+19+... Series of the reciprocal cube numbers There is another series of cube numbers, the one of the reciprocal cube numbers: 1/1³+1/2³+1/3³+...+1/n³. It is convergent. You f
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Puzzles - Board Games 1. Name the three red properties on a standard UK Monopoly board? 2. What is the name of the victim in 'Cluedo'? 3. In Risk, what colour is Europe? 4. What is the only UK monopoly property which contains all of the letters in the word 'monopoly' in its name? 5. In Scrabble, which two letters are worth 8 points? 6. In UK Monopoly, how much money does each player have at the start of the game? 7. How many white squares are there on a chess board? 8. Which game, introduced in the 1980’s and still available today involved guiding a metal ball around an obstacle course? 9. How many rooms are there in 'Cluedo'? 10. 16. With which board game would you associate Bernard, Eric, Frans, Maria and Anita? 1. Name the three red properties on a standard UK Monopoly board? Trafalgar Square, Strand, Fleet Street 2. What is the name of the victim in 'Cluedo'? Doctor Black 3. In Risk, what colour is Europe? Blue 4. What is the only UK monopoly property which contains all of the letters in the word 'monopoly' in its name? Electric Company 6. In UK Monopoly, how much money does each player have at the start of the game? �1,500 7. How many white squares are there on a chess board? 32 5. In Scrabble, which two letters are worth 8 points? Are they X and J?????? 8. Which game, introduced in the 1980�s and still available today involved guiding a metal ball around an obstacle course? don't know the name, but is it that sort of tilt-'n-turn maze? If so, I think we've got one somewhere ... 9. How many rooms are there in 'Cluedo'? 9??????????? well done Helio and the Chaircat Has anyone ever played Risk? would you recommend it? actually, will start a new topic on the subject 8. Which game, introduced in the 1980’s and still available today involved guiding a metal ball around an obstacle course? Screwball Scramble never heard of it! i was thinking of Mousetrap! which my cousin had and I never did 10. 16. With which board game would you associate Bernard, Eric, Frans, Maria and Anita? Guess Who! STPD's favourite game for a while. I'm not sure about Risk. It can lead to brother (and sister) raising hand against brother - there's only so many times you can forgive backstabbing and betrayal! Oh heck we can do that here without the help of any old board game - just 'who left the trail of crumbs up the stairs' 'not me, it must have been my sister' does the trick.
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The Velvet Divorce in European History European History Expert By Robert Wilde The Velvet Divorce was the unofficial name given to the separation of Czechoslovakia into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the early 1990s, earned because of the peaceful manner in which it was achieved. The State of Czechoslovakia At the end of the First World War the German and Austrian / Hapsburg empires fell apart, enabling a set of new nation states to emerge. One of these new states was Czechoslovakia. Czechs made up around fifty per cent of the initial population, and identified with a long history of Czech life, thought and statehood; Slovaks comprised around fifteen per cent, had a very similar language to the Czechs which helped bind the country together, but had never been in their ‘own’ country. The rest of the population were German, Hungarian, Polish and others, left by the problems of drawing boundaries to replace a polyglot empire. In the late 1930s Hitler, now in charge of Germany, turned his eye first on Czechoslovakia’s German population, and then on large parts of the country, annexing it. continue reading below our video 10 Best Universities in the United States World War 2 now followed, and this ended with Czechoslovakia being conquered by the Soviet Union; a communist government was soon in place. There were struggles against this regime – the ‘Prague Spring of 1968’ saw a thaw in communist government that bought invasion from the Warsaw Pact and a federalist political structure – and Czechoslovakia remained in the ‘eastern bloc’ of the Cold War . The Velvet Revolution At the end of the 1980s Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was faced with protests across Eastern Europe, the impossibility of matching the military spending of the west, and the urgent need for internal reforms. His response was as surprising as it was sudden: he ended the Cold War at a stroke, removing the threat of Soviet led military action against former communist vassals. Without Russian armies to support them communist government fells across Eastern Europe, and in the autumn of 1989 Czechoslovakia experienced a widespread set of protests which became known as the ‘Velvet Revolution’ because of their peaceful nature and their success: the communists decided not to use force to hang on and negotiated a new government, and free elections were held in 1990. Private business, democratic parties, and a new constitution followed, and Václav Havek became the President. The Velvet Divorce The Czech and Slovak populations in Czechoslovakia had been drifting apart over the course of the state’s existence, and when the gunpoint cement of communism had gone, and when the newly democratic Czechoslovakia came to discuss the new constitution and how to govern the nation, they found many issues dividing the Czechs and Slovaks. There were arguments over the varying sizes and growth rates of the twin economies, and of the power each side had: many Czechs felt the Slovaks had too much power for their respective numbers. This was exacerbated by a level of local federalist government which had created government ministers and cabinets for each of the two largest populations, effectively blocking full integration. There was soon talk of separating the two into their own states. Elections in 1992 saw Vaclav Klaus become Prime Minister of the Czech region, and Vladimir Meciar Prime Minister of the Slovak one. They had different views on policy and wanted different things from government, and were soon discussing whether to tie the region closer together or split it apart. People have argued that Klaus now took a lead in demanding a division of the nation, while others have argued Meciar was a separatist. Either way a break seemed likely. When Havel encountered resistance he resigned rather than oversee the separation, and there wasn’t a statesman of sufficient charisma, and sufficient support, to replace him as a president of a unified Czechoslovakia. While politicians weren’t sure whether the general public supported such a move negotiations developed, in such a peacefu
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Belgium's King Albert II announces abdication - BBC News BBC News Belgium's King Albert II announces abdication 3 July 2013 Media captionKing Albert: "The time has come to pass the flame to the next generation" The King of the Belgians, Albert II, has announced his abdication. In a national televised address, the 79-year-old monarch said he would step down in favour of his son Crown Prince Philippe, 53, on 21 July, Belgium's national day. He said his health was no longer good enough to fulfil his duties, and he would step down after nearly 20 years on the throne. King Albert was sworn in as the sixth king of the Belgians on 9 August 1993. His accession to the throne followed the death of his brother, King Baudouin, at the age of 62. "I realise that my age and my health are no longer allowing me to carry out my duties as I would like to," he said in his address. "Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me." King Albert met the Belgian government's cabinet earlier on Wednesday to inform them of his decision, Belgian state TV reported. Royal scandal Analysis By Matthew PriceBBC News, Brussels This is a small but pivotal nation in Europe. The headquarters of the European Union. And yet Belgium is a country increasingly divided between its Dutch (Flemish) and French-speaking regions. In recent years King Albert II has been part of the glue that just about holds this nation together. He intervened decisively when, for more than a year, Belgium's politicians could not form a government. What might his abdication mean for a country whose national unity is under strain more than ever before from regional forces? All Flemish political parties would like to reduce the role of the king, and some would abolish the monarchy. Much will depend on King Albert II's son and heir, Philippe. His style and personal touch could well help determine whether Belgium in the coming years remains united, or continues to split. After he succeeded his brother, King Albert became embroiled in a major royal scandal when he was alleged to be the father of an out-of-wedlock daughter, Delphine Boel, and suffered a crisis in his marriage with Queen Paola. That issue came to the fore again this spring when Ms Boel opened court proceedings to prove she was the king's daughter. There is some speculation in the media that this may have influenced his decision to abdicate. Belgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role. One of the duties the monarch does have is trying to resolve constitutional crises. King Albert exercised his authority in mediating between political leaders on the formation of a government during the 2010-2011 parliamentary stalemate, when Belgium was left without a government for 541 days after elections failed to find a clear winner. Tensions between the two main language communities of Flemish and French sometimes run high, and the issue has brought down several governments, creating frequent political instability. Respect for the royal family, though, is one of the few factors that crosses the communal divide. King Albert's announcement comes only three months after Queen Beatrix of the neighbouring Netherlands vacated the Dutch throne in favour of her son Willem-Alexander.
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INTERSTING FACTS - Google+ INTERSTING FACTS Posted by muhammad ahsan at 19:13 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook most intersting and amazing Posted by muhammad ahsan at 19:07 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Interesting Facts For Your Warehouse of Useless Knowledge 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell." 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking. A whale's penis is called a dork. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.] According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. All porcupines float in water. Almonds are a mem
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Rampant Scotland Directory - Colour Supplement Index Rampant Scotland Directory! Newsletter Colour Supplements The Rampant Scotland Newsletter is published every second Saturday and provides an insight into what has been happening in Scotland, snipped from the Scottish media, for Scots in Scotland and abroad, bringing you news, events and photographs plus a Scottish magazine section. Every week there is also a colour supplement containing large illustrations of flowers, birds, animals, butterflies and scenery which have been seen around Scotland in the preceding week. It thus forms a record of the changing seasons throughout the year. The editions currently available on-line are: 2009 28 February 2009 Leucojum, also known as Summer Snowflake or Loddon Lily with their extra green and yellow markings distinguish them from snowdrops; a tram car in the Transport Museum in Glasgow (known locally as "Shooglies" from the way they swayed along the tracks); a horse-drawn Glasgow to London stagecoach; a "Coronation Tram" from the 1930s, which had the luxury of an enclosed cab for the driver who also had a seat for the first time; the first production Hillman Imp motor car, producedin the 1960s at a manufacturing plant in Linwood near Paisley, west of Glasgow; a mass of snowdrops photographed in the grounds of Braco Castle in Perthshire. 21 February 2009 A Canada Goose, with its distinctive white "chinstrap" looking quite at home standing in the recent snow fall; Waterbirds flying in all directions, panicked at the approach of an out of control dog; a rather disconsolate pigeon trudging through the snow, unable to find anything to eat; Polyanthus, part of the primula family, in a vibrant yellow and orange; A statue to James Clerk Maxell, who established the original theories of electromagnetism (Einstein put on record that Maxwell's work had resulted in the most profound change in the conception of reality in physics, since the time of Isaac Newton; Eranthis, more often known by its common name of winter flowering aconite, with its deeply dissected leaves forming an attractive ruff round the bright yellow cup-shaped flowers 14 February 2009 Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street Gardens in the snow; Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, beside Waverley Station, one of the most attractive buildings in the Capital; the crinkly strap-shaped petals of Hamamelis (also known as Witch Hazel) with the clusters appearing on leafless branches creating a vivid show; a snow scene in the woods beside Kilmardinny Loch, East Dunbartonshire, earlier this week; the 19th century, Tudor Gothic styled mansion house formerly known as Schaw Hospital, blanketed in snow; a St Valentine's Day display in a baker's window in central Glasgow. 7 February 2009 The "most bizarre building in Scotland" - a summer house built in 1761 in the shape of a realistic, prickly pineapple; the parish church, Airth, with the River Forth and the Ochill Hills beyond; the market cross at Airth, erected in 1697; with sun dials on two sides; the fine Town House or "Tolbooth" in Culross, Fife, dating from 1626; the Palace" in Culross built for Sir George Bruce, a wealthy merchant and industrialist, in the 17th century; 13th century Culross Abbey and east choir taken over in 1633 as a parish church; amusing models of a stylised owl and robin, with a fierce-looking blackbird behind. 31 January 2009 Special Royal Mail set of stamps to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns on 25 January; the City Chambers in Glasgow being used as the backdrop for a 15-minute "slide-show" illustrating the life of Burns; the City Chambers covered in musical notation as part of the presentation; "Auld Lang Syne" across the building at the end of the slide show; a substantial clump of snowdrops in bloom at the side of a country road, just north of Glasgow. 24 January 2009 Blackness Castle, surrounded on three sides by water and often referred to as "the ship which never sailed"; a large party of Oystercatcher birds, looking incongruous with their large orange-red bills; Torwood Castle, thought to
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iMarbles! - History of Marbles HISTORY OF MARBLES HOME | OH MARBLES! | PLAY MARBLES | MARBLE SETS | MARBLES BLOG | CONTACT | MAP History of Marbles Marbles have been made of round stones, clay balls, marble, porcelain, glass and steel. Toy makers have found increasingly ingeneous methods for making marbles that are beautiful, durable, inexpensive, and fun. We are going to look at how the marbles have been made. Of course, we make marbles for play, so we'll look at how people have played with marbles. There are links here to other sites that can tell you more about the history of marbles and marble games. "We used to play marbles all the time," Attic Duster member Evelyn Musolf recalls. "We played on the floor in the house. We played out in the yard. We even played in the snow. We beat the boys at it — we did it all the time — and sent them home crying." Evelyn Musolf, Wenatchee World April 2009 Featured: American Toy Marble Museum The American Toy Marble Museum is located in Akron Ohio, where some of the earliest american marbles were produced. The American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Company was founded by Samuel C. Dyke in 1891 in Akron. The museum displays a wide range of marbles and other toys and tools from the industry. Ancient Marbles THE MOST SIMPLE TOY Archaeologists speculate that the small clay balls found in the pyramid tombs of Egyptian kinds were produced for marble games. It is thought that the Aztecs played a form of marbles. Clay marbles have been found in prehistoric pueblo ruins in the southwestern United States, in the classic periods Valley of Mexico ruins, and in the northern plains. The British Museum in London displays marbles of clay, stone and flint that date back to ancient Roman and Egyption civilizations. In Ancient Greece and Rome, children played games with round nuts, and Jewish children played games with filberts at Passorver. The Latin expression "relinguere nuces" - putting away childish things - probably refers to the polished nuts in these games. Although most early marble games were played with stone and nuts, some early Roman glass spheres have been found in Europe. Whether they were intended for jewelery or served as childrens' toys is not known. A second century roman, Athenaeus writes of a game of marbles in which the suitors of Penelope in the Odysseey shot their alleys against another marble representing the queen. The first player to hit the queen marble had another turn, and if he was successful again he was considered to be the probable bridegroom. Glass marbles are thought to have been some of the many glass objects made in ninth century Venice, but it is not until the late middle ages that the playing of marbles games is again documented. It appears that by then marbles were known throughout Europe. A manustript from the fifteenth centruy refers to 'little balls with which schoolboys played". In 1503 the town council of Nurenberg, Germany, limited the playing of marble games to a meadow outside of town. The popularity of marbles in England during the Middle Ages is evidenced in the town council statues of the village of Saint Gall, which othorized the user of a cat-o-nin-tails on boys who played marbles under the fish stand and refused to be warned off". A painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, "Children's Games" dated 1560 shows a scene of children playing marbles. Archeologists have discovered marbles in the ruins of homes from this period, including the home of protestant Martin Luther. In 1720 Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe wrote of a marble player "so dexterous an artist at shooting the tittle alabaster globe.. that he seldom missed." TRANSITION MARBLES Toward the end of the nineteenth century American entrepreneurs began to vie for a share of the German-dominated marble industry. Early attempts to compete with Germain production of handmade marbles provided commercially unsuccessful. James Leighton, who founded and worked for a variety of turn of the century marbles companies, developed a new tool, a mold on a pair of tongs. This
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Types of marbles Types of Marbles Wholesale and Bulk Marbles Types of Marbles Marbles come in an astonishing variety and are commonly classified according to their size, appearance, and materials they are made from. Glass marbles are probably the most popular today, but they can also be made from clay, crockery, china, real marble, stone ivory, agate, steel and other materials. Generally, marbles are around 1/2-inch across, but they can range from less than 1/4-inch to more than 3 inches. Marble players often use terms like jumbo, pee wee, queenie, bumbo, bumboozer, and boulders to describe marble sizes. Sometimes the names given to marbles describe the materials from which they are made and sometimes they describe their appearance. Here are some of the major classifications. Alley or Real describes a marble that is made from real marble or alabaster. Alley stands for alabaster. These usually have wavy patterns with lots of color. Common names for these marbles include onyx, bumblebee, corkscrew, and swirl. Other examples include: Oxblood�these have streaks that resemble blood. Onionskin�which contain a pattern that looks like an onion. Lutz�the name comes from a skating term, describing a pattern that resembles this marble's streak. Toothpaste�distinct waves of black, orange, white, blue and red. Cats Eye�these are created by injecting colored cores into the marble, which look like eyes in the center of the marble. Croton Alley or Jasper should not be confused with the alley marbles listed above. Instead, they are made of either glazed or unglazed china that is marbled with blue. These are usually larger than the other alley marbles. Commie or common marbles are usually brightly painted but are made of clay and don't often retain their finish over time. They generally don't have much value. A Steely is just what it sounds like, made of steel. Sulphide marbles are clear and have objects embedded inside of them. China and Plaster marbles are both made from china. China marbles are those that have been glazed, while plasters are those that have not been. Both of them have lines of various colors that sometimes cross each other, forming plaid designs. They also form circles called bull's eyes. Like any other form of china, they are created in wooden molds, then baked, and painted. An Aggie is made from agate, or sometimes carnelian and are usually quite beautiful. They vary in color from gray to blood red and sometimes have stripes or mottlings of different colors. When they are created, the rock is broken down into smaller pieces and then a hammer is used to form them into crude balls. They are then worn down on a grindstone until they are perfect spheres. They are then polished polished by hand. Aggies are perfect when you are making a difficult shot because of their balanced weight and symmetry. Crystal or Clearie marbles are made of clear colored glass, and are often known as rubies, bloods, glimmers, or opals. They too are often beautiful but don't stand up to wear and tear. After they have been used, their finish becomes full of nicks and has a dull sheen. Sometimes these marbles are called agates, so the genuine agate is often referred to as "real" to distinguish it from the glass ones. The terms galaxy, cloudy, swirly, mica, and milky are also familiar to many marble players. Take a look at the categories on the right and peruse the selection of marbles available for purchase on eBay. Be careful, though, you might get hooked on collecting these beautiful toys or showpieces!
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"Whose ""family"" was Squeaky Fromme a part of?"
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Squeaky Fromme - Criminal - Biography.com Squeaky Fromme Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was a member of Charles Manson's "Family," who was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford. IN THESE GROUPS The Infamous Manson Family Synopsis Although she was one of Charles Manson's most trusted associates, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had no hand in the infamous 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders orchestrated by Manson. She was a fixture in front of the Los Angeles courthouse during Manson's trial, however, remaining loyal to him throughout. In September 1975, she pulled a gun on President Ford; she was grabbed by the Secret Service and later sentenced to life in prison. Fromme escaped from prison in 1987, but was captured and jailed until her 2009 release. Early Life Squeaky Fromme was born as Lynette Alice Fromme in Santa Monica, California on October 22, 1948. Fromme was a child performer, touring with a dance troupe around the age of 10. After high school, Fromme moved to Venice Beach, where she met Charles Manson. She was instantly captivated by Manson, as were all members of his "Family," and before long Manson invited her to join him in traveling the country, which she did. The Manson 'Family' When they returned, Fromme moved into the Spahn Ranch with Manson and his followers, taking care of 80-year-old George Spahn, who nicknamed her Squeaky because of the sound she made when he would touch her. When Manson and his followers were arrested for the multiple murders they committed in August 1969, Fromme avoided police scrutiny because she was not present at either murder scene. Instead of sitting in the courtroom with Manson, as a show of her unflagging support she camped outside the Los Angeles County courtroom where Manson and his followers were being tried. After Manson was convicted, he was moved from prison to prison, and Fromme moved from town to town to be near him. Unrelated to her Manson Family activities, in November 1972, Fromme and four others were arrested after a couple was found murdered and buried in the woods. The other four confessed, and Fromme was released. Three years later, Fromme's luck would run out when she pulled a loaded pistol on President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, where she had lived for three years (17 days later, another attempt would be made on Ford's life). She was convicted of the attempted assassination and sentenced to life in prison. The trial ended with Fromme throwing an apple at the face of the prosecuting attorney, knocking off his glasses. In December 1987, Fromme escaped from a West Virginia prison in an attempt to meet up with Charles Manson, who she heard had developed cancer. She was captured and imprisoned until 2008, when her parole was granted. Fromme was released a year later. Related Videos Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us ! Citation Information
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Fred Flintstone | The Flintstones | Fandom powered by Wikia Personality and occupation Fred and Barney in Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Fred's personality was based on that of Ralph Kramden of the 1950s television series The Honeymooners and Chester A. Riley from The Life of Riley. Thus, much like Ralph, Fred tends to be loud-mouthed, aggressive, and constantly scheming ways to improve his family's working class lot in life, often with unintended results. Archie Bunker of All in the Family & Archie Bunker's Place and George Jefferson of The Jeffersons also have similar personalities based on Fred Flintstone. Fred is a typical blue-collar worker, who works as a "bronto crane operator" at Slate Rock and Gravel Company (also known as Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company in the earliest episodes). However, when their children become teenagers, Fred and Barney join the Bedrock police force. Fred and Barney even coached two baseball teams as well. The Flintstone family came from "Arkenstone" where they had been engaged in a feud with the "Hatrock" family which had been caused by an ancestor of Fred's making a wisecrack of a Hatrock family portrait ("I don't know what the artist got for doing that painting but he should have gotten life"). In " The Bedrock Hillbillies ", the feud is ended when Fred helps save a Hatrock baby (and Pebbles) from going over a waterfall only to start up again when Fred makes the very same wisecrack. In " The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes ", when the "Hatrock" family visited the Flintstone family and being friends, until when Bug Music was played & the Hatrocks can't stand the Bug Music. The last of the Arkenstone Flintstones was Fred's Great-uncle Zeke Flintstone. Other Flintstone relatives were Giggles Flintstone - a rich eccentric practical joker whose jokes drive Fred into a mad rage; an "Uncle Tex" and his sister "Aunt Jamima". Fred in Flintstones the Movie. Fred's interests include bowling, playing pool, poker and lounging around the house, and playing golf. At the first two of these, he is very skilled, as seen in one of the episodes where he plays against Wilma's unsuspecting mother. Fred has won championships with his incredible bowling skills. In " Bowling Ballet ", he goes so far as to take ballet lessons in order to improve his game which led to his nickname "Twinkletoes". The nickname of "Twinkletoes" stuck with him when Fred attended a local college and became eligible to play on their football team, and it became his call sign. Fred is also an excellent golfer. In " The Golf Champion ", he wins the championship only to have Barney repossess the winning trophy cup because Fred is behind in his dues. Fred, like Barney, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge (named "the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs" in an early episode). Fred also has a serious gambling problem; the mere mention of the word "bet" causes Fred to stammer "bet" over and over again and go on gambling binges. The original series had several stories regarding TV with Fred as a dupe. In one, Fred makes a fool of himself trying to give Wilma acting lessons after she wins a TV appearance – only for the only part of her to appear on TV is her hands. In another, when Fred wins a TV appearance he tries to act like a "Stage parent" - until he comes down with stage fright. A third time Fred appears on a TV commercial in a non speaking role as a "before" picture of a person before going on a diet. Once, Fred even appeared in a movie, but merely as a stunt double. Fred's catchphrase "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" (originally derived from the Brylcreem advertising jingle motto "A Little Dab'll Do Ya!"), becomes the subject of a song by Hoagy Carmichael that the singer-songwriter performs in an episode of The Flintstones. Fred's ability to carry a tune was quite good in his younger years. One early episode was where he did a jam with his musician friend " Hot Lips Hannigan ", (with Barney, who is apparently a skilled drummer) where his singing caused teenage girls to swoon over him. In fact, in one of the earliest episodes, "
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Instructor: Thomas J. Sienkewicz ( toms@monm.edu ) THE NOMENCLATURE The American Heritage Dictionary 3rd ed. lists 103 chemical elements. Of these, 45 are made from Latin or Greek base words. Approximately 31 from Greek, and 14 from Latin. The names from Latin and Greek were not just chosen at random. There was a definite characteristic that made these names applicable. For instance, both bromine (35) and osmium (76) are derived from Greek words that mean "stink"; phosphorus means "light-bearing." Many identify colors associated with the element [e.g. beryllium 4) (and praseodymium (59) are from Greek words which mean green; iridium (77) = the Latin rainbow; rhodium (45) = the Greek rose, and rubidium (37) = the Latin red]. The names of 9 elements are derived from characters in Classical mythology. For instance, mercury (80) is very fluid, so it was named after the fleet-footed messenger of the gods. Promethium (61) is named after the Titan who gave humans fire. Both the earth (tellurium, 52) and the moon (selenium, 34) have elements associated with them. All of the planets in our solar system are named from mythological deities, and three of the chemical elements draw their name from these planets. The focal point here is Uranus, from which uranium (92) is named. Neptune comes next to Uranus as a planet; therefore, the chemical element next to uranium is neptunium (93). And second to Uranus is the planet Pluto and the second element beyond uranium is plutonium (94), Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, gave her name to iridium (77). Perhaps the most fascinating mythological names are these last two: 1. Tantalus could not drink water, so an element that does not an element that does not absorb water nor dissolve in most acids was named tantalum (73). 2. Tantalus had a daughter named Niobe, thus an element found in association with tantalum (73) is called niobium (41). Another seven elements are derived from Latin or Greek names of places. For example, lutetium (71) comes from Lutetia, the Roman name for Paris, and magnesium (12) and manganese (25) from Magnesia in Greece. This makes a total of 6l (almost two thirds) which have an affiliation with Latin or Greek. There are also two from characters in Norse mythology: thorium (90) from Thor, and vanadium (23) from an alternate name for the goddess Freya. EPONYMY Chemical elements are also named after places, including countries, cities, continents, and people. 20 elements have names derived from places: A. National or continental: polonium (84) (so named by Madame Curie to honor her native country) ruthenium (44) (from the Latin name for Russia) scandium (21) thulium (69) (because it was discovered in North Scandinavia, and the Greeks called the farthermost regions Thoule) indium (49) B. Towns [mostly where discovered, and Scandinavia has its share of these]: 1. Scandinavian cities: holmium (67) (from the latin form of Stockholm) erbium (68) (from a town in Sweden) Yttrium (39), terbium (65), and ytterbium (70) are all named after Ytterby, a town in Sweden. Note clipping of name. 2. Other towns: lutetium (71) (from the the Latin name for Paris) strontium (38) (from a town in Scotland, where it was first found in the lead mines) berkelium (97) rhenium (75) (from the Rhine) copper (29) (from Cyprus, famous for its copper mines) californium (98) Nine of the remaining 21 elements are based on people's names. The Scandinavians, Russians, and French rate two each in this category: A. Scandinavian 1. gadolinium (64)- so named by a Swiss chemist who discovered it in gadonlinite, which was named from a Finnish chemist. Gadolin (1760-1812) 2. nobelium (102)- from the Swedish inventor of dynamite and originator of the Nobel prize. It was so called because this element was first discovered at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm. B. Russian 1. mendelevium (101)- from the Russian chemist Mendeleev [pronounce men - de - la - ef] 2. samarium (62)- from Colonel Samarski, a Russian mining official C. French 1. curium (96)- of course from Pierre Curie and his Polish wife Marie 2. g
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General Knowledge #4 - StudyBlue Good to have you back! If you've signed in to StudyBlue with Facebook in the past, please do that again. General Knowledge #4 Which European capital has a skyline dominated by St Stephen�s cathedral? Vienna Shogi is a Japanese form of which boardgame? Chess Which astronomer discovered the planet Uranus? Herschel, What type of vessel to explore ocean depths was invented in 1947 by Auguste Piccard? Bathyscaphe On the Fahrenheit scale, what temperature is boiling point? 212 degrees, In which US state is the city of Pittsburgh? Pennsylvania, What does someone suffering from dysphagia have difficulty in doing? Swallowing On what date do the French celebrate Bastille Day? 14-Jul Which instrument derives its name from the fact that it can be played soft or loud according to the pressure on the keys? Pianoforte How many players are there in a lacrosse team? 12 Which German tennis player won five successive Grand Slam tournaments in the 1980s? Steffi Graf What is meant by the musical term �andante�? At a moderate tempo Which patron saint of the British Isles does not have his cross on the union flag? David In which ocean does the country of Vanuatu lie? Pacific Which French novelist wrote Madame Bovary? Gustave Flaubert Advertisement Under Genoese control from the 14th century, which Mediterranean island was sold to France in 1768? Corsica In May 1999, who succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel�s prime minister? Ehud Barak How many dozens are there in a gross? Twelve Carmine is a vivid shade of which colour? Red Which word for the act of killing someone painlessly, especially to relieve suffering, is derived from the Greek for �easy death�? Euthanasia What sort of films are sometimes referred to �horse operas�? Westerns, Which German physicist laid down the principles of quantum theory? Max Planck Which famous sportsman was presented with a gold medal during the 1996 Olympics, to replace the one he threw away in the 1960s? Muhummad Ali Which saint�s day falls on 17 March? Patrick, What is the longest river in France? Loire, In a bullfight, what is a mounted man with a lance called? Picador. What was the first name of the composer Mussorgsky? Modest The Kara Sea is an arm of which ocean? Arctic Who wrote the 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea? Iris Murdoch Which famous UK fashion designer married Andreas Kronthaler in 1992? Vivienne Westwood, Which husband and wife shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel? Pierre and Marie Curie Who wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm? Kate Wiggin In which sport is the James Norris Memorial Trophy awarded? Ice hockey In which European country is the summer and ski resort of Zell am See Austria Who is the patron saint of music? St Cecilia What name is given to the Japanese art of flower arranging Ikebana Of which country did Jean-B�del Bokassa proclaim himself emperor in 1977? Central African Republic Name the walled city in Canada that has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Quebec City What name is given to the fruits of plants of the genus Ficus? Figs Which body of water in Scotland does the Kincardine Bridge span Firth of Forth Which British author wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps? John Buchan In which African country is the resort of Sharm El Sheikh? Egypt, Which Frenchman made the first flight across the English Channel in 1909? Louis Bleriot In which part of the body would you find the organ of Corti? The ear, In which New Mexico city was the atomic bomb developed in the Manhattan Project? Los Alamos Which famous English landscape artist�s works include The Vale of Dedham? John Constable Which novelist wrote The Young Caesar and The Aerodrome? Rex Warner Which Brazilian racing driver was killed at Imola in 1994? Ayrton Senna If something is �clavate� what shape is it? Club-shaped. Which Norwegian painter�s works include The Scream? Edvard Munch Which of the gifts brought by the Magi is also known as olibanum? Frankincense Who was the goddess of youth and spring in Greek mythology? Hebe Which Austrian composer wrote the oratorios The Creation and
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Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci online › The proportions of the human body in the manner of Vitruvius (The Vitruvian Man) © Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Polo Museale Veneziano The proportions of the human body in the manner of Vitruvius (The Vitruvian Man) c1490 This iconic drawing illustrates Leonardo’s own interpretation of Vitruvius’ written account of how the ideal proportions of man, with arms and legs outstretched, would fit into the geometric forms of the square and the circle. In order to achieve a coherent solution, Leonardo chose to adjust the relationship between the circle and the square - only the centre of the circle coincides with the navel, while the centre of the square is located somewhat lower. In this drawing, he corrected inconsistencies in Vitruvius’ measurements of the human figure, guided by his own observations and deductions based on the study of life models. Through the precision of his own measurements, he created an image that is accepted as a true representation of Vitruvius’ findings, and a perfectly credible albeit constructed image of the ideal proportions of the human figure. Medium Pen and brown ink with wash over metalpoint Size 34.4 x 24.5 cm Location Galleria dell’Accademia
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Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 4th November The Questions Macclesfield Pub Quiz League Set by The Lamb Inn ART & ENTERTAINMENT 1. Q. Offenbach’s barcarolle from ‘The Tales of Hoffman’ is a famous piece of music, but what is a barcarolle ? A. A BOATING SONG (Accept any reference to boats). 2. Q. Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta contains the song generally known as ‘A Policeman’s lot is not a happy one’ ? A. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. 3. Q. Which TV presenter is the daughter of Newspaper Editor and Columnist Eve Pollard ? A. CLAUDIA WINKELMAN. 4. Q. Who created the statue of ‘St.Michael’s victory over the Devil’ on Coventry Cathedral ? A. JACOB EPSTEIN. 5. Q. Which artist painted the work entitled ‘Guernica’ ? A. PABLO PICASSO. 6. Q. In the TV series ‘Inspector Morse’, who wrote the theme tune ? A. BARRINGTON PHELOUNG 7. Q. Mark McManus of ‘Taggart’ fame had a famous singing half-brother. Who is he ? A. BRIAN CONNOLLY (Lead singer of The Sweet). 8. Q. Who composed the music for the films ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ and ‘The Mission’ ? A. ENNIO MORRICONE. (a) Q. Which piece of music preceded TV’s ‘The Lone Ranger’ ? A. THE WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE (Giaochino Rossini) (b) Q. Who is the mother of actress Joely Richardson ? A. VANESSA REDGRAVE. (c) Q. In which play does Mrs. Malaprop appear ? A. THE RIVALS (by Sheridan) 1) What is the capital of Croatia ? (A) Zagreb 2) Which river runs through Leicester ? (A) Soar 3) What is described as : a U-shaped body of water that forms when a wide meander from the main river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water ? (A) Ox Bow Lake 4) What is the largest lake in Europe ? (A) Lake Lagoda (14th largest in the world.) 5) What is a line on a map or chart joining points of equal height or depth called ? (A) Contour 6) Which city is the capital of Canada ? (A) Ottawa 7) Which river runs through Ipswich ? (A) Orwell 8) Yosemite National Park is in which US State ? (A) California SUPPLEMENTARIES (a) Greenland belongs to which country ? (A) Denmark. (b) In which country are the largest waterfalls measured by flow-rate in Europe ? (A) Switzerland (Rhine falls) 1. Q. Which statesman married Miss Clementine Hosier in 1908 ? A. WINSTON CHURCHILL. 2. Q. Who founded The National Viewers & Listeners Association in 1965 ? A. MARY WHITEHOUSE. 3. Q. In which year did the first human heart transplant take place ? A. 1967 (allow 1966-1968). 4. Q. Where was Princess Elizabeth staying when she was given the news of her accession to the throne in 1558 ? A. HATFIELD HOUSE in Hertfordshire. 5. Q. Give a year in the life of Ivan the Terrible. A. 1530 – 1584 6. Q. The Rolls Royce ‘Thrust Measuring Rig’ developed in the 1950’s took off vertically, but what was its nickname ? A. THE FLYING BEDSTEAD. 7. Q. Whose London monument by Edward Bailey is guarded by Edwin Landseer’s lions? A. NELSON 8. Q. What, infamously, happened at Yekaterinburg on July 17th 1918 ? A. THE ASSASINATION OF THE RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY (THE ROMANOVS) (a) Q. What was the code-name for planned German invasion of Britain ? A. OPERATION SEA LION. (b) Q. What is the connection between a large fish-eating bird and Drake’s ship ? A. PELICAN (Name of Drakes ship before becoming The Golden Hind). SCIENCE 1. Q. What is the tradename of the Du Pont synthetic fibre of high-tensile strength used mainly in rubber products, notably tyres and bullet-proof vests ? A. KEVLAR. 2. Q. In astronomy, where would you find the ‘Cassini Division’ ? A. SATURNS RINGS. 3. Q. As a percentage, what is the average salinity of sea water ? A. 3.5% (accept 3% to 4%) 4. Q. What name is given to static discharges visible on aircraft wing tips and the tops of ships masts ? A. ST. ELMO’S FIRE. 5. Q. In what device in the home would you find a magnetron ? A. MICROWAVE OVEN. 6. Q. Traditionally, how have teachers always used sticks of calcium sulphate ? A. BLACKBOARD CHALK. 7. Q. Why is sodium carbonate sometimes added to a water supply ? A. TO REDUCE NATURAL HARDNESS. 8. Q. Which element is common to all acids ? A. HYDROGEN. (a) Q. By what name is deuterium oxide also kn
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The Italian Presepe: A Christmas Tradition | Italy The Italian Presepe: A Christmas Tradition The Holy Nativity in Italy Submitted by annadefilippo on Mon, 12/12/2016 - 11:59 The Holy Nativity in Italy A small forward... The Presepe is truly a piece of Italy's tradition and heritage. As you are about to read, the history of Presepe is well rooted in that of Italy and even those who are not practicing Catholics tend to consider it an integrant part of their Christmas. It is important to underline it because, in the past bunch of years, our beloved Presepe has been under attack. Italy has been developing – not always happily and not always successfully – into a more culturally and ethnically varied country, where freedom of cult is, of course, guaranteed. Allegedly to protect such freedom, calls to remove Presepe from schools and public places have been growing. This created a huge mediatic backlash and ultimately increased intolerance. If you think it is non-Catholics and non-Italians to say "no" to Presepe, you are wrong: it is our school principals, our directors to do it, and they are all Italians. Non-Catholics coming from outside Italy are, mostly, pretty cool with Presepe and accept, some happily others more grudgingly, the culture and heritage of the country they chose as theirs. It is we Italians creating the issue and it is shameful. Italy's glorious culture and heritage come from an equally glorious past, rooted in Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions. Presepe, a symbol of the Nativity, should not only be important to Catholics celebrating the birth of Christ, but to all Italians aware of their own past and heritage. It seems to me that, too often, we try to better ourselves by embracing all that is new, forgetting where we come from or, even worse, feeling ashamed of our own origins. There is nothing wrong in embracing the new, being tolerant and find beauty and righteousness in other people's cultures, sets of believes or lack thereof. But neglecting one's cultural heritage and, even worst, denying it in name of another, is a shameful, shameful act, as there is nothing worse than killing Memory: it is the beginning of the end of a civilization. This is not going to be an easy Christmas for our Presepe: removed from many schools in Italy "not to offend non-Christians," when non-Christians are, on average, not bothered with Presepi in schools, and Christmas being celebrated as it always has. And even if non-Christians were not happy with the cultural display our Christmas is, we should never, as a nation, as representatives of a culture that is common to billions of people around the world, spit in the eye of our tradition just because we were said or suggested to do it. Our culture, the one we were born into, is the very own essence of our Humanity, let us never forget it.
