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What is the full name of the breed of cattle originating in Scotland, known as 'Belties'?
Belted Galloway BELTED GALLOWAY BREED HISTORY Belted Galloways, also known as Belties, are currently listed with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy as a "watched" breed, which means there are fewer than 2,500 annual registrations in the United States and a global population of less than 10,000. In 2007 they were formally removed from the UK Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's watch list, having recovered sufficiently from the devastation of the foot and mouth crisis of the early 2000's, to have reached in excess of 1500 registered breeding females. DOTTIE                                                                                                                  Galloway cattle are naturally polled (No horns).                                                                                                                  The most visible characteristics of the Belted Galloway                                                                                                                  are its long hair coat and the broad white belt that                                                                                                                  completely encircles the body. Its coarse outer coat helps                                                                                                                  shed the rain, and its soft undercoat provides insulation                                                                                                                  and waterproofing, enabling the breed to happily                                                                                                                  overwinter outside. Black Belties are most prominent,                                                                                                                  but Dun and Red Belties are also recognized by breed                                                                                                                  societies, the latter being comparatively rare and sought                                                                                                                  after. A female Belted Galloway cannot be registered in                                                                                                                  the Herd Book if it has white above the dew claw other                                                                                                                  than the belt, but can be registered in the Appendix. A                                                                                                                  bull can only be registered in the Herd book if it has no                                                                                                                  other white than the belt. Bulls weigh from 1,700 pounds (770kg) to 2,300 pounds (1045kg) with the average being 1,800 pounds (820kg). Cows weigh from 1,000 pounds (450kg) to 1,500 pounds (675kg) with the average being 1,250 pounds (565kg). Calves generally weight from 40 pounds to 60 pounds. Belties are generally of a quiet temperament, but still maintain a strong maternal instinct and will protect a calf against perceived threats. Belties are well-suited for rough grazing land and will utilize coarse grasses other breeds would shun. They are able to maintain good condition on less than ideal pasture, and produce a high quality beef product on grass alone. The USDA Cycle IV Germ Plasm Evaluation Program at the Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) showed that Galloway crosses placed at the top of the chart for flavor, juiciness and tenderness when compared to eleven other breeds. CHARACTERISTICS
whisky regions map      whisky university:     whisky A-Z     Scotch whisky regions     how whisky is made    Scotch malt whiskies tend to be grouped within a number of regional categories, usually Speyside, Highland, Campbeltown, Islay, Islands and Lowland, though sub-divisions are frequently made within these categories. Such classifications really exist for geographical convenience rather than stylistic similarity. Within each there will be major variations of character, which is one of the factors that make Scotch malt whisky so fascinating. Speyside More than half of Scotland's 89 operational malt whisky distilleries are located within the Speyside region of the north-east. For many aficionados, Speyside is the whisky region. It is to malt, as Cognac is to brandy.    Speyside boomed during the late 19th century, when blended whiskies began to take the world by storm. The smooth, comparatively subtle character of many Speyside malts was ideally suited for blends destined to be assaulted by soda siphons in gentlemen's clubs and officers' messes around the British Empire. No fewer than 21 distilleries were built on Speyside during the 1890s alone. Today, Speyside remains home to many of the greatest names in Scotch whisky, such as Glenfiddich, Glenfarclas, Glen Grant, The Glenlivet and The Macallan. Stylistically, Speysides vary from the light, soft, floral nature of whiskies like Knockando and Cardhu to weighty, more complex and heavily sherried malts such as Mortlach and The Macallan. Highland According to historic excise legislation, Highland malt whiskies are distilled north of a line stretching between Greenock on the Firth of Clyde in the west and Dundee on the Firth of Tay in the east. Whisky commentators often sub-divide the vast Highland region into a number of smaller areas, within which there may be stylistic similarities. References to Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern Highland areas of production are common. Geographically, the Highland region of malt whiskies embraces Scotland's most northerly mainland distillery of Pulteney, in the Caithness port of Wick, and its most westerly in the shape of Oban. Interestingly, although so far apart, these two whiskies share similar characteristics, in that both are comparatively dry, with a whiff of sea salt about them. Some of the leading - though incredibly diverse - Highland single malts are the complex Clynelish spirit from the east coast of Sutherland, Dalwhinnie, Royal Lochnagar, Glengoyne, Aberfeldy and Edradour. Edradour has long prided itself on being Scotland's smallest distillery, and is situated near the popular Perthshire holiday town of Pitlochry. Campbeltown Once the 'whisky capital' of Scotland, with no fewer than 21 working distilleries during the 1880s, Campbeltown lies near the southern tip of the remote Kintyre peninsula in Argyllshire. When Campbeltown was at its distilling height, stylistically, its whiskies tended to be big-bodied, heavy, peaty beasts, eventually even referred to as 'stinking fish' when quality was sacrificed for quality during the 1920s. Today, Campbeltown's whisky- making industry is a shadow of its former self, with just Springbank, Glen Scotia and Glengyle in operation, though Springbank remains a classic malt with a worldwide reputation for excellence. Distilling recommenced at Glengyle in 2004, after almost eight decades of silence, and the Scotch Whisky Association subsequently reinstated Campbeltown as a separate whisky region, having previously included its whiskies in the Highland category for a number of years. Islay If Campbeltown was formerly Scotland's 'whisky capital', then Islay is most certainly the country's 'whisky island.' It is home to eight working distilleries, the most recently established being Kilchoman, a 'boutique,' farm-based operation which commenced production in 2005. Once principally used for blending purposes, Islay single malts have become extremely fashionable during the past couple of decades, with Ardbeg, Bowmore, Lagavulin and Laphroaig all gaining something approaching cult status wi
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In which of Grimm's fairy tales does the wicked witch end up in the oven?
Hansel and Gretel Hansel and Gretel by the Grimm Brothers Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread. Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife, "What is to become of us. How are we to feed our poor children, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves." "I'll tell you what, husband," answered the woman, "early to-morrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest. There we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them." "No, wife," said the man, "I will not do that. How can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest. The wild animals would soon come and tear them to pieces." "O' you fool," said she, "then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins," and she left him no peace until he consented. "But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same," said the man. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Gretel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel, "now all is over with us." "Be quiet," Gretel, said Hansel, "do not distress yourself, I will soon find a way to help us." And when the old folks had fallen asleep, he got up, put on his little coat, opened the door below, and crept outside. The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies. Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in. Then he went back and said to Gretel, "Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us," and he lay down again in his bed. When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying get up, you sluggards. We are going into the forest to fetch wood. She gave each a little piece of bread, and said, "There is something for your dinner, but do not eat it up before then, for you will get nothing else." Gretel took the bread under her apron, as Hansel had the pebbles in his pocket. Then they all set out together on the way to the forest. When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again. His father said, "Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind for. Pay attention, and do not forget how to use your legs." "Ah, father," said Hansel, "I am looking at my little white cat, which is sitting up on the roof, and wants to say good-bye to me." The wife said, "Fool, that is not your little cat, that is the morning sun which is shining on the chimneys." Hansel, however, had not been looking back at the cat, but had been constantly throwing one of the white pebble-stones out of his pocket on the road. When they had reached the middle of the forest, the father said, "Now, children, pile up some wood, and I will light a fire that you may not be cold." Hansel and Gretel gathered brushwood together, as high as a little hill. The brushwood was lighted, and when the flames were burning very high, the woman said, "Now, children, lay yourselves down by the fire and rest, we will go into the forest and cut some wood. When we have done, we will come back and fetch you away". Hansel and Gretel sat by the fire, and when noon came, each ate a little piece of bread, and as they heard the strokes of the wood-axe they believed that their father was near. It was not the axe, however, but a branch which he had fastened to a withered tree which the wind was blowing backwards and forwards. And as they had been sitting such a long time, their eyes closed with fatigue, and they fell fast asleep. When at last the
JWS Water Engineering What is the popular name for little baked sausages wrapped in rashers of streaky bacon? Pigs in blankets Question 2. The Christmas period of 1813-14 saw the last what in London?Christmas Fair on a frozen River Thames Question 3. In Victorian England which people were popularly called robins because of their red uniforms?Postmen Question 4. From Christmas day 2013 to Christmas Day 2023, over these 10 years what's the potential saving (Euros) of having Steam Steriliastion compared to a conventional heat system?90,000 Euros Question 5. Who are the four ghosts in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol?Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Yet to Come, and Jacob Marley Question 6.
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The bull represents which sign of the Zodiac?