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Beaches and Seaside Towns of Calabria, Southern Italy Beaches and Seaside Towns of Calabria Beaches and Seaside Towns of Calabria Where to Go on the Coast of Calabria, the Toe of the Boot Francecso/Moment Open/Getty Images By Michelle Fabio Updated January 07, 2016. Calabria offers some of the cleanest and most pristine beaches in Italy. Over 500 miles (800 km) of coast line nearly surround the Calabria region , the toe of the boot. Find out what to expect at Italian beaches with these Tips for Going to the Beach in Italy . Tyrrhenian Coast of Calabria Calabria's Tyrrhenian coast features spectacular rocky cliffs interspersed with fine white sand. Capo Vaticano and Tropea are the most popular tourist destinations along this coast and both have Italian language schools. Tropea's beaches are consistently rated some of the cleanest in Italy. Both are achingly quaint villages full of historical sites, shops, restaurants, and lodging in addition to their glorious beaches. Pizzo is another notable town nearby, famous for its Chiesa di Piedigrotta, a church completely carved out of the tufo rock near the beach, and for tartufo, an ice cream celebrated with a festival in Pizzo every August. Diamante is a fishing village known for its catches, beautiful beaches, and annual Peperoncino Festival in September celebrating the spicy hot chile pepper featured in many Calabrian dishes. continue reading below our video Before Your Road Trip, Watch This Scalea is another popular resort. The beaches that crowd in the summer highlight this old town, but it also has a charming city center spread over a series of steps, from where it gets its name. The area of Scalea lies within the territory of the old Greek coastal colonies of ancient Sybaris and archaeologists have found many prehistoric artifacts here. Along the Tyrrehenian Coast you'll also find Palmi, the home of La Casa della Cultura Leonida Repaci with a collection of pottery and paintings and the Museo Calabrese di Etnografie e Folklore, a superb collection of Calabrian folklore items. About 3 miles south of Palmi is the Monte Sant'Elia (the first peak of the Aspromonte Mountains) from which you'll enjoy the breathtakingly best view of Sicily and the Calabrian Coast - the plains of the Poro, the Gulf of Gioia, the rock of Scilla, the Sicilian coast, and the peak of Stròmboli's volcano. According to Homer in The Odyssey, Scilla's amazing cliffs were home to the six-headed sea monster Scylla who terrorized ships passing through; the other danger mentioned is Charybdis, a whirlpool in the Strait of Messina. The currents of the strait, which can indeed become quite fierce, are said to be controlled by the temperament of Aeolis (of the nearby Aeolian Islands). Local lore says that mermaids still live in these waves. More tangible things to see in Scilla include its 17th century castle, Castello Ruffo, which sits above the beaches. Near the castle is Chiesa di Maria S.S. Immacolata with a renowned altar and fourteen bronze sculptures of Jesus. Ionian Coast of Calabria The Ionian coast has calmer waters than the Tyrrehenian Coast, but just as impressive cliffs and stretches of sand. Less developed and often less crowded than its Tyrrhenian counterpart, the Ionian proffers numerous historical and archaeological treats including Le Castella's Aragonese castle and Capo Colonna's sole remaining column of the once magnificent ancient temple of Hera Lacinia. Soverato and Siderno are both hubs of activity on the Ionian Coast with many qualities of modern cities. They get quite crowded with northern Italian and other European tourists in summer. For those who love medieval villages, the best preserved ones can be found in Stilo, Gerace, and Badolato. Stilo features the impressive La Cattolica, a 10th century, brick-built Byzantine church with five tile-covered domes. Gerace is reputed to have been founded in the 9th century by refugees of nearby Locri (a great stop for those who love archaeological digs) looking to escape the pervasive danger of invading Saracens. It's said that a sparrowhawk led
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Aron Ralston, '127 Hours' hiker, arrested for domestic violence | Daily Mail Online Next The real '127 Hours' climber who cut off his own arm held for domestic violence Aron Ralston cut off his own hand to escape a canyon after being trapped for five days in 2003 His story became the best-selling book Between a Rock and a Hard Place In 2010, it was adapted into the blockbuster film '127 Hours' with James Franco playing Ralston Arrested at the home of a woman named Vita Shannon Ralston, 38, got married in 2009 and the couple had a son Leo in 2010
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2000 Academy Awards® Winners and History Traffic (2000, Germ./US) Actor: RUSSELL CROWE in "Gladiator," Javier Bardem in "Before Night Falls," Tom Hanks in "Cast Away," Ed Harris in "Pollock," Geoffrey Rush in "Quills" Actress: JULIA ROBERTS in "Erin Brockovich," Joan Allen in "The Contender," Juliette Binoche in "Chocolat," Ellen Burstyn in "Requiem for a Dream," Laura Linney in "You Can Count On Me" Supporting Actor: BENICIO DEL TORO in "Traffic," Jeff Bridges in "The Contender," Willem Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire," Albert Finney in "Erin Brockovich," Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator" Supporting Actress: MARCIA GAY HARDEN in "Pollock," Judi Dench in "Chocolat," " Kate Hudson in "Almost Famous," Frances McDormand in "Almost Famous," Julie Walters in "Billy Elliot" Director: STEVEN SODERBERGH for "Traffic," Stephen Daldry for "Billy Elliot," Ang Lee for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Steven Soderbergh for "Erin Brockovich," Ridley Scott for "Gladiator" This year's Best Picture nominees were from an eclectic, diverse and varied group of films: two fighting epics (one foreign, one ancient), two dramas about battles (America's failed drug war and a legal struggle against a power company), and a simple, comic fable. Three of the five Best Picture nominees prominently featured women. The Oscar awards were spread somewhat evenly among the Best Picture nominees, except for Chocolat. The big winner in 2000 was director Ridley Scott's spectacular, big budget (over $200 million) sword-and-sandal Roman Empire epic set in 180 A.D., Gladiator - a basic tale of good vs. evil, betrayal, and revenge - about an outcast Roman general (and single-minded rebel-hero) seeking vengeance for betrayal and his family's death. The spectacle of the Roman Colosseum's gladiatorial battles and contests was balanced with royal intrigue involving the resentful heir to the Roman throne. (Although greatly enhanced with CGI-digital effects, it revived the memory of dramatic historic-epic films and 'sword-and-sandal' spectaculars of the 50s, such as Quo Vadis? (1951), Ben-Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960).) The film received twelve nominations and won five awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Costume Design. DreamWorks Studios boasted back-to-back wins for Best Picture - it also won the previous year with American Beauty (1999). Its nominations included the major and minor categories of Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, and Best Costumes. This marked the first time in 51 years -- since 1949 (the year that All the King's Men (1949) had seven nominations and three wins: Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress) that the Best Picture winner didn't also win an additional Oscar for Best Director or for Best Screenplay. The other Best Picture nominees included the following: Ang Lee's Mandarin-language martial-arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (or Wo hu zang long) (with ten nominations and four wins), was the biggest-earning foreign film of all time (at $130 million), and the most-nominated foreign language film ever. The film's four wins tied it
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Ronald Reagan | whitehouse.gov Air Force One Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving "peace through strength" abroad. At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism." On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon graduation, he became a radio sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a contract in Hollywood. During the next two decades he appeared in 53 films. From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had two children, Maureen and Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, who was also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry; his political views shifted from liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970. Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush. Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long confinement of Americans in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter. On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to duty. His grace and wit during the dangerous incident caused his popularity to soar. Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment, and strengthen national defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and Government expenditures, refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of defense forces led to a large deficit. A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped Reagan and Bush win a second term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes. Their victory turned away Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes. At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression. In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace through strength." During his two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent, but sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. In dramatic meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Reagan declared war against international terrorism, sending American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub. By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he maintained the free flow of oil during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan Doctrine, he gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia, and Africa. Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity, and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be within grasp. The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The
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Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit | Kyle's Converter 1 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 33.8 70 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 158 2 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 35.6 80 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 176 3 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 37.4 90 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 194 4 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 39.2 100 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 212 5 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 41 200 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 392 6 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 42.8 300 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 572 7 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 44.6 400 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 752 8 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 46.4 500 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 932 9 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 48.2 600 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 1112 10 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 50 800 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 1472 20 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 68 900 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 1652 30 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 86 1,000 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 1832 40 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 104 10,000 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 18032 50 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 122 100,000 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 180032 60 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 140 1,000,000 Degrees Celsius to Degrees Fahrenheit = 1800032 Similar Temperature Units
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Bank Robbers of the Great Depression in the 1930s | The Classroom | Synonym Bank Robbers of the Great Depression in the 1930s by Karen Clark Many bank robbers gained noteriety during the Great Depression. Related Articles What Happened to Howard Carter After His Discovery of King Tuts Tomb? Such was the fame of Depression-era bandits that they remain subjects of movies and books to this day. At a time when the average Joe was struggling to pay for basic necessities, outlaws were taking what they couldn't get honestly. For most of the 1930s, Public Enemy Number One was usually a bank robber. An Infamous Gang The Dillinger Gang consisted of an infamous bunch of outlaws that, besides John Dillinger, at various times included Baby Face Nelson, Homer Van Meter and John "Red" Hamilton. Starting in the summer of 1933, they stole about $300,000 from banks in five states across the Midwest. Dillinger quickly found himself at the top of the FBI's Public Enemies, with the rest of his gang making up most of the remaining top 10. He met his death at the hands of FBI gunmen outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934. A Notorious Partnership Starting in 1932, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow committed a string of bank, gas station and convenience store robberies from Louisiana to as far west as New Mexico. They also killed several people along the way, including civilians and law enforcement officers. Famous for being photographed together and appearing in newspapers, their pictures also ended up on most-wanted posters across the country. The FBI finally caught up with them in 1934. They were each shot to death in their car as they drove a country lane to Sailes, Louisiana. Siblings in Crime Fred and Arthur "Dock" Barker were brothers who banded together with Alvin "Creepy" Karpis to rob banks during the Great Depression. Their mother, known as Ma Barker, gained a reputation as the ring leader, though it's unclear whether she actually played a role in the family business. Based in Oklahoma, the Barker-Karpis Gang not only robbed banks, but they murdered and kidnapped, quickly catching the attention of the FBI. Dock was arrested in 1935 and sent to Alcatraz where he was eventually shot trying to escape; his brother Freddie and their mother died after a four-hour shootout with the FBI in Florida that same year. Folk Hero Charles Arthur Floyd, better known as Pretty Boy Floyd, made a name for himself as a bank robber in Oklahoma and the Midwest. His name conjured the ideals of Robin Hood to ordinary people suffering through the Great Depression. To them, he was a folk hero; to the FBI, he was Public Enemy Number One. He robbed over 30 banks, most of them in Ohio and Oklahoma. Though implicated in a string of murders he did not commit, Floyd was guilty of shooting a bounty hunter who tried to capture him. FBI agents and local police officers shot and killed Floyd in 1934 near East Liverpool, Ohio. Over 20,000 people attended his funeral. References
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Gangsters, Mobsters & Outlaws of the 20th Century - Page 4 N Frank "Jelly� Nash, aka: Charles B. Edgar, Doc Williams (1887-1933) - Sentenced to life in prison for an Oklahoma murder, he was later pardoned. In 1920 he was sent back to prison for robbery, but was again pardoned. In 1924, he was back in prison at Leavenworth , Kansas for assault, but escaped in 1930. He was killed in the Kansas City Massacre , a shootout at the Union Station railroad depot on June 17, 1933. George "Baby Face" Nelson, aka: Lester Joseph Gillis (1908-1934) - Though his name was actually Lester Gillis, he was better known by "Baby Face" Nelson during his criminal days. A major bank robber in the 1930s and partner of John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter, The FBI caught up with him in November, 1934. In the gun battle that ensued, he was shot and killed. The North Side Gang - Also known as the North Side Mob, this Chicago based criminal organization was primarily made up of Irish-Americans during the Prohibition era. They were the principal rival of the Al Capone's gang, the Chicago Outfit. Harry "Pete" Pierpont (1902-1934) - A Prohibition era gangster, he was a good friend of John Dillinger . He was captured in Tucson, Arizona , extradited to Ohio and sentenced to die in the electric chair. He was transferred to the Ohio State Prison at Columbus, and was killed during an escape attempt on September 22, 1934. Adam "Eddie" Richetti (1909-1938) - Involved with Vernon Miller and Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy Floyd," Richetti was involved in the Kansas City massacre. He was later arrested and executed in the gas chamber of the Missouri State Penitentiary on October 7, 1938. O Mary O'Dare - The girlfriend of Barrow Gang member Raymond Hamilton, the 19 year-old girl was not liked by most of the members of the gang. After a dispute with Clyde Barrow, she and Hamilton left the gang. P Bonnie Parker (1910-1934) - Half of the Bonnie and Clyde pair, these two were criminals who, with their gang, traveled and robbed numerous locations in the Central United States during the Great Depression . Rufe Persful - A gangster and bank robber, Persful was a trusty at Tucker State Prison Farm in Arkansas when he chopped off two fingers of his hand to gain transfer to Springfield , Missouri . He was later sent to Alcatraz . Donald Phoenix - A Barker-Karpis Gang member, Phoenix spent time in Alcatraz. Harry Pierpont (1902-1934) - Prohibition gangster and friend and mentor of John Dillinger . He was executed in the electric chair on October 17, 1934. Purple Gang - A mob of bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s in Detroit, Michigan run by Abe Bernstein. The gang ran alcohol products fromt he Detroit port from Canada. Some of the most ruthless bootleggers of their time, they are estimated to have killed more than 500 rival gang members during Detroit's bootleg wars. Q R Morris Raider - A member of the Purple Gang, Raider was sentenced to 12-15 years in prison in 1930 for murder. David "Chippy" Robinson (1897-??) - St. Louis , Missouri armed robber and contract killer responsible for many crimes during the Prohibition era. He was a top ranking member of the Egan's Rats gang. Ralph Roe - A bank robber, Roe was sent to Alcatraz . Along with a man named Theodore Cole, the pair escaped on December 16, 1937 and were never seen again.
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Sheffield's Test Match - July 1902 The Ashes Tour, 1902 Third Test England v Australia Bramall Lane, Sheffield 3rd - 5th July 1902 (3-day match) It is now a little known fact that a Test Match was once held here in Sheffield, and that Bramall Lane was England's seventh Test Match venue. (The test held at Chester le Street in June 2003 now makes that eight in total) The claim to such status is modest, a solitary test match in 1902 before the balance of power in Yorkshire cricket moved from Sheffield to Leeds. Bramall Lane was opened in 1855 as a then state-of-the-art ground to attract big cricket matches back to the city. Earlier grounds at Darnall and Hyde Park had lapsed into disuse when their promoter died. The Bramall Lane ground was built outside the city in rural surroundings so as to avoid the smoke and pollution of the town and the actual site itself was selected by the then Duke of Norfolk. Sheffield United Cricket Club was formed to manage the ground with the first match at 'The Lane' being on 30th April 1855 between The Eleven and The Eighteen, two teams drawn from the several local clubs who agreed to use the ground. . The first big match to be staged was between Yorkshire and Sussex. Not the present county clubs, but sides that represented their counties before organised county cricket began. The visitors had a strong side with John Wisden (of Almanac fame) and the Lillywhites the stars of their day. County games became a regular attraction at Bramall Lane, at a time when the main figures in Yorkshire cricket were based in Sheffield. The county club was formed at a meeting in the city in 1863, and Bramall Lane was proposed as a permanent headquarters for the club. The late nineteenth century also saw the beginings of Sheffield United AFC. Soccer matches staged at the ground, which was the venue of the worlds first floodlit match on October 14th, 1878 between teams chosen by the Sheffield Association and local clubs. The electric power was generated by two portable engines, one behind each goal; and the lamps, one in each corner of the ground, were on wooden towers 30ft high. They were of 8,000 candle-power, and a crowd estimated at nearly 20,000 saw the Association team win 2-0. Bramall Lane became one of the few first class grounds in England that was shared with another sport. Northampton and Swansea being others. Negotiations took place to stage a Test Match at Bramall Lane, and this came about in 1902 when England and Australia met in the Third Test of that years Ashes series. The Ashes, 1902, 3rd Test England v Australia 3,4,5 July 1902 (3-day match) Umpires: J Phillips (Aus) and W Richards Close of Play: Day 1: Australia 194, England 102/5 (Lilley 0*, Braund 0*) Day 2: England 145, Australia 289, England 73/1 (Jessop 53*, Tyldesley 11*) Australia First Innings VT Trumper b Braund 1 RA Duff c Lilley b Barnes 25 C Hill c Rhodes b Barnes 18 *J Darling c Braund b Barnes 0 SE Gregory c Abel b Barnes 11 MA Noble c Braund b Rhodes 47 AJY Hopkins c Braund b Barnes 27 WW Armstrong c & b Braund 25 +JJ Kelly b Barnes 0 H Trumble c & b Jackson 32 JV Saunders not out 0 Extras (b 3, lb 5) 8 Total (all out, 66.1 overs) 194 FoW: 1-3, 2-39, 3-39, 4-52, 5-73, 6-127, 7-137, 8-137, 9-194, 10-194. Bowling O M R W Hirst 15 1 59 0 Braund 13 4 34 2 Barnes 20 9 49 6 Jackson 5.1 1 11 1 Rhodes 13 3 33 1 England First Innings *AC MacLaren b Noble 31 R Abel b Noble 38 JT Tyldesley c Armstrong
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BBC SPORT | Cricket | Test Match Special | TMS ground guide: Edgbaston Test Match Special England v South Africa, First Test, 24-28 July 2003 County Cricket Ground, Edgbaston Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham Take a virtual tour of Edgbaston In the last decade Edgbaston has traditionally hosted the first Test in any major series, as it is in 2003. The ground was originally a meadow used as grazing land before its owner, Lord Calthorpe, authorised its lease for cricket purposes. Edgbaston was recognised as a Test venue in 1902, however it hosted only four matches up until 1957, two of which were against South Africa. But Warwickshire's 1951 Championship triumph provided new impetus, and with significant ground redevelopment, regular Test cricket finally arrived six years leter. Memorably so, as England's highest-ever partnership - a fourth wicket stand of 411 between Peter May and Colin Cowdrey against the West Indies - saved the match and contributed to Sonny Ramadhin's ultra-marathon match analysis of 129-51-229-9. Nearly 50 years on, Edgbaston is a regular on the Test rota, and is England's most successful home venue. As well as watching their fair share of Test victories, the Warwickshire county faithful have also been rewarded with a sustained spell of domestic success. A wonderful place to play a Test - everyone's close to the action and there's a great atmosphere Allan Donald on Edgbaston The county won seven trophies between 1993 and 1997, the most successful period in their history, when such luminaries as Brian Lara and the two South African stalwarts Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock gave good service to the side. Lara hit a first-class record score of 501 on the ground in 1994, the last summer Edgbaston was not given a Test, coincidentally when South Africa were touring. In total South Africa have played five Tests at Edgbaston but have yet to record a victory, losing two, with their last visit prior to the 2003 tour ending in a draw. Since then the impressive new Eric Hollies Stand, right next door to the lively Ryder Stand, has taken the capacity to 22,000. Stat pack England: 19 wins; 7 defeats; 13 draws Highest score: 285* Peter May; England v West Indies 1957 Best bowling (innings): 7-17 Wilfred Rhodes; England v Australia 1902 Best bowling (match): 12-119 Fred Trueman; England v West Indies 1963 Record partnership: 411 Peter May & Colin Cowdrey (4th wkt); England v W Indies 1957 FRINDALL'S FASCINATING FACT Venue of the first ball-by-ball radio commentary of a complete cricket match when BBC Radio broadcast the 1957 West Indies Test England: 2 wins; 3 draws Highest score: Eng: 156; Michael Vaughan 2003 SA: 277; Graeme Smith 2003 Best bowling figures: Eng: 6-7; Arthur Gilligan 1924 SA: 6-152; George Parker 1924 Best match figues: Eng: 11-90 (6-7 & 5-83) Arthur Gilligan 1924 SA: 8-119 (5-62 & 3-57) Neil Adcock 1960 Record partnership: Eng: 221 (2nd wkt); Herbert Sutcliffe & Walter Hammond 1929 SA: 338 (1st wkt); Herschelle Gibbs & Graeme Smith 2003 Directions Situated in the heart of Britain, England's second city is on the M5, M6, M40 and M42 and has direct coach connections to more than 500 destinations. Edgbaston is 1� miles south of the city centre and is easily accesible from the M6 and the M40. To reach the ground from the M6, leave at junction six, following signs for the A38(M) City Centre and then A38 south west through Queensway Tunnel, turning left at first traffic lights and then right at the roundabout onto the A441 (Pershore Road). From the M40, join the M42 at junction three, taking the A435 through Kings Heath before turning left to Edgbaston. The home of the first steam engine has direct services to cities around the country coming into New Street Station. And for those arriving at New Street, there is a free shuttle bus to Edgbaston both before and after the day's action. A taxi would cost in the region of �8. Food & drink For food after the day's play it is best to head to Moseley where there are a plentiful supply of Indian and Balti restaurants. Further afield you could make the most of "loc
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International Radio Operators Phoenetic Alphabet Contact The International Radio Operators Phonetic Alphabet Here's a useful link that has this sort of info for many languages and standards, tho it's arranged a little oddly: http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/phonetic.html Alpha
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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
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In meteorology what name is given to the technique of using substances such as silver iodide to increase precipitation?