Taurus Zodiac Sign Symbol: Its Meaning and Origin Get a free online I Ching reading. The 64 hexagrams of the ancient Chinese I Ching, The Book of Change, and what they mean in divination. Books by Stefan Stenudd: Tarot Unfolded The imaginative reading of the Tarot divination cards focuses on what impressions the images and their symbols give. Several spreads are presented, as well as the meanings of all the 78 cards and their pictures. Click the image to see the book at Amazon. Life Energy Encyclopedia Qi (chi), prana, pneuma, spiritus, and all the other life force concepts around the world explained and compared. Click the image to see the book at Amazon. Cosmos of the Ancients All the philosophers of Ancient Greece and what they thought about cosmology, myth, religion and the gods. Click the image to see the book at Amazon. Sunday Brunch with the World Maker Fiction. A brunch conversation slips into the mysterious, soon to burst beyond the realm of possibility. Click the image to see the book at Amazon. The Taurus Symbol Its Origin and Meaning in Astrology The above image is the established symbol (also called glyph) for the Zodiac sign Taurus, the Bull. It's a simple representation of the head of a bull, with its horns. Both the Zodiac sign and its symbol have been along for ages.      The Zodiac division of the ecliptic into twelve parts, each assigned a Zodiac sign, is probably of Babylonian (Mesopotamia) origin. They were very early with astrology, mapping the sky and noting planetary movements thousands of years ago.      The Zodiac, very much like the one we know today, might have emerged in Mesopotamia around 1000 BC. But Babylonian astrology is probably far older than that. No Bull at First The Babylonians didn't connect this Zodiac sign to the Bull, though. They called the constellation The Steer of Heaven. But already in Classical Greece, the Bull was established as the name of the sign and the constellation.      It's not that easy to see a bull in the constellation of Taurus. Most images of it mark the horns by connecting a couple of the stars, but that's about it. The rest is up to the imagination. Several of the Zodiac constellations are equally vague. Here's the constellation Taurus, with the image of the Bull added to it in a typical fashion:      As you can see, the formation of the stars doesn't support the idea of a bull very convincingly. The reason for the choice is, as far as I know, buried in history.      Below is an antique illustration of the same constellation, where the figure of the bull has also been added. It's from a 17th century book: Firmamentum sobiescianum, by Johannes Hevelius, 1690. Taurus in Ink Below is an ink version of the symbol for Taurus, which I did a number of years back in an experiment of using Japanese ink calligraphy (shodo) for old European astrology symbols. I've used these pictures on my astrology websites, mainly for fun and for the odd graphic effect, and I've seen them copied all over the Internet. I'm fine with that, although I think it wouldn't hurt if the source was mentioned. Well, what to do?      Anyway, here's that ink again, this time in the original black and white (click on the image to see a bigger version): Taurus the Sign As for the picture commonly used to represent the Taurus Zodiac sign, it's been an image of a bull for as long as that has been its name - probably longer than the symbol described above has existed. Below is one typical example, where the stars of the constellation Taurus have also been marked. It's an illustration from Poeticon astronomicon, a 1482 book by Hyginus.      For the header of this website, I combined the symbol for Taurus with an image of a bull. Well, actually I think it's an African water buffalo, but the head and the horns are there. I also added the primary symbol of the Taurus traits: agriculture, in the form of crops on a field. Zodiac Sign Symbols Here are the symbols (glyphs) of all the twelve Zodiac signs, and links to pages telling more about each Zodiac sign symbol.
Archive - Valentine's Day - Trivia 1. Which archer is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? 2. Which male singer had a top ten hit with "Love Train" in 1988? 3. What sign of the zodiac would you be if you were born on St. Valentine's Day? 4. When Marilyn Monroe died, who asked for a fresh rose to be placed on her grave, every week, forever? 5. In the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, what were the hitmen dressed as? 6. In the episode of Friends titled "The One With Ross' Wedding", which special guest star tells Joey that she thinks his hat is "dashing"? 7. Which Shakespearian character said "Good morrow. 'Tis St. Valentine's Day"? 8. Born in Italy in 1895, who was known as cinema's first "great lover"? 9. Who played Juliet opposite Leonardo Di Caprio in the 1996 film "Romeo and Juliet"? 10. Containing the lines "You're asking me will my love grow, I don't know, I don't know", which Beatles' song did Frank Sinatra describe as the greatest love song ever written? 1. Which archer is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? Cupid 3. What sign of the zodiac would you be if you were born on St. Valentine's Day? Aquarius 8. Born in Italy in 1895, who was known as cinema's first "great lover"? Casanova 4. When Marilyn Monroe died, who asked for a fresh rose to be placed on her grave, every week, forever? The local florist 5. In the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, what were the hitmen dressed as? Students 7. Which Shakespearian character said "Good morrow. 'Tis St. Valentine's Day"? Romeo 10. Containing the lines "You're asking me will my love grow, I don't know, I don't know", which Beatles' song did Frank Sinatra describe as the greatest love song ever written? Something 1. Which archer is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day?     Cupid 2. Which male singer had a top ten hit with "Love Train" in 1988?      Holly Johnson 3. What sign of the zodiac would you be if you were born on St. Valentine's Day?     Aquarius 4. When Marilyn Monroe died, who asked for a fresh rose to be placed on her grave, every week, forever?       Joe DiMaggio 5. In the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, what were the hitmen dressed as?     Chicago police officers 6. In the episode of Friends titled "The One With Ross' Wedding", which special guest star tells Joey that she thinks his hat is "dashing"?      Sarah Ferguson [just guessing from Googling, since I've never seen this show....] 7. Which Shakespearian character said "Good morrow. 'Tis St. Valentine's Day"?       Ophelia 8. Born in Italy in 1895, who was known as cinema's first "great lover"?      Rudolph Valentino 9. Who played Juliet opposite Leonardo Di Caprio in the 1996 film "Romeo and Juliet"?      Claire Danes [again thanks to Google] 10. Containing the lines "You're asking me will my love grow, I don't know, I don't know", which Beatles' song did Frank Sinatra describe as the greatest love song ever written?        Something [in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover...] by George Harrison [and the first line by Sweet Baby James Taylor... ha!] 1. Which archer is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day?  Eros, the son of the goddess Aphrodite.   Eros was never admitted to the Top Twelve of the Olympian Pantheon because he was very irresponsible, and a bit of a cheat at dice as well. 4. When Marilyn Monroe died, who asked for a fresh rose to be placed on her grave, every week, forever?  A pure guess - Arthur Miller, though apparently it should have been most of the male members of the Kennedy clan. 5. In the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, what were the hitmen dressed as? Violinists in an Orchestra? 8. Born in Italy in 1895, who was known as cinema's first "great lover"?  The Sheikh?  Rudolf Valentino? Don't know the others
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Give the French phrase in general use which means a blind alley.
Which French Phrases and Sayings are used in English - the meaning and origin of this phrase High quality, especially of cooking. Cordon sanitaire A political or medical buffer zone. Coup d'état An abrupt overthrow of a government through unconstitutional means, for example, by force, or by occupation of government structures during the leader's absence. Coup de grâce Originally a blow by which one condemned or mortally wounded is 'put out of his misery'. Figuratively, a finishing stroke, one that settles or puts an end to something. Crème brûlée 'Burnt cream' - baked custard with a carmelized crust Crème caramel A flan. A custard dessert with a layer or caramel on top. Crème de la crème The best of the best. Literally the cream of the cream. Cri de coeur 'Cry of the heart' - a heartfelt cry of anguish. Cul-de-sac A thoroughfare that is closed at one end - a blind alley. Also, figuratively, a venture leading to no successful outcome. Déjà vu Obligatory or expected, especially with reference to fashion. Double entendre A word or phrase that has a double meaning - one of which is often vulgar or sexual in nature. A staple form of British toilet humour - Carry On films would be virtually silent without it; for example, see 'gone for a P' in wee-wee . Du jour 'Of the day' - as in 'soup du jour' ('soup of the day'). Éminence grise A powerful adviser or decision-maker who operates secretly or unofficially. Literally 'grey eminence'. Enfant terrible Literally, a "terrible child". It is sometimes used to describe unruly children. More commonly, it is used in relation to adults who cause trouble by unorthodox or ill-considered speech or behaviour - especially those who have habitually done this from an early age. En masse In a group; all together. En passant
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Which sculptor is famous for designing the Statue of Liberty?
Auguste Bartholdi - Statue Of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Auguste Bartholdi A portrait of Auguste Bartholdi. National Park Service, Statue of Liberty NM Born on August 2, 1834 in Colmar, Alsace, France, Auguste Bartholdi was the French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty. Early in his career, Bartholdi extensively studied art, sculpture, and architecture. From 1855 to 1856, Bartholdi embarked on a life-changing trip throughout Europe and the Middle East with some fellow artists. When they visited the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, Bartholdi discovered his passion for large-scale public monuments and colossal sculptures. In 1869, the Egyptian government expressed interest in designing a lighthouse for the Suez Canal. Eager and excited, Bartholdi designed a colossal statue of a robed woman holding a torch, which he called Egypt (or Progress) Brings Light to Asia. When he attended the canal's inauguration, however, Bartholdi was informed that he would not be able to proceed with the lighthouse. Although disappointed, Bartholdi received a second chance to design a colossal statue. In 1865, Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a monument representing freedom and democracy be created for the United States. Bartholdi was a great supporter of Laboulaye's idea and in 1870 he began designing the Statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World."   Bartholdi's early sketch NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, STATUE OF LIBERTY NM In the first few years after the Statue's conception, Bartholdi made a number of trips to the U.S. The moment he first entered New York harbor by ship, he spotted the location where he knew the Statue must stand - Bedloe's Island. Bartholdi saw New York as the gateway to America and it was at Bedloe's Island that Bartholdi envisioned the Statue rising out of the star-shaped Fort Wood. Bartholdi also used his trips to stir up support for the Statue - both ideologically and financially. When he returned to Paris in 1872, Bartholdi used his American contacts to assist Edouard de Laboulaye in creating the Franco-American Union in Paris which raised 400,000 francs to fund the construction of the Statue. Bartholdi visited the United States once more in 1876 to display the Statue's massive arm and torch at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Afterwards the pieces were displayed in Madison Square Park, New York City until 1882 to assist in fundraising. Additionally, Bartholdi assisted with setting up the American Committee for the Statue of Liberty for fundraising in the United States for the pedestal.   NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, STATUE OF LIBERTY NM   The Statue was fully constructed in Paris and presented by the Franco American Union to the United States Ambassador in 1884. In 1886, Bartholdi oversaw the Statue's assembly in New York and participated in its inauguration. At the ceremony, Bartholdi was presented with the key to the city and later climbed the Statue to release the tricolor French flag that veiled Liberty's face. Bartholdi died of tuberculosis in 1904.