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Cloud seeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cloud seeding Jump to: navigation , search Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification , is the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds , by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei , which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud. The usual intent is to increase precipitation (rain or snow), but hail and fog suppression are also widely practiced in airports. Contents [ edit ] How cloud seeding works A ground-based Silver Iodide generator The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide and dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide ). The expansion of liquid propane into a gas has also been used and can produce ice crystals at warmer temperatures than silver iodide. The use of hygroscopic materials, such as salt, is increasing in popularity because of some promising research results. Seeding of clouds requires that they contain supercooled liquid water—that is, liquid water colder than zero degrees Celsius. Introduction of a substance such as silver iodide, which has a crystalline structure similar to that of ice, will induce freezing nucleation . Dry ice or propane expansion cools the air to such an extent that ice crystals can nucleate spontaneously from the vapor phase. Unlike seeding with silver iodide, this spontaneous nucleation does not require any existing droplets or particles because it produces extremely high vapor supersaturations near the seeding substance. However, the existing droplets are needed for the ice crystals to grow into large enough particles to precipitate out. In mid-latitude clouds, the usual seeding strategy has been predicated upon the fact that the equilibrium vapor pressure is lower over ice than over water. When ice particles form in supercooled clouds, this fact allows the ice particles to grow at the expense of liquid droplets. If there is sufficient growth, the particles become heavy enough to fall as snow (or, if melting occurs, rain) from clouds that otherwise would produce no precipitation. This process is known as "static" seeding. Seeding of warm-season or tropical cumuliform (convective) clouds seeks to exploit the latent heat released by freezing. This strategy of "dynamic" seeding assumes that the additional latent heat adds buoyancy, strengthens updrafts, ensures more low-level convergence, and ultimately causes rapid growth of properly selected clouds. Cloud seeding chemicals may be dispersed by aircraft (as in the second figure) or by dispersion devices located on the ground (generators, as in first figure, or canisters fired from anti-aircraft guns or rockets). For release by aircraft, silver iodide flares are ignited and dispersed as an aircraft flies through the inflow of a cloud. When released by devices on the ground, the fine particles are carried downwind and upwards by air currents after release. [ edit ] Controversy Referring to the 1903, 1915, 1919 and 1944 and 1947 weather modification experiments, the Federation of Meterology discounted "rain making". By the 1950s the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics switched to investigating the physics of clouds and had hoped by 1957 to be masters of the weather. By the 1960s the dreams of weather making had truly faded only to be re-ignited post-corporatisation of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in order to achieve "above target" water for energy generation and profits. While cloud seeding has shown to be effective in altering cloud structure and size, and converting cloud water to ice particles, it is more controversial whether cloud seeding increases the amount of precipitation at the ground. Cloud seeding may also suppress precipitation.[ citation needed ] Part of the problem is that it is difficult to discern how much precipitation would have occurred had the cloud not been seeded. There are no discernible "traces" of the effectiveness of recent cloud seeding in the Snowy Mountains Australia. Nevertheless, there is hope that winter cloud seeding over mountains will produce snow. Thi
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So, will it rain tomorrow? Add to myFT So, will it rain tomorrow? The Met Office has been trying to answer this question for 150 years. Have Britain’s weather scientists now cracked it? Read next June 24, 2011 by: Clive Cookson Noon on Thursday June 9 in the Met Office operations room in Exeter. From desk to ceiling, brightly coloured computer screens show past weather and future predictions. Showers speckle a rainfall radar map of the British Isles. A temperature chart shows tongues of warm orange air sticking into a pool of cool blue over the North Atlantic. 92 mm highest rainfall recorded in one hour, Maidenhead, July 12 1901 In the middle sits Martin Young, the chief forecaster, facing a dilemma about the weather three days ahead. He has known since the beginning of the week that an Atlantic depression was likely to reach Britain at the weekend, but now, with millions of people making plans, he must issue more specific guidance about when and where the rain is going to fall on Sunday. “There’s an unusually large difference between the [computer] models three days ahead,” Young explains. The supercomputer at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading puts the incoming depression and its associated rain a full 300 miles further north than the Met Office’s own model. “We have techniques for merging models on screen,” he says. “I’ve blended the early part of one model with the later part of another one. But at the moment we’re leaning more towards the Met Office model.” That would mean rain reaching London at about 2pm on Sunday and northern England by nightfall – we’ll see later what actually happened. Clouds gather over weather instruments, used in conjunction with radar. For all the prodigious processing power and observational resources of the worldwide meteorological system, forecasting decisions still come down to human skill and experience. The Met Office would never rely solely on a computer-generated forecast, says Young, who has worked there for 32 years – moving from the old headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire, to the new Exeter centre. For Young’s boss, chief meteorologist Ewen McCallum, today’s uncertainty about what will happen in three days’ time illustrates the improvement in forecasting over the past generation. When he joined the Met Office 37 years ago, forecasters frequently faced similar or worse uncertainty about what would happen the next day. “A four-day forecast today is about as accurate as a one-day forecast was when I started,” says McCallum, in an accent as Scottish as his name. “Then, we had no operational access to weather satellites, no radar and very slow computers.” Public service Changing face of the Met Office As we walk round the operations room, talking to people who are preparing more specialised forecasts for particular groups, such as shipping and aviation, the sense of continuity and pride in the Met Office is evident. Many of those present have spent their whole working lives in its service. “I have been at the Met Office for 28 years; my father joined in 1950 and was a forecaster for 34 years,” says Rob Varley, operations director. “So the Met Office has been an intimate part of my life since before I was born.” Brian Golding, head of forecasting research and development, will soon celebrate 40 years at the Met Office. The raw materials in a successful forecast have improved beyond recognition over that period, he says, and will continue to do so in the future. The first key ingredient is the fundamental physics of the atmosphere and how it interacts with oceans and land masses to produce weather. This is encapsulated in increasingly sophisticated models, as computing power grows. The £33m Met Office supercomputer – a twinned IBM Power 6 machine installed in 2009 and about to be upgraded – can carry out trillions of calculations a second. It sits in two huge halls, shrouded by what look like plastic shower curtains. These are intended not to preserve the modesty of the energy-guzzling machine but to reduce the need to cool in the immediate vicinity. For
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Friday the 13th Advertisement Friday the 13th In urban legend, Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky. Enough people have such a morbid fear of this day that the condition is given a name of paraskevidekatriaphobia. This word is derived from the Greek words paraskevi (Friday) and dekatria (thirteen) with -phobia as a suffix to indicate fear. Image: Attila Acs A related term is triskaidekaphobia, from Greek tris (three), kai (and), and deka (ten), which was coined in the early twentieth century to refer to fear of the number thirteen generally. The above word forms the basis of a lexical variant friggatriskaidekaphobia, also meaning 'fear of Friday 13th'. The prefix frigga is based on the name of an ancient Scandinavian goddess who was associated with witchcraft and Friday (the witches' sabbath). “I used to be superstitious, then I heard it was unlucky, so I stopped!” Even un-superstitious people might admit to feeling a little uneasy when the 13th falls on a Friday. It’s a good job this does not occur very often. Just a couple of times a year, right? It may then, surprise you to learn that, mysteriously, the 13th is more likely to fall on a Friday than any other day of the week! Lucky Friday 13th “The 13th is more likely to fall on a Friday than any other day of the week!” Surely, that makes Friday the 13th lucky, not unlucky! But wait, that can't be true, can it? Over a long period of time we'd expect things to average out. Is there really an affinity to Friday for the 13th day of the month? Yes, it's true. Let's prove it. But in order to do this, we need a little more background information … (Actually it's quite a lot of background. Hold on tight!) Here comes the sun … To understand why, we have to take a step back. Modern calendar days are based on the Gregorian Calendar . What? Hold on, we have to take a further step backwards … … the Earth revolves around the Sun. Our Solar System is heliocentric. We rotate around the Sun. By definition it takes one year to go all the way around. In exactly one year we will make a complete orbit around the Sun. The Earth spins as it rotates around the sun (more on this later), and this spinning is what causes our days and nights. The axis by which the Earth spins is not aligned with the plane of rotation around the Sun, however. It's tilted approx 23.5° away from the vertical of the 'ecliptic plane'. This tilt exposes different areas of the Earth to different levels of radiation from the Sun at different parts of the orbit. (When tilted towards the Sun, regions are exposed longer and to more direct radiation that is not spread out over a larger resolved area). These effects causes our seasons. Twice a year at special times (called the Equinoxes ) the tilt is such that the length of the night and day are the same. Seasons, agriculture, and religious events are based around these facts. Calendars provide predictable information about when these events will occur. It takes approx 365¼ days (365.25 days) for the Earth to rotate around the Sun, and for hundreds of years this figure was used as the basis for our calendar. This calendar, called the Julian Calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. To accommodate the ¼ day partial, a leap-year was defined to occur every four years. In a leap-year an additional day is added to pick up the slack. We all learn about this in school. The reality, however, is that the true orbital period is a little less than 365.25 days. It's more accurately around 365.2425 days. This difference is small, only about 0.002%, but over centuries, this error compounds. The celebration of the festival of Easter is tied to the Equinox that occurs in the Spring, and the Roman Catholic church was upset about the gradual shift of this ceremony in the calendar. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII made a couple of changes to address this issue. The first was to skip forward 10 days to re-align the calendar with the solar equinox, and the second was define a system to stop this happening again. (It's also at this point in history that the beginn
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Tuesday's Child Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, But a child that's born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blythe, and good and gay. Wondering what day of the week you were born? Enter the day, month, and year that you were born. For example if you were born on April 16, 1990 you would enter Day:16 Month:4 Year:90 Day:
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10 Things You May Not Know About George Patton - History in the Headlines 10 Things You May Not Know About George Patton May 27, 2014 By Christopher Klein Share Find out why the legend of George S. Patton, Jr. endures, even 60 years after his death. From Patton 360. Share this: 10 Things You May Not Know About George Patton Author 10 Things You May Not Know About George Patton URL Google George S. Patton made his mark in World War I as the first officer assigned to the new U.S. Army Tank Corps before becoming one of the most prominent military commanders in World War II. Learn 10 surprising facts about the outspoken American general nicknamed “Old Blood and Guts.” Patton was an Olympic athlete. As a 26-year-old Army cavalry officer, Patton was selected as the sole American competitor in the first-ever Olympic modern pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm. Of the 42 competitors, he finished in fifth place, although he might have medaled if not for a controversy in the pistol-shooting event. While the judges believed Patton missed the target with one of his shots, he argued that he was so fine a marksman that one of his bullets actually traveled through a bullet hole he had already made. Patton was also selected to the 1916 Olympic team, but the Games were cancelled due to World War I. He believed in reincarnation. Patton claimed he had seen combat many times before in previous lives, including as a Roman legionnaire and as part of the 14th-century army of John the Blind of Bohemia. Before the 1943 invasion of Sicily, British General Harold Alexander told Patton, “You know, George, you would have made a great marshal for Napoleon if you had lived in the 19th century.” Patton replied, “But I did.” The general believed that after he died he would return to once again lead armies into battle. He was forced to repeat his first year at West Point. Patton struggled academically during his initial year at the U.S. Military Academy and was required to repeat his first year after failing mathematics. The plebe began working with a tutor and redoubled his efforts to receive adequate grades the remainder of his tenure at West Point, eventually graduating 46th in his class of 103 cadets. Patton first saw combat and gained fame chasing Pancho Villa. In response to a deadly 1916 raid by Pancho Villa in Columbus, New Mexico, President Woodrow Wilson ordered American troops across the Mexican border to capture or kill the Mexican revolutionary. Patton served as aide-de-camp to the mission’s commander, General John J. Pershing, and participated in the first motorized attack in the history of American warfare on May 14, 1916, in which Villa’s second-in-command and two of his guards were killed. Patton garnered headlines by ordering the three corpses strapped like trophy animals to the hoods of his unit’s automobiles before driving back to base. He carried a pair of pistols with ivory handles. Patton fired a new ivory-handled Colt .45 in the deadly Mexican shootout, but after the battle he decided to carry a second ivory-handled handgun for added firepower. The flamboyant pistols contained his hand-carved initials and became his trademarks. He earned a Purple Heart in World War I. While personally leading an attack on German machine gun positions as part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on September 26, 1918, Patton was struck by a round that tore into his left thigh. Badly wounded, he continued to command the battle for the next hour from a shell hole and insisted on filing his report at division headquarters before being taken to the evacuation hospital. When the Purple Heart was reinstituted in 1932, Patton was awarded the honor for his combat wounds. Patton played a pivotal role in the eviction of the Bonus Marchers. On July 28, 1932, Patton received orders from U.S. Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur to disperse the World War I veterans seeking cash payments for their veterans’ bonus certificates who had occupied Washington, D.C., for two months. Charging down Pennsylvania Avenue and through the streets of the national capita
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News » theHobbyStudios.com - The ultimate destination for Wargamers! News The ultimate destination for Wargamers! News News March 15 44 BC – Julius Caesar, of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. 1776 – South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from England and set up its own government. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400. 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. 1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. 1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day. 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia. 1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. Born Today but Possibly Dead 1767 – Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the United States (d. 1845) 1919 – Lawrence Tierney: American actor and star of such shows as Reservoir Dogs & The Simpsons (d. 2002) 1935 – Judd Hirsch: American actor and star of such shows as Taxi, Independance Day, and Numbers 1943 – David Cronenberg: Canadian film director of shows such as Naked Lunch & Eastern Promises 1944 – Sly Stone: American musician and famous rolling stone. Wherever he laid his hat was his home. 1955 – Dee Snider: American singer (Twisted Sister) 1962 – Terence Trent D'Arby: the late 80's one-hit wonder who gave us Wishing Well. Did great James Brown impression... 1963 – Bret Michaels: American musician (Poison). I listened to their first album (yes, I said album) at least 6 times a day for a whole summer! 1964 – Rockwell: American musician who always feels like someone is watching him. These Guys Died Today 1977 – Antonino Rocca: Argentine professional wrestler (b. 1927) 1988 – Dmitri Polyakov: Soviet double-agent (b. 1926) 1998 – Benjamin Spock: American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903) Quote: "It's not the teaching, it's the learning." Sly Stone March 14 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion. 1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana. 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew. 1943 – World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'. What else could go wrong? (see below) 1945 – World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany. This bomb came with 2 eggs, 2 pancakes and choice of 2 sausage or bacon. 1980 – In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. So, all in all, NOT a great day in history for Poland. (See above) 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. Born Today but Possibly Dead 1885 – Raoul Lufbery: American World War I pilot (d. 1918) 1921 – S. Truett Cathy: founder of Chic
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Lalophobia Treatment Options Treatment Symptoms of Lalophobia - Fear of speaking: breathlessness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack. You are not the only one to suffer from this phobia. Most sufferers are surprised to learn that they are far from alone in this surprisingly common, although often unspoken, phobia. Lalophobia is an intense fear of something that poses no actual danger. While adults with Lalophobia realize that these fears are irrational, they often find that facing, or even thinking about facing, the feared situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety. There is a Way Out Imagine what your life will be like when you know that you are not "defective". When you can be confident and at ease in situations where you used to feel your phobia. And when you can talk about your former fear symptoms as though you are describing a movie where the character is someone else, not you. Lalophobia Treatment Options Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy helps to reprogram your subconscious "programs" that may be part of your fear. When these programs are "de-bugged" the symptoms of Lalophobia often are minimized. However, some people don't like the feeling of loss of control in allowing someone else to play with their personal "software". Hypnotherapy is save and works fast. Hypnotherapy Solutions Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) NLP is basically the study and practice of how we create our reality. From the NLP viewpoint, a phobia is the result of your programs or "constructs" that you have created that don't work very well. With NLP, these constructs are revealed and "re-programmed" so that the Lalophobia is minimized and often eliminated. Usually the interventions are quite rapid and effective. NLP Solutions Energy Psychology Energy Psychology is emerging as an excellent therapy for fears and phobias because in studies it is shown to be rapid, safe, effective and long-lasting. It is based on a theory and practice that has been around for a couple of thousand years. It has the same foundation or roots as acupuncture, except in this case there are no needles used. You could call it emotional acupuncture - without the needles. Recent scientific studies have shown it to be very effective. Energy Psychology combines the benefits of the above treatment therapies. You quickly and easily change your behaviors. Your thought patterns change, often very quickly. You are able to relax. You develop skills and techniques that are useful for a lifetime in all situations. Lalophobia Disclaimer © Alive and Well Online 2004.
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A to Z List of Phobias - Fear of Stuff A to Z List of Phobias A to Z List of Phobias A Ablutophobia – Fear of washing or bathing. Acarophobia – Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Acerophobia – Fear of sourness. Aerophobia – Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances. Aeroacrophobia – Fear of open high places. Aeronausiphobia – Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Aftokinitophobia – Fear of automobiles (cars). Agateophobia – Fear of insanity. Agoraphobia – Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Agraphobia – Fear of sexual abuse. Agrizoophobia – Fear of wild animals. Agyrophobia – Fear of streets or crossing the street. Aichmophobia – Fear of needles or pointed objects. Ailurophobia – Fear of cats. Albuminurophobia – Fear of kidney disease. Alektorophobia – Fear of chickens. Alysidophobia – Fear of a chain or chains. Amathophobia – Fear of dust. Amaxophobia – Fear of riding in a car. Ambulophobia – Fear of walking. Amychophobia – Fear of scratches or being scratched. Anablephobia – Fear of looking up. Ancraophobia or Anemophobia – Fear of wind. Androphobia – Fear of men. Anemophobia – Fear of air drafts or wind. Anginophobia – Fear of angina, choking or narrowness. Anglophobia – Fear of England, English culture, etc. Angrophobia – Fear of anger or of becoming angry. Ankylophobia – Fear of immobility of a joint. Anthrophobia or Anthophobia – Fear of flowers. Anthropoiophobia or Anthophobia – Fear of people. Anthropophobia – Fear of people or society. Antlophobia – Fear of floods. Anuptaphobia – Fear of staying single. Apeirophobia – Fear of infinity. Aphenphosmphobia – Fear of being touched. Apiphobia – Fear of bees. Apolithomaphobia – The fear of a fossil, fossils, or of Paleontology. Apotemnophobia – Fear of persons with amputations. Arachibutyrophobia – Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia – Fear of spiders. Arithmophobia – Fear of numbers. Arythmophobia – Fear of not having rhythm. Asanserophobia – Fear of an elevator or elevators. Asthenophobia – Fear of fainting or weakness. Astraphobia or Astrapophobia – Fear of thunder and lightning. Astrophobia – Fear of stars and celestial space. Astynomiaphobia – Fear of police. Asymmetriphobia – Fear of asymmetrical things. Ataxiophobia – Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination) Ataxophobia – Fear of disorder or untidiness. Atelophobia – Fear of imperfection. Atephobia – Fear of ruin or ruins. Athazagoraphobia – Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting. Atomosophobia – Fear of atomic explosions. Atychiphobia – Fear of failure. Auroraphobia – Fear of Northern lights. Autodysomophobia – Fear of one that has a vile odor. Automatonophobia – Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues – anything that falsly represents a sentient being. Automysophobia – Fear of being dirty. Autophobia – Fear of being alone or of oneself. Aviophobia or Aviatophobia – Fear of flying. B Ballistophobia – Fear of missiles or bullets. Bolshephobia – Fear of Bolsheviks. Basophobia or Basiphobia – Inability to stand. Bathmophobia – Fear of stairs or steep slopes. Bathophobia – Fear of depth. Batophobia – Fear of heights or being close to high buildings. Batrachophobia – Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc. Belonephobia – Fear of pins and needles. Bibliophobia – Fear of books. Biblosophobia – The fear of the Bible. Blennophobia – Fear of slime. Bogyphobia – Fear of bogies or the bogeyman. Botanophobia – Fear of plants. Boutyronophobia – The fear of butter. Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia – Fear of body smells. Brontophobia – Fear of thunder and lightning. Bufonophobia – Fear of toads. Cainophobia or Cainotophobia – Fear of newness, novelty. Caligynephobia – Fear of beautiful women. Cancerophobia – Fear of cancer. Cardiophobia – Fear of the heart. Carnophobia – Fear of meat. Catagelophobia – Fear of being ridiculed. Catapedaphobia – Fear of jumping from high and low places. Cathisophobia – Fear of sitting. Cenophobia or Centop
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In Show Jumping, how many points are lost if a horse knocks down both parts of a double fence?
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Show Jumping (Horses) Show Jumping (Horses) Show Jumping Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping" or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters and equitation. Jumping classes are commonly seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics. Sometimes shows are limited exclusively to jumpers, sometimes jumper classes are offered in conjunction with other English-style events, and sometimes show jumping is but one division of very large, all-breed competitions that include a very wide variety of disciplines. Jumping classes may be governed by various national horse show sanctioning organizations, such as the United States Equestrian Federation in the USA. However, international competitions are governed by the rules of the FédéFration équestre Internationale (FEI). Hunters or Jumpers Proper show jumping attire, as seen in the show jumping phase of a three-day event. Attire at an event includes a mandatory armband as seen here, although the armband is not required in general show jumping. People unfamiliar with horse shows may be confused by the difference between working hunter classes and jumper classes. Hunters are judged subjectively on the degree to which they meet an ideal standard of manners, style, and way of going. Conversely, jumper classes are scored objectively based entirely on a numerical score determined only by whether the horse attempts the obstacle, clears it, and finishes the course in the allotted time. Jumper courses are often colorful and at times quite creatively designed. Jumper courses tend to be much more complex and technical than hunter courses, because riders and horses are not being judged on style. Hunters have meticulous turnout and tend toward very quiet, conservative horse tack and rider attire. Hunter bits, bridles, crops, spurs and martingales are tightly regulated. Jumpers, while caring for their horses and grooming them well, are not scored on turnout, are allowed a wider range of equipment, and riders may wear less conservative attire, so long as it stays within the rules. However, formal turnout is always preferred, and a neat rider gives a good impression at shows. In addition to hunters and jumpers, there are equitation classes, sometimes called hunt seat equitation, which judge the ability of the rider. The equipment, clothing and fence styles used in equitation more closely resemble hunter classes, though the technical difficulty of the courses may more closely resemble jumping events. Courses and Rules Show Jump Course Jumper classes are held over a course of show jumping obstacles, including verticals, spreads, double and triple combinations, usually with many turns and changes of direction. The purpose is to jump cleanly over a set course within an allotted time. Time faults are assessed for exceeding the time allowance. Jumping faults are incurred for knockdowns and blatant disobedience, such as refusals (when the horse stops before a fence or "runs out"). (see "Modern Rules" below) Horses are allowed a limited number of refusals before being disqualified. A refusal can also lead to a rider going over the time allowed on course. Placings are based on the lowest number of points or "faults" accumulated. A horse and rider who have not accumulated any jumping faults or penalty points are said to have scored a "clear round." Tied entries usually have a jump-off over a raised and shortened course, and the course is timed; if entries are tied for faults accumulated in the jump-off, the fastest time wins. In most competitions, riders are allowed to walk the course but not the jump-off course (usually the same course with missing jumps e.g. 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 in stead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) before competition to plan their ride. Walking the course is a chance for the rider to walk the lines he or she will actually ride, to decide how many strides the horse will need to take between each jump and at which angle. The more professional the competition, such as "A" rated shows in the United St
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In astronomy, what is the word applied to the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line?
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Syzygy: Daily Word Exploration | BeMused Syzygy: Daily Word Exploration 19 Apr Syzygy: (m.) gahasaṃyoga. (nt.) gahayuddha. Syzygial , adjective of syzygy, describes the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a line.In broadest terms, syzygy (pronounced /ˈsɪzɨdʒi/ ) is a kind of unity, especially through coordination or alignment, most commonly used in the astronomical and/or astrological sense. [1] Syzygy is derived from the Late Latin syzygia, “conjunction,” from the Greek σύζυγος (syzygos). In astronomy , a syzygy is the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line. The word is usually used in context with the Sun , Earth , and the Moon or a planet , where the latter is in conjunction or opposition . Solar and lunar eclipses occur at times of syzygy, as do transits and occultations . The term is also applied to each instance of new moon or full moon when Sun and Moon are in conjunction or opposition, even though they are not precisely on one line with the Earth. The word ‘syzygy’ is often loosely used to describe interesting configurations of planets in general. For example, one such case occurred on March 21, 1894 at around 23:00 GMT , when Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus , and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from Saturn . It is also used to describe situations when all the planets are on the same side of the Sun although they are not necessarily found along a straight line, such as on March 10, 1982. In Gnosticism , a syzygy is a divine active-passive, male-female pair of aeons , complementary to one another rather than oppositional; in their totality they comprise the divine realm of the Pleroma , and in themselves characterise aspects of the Gnostic (known) God . The term is most common in Valentinianism . In some gnostic schools, the counterpart to Christ was Sophia . In mathematics , a syzygy is a relation between the generators of a module M. The set of all such relations is called the “first syzygy module of M”. A relation between generators of the first syzygy module is called a “second syzygy” of M, and the set of all such relations is called the “second syzygy module of M”. Continuing in this way, we get the n-th syzygy module of M by taking the set of all relations between generators of the (n-1)th syzygy module of M. If M is finitely generated over a polynomial ring over a field , this process terminates after a finite number of steps; i.e., eventually there will be no more syzygies (see Hilbert’s syzygy theorem ). The syzygy modules of M are not unique, for they depend on the choice of generators at each step. In philosophy , the Russian theologian/philosopher Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) used the word “syzygy” to signify “unity-friendship-community,” used as either an adjective or a noun, meaning: a pair of connected or correlative things, or; a couple or pair of opposites. In poetry , syzygy is the combination of two metrical feet into a single unit, similar to an elision. Consonantal or phonetic syzygy is also similar to the effect of alliteration , where one consonant is used repeatedly throughout a passage, but not necessarily at the beginning of each word. In psychology , Carl Jung used the term “syzygy” to denote an archetypal pairing of contra-sexual opposites, which symbolized the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds : the conjunction of two organisms without the loss of identity. Examples include Dieties of Life and Death or of Sun and Moon, which are frequently depicted as male and female, and having a mutually opposing and mutually dependant relationship. In zoology , syzygy is the association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material, the pairing of chromosomes in meiosis. 34.029511 -118.284820
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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. Who was the presenter of Out Of Town in the 1960s who went on to appear on the children’s TV programme How? 18. Whose autobiography is called Dear Fatty? 19. Who were Tom and Barbara’s neighbours in The Good Life? 20. In Cockney rhyming slang what are your ‘Daisy Roots’? 21. What is the surname of the twin brothers who compiled the Guinness Book of Records together between 1955 and 1975? 22. Which actor played Columbo? 23. Does the Bactrian camel have one hump, or two? 24. Where is the world's largest four-faced chiming clock? 25. Concerned about the impact of uncontrolled development and industrialisation, what National Charity was founded in 1895 by three Victorian philanthropists, Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley? 26. What famous make of motorcycle was Lawrence of Arabia riding when he was tragically killed in Dorset in 1936? 27. What colour of flag should a ship fly to show it is in quarantine? 28. Purple Brittlegill, Velvet Shank and Orange Milkcap are three types of what? 29. What is the name of the flats where the Trotters lived in Only Fools And Horses? 30. In computing, what does the abbreviation USB stand for? ANSWERS: 1. Saturn; 2. Tom Baker (Doctor Who actors); 3. Zeta; 4. Christopher Biggins. (I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Joe Pasquale 04, Carol Thatcher 05, Matt Willis 06, and Joe Swash 08); 5. Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Ministers post WW1); 6. Portsmouth (FA Cup); 7. 6; 8. Thomas Becket; 9. Kirstie Allsopp; 10. Cockfighting; 11. Sky-diving; 12. Montreal; 13. Joe Mercer; 14. White Lines; 15. Robbie Fowler; 16. Hearsay; 17. Jack Hargreaves; 18. Dawn French; 19. Margo and Jerry Leadbetter; 20. Boots; 21. McWhirter (Ross and Norris); 22. Peter Falk; 23. Two; 24. The Clock Tower on the Palace of Westminster in London (Big Ben is the nickname for the bell); 25. The National Trust; 26. Brough Superior; 27. Yellow; 28. Fungi; 29. Nelson Mandela House; 30. Universal Serial Bus Like us on Facebook
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The Reverend Flasher is a fictional character in which 1974 ‘Carry On’ film?
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1000+ images about Carry on films!!! on Pinterest | Feature film, Jim dale and James d'arcy Sid James as the Reverend Flasher aka 'Big' Dick Turpin in Carry On Dick (1974) - it was Sid's final appearance in a Carry On film. See More
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DR STRANGELOVE : definition of DR STRANGELOVE and synonyms of DR STRANGELOVE (English) Box office $9,164,370 (US) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare . It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick , starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott , and featuring Sterling Hayden , Keenan Wynn , and Slim Pickens . The film is loosely based on Peter George 's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert , also known as Two Hours to Doom. The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union . It follows the President of the United States , his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse . It separately follows the crew of one B-52 as they try to deliver their payload. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry . It was listed as number three on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs . Contents 9 External links Plot United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper ( Sterling Hayden ) is the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which hosts the 843rd Bomb Wing of nuclear-armed B-52s . The base's aircraft are currently part of a SAC airborne alert force, holding at their fail-safe locations only hours from Soviet airspace. Ripper calls Group Captain Lionel Mandrake ( Peter Sellers ), a Royal Air Force exchange officer serving as General Ripper's executive officer , and has him place the base on alert and issue attack orders to the aircraft. Mandrake initially suspects this is a drill, but Ripper tells him it is not. Onboard the aircraft, the attack code is received and the crews express concern about whether or not it is real. After receiving confirmation from Burpelson, they begin their attack. As part of this process, the aircrew enter a code into their CRM 114 Discriminator, which blocks any unauthorized radio transmissions. When Mandrake discovers the country is not at war, he confronts Ripper, demanding the code. Ripper refuses, locking them into his office. In the " War Room " at The Pentagon , General Buck Turgidson ( George C. Scott ) briefs President Merkin Muffley (Sellers). When the president asks whether or not the bombers will stop at their fail-safe points, Turgidson notes they were already there, and only the recall code will be useful. He mentions the problems with the CRM and states they are trying every possible code, although he admits this will take over two days. When the president asks how the attack could be carried out without his direct authorization, Turgidson notes the president himself signed the orders to remove this requirement to allow counterattacks in the event a Soviet first strike obliterated Washington. When President Muffley angrily begins to question the wisdom of the plan, the general states he does not "think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up". Muffley proposes that troops be sent to the Air Force base to seize Ripper (and hopefully force the recall code from him), Turgidson warns that General Ripper will have put the security forces there on high alert. The Army general dismisses this concern, stating the airborne units being sent would brush them aside. In the meantime, Turgidson tries to persuade Muffley to seize the moment and eliminate the Soviet Union by launching a full-scale attack. The general believes that a first strike would destroy the majority of the Soviets' missiles before they could retaliate. Even if the remainder were launched, the US would suffer only "ten, maybe twenty million dead". Muffley refuses to have any part of such a scheme, and instead summons the Soviet ambassador, Alexei de Sadeski ( Peter Bull ). The Ambassador calls Soviet premier Dimitri Kisov on the " Hot Line " and gives the Soviets information to help them shoot do
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What is the name of the photograph taken by Voyager 1 of the Earth against the vastness of space which lent itself to the title of a 1994 book by Carl Sagan?
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Carl Sagan – Learning from Dogs Looking into self. Rounding off the week. Starting with Monday’s video of Carl Sagan reminding us all that Planet Earth is just a grain of sand in the vast cosmos right through to yesterday’s Dealing with madness post, much of the week has been reminding us all of one very fundamental truth. No better expressed than in a comment from Patrice Ayme [my emphasis]: … there is no healthy man without a healthy world. Regulars will have noted the high levels of debate this week. Thank you all for those comments. I have also received a couple of emails with feedback and comments, sent to me on a personal basis. One of those emails had such a powerful message that I begged for permission to publish it on Learning from Dogs. I was asked to keep the author’s identity private but, trust me, it is from someone I know well who subscribes to ideas of integrity and honesty in spades. The author also strongly recommended publishing in association with his personal essay an extract from Chris Hedges’ book “Death of the Liberal Class”. That extract follows straight on from the essay. oooOOOooo Reflections from a Vietnam Combat Veteran War is an unnatural dichotomy. Both sides are morally and materially diminished. A future World War would most probably finish us as the self-appointed predominant intelligent species on planet earth. It seems worth noting that German industrialists coordinated fundamentalist propaganda to foster the bigotry, hatred and fear which fueled their profitable war engines prior to World War II. United States commercial media today reflects a financially dominated military-industrial culture with liberty and justice for sale. The results are divisive and lead to both a declared international war against nebulous assailants we have been taught to dislike and an internal political war that has polarized our once fair nation. We’ve stopped investing in the future in response to radicals who want to destroy government, human rights and what remains of the earth’s surface resources. There is an emerging police state mentality on display with a variety of candidates for local dictator. It’s well past time for moderate republicans to ignore their uber-conservative brethren. It’s well past time for moderate democrats to renounce their corporate ties. This will only happen when our financial and political leaders awaken to the reality of what is in the best long-term interests for all life on this planet rather than our present unsustainable global economy. To complicate the problem, our planet is under attack by a swarm of vociferous human locusts seeking profit without regard to the consequences. Meanwhile, despite human denial, the universe continues to emerge. Species which do not adapt to change do not survive. It’s important to remember that we’re in the midst of a battle that’s as old as the conscious awareness of the human species. We generally have very little idea of the inclusive nature of our being; let alone the nature of our collective being as a species. We have as yet to learn how to surrender to reality. The battle is with our own species. Committing collective suicide for quarterly profit is not a sane way of life. What we’ve created is a neo-feudal global economy without any foundation that feeds on an empire of consumption. When we combine a neo-feudal economy with neo-fascist politics we arrive at a moral and biological dead end. The coup d’état of the current Corporate State is the Citizen’s United ruling that makes money a form of free speech. Money has no DNA. In case anyone missed how the “occupy” movement was crushed, there’s no question that we’re rapidly criminalizing all forms of dissent. These actions are being taking under the 1917 Espionage Act and related state secrets acts. No discernment of moral value is considered and no public hearings are conducted. People who speak up are locked up. We’ve become a fearful and secretive population. Our self-appointed elite power structure is completely irrational in its belief that human reason is
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Movie Review - - FILM REVIEW; That Orderly World of Appearances He Lives In? It's About to Explode - NYTimes.com FILM REVIEW; That Orderly World of Appearances He Lives In? It's About to Explode By ELVIS MITCHELL Published: August 21, 2002 ''I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel,'' the first line of the Nine Inch Nails song ''Hurt,'' could also be the theme of the writer-director Mark Romanek's gripping but not wholly successful psychodrama ''One Hour Photo.'' Mr. Romanek made his name directing some of the most unforgettable music videos of the 1990's: he was the Martin Scorsese to the Nails' leader Trent Reznor's Robert De Niro, creating attention magnets like ''Closer'' and ''The Perfect Drug.'' The depth of feeling in the videos Mr. Romanek directed comes through his deployment of color and the suggestion of violence. He does much the same thing in ''Photo,'' which opens today in New York and Los Angeles. It's a smart piece of direction, and he does a sterling job in creating Sy Parrish, a man whose love of superficiality, of surfaces, proves to be his undoing. But Mr. Romanek has completely conceived only one role in this movie about a man who views people as perfect archetypes and becomes enraged when they fall short. Unfortunately ''One Hour Photo'' turns everyone but the central character into a cutout. Robin Williams stars as Parrish, the manager of a one-hour photo stand in the Sav-Mart superstore. Like Target or Wal-Mart, Sav-Mart is one of those places so big it probably has its own area code. His job, developing the photographs his customers drop off, allows him to peer into their lives, providing a view that reminds him how empty his own life is. Sy keeps his work space as neat as the rest of the store, a mall space that fits the décor of the space-station interiors of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' and the retro-tech homes of ''A Clockwork Orange.'' The director leaves minute clues that the world isn't really this well ordered; rather, we're seeing everything through Sy's viewpoint, a perspective that becomes more apparent at the climax. Much of ''One Hour Photo'' is informed by visual stylization; the director uses colors to suggest mood, and keys the aural highlights to these palettes. With each shift in the look, the audio track becomes more vibrant and discordant, deepening the atmosphere. The question is: How creepy is Sy? It's evident that he fixates on photographs because he wants them to represent his own perfect conception of the world. For him, this ideal is epitomized by the Yorkin family with the happy sprite son, Jakob (Dylan Smith), and smiling, beautiful mom, Nina (Connie Nielsen); they could be the lifelike figures out of a SavMart ad. Lifelike is the operative word. Nothing in this picture's world seems quite real, until Sy notes the anguish in Nina's face one day when she drops the photographs off. He subsequently follows her home and observes the sordid details of her family life. She can't get her husband, Will (Michael Vartan), to spend any time at home, and it turns out he's responsible for her misery. Sy takes it upon himself to solve the problems of the Yorkin family by stalking Will to teach him a lesson. Sy wants to be the daddy-savior figure, which raises another question: How far will he go? Mr. Romanek's precision is breathtaking. He's an obsessive who's found a way to portray claustrophobia in wide-open urban space. He has worked the story out almost totally in visual motifs, with everything that intrudes on Sy's fastidiousness posing as a threat. (Literally, the dirtier he gets as he roots around the Yorkins' lives, the more anxious and dangerous he becomes. It's a loss of control for him.) But the director's organizational skills are so compelling that we forgive him for not imbuing the Yorkins with the same emotional life that Sy has. Mr. Williams plays Sy as all middle-brow vanity; for him, cleanliness is not only next to godliness, it's also a form of integrity. He has a white-knuckle grip on his station. His job is all the definition he has, and when he's robbed
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M.C. Escher – Biography He is most famous for his so-called impossible constructions , such as Ascending and Descending , Relativity , his Transformation Prints , such as Metamorphosis I , Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III , Sky & Water I or Reptiles . But he also made some wonderful, more realistic work during the time he lived and traveled in Italy. Castrovalva for example, where one already can see Escher's fascination for high and low, close by and far away. The lithograph Atrani , a small town on the Amalfi Coast was made in 1931, but comes back for example, in his masterpiece Metamorphosis I and II . M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. Like some of his famous predecessors, - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Holbein-, M.C. Escher was left-handed. Apart from being a graphic artist, M.C. Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals. He was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, as the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer. After 5 years the family moved to Arnhem where Escher spent most of his youth. After failing his high school exams, Maurits ultimately was enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. Escher in Rome, Italy - 1930. Escher with wife, Jetta on beach in Italy - 1924. Escher in Ravello, Italy - 1925. After only one week, he informed his father that he would rather study graphic art instead of architecture, as he had shown his drawings and linoleum cuts to his graphic teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, who encouraged him to continue with graphic arts. After finishing school, he traveled extensively through Italy, where he met his wife Jetta Umiker, whom he married in 1924. They settled in Rome, where they stayed until 1935. During these 11 years, Escher would travel each year throughout Italy, drawing and sketching for the various prints he would make when he returned home. Many of these sketches he would later use for various other lithographs and/or woodcuts and wood engravings, for example the background in the lithograph Waterfall stems from his Italian period , or the trees reflecting in the woodcut Puddle , which are the same trees Escher used in his woodcut " Pineta of Calvi ", which he made in 1932. M.C. Escher became fascinated by the regular Division of the Plane, when he first visited the Alhambra, a fourteen century Moorish castle in Granada, Spain in 1922. During the years in Switzerland and throughout the Second World War, he vigorously pursued his hobby, by drawing 62 of the total of 137 Regular Division Drawings he would make in his lifetime. He would extend his passion for the Regular Division of the Plane, by using some of his drawings as the basis for yet another hobby, carving beech wood spheres. He played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. His art continues to amaze and wonder millions of people all over the world. In his work we recognize his keen observation of the world around us and the expressions of his own fantasies. M.C. Escher shows us that reality is wondrous, comprehensible and fascinating.
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Dinosaur Names Activity - Grades K–4 | American Museum of Natural History Dinosaur Names Activity Activity for Grade K-4 Introduction Dinosaur names are often made up of combinations of Greek and Latin root words that describe characteristics or how the animal might have behaved. Other dinosaur names describe where the fossil remains were discovered or the name of the paleontologist who made the discovery. In 1841, Richard Owen, the first director of London’s Natural History Museum, gave the name dinosaurs to these giant prehistoric reptiles. The word dinosaur is from the Greek deinos (terrible) and sauros (lizard). Some dinosaur names are short; others are tongue twisters. Objective In this activity, students will be introduced to dinosaur names and their meanings. Materials List of Greek and Latin root words and their meanings written on the chalkboard or on chart paper Pictures of various dinosaurs Procedure Tell students that dinosaurs were named using the Latin and Greek language. Explain that these languages are used by scientists to name both animals and plants. Dinosaur names can describe what the dinosaur looked like, how it might have acted, or where it was found. Have students look for the meaning of the Greek and Latin words used in the word “dinosaur” to discover the word’s meaning. Write the following on the chalkboard: dinosaur = dino + saur. Call on a volunteer to look on the chart to find the words dino and saur. Write terrible lizard on the chalkboard and explain that this was the name first given to dinosaurs Write the following dinosaur names on the chalkboard. Have students use the chart to decipher the names. Tyrannosaurus rex = tyranno + saurus +rex Stegosaurus = stego + saurus Triceratops = tri + cerat + ops Apatosaurus = apato + saurus Have students suggest other dinosaur names that they would like to learn the meanings of. Write the names on the chalkboard. Use the chart provided as a reference. Download the PDF: Dinosaur Names Activity More About This Resource... In this classroom activity, created to complement the Museum's Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries exhibit, young students explore the meaning behind dinosaurs' names. The activity opens with background information for teachers about the Greek and Latin root words that are used in dinosaur names. After discussing what they know about dinosaurs, students learn that dinosaur names can describe what the dinosaur looked like, how it might have acted, or where it was found. Working as a class, students use a chart of root words and their meanings to decipher the names of four well-known dinosaurs. Completion Time
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Dinosaurs 118 Final - Science 118 with Oliver at Worcester State College - StudyBlue Who was the last Ptolemaic Pharaoh? Cleopatra Which of the Greek elements was the lightest? Fire The fall of what city was the ultimate (albeit distant) justification given for the first crusade? Jerusalem When did the universe begin (roughly)? 14 billion years ago Who was the tutor of Alexander, Prince of Macedon? Aristotle Identify the scientist associated with: Astrology Ptolemy What Greek city is the home of the Pythian Oracle of Apollo? Delphi The statement "We can't prove Aliens didn't build the pyramids, therefore they did" is an example of the appeal to stupidity. True or False? False An appeal to authority is legitimate if 1) The authority is an expert in the area of knowledge under consideration; and 2) The statement of the authority concerns his or her area of mastery; and 3) You happen to like the experts point of view. True or False? False If we pass laws against fully-automatic weapons, then it won't be long before we pass laws on all weapons, and then we will begin to restrict other rights, and finally we will end up living in a communist state. Thus we should not ban fully automatic weapons. What kind of argument is this? A slippery slope argument The argument fallacy hat means attacking the person instead of the argument is: Ad hominem Anecdotes are valid evidence. True or False? False "Science is built of facts the way a house if built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house." - Who said this? Henri Poincaire Tautaology, circular reasoning, and 'avoiding the question' all mean the same thing. True or False? False Treating a complex issue as if there are only two, polar opposite choices is called: False Dichotomy 'Circular reasoning' is using a restatement of your conclusions as your premise. True or False? True What is the term for a faulty logical argument? Fallacious The fallacy occurs when we selectively focus on the evidence which tends to make our case while ignoring counter-examples is called: Confirmation Bias The fallacy of exclusion violates the total evidence principle. True or False? True Statement 1: All squares are rectangles. This is a square, therefore it is a rectangle. Statement 2: This is a rectangle, therefore it is a square. Statement 2 is an example of a: Non-reciprocal syllogism If, because we don't know something DIDN'T happen, we can conclude that it DID happen, then we have committed the appeal to: Ignorance Using 'expert' testimony to make your case is called; Appeal to Authority Dr. Oliver's observation that "people don't usually answer the question they are being asked" is known as 'avoiding the question.' True or False? True The latin term for a conclusion that "doesn't follow' from a premise is; Non sequitur Using an unrelated argument to distract from the case being debated is called a; Red Herring What Family includes leopards and domestic cats? Felidae According to the concept of punctuated equilibrium, a new species accumulates most of its unique features as it comes into existence Who is the creator of the cladistic method? Willi Hennig Is only found in only one group AND all members of the group possess it What order contains dogs, cats, bears, and weasels? Carnivora Sabertooth mammals are a _______ assemblage? Polyphyletic What term means a clade derived from multiple ancestors? Polyphyly The defininf character of the Vertebrata is Vertebrae The biological species concept is inadequate for grouping asexual organisms What group lost their eyes, and later re-evolved them? Snakes Chordates do not include what... echinoderms The term that is most appropriately associated with clade is... monophyletic If flight is a character used to group two distantly related organisms, it would be what kind of trait? Homoplastic Who wrote the book "Zoonomia" proposing evolution? Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin A tentative explanation that can be tested and is falsifiable. Who wrote the Essay on Population that so affected Darwin's thi
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Joseph Smith Jr. (Author of The Book of Mormon) edit data Joseph Smith, Jr. was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism, and an important religious and political figure during the 1830s and 1840s. In 1827, Smith began to gather a religious following after announcing that an angel had shown him a set of golden plates describing a visit of Jesus to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. In 1830, Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates as the Book of Mormon, and the same year he organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For most of the 1830s, Smith lived in Kirtland, Ohio, which remained the headquarters of the church until Smith began encouraging members to gather the church to a Latter Day Saint settlement in Missouri. There, ten Joseph Smith, Jr. was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism, and an important religious and political figure during the 1830s and 1840s. In 1827, Smith began to gather a religious following after announcing that an angel had shown him a set of golden plates describing a visit of Jesus to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. In 1830, Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates as the Book of Mormon, and the same year he organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For most of the 1830s, Smith lived in Kirtland, Ohio, which remained the headquarters of the church until Smith began encouraging members to gather the church to a Latter Day Saint settlement in Missouri. There, tensions between Mormons and non-Mormons resulted in the expelling of the Mormons. Smith and his people then settled in Nauvoo, Illinois where they began building a new temple aided by new converts from Europe. He was assassinated by a mob of non-Mormons at the age of 38. Smith's followers consider him a prophet and have canonized some of his revelations as sacred texts on par with the Bible. His legacy as a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been recognized by millions of adherents. ...more
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Free Flashcards about GK 6 Which horse was involved in the 1913 incident that killed Emily Davison? Anmer What is the meaning of "discursive"? digressing from subject to subject What was the German 'Jugendstil' known as in Britain and the USA? Art Nouveau The artists Odilon Redon and Fernand Khnopff were most closely associated with which artistic movement? Symbolism What nationality was artist Fernand Khnopff? Belgian What is the meaning of 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc'? "After which, therefore because of which" In which year did BBC Radio 2, in the guise of the BBC Light Programme, start broadcasting? 1945 What radio programme used the signature tune "At The Sign Of The Swinging Cymbal" by Bryan Fahey? Pick of The Pops Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain, was which Roman writer's father-in-law? Tacitus Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain, was recalled in disgrace by which Emperor? Domitian Which Iron Age tribe had a capital at Emain Macha in Ulster? Ulaid Who had a 1955 Number 1 with "Softly, Softly"? Ruby Murray Who had UK hits with "Be My Love" and "Because You're Mine"? Mario Lanza Who took "Rose Marie" to No 1 spot in the UK IN 1954? Slim Whitman In 1955 Jimmy Young had a No 1 single with "The Man From..." - where? Laramie Which singer was the indirect cause of 1944's Columbus Day Riot? Frank Sinatra In which year did "Rock Around The Clock" hit No 1 in both the UK and the US? 1955 Both "boogie-woogie" and "rock and roll" supposedly got their names from what? Euphemisms for sex Who coined the term "Rhythm and Blues"? Jerry Wexler Which Cleveland DJ is usually credited with coining the term "rock n roll" to apply to the music of that style? Alan Freed Which band were originally called "The Rambling Yodeller And The Sandmen"? Bill Haley & The Comets Who had a 1950s hit with "Be-Bop-A Lula"? Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps Which chemical elements occupy positions 89-103 on the Periodic Table? Actinides What name is given to a 3D co-ordinate system with three planes, x, y, and Z? Cartesian What are the names given to the three sides of a right-angled triangle? Hypotenuse, Base, Altitude If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is sinθ equal to? a/c If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is cosθ equal to? b/c If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is tanθ equal to? a/b (or sinθ/cosθ) What is the meaning of sin(squared)θ? sinθsinθ An object that has both magnitude and direction in space Which letters are traditionally used for the three base vectors? i, j, k Who had a 1962 Number 1 with "Wonderful Land"? The Shadows Which artistic group was founded in 1911 by Kandinsky and Marc? Der Blaue Reiter Artist Franz Marc was born in wRhich country? Germany Who painted "Luxe, Calme et Volupte"? Matisse Who is generally held to be the originator of the Suprematist art movement? Malevich The artists Boccioni, Carra and Severeni, all Italians, belonged to which movement? Futurism What was the real name of The Big Bopper, who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly? JP Richardson What was the stage name of the singer Rosemary Brown? Dana Which country singer got to No. 1 in the UK with "Coward Of The County"? Kenny Rogers Who composed "The Stars And Stripes Forever"? John Phillip Sousa Who composed the waltz "Tales From The Vienna Woods"? Johann Strauss Robert-Francois Damiens attempted to assassinate (and failed, although he did wound) which king? Louis XV of France When was the Seven Years' War? 1756-63 Whose final work was 1804's "Opus Postumum"? Kant The Pregolya River, which features in Euler's 'Seven Bridges'problem, runs through which city? Kaliningrad Who wrote 1848's "The Principles Of Political Economy"? John Stuart Mill What is defined as "the composite of an organism's observable traits"? Phenotype The Japanese word 'hara',
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Ken Livingstone | Wiki | Everipedia × Want to change something on this page or create your own? Register today, it's fast and free. Ken Livingstone 4 May 2000 – 4 May 2008 Deputy 17 May 1981 – 1 April 1986 Preceded by 11 June 1987 – 7 June 2001 Preceded by (1945-06-17) 17 June 1945 (age 71) London, United Kingdom Labour (1968–2000, 2003–2016; currently suspended) [2] Spouse(s) Tulse Hill School Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the Council was abolished in 1986 , and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008 . He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001 . A suspended member of the Labour Party , he was on the party's hard left , ideologically identifying as a democratic socialist . Born in Lambeth , South London , to a working-class family, Livingstone joined Labour in 1968 and was elected to represent Norwood at the GLC in 1973 , Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1977 , and Paddington in 1981 , when he was elected leader of the GLC by Labour members. Attempting to reduce London Underground fares , his plans were challenged in court and declared unlawful; more successful were his schemes to benefit women and underprivileged minorities, despite stiff opposition. Livingstone was heavily criticised in the mainstream media for supporting controversial issues like republicanism , LGBT rights , and a United Ireland , and given the moniker "Red Ken". Livingstone was a vocal opponent of the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , which in 1986 abolished the GLC. Elected as MP for Brent East in 1987, he became closely associated with anti-racist campaigns. He unsuccessfully stood for Labour Party leader on a leftist platform in 1992 and 1994, and became a vocal critic of Tony Blair 's New Labour project that pushed the party to the centre . After failing to become Labour's candidate in the 2000 London mayoral election , Livingstone successfully contested the election as an independent candidate . In his first term as Mayor of London, he introduced the congestion charge , Oyster card , and articulated buses , and unsuccessfully opposed the government's privatisation of London Underground . Despite his opposition to Blair's government on issues like the Iraq War , Livingstone was invited to stand for re-election as Labour's candidate and was re-elected in 2004 , expanding his transport policies, introducing new environmental regulations, and enacting civil rights policies. Initiating and overseeing London's winning bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and ushering in a major redevelopment of the city's East End , his leadership after the 7 July 2005 London bombings was widely praised. He stood unsuccessfully as Labour candidate in London's mayoral elections of 2008 and 2012 , losing both to the Conservative candidate Boris Johnson . Characterised as "the only truly successful Left-wing British politician of modern times", Livingstone is a highly controversial figure in British politics. Supporters lauded his efforts to improve rights for women, LGBT people, and ethnic minorities in London, but critics accused him of cronyism and antisemitism and lambasted his connections to Islamists , Marxists , and Irish republicans . Early life Childhood and young adulthood: 1945–1967 Livingstone was born in his grandmother's house in Lambeth , south London , on 17 June 1945. His family was working class; his mother, Ethel Ada (née Kennard, 1915–1997), had been born in Southwark before training as an acrobatic dancer and working on the music hall circuit prior to the Second World War . Ken's Scottish father, Robert "Bob" Moffat Livingstone (1915–1971), had been born in Dunoon before joining the Merchant Navy in 1932 and becoming ship's master. [3] Having first met in April 1940 at a music hall in Workington , they married within three months. After the war the couple moved in with Ethel's aggressive mother, Zona Ann (Williams), whom
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OCTOBER October 1 OCTOBER The Feast Day of Agnes of Lisieux, patron saint of florists. The National Day of China marking the formation in 1949 of the Peoples Republic with Mao Tse-tung as chairman. The National Day of Nigeria which became independent within the Commonwealth in 1960, and became a republic this day in 1963. 1207: Birth of Henry III, King of England, born at Winchester, son of King John. He reigned from 1216 to 1272 and, by all accounts, was totally incompetent. 1792: Money orders were first issued in Britain. 1843: The News of the World, Britains biggest circulation Sunday newspaper, began publication. 1868: St Pancras railway station in London was formally opened as a terminus of the Midland Railway. 1880: The Edison Lamp Works began operations in New Jersey to manufacture the first electric light bulbs. 1903: From this day it was possible to take a train from London to Dover, pick up the connection at Ostend and travel via Berlin as far as St Petersburg as European railways linked with Russian. 1906: The first hot-air balloon race was staged at Whitley, Yorkshire and was won by US Army Lieutenant Frank Lahm. 1908: Henry Ford introduced the Model T, the worlds most popular low-priced car until the arrival of the Volkswagen Beetle. It was also the first left-hand drive vehicle. 1918: The Arab forces of Emir Faisal with British officer T E Lawrence captured Damascus from the Turks. An Australian Mounted division followed them in. 1924: Birth of Jimmy (James Earl) Carter, 39th US President (1977-81) and peanut farmer who managed to get Egypt and Israel to sign the Camp David agreement ending hostilities between their countries. 1936: General Franco took over as the head of the Nationalist Government in Spain. 1938: German forces entered Sudetenland, once part of Czechoslovakia which Hitler claimed he had liberated. 1938: The first edition of Picture Post, an 80-page photonews magazine, went on sale for just 3d (less than 2p) and became a legend in British journalism. 1963: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed by Britain, USSR and the US came into force. 1969: Olaf Palme became Prime Minister of Sweden. 1969: Concorde 001 broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight in France. 1971: Disney World opened in Florida. 1974: The Watergate Trial began. John Erlichman, H R Haldeman and John Mitchell, charged with obstructing the course of justice, were found guilty the following year. 1974: The first McDonalds opened in London to speed up the fast food revolution. 1985: Liverpool youths went on the rampage in Toxteth, a decaying inner city area. The riots were some of the most serious experienced in Britain this century. 2 OCTOBER 1187: Saladin, the Muslim sultan, captured Jerusalem this day after an 88-year occupation by the Franks. 1452: Birth of Richard III, King of England from 1483 who proved a skilful ruler despite being suspected of the murder of Edward V and his brother. 1608: Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrated the first telescope. 1847: Birth of Paul Ludwig Hans von Benckendorff und Hindenburg, German field marshal and president of the Republic from 1925 who was forced to invite Hitler to accept the Chancellorship in 1933. 1851: Birth of Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France who was in command of the Allied armies in 1918 when the final advance to end the war was launched. 1869: Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian leader who campaigned for Indian independence using the techniques of civil disobedience. 1870: Rome was declared the capital of Italy. 1871: Brigham Young, Mormon leader, was arrested for bigamy. 1871: Birth of Cordell Hull, US statesman and diplomat, Roosevelts secretary of state who has been called the father of the United Nations and for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. 1901: The first Royal Navy submarine was launched at Barrow, built by Vickers. There were five of these experimental six-man crew submarine boats on order. 1904: Birth of Shri Lal Banadur Shastri, Indian prime minister who campaigned with Gandhi, with whom he shares a
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WHKMLA : Scandals in French History as Portrayed in Historic Encyclopedias Scandals in French History as Portrayed in Historic Encyclopedias Korean Minjok Leadership Academy I. Introduction History is determined by the record of it. Without any record, the history is meaningless and it cannot even exist. However, it is impossible for a man-written record to be always perfect without any omission, exaggeration, or bias. Sometimes these mistakes are purely mistakes, and sometimes they are intended. This paper looked at the scandals in French history portrayed in many different 19th encyclopedias, finding those omissions, exaggerations, or biases, and speculating the reasons for the mistakes if they seemed to be intended. Four scandals were selected according to the following definition, from the period range of 1815 - 1914. II. The Definition of 'Scandals' In this paper, ��scandals�� mean major political scandals that are worth discussing. A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians or government officials are accused of engaging in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices. A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws or plotting to do so. (2.1) III. Selection Criteria and Translation of the Encyclopedias Among the encyclopedias accessible on-line, the ones written after the latest scandal on my list were selected as the usable sources. In each scandal, every encyclopedia is searched with every possible key word. If no result came out, the encyclopedia was discarded on that section. When one article from two different editions of one encyclopedia had almost the same contents, the two versions were considered as the same article and were not separated when writing the paper. If the translated version of any relevant biography is on WHKMLA website, that translated biography was used as a source. Otherwise the translation of non-English text was done by Google Translation. Following are the encyclopedias selected as the usable sources : (1) Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition (2) Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885-1892 Edition / 1902-1909 Edition (3) Nordisk Familje-Bok, 1876-1899 Edition / 1904-1926 Edition (4) Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, 1915-1930 Edition (5) Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907-1914 Edition (6) Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901-1906 Edition IV.1.1 Jules Grevy from modern source Jules Grevy was a President of the French Third Republic and one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans faction. Foreseeing that Louis Bonaparte would be elected president of the Second Republic by the people in 1851, Grevy proposed to vest the chief authority in the president of the Council elected and removable by the Assembly, or in other words, to suppress the Presidency of the Republic. After Bonaparte's coup d'etat in 1852, this proposition gained Grevy a reputation for sagacity, and upon his return to public life in 1868 he took a prominent place in the republican party, ultimately leading to his second election as the president in 1885. However, shortly afterwards, his son-in-law David Wilson was got caught selling state honors (The order 'Legion d'Honneur'). Even though Grevy was not accused of personally participating in this scandal, because he was somewhat obstinate in refusing to realize that he was responsible indirectly for the use which his relative had made of the Elysee, he had to resign in the end (1887). (2.2) IV.1.2.1 Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 The Wilson scandal is explained briefly in the biographical article titled 'Francois Paul Jules Grevy'. The article lists most of the major doings of Jules Grevy, and then mentions that he unfortunately accepted second term as a president. The scandal broke out right after that, and this article explains the scandal itself briefly, mentioning only the traffic of Legion d'Honneur, of all the crimes of Daniel Wilson. Encyclopaedia Britannica states that Jules Grevy was not accused of being dir
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French History of the Bourbon Dynasty Louis-Phillippe, King of the French 1830-1848 With the advent of the Second Republic in 1848, Bourbon monarchy in France ended. The Bourbon pretender to the throne of France, the Comte de Chambord, was offered a restored throne following the collapse of the empire of Emperor Napoleon III in 1870. However the stubborn Chambord refused to accept the throne unless France abandoned the revolution-inspired tricolore and accepted what he regarded as the true Bourbon flag of France, something the French National Assembly could not possibly agree to. (The tricolour, having been associated with the First Republic, had been used by the July Monarchy, Second Republic and Empire.) A temporary Third Republic was established, while monarchists waited for Chambord to die and for the succession to pass to the Comte de Paris, who was willing to accept the tricolour. However Chambord did not die for over a decade, by which public opinion switched to support the republic as the 'form of government that divides us least.' Henry IV of France Henry IV (December 13, 1553 - May 14, 1610) was King of France from 1589-1610, the first of the Bourbon kings of France. He was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre. Henry was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the southwest of France. On August 18 1572 Henry married Marguerite de Valois, sister of the then King Charles IX. In the same year he became king Henry III of Navarre, succeeding his mother Jeanne d'Albret, who had brought him up as a Huguenot. Jeanne herself was also a Protestant, and had declared Calvinism the religion of Navarre. Henry's marriage was part of a plan to help quell the French Wars of Religion. As part of this plan, he was forced to convert to Roman Catholicism on February 5, 1576, and kept in confinement, but later that year he gained his freedom and resumed Protestantism. He became the legal heir to the French throne upon the death in 1584 of François, Duke of Alençon, brother and heir to King Henri III, who had succeeded Charles IX in 1574. Since Henry of Navarre was a descendant of King Louis IX, King Henry III had no choice but to recognize him as the legitimate successor. (Salic law disinherited the king's sisters and all others who could claim descent by distaff line.) In December 1588 King Henry III had the Duke of Guise and that man's brother the Cardinal, murdered. Henry had to flee Paris and joined forces with Henri of Navarre, but died shortly thereafter. On the death of the king in 1589, Henri of Navarre became nominally the king of France. But the Catholic League, strengthened by support from outside, especially from Spain, was strong enough to force him to the south, and he had to set about winning his kingdom by military conquest. He was victorious at Ivry and Arques, but failed to take Paris. With the encouragement of the great love of his life, Gabrielle d'Estrée, on July 25, 1593 he declared that Paris vaut bien une messe (Paris was worth a Mass) and permanently renounced Protestantism. His entrance into the Roman Catholic Church secured for him the allegiance of the vast majority of his subjects and he was crowned King of France at the Cathedral of Chartres on February 27, 1594. In 1598, however, he declared the Edict of Nantes, which gave circumscribed toleration to the Huguenots. Henry's first marriage was not a happy one, and the couple remained childless. Even before Henry had succeeded to the throne in August, 1589 the two had separated, and Marguerite de Valois lived for many years in the chateau of Usson in Auvergne. After Henry had become king various advisers impressed upon him the desirability of providing an heir to the French Crown in order to avoid the problem of a disputed succession. Henry himself favored the idea of obtaining an annulment of his first marriage and taking Gabrielle d'Estrée as a bride, who had already borne him three children. Henry's councillors strongly opposed this idea, but the matter was resolved unexpectedly by Gabrielle
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NWS JetStream MAX - Beaufort Wind Force Scale JetStream Max: Beaufort Wind Force Scale Sir Francis Beaufort Rear-Admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, was born in Ireland in 1774. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of 13 and was a midshipman aboard the Aquilon. By 1800 he had risen to the rank of Commander. In the summer of 1805 Beaufort was appointed to the command of the Woolwich, a 44 gun man-of-war. In 1806 he wrote in his log book a wind force scale. The scale was simple and very similar to one that Alexander Dalrymple had written in a book in 1789. A year later he added some criteria to the 0-12 scale that indicated how much of a ship's sails would be employed by a British man-of-war under each condition. It was not related to the speed of the wind. Over the following years he continued to use his scale in his logs. It was finally adopted in December 1838 by the British Admiralty for use in all Royal Navy logbooks. However, as ship design and the introduction of steam power became widespread even that scale had to be modified. In 1912 the International Commission for Weather Telegraphy sought some agreement on velocity equivalents for the Beaufort scale. A uniform set of equivalents was accepted in 1926 and revised slightly in 1946, extending the scale to 17 values (the added five values further refining the hurricane-force winds). By 1955, wind velocities in knots replaced Beaufort numbers on weather maps. Today's Beaufort Scale including the observed land conditions... Beaufort