Mount Rushmore And Crazy Horse: Discovering The Spirit Of The Black Hills Mount Rushmore And Crazy Horse: Discovering The Spirit Of The Black Hills Ellen Von Weigand Resting among the awe-inspiring Black Hills of South Dakota , Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse tell the complex story of the founding of American democracy. Their co-existence within these mountains, the sacred lands of the Great Sioux Nation, is highly symbolic of the controversy surrounding European settlers’ brutal conquering of Native American land.   © United States Government Officer/WikiCommons   Carved out of the side of a granite mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota , Mount Rushmore was built as a memorial to the story of democracy in America . The country’s most famous monument is visited by nearly two million people each year; many come for its impressive scale and astounding beauty and leave with a new understanding of the spiritual significance of this land. What is often lost when one considers Mount Rushmore outside of the context of the Black Hills, is the sculpture’s symbolic ties to the Native American tribes who once lived within this stunning expanse of country.   The idea to build a memorial dedicated to four of the greatest American presidents was conceived of by Doane Robinson of the South Dakota Historical Society in order to attract tourism to the state. He approached the artist Gutzon Borglum to craft the design for the project, who subsequently selected as a site the piece of mountain known to the Native American Indians as the Six Grandfathers. During a 14-year period workers buldozed, blazed and chiselled the towering 60-ft tall heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln into the fabric of the earth’s surface. Started in October of 1927, Borglum spent the remaining years of his life dedicated to his masterpiece, until his death in 1941.   Gutzon Borglum. © Unidentified Photographer/WikiCommons The artist, son of Mormon Danish immigrants who practiced religious polygamy, selected the four figures for their symbolic significance. George Washington was chosen for his commitment to the independence of the country, Thomas Jefferson for his struggle to create a government for and by the people, Abraham Lincoln for his ideas on equality and dedication to the union, and Theodore Roosevelt for his active role in United States foreign affairs. The monument is truly American in its ardor, immensity and chosen subject matter. Yet this iconic mountain has a complex history and is seen by many as a looming reminder of the white man’s betrayal of the Native American people.   Conflict between the American government and the Lakota tribes of the Great Sioux Nation, long time occupiers of the Paha Sapa, or the Black Hills, lasted longer than any other of the American Westward conquest. An 1864 treaty made these sacred hills part of the Great Sioux Reservation, but the presence of gold in the area lead to the complete disregard of this agreement, as General Custer brought in the gold rush in 1874.   In 1948 Lakota chief Standing Bear commissioned an alternative sculpture just a few miles from the site of Mount Rushmore. He did so stating his desire to let the “white man know, that the red man has great heroes too.” The sculpture, depicting revered Lakota chief Crazy Horse , will stand at 563 ft high and 641 long once completed, and will exist as the largest monument in the world.   Choosing  Polish -American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski for the task, Standing Bear requested that the endeavor be a non-profit, educational and cultural humanitarian project, financed by donations of the public rather than through government funding. Although the US government twice offered sums of 10 million dollars’ worth of federal aid, Ziolkowski kept his word to the Lakota chief, and denied the gift. In addition to the sculpture itself, the humanitarian vision for the site includes the Indian Museum of North America , as well as the University and medical training centre for the North American Indian. Ziolkowski initia
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In what year did the Relief of Mafeking take place during the Boer War?
The Siege of Mafeking - The Boer War The Boer War War: The Boer War Date: 14th October 1899 to 16th May 1900. Place: Mafeking lies on the railway north to Rhodesia in the Northern tip of Cape Colony in South Africa near to the Bechuanaland border. Combatants: British against the Boers. Generals: Colonel Robert Baden-Powell against General Cronje and from November 1899 General Snyman. Size of the armies: 1,500 British colonial troops against initially7,500 Boers reduced in November 1899 to 1,500. Uniforms, arms and equipment: The Boer War was a serious jolt for the British Army. At the outbreak of the war British tactics were appropriate for the use of single shot firearms, fired in volleys controlled by company and battalion officers; the troops fighting in close order. The need for tight formations had been emphasised time and again in colonial fighting. In the Zulu and Sudan Wars overwhelming enemy numbers armed principally with stabbing weapons were easily kept at a distance by such tactics; but, as at Isandlwana, would overrun a loosely formed force. These tactics had to be entirely rethought in battle against the Boers armed with modern weapons. In the months before hostilities the Boer commandant general, General Joubert, bought 30,000 Mauser magazine rifles and a number of modern field guns and automatic weapons from the German armaments manufacturer Krupp and the French firm Creusot. The commandoes, without formal discipline, welded into a fighting force through a strong sense of community and dislike for the British. Field Cornets led burghers by personal influence not through any military code. The Boers did not adopt military formation in battle, instinctively fighting from whatever cover there might be. The preponderance were countrymen, running their farms from the back of a pony with a rifle in one hand. These rural Boers brought a life time of marksmanship to the war, an important edge, further exploited by Joubert’s consignment of magazine rifles. Viljoen is said to have coined the aphorism “Through God and the Mauser”. With strong fieldcraft skills and high mobility the Boers were natural mounted infantry. The urban burghers and foreign volunteers readily adopted the fighting methods of the rest of the army. Other than in the regular uniformed Staats Artillery and police units, the Boers wore their every day civilian clothes on campaign. After the first month the Boers lost their numerical superiority, spending the rest of the formal war on the defensive against British forces that regularly outnumbered them. British tactics, little changed from the Crimea, used at Modder River, Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop were incapable of winning battles against entrenched troops armed with modern magazine rifles. Every British commander made the same mistake; Buller; Methuen, Roberts and Kitchener. When General Kelly-Kenny attempted to winkle Cronje’s commandoes out of their riverside entrenchments at Paardeburg using his artillery, Kitchener intervened and insisted on a battle of infantry assaults; with the same disastrous consequences as Colenso, Modder River, Magersfontein and Spion Kop. Some of the most successful British troops were the non-regular regiments; the City Imperial Volunteers, the South Africans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, who more easily broke from the habit of traditional European warfare, using their horses for transport rather than the charge, advancing by fire and manouevre in loose formations and making use of cover, rather than the formal advance into a storm of Mauser bullets. Uniform: The British regiments made an uncertain change into khaki uniforms in the years preceding the Boer War, with the topee helmet as tropical headgear. Highland regiments in Natal devised aprons to conceal coloured kilts and sporrans. By the end of the war the uniform of choice was a slouch
Michael Buerk Booking Agent - Contact NMP Live Agency Awards Hosting & Presenting About Books & DVDs Award-winning journalist Michael Buerk began his career with the Bromsgrove Weekly Messenger in 1967 and joined the BBC in 1970. His subsequent 20 years as a foreign correspondent took him to over 53 countries and included a four-year posting to South Africa at the height of apartheid, until he was asked to leave the country by the then government because of his uncompromising reporting. However, Michael Buerk is probably most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian famine in October 1984 which inspired the Band Aid charity record, and for which he was awarded the Golden Nymph award at the Monte Carlo festival for his reports on the famine from Korem in Ethiopia. Michael later said that the broadcast was one of "the most influential pieces of television ever broadcast prompting a surge of generosity across the world for Ethiopia that raised more than $130 million". In 1991 he was airlifted out of Addis Ababa after a munitions dump exploded, killing his Kenyan sound recordist, John Mathai, and injuring Mohammed Amin, the cameraman who had accompanied him to Ethiopia in 1984. By this time, he was turning his hand to presenting, and had become one of the main anchors for the BBC Nine O'Clock News. He also began presenting non-news programmes such as BBC1's 999, and on BBC Radio 4, the ethical debating programme, The Moral Maze, and interview series The Choice. Michael Buerk has won numerous awards including Radio Broadcaster of the Year, the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and the BAFTA News Award. He announced his retirement from news presenting at the end of 2002, although he continues presenting other programmes and making one-off films. He lives in Guildford with his wife, Christine and has two grown up sons. Below you'll find products by Michael Buerk which may be available for purchase. Click the image to view on Amazon’s website. Clients often like to purchase books and other merchandise as autographed give-aways at events where Michael Buerk is appearing. For bulk purchases, please speak with the Booking Agent handling your event. Contact NMP Live Ltd. www.nmplive.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1372 361 0048
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Who had a UK Top 10 chart hit in 1976 with 'Devil Woman'?