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Fremantle Weather, Climate of Fremantle, Seasonal Temperature of Fremantle Western Australia Heading to the South Coast? Visit Denmark, Western Australia along the Rainbow Coast Fremantle Climate The Fremantle Doctor (The Fremantle Docker) During summer months it consistently blows from the South-West along the southern half of the west coast, starting between noon and 3 pm. It can penetrate as far inland as 100km, reaching York in the early evening. In Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and in FREMANTLE the wind is called the Fremantle Doctor because it brings welcome relief from the summertime high temperatures. On days when the wind fails, the afternoon temperatures of Perth suburbs are considerably higher, often exceeding 40°C (104°F), although this is also attributable to the influence of a strong easterly wind blowing in hot desert air from the arid interior of the state. The wind is sometimes called the Fremantle Docker, allegedly because in the days of sail, ships would lie offshore waiting for the afternoon wind to carry them into the Fremantle Dock. This is not to be confused with the Fremantle Dockers, the local Australian Football League team. (See Fremantle Sport ) The Fremantle Doctor The Fremantle Doctor is strongest in December and January, when the temperature differential between the land and ocean is greatest. In February and March the breeze is not as strong, because the ocean temperature is a bit warmer. Though October and November are not as warm, the ocean temperature is cooler resulting in the sea breeze in these months. Other months have a weak or non-existent Fremantle Doctor. In the winter months, the land temperature is usually cooler than the ocean temperature, and this sometimes results in the weaker land breeze in the early morning. When the Fremantle Doctor first arrives it is from the west-south-west (WSW) direction. Later when it is at maximum strength, the direction is usually from the SW or SSW. By the early evening, the direction is from the south. This change in wind direction is due to the Coriolis Effect. Other factors like the prevailing wind of a particular day can also have an effect on the direction. A wind rose showing the different wind directions for Perth can be found at the Bureau of Meteorology's website. [ Wikipedia ] Fremantle is home to Black Swans of Western Australia In Manning Park just bordering South Fremantle there is a large lake named Davilak Lake which is home to many Western Australian Black Swans. Black Swans feature as emblems and decorations on most important public buildings in Western Australia. An example is the tower of the Fremantle Town Hall . The Black Swan is the official state emblem of Western Australia, and is depicted on the Flag of Western Australia, as well as being depicted on the Western Australian Coat-of-Arms. The symbol is used in other emblems, coins, logos, mascots and in the naming of sports teams. When they fly north, they stop in Fremantle and raise their babies! "Aboriginal usage of 'Black Swan' The Black Swan is well-represented in the toponymy of the south-west. (Toponymy is the scientific study of place names.) One example is Kurrabup (Nyungar language), or ‘black swan place’, being the local Aboriginal name for the Wilson Inlet upon which the town of Denmark is situated in the South West of Western Australia, a few hours from Fremantle." http://en.wikipedia.org Western Australia Flag with the Black Swan Emblem Standard of the Governor 1870-1953 Fremantle Western Australia.com.au is owned and operated by Rainbow Coast Web Design, based in Western Australia. The views and opinions expressed in this website are the opinions of the editor or otherwise stated. This website is a Local's View of Fremantle, and is not an 'official' representation of Fremantle. Website photographs are copyright protected unless otherwise stated. They are editorial in nature, and are NOT for sale and may NOT be used without written permission. Maps coded using open source technology from Google . Videos are intended for educational and documen
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Basset Hound Dog Breed Information, Pictures, Characteristics & Facts - Dogtime Dog Breed Group: Hound Dogs Height: Up to 1 foot, 2 inches tall at the shoulder Weight: 50 to 65 pounds Life Span: 10 to 12 years He may be best known as the Hush Puppy dog, but the Basset Hound is much more than an advertising icon. With his placid personality and short-statured yet noble appearance, the Basset Hound is a popular family companion, as well as a slow-paced but keen hunting dog. The name Basset comes from the French word bas, meaning low. And Basset Hounds certainly are low to the ground. Because their bones are heavy and they are muscular, they usually weigh 50 to 65 pounds although they typically are no more than 14 inches tall at the highest point of the shoulder. In reality, they are big dogs on short legs. Their short-legged appearance is the result of a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia. Despite his large size, the Basset believes he's a lap dog and will do his best to fit in yours. Bassets are scent hounds , meaning that they were bred to hunt by following the scent of their prey. Their phenomenal sense of smell is second only to that of the Bloodhound. Basset Hounds have smooth, short, hard-textured coats that are relatively easy to take care of. Most of them come in the classic tri-color pattern of black, tan, and white, but they can also be what's known as open red and white (red spots on a white coat), closed red and white (solid red with white feet and tail), or lemon and white. On occasion you may see a gray (also called blue) Basset, but this color is considered undesirable because it's thought to be associated with genetic problems. The Basset Hound has a rounded skull with a deep muzzle and a lot of loose skin on the face, which is heavily wrinkled over the brow when the dog is tracking. This loose skin also causes Bassets to have a sad look, which many people think adds to their charm. Because they were originally bred to be hunting dogs, many of the features of the Basset Hounds have a purpose. Their long, low-set ears drag the ground and pick up scents, while the loose skin around their heads form wrinkles that further capture the scent of whatever they are tracking. Their short legs mean that they move more slowly than longer-legged dogs, which makes it easier for hunters on foot to follow them. Their tails are long and stand upright with a white tip at the end, which makes it easy for hunters to see when the dogs are in tall grass. Basset Hounds also have massive paws and their front feet turn outward slightly to balance the width of the shoulders. Around the house, Basset Hounds are calm and rather lazy. They are loyal to their people and have a pleasant, friendly disposition. Because they originally were bred as pack dogs, they love to be with their families and also do well with other pets. Bassets hate to be left alone for long periods of time, and may become destructive and howl if left alone for too long. Their distinctive baying bark is loud and travels long distances. Basset Hounds are hearty eaters, but because they aren't very active in the house, they can gain weight and quickly become obese , which can cause them to have back and leg problems. Regular exercise is a must. Bassets have a great deal of endurance, so they enjoy taking long walks. When you're walking your Basset, be aware that he loves to track. If he picks up a scent that he wants to follow, he can wander off if not on leash . Bassets are singleminded when trailing a scent and will follow it into the street in front of a car if they're not leashed or confined by a fence. Lots of Basset people channel their dogs' superb scent-trailing skills in organized tracking events called basseting, which take place primarily in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Bassets are naturals at earning tracking, hunt test, and field trial titles, but they've also been known to compete successfully in agility , obedience, and rally, given a patient trainer. Patience is definitely a virtue when it comes to training a Basset. Unless you
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Dog Breeds - K9 TRAINING SERVICES - K9 BEHAVIOURAL SPECIALIST K9 TRAINING SERVICES - K9 BEHAVIOURAL SPECIALIST Akita BACKGROUND The exact origin of the Akita remains unknown. Through skeletal remains and carbon dating, it was traced to 500 BC, although the Akita's specific breed history has only been recorded for the past 350 years. The Akita was also known as the Odate dog – named after the rugged mountainous area of Odate in the prefecture of Akita, on the island of Honshu. As fishing has always been a major Japanese industry, the Akita, with its webbed feet and thick water-resistant coat, readily became the fishermen's workmate. Akitas were then used as cattle dogs, seeing-eye dogs for the blind, sled pullers and police dogs. They were also utilised as "babysitters" looking after children while their mothers worked in the rice fields. They first arrived in Australia in 1982. AVERAGE LIFESPAN These proud dogs often live to eight years of age, but Akitas treated correctly and fed the proper nutrition can live up to 10 years. BREED PERSONALITY, CHARACTERISTICS & TEMPERAMENT The Akita very much personifies the enigmatic character of the Orient.A dignified, proud, and courageous dog with a fearless yet steady disposition which does not lose control when confronted with unusual or sudden stress situations. Even as a puppy it displays a certain dignity. It is an ever-patient playmate for children and a no-nonsense protector of family and home. Most of all, in the hands of suitable owners it is a joy to own. COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER PETS Tends to show dominance over other dogs. CARE REQUIREMENTS The Akita loses its coat twice, sometimes three times a year and this is definitely something to consider if you are looking for a dog to live inside the house with you and your family. It requires extensive amounts of exercise and obedience training – this is a breed that needs to learn, from a young age, who is the "leader of the pack". When the Akita loses its coat, its fur literally drops out. At this time it is almost impossible to have it in the house with you so it is necessary to provide an outside fenced area with a warm, dry bed. IDEAL OWNERS Those who accept the challenge and understand what is required to do justice to this breed will be rewarded with a loyal and loving animal. Afghan Hound BACKGROUND In the country from which the breed derives its name, the Afghan hound is regarded, though unofficially, as the "national" dog. Native Afghans also uphold the belief that the Afghan is the dog portrayed on the cave walls in the northern province of Balkh, which is why the Afghan has also been called the Balkh Hound. The Afghan hound is a sight hound, rather than a hunter by scent. It has exceptional vision and great speed, both of which were used in the hunt for prey. Its thick, luxurious coat protected it against the extreme cold of the upper snow regions, while also shielding it from the merciless sun as it roamed the desert. Its huge thickly padded paws and powerful hindquarters gave the Afghan hound equal ability to skim across hot desert sands or to scale rocky hilltops in mountainous terrain. [ Afghan Puppies ] AVERAGE LIFESPAN Afghan Hounds will often live up to 13 years of age, but with the proper care and nutrition can live up to 15 years of age. BREED PERSONALITY, CHARACTERISTICS & TEMPERAMENT The breed is said to have a good, but aloof personality. These dogs are loyal and extremely manageable as adults, however, this is not to say that as puppies they do not have "their moments". On the whole, though, this is a breed that is extremely good with children, whether introduced to the home as a puppy or an adult, and it will adapt readily to the household routine. Afghans should never be off the lead outside their own environment because once the eyes spot a target, the ears "switch off". COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER PETS As adaptable as Afghans are, they do need to be brought up among the animals they will spend time with. Remember they were bred as sight hounds and i
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THE KING AND I :: Rodgers & Hammerstein :: Show Details Like this page on facebook. THE KING AND I Music by Rodgers, Richard | Book by Oscar Hammerstein II | Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on Anna and the King by Margaret Landon | Original Choreography by Jerome Robbins East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna's assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a truly unique love story. Along with the dazzling score, the incomparable Jerome Robbins ballet, 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas,' is one of the all-time marvels of the musical stage. The King and I Synopsis THE KING AND I is based on a 1944 novel by Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam which, in turn, was adapted from the real life reminiscences of Anna Leonowens as recounted in her own books The English Governess at the Siamese Court and The Romance of the Harem. The time is the early 1860s. The place, the royal capital city of Bangkok in the kingdom of Siam. Anna Leonowens, an attractive English widow, arrives in Bangkok with her son Louis. She has been engaged by The King of Siam to teach English and other Western ideas and philosophies to members of the royal family, including the King’s many wives and many more children. Escorted ashore by the King’s Prime Minister, The Kralahome, Anna is at first unsure that she and Louis have made the right decision by coming to Siam. In the King’s court, attempts toward implementing Western values clash with old fashioned customs and traditions. Even as the King is proclaiming his belief in the ideals of the West, he accepts a gift from the King of Burma – a peace offering, a slave. The King admires the young girl, Tupim, not suspecting her lack of interest in him nor the fact that her true love in Lun Tha, the young Burmese who has escorted her to Bangkok. Anna is finally presented to The King, and her doubts turn to indignant anger when it seems that His Majesty has a cavalier way of forgetting issues that do not interest him – such as Anna’s salary, her days off and the issue of a brick house that was supposed to be built for her adjacent to the Royal Palace. But, on the verge of storming out, Anna is coxed into meeting the Royal Children. She is introduced to the King’s first wife, Lady Thiang, and in turn to the King’s children. That settles it. She stays to teach. In the classroom Anna instructs the Royal Children, the King’s wives and sometimes the King himself. They learn of a great outside world where there exists such strange and unheard wonders as snow, ice, and freedom of the individual. When the King learns that a British diplomat, Sire Edward Ramsay, is on his way from Singapore to Bangkok ostensibly to pay his compliments to the King but also to assess the monarch’s hold on his own thrown, Anna cleverly finds a way to help the King convince Sir Edward that is a sophisticated and commanding leader. Anna suggests that the King host a dinner for Sir Edward in the European style, with his wives dressed in the latest European style, and with an entertainment provided by the quick and intelligent slave girl Tuptim. The King is so happy with the thought of this forthcoming dinner, and recognizing the friendship that is growing between himself and the equally strong-willed “Mrs. Anna,” he now promises Anna that she will get her brick house, according to their agreement. The dinner proves a great success, despite the discomfort and anger that arises from the King during Tuptim’s presentation of “The Small House of Uncle Thomas,” in which Harriet Beecher Stowe’s passionate denunciation of bigotry in Ame
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Theatre Facts - Quick Theatre Facts - Fun Facts, Ticket Deals & Offers Kicky Wicky is a Shakespearean word meaning wife. There are over 5000 books on the subject of the disputed authorship of Shakespeare's works. The largest operating theatrical wardrobe department in the world is at Walt Disney World, Florida housing 1.2 million costumes. Disney's The Lion King closely follows the plot of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Sheridan's “The Rivals” was an instant flop, so he rewrote it in just 10 days and it became a hit. André Tchaikowsky bequeathed his skull to the RSC, which was used to play the famous Yorick in the 2008 production of Hamlet. Cambridge Footlights is rumoured to be the only Cambridge club big and profitable enough to pay corporation tax. Princess Diana once danced with Wayne Sleep to a Billy Joel record on stage at The Royal Opera House. Dublin theatre manager James Daly allegedly invented the word "quiz" on a bet that he could introduce a new word into the English language. The world's tallest proscenium arch in a theatre is at the Siam Niramit, Bangkok. It is 11.95m high. David Garrick was taught at school by Samuel Johnson, the writer of the dictionary. The first theatre to be named after an actor was the Garrick Theatre , London. (1889). The Kit Kat Club in Berlin took it's name from the club in Kander & Ebb's “Cabaret”. Playwright Bertolt Brecht was exiled from Nazi Germany. Later while in the USA, he was interrogated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. If a prompt desk is on stage right it is known as a Bastard Prompt. The world record for most full costume changes for a leading character in a theatre production goes to Joe Casey (played by Michael Jibson) in the Madness musical Our House. He had 29 quick changes. The actor Patrick Stewart lost his hair at age 18. In England, during the reign of Oliver Cromwell (1642-1660), theatre was outlawed, but music was not, so many playwrights started writing libretto for opera. Actor, Brian Blessed is the oldest man to have trekked to the North Pole, he has survived a plane crash and has even had a boxing match with the Dalai Lama! The complete works of Shakespeare uses a vocabulary of 17,677 words. About 1,700 of these are words believed to have been invented by Shakespeare. American playwright Tennessee Williams is buried in St Louis, Missouri, despite his own wishes to be buried at sea. The residents of Oberammergau, Germany, put on an epic passion play every 10 years, which they have been doing since the town survived a plague outbreak in 1634. The Peacock Theatre stands on the site of a 17th century tennis court. When Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel” opened previews in 1945 the ballet sequence was over an hour long and the show came down at 1:30 am! In The Phantom Of The Opera it takes the phantom 2 hours to apply makeup before the show. The Lyceum and New Amsterdam, both built 1903, are the oldest theatres on Broadway. Elizabethan theatre was so popular that in 1591 a law forced London theatres to close on Thursdays to give other entertainments, like the declining bear baiting industry, a chance. The Broadway production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert was produced by Bette Midler. In the original stage production of Singin’ In The Rain, Tommy Steele had to mime the title song as the rain was too noisy and would have damaged the microphone. Rick Lyon, the actor who originally played Trekkie Monster and Nicky in Avenue Q, also designed all of the puppets for the show. Architect of Sydney Opera House, Jørn Utzon, never visited the finished venue owing to a disagreement with the managers. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president responsible for the theatre being built in the White House. Elizabethan playwright, Christopher Marlowe, was killed in argument over who would pay a bill. Elizabethan audiences were known to bang their chairs on the ground to show appreciation. There has been a theatre on the site of Theatre Royal Drury Lane since 1663. The current building is the 4th theatre, after 2 fires and 1 demolition. In 1971, The Who performed a serie
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Puccini's Il Trittico : The Rule of Three (News article) | Opera Online - The opera lovers web site > Home > News > Puccini's Il Trittico : The Rule of Three Puccini's Il Trittico : The Rule of Three With Il Trittico , Puccini wanted to renew the lyrical style imaginating three distinct short operas, set over three different eras and places, each one illustrating its own thematic, but always to be played together because in the mind of the composer, « Il Trittico constituted a whole inseparable work », binded by a « musical unity ». This whish will not always be respected, but it is at the Royal Opera House of London where the three works are played starting next Thursday. The occasion to (re)discover Puccini's Il Trittico, through its diversity and also through its unity. *** “In the theatre, there are rules that must be followed: make audiences interested, surprise them, make them cry or make them laugh.” Giacomo Puccini used these terms to lay out the artistic principles that guided him in conceiving Il Trittico, which is presented as an ensemble consisting of three one-act operas. It took several years to carry out this unique project, the premises of which seem to date back to the days of Tosca (1900). Puccini searched a long time for the three subjects that would enable him to illustrate three complementary registers: the tragic, the lyric and the comic, in three different eras and in three separate places. He added a social dimension to this tripartite conception with the depiction of three contrasting milieus: the Parisian proletariat in 1900, the aristocracy of the 17th century, and the world of small landowners in Florence in 1299. Puccini began with a dark drama, Il Tabarro, continued with a sentimental tale, Suor Angelica, andended with Gianni Schicchi, in the “commedia dell’arte” style. Fully aware of the uniqueness of such a scheme, Puccini objected from the very start to the prospect of seeing his Trittico presented in three separate performances. But executing this very special work requires a considerable orchestra, sixteen male voices, twenty-two female voices, and large choruses! Does it require three separate casts, or performers capable of performing the three operas in succession? Simultaneously rendering the uniqueness of each opera plus the unity of the whole as desired by the composer proved to be a delicate undertaking: this explains why the three are often presented separately. The Uniqueness of Il Trittico Il Trittico was the last work completed by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) who died before he could finish his final masterpiece, Turandot (1926). The idea of staging a performance consisting of three small-scale pieces dated back a number of years. The musician wanted to illustrate Hell, Purgatory and Paradise as they appear in Dante’s Divine Comedy, one of his favourite books. Abandoned, then seriously envisioned in the wake of Madame Butterfly (1904), the project cropped up again in 1913 after the death of publisher Giulio Riccordi (1840-1912) who firmly advised the composer not to head down that path. Yet reviving the lyric genre by writing short works of great dramatic and emotional density was a very popular approach at the time: In 1890 Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) had triumphed with Cavalleria Rusticana, soon followed in 1892 by I Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858-1919). Throughout his life Puccini was obsessed by the need to throw himself into new artistic challenges with a libretto up to his musical and artistic conceptions. In 1912, the musician confided to Luigi Illica (1857- 1919), one of his designated librettists, that he was constantly obsessed with finding ”a story that grips us with its poetry, its love and suffering, and inspires us to the point that we get an opera out of it”. The composer briefly considered adapting three short stories by Maxim Gorky, but his attention was ultimately drawn to a play by Didier Gold, La Houppelande, successfully staged in Paris in 1910 at the Théâtre Marigny. In a letter in 1913 Puccini evoked La Houppelande in these terms:“It i
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On the trail of Tosca in Rome — News — Royal Opera House By Gavin Plumley (Classical music blogger) 8 June 2011 at 6.59pm | 2 Comments Martina Serafin as Tosca in Tosca © ROH / Catherine Ashmore 2011 Puccini was a stickler for detail, taking great care to set his operas in exact geographic locations. When he first saw the play La Tosca, by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, in Milan in 1887, he found a golden opportunity to write a very meticulously placed opera. Although a Tuscan by birth, Puccini would have known the Italian capital well – indeed Tosca had its premiere in the city. Sardou set the action of the play in three contrasting settings: the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle; the elaborate Palazzo Farnese nearby; and the commanding Castel Sant’ Angelo over the River Tiber. These famous buildings survive to this day. So you can go and ‘recreate’ Tosca in your mind (all with the aid of a trusty MP3 player). Since the premiere at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome, many productions have taken Sardou and Puccini at their word by replicating the exact timings and settings of the three acts and, in 1992, a performance was broadcast live from the actual locations. So visiting these sites is a great way to get to know your Tosca. St Andrew crucified, in Sant’Andrea della valle © ROH 2011 Act I – The Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle Setting the scene: Tosca opens with the escaped convict Angelotti stumbling into the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, right in the heart of Rome. He’s looking for the Capella Attavanti (the private chapel of his sister the Marchesa). On location: Angelotti must have been searching for a while, as there’s no such chapel in the church. The name was Sardou’s invention, but the chapel on which it is based is immediately to the left of the door. Coming in off the teeming main street, the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Sant’Andrea really is a quiet haven in the midst of the racket of central Rome. The Barberini Chapel is the only private space to be hidden behind gates. Sadly, those expecting Cavaradossi’s blonde bombshell of a Madonna peering down at them with her infamous blue eyes will be disappointed. The chapel is rather dark and features more muted religious paintings. Buried in the corner of the church, it doesn’t really benefit from the streaming light of an Italian afternoon (as it must have done on the June day on which Sardou set his play). But the dark recesses in the chapel must have been perfect for Angelotti’s hiding place. And looking down the nave, towards the gruesome painting of St. Andrew’s execution on an inverted cross, you can feel the chill of Scarpia, chief of police, approaching. Act II – Palazzo Farnese Setting the scene: Once Scarpia is on to Angelotti’s scent, there’s no stopping him. But rather than pursuing the prisoner through Rome’s cobbled winding streets, he preys on Tosca’s jealousy to unlock the clues. Through Tosca he will crack her lover Cavaradossi, who he’s sure has helped Angelotti to escape. After the scenes in the church, Scarpia retreats to his apartments in the nearby Palazzo Farnese. Tosca, something of a local celebrity, just happens to be performing in the gardens that evening. Situated between the River Tiber and the church, the Palazzo is an enormous Renaissance villa, originally built for the Farnese family, one of the most powerful and influential dynasties of the Renaissance. On location: For such a grand building, it’s unlikely that a civil servant such as Scarpia (however controlling) would have been gifted apartments in the building. Part designed by Michaelangelo, it had been the home of Cardinals and Queens, rather than policemen. But it’s an evocative edifice, framed by an impressive square. Unfortunately, nowadays, you can’t gain access to the palace unless you have business with the French, as this is where they’ve had their Roman embassy since 1874. Although Mussolini sequestered the property during his time in power, the French were allowed to stay on for the princely rent of 1 Euro a year. You can get some sense of the atmosphere of Act II
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A retrospective of painter Stanley Spencer | Books | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close One of Stanley Spencer's formative experiences, growing up in Cookham, was being taken by his mother to the comfortable, cosy Wesleyan chapel along the village street. One by one, the familiar, everyday figures of the village gave themselves up to intense religious experience, flopping down on the floor of the chapel, becoming "Entirely Sanctified". Though he knew he must not watch, the boy could not help imagining the shapes they were making on "the sacred piece of ground", a small patch of hard linoleum, while they were "coming to the Lord". The local grocer would become "more intensely a grocer" as he lay there "crumpled, his face turned up in a wonderful ecstasy". The Wesleyan chapel, once the place of such startling transformation scenes, has been the Stanley Spencer Gallery since 1962, a uniquely local tribute to an artist in the Berkshire village in which he lived and worked. When the gallery reopens next month after a year's refurbishment, there will be a new exhibit: the pencil drawing Ecstasy in a Wesleyan Chapel, made in 1937 as a study for a painting Spencer did not pursue. On the left there were to be "pews with us in them". Stanley was the eighth of nine surviving Spencer children, who appear in many of his paintings. On the right, Wesleyan souls are being transported off to glory. Spencer used to refer to his grand visionary paintings as his "queer ones". Ecstasy might well have been the queerest of them all. For what other English artist has one place been so important? Not even Samuel Palmer's Shoreham has quite the significance of Stanley Spencer's Cookham. He was born there in 1891 and moved back into the same house on the high street, Fernlea, shortly before his death in 1959. His self-identification with the village was so obvious to his fellow students at the Slade that they called him "Cookham", not altogether kindly. Like a homing pigeon he went back and back and back, and the tenor of village life, the "unhappeningness" of it, the slow seasonal rhythms, the recurring, low-key, local ceremonies and events, gave shape to the peculiar combination of the literal and visionary that characterises Stanley Spencer's art. His retentiveness was extraordinary. Decades later, he could retrieve and rework the visual details of a late Victorian childhood in a village whose further reaches seemed "as remote as the Milky Way". Cookham was still a small and isolated place, an island surrounded by flowery water meadows, the highly coloured lushness re-evoked in Spencer's 1930s landscape Bellrope Meadow. In winter, the village was often cut off by floods, and at worst people would retreat to the upper rooms of their houses, dependent on neighbours to deliver food by boat. Loaves of bread stuck on poles ascended to the bedroom windows. Spencer thrived on such sweetly bizarre scenes. An infant voyeur, he would peer through iron gates and over rooftops, describing later how this childhood curiosity had fuelled "his artistic and creative needs". When I wrote the introduction to the catalogue for the British Council's 1997 Stanley Spencer exhibition in Washington, I was banned from using the word "homely", a term that has pejorative meanings in the US. This was a dilemma. How to avoid the word that best expresses the essence of Spencer, the artist who found spiritual qualities in the most mundane and workaday of things? Where William Blake was aware of heavenly voices in the next room, Stanley Spencer was susceptible to visions of holiness along the Cookham lanes. For him, heaven was indeed "a part of Widbrook Common". A prime time for visitations came after a swim in Odney Weir. He and his brother Gilbert felt certain that the shepherds watched their flocks in the field below Cliveden Wood. Just how innocent was Spencer? To see him as an unschooled primitive, a Home Counties Alfred Wallis, would be absolutely wrong. He trained at the Slade, then the leading London art school, in a pre-first world war generation that included Edwa
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Jacques-Louis David: French Neoclassical History Painter Academic Training David was born to a wealthy Parisian family in 1748. When he was seven, his father was shot dead in a pistol duel, so he was brought up by his uncle, Jacques Buron. He showed a desire to paint at an early age, and his mother eventually sent him to her cousin, the artist Francois Boucher (1703-70) to study fine art painting . Painting was an important means of communication for David, particularly after he developed a stutter when his face was slashed during a sword fight. However Boucher did not get on with the boy, so in 1766 he sent him instead to Joseph Marie Vien (1716-1809), one of the leading French Neoclassical artists . In 1771, J-L David's entry for the Prix de Rome, The Combat of Minerva and Mars (Louvre), was awarded only the second prize; it was not until 1774, after a number of setbacks that almost drove him to suicide, that he finally won the first prize for his painting Eristratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Illness (Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris). This allowed him to take up a 5-year study period in Rome under Vien, who had just been appointed Director of the French Academy there. Studies in Rome The five years in Rome were decisive in the evolution of J-L David's art. Having left Paris determined not to be carried away by the remains of classical antiquity, he found himself overwhelmed, when he reached Rome, by the grandeur of its civilisation. He also became caught up in the great Neoclassical movement and was introduced to the new theories propagated by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79) and the archeologist Winckelmann. Abandoning painting for the time being in favour of drawing , David set out to study the monuments of ancient Rome as well as the works of the Old Masters , and one can follow the evolution of his aesthetics in his sketchbooks (Louvre; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; National Museum, Stockholm). Few paintings from this period are known: the most important, St. Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken (1780, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Marseille), painted on his return from a visit to Naples, marks a break with the teaching of Boucher, and even with that of Vien. The realism of the figure in the foreground, together with the expression of the faces, shows that David had been studying The Plague-Stricken of Jaffa (Louvre) by Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835). The most ambitious of these paintings is the recently discovered Funeral of Patroclus (1778, National Gallery, Dublin), illustrating a passage from the Iliad, a canvas still full of echoes of the Baroque, but built upon quieter rhythms. Neoclassical Painting In 1780 David returned to Paris where he quickly became known for his anti-Rococo neoclassical painting . He subordinated his use of colour to drawing, and this economy of style was very much in keeping with the preferred style of the French Academy , and the severity of the time (he was pro-republican and anti-royalist). The themes of his work expressed self-sacrifice, devotion to duty and austerity. In any event, the maturity and experience he had gained during his years in Rome are evident in his 1781 Salon exhibit, Belisarius Recognized by the Soldier (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille), and in Andromache Mourning Hector (1783, Pushkin Museum of Fine Art), entered for the Academy Salon two years later. His reputation was now growing, and he opened a studio that soon attracted pupils, among them Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824) and Germain Drouais (1763-88). In 1784, in response to a commission, he decided to paint the subject of The Oa
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SparkNotes: Great Expectations: Character List Great Expectations Plot Overview Analysis of Major Characters Pip - The protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations, Pip begins the story as a young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marsh country of Kent, in the southeast of England. Pip is passionate, romantic, and somewhat unrealistic at heart, and he tends to expect more for himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience, and he deeply wants to improve himself, both morally and socially. Read an in-depth analysis of Pip. Estella - Miss Havisham’s beautiful young ward, Estella is Pip’s unattainable dream throughout the novel. He loves her passionately, but, though she sometimes seems to consider him a friend, she is usually cold, cruel, and uninterested in him. As they grow up together, she repeatedly warns him that she has no heart. Read an in-depth analysis of Estella. Miss Havisham - Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip’s village. She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she has a vendetta against all men. She deliberately raises Estella to be the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men’s hearts. Read an in-depth analysis of Miss Havisham. Abel Magwitch (“The Convict”) - A fearsome criminal, Magwitch escapes from prison at the beginning of Great Expectations and terrorizes Pip in the cemetery. Pip’s kindness, however, makes a deep impression on him, and he subsequently devotes himself to making a fortune and using it to elevate Pip into a higher social class. Behind the scenes, he becomes Pip’s secret benefactor, funding Pip’s education and opulent lifestyle in London through the lawyer Jaggers. Joe Gargery - Pip’s brother-in-law, the village blacksmith, Joe stays with his overbearing, abusive wife—known as Mrs. Joe—solely out of love for Pip. Joe’s quiet goodness makes him one of the few completely sympathetic characters in Great Expectations. Although he is uneducated and unrefined, he consistently acts for the benefit of those he loves and suffers in silence when Pip treats him coldly. Jaggers - The powerful, foreboding lawyer hired by Magwitch to supervise Pip’s elevation to the upper class. As one of the most important criminal lawyers in London, Jaggers is privy to some dirty business; he consorts with vicious criminals, and even they are terrified of him. But there is more to Jaggers than his impenetrable exterior. He often seems to care for Pip, and before the novel begins he helps Miss Havisham to adopt the orphaned Estella. Jaggers smells strongly of soap: he washes his hands obsessively as a psychological mech-anism to keep the criminal taint from corrupting him. Herbert Pocket - Pip first meets Herbert Pocket in the garden of Satis House, when, as a pale young gentleman, Herbert challenges him to a fight. Years later, they meet again in London, and Herbert becomes Pip’s best friend and key companion after Pip’s elevation to the status of gentleman. Herbert nicknames Pip “Handel.” He is the son of Matthew Pocket, Miss Havisham’s cousin, and hopes to become a merchant so that he can afford to marry Clara Barley. Wemmick - Jaggers’s clerk and Pip’s friend, Wemmick is one of the strangest characters in Great Expectations. At work, he is hard, cynical, sarcastic, and obsessed with “portable property”; at home in Walworth, he is jovial, wry, and a tender caretaker of his “Aged Parent.” Biddy - A simple, kindhearted country girl, Biddy first befriends Pip when they attend school together. After Mrs. Joe is attacked and becomes an invalid, Biddy moves into Pip’s home to care for her. Throughout most of the novel, Biddy represents the opposite of Estella; she is plain, kind, moral, and of Pip’s own social class. Dolge Orlick - Th
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Geraldine Granger - The Vicar of Dibley (UK) Characters - ShareTV Geraldine Granger: Yeah. Alice Horton: And I'm Alice. Harry Kennedy: [shakes her hand] Splendid! Well, what a suprise so I actually recieve a visit from a neighbour. I lived on the same street in London for 15 whole years and the bell never rang once. Alice Horton: Oh, we had a bell like that. Unknown Episode: Alice Horton: [walks out of the kitchen carrying two cups and gives one to Geraldine] I've been reading that fantastic new book from the Bible. Geraldine Granger: [confused] *What* fantastic new book from the Bible? Alice Horton: The Da Vinci Code. You know it's *so* much better than Genesis and that boring old stuff. Geraldine Granger: I hate to tell you Alice but The Da Vinci Code is *not* a new book in the Bible. It's just a story. Alice Horton: [downcast] Oh, that is so disappointing. Geraldine Granger: [broken voice] I know. Alice Horton: To think that Catholic Church has fooled you as well Mrs Gullible... Gussit. That's what they want you to believe. And I've been thinking... Geraldine Granger: Ooh. Always a worry. Unknown Episode: Harry Kennedy: I've thought about it a lot and talked about it a lot, and thought whether or not... you would consider... marrying me. Geraldine Granger: [thinking that Harry means Rosie] Well... yes of course. I'd be delighted to. Harry Kennedy: [pleased] That's wonderful news! Geraldine Granger: Have you thought about any dates? Harry Kennedy: Um, well I-I I thought we might be able to discuss that a little. Geraldine Granger: Well I might put a little punt in for Christmas. It's always a very romantic time of year. Harry Kennedy: Fine. Excellent, if Christmas sounds good to you? Unknown Episode: David Horton: [looking at the meeting agenda] Any other, other business? Geraldine Granger: Uh, yes actually there is something. I was very cross to hear that Sleepy Cottage has been sold to yet another layabout Londoner. I mean, honestly guys if this goes on, Dibley will be a ghost town. And then... David Horton: Who you gonna call? Owen Newitt, Jim Trott, Hugo Horton, Frank Pickle: Ghostbusters! Unknown Episode: Geraldine Granger: Over to you David. David Horton: Yes well, there is one little thing: I brought along a bottle of champagne, because although she may not realize it, the Vicar last weekend did her 100th Wedding while she's been here. [everyone cheers and David pops the cork off the bottle as Hugo brings glasses to the table] Geraldine Granger: [surprised] Really? 100? Goodness me. So that's 100 happy-in-love brides and grooms and... and I'm always the Vicar... I'm never the bride... [Geraldine starts to break down] I'm alw-I'm always in the cassack... I'm never in the lovely big white frocks... [Geraldine starts crying] Unknown Episode: Alice Horton: [after Geraldine saw Harry talking on the phone to a lady friend he knew] Oh love. What fools it makes of us all. Geraldine Granger: [sitting on the sofa, disappointed] Yes indeed. Alice Horton: Week after week I've been snogging that new puppy and then whoops-a-daisy I've got a great big mouth ulcer. Geraldine Granger: [uninterested] What a lovely romantic story. Alice Horton: Do you remember when you were dating David's brother and you jumped into that puddle just to show off? You went in right up to your neck. Geraldine Granger: Yeah well I won't be doing that again, no matter how cute a chap is. Alice Horton: [gasps] Oh gosh! How's it going with Mr. Dreamboat? [Geraldine looks down] Has he driven his purple Porsche in your personal parking space yet? Geraldine Granger: [annoyed] No Alice! He hasn't! [Alice makes a cute sound] Shut up and get out! Unknown Episode: Alice Horton: [walks into the lounge] I've been thinking. [Alice sits on the sofa next to Geraldine] Should've been you. [meaning Geraldine and Harry] Unknown Episode: Harry Kennedy: Fine. Excellent, if Christmas sounds good to you? Geraldine Granger: Yeah, yeah well let's check the book. [confused, Harry walks further into the room as Geraldine takes out the book] This is the Church Diary. Let's have
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Types of hernia - A guide to Hernias Sports hernia These are all discussed individually within this guide. These are the most commonly known group of hernias. However, a hernia can develop as a result of a protrusion of any internal organ or tissue and not just through the abdominal wall. There are types of less well known hernias which include: Sciatic hernia: a type of hernia in which a section of the small intestine protrudes into an opening within the pelvis called the ‘sacrosciatic foramen’. Scrotal hernia: a type of inguinal hernia which has pushed down into the scrotum. Vaginal hernia: also known as ‘vaginocele’ (or a prolapsed vagina). This type of hernia occurs in the vagina. Ovarian hernia: a type of hernia which occurs within an ovary. Perineal hernia: another type of hernia which is a protrusion within the floor of the pelvis. They often develop as a result of surgery within that area, e.g. prolapsed rectum. There are many variations of an abdominal hernia which involve a range of organs, for example the bowel, bladder and colon. But for the purposes of this guide, we discuss the most popular types of hernia as listed above.