Cliff Richard Song Database - Cliff Richard - Devil Woman song analysis Produced By: Bruce Welch Engineered By: Tony Clark & John Barrett Performed By: Cliff Richard (vocals), Terry Britten (guitar), Alan Tarney (bass), Clem Cattini (drums), Graham Todd (keyboards), Tony Rivers (backing vocals), John Perry (backing vocals), Ken Gold (backing vocals) Initially Released On: I'm Nearly Famous LP album (1976 May � UK � EMI EMC 3122) Comments and Observations Recording the Song: Devil Woman was recorded at Abbey Road in London on September 8 and 9, 1975, at sessions which also produced the popular Miss You Nights song. It was the first session produced by Bruce Welch exclusively and the first session recording with backing vocalists Tony Rivers, John Perry and Ken Gold, whom Cliff would use for many years to come. (Despite what is written in the album's liner notes and various books, Tony Harding did not perform on the song.) The song had been presented to Cliff months earlier by writer Terry Britten, but Cliff had rejected it. It was at producer Bruce Welch's persistence that Cliff finally recorded the song. The song was presented to Cliff again at the same time as Miss You Nights and I Can't As For Any More Than You. It was at this point that Cliff finally agreed to recorded it, although he remained reluctant. It is unclear why Cliff was resistant to recording the song af first, but it has been suggested that he primarily did not like the lyrics and their fortune-telling theme. Bruce Welch persisted and Cliff finally relented after changing some of the lyrics to more overtly suggest that the "devil woman" was dangerous and should be avoided. It is unknown what the original lyrics were that Cliff changed. The lyrics as performed on the Kristine I'm A Song album, are sung in third person ("He's had nothing but bad luck..."), use the lyrics "I can see me a gypsy woman" instead of "I can see me a tall dark stranger" and "and he knew what he came there for" instead of and "I wonder what I came there for" in the second verse, and excludes the "stay away" and "look out" lyrics from the second bridge. It is known that Cliff added the "Stay away! Look out!" parts, however if this and the aforementioned changes are all that Cliff changed, then he changed very little at all for his version. He also likely changed the line to "I wonder what I came there for" which clearly obscures the meaning of what he, the singer, was doing there. During the recording, Tony Clark apparently enthused that the song would be a hit in America. Perhaps the other didn't believe him, but Tony's words turned to be prophetic. Releases: The song was released as a 7" single in the UK by EMI on May 1976 with stock number "EMI 2448" and having the Cliff Richard-penned song Love On (Shine On), a song unique to this single, on the B-side. It was also the 8th track on the I'm Nearly Famous album and the second single taken from that album (with the first being Miss You Nights). It is Cliff's 66th single release (approximately, as the counting of Cliff's singles varies depending upon how they are counted). The single was reissued in 1981 with the same stock number, but this time with an original picture sleeve and a new record label. It was released in the USA as a 7" single on a Rocket Record Company single (PIG-40574) with the same Love On (Shine On) song on the B-side and on the I'm Nearly Famous LP, the first Cliff LP release in the US since the Two A Penny soundtrack in 1968. Devil Woman was released during a period when Cliff's popularity and chart success were waning. It was the first top ten hit since 1973 and the third top ten hit of the 1970s. It entered the UK Top 50 chart on May 8, 1976, peaked at #9 on June 5, 1976, and spent 8 weeks in the chart. Although it was not a monster hit in the UK, it had big international success. It is also significant that it was a breakout hit for Cliff in the USA, being his first USA charting song since 1968's Congratulations (which peaked at a meager #99). It entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on
Blondie | Rolling Stone artists > B > Blondie > Bio Blondie Bio Blondie started as an ironic update of trashy 1960s pop. But by the end of the 1970s, they were far and away the most commercially successful and adventurous survivors of the New York punk scene, having released three platinum albums (Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat, and Autoamerican). In bleached-blond lead singer Deborah Harry, new wave's answer to Marilyn Monroe, the group had an international icon. The group's repertoire, written by Harry and boyfriend Chris Stein, inhabited the melodic side of punk and grew increasingly eclectic while Harry's deadpan delivery remained consistent. Born in Miami, Harry was adopted at age three months by Richard and Catherine Harry. She grew up in Hawthorne, New Jersey, and, after graduating from high school, moved to Manhattan. Harry joined a folk-rock band, the Wind in the Willows, which released one album for Capitol in 1968; she worked as a beautician, a Playboy bunny, and a barmaid at Max's Kansas City. In the mid-1970s she became the third lead singer of a glitter-rock band, the Stilettoes, which also included future Television bassist Fred Smith. Stein, a graduate of New York's School of Visual Arts, joined the band in October 1973, and he and Harry reshaped it, first as Angel and the Snakes, then as Blondie. By 1975 the band was appearing regularly at CBGB, home of the burgeoning punk underground. Its first single, "X Offender," was independently produced by Richard Gottehrer and Marty Thau, who sold it to Private Stock. The label released Blondie's debut, also produced by Gottehrer, in December 1976. The group expanded its cult following to the West Coast with shows at L.A.'s Whisky-a-Go-Go in February 1977 and opened for Iggy Pop on a national tour. A few months later, they made their British concert debut. In July, Gary Valentine (who wrote "[I'm Always Touched by Your] Presence Dear," a 1978 U.K. Top 10 hit) left the band to form his own trio, Gary Valentine and the Know, which broke up in spring 1980. In early 1978 Blondie's "Denis" hit Number Two in the U.K. Blondie signed with Chrysalis in October 1977. Mike Chapman, a veteran of glitter pop, produced Parallel Lines, which slowly made its way into the Top Ten, breaking first in markets outside the U.S. The disco-style "Heart of Glass" hit Number One in April 1979 and gave the group a platinum album. Blondie maintained its popularity and dabbled in black-originated styles, collaborating with Eurodisco producer Giorgio Moroder for "Call Me" (Number One, 1980) for the American Gigolo Soundtrack, covering the reggae tune "The Tide Is High" (Number One, 1980), and recording a song including an extended Debbie Harry rap, "Rapture" (Number One, 1981), for Autoamerican (Number Seven, 1980). Harry also did the rounds as a celebrity, including an endorsement of Gloria Vanderbilt designer jeans in 1980. As the group's success continued, there were reports that Stein and Harry were asserting more control. By 1981 some Blondie backing tracks were played by session musicians under Stein's direction. Burke produced the New York band Colors, and Destri released a solo album, Heart on a Wall, in 1982. In 1981 Harry released her solo KooKoo (Number 25). Produced under the direction of Chic's Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, KooKoo went gold. Harry also began acting, appearing off-Broadway in Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap (1983), in the films Union City (1979), Videodrome (1982), and John Waters' Hairspray (1988), in the television series Wiseguy, and in Showtime's Body Bags. Early in 1982 Infante brought suit against the group, claiming they were out to destroy his career by excluding him from group meetings, rehearsals, and recording sessions. The suit was settled out of court and Infante remained in the band. However, by late 1982, following a disastrous tour (Blondie was never known as a great live act), the group quietly disbanded. Harry and Stein's planned vacation from the music business stretched to a couple of years after he was felled by a ra
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"Who starred in the role of The Mariner in the 1995 film ""Waterworld""?"
Waterworld (1995) - IMDb IMDb 29 December 2016 2:33 AM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. Director: a list of 42 titles created 23 May 2012 a list of 41 titles created 12 Sep 2012 a list of 25 titles created 08 Sep 2014 a list of 39 titles created 06 Jan 2015 a list of 41 titles created 10 months ago Search for " Waterworld " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 8 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A nameless drifter dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America. Director: Kevin Costner When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw. Director: Kevin Reynolds A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's. Director: Mick Jackson Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. Director: Kevin Costner A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend. Director: Ron Shelton Edit Storyline The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. Several different societies exist. The Mariner falls from his customary and solitary existence into having to care for a woman and a young girl while being pursued by the evil forces of the Deacon. Written by Robbie Smith <robsmith@u.washington.edu> Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning. Genres: Rated PG-13 for some intense scenes of action violence, brief nudity and language | See all certifications  » Parents Guide: 28 July 1995 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Waterworld: Mundo acuático See more  » Filming Locations: Anna Paquin was the first choice to play Enola. See more » Goofs While escaping the Smokers at the trading station Mariner heels the boat to raise one hull out of the water and escape the net. Both would need to be raised (impossible) to clear the net dragged by opposing sets of jet skis. See more » Quotes Depth Gauge : [Sees the Mariner's lit flare about to fall on the oil. An end to his miserable existence] Oh, thank God! [Kaboom] There are no opening credits except the title. See more » Connections (Arizona) – See all my reviews it's a shame so many people spent their time running their mouths rather than watching the movie. The story isn't new (what story is?) but its' well done, BIG color, BIG scenes,a touch of serious, a touch of humor, clear cut good guy, clear cut BAD guys with a few "grey guys" thrown in the middle. Costner is always a variable. When the right script hits, no one is better, otherwise it's pretty much a monotone. FORTUNATELY, this is the kind of script where the dead pan, monosyllabic Good Guy works just fine. It's a shame the "experts" (i.e. the critics who create nothing) trashed this one. Even if it were the worst movie ever made, Costner would have been contributing more the "creative world" than ANY critic will in their entire lives. geoff beneze 60 of 80 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you? Yes
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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"What is the sequel to Robert Grave's novel ""I Claudius""?"
Barry Unsworth on the Claudius books of Robert Graves | Books | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close The success of Goodbye to All That, his memoirs of the first world war, enabled Robert Graves to quit the industrial civilisation he so much detested for a simpler style of life. In the year the book was published, 1929, he and the American poet Laura Riding went to Majorca and the island became his permanent home. It was in his early years here that the Claudius books were written, appearing in 1934, when his reputation as a poet was already established. They were brought out by Penguin in 1943 and have enjoyed continuous success ever since. How Graves came to fasten on Claudius as his narrator I have no means of knowing, whether it was after long deliberation or came as a shaft of light. But it is hard to imagine a better vehicle for recounting the first half-century of Imperial Rome - a chronicler who lived at the very centre of its far from healthy heart. Others lived there with him but none of them would have done. His grand-uncle Augustus, founder of the Empire, was too much concerned with promulgating his own glory and establishing the central authority of the state to give us more than propaganda; his cruel and gloomy uncle Tiberius was too secretive to make any kind of autobiographer; it could hardly have been his demented predecessor Caligula, who believed himself to be a god, or the posturing and perverted Nero who followed. No, Claudius is the only one in all that company who we can believe in as a chronicler, the only one who would have been capable of the detachment and introspection needed. He was an outsider, always a good thing in a writer. Childhood illness left him with a permanent limp, he had a speech impediment that earned him general derision and he suffered from acute abdominal pains all his life. "Cripple, stammerer, fool of the family," as he calls himself. He was in fact regarded as little better than an idiot by the imperial family, and left to his own devices. This was the saving of him, of course. In that world of murderous power struggle, no one took him seriously as a rival, no one thought him worth killing. This enabled him to live to the advanced age of 51 before succeeding to the purple, and it was his own character, timorous certainly, but quick-witted and surprisingly firm in emergencies, that enabled him to survive 13 years as emperor and so to become, in the words Graves gives him, the recorder of his own life and times. He was otherwise qualified too. In his lonely and neglected childhood he took naturally to study, encouraged in this by the historian Livy, who was one of the few to recognise his talents. He became a historian in his own right, and one of astonishing industry - he wrote 20 volumes of Etruscan and a further eight of Carthaginian history, all in Greek, plus an autobiography, a treatise on the Roman alphabet and an essay on dice-playing, to which it seems he was addicted. Not one syllable of all this has survived. All we have is a couple of letters and a speech in the Senate to the Conscript Fathers, urging them to extend Roman citizenship to provincials. (He was interrupted, even heckled, but bore it with patience.) It is not enough for us to form any judgment of his merits as a historian or his qualities as a stylist. It is Graves that gives him a voice, and what a voice it is, garrulous, digressive, spiced with gossip and scandal, at the same time strangely dispassionate and sober. There is a range of tone here that enables Claudius, in his persona as professional historian, to deal with matters widely diverse, to be equally convincing whether talking about the waste and excess of military triumphs, the fate of Varus and his regiments in the forests of Germany, or the endless intriguing for power and influence among the members of the imperial family. To take one example among many of the capacity of the style to encompass incongruous elements, often within a short space, there is the account of the assassination of Caligula in 41 AD and the immediate hailing of Cl
Derek Jacobi returns to I, Claudius after 34 years, in new Radio 4 series | Television & radio | The Guardian The Observer Derek Jacobi returns to I, Claudius after 34 years, in new Radio 4 series Star of landmark 1976 BBC dramatisation will perform on radio, not TV – but this time he will take the role of the emperor Augustus Derek Jacobi in the ground-breaking 1976 BBC production of I, Claudius. Photograph: BBC/Allstar Picture Library Vanessa Thorpe , arts and media correspondent Saturday 11 September 2010 19.05 EDT First published on Saturday 11 September 2010 19.05 EDT Close This article is 6 years old Two great Roman emperors shook hands in London's Broadcasting House on Friday in a moment of theatrical history. Sir Derek Jacobi , the actor who made his name in television in the title role of the groundbreaking BBC series I, Claudius, has returned to Robert Graves's saga of ancient Rome for a new serialisation on BBC Radio 4 in November. Thirty-four years on, Jacobi is to play the senior role of the emperor Augustus, while Tom Goodman-Hill will take the part for which Jacobi became famous in 1976. After meeting Jacobi in the radio studio, Goodman-Hill, who starred in the BBC1 series The Devil's Whore, had to play an early scene in which a stammering, limping Claudius is brushed aside by Augustus. "I was excited and nervous about this," he said afterwards. "I got here very early and I could have been a bundle of nerves if Derek had not been so friendly." The actor admitted that he heard the stuttering voice of Jacobi's Claudius inside his head as he performed: "How could it possibly not be there?" Jacobi, 71, said that he realised the new Claudius might be daunted, but added: "Think what it is like for me as Augustus. I have Brian Blessed on my shoulder! He played the role when I was Claudius, and I can hear his voice all the time." Although Jacobi was an acclaimed stage actor and founder member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, the television part of Claudius propelled him into film work and took him to Broadway. "It is absolutely due to Claudius that I got a foothold in America and, of course, it made a big difference to my parents too,' he said. "When I was with the National Theatre I might as well have been with the National Coal Board as far as they were concerned, but once I was being beamed into every home it was clear what I was doing. "A lady came up to me in Los Angeles some years ago and said she had been a great fan of I, Claudius and that I had made her a lot of money. She said she produced a TV series called Dynasty and that it was all based on I, Claudius."
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Which instrument has a name that is Italian for ‘small’?
ATLAS of Plucked Instruments - mandolins mandolins Tube mandolins On this page you find the instruments of the mandolin type, with their much confusing names; therefore I am not sure that all names here are correct. First the historical gut-string mandolinos , starting with the gittern from the Middle Ages, to the 1900s - when they more or less disappeared. Then the separate variety of steel-string mandolins , with a variety of names. For a short story about the history of the mandolinos and mandolins see McDonald . Related instruments are the steel-string cittern , which you can find on the next page.   L=500 B=130 H=50mm scale 320mm Tube gittern The gittern is a small medieval lute-like instrument. It can be recognized on old pictures by its smaller size, carved body, and sickle shaped tuning head. Other spellings are : guittern or quintern. The gittern is carved from one block of wood, with a thin wooden front and a sickle shaped peghead. The soundhole is covered with a rosette (as were all early instruments) usually with delicate wood/ parchment cuttings. Although flush with it, the fingerboard is usually made of different wood from the (soft) front. The frets are tied on gut. The open peg head has pegs on both sides, and the end of the peghead is often decorated with a carving of an animal head. The strings are fastened to the bridge, which is glued to the front. The gittern was made in several sizes. It has 3 or 4 courses of gut strings which could be tuned like d' g' d'' g''. Playing is with a quill plectrum, to accompany singing. The name of the "gittern" went to the small 4-course renaissance guitar (see guitars early ), while the shape was used for mandolinos (see under). Notice the similarity with the original Arabian lute gabusi or qanbus (see Africa ) : carved from one piece of wood, pear shaped, sickle shaped peghead, 4 courses.   Tube mandore (also another general name for the gut-string mandolinos) During the Renaissance the gittern changed : from a carved body to a small lute-like body (made of staves). It resembles very much a small lute, with a carved rosette, bridge glued to the front, fingerboard flush with the front and tied-on gut frets. Examples in museums show a wide variety in body shape. The mandore is much smaller than a lute (about half the stringlength) and the peghead is sickle-shaped, usually ending in a square on the front. It has usually 4, but sometimes up to 6 gut courses and was played (like the lute) with the fingers, not with a plectrum. Tuning would be c' g' c" g", or g d' g' d". In France this instrument was called mandore and in Italy mandola.     Note that the name mandola was later also used for a larger size mandolin and that the name mandore later was used for a French mandolino. And in the 18th century in Germany a large lute would be called mandora (or gallichon).   Tube Vivaldi concerto (ar)mandolino From around 1650s the mandolino developed from the mandore. It is a smaller version of it. Sometimes it is called pandurine or armandolino (after the shape of almonds), and often baroque mandolin (to make clear the difference with the normal mandolin). In general : a mandolino has a small slender lute-like body with a sickle-shaped tuning-head (ending in a square) with pegs from both sides. The wide fingerboard is flush with the front and it has tied-on gut frets. The rosette is carved in the front (or inserted layered parchment), and the bridge is glued to the front. It does not have a scratch-plate. It usually has 4 to 6 courses of gut strings, with a tuning : (gg) (bb) e'e' a'a' d"d" g"g". The mandolino was usually played with the fingers a