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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? What was the surname of the family who employed Julie Andrews' character in 'The Sound Of Music'? Which nation has won the Eurovision Song Contest more than any other? What is the most common gas in the air we breathe? Which three different actors played Batman in the movies between 1989 and 1997? What colour is Bart's skateboard in the introduction? The theme tune to which TV show starts with the line "Stick a pony in me pocket"? Which soap opera is set in the fictional county of Borsetshire? Who did Sue Barker replace as host of the BBC quiz show "A Question Of Sport"? Which "Generation Game" presenter was famous for his catchphrase "Shut That Door"? "No Mean City" by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running Scottish TV detective show? Anthony, Barbara, Dave, Denise, Jim and Norma make up which famous family on British TV? Which part did Deforest Kelley play in the TV series Star Trek? True or False In space it is impossible to cry? Famous sitcom actor Kelsey Grammar provides the voice for for a character in which famous cartoon TV Series The largest ever picnic for a childs toy was held in Dublin in 1995 where 33,573 of the toys were there . What was the toy ? Which American state comes first alphabetically? In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull? Which country has the airline KLM? The sinking of which famous German battleship was portrayed in the title of a 1960 film? What organisation is also known as "La Cosa Nostra"? What was the Titanic’s first port of call after it left Southampton? Which mountain overshadows Fort William in scotland ? What was the name of the 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose identity is erased? A penguin called Wheezy was a character in which film ? Who played Vince in the 1980s TV series "Just Good Friends"? In which 1994 film did Whoopi Goldberg provide the voice of a hyena called Shenzi? What is the only venomous snake in Britain? How many pieces are there in a standard set of dominoes? James Earl Ray was responsible for who's death in 1968? In which city in England is the National Railway Museum? In the music world, which group sacked Simon Fuller in 1997? Which Roman God is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? What was the challanging method of catching a fly asked of Daniel in the film "The Karate Kid"? Actor Richard Kiel is best known for playing which character in two bond films ? Which is the odd one out, Comet, Dixon, Cupid, Vixen? Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? What product did Coke invented in 1982? Which Japanese word, also used in the English language, means "empty orchestra"? On which date does Halloween fall? Oscar is the first name of which of the famous songwriting duo Rogers and Hammerstein? 24 Bamboo Von Trappe Ireland Nitrogen Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney Green Only Fools And Horses The Archers David Coleman Larry Grayson Taggart The Royle Family Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy True (there is no gravity, so tears cannot flow) The Simpsons Teddy Bear Alabama Minotaur The Netherlands The Bismark The Mafia Cherbourg Ben Nevis The Net Toy Story 2 Paul Nicholas "The Lion King" The Adder 28 Martin Luther King's York Manager of the Spice Girls Cupid Using chopsticks to do it Jaws (in two James Bond films) Dixon - the others are Santa's reindeer Mercury Diet Coke Karaoke October 31st Hammerstein On 11th February 1990, which fam
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Traditional Scottish Dundee Cake Recipe Preparation Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas 2. Line a 22cm / 8½" cake tin with greaseproof paper or baking parchment and grease lightly with a little butter. Place both the butter, sugar and zest into a roomy baking bowl. Cream the butter into the sugar until light, smooth and creamy using either a fork or electric hand whisk. Mix the flour with the baking powder and mixed spice. Beat one egg into the creamed butter, then beat in a third of the flour. Repeat until all the eggs and flour are used up. Add the fruits, peel and cherries (if using) to the mixture and stir well but gently until all the fruits are incorporated into the mixture trying not to 'flatten' the cake mixture. Finally, stir in the whisky using a spoon or spatula. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and gently level the surface. Cook in the preheated oven for 1 ½ hours, then arrange the blanched almonds into circles on the top and return the cake to the oven. Cook for another hour or until the cake is a deep, golden brown. Remove the cake from the oven and place on to a cooling rack and leave the cake to cool in the tin. Once cooled it is ready to eat. The cake keeps well when stored in an airtight tin. Related Articles
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Eton Mess Cake Eton Mess Cake by Tessa Huff Our contributor, Tessa Huff , is sharing a new cake recipe today… Traditionally, Eton Mess is a dessert served in a dish – not in cake or slice-form. A combination of crisp meringues, sweetened cream, and fresh berries, Eton Mess is a perfect balance of flavors and textures. Simple, fresh, and kind of “messy,” this classic British dessert is easy to throw together and versatile. You can event change it up by infusing the cream or swapping in any seasonal fruit you have on hand and you’re all set! While Eton Mess was created with “simplicity” and “ease” in mind (assuming you keep meringue cookies on hand), this Eton Mess Cake takes it up a notch. The whipped cream, sweet fruit, and crunchy meringues pair so beautifully together, I thought why not transform the components of Eton Mess itself into a cake filling? Similar to a strawberry shortcake, this light and fresh layer cake is perfect for spring and the warmer months ahead. In order to not weigh down the pillowy whipped cream and airy meringue, I created this variation of a sponge cake. Unlike other butter or pound cakes that can be rather dense, this cake is light, airy, yet still provides structure and stability within a sky-high layer cake. Once layered together, the crispy meringue bits nearly melt into the cream – each bite a perfect harmony of texture and sweetness. Fresh berries always seem synonymous with spring and summer to me, but feel free to use whatever fruit you have on hand! To serve, carefully slice with a serrated knife. The cake should be served within about 30 minutes of assembly or refrigerated (loosely covered in plastic to prevent the exposed cake layers from drying out). EATON MESS CAKE a recipe by Tessa Huff For the Sponge Cake: 1 1/4 cup cake flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 3/4 cup canola or vegetable oil Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans and set aside. Sift together the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In the bowl on an electric mixer, combine the whole eggs, egg yolks, sugar, and vanilla. Using the whisk attachment, beat on high for about 5 minutes or until the batter resembles pale ribbons. Stop the mixing and remove the mixing bowl form the stand. Sift the dry ingredients over the top of the batter. Whisk by hand until just barely combined. Pour in the lemon juice and oil and whisk by hand until combined (taking care to not deflate the batter as much as possible). Evenly distribute the batter between the two pans and bake for about 35 to 38 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack before removing the cakes from their pans. For the Meringues: 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Preheat to oven to 215 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, place the egg whites and cream of tartar. Using the whisk attachment, begin whipping the whites on medium-low. Once the egg whites begin to foam, slowly add in the sugar and gradually increase the speed to medium-high. Continue to whip egg whites until stiff, glossy peaks. Add in the vanilla and mix for an additional 30 seconds until combined. Spoon about 2/3 of the meringue onto the parchment paper into disks (about 3 inches in diameter – these will be broken up, so no need for them to be perfect). Fill a piping bag fitted with a star tip with the remaining meringue. Pipe meringue “kisses” on the parchment (use two baking sheets if necessary). Bake the meringue for about 45 to 75 minutes, or until crisp on the outside and meringue can easily peel off the parchment. For the Whipped Cream: 2 cups heavy cream, chilled 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract In the bowl on an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat the cream on medium-high until it begins to thicken slightly. Gradually add in the sugar and vanilla and bump mixer up to high. Continue to whip the cream until medium-soft peaks. For the
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Masashi Ozaki - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia I am a simple man trying to live a simple life !!!!!! Masashi Ozaki Current tour(s) Japan Golf Tour Japan Golf Tour 94 (1st all-time) Role Golfer Born 24 January 1947 (age 68) Kaifu District, Tokushima, Japan (1947-01-24) Siblings Naomichi Ozaki, Tateo Ozaki Similar People Naomichi Ozaki, Isao Aoki, Tateo Ozaki 2011 world golf hall of fame Sponsored Links Masashi Ozaki (尾崎 将司, Ozaki Masashi, born (尾崎 正司) 24 January 1947) is a Japanese professional golfer. Ozaki is often known as Jumbo Ozaki (ジャンボ尾崎 Janbo Ozaki) on account of his height and length off the tee. He featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings for almost 200 weeks between 1989 and 1998. He is the most successful player of all time on the Japan Golf Tour, having led the money list a record 12 times and won 94 tournaments, more than 40 more than the second highest tally. Ozaki was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2010 and was inducted in May 2011. Jumbo ozaki Biography Ozaki was born in Kaifu District, Tokushima. He was a professional baseball pitcher/outfielder from 1965 to 1967 with the Nishitetsu Lions, but he turned to professional golf at the age of 23 and won the Japan PGA Championship the following year. Ozaki led the Japan Golf Tour in earnings in 1973–74, 1977, 1988–90, 1992, and 1994–98. Ozaki finished 8th at The Masters in 1973 and finished 6th at the U.S. Open in 1989. He competed at the Masters 19 times. He played occasionally on the PGA Tour from 1972 to 2000, in 96 tournaments, though never more than seven in one year. His best finish was a T-4 at the 1993 Memorial Tournament. Ozaki played on the International Team in the 1996 Presidents Cup. Ozaki built "AON Age" with his rivals Isao Aoki and Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima. Ozaki's brothers Tateo "Jet" and Naomichi "Joe" are also professional golfers. Now in his sixties, he still plays regularly on the Japan Golf Tour. Japan Golf Tour wins (94) 1973 (5) Tohoku Classic, Kanto Pro Championship, ANA Sapporo Open, Tokai Classic, Taiheiyo Club Masters 1974 (6) Tohoku Classic, Japan PGA Championship, Suntory Open, ANA Sapporo Open, Japan Open Golf Championship, Nippon Series 1975 (1) Tohoku Classic 1976 (3) Kanto Open, Hiroshima Open, Sanpo Classic 1977 (4) Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, Kanto Open, Tokai Classic, Nippon Series 1978 (2) Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, Hiroshima Open 1980 (3) Dunlop International Open, Fujisankei Classic, Nippon Series 1982 (1) Kanto Open 1986 (4) Fujisankei Classic, Nikkei Cup, Maruman Open, Jun Classic 1987 (3) The Crowns, Fujisankei Classic, Jun Classic 1988 (6) Dunlop Open, Nikkei Cup, Maruman Open, Japan Open Golf Championship, Golf Digest Tournament, Bridgestone Open 1989 (7) Fujisankei Classic, Japan PGA Championship, Sendai Classic, Yonex Open Hiroshima, Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Unisys Cup, ANA Open, Japan Open Golf Championship 1990 (4) Fujisankei Classic, Yonex Open Hiroshima, Maruman Open, Daiwa KBC Augusta 1991 (2) Japan PGA Championship, Jun Classic 1992 (6) Dunlop Open, The Crowns, PGA Philanthropy Tournament, ANA Open, Japan Open Golf Championship, Taiheiyo Masters 1993 (3) Fujisankei Classic, Japan PGA Championship, Golf Digest Tournament 1994 (7) Dunlop Open, Yonex Open Hiroshima, ANA Open, Japan Open Golf Championship, Daiwa International, Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters, Phoenix Tournament 1995 (5) The Crowns, Yonex Open Hiroshima, ANA Open, Dunlop Phoenix Tournament, Golf Nippon Series Hitachi Cup 1996 (8) The Crowns, Japan PGA Championship, Mitsubishi Galant Tournament, JCB Classic Sendai, Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta, Gene Sarazen Jun Classic, Dunlop Phoenix Tournament, Golf Nippon Series Hitachi Cup 1997 (5) Token Corporation Cup, The Crowns, Mitsubishi Galant Tournament, Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta, Bridgestone Open 1998 (3) Yonex Open Hiroshima, Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta, Philip Morris Championship 1999 (2) Token Corporation Cup, Yonex Open Hiroshima 2000 (1) Sun Chlorella Classic 2002 (1) ANA Open 1972 New Zealand PGA Championship Other wins (18) 1971 (5) Japan PGA Championship, Nipp
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grand slam golf : definition of grand slam golf and synonyms of grand slam golf (English) 5 Notes and references The Men's Grand Slam Bobby Jones , who won the pre-masters era career grand slam once, and is the only golfer all-time to have won four majors in the same calendar year. Jack Nicklaus , who has won the career grand slam three-times Tiger Woods , who has won the career grand slam three-times Ben Hogan , who has won the career grand slam once Gary Player , who has won the career grand slam once Gene Sarazen , who has won the career grand slam once The Grand Slam in men's golf is an unofficial concept, having changed over time. In the modern era, The Grand Slam is generally considered to be winning all four of golf's major championships in the same calendar year. Before The Masters was founded, the national amateur championships of the U.S. and the UK were considered majors along with the two national opens and only Bobby Jones has ever completed a grand slam with these. No man has ever achieved a modern grand slam, Tiger Woods being the closest in winning all four consecutively, but over two calendar years. The term also refers to a tour tournament, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf , an annual off season tournament contested by the winners of the four major championships. In annual playing order, the modern major championships are: April - Masters Tournament (weekend ending 2nd Sunday in April) - hosted as an invitational by and played at Augusta National Golf Club June - U.S. Open (weekend ending with the 3rd Sunday in June) - hosted by the USGA and played at various locations in the USA July - The Open Championship (The Open; usually called the "British Open" in the U.S.) (weekend containing the 3rd Friday in July) - hosted by The R&A and always played on a links course at various locations in the UK August - PGA Championship (USPGA) (4th weekend after The Open) - hosted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America and played at various locations in the USA. The term "Grand Slam" was first applied to Bobby Jones ' achievement of winning the four major golf events of 1930 : The Open Championship , the U.S. Open , the U.S. Amateur and The Amateur Championship . When Jones won all four, the sports world searched for ways to capture the magnitude of his accomplishment. Up to that time, there was no term to describe such a feat because no one had thought it possible. The Atlanta Journal's O.B. Keeler dubbed it the "Grand Slam," borrowing a bridge term. George Trevor of the New York Sun wrote that Jones had "stormed the impregnable quadrilateral of golf." Keeler would later write the words that would forever be linked to one of the greatest individual accomplishments in the history of sports: This victory, the fourth major title in the same season and in the space of four months, had now and for all time entrenched Bobby Jones safely within the 'Impregnable Quadrilateral of Golf', that granite fortress that he alone could take by escalade, and that others may attack in vain, forever. Jones remains the only man to have achieved the grand slam, since before the creation of The Masters and the advent of the professional era, the amateur championships were considered major championships. The modern definition could not be applied until at least 1934 , when the Masters was founded, and still carried little weight in 1953 when Ben Hogan , after winning the Masters, the U.S. Open and The Open Championship, could not compete in the PGA Championship; the nearly concurrent PGA Championship and The Open Championship and the state of transatlantic travel made completing the Grand Slam impossible. Hogan is the only player to have won The Masters, the U.S. Open and The Open Championship in the same calendar year. According to Arnold Palmer 's autobiography, "A Golfer's Life," in 1960 he (already having won the Masters and the U.S. Open that year) and his friend Bob Drum (of the Pittsburgh Press ) on the trans-Atlantic flight to The Open Championship at St Andrews came up with the idea that adding the The Open Champ
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Who designed the Guinness Toucan? Who designed the Guinness Toucan? Guinness advertisement from 1935 The story of the designing of the famous Guinness toucan. From its very first appearance in 1935, a Toucan became immediately recognisable as an advertisement for Guinness, the Dublin based brewers. For over 45 years it appeared on many types of advertising and marketing products for Guinness and it became as important a motif as the Guinness Harp. The idea of using a toucan was born in the advertising agency of S.H.Benson in London. Staff included the talented artist John Gilroy who was newly employed as the poster artist, and among the copywriting team was Dorothy L Sayers, now famous as a writer, poet and playwright, and best known for her amateur detective stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. She had started at the agency in 1922 and worked there while writing books in her spare time. This team produced some memorable posters for Guinness including several posters in the whimsical "Zoo" series. These included a zoo keeper with a Guinness, a sealion balancing drink on his nose, an ostrich with the shape of a swallowed glass halfway down its neck, a tortoise with a glass of stout on its back, and, of course, the toucan with two Guinness bottles balanced on its beak accompanied a little verse. Here are two examples of verses which accompanied drawings of the toucan: (Drawing: standing by two glasses 1935) If he can say as you can 'Guinness is good for you' How grand to be a Toucan Just think what Toucan do. 1946 (Drawing: at the seaside 1949) 'I do like,' says the Toucan, To be beside the blue. With Guinness Time in view can 'You guess what Toucan do' Gilroy remained with the advertising agency until 1960 during which time he designed many other Guinness posters. As to how animals came to be used in an advertising campaign was recalled later by Gilroy. "The Guinness family did not want an advertising campaign that equated with beer. They thought it would be vulgar. They also wanted to stress the brew's strength and goodness. Somehow it led to animals." [1] The toucan returned on several occasions on all types of advertising media and on memorabilia. In 1982 Guinness changed advertising agencies and it was decided that the toucan was no longer an effective advertising motif and it was dropped. However, it still pops its head up on occasions on limited edition products. There is also a strong market for toucan collectibles on .
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Free Flashcards about GK 9 Which science-fiction writer coined the term "cyberspace"? William Gibson What is a male swan known as? Cob What is a female swan known as? Pen Which giant screen film projection system, which gives an enhanced visual impact, has its origins in Montreal's Expo 67? IMAX Which actress was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, in 1908? Joan Crawford Which military leader poisoned himself in Bithynia in Asia Minor in around 182BCE? Hannibal What is the branch of astronomy that is concerned solely with the moon called? Selenology The mouflon, native to Corsica and Sardinia, is a small, wild form of which animal? Sheep Which religion, founded in 3rdC CE Persia, at its 3rd-7thC height one of the world's biggest, taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness? Manichaeism The Loyalty Islands in the Pacific are part of which territory? New Caledonia Which orchestral march by William Walton was first performed at the coronation of King George VI, and was used as the recessional music at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011? Crown Imperial What was the real name of 'Dr Seuss'? Theodore Geisel The sixth labour of Hercules involved defeating what sort of creatures who were destroying the countryside around Lake Stymphalia? Birds The address of which constituent college of the University of London is: Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE? London School of Economics Extending from 500 to 10,000 kilometres above the earth’s surface, what is the uppermost layer of the earth’s atmosphere called – beyond which there is only outer space? Exosphere Which species of cat, with scientific name Acinonyx jubatus, is found in much of Africa, can be known as the hunting leopard, and is unusual among cats in having claws which are not fully retractable? Cheetah At the Academy Awards held in February 2015, Ida became the first film from which nation to win the award for Best Foreign Language Film? Poland What shrub gave its name to the revolution which saw Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrown as President of Tunisia in 2011? Jasmine Which musical features numbers including "Gee, Officer Krupke" and "I Feel Pretty"? West Side Story What flower gave its name to the revolution which saw Askar Akayev overthrown as President of Kyrgyzstan in 2005? Tulip What name is given to the Persian language in Afghanistan? Dari How was the Amu Darya river known in Ancient times? Oxus Which mountain range divides the Amu Darya and Indus valleys? Hindu Kush Give a year in the rule of the Achaemenid Empire. 550-330BCE Which large snake-like lake monster said to live in Lake Seljord in Seljord, Telemark, Norway? Selma Which parliament is located in Karasjok, Norway? Sami parliament Which Norwegian figure skater and film star was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies' Singles, a ten-time World Champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931–1936)? Sonja Henie Johann Koss of Norway won four Winter Olympic golds at what sporting event? Speed skating Who won a total of 29 medals in the Olympics and World Championships in the period between 1991 and 1999, making him the most successful cross-country skier in history? Bjorn Daehlie Which Dutch city is the home of Rabobank? Utrecht The bulk of the Great Pyramids at Giza are constructed in which stone? Limestone Which Theban king reunited Egypt after the First Intermediate Period and started the Middle Kingdom? Mentuhotep II Which group of "foreign princes" ruled a part of Northern Egypt during the latter Middle Kingdom at the Second Intermediate Period, from their capital at Avaris? Hyksos Which Egyptian deity was god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead? Osiris What two-word term indicated the "life-force" in Ancient Egypt that would be reunited with the soul by the process of mummification? Ka Hatshepshut was the widow of which Egyptian king who preceded her as ruler? Tuthmosis II In which century was Tutankhamun's rule of Egypt? F
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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [The Hobbits arrive at the gates of Bree, soaking wet due to the pouring rain. They pause, uncertain how to declare themselves.] Frodo: "Come on." [He knocks on the gates. A small peep hole opens high above them, then slams shut. Another opens, nearer their eye level. An old face peers out against the downpour.] Gatekeeper: "What do you want?" Frodo: "We're heading for the Prancing Pony." Gatekeeper: [opening the gate] "Hobbits! Four hobbits! What business brings you to Bree?" Frodo: "We wish to stay at the inn. Our business is our own." Gatekeeper: "All right young sir, I meant no offence. 'Tis my job to ask question after nightfall. There's talk of strange folk abroad. Can't be too careful." [He ushers them inside.] [The Hobbits make their way up the cobbled path, through the motley crowd which jostles and bumps them.] [One man, a particularly ugly oaf holding a carrot, belches contemptuously over them.] Men of Bree: "Out of the way! Watch where you're walking, young masters!" [Frodo looks up and spots the sign of the Prancing Pony. The four Hobbits enter the Inn. Inside, it is crowded, noisy and poorly-lit. They pull back their hoods. Merry and Pippin breathe sighs of relief.] [Frodo steps up to the bar, which rises far above his head.] Frodo: "Excuse me?" Butterbur (leaning down over the bar): "Good evening, little masters! If you're looking for accommodation we've got some nice, cozy, hobbit-sized rooms available. Mister uh —" Frodo: "— Underhill, my name's Underhill." Butterbur: "Underhill. Yes…" Frodo: "We're friends of Gandalf the Grey. Can you tell him we've arrived?" Butterbur: "Gandalf? Gandalf? Oh yes! I remember: elderly chap, big gray beard, pointy hat… Not seen him for six months." [The hobbits are shocked. They huddle together.] Sam: "What do we do now?" [The hobbits are seated at a table in the tap room of the Prancing Pony. The air is dark and smoke-filled. Drunken men laugh raucously. Several glance suspiciously at the hobbits.] Frodo: "Sam. He'll be here. He'll come." Man: [to Merry coming from the bar] "Get, get out of my way." [Merry sits down at the table. He is holding a huge stein of beer.] Pippin: "What's that?" Merry: "This my friend, is a pint." Pippin: "It comes in pints? I'm getting one." [Pippin rushes to the bar.] Sam: "You had a whole half already!" [Sam turns back to his mug. After a moment, he nudges Frodo and gestures to the corner of the room. A dark cloaked figure sits alone. His face is invisible inside his hood.] Sam: "That fellow's done nothin' but stare at you since we arrived." Frodo: [takes Butterbur aside] "Excuse me, that man in the corner, who is he?" Butterbur: "He's one of them rangers. Dangerous folk they are — wandering the wilds. What his right name is I've never heard, but around here, he's known as Strider." Frodo: "Strider." [Strider lights his pipe. Only the gleam of his eyes can be discerned above the glow of the burning leaf.] [Frodo starts to play with the Ring. It starts to whisper.] The Ring: "Baggins. Baggins. Baggins. Baggins! Baggins!…" Pippin: "Baggins!" [Frodo snaps out of his reverie.] Pippin: [at the bar] "Sure I know a Baggins. He's over there, Frodo Baggins." Pippin: "He's my second cousin, once removed on his mother's side" [listeners laugh, "It works for him!" yells one] "and my third cousin twice removed on his father's side, if you follow me." [Strider sits up, his attention fairly caught. Frodo rushes towards the bar to stop Pippin from babbling further.] Frodo: "Pippin!" [grabs him] [Frodo slips on someone's boot and falls back, tossing the Ring into the air.] [As he catches it, the Ring slips onto Frodo's finger.] [Frodo disappears. Folks gasp in surprise. Strider is alarmed.] [Outside the village, the Black Riders turn around.] [Frodo, now in a shadow world, looks around bewildered.] [He then sees an immense singular orb, a lidless eye, wreathed in flame. The Eye of Sauron stares down at him.] Sauron: "You cannot hide! I see you! There is no life in the
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The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit / the Fellowship of the Ring / the Two Towers / the: J.R.R. Tolkien: 9780345538376: Amazon.com: Books The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit / the Fellowship of the Ring / the Two Towers / the Add all three to Cart Add all three to List Buy the selected items together This item:The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit / the Fellowship of the Ring / the Two Towers / the by J.R.R. Tolkien Mass Market Paperback $23.22 In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details Chronicles of Narnia Box Set by C. S. Lewis Paperback $27.77 In Stock. Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) by J. K. Rowling Paperback $52.16 In Stock. Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Page 1 of 1 Start over Sponsored Products are advertisements for products sold by merchants on Amazon.com. When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here . The Dark Levy: Stories of the Nine Worlds (Ten Tears Chronicles - a dark fantasy action adventure Book 1) Alaric Longward Two troubled sisters, a secret gate, and a dangerous call. Shannon and Dana find an ancient world, their fate, and a quest to save the Nine Worlds. Marriage Can Be Murder (Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries Book 1) Emma Jameson First in a nostalgic cozy mystery series set in 1939 England. Handsome young Dr. Bones moves into a haunted house and must solve a murder. Devastated Lands: Part 1: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Bruce Perry Shane and Mikaela try to survive an erupting Mount Rainier's lahars and the resulting chaos and violence. A series debut Amazon short read. Kindle Edition Storm Clouds Rolling In (#1 in the Bregdan Chronicles Historical Fiction Romance Series) Ginny Dye Discover why people worldwide have fallen in love with the 9 books of the historical fiction series - The Bregdan Chronicles. Prepare to be hooked! The Shepherds' War Tony Kordyban It's Detroit in the summer of 1968. Can Spencer rescue his brother from an army of KGB psychics? After all, heâs ten-and-a-half years old already. Ad feedback Special Offers and Product Promotions Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no turning back. Hobbits are, of course, small, furry creatures who love nothing better than a leisurely life quite free from adventure. But in that first novel and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo and their elfish friends get swept up into a mighty conflict with the dragon Smaug, the dark lord Sauron (who owes much to proud Satan in Paradise Lost ), the monstrous Gollum, the Cracks of Doom, and the awful power of the magical Ring. The four books' characters--good and evil--are recognizably human, and the realism is deepened by the magnificent detail of the vast parallel world Tolkien devised, inspired partly by his influential Anglo-Saxon scholarship and his Christian beliefs. (He disapproved of the relative sparseness of detail in the comparable allegorical fantasy his friend C.S. Lewis dreamed up in The Chronicles of Narnia , though he knew Lewis had spun a page-turning yarn.) It has been estimated that one-tenth of all paperbacks sold can trace their ancestry to J.R.R. Tolkien. But even if we had never gotten Robert Jordan's The Path of Daggers and the whole fantasy genre Tolkien inadvertently created by bringing the hobbits so richly to life, Tolkien's epic about the Ring would have left our world enhanced by enchantment. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
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King Michael of Romania and Michael of Romania his only son MichaelofRomania.com Home King Michael of Romania has only one son Michael II of Romania who is also known as Mihai Von Hohenzollern II. Michael II descends from Queen Victoria, and the Prussian House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, which provided Romania’s first King, Carol I. King Michael I abdicated on December 30, 1947 and went into exile during communism. Michael II was exiled and raised under protection in United States. Mihai II is proud of his children and grand children that all continue to live in the United States. Now living in California, he continues to promote the interests and culture of his Romanian homeland and considers Bucharest his hometown. This is the official web site authorized by Michael II of Romania. Michael II is the Head of House for the Romanian branch of the Hohenzollern line by agnatic primogeniture law after the abdication of Michael I in 1947. However Mihai continues refer to his Father as King Michael out of respect only. You may contact Michael’s office at Mihai Von Hohenzollern II on facebook. Contact Michael II's office: https://www.facebook.com/mihaivonhohenzollernII Regele Mihai a fost silit să abdice la 30 decembrie 1947. Mihai II este singurul fiu al regele Mihai I al României. Mihai II s-a născut în Elveţia şi a fost crescut în America. Prin Legea salică, Mihai II devenit șeful Casei Regale de România după abdicarea tatălui său la 30 decembrie 1947.....JR, Site Administrator Title Corrected Nicolas Medforth-Mills Recently my nephew had his title removed by my father, Former King Michael I. The act did not surprise me in the least. This is an expected action; for my nephew should never have been placed in a position of succession. Many people may find the concept of royalty to be defunct, but the reality is quite the opposite. Holding the proper title is a serious position and enables the person do very positive and powerful work for the public. As has been explained in previous articles, when my Father abdicated, that position was forwarded to me. Also, it is most imperative to say, that with all respect to my Father, he was not given proper and accurate information concerning my person after I was evacuated to the United States. He now has the proper knowledge of me and my intent. I am in agreement with him on the matter of my nephew's correction of position. The Kennedy Glasses a Gift From the White House Michael II's Personal Collection: The Kennedy Glasses and Jacqueline Kennedy With The Glasses Our Mother was not Royal, this I have already stated, but the maternal side of our family are American and the United States does not recognize titles of nobility; rather American ideals are that to embrace public service for the benefit of all. Our Mother served the people of the United States through high levels of work that did not allow for public accolades. Her funeral was marked with a flyover by F15s. She could only receive such an honor and acknowledgment posthumously. Our Mother gave myself and my Sister Princess Margarita much to be proud of. Our Mother believed in service, and her work placed her and family at certain government events, which included President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. The photo is of the glasses she passed to me, that were the glasses used by President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline during the inauguration. My Mother had valuable things, but the gift of these modest glasses were precious to her and reminded her of an exciting time in her career and of the new possibilities and change that the Kennedy administration began. World War II: So Much Stolen Reflecting on the recent movie “ Woman in Gold ” involving Maria Altmann's fight against the Austrian government to reclaim what was stolen during WWII. The true title of the painting is “ Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I ” and the name 'The Woman In Gold' robbed Ms. Bloch-Bauer of her of her identity. Identity is a very basic right. The movie was a testament to truth, trials, tribulation, a
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These were all hits in 1977 "The Honourable Schoolboy" by John Le Carre "Oliver's Story" by Erich Segal Al Capp retires with the last appearance of Li�l Abner on November 14th. Nonfiction "Looking Out for #1" by Robert Ringer "All Things Wise and Wonderful" by James Herriot "Your Erroneous Zones" by Dr. Wayne Dyer "The Book of Lists" by David Wallechinsky Grammy Awards Record of the Year: "Hotel California" ... The Eagles Best Song: "You Light Up My Life" ... Joe Brooks Best Album: "Rumours" ... Fleetwood Mac Male Vocalist: James Taylor ... "Handy Man Female Vocalist: Barbra Streisand ... "Love theme from 'A Star Is Born' (Evergreen)" In the News in 1977 Pope: Paul VI Prime Minister of Canada: Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L) President of United States: Jimmy Carter (Sworn in on January 20th, 1977) Time Magazines Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat 17-Year Old Terry Fox Loses his Leg to Cancer Canadian Human Rights Commission established to deal with Discrimination Willy Adams becomes the first Inuit Senator Speed Limits Go Metric Lung cancer becomes the second most common cancer among women. U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam draft evaders and calls them home from living abroad. Steve Biko, an imprisoned black leader in South Africa, dies in prison from cruelty and neglect, which leads to renewed opposition to apartheid. First Computerland store opened in Morristown NJ, under the name Computershack. February 9th , Apple Computer Incorporates February 19th ,the US space shuttle prototype 'Enterprise' fly�s for the first time on top of a 747 March 27th, 583 killed when a KLM Boeing 747 runs into a Pan Am Boeing 747 on the runway in Tenerife, Canary Islands (worst in aviation history). April 19th, President Jimmy Carter addresses the nation concerning the energy crisis. He warned America that the nation's oil and gas supplies would run out. June 5th , 1st personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale. With 16k Ram and 16K ROM, costing $1298US. August 3rd , Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered. August 10th , Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer. They accused him of killing 13 people during his reign of terror, which he told police was on orders from a black Labrador retriever owned by his neighbor, Sam Carr. August 13th , 1st test glide of the shuttle. In 1977 the TSE launched the world's first Computer Assisted Trading System. 1977 saw two significant advancements. The first was the introduction of the Computer Assisted Trading System, (CATS�). In addition to the trading floor, traders could now trade from their desks anywhere in Canada. The second was the introduction of the TSE 300 Composite Index�, representing 300 of the largest companies listed on the Exchange. This index measures changes that closely reflect the entire market. Inventions of 1977 Neutron bomb Living in the Year 1977 1977 saw the opening of the First West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco where many attendees got their first looks at the Apple II and the Commodore Pet 4k RAM 16k ROM ($795US). Sports and Recreation Toronto Blue Jays play their first season in the Major Leagues Toronto played its first game on April 7, 1977. They defeated the Chicago White Sox 9-5. Rookie first Doug Ault homered twice in the Jays' first game. Otto Velez hit .442 for the month of April. Bob Bailor hit .310, the highest mark ever for a player on a first-year expansion club. Ron Fairly, a 20-year veteran, led the club with 19 homers and became the first player since Stan Musial to play more than 1,000 games in both the infield and the outfield. Pele� Played his last soccer Game on October 1st. NBA: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Philadelphia 76ers Score: 4-2 NCAA Football: Notre Dame Record: 11-1-0 Heisman Trophy: Earl Campbell, Texas, RB points: 1,547 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins Series: 4-0 Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders vs.Minnesota Vikings Score: 32-14 US Open Golf: Hubert Green Sco
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In a 1997 WBA Heavyweight Championship Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting the ear of which opponent?
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Boxing in 1997 | Britannica.com Boxing in 1997 Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Presented as archival content. Britannica Stories Scientists Ponder Menopause in Killer Whales The reputation of boxing’s heavyweight division sank to an all-time low in 1997 with the disqualification of former undisputed world champion Mike Tyson for biting the ears of Evander Holyfield (see BIOGRAPHIES) during a World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight title bout in Las Vegas, Nev., on June 28. Tyson received a warning from referee Mills Lane after biting a chunk out of Holyfield’s right ear in the third round. When the fight resumed, Tyson sank his teeth into Holyfield’s other ear, and Lane was forced to disqualify him. Declaring Tyson a "discredit to boxing," the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended him for at least one year and fined him 10% of his $30 million purse, the maximum penalty permitted under existing rules. Subsequently, however, the commission gave itself the power to confiscate the entire purse of a boxer who commits a serious offense. Apart from the Tyson horror show, several contests for other versions of the heavyweight crown only tarnished the division further. A fight for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) title ended in a farce as Lennox Lewis avenged a knockout loss to Oliver McCall (U.S.). McCall, who had been in and out of drug rehabilitation programs in the months prior to the rematch, showed a complete reluctance to throw punches and sometimes turned his back on his opponent. After five frustrating rounds the referee stopped the bout, disqualifying McCall for refusing to defend himself. In another dreary exhibition early in the year, Henry Akinwande (Eng.) retained the World Boxing Organization (WBO) crown by defeating reluctant challenger Scott Welch (Eng.). In July Akinwande relinquished the WBO title to challenge Lewis for what was considered the more prestigious WBC championship. During the bout, which was held in South Lake Tahoe, Nev., and also refereed by Lane, Akinwande did little more than force clinches with Lewis. In the fifth round Lane disqualified Akinwande for "blatant and persistent holding." Connect with Britannica Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest An International Boxing Federation (IBF) title match between champion Michael Moorer and challenger Vaughan Bean (U.S.) provided no great boost to the unhappy heavyweight situation as Moorer outpointed Bean over 12 lacklustre rounds. Fortunately, some excitement came late in the year in two separate fights involving Lewis and Holyfield. In a bout held in Atlantic City, N.J., in October, Lewis raised his standing in the eyes of many boxing enthusiasts by destroying Polish-born challenger Andrew Golota (U.S.) in only 95 seconds to retain the WBC crown. Golota, whose penchant for throwing low blows had cost him two disqualification losses to former champion Riddick Bowe (U.S.), suffered a seizure in his dressing room after the fight, and at year’s end his future in boxing seemed uncertain. In November Holyfield restored some pride to the heavyweight division in an impressive performance against Moorer, knocking Moorer to the canvas five times before the referee, on advice from the ringside physician, stopped the fight in the eighth round. Holyfield was declared the winner by technical knockout and added Moorer’s IBF championship belt to the WBA belt he already held. Named Fighter of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America, Holyfield hoped to face Lewis in a unification match in 1998. The 48-year-old former heavyweight champion George Foreman made news in November as well, in part because of the respectable performance he put in against Shannon Briggs, who was nearly half his age, and in part because of his announcement--for the second time--of his retirement from the ring. Foreman lost the controversial majority-decision fight to Briggs in Atlantic City, N.J.; the crowd was clearly convinced that Foreman, at 118 kg (260 lb), should have won, but two of the judges scored the match for Briggs and th
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Mike Tyson was a former heavyweight champion. Title defence against Larry Holmes On January 22, 1988, Tyson fought Larry Holmes and defeated the former champion by a fourth round KO. Title defence against Michael Spinks On June 27, 1988, Tyson fought Michael Spinks. Spinks, who had taken the heavyweight championship from Larry Holmes via a 15-round decision in 1985, had not lost his title in the ring but was not recognized as champion by the major boxing organizations. The fight ended after only 91 seconds when Tyson knocked Spinks out in the first round. Unsuccesful title fight against Buster Douglas On February 11, 1990, in Tokio Tyson lost his championship to Buster Douglas although he was a huge betting favourite. Douglas had lost his mother to a stroke 23 days prior to the fight, and fought the fight of his life. Tyson sent Douglas to the floor in the eighth round,but Douglas recovered sufficiently and in the 10th round sent Tyson to the canvas for the first time in his career. He was counted out by referee Octavio Meyran. After the fight, the Tyson camp complainted that the count was slow and that Douglas had taken longer than ten seconds to get to his feet. Many argued that Tyson Mentally was not prepared for the inspired Douglas and also was reputed to have been out of shape for this fight. Tyson’s defeat has been described as one of the most shocking upsets in modern sports history. Tyson in trouble Tyson was convicted on the rape charge on February 10, 1992 after the jury deliberated for nearly 10 hours and was sentenced to six years in prison but was released after serving three years First Comeback and title fight against Frank Bruno. Tyson did not fight again until later in 1995 and after some easy fight he regained one belt by easily winning the WBC title from Frank Bruno in March 1996 by knocking him out in the third round.He then won the WBA belt by defeating champion Bruce Seldon in one round in September that year. The Hollyfield Fights a. Tyson vs. Holyfield I On November 9, 1996, in Las Vegas, Nevada Tyson attempted to defend the WBA title against the 34 year old former champion Evander Holyfield a fighter who had retired in 1994 and many considered him as a huge underdog. Hollyfield defeated Tyson by TKO when referee Mitch Halpern stopped the bout in round 11 and became the second person ever to win a heavyweight championship belt three times, after Muhammad Ali . After the fight Tyson’s camp complaint of Holyfield’s frequent headbutts during the fight,bu they were ruled accidental by the referee. b. Tyson vs. Holyfield II also known as ‘The Sound and the Fury’ The rematch took place on June 28, 1997 at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena and became one of the most controversial events in modern sports. The fight was stopped at the end of the third round, with Tyson disqualified for biting Holyfield on both ears. The first time he bit him the match was temporarily stopped. Referee Mills Lane deducted two points from Tyson and the fight resumed. However, after the match resumed, Tyson did it again: this time Tyson was disqualified and Holyfield won the match. One bite was severe enough to remove a piece of Holyfield’s right ear, which was found on the ring floor after the fight. Tyson later stated that it was retaliation for Holyfield repeatedly head butting him without penalty. Tyson Banned from boxing On July 9, 1997, Tyson’s boxing license was rescinded by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in a unanimous voice vote and also fined 3 million $ andmade Tyson unable to box in the United States. The revocation was not permanent, and on October 18, 1998, the commission voted 4–1 to restore Tyson’s boxing license. Second Comeback and another controversial fight In January 1999, Tyson returned to the ring to fight the South African Francois Botha. During the fight Tyson allegedly attempted to break Botha’s arms during a tie-up and both boxers were cautioned by the referee in the ill-tempered bout.In the fifth round Tyson knocked out Botha. Lewis vs. Tyson title fight The title fight took place on June
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What colour Lipstick is the title of a song on the album ‘Talk the Talk’ by Rihanna?
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Red Lipstick by Rihanna Songfacts Red Lipstick by Rihanna Songfacts Songfacts This track from the Deluxe Edition of Talk That Talk finds Rihanna getting all heavy metal on us. The song samples the guitars from Metallica's " Wherever I May Roam ," a track from the rockers' self-titled album, colloquially known as The Black Album. The song was produced by the British dubstep duo Chase & Status and is based around "Saxon," a bonus track from the deluxe edition of their debut album, Nore Than Alot. Chase & Status previously helmed three tracks on Rihanna's fourth album, Rated R, including the UK single, " Wait Your Turn ." Want a brief history of red lipstick? Well, read on: Since time immemorial Red has been seen as a protective color. The ancients believed the mouth was an invitation to mischievous spirits to enter the body and take possession of it, so they used to paint their lips red to stop evil forces. In the Middle Ages it was thought rouge meant sex and sin. So, rather than incurring the wrath of the church, regal Italian women wore pink lipstick to show they could afford synthetic makeup, whilst in Elizabethan England, crimson-stained lips were popular and the queen herself painted on cochineal blended with gum arabic, egg white and fig milk. It was only in the 1920s that mass makeup marketing brought red lipstick to the fore and by the 1940s, most women were following the lead of actresses and other female celebrities by applying bright red colour to their lips.
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General Knowledge Quiz - By Zarbo84 The fictional character John Clayton is better known by what name? La Paz is the administrative capital of which South American country? Actor Charles Buchinsky was better known by what name? The medical condition ‘aphonia’ is the inability to do what? In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the king of which Island? Who played the title role in the 1953 film ‘The Glenn Miller Story’? A third wedding anniversary is traditionally represented by which material? In the Bible, what sign did God give Noah that the earth would not be flooded again? In August 2011 NASA announced that photographic evidence had been captured of possible liquid water of which planet in our solar system? The restored tomb of which dramatist was unveiled in Paris in November 2011, after being ruined by lipstick smears left by thousands of kisses? What was the name of the hurricane which hit the East Coast of America in August 2011? On 11th March 2011 a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of which country? Convict George Joseph Smith was known as the ‘Brides in the ‘what’ murderer’? In the human body, Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis is commonly known by what name? A peregrine is what type of bird? What is the name of the highly toxic protein obtained from the pressed seeds of the castor oil plant? Which British pop musician/actor was actress Sadie Frost’s first husband? British singer Gaynor Hopkins is better known by what name? Who played Ron Kovic in the 1989 film ‘Born on the Fourth of July’? Ben Gurion International Airport is in which country? Which basketball star is kidnapped by cartoon characters in the 1996 film ‘Space Jam’? In the tv series The A Team, what does B.A. stand for in the name B.A. Baracus? In medicine, metritis is the inflammation of which part of the body? In which year was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in the USA? In the human body, where is the atrium? The OK Corral is in which US town? In Greek mythology, Amphitrite, queen of the sea, was the wife of which god? Which British boxer bought one of the original ‘Only Fools and Horses’ Reliant Robins in 2004? Actor Roy Harold Scherer was better known by what name? Anna Gordy was the first wife of which late soul singer? Who played Heinrich Himmler in the 1976 film ‘The Eagle Has Landed’? Which is the fastest rotating planet in our solar system? Which country was invaded by Iraq in 1990? Cobalt, Cyan and Cerulean are shades of which colour? In 1936, Joseph Bowers was the first inmate to attempt an escape from which prison? In the 18th Century, the British Royal Navy ordered limes and lemons to be carried on board ships as a remedy for which disease? In which US state were the 1692 Witch Trials held? Question Who was the father of English monarch Edward VI? Vermicide is a substance used for killing which creatures? Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs were two elderly residents in which UK tv sitcom? Who was US actor Mickey Rooney’s first wife? The resort town of Sliema is on which Mediterranean island? In the Bible, what is the Decalogue more commonly known as? In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the god of what? Which real-life couple starred in the 1994 remake of the film ‘The Getaway’? American 1940′s murder victim Elizabeth Short was known by what posthumous nickname? British monarch Henry VIII married which of his wives in 1540? In February 1983 which US writer choked to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops? Which US gangster was released from Alcatraz prison in November 1939? Who built the Roman wall which divided England and Scotland? In the human body, the hallux is more commonly known by what name? The liqueur Maraschino is flavoured with which fruit? Which famous US outlaw shot the cashier of a savings bank in Gallatin Missouri in 1869? Kathmandu is the capital of which country? TAP is the chief airline of which European country? In November 2002, which member of the British royal family was convicted and fined for violating the Dangerous Dogs Act? Tommy Lee plays which instrument in the band Motley Crue? The Wang River i
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Suomi is the local name for which European country?
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Finland - Republic of Finland - Country Profile - Suomi - Republiken Finland - Northern Europe Flag of Finland Background: Ruled by Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and by Russia from 1809, Finland finally won its independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its freedom and fend off invasions by the Soviet Union and Germany. In the subsequent half century, the Finns have made a remarkable transformation from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capita income is now on par with Western Europe. As a member of the European Union, Finland was the only Nordic state to join the euro system at its initiation in January 1999. (Source: CIA - The World Factbook) border countries: Norway , Sweden , Russia , maritime border with Estonia
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The Parts of the Periodic Table Elements named after countries, states, or other geographical features: Californium: state (and University) of California Francium: France Gallium: Latin word for France, Gallia Germanium: Latin word for Germany, Germania Hassium: German state of Hesse, where the GSI is located Magnesium: named after Magnesia, a district in Thessaly in central Greece Polonium: named for Marie Curie's native country of Poland Rhenium: named after the Latin word for the Rhine River, Rhenus Ruthenium: named after the Latin word for Russia, Ruthenia Scandium: named after the Latin word for Scandinavia, Scandia Thulium: named after the ancient word for Scandinavia, Thule Elements named after cities: Berkelium: Berkeley, California, home of the University of California, where a number of synthetic elements have been produced Darmstadtium: Darmstadt, Germany, home of the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (GSI, Gesellschaft f�r Schwerionenforschung) where a number of synthetic elements have been produced Dubnium: Dubna, Russia, home of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Объединённый институт ядерных исследований, ОИЯИ), where a number of synthetic elements have been produced Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium, Yttrium: all named after the Swedish village of Ytterby (near Vaxholm), where these elements were first isolated (as well as Holmium, Scandium, and Tantalum) Hafnium: Copenhagen (Hafnia), Denmark Fermium: Enrico Fermi, the inventor of the first nuclear reactor Lawrencium: Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron Meitnerium: Lise Meitner, one of the first scientists to recognize that uranium could undergo nuclear fission Mendelevium: Dimitri Mendelev, the deviser of the Periodic Table of the Elements Nobelium: Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize Roentgenium: Wilhelm R�ntgen, the discoverer of X-rays Rutherfordium: Ernest Rutherford, discoverer of the atomic nucleus, and a pioneer in the study of nuclear physics Seaborgium: Glenn T. Seaborg, who discovered/synthesized a number of transuranium elements Most of the rest of the names of the elements are derived from various chemical or physical properties: Actinium: Greek: aktinos, "ray" (because it glows with a blue light in the dark) Antimony: Greek: anti + monos, "not alone" (because it was never found uncombined with another element) Argon: Greek: argos, "idle" (because of its unreactivity) Astatine: Greek: astatos, "unstable" (because it is) Barium: Greek: barys, "heavy" (in reference to the high density of some barium minerals) Bromine: Greek: bromos, "stench" (elemental bromine has a terrible smell) Cobalt: German: kobold, "goblin" (because of the toxic fumes of arsenic that were produced when silver miners heated the arsenic-containing ore smaltite, mistaking it for silver ore) Dysprosium: Greek: dysprositos, "hard to get at" (because the first isolation of the element required a tedious separation sequence) Fluorine: Latin: fluere, "to flow" Hydrogen" Greek: hydro + genes, "water forming" Krypton: Greek: kryptos, "hidden" (since it had been "hidden" in a sample of argon) Lanthanum: Greek: lanthanein, "to be hidden" (because the element was discovered "hidden" as an impurity in ores of cerium) Manganese: Latin: magnes, "magnet" (because it can be made to be ferromagnetic with the right treatment) Neodymium: Greek: neos + didymos, "new twin" Neon" Greek: neos, "new" Nickel: German: kupfernickel, "Old Nick's copper" (i.e., copper of the devil, or false copper, because it was frequently mistaken for copper) Nitrogen: Latin: nitron + genes, "nitre [potassium nitrate] forming" Osmium: Greek: osme, "odor" (because of its nasty smell, which is actually caused by osmium tetroxide) Oxygen: Latin: oxy + genes, "acid forming" Phosphorus: Greek: phos + phoros, "light bringing" (because it glows in the dark, and spontaneou
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Who painted 'Girl With A White Dog'found in the Tate London?
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London Calling | J. Paul Getty Museum Exhibition Closed London Calling is just about perfection and should not be missed. —Patricia Zohn, The Huffington Post Working in postwar Britain, the artists of the "School of London" rejected contemporary art’s preoccupation with abstraction and conceptualism in favor of the human figure and everyday landscape. Drawn primarily from the Tate in London, this exhibition highlights the work of six of the leading artists who revolutionized and reinvigorated figurative painting in the later 20th century: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, and R.B. Kitaj. The presentation of this exhibition is a collaboration between Tate and the J. Paul Getty Museum. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. SELECTED WORKS Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance The art of 14th-century Florence is exemplified by Giotto’s famous Peruzzi Altarpiece made for a private chapel in the Church of Santa Croce, and the illuminated manuscript The Laudario of Sant’Agnese, painted by Pacino di Bonaguida and collaborators. Events
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Tate Modern - Modern Art Museum in London England More The Tate Modern is a Modern Art Museum in London England that focuses on the 20th century. Included among its masterpieces are paintings by Picasso and Pollock. Dali's Lobster Telephone is one of the exhibits at the museum. Fans of modern art will love the Tate Modern Art Museum. Best of all: Entry to the Tate Modern is free of charge. London England
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Which emperor was shot by a firing squad in 1867?
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[Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, General Miguel Miramón, and General Tomás Mejia by firing squad] | Library of Congress [Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, General Miguel Miramón, and General Tomás Mejia by firing squad] [ digital image from b&w film copy neg. ] Download: About this Item Title [Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, General Miguel Miramón, and General Tomás Mejia by firing squad] Created / Published - Title devised by Library staff. - Written on verso: Death of Maximilian (purported to be). - Reference copy in BIOG FILE. - Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1939 May 19. Medium LOT 13301, no. 36 [P&P] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Digital Id Library of Congress Control Number 2004678561 LC-USZ62-35251 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources . Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-35251 (b&w film copy neg.) Call Number: LOT 13301, no. 36 [P&P] Access Advisory: --- Obtaining Copies If an image is displaying, you can download it yourself. (Some images display only as thumbnails outside the Library of Congress because of rights considerations, but you have access to larger size images on site.) Alternatively, you can purchase copies of various types through Library of Congress Duplication Services . If a digital image is displaying: The qualities of the digital image partially depend on whether it was made from the original or an intermediate such as a copy negative or transparency. If the Reproduction Number field above includes a reproduction number that starts with LC-DIG..., then there is a digital image that was made directly from the original and is of sufficient resolution for most publication purposes. If there is information listed in the Reproduction Number field above: You can use the reproduction number to purchase a copy from Duplication Services. It will be made from the source listed in the parentheses after the number. If only black-and-white ("b&w") sources are listed and you desire a copy showing color or tint (assuming the original has any), you can generally purchase a quality copy of the original in color by citing the Call Number listed above and including the catalog record ("About This Item") with your request. If there is no information listed in the Reproduction Number field above: You can generally purchase a quality copy through Duplication Services. Cite the Call Number listed above and include the catalog record ("About This Item") with your request. Price lists, contact information, and order forms are available on the Duplication Services Web site . Access to Originals Please use the following steps to determine whether you need to fill out a call slip in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room to view the original item(s). In some cases, a surrogate (substitute image) is available, often in the form of a digital image, a copy print, or microfilm. Is the item digitized? (A thumbnail (small) image will be visible on the left.) Yes, the item is digitized. Please use the digital image in preference to requesting the original. All images can be viewed at a large size when you are in any reading room at the Library of Congress. In some cases, only thumbnail (small) images are available when you are outside the Library of Congress because the item is rights restricted or has not been evaluated for rights restrictions. As a preservation measure, we generally do not serve an original item when a digital image is available. If you have a compelling reason to see the original, consult with a reference librarian. (Sometimes, the original is simply too fragile to serve. For example, glass and
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CALENDAR - collected by p a pearson 0001 Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 0293 Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy 0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited 1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus 1457 Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland; considered the 2nd oldest Protestant denomination 1565 City of Rio de Janeiro is founded 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV 1628 Writs are issued by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date 1642 Georgeana, MA (now known as York, ME) becomes the 1st incorporated US city 1692 Witch hunt begins Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony 1711 The Spectator begins publishing (London) 1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) 1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation 1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized 1790 1st US census is authorized 1792 Presidential Succession Act passed 1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed 1810 Georgetown College was chartered in Washington, DC, making it the 1st Roman Catholic institution of higher learning in the US 1836 Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, TX, to deliberate independence from Mexico 1845 President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the US to annex the Republic of Texas 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again 1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd) 1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) 1864 1st black woman to receive a medical degree, Rebecca Lee (US) 1867 Howard University, Washington, DC, chartered 1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time 1873 Remington and Sons in Ilion, NY, start production of the 1st practical typewriter 1873 Henry Comstock discovers the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, NV 1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1879 Library of Hawaii founded 1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (A Study in Scarlet) publisher J B Lippincott Co 1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador 1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity 1912 Albert Berry makes the 1st parachute jump from a moving airplane 1912 1st US woman detective Isabella Goodwin, appointed in New York City 1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees (North Dakota) 1913 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment) 1928 Paul Whiteman & his orchestraestra record Ol' Man River for Victor Records 1932 Son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped 1936 Hoover Dam is completed 1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut) 1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day 1941 Captain America appears in a comic book 1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air (W47NV, Nashville, TN) 1941 1st NFL commisioner Elmer Layden 1949 Ripley's Believe It Or Not! debuts on television 1953 Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke; dies 4 days later 1961 President John Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps 1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return 1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed 1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect 1969 Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts after 88 weeks 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium 1969 New York Yankees Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball 1970 End of US commercial whale hunting 1973 Honda Civic introduced 1974 7 Presidential aides are indicted for their role in the Watergate bre
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'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' released in 1967 was the debut album by which group?