Instrument Lab | ArtsAlive.ca Music Percussions The Woodwind Section Woodwinds are basically tubes pierced with holes. They produce sound through the vibration of the air column inside the tube. Different notes are produced by blowing in the tube while covering some of the holes. The longer the column of air that is set in vibration, the lower the pitch of the note. Some woodwinds have reeds. A reed is a thin piece of cane that vibrates when blown across. Piccolo A tiny flute that plays an octave (eight notes) higher than a full-sized flute Made of wood, silver or plastic Played out to the side, not down like a recorder Has the highest range in the woodwind family Is the smallest member of the woodwind family Flute A cylindrical tube closed at one end One end has a side hole which the player blows across, making the column of air inside vibrate Holes along the instrument are closed by fingers on keys to produce the tone Has a range from middle B or C upward for three octaves Generally made of silver, occasionally gold, platinum or wood is used Older flutes were generally made of wood Does not have a reed A cylindrical tube closed by a single reed at one end A single reed woodwind Most often made of African hard wood One of the most versatile of all orchestra instruments Has a very expressive tone Has the largest range of all the woodwinds Made of grenadilla or rosewood Consists of a conical pipe, narrower at the top than at the bottom Has three sections: top joint, lower joint, and bell Has a double reed which is placed in the top end of the instrument Has nearly a three octave range Produces a high, penetrating, melancholy tone Evolved out of the shawm and other ancient middle-eastern instruments Gives the tuning "A" at the beginning of the concert Bassoon A conical bore double reed instrument, open at both ends The natural bass of the woodwind family - yet has three distinct tone characteristics in the low, tenor and high registers Has two side by side tubes with a "U" tube at the bottom (which takes the lowest notes of the bassoon to the "top" of the instrument) Made of Yugoslavian maple wood Its lowest tones provide a solid base for orchestra harmony
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Le Havre | Definition, meaning & more | Collins Dictionary Le Havre (lə ˈhɑːvrə , French lə ɑvrə) Definitions noun a port in N France, on the English Channel at the mouth of the River Seine : transatlantic trade ; oil refining . Pop: 185 311 (2006) Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Le Havre in American English (lə ˈhɑvrə ; lə hävˈrə; ˈhɑvər ; hävˈər; French ləˈavʀ(ə); ləȧˈvr') Definitions seaport in NW France, on the English Channel: pop. 196,000 Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, compiled by the editors of Webster’s New World Dictionaries. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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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Eat - definition of eat by The Free Dictionary Eat - definition of eat by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/eat v. ate (āt), eat·en (ēt′n), eat·ing, eats v.tr. 1. a. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. b. To take in and absorb as food: a plant that eats insects; a cell that eats bacteria. c. To include habitually or by preference in one's diet: a bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds; stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor. 2. To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting: "Covering news in the field eats money" (George F. Will). 3. To erode or corrode: waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part. 4. To produce by eating: Moths ate holes in our sweaters. 5. Slang To absorb the cost or expense of: "You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios" (Marlys Harris). 6. Informal To bother or annoy: What's eating him? 7. Vulgar slang To perform cunnilingus or anilingus on. Often used with out. v.intr. a. To consume food. b. To have or take a meal. 2. To exercise a consuming or eroding effect: a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits. 3. To cause persistent annoyance or distress: "How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?" (Howard Kaplan). Phrasal Verb: 1. To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly: She really eats up the publicity. 2. To believe without question: He'll eat up whatever the broker tells him. Idioms: To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat. eat (one's) heart out 1. To feel bitter anguish or grief. 2. To be consumed by jealousy. eat (one's) words To retract something that one has said. eat out of (someone's) hand To be manipulated or dominated by another. eat (someone) alive Slang To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment. [Middle English eten, from Old English etan; see ed- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] eat′er n. Synonyms: eat, consume, devour, ingest These verbs mean to take food into the body by the mouth: ate a hearty dinner; greedily consumed the sandwich; hyenas devouring their prey; whales ingesting krill. eat (iːt) vb, eats, eating, ate or eaten 1. (Physiology) to take into the mouth and swallow (food, etc), esp after biting and chewing 2. (tr; often foll by away or up) to destroy as if by eating: the damp had eaten away the woodwork. 3. (often foll by into) to use up or waste: taxes ate into his inheritance. 4. (often foll by: into or through) to make (a hole, passage, etc) by eating or gnawing: rats ate through the floor. 5. to take or have (a meal or meals): we always eat at six. 6. (tr) to include as part of one's diet: he doesn't eat fish. 7. (tr) informal to cause to worry; make anxious: what's eating you?. 8. (tr) slang to perform cunnilingus or fellatio upon 9. I'll eat my hat if informal I will be greatly surprised if (something happens that proves me wrong) 10. eat one's heart out to brood or pine with grief or longing 11. eat one's words to take back something said; recant; retract 12. eat out of someone's hand to be entirely obedient to someone 13. eat someone out of house and home to ruin someone, esp one's parent or one's host, by consuming all his food [Old English etan; related to Gothic itan, Old High German ezzan, Latin edere, Greek edein, Sanskrit admi] ˈeater n [from E(ast) A(frica) T(anganyika) or E(ast) A(frica) Z(anzibar)] eat v. ate (eɪt; esp. Brit. ɛt) eat•en (ˈit n) eat•ing, v.t. 1. to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). 2. to consume gradually; wear away; corrode. 3. to use up, esp. wastefully (often fol. by away, into, or up): Unexpected expenses ate up their savings. 4. to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion. 5. to ravage or devastate. 6. to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs. 7. to cause anxiety or irritation in; worry; bother: What's eating you now? v.i. 8. to consume food; have a meal. 9. to make
Bestiary | Theoi Greek Mythology The fantastic creatures of Greek mythology and legend can be divided into eight broad categories : 1. MYTHICAL MONSTERS Awful humanoid creatures. These included monsters such as the Gorgons and Echidna. 2. MYTHICAL HYBRIDS Creatures which combine human and animal forms or various animals. These include creatures such as the Centaur (Horse-Man), Sphinx (Lion-Woman), Hippocamp (Fish-Horse), and Chimaera (Lion-Goat-Snake). 3. MYTHICAL ANIMALS Normal animals with some fantastic attribute. Examples include the winged horse Pegasus, the giant Erymanthian Boar, the fire-breathing Bulls of Colchis, and the inescapable hunting-dog Laelaps. 4. DRAGONS A breed of serpentine monsters, usually equipped with some magical power. They include creatures such as the Hydra, the Dragon of the Golden Fleece, Python, the Ethiopian Sea-Monster and the she-dragon Echidna. 5. GIANTS Gigantic men, often with fantastic features or abilities. A few examples are the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires, the one-eyed Cyclopes, the water-walking hunter Orion, the wrestler Antaeus, and the monstrous Typhon. 6. GHOSTS & DEMONS Creatures from the underworld which haunted the earth. They included the Empusae, Erinyes, Vampires and haunting ghosts of the dead. Fabulous tribes of men which were believed to inhabit the lands of Terra Incognita, the "Unknown Earth." Examples of these are the Pygmies, the one-legged Sciapods, dog-headed Cynocephali, headless Blemmyae, and one-eyed Arimaspians. BESTIARY MEDUSA Greek myth and legend is filled with a wide variety of monsters and creatures ranging from Dragons, Giants, Demons and Ghosts, to multiformed creatures such as the Sphinx, Minotaur, Centaurs, Manticores and Griffins. There were also many fabulous animals such as the Nemean Lion, golden-fleeced Ram and winged horse Pegasus, not to mention the creatures of legend such as the Phoenix, Unicorns (Monocerata). Even amongst the tribes of man, myth spoke of strange peoples inhabiting the far reaches of the earth such as the hopping Umbrella-Foots, the one-eyed Arimaspians, the Dog-Headed men, and the puny Pygmies. AMPHISBAENAE see Beasts, African AUTOMOTONS (Automotones) Creatures crafted out of metal and endowed with life by the smith-god Hephaestus. BULLS, BRONZE (Tauroi Khalkeoi) Four fire-breathing, bronze bulls which Hephaestus crafted for King Aeetes of Colchis. CELEDONES (Keledones) Golden singing maidens which Hephaistos crafted for the first temple of Apollo at Delphi. DOGS, GOLD & SILVER (Kuones Khryseos Argyreos) A pair of gold and silver dogs which Hephaestus crafted for King Alcinous of the Phaeacians. HORSES, CABEIRIAN (Hippoi Kabeirikoi) A pair of metallic, fire-breathing horses owned by the twin Cabiri gods. MAIDENS, GOLDEN (Kourai Khryseai) Four golden maidens which Hephaestus crafted as his own attendants. TALOS A bronze giant which Hephaestus crafted for Queen Europa of Crete to patrol the borders of her island. BASILISCS see Beasts, African BEASTS, AFRICAN (Theres Aithiopes) The semi-legendary land of Ethiopia (Sub-saharan Africa) was the home of many fabulous beasts. AMPHISBAENAE (Amphisbainai) Saharan snakes with two heads, one at each end of the body. BASILISCS (Basiliskoi) Deadly serpents which killed by touch. BULLS, ETHIOPIAN (Tauroi Aithiopikoi) Gigantic African bulls whose red hides were impervious to steel. CATOBLEPAS (Katoblepon) African hoofed animals whose downward looking head, when raised, could kill man with a gaze or with its noxious breath. DRAGONS, ETHIOPIAN (Drakones Aithiopikoi) Gigantic African serpents. LEUCROCOTAE (Leukrokota) An animals with a powerful jaw of bone in place of teeth, which could imitate human voices to lure it prey. PEGASI, ETHIOPIAN (Pegasoi Aithiopikoi) The winged horses of Ethiopia who had a single horn growing from their forehead. SATYRS, ISLAND (Satyroi Nesioi) Ape-like satyrs native to certain islands off the African coast. SATYRS, LIBYAN (Satyroi Libyes) Monkey-like satyrs who lived in the forest of Mount Atlas. SPHINXES, ETHIOPIAN (Sphinxes Aithiopikoi) Women-headed A