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Release group “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” by Pink Floyd - MusicBrainz There’s 1 review on CritiqueBrainz. You can also write your own . Most Recent Review by Chris Jones on 2007-04-17 For all who know the tragic story of Syd Barrett's meteoric rise and fall in the world of art rock, it's generally agreed that, between the first psychedelic strains of "Arnold Layne" and the mumbled torture of "Late Night", his creative zenith was The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Recorded in the run-up to the Summer Of Love in a studio next to the one where the Beatles were putting the finishing touches to Sgt Pepper, this album remains a pinnacle of English psychedelic music. It's filled with the child-poet musings of a mind not yet oppressed, but free to wander between fairy tales and cosmic explorations and still be home in time for tea. Born to the tail end of the blues boom, Syd's Pink Floyd (originally the Tea Set), were tailor-made for the nascent underground. Free from a (visible) desire to make with the chart success (man), they also had the requisite backgrounds to get them in on the ground floor with the middle class tastemakers. Along with the Soft Machine they forged their sound - stuttering swooping telecasters and eastern-tinged organ wig outs over hypnotic beds of rhythm - in the clubs of West End London. By this point they had wooed EMI into signing them and, following the bad sales ploy of having their first single, "Arnold Layne" banned as it reached number 20, they finally struck top ten territory with "See Emily Play". It was lucky that, by this time, the album was mostly completed, because it was this sudden propulsion into the limelight that was to prove poor Syd's undoing. Enforced 'package' tours with other chart acts (as well as the equally bemused Jimi Hendrix Experience) were to prove too much exposure for the deeply insecure artist. The first side opens with the outer space chatter of a thousand space missions intoning the names of the stars and we're plunged in to a prime slice of mid-sixties freak-out territory. Syd's guitar is fabulously lithe. There follows a series of tales of cats, silver shoes, unicorns, mice called Gerald, bikes, gnomes, scarecows and the I Ching. Sounds horrible, doesn't it? But in 1967 this was fresh and new, and what's more it's delivered utterly charmingly and with no hint of received American pronunciation merely to be cool. It's been said before, but this is Edward Lear for the acid generation. Then in the black hole between these tracks we get Syd's other side, the shining, blasted sci fi tones of his guitar rumbling through the extended work out of "Interstellar Overdrive". This is the paradox with Barrett. He could seemingly write material that was both poppy and deeply out there with ease. Who knows how the Floyd would have sounded had he held on. Definitely different that's for sure. But Piper remains a testament to a mind that, for a brief spell, saw no boundaries... Release group information
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Fleetwood Mac · 2016 Tour Dates and Concert Tickets | Thrillcall Track Artist for New Show Alerts Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London. Due to numerous line-up changes, the only original member present in the band is its namesake, drummer Mick Fleetwood. Although band founder Peter Green named the group by combinin... Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London. Due to numerous line-up changes, the only original member present in the band is its namesake, drummer Mick Fleetwood. Although band founder Peter Green named the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood, McVie) from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist John McVie played neither on their first single nor at their first concerts, as he initially decided to stay with Mayall. The keyboardist, Christine McVie, who joined the band in 1970 while married to John McVie, appeared on all but the debut album, either as a member or as a session musician. She also supplied the artwork for the album Kiln House. The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with "Albatross"; and from 1975 to 1987, as a more pop oriented act, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Buckingham and Nicks, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams"), and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it the fourth-highest-selling album of all time. The band achieved more modest success in the intervening period between 1971 and 1974, with the line-up including Bob Welch, during the 1990s in between the departure and return of Nicks and Buckingham, and also during the 2000s in between the departure and return of Christine McVie. In 1998, selected members of Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The band has sold 100 million albums worldwide. In 2014, Christine McVie rejoined the band. Formation and early years (1967–1970) Fleetwood Mac was formed in 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar. Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood—Peter B's Looners and the subsequent Shotgun Express (which featured a young Rod Stewart as vocalist). John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band. The Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie and Green recorded five songs. The fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, "Fleetwood Mac". Soon after, Green contacted Fleetwood to form a new band. The pair wanted McVie on bass guitar and even named the band 'Fleetwood Mac' as a way to entice him. However, McVie opted to keep his steady income with Mayall rather than take a risk with a new band. In the meantime Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood teamed up with slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning, who was in the band on the understanding that he would leave if McVie agreed to join. The Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, Brunning version of the band made its debut on 13 August 1967 at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. Within weeks of this show, John McVie agreed to join the band as permanent bassist. Fleetwood Mac's first album, Fleetwood Mac, was a no-frills blues album and was released on the Blue Horizon label in February 1968. In fact there were no other players on the album (except for th
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Guildelines for Developing Public Recreation Facility Standards In a school or church One location per 5,000 Baseball field A neighbourhood facility where interest warrants; at least one or more in each municipality should be lighted One location per 5,000 Best in a school; often in a church One location per 5,000 Centre, neighbourhood May be a small building in a neighbourhood park; preferably part of the elementary school; a meeting area plus space for a change area for outdoor skating or swimming One location per 5,000 Part of a community centre or in a school One location per 5,000 Usually combined with a school One per school Preferable in conjunction with a school; used as an outdoor skating area in winter One location per 5,000 Usually in conjunction with a neighbourhood park or elementary school; intended for elementary school children One location per 5,000 Pools, spray or wading pool Must be paved surface with good drainage; in a neighbourhood park and combined with a playground One location per 5,000 Training or teaching Almost uniform depth (3 to 4 ft) with no diving area; considered a walk-to facility with few change facilities; planned in conjunction with regular outdoor pools and where an indoor/outdoor pool is unattainable One location per 5,000 Rink, natural ice Outdoor May be maintained by volunteers; should be three ice surfaces at each location: one for small children, one for skating and one for hockey; should be adjacent to school One location per 5,000 Developed as part of a senior citizen centre One location per 5,000 Placed in a neighbourhood park or elementary school playground One location per 5,000 Part of a school playground One location per 5,000 Part of a school playground One location per 5,000 Tennis court Should be lighted and developed in conjunction with elementary and secondary schools; at least three courts per location One location per 5,000 Tot lot Developed for pre-school children in neighbourhood parks, elementary school grounds or smaller areas; located close to family housing to permit easy access by young children Five locations per, 5000 Usually part of a school gymnasium or playground; indoor or outdoor facility One location per 5,000 Adventure Playground Associated with a park or community centre; creative playgrounds are usually associated with a school or park Two locations per 10,000 Cut off from other open space One location per 20,000 Arena, artificial indoor ice area One in each community should have spectator seating; the rest should be for recreation purposes with limited seating One location per 20,000 In a community park or combined with a secondary school One location per 20,000 One in each municipality should have fixed seating; the rest may be in schools One location per 20,000 May be indoor or outdoor; developed in conjunction with a club One location per 20,000 May be developed sufficiently by commercial interests One lane per 2,500 Usually a private club, one site should be open to the public One location per 25,000 Centres, community centre A multi-purpose building; may be part of a school complex or included with an indoor pool or arena One location per 25,000 Day care May be privately or publicly owned; can be located in a recreation facility; number required must be based on the demand for this service; space, staffing and equipment standards are controlled by the Ontario Day Nurseries Act; legislative controls less stringent when cooperatively operated with volunteers To accommodate 10 children per 1,000 population Day centre Specifically for senior citizens; complete and continuous programs of activities, including a noon meal One location per 20,000 Usually for teens or senior citizens; should be centrally located and close to public transportation One location per 20,000 Pre-school or one oclock clubs An indoor and outdoor facility for young children accompanied by parents One location per 20,000 May be part of a school, church or community centre One location per 20,000 Handball Part of a multi-purpose facility with a shower and change facilities;
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Sports - Penrith Australia :: Sports Good Sports All Round Centrebet Stadium home of the Penrith PanthersThe people of Penrith love their sport - just ask the vocal crowd at the next Penrith Panthers rugby league game! If you enjoy the great outdoors, there’s a multitude of activities to keep you occupied in the Penrith region. The Sydney International Regatta Centre played host to the rowing during the Sydney Olympics, but those with a passion for sport can walk or jog around the impressive man-made lake, or ride a bicycle along the five-kilometre cycle path. Right next door to the Regatta Centre is the Penrith Whitewater Stadium, home to the 2000 Olympics kayaking slalom and canoeing events. Visitors can experience the thrill of taking on the rapids without having to hike to remote, difficult-to-reach rivers. Penrith Swimming CentreIf you like to keep fit by swimming a few laps, Penrith Swimming Centre is the ideal place for you. They also offer aquarobics, water polo, aerobics, a running track, basketball court and much more! For a sport that’s a little less wet (unless, of course, your ball ends up in one of the water hazards!), there’s always golf. The Penrith region has some of the most scenic and challenging courses in Sydney, including those at the Leonay Golf Course, Wallacia Golf Club, Penrith Golf Club and Dunheved. Glenmore Heritage Valley is a must-visit for golfers of all levels, as it features a 27-hole championship course, bar and restaurant. Panthers World of Entertainment also features Aqua Golf and Putt Putt Golf. If the weather makes outdoor activities a little unpleasant, why not try some inside action? The Indoor Climbing Centre takes rock climbing to new heights, while Penrith Skatel caters to both rollerskaters and rollerbladers, and there's Penrith Ice Palace for the ice skating enthusiasts. Tackle the tenpins at Penrith’s AMF Bowling Centre, or visit Penrith Cue Sports Centre for a game of snooker, billiards or pool. There’s indoor cricket, a new ice skating rink and lots more. Regardless of whether you’re a keen sportsperson or just out to have some fun, Penrith is sure to satisfy your sporting needs. AMF Bowling and Laser Skirmish Penrith Ice Palace
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In a bit of nationalistic pride, what is the name of the NHL hockey team based in Toronto, CA?
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Hockey Book Reviews.com Reality Check: Travels in the Australian Hockey League by Will Brodie From the author:Yes, there is ice hockey in Australia. There’s a fragile but thriving national league and my book Reality Check: Travels in the Australian Ice Hockey League chronicles a year in the AIHL, where dedicated locals and adventurous internationals train and play like professionals, but no-one gets paid. I spent a year visiting the quirky outposts of this unique hockey backwater, making three trips each with arch-rivals Melbourne Mustangs and Melbourne Ice. Australian ice hockey is intense but informal, exhilarating but irreverent. It thrives on grassroots improvisation yet utilises social media savvy to expand its national audience. In 2014, the passion of this community saw a disbanded team reborn in a week and delivered a dramatic finals series followed like never before. Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com From the publisher: Whether it’s a ticket stub from a game that father and son saw together, an autographed photograph from a hero, or a puck that went up and over the boards, hockey memorabilia is a record of our beloved sport’s history. He Shoots, He Saves looks at hockey’s collectibles from hockey cards to commemorative beer cans to postage stamps. The book features artifacts from all 30 NHL teams, the greatest players of all-time, the WHA, the international game including the Summit Series, and the women’s game. Hockey greats such as Martin Brodeur, Frank Mahovlich, Ted Lindsay, and Sidney Crosby recall their own days collecting and offer their perspectives on memorabilia. Joe's Take: This is an interesting book in that while it is very much about hockey collectibles, it is also a very neat introduction to the history of hockey. The book's first 70 pages or so look exclusively a hockey collectibles throughout the years, touching on the obvious like hockey cards, books, magazines, pucks, pocket schedules (I never really understood that fetish) and arena artifacts but also looking at some of the more oddball collectibles like bottle caps, stamps, cereal boxes, and, of course, bobbleheads. In the next 300 pages the author gives us brief run-downs on each franchise (plus some defunct teams), key players and key moments in the game's great past. Waldman tries to tie memorabilia into the conversation, though at times it strays away from that. Never fear, the text is laced with dozens of photos of neat collectibles that make this book as fun to flip through as it is to read from cover to cover. Take a look at this book. Collectors will love it and any hockey fan can learn some hockey history in these pages. - Chapters - Amazon.com Who is Val James? He is an almost entirely forgotten about hockey player from the past. But hey, I don't blame you for that. He played only 11 NHL games (plus 3 more in the playoffs) in his career and there are 1000s of guys like that who equally as memorable than him. So why has Val James his autobiography and, more importantly, why should you read it? First off, a bit more about the book. From the back cover, "Val James became the first African American player in the NHL when he took to the ice with the Buffalo Sabres in 1982, and in 1987 he became the first black player of any nationality to skate for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Born in central Florida, James grew up on Long Island and received his first pair of skates for his 13th birthday. At 16, James left home to play in Canada, where he was the only black person in junior and, often, in the whole town. While popular for his tough play and winning personality, the teenager faced racist taunts at opposing arenas, and the prejudice continued at all levels of the game. In his two NHL stints, James defined himself as a smart team player and opponent, known for his pugilistic skills. Black Ice is the untold story of a trail-blazing athlete who endured and overcame discrimination to realize his dreams and become an inspiration for future generations." That doesn't do nearly as good a job of catching your attention as in the in
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"What veteran singer songwriter released the 2011 album ""50 Words For Snow""?"
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Kate Bush: 50 Words For Snow | Listen to the Complete Album, On-Demand, on KCRW.com | KCRW PREVIEW Kate Bush: 50 Words For Snow 50 Words For Snow will be available to stream on demand from November 14, 2011 through November 22, 2011. The album will be released on November 21, 2011. NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM THIS EPISODE Here are 50 words for Kate Bush's new album, 50 Words for Snow: Powdery fantasia. Contemplative. Winter matins. Playful. Opium reverie. Grounded. Ghost story. Sensual. Artistic recalibration. Unhurried. Drummer's holiday. Quiet. Ode to the white keys. Imaginative. Exploration of the lower register. Floating. Mother-son duet. Solitary. Snowed-in erotica. Collaborative. Joni Mitchell answer record. Inimitable. Supernatural space odyssey. What we'd expect from Kate Bush. It's a fun game to mimic the task that England's elusive empress of art rock devised for her tenth studio long-player. Approaching this release from different angles, speaking of it in different metaphors, piques the imagination while creating a kind of unity of thought, just as limiting herself stories inspired by winter weather clearly did for Bush herself. But the phrase that might spring first from the lips of Bush fans digging into Snow is, "Welcome home!" In seven long tracks, the album does just what the best of Bush's work has done since she burst on the scene, Spandex bat wings flapping, at the dawn of the New Wave era. It melds extravagant tales to unconventional song structures, and spirits the listener away into Bush's distinctive hyper-reality. Each song on Snow grows as if from magic beans from the lush ground of the singer-songwriter's keyboard parts. The music is immersive but spacious, jazz-tinged and lushly electronic – the 53-year-old Bush, a prime inspiration for tech-savvy young auteurs ranging from St. Vincent to hip hop's Big Boi, pioneered the use of digital samplers in the 1980s and is still an avid aural manipulator. This time around, drummer Steve Gadd is her most important interlocutor– the veteran studio player's gentle but firm touch draws the frame around each of her expanding landscapes. But Bush won't be restricted. Like Joni Mitchell on Don Juan's Restless Daughter, she takes her time and lets her (inner) characters lead. The album's scenarios are as startling as the ones Bush spun in the plastic-fantastic 1980s, when she became famous for taking on myriad alter egos, from Houdini's bride to Wilhelm Reich's son to a whole menagerie of mythical creatures. But the tighter focus on Snow makes it one of Bush's most cohesive works, despite the daunting length of each track. (The shortest is nearly 7 minutes long.) Spinning variations on a theme instead of offering one long narrative, Bush re-imagines the concept album as a poet would, connecting its elements with delicate thread. The opening and closing cuts invoke a chill as they dwell on the ephemeral nature of the life cycle. "Snowflake," which features the choirboy pipes of Bush's 12-year-old son Bertie, gives voice to the melting consciousness of the natural world itself; "Among Angels" reads like the sweetest kind of suicide note. In between there are imagined couplings – with a gender-bending snowman in "Misty," and with a lover found and lost through many reincarnations (and played with brio by Elton John) in "Snowed In At Wheeler Street." The bounding "Wild Man" chases a yeti. The trip hoppy title track casts actor Stephen Fry as a Siberian scientist building a lexicon in white. That song could be a metaphor for Bush's own creative process. In its choruses, she goads Fry on with vocals that come close to the legendary witch whoops of her youth: Come on, Joe, you have 32 to go! The listener can easily imagine Bush pushing herself in a similar way: waking up in the morning and telling herself to get on that sled and ride her theme to a new destination. We who treasure her can rejoice that she cut a path so quickly. Along with May's reworking of older material, Director's Cut, this makes for two Bush albums in a year. The once moderately reclusive artiste ma
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The Hottest Singer Of The Ever The Hottest Singer Of The Ever IN USA Britney Jean Spears Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, actress and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. In 1997, Spears signed a recording contract with Jive, releasing her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide. Her success continued with the release of her sophomore album, Oops!... I Did It Again in 2000, which established her as a pop icon and credited for influencing the revival of teen pop in the late 1990s. In 2001, she released Britney and played the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone released in 2003, which made her the only female artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era to have her first four albums debut at number one. Her fifth studio album, Blackout was released in 2007. Her sixth studio album, Circus released in 2008, also debuted at number one in the Billboard 200 albums chart with the hit single "Womanizer" which is Spears second song to peaked at number one on Billboard Hot 100 in over 10 years. In the late 2009, Spears released The Singles Collection which include Spears third number one hit single entitled "3". Spears has sold over 83 million records worldwide. On December 11, 2009 Billboard Magazine named Spears the second-best selling act of the 2000s, solely based on album sales as well as the 8th overall best act of the decade based on album sales, chart success, and cultural relativity. She is ranked as the eighth best-selling female recording artist in the U.S. with 32 million copies of her albums certified by the RIAA, and is currently the fifth best-selling artist act of the decade in the country, as well as the top-selling female artist. Spears is also ranked by Forbes 2009 issue as the 13th most powerful celebrity, and with earnings of over $35 million dollars in 2009, the 2nd-highest earning young musician of the year. According to Billboard, Spears has four of her albums among the top 20 biggest-opening-week albums of the decade. Posted by care for health at The Mickey Mouse Club http://socyberty.com/people/hot-singer-in-us/ Britney Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana as a Southern Baptist. Her parents are Lynne Irene (n?e Bridges), a former elementary school teacher, and Jamie Parnell Spears, a former building contractor and chef. Spears is of English heritage through her maternal grandmother being born in London and distant Maltese descent, with her maternal 2nd great-grandfather Edward Portelli being born in Malta then moving to England where he settled. Spears has two siblings, Bryan and Jamie Lynn. Bryan Spears is married to Jamie-Lynn's manager, Graciella Rivera. Spears was an accomplished gymnast, attending gymnastics classes until age nine and competing in state-level competitions. She performed in local dance revues and sang in her local Baptist church choir. Spears entered New York City's Professional Performing Arts School when she was eight. Spears's parents would often argue, and they eventually divorced in 2002. At age eight, Spears auditioned for the Disney Channel series The New Mickey Mouse Club. Although she was considered too young to join the series at the time, a producer on the show introduced her to a New York City agent. Spears subsequently spent three summers at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School and also appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions. She was an understudy in the 1991 off-Broadway musical Ruthless!. In 1992, she landed a spot on the popular television show Star Search. She won the first round of competition, but ultimately lost. At age eleven, Spears returned to the Disney Channel for a spot
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Norwich South is the Parliamentary constituency of which government minister?
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norwich south uk parliament constituency : definition of norwich south uk parliament constituency and synonyms of norwich south uk parliament constituency (English) 7 Notes and references Boundaries The constituency is one of two covering the city of Norwich . Prior to the 2010 election, it included the Norwich City wards of Bowthorpe, Crome (part) Eaton, Lakenham, Nelson, Mancroft, Thorpe Hamlet (part), Town Close, University and Wensum. In addition the South Norfolk district wards of New Costessey and Cringleford (part) are within the constituency. Boundaries changed at the 2010 General Election (see below). Boundary review Following their review of parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk that concluded in 2004, the Boundary Commission for England created a slightly modified Norwich South constituency. The changes took effect at the 2010 General Election. Changes were necessary in order to re-align the constituency boundaries with the new local government ward boundaries introduced in South Norfolk and Norwich in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Norfolk was also granted an additional, ninth seat, by the Boundary Commission. The part of the Crome ward around Morse Road will move to Norwich North , while the area around Mousehold Street in Thorpe Hamlet will move in to Norwich South. Additionally, the villages of Cringleford and Colney will move to the South Norfolk constituency. The composition of the new Norwich South will be: The following wards from the city of Norwich: Bowthorpe, Eaton, Lakenham, Nelson, Mancroft, Thorpe Hamlet, Town Close, University and Wensum. And the New Costessey ward from the district of South Norfolk. History The Labour MP for this seat from 1997 to 2010 was Charles Clarke who served in cabinet for five years from 2001 to 2006, first as Minister without Portfolio , then as Secretary of State for Education and Skills and latterly as Home Secretary . Norwich South was by far Labour's safest seat in Norfolk throughout the Thatcher years and up until 2005. Although it was lost to the Conservatives in 1983, it was regained by Labour in 1987 and was the only Labour seat in Norfolk until 1997. In 2005 the Labour majority was cut by over 5000 leaving Norwich North as the safest Labour seat in the county. The seat was considered a true three way marginal in the 2010 election between the incumbent Labour party the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives. The seat was also targeted by the Green Party. The seat was won with the lowest percentage share of the vote in a constituency in the 2010 election. The loss was considered to be an embarrassment for the Labour Party as it was the seat of a former Home Secretary. Members of Parliament
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BBC News - Cabinet: David Cameron's new line-up Cabinet: David Cameron's new line-up Here is a guide to the cabinet following the reshuffle which began on 14 July, 2014: David Cameron Prime Minister Prime Minister David Cameron Conservative David Cameron was virtually unknown outside Westminster when he was elected Tory leader in December 2005 at the age of 39. The Old Etonian had dazzled that year's party conference with his youthful dynamism and charisma, reportedly telling journalists he was the "heir to Blair". He has sought to match the former PM by putting the Conservatives at the centre ground of British politics. After the 2010 election he led his party into coalition with the Lib Dems, making tackling the UK economy's deficit its priority. He has faced criticism from some on the right of the party but Mr Cameron has insisted the coalition will see through its full five-year term. Before becoming leader, he was the Conservatives' campaign co-ordinator at the 2005 general election and shadow education secretary. He was special adviser to Home Secretary Michael Howard and Chancellor Norman Lamont in the 1990s before spending seven years as a public relations executive with commercial broadcaster Carlton. Nick Clegg Deputy Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg In just five years, Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg, a contemporary of Mr Cameron, went from political obscurity to the absolute front line of British politics. After becoming MP for Sheffield Hallam at the 2005 election, he was promoted to Europe spokesman, before moving on to the home affairs role. When Sir Menzies Campbell resigned as leader in 2007, he entered the race to succeed him, in the end narrowly beating Chris Huhne. He really came to prominence during the televised debates ahead of the general election, being judged in polls to have been the big winner of the first one. However, this appeared to do little to help the Lib Dems when they actually lost seats on 6 May. The party, though, retained enough MPs to become the vital players in the hung parliament. After taking his party into coalition with the Conservatives - and U-turning on a previous pledge to reject university tuition fees - Mr Clegg saw his personal poll ratings slump, but he has pointed to areas where Lib Dem policies have come into force on taxation and consitutional issues. Like David Cameron, he has insisted the coalition is working in the national interest and will continue for the full parliament. George Osborne Chancellor Chancellor George Osborne One of David Cameron's closest friends and Conservative allies, George Osborne rose rapidly after becoming MP for Tatton in 2001. Michael Howard promoted him from shadow chief secretary to the Treasury to shadow chancellor in May 2005, at the age of 34. Mr Osborne took a key role in the election campaign and even before Mr Cameron became leader the two were being likened to Labour's Blair/Brown duo. The two have emulated them by becoming prime minister and chancellor, but have avoided the spats. Some prominent Conservatives have urged Mr Osborne to do more to promote economic growth. Before entering Parliament, he was a special adviser in the agriculture department when the Tories were in government and later served as political secretary to William Hague. Home Secretary Theresa May Theresa May is the second woman to hold the post of Home Secretary. She was the first woman to become Conservative Party chairman, under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith. She then took up the culture and family portfolios before being made shadow Commons leader by David Cameron. She has been a keen advocate of positive action to recruit more women Tories to winnable seats and was a key architect of the "A list" of preferred candidates. A passionate moderniser, she famously ruffled feathers when she told Tory activists they were seen as members of the "nasty party". In her role as home secretary, she has overseen widespread changes to the immigration system. Mrs May was the shadow work and pensions minister ahead of the election. Philip Hammond Fore
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The Forint is the basic monetary unit of which European country?
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Forint - definition of forint by The Free Dictionary Forint - definition of forint by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/forint [Hungarian, from Italian fiorino, florin; see florin.] forint (Currencies) the standard monetary unit of Hungary, divided into 100 fillér [from Hungarian, from Italian fiorino florin] for•int the basic monetary unit of Hungary. [1945–50; < Hungarian < Italian fiorino. See florin ] ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Hungarian monetary unit - monetary unit in Hungary filler - 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary Translations forint forint 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: pengo References in periodicals archive ? According to Hungary's central bank, the forint liquidity of the nation's banking sector rose slightly in March compared to a month before. Central bank succession rumours hit Hungarian forint The forint pulled back after hitting three-week highs last week, after both the IMF and the European Commission said they had received a request for possible financial assistance from Hungary, a move that could avert a sovereign ratings downgrade to junk. Research and Markets: Hungary Petrochemicals Report Q1 2011 5 billion HUF, ie two billion - worth five hundred million forints Copyright © 2003-2017 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.
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Poole Tourism Islands in Poole Harbour ISLANDS IN POOLE HARBOUR Islands in Poole Harbour Poole Harbour is home to a total of eight islands, all of which are part of the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The five largest are listed below. Brownsea Island is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public from March to October. Furzey Island is home to a well hidden oil well and gathering station for Wytch Farm - Britain's largest onshore oil development, linked by pipeline to the refinery at Fawley. This island is also home to the red squirrel, which have been studied on Furzey since 1986. Annual trapping has shown that the population varies from 18 to 57 adults, on only 6ha of woodland. The thriving population is largely due to the excellent cone crops from the Scots pines on the island. Long Island is a 31-acre island and is privately owned by a local individual. Round Island is a 15 acre private property with a delightful mix of grassy paddocks and winding woodland paths. Situated in the sheltered western portion of Poole Harbour, the island is surrounded by beautiful views. There is a small sandy beach with shallow water, and also a pontoon with swinging moorings. Holiday cottages are available on the island, visit www.roundisland.co.uk for details. Green Island is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Protection Area (SPA) and has featured on the archaeology programme Time Team. It covers approximately 45 acres at low tide and is covered in extensive woodland in the centre, made up of Scots pine with several small areas of heathland. There are two buildings on the island, helicopter landing pad, a private wooden jetty as well as a beach area. It is currently privately owned, having been put up for sale at an asking price of 2.5 million.
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Captain Pugwash | Toonfind cartoon database Captain Pugwash show information Captain Horatio Pugwash made his debut in a comic strip format in the first issue of The Eagle in 1950, then appeared regularly as a strip in Radio Times. In 1957 the BBC commissioned a series of short cartoon films produced by Gordon Murray. Ryan produced a total of 86 five-minute-long episodes for the BBC, shot in black-and-white film, but later transferring to colour. Ryan used a real-time technique of animation in which cardboard cutouts of the characters were laid on painted backgrounds and moved with levers. The characters' voices were provided by Peter Hawkins. The last series of Pugwash shorts by Ryan was produced in 1975. Although there are many anachronisms in the series, the book The Battle of Bunkum Bay gives some useful clues as to the era in which the stories are set. In this book, the King of England strongly resembles George I and the King of France resembles Louis XIV, suggesting that this story took place in 1714-15. However, one of the few direct references to a date is in the original TV series is the episode 'Pirate of the Year' where Pugwash enters the "Pirate of the Year contest 1775" A number of spin-off books were written by John Ryan, and in the 1980s he drew three new Pugwash comic strip storybooks: The Secret of the San Fiasco, The Battle of Bunkum Bay and The Quest for the Golden Handshake. The rights to Captain Pugwash were purchased by HIT Entertainment, who from 1997 have issued a number of digital and part computer-animated cartoon films based on the Pugwash character, set on the island of "Montebuffo", "somewhere in the Spanish Main". Peter Hawkins did not provide the voices, HIT Entertainment instead employing character actor James Saxon. A DVD containing 'ALL 30 heroic high sea adventures from the classic 70s TV series' filmed in colour (156 minutes running time) was given away with the Sunday Times on 20 January 2008. A related book by John Ryan was Admiral Fatso Fitzpugwash, in which it is revealed that Pugwash had a medieval ancestor who was First Sea Lord, but who was terrified of water. Captain Pugwash cartoon pictures Captain Pugwash cartoon characters Captain Pugwash The pompous but likeable captain of the Black Pig. Although he boasts of being the "bravest buccaneer", he is actually quite cowardly and stupid. His greed often gets him into trouble. Despite all this, he usually wins the day - either with the help of Tom the Cabin Boy or through sheer luck. Strangely enough, despite being a pirate, he is rarely seen committing any acts of piracy. Master Mate A somewhat dopey character, who has a tendency to use malapropisms and to mispronounce common words. He has a teddy bear in his bunk and is quite mild-mannered. It is not entirely clear why he is the mate, as he does not appear to have any authority over the rest of the crew. He was present in the first ever Pugwash story, in which he was depicted as being constantly sleepy. Pirate Barnabas The most aggressive of the pirates, but in reality just as harmless. He is quite rebellious and grumpy, and is perhaps marginally more intelligent than Willy, the Mate or the Captain. He was not present in the 1997 series. "No good will come of this, mark my words!" Pirate Willy A simple sailor from Wigan. He appears to be the youngest crew member (apart from Tom). He is a gentle soul, and is against using violence. He does, however, have the occasional brainwave and has been the crew's saviour (admittedly sometimes more by luck than by design). "Just you wait till we get back to Wigan - we won't half have a 'tail' to tell!" Tom the Cabin Boy It might be argued that without Tom, Pugwash would have been sunk long ago. He is the most intelligent and resourceful member of the crew, the only one who can cook and the only one who can actually sail a ship. Although Pugwash would never admit it, Tom's ability to think up schemes is probably the only thing that prevents him from being a total failure as a pirate. Tom is an expert concertina player, and part of his repert
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