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Menstruation and the menstrual cycle | womenshealth.gov Menstruation and the menstrual cycle Menstruation and the menstrual cycle To receive Publications email updates Enter email Submit Menstruation and the menstrual cycle Menstruation is a woman's monthly bleeding. When you menstruate, your body sheds the lining of the uterus (womb). Learn how the menstrual cycle works and what to do if you have painful or irregular periods. Expand all Collapse all What is menstruation? Menstruation (men-STRAY-shuhn) is a woman's monthly bleeding. When you menstruate, your body sheds the lining of the uterus (womb). Menstrual blood flows from the uterus through the small opening in the cervix and passes out of the body through the vagina ( see how the menstrual cycle works below ). Most menstrual periods last from 3 to 5 days. What is the menstrual cycle? When periods (menstruations) come regularly, this is called the menstrual cycle. Having regular menstrual cycles is a sign that important parts of your body are working normally. The menstrual cycle provides important body chemicals, called hormones, to keep you healthy. It also prepares your body for pregnancy each month. A cycle is counted from the first day of 1 period to the first day of the next period. The average menstrual cycle is 28 days long. Cycles can range anywhere from 21 to 35 days in adults and from 21 to 45 days in young teens. The rise and fall of levels of hormones during the month control the menstrual cycle. What happens during the menstrual cycle? In the first half of the cycle, levels of estrogen (the "female hormone") start to rise. Estrogen plays an important role in keeping you healthy, especially by helping you to build strong bones and to help keep them strong as you get older. Estrogen also makes the lining of the uterus (womb) grow and thicken. This lining of the womb is a place that will nourish the embryo if a pregnancy occurs. At the same time the lining of the womb is growing, an egg, or ovum, in one of the ovaries starts to mature. At about day 14 of an average 28-day cycle, the egg leaves the ovary. This is called ovulation. After the egg has left the ovary, it travels through the fallopian tube to the uterus. Hormone levels rise and help prepare the uterine lining for pregnancy. A woman is most likely to get pregnant during the 3 days before or on the day of ovulation. Keep in mind, women with cycles that are shorter or longer than average may ovulate before or after day 14. A woman becomes pregnant if the egg is fertilized by a man's sperm cell and attaches to the uterine wall. If the egg is not fertilized, it will break apart. Then, hormone levels drop, and the thickened lining of the uterus is shed during the menstrual period. See how the menstrual cycle works. What is a typical menstrual period like? During your period, you shed the thickened uterine lining and extra blood through the vagina. Your period may not be the same every month. It may also be different than other women's periods. Periods can be light, moderate, or heavy in terms of how much blood comes out of the vagina. This is called menstrual flow. The length of the period also varies. Most periods last from 3 to 5 days. But, anywhere from 2 to 7 days is normal. For the first few years after menstruation begins, longer cycles are common. A woman's cycle tends to shorten and become more regular with age. Most of the time, periods will be in the range of 21 to 35 days apart. What kinds of problems do women have with their periods? Women can have a range of problems with their periods, including pain, heavy bleeding, and skipped periods. Amenorrhea (ay-men-uh-REE-uh) — the lack of a menstrual period. This term is used to describe the absence of a period in: Young women who haven't started menstruating by age 15 Women and girls who haven't had a period for 90 days, even if they haven't been menstruating for long Causes can include: Stress Serious medical conditions in need of treatment As above, when your menstrual cycles come regularly, this means that important parts of your body are
What sport used the term "home run" long before baseball?*Cricket Who was the f - Pastebin.com What sport used the term "home run" long before baseball?*Cricket Who was the first U.S. volleyball player to win three Olympic gold medals?*Karch Kiraly What was the only team to win two World Series in the 1980's?*The Los Angeles Dodgers What NFL team is known as the "ain'ts" when on a losing streak?*The New Orleans Saints What's an NBA player deemed to be if he's received the Maurice Podoloff Trophy?*The most valuable player What Washington Capitals goalie earned the nicknames "Ace" and "Net Detective"?*Jim Carey What NBA team plays home games in the Alamo dome?*The San Antonio Spurs Who graciously switched to number 77 so Phil Esposito's number 7 could be retired in Boston Garden?*Raymond Bourque What company's logo is called the "swoosh"?*Nike's What Rd Sox catcher's erect posture earned him the clubhouse nickname "Frankenstein"?*Carlton Fisk's What sport did Herve Filion top with a record of 14,084 wins?*Harness racing What team hired the NFL's first professional cheerleading squad, in 1972?*The Dallas Cowboys What Native American language was Super Bowl XXX the first to be broadcast in?*Navajo What nickname do boxing fans call 300-pound Eric Esch, King of the Four-Rounders?*Butterbean What 1995 World Series team were both picketed by the American Indian Movement?*The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians What diet drink was hyped by Coca-Cola for having only only calorie, in 1963?*Tab What comic actor scored huge sales with his Bad Golf Made Easy instructional videos?*Leslie Nielsen What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold in basketball, soccer and softball?*The U.S What Grand Slam golf tournament has the most clubhousers sipping mint juleps?*The Masters Who is the only tennis player to have won each of the four grand slam events at least four times?*Steffi Graf What decade saw names first appear on the backs of NFL jerseys?*The 1960's Who was able to set NFL rushing records because of his "big but" according to Chicago Bears trainer Frank Caito?*Walter Payton What position must college footballers play to receive the Davey O'Brien Award?*Quarterback What disorder did Muhammad Ali develop after years of catching blows?*Parkinson's syndrome What are the only three European countries to have won soccer's World Cup?*England, Italy, West Germany What is  the common term for the tennis ailment "lateral humeral epicondylitis"?*Tennis Elbow What racing competition became a best-of-nine series in 1995?*The America's Cup Who was the first athlete to rap at a Pro Bowl musical gala in 1995?*Deion Sanders What woman won five U.S. figure skating titles from 6 to 173, but never an Olympic gold medal?*Janet Lynn Who was the first female jockey to win five races in one day at a New York track?*Julie Krone What teams played in the first all-California Super Bowl?*The San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total career runs?*Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth What Indiana Pacer did Knicks fan Spike Lee anger during the 1994 playoffs by calling him "Cheryl"?*Reggie Miller What franchise has played in the most NBA finals since 1947?*Lakers What two NBA players won the MVP trophy three times each from 1986 through 1992?*Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan What player did the Boston Celtics draft between won-lost seasons of 29-53 and 61-21?*Larry Bird What Baltic country did Portland Trail Blazer Arvydas Sabonis play for at the 1996 Olympics?*Lithuania What NBA team became the first to defeat the Boston Celtics in 12 straight games, in 1995?*The New York Knicks Who was the first hoopster to win eight NBA scoring titles?*Michael Jordan What NBA team is known in China as "the Red Oxen"?*The Chicago Bulls Who was the last Boston Celtics coach to lead the team to two straight NBA titles?*Bill Russell What two NBA stars did Forbes list as the highest paid athletes for 1994?*Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal What NBA coach got cosmic by penning the Zen book Sacred Hoops: Spiri
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Dr. King's Assassination Home  » Events  » Dr. King's Assassination Dr. King's Assassination Background: On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. As news of King's death spread, violent riots broke out in African American neighborhoods in over one hundred cities across the United States. King, who was the nation's foremost civil rights leader, had returned to Memphis to lead a nonviolent march in support of the city's striking sanitation workers. On April 8, King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and the couple's four small children led a crowd estimated at forty thousand in a silent march through the streets of Memphis to honor the fallen leader and support the cause of the city's black sanitation workers. The next day, funerary rites for King were held in his hometown, Atlanta, Georgia. Following a nationally televised broadcast of his funeral service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's body was led three-and-a-half miles through the city's streets, with more than one hundred thousand mourners in tow, to Morehouse College where a second funeral service was performed. King's assassin, James Earl Ray, was apprehended by authorities in London, England after a two-month international manhunt. Upon his extradition to Tennessee, Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and was given a ninety-nine year jail sentence.
Martin Luther King, Jr. | National Archives Hire a Researcher Martin Luther King, Jr. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought together the nations most prominent civil rights leaders, along with tens of thousands of marchers, to press the United States government for equality. The culmination of this event was the influential and most memorable speech of Dr. King's career. Popularly known as the "I have a Dream" speech, the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced the Federal government to take more direct actions to more fully realize racial equality. Mister Maestro, Inc., and Twentieth Century Fox Records Company recorded the speech and offered the recording for sale. Dr. King and his attorneys claimed that the speech was copyrighted and the recording violated that copyright. The court found in favor of Dr. King. Among the papers filed in the case and available at the National Archives at New York City is a deposition given by Martin Luther King, Jr. and signed in his own hand. Educational Activities Discussion Questions: What was the official name for the event on August 28th, 1963? What does this title tell us about its focus? What organizations were involved in the the March on Washington? What does this tell us about the event? How does Martin Luther King, Jr. describe his writing process? What are the major issues of this case? In other words, what is Martin Luther King, Jr. disputing? How does Martin Luther King, Jr. describe his earlier speech on June 23rd in Detroit? How does Martin Luther King, Jr. compare and contrast the two "I have a dream..." speeches? What are the major similarities and differences?
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The Claret Jug is awarded to the winner of which competition?
The Open The Open The 146th Open Royal Birkdale  16th - 23rd July 2017 Birkdale 7° C The 146th Open Royal Birkdale 16-23 July 2017 The Claret Jug Explore the history of the Golf Champion Trophy, better known as the Claret Jug. The Claret Jug The Claret Jug, or to use its proper name, the Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year's winner of The Open. Yet it is not the original prize. When the Championship began at Prestwick in 1860, the winner was presented with the Challenge Belt, made of rich Moroccan leather, embellished with a silver buckle and emblems. The Challenge Belt The impetus to provide the Challenge Belt had come from the Earl of Eglinton and derived from his keen interest in medieval pageantry. He was pre-eminent in encouraging sport throughout the social spectrum and was a leading light in setting up The Open Championship. The Earl donated many trophies for competition, including a gold belt for competition among the Irvine Archers. The original Challenge Belt was purchased by the members of Prestwick Golf Club. According to the first rule of the new golf competition: “The party winning the belt shall always leave the belt with the treasurer of the club until he produces a guarantee to the satisfaction of the above committee that the belt shall be safely kept and laid on the table at the next meeting to compete for it until it becomes the property of the winner by being won three times in succession. A Brief History 1860 - The first Open takes place at Prestwick Golf Club.  Winner presented with the Challenge Belt. 1872 - Three clubs to host The Open contribute £10 each towards a new trophy - a silver claret jug. The 1872 winner received a medal. 1873 - The Golf Champion Trophy is made by Mackay Cunningham & Company. Tom Kidd was the first Champion to receive the new Claret Jug but the 1872 winner, Tom Morris Junior, was the first name engraved on it. 1927 - Agreement to retain the original Claret Jug and present future Champions with a replica. The search for a new trophy - the Silver Claret Jug In 1870, just 10 years after The Open Championship began, Tom Morris Junior won for the third consecutive time and became the owner of the belt. The future direction of the Championship was discussed at Prestwick Golf Club’s Spring Meeting in April 1871, during which a key proposal was put forward by Gilbert Mitchell Innes: “In contemplation of St Andrews, Musselburgh and other clubs joining in the purchase of a Belt to be played for over four or more greens it is not expedient for the club to provide a Belt to be played for solely at Prestwick.” The motion was passed, but no final decisions were reached about venues or the involvement of other clubs, with the result that The Open Championship was not played in 1871. Moves to revive the competition resumed the following year. The minutes of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, dated May 1, state that the green committee had been “empowered to enter into communication with other clubs with a view to effecting a revival of the Championship Belt, and they were authorised to contribute a sum not exceeding £15 from the funds of the club”. Agreement was finally reached on September 11, 1872 between the three clubs that were to host The Open — Prestwick, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club. They decided that the winner would receive a medal and that each of the three clubs would contribute £10 towards the cost of a new trophy, which was to be a silver claret jug, instead of another belt. Its proper name was to be The Golf Champion Trophy. These decisions were taken too late for the trophy to be presented to the 1872 Open Champion, who was once again Tom Morris Junior. Instead, he was awarded with a medal inscribed ‘The Golf Champion Trophy’. The Golf Champion Trophy The Golf Champion Trophy, now commonly referred to as the Claret Jug, was made by Mackay Cunningham & Company of Edinburgh and was hallmarked 1873. The first Open Champion to receive the new trophy was the 1873 winner, Tom Kidd, but Tom Morris Junior’s name was th
Poets Laureate of Great Britain Poets Laureate of Great Britain Poets Laureate of Great Britain by J. Zimmerman Several of the other Laureates were famous poets, particularly Ted Hughes , Robert Southey , John Masefield , Sir John Betjeman , Cecil Day-Lewis , and the current Laureate, Andrew Motion . History and responsibilities. In Great Britain, the Poet Laureate is: The realm's official poet. A member of the royal household. Charged with writing verses for court and national occasions (such as for a Royal Wedding or the New Year). Awarded the position for life. Chosen by the British reigning monarch, from a list of nominees that the Prime Minister compiles after a poet laureate dies. Shortly after the 1668, the position became the Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 1707, when The Act of Union created "Great Britain" as the political name of England, Scotland, and Wales. The name Laureate derives from the Latin laureatus ("crowned with laurel"). It comes from an ancient Roman tradition of honoring a person (especially a poet) who has shown excellence of achievement. The honor is signified by presenting the person with a wreath of laurel leaves. FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on the Poets Laureate of Great Britain. What does "Laureate" mean? Answer . Who was the best? Most frequently this is said to be Tennyson . John Dryden (1631-1700). Laureate 1668-88. Appointed in 1668 by King Charles II, who gave John Dryden a formal royal warrant that awarded him the official titles of Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal. This role continued under King James II. As a powerful satirist, Dryden was a strong advocate and spokesman for his monarch, and "the best poet, dramatist, translator and critic of the age" [ Levin in Verses of the Poets Laureate] In 1689, sacked [or fired] by William III for failing to take an oath of allegiance. Thomas Shadwell (1643?-1692). Laureate 1689-92. The successful dramatist Thomas Shadwell was chosen in large part because he was a Protestant Whig, essential to replace the Catholic Dryden. met an inglorious end in 1693, A weak poet, a heavy drinker, and an opium user, Shadwell died from an overdose of opium, which he took in part to relieve his gout. He was said to have found the laureateship unimportant. Disrespected by John Dryden , among others, for his poetry as well as for his politics. Shadwell wrote a yearly ode on the monarch's birthday, and introduced the tradition of writing a New Year ode; his odes are crashingly uninspired and mechanistic, as if written by an unusually dimwitted computer program. Nahum Tate (1652-1715). Laureate 1692-1715. Born in Dublin, Tate was awarded the Poet Laureate position (and its £100 per year) but the post of Historiographer Royal (and its annual £200) became a separate assignment. Tate is most known today for his authorship of the widely loved Christmas carol "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night". He is notorious for his (creative?) revision of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, giving it a happy ending. In response to public events, Tate wrote poems for victories against the French (1704), the Act of Union between the Parliaments of England and Scotland (1707), and the signing of the Peace of Utrecht with France (1713). Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718). Laureate 1715-18. Nicholas Rowe was celebrated as a dramatist rather than as a poet. The Poet Laureate's role was now general praise of the sovereign, rather than political and historical. In addition to the annual New Year ode, the Laureate acquired the duty of writing a birthday ode to the monarch, a practice which was to last over 100 years. Laurence Eusden (1688-1730). Eusden never published a book of poetry. His work is mediocre. Colley Cibber (1671-1757). The poetry of dramatist Colley Cibber was conscientious but not inspired. William Whitehead (1715-85). Laureate 1757-85. [The appointment was first offered to and declined by Thomas Gray.] William Whitehead (a respectable though perhaps dull dramatist) was good humored and amiable. For example, h
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"In the James Bond film ""From Russia with Love"" who played Bond girl Tatiana Romanova?"
Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Tatiana Romanova From Russia with Love (video game) Tatiana "Tania" Romanova ( Russian : Татьяна Романова) is a fictional Soviet army corporal who acts as bait in a plot to exact revenge on 007. Based on the character of the same name from Ian Fleming 's 1957 novel , Tania appeared in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love and was played by Italian actress  Daniela Bianchi , voiced by Barbara Jefford . The character would later appear in the film's 2005 video-game adaptation , voiced by Kari Wahlgren with the likeness of Bianchi. Contents [ show ] Film biography A corporal in Soviet Army Intelligence, Tatiana Romanova is assigned to work in the Soviet Embassy in Istanbul , Turkey as a cipher clerk. She originally intended to be a ballerina, but she had to drop out because she was just one inch too tall to qualify. She has a number of friends and is very popular, though she has had only three lovers. She likes the look of Bond, and when she sees him face-to-face she comments, "You're even nicer than your photograph", to which 007 replies "You're the most beautiful girl I have ever seen." Her commanding officer is Rosa Klebb — in the screenplay adaptation, she is secretly an agent for SPECTRE — who manipulates her into believing that she is on an important mission for her country, when she is in fact merely a pawn in the terrorist organization's latest bid to humiliate and scandalize the British Secret service. As with the novel, Romanova is a very dedicated woman, loyal to her country and eager to participate in what she believes is an important mission. She does, however, hesitate when she is required to meet Colonel Klebb, a mean and wicked woman who loves to play with the psyches of her prisoners by torturing them and then, when lost in pain, caressing them in a motherly way. Romanov fears Klebb and suffers when she reports to her for the first time, where she is interrogated by Klebb. After being told that her life depends on accepting the mission, she receives her briefing, a "true labor of love", according to Klebb. Once in Istanbul, she contacts Ali Kerim Bey and tells him her plans: she would willingly defect from the Soviet Union and take with her the precious Lektor only if James Bond assisted the operation. She claimed that she had fallen in love with the man from a picture she had seen in a secret file and wanted to live with him. James Bond meets Tanya. Both M and Bond believe this to be a trap, but the prize was high enough to go for it. They react just as the main brain behind the plot, chess champion Kronsteen , predicted. Bond then flies to Istanbul and contacts Bey. While they wait for the girl to show up, they spy on the Soviet headquarters and become involved in a racial dispute between a Gypsy tribe commanded by Vavra , and a gang of Bulgarian thieves lead by Krilencu , an old enemy of Bey. After the battle at the camp, Bond returns to his hotel room and finds Romanova walking naked across the room and getting into his bed, wearing only a black velvet choker. They make love but are secretly filmed by Klebb's minions via a one-way mirror. This tape is explicitly planned to be used to embarrass MI6 and humiliate Bond in revenge for the death of Dr. No . After meeting her again to verify the authenticity of her information, they blow up the Soviet embassy in Istanbul to cover their escape. With the help of Bey, they board the Orient Express and depart for Trieste and the Italian frontier. As a part of Kronsteen's strategy, the SPECTRE assassin Donald 'Red' Grant kills Bey and the KGB agent following them. Bond contacts Grant, who is pretending to be an agent named Nash . After sedating Romano
Die Another Day - Mad-Eyes - Madonna movie cameo, James Bond, Lee Tamahori, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, lesbian fence instructor David Arnold - Going Down Together Release Released as: Die Another Day Released in theatres: Nov. 22th, 2002 Released on DVD: May 5th, 2003 (Europe) / June 3rd, 2003 (US) Runtime: 132 minutes MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for action violence and sexuality. Box office: $ 156.2 million (US) / £ 34.8 million (UK) Official site: Die Another Day Synopsis One of North Koreans most feared generals is developing a powerful weapon to invade the South. Bond (Pierce Brosnan)'s mission leads him from the North Korean dungeons, over Hong Kong and Cuba, to Iceland. Millionaire Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) invites him there for a spectacular presentation in the Ice Palace. Surrounded by two beautiful Bond girls (Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike), Bond tries to unravel the mystery and destroy the weapon that threatens South Korea. Madonna plays the role of Verity, a role often described as a "filthy lesbian dominatrix fencing instructor". Rating Though not a particular Bond fan, I liked this movie. Madonna's part is very small, but it makes a good scene. Her acting is natural and the scene flows pretty well. The lesbian aspect is limited to some innuendo words and looks with Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike), but Madonna makes sure her 5-minute cameo doesn't go unnoticed with some great oneliners! 8/10 Awards
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Which Dutch physicist formulated the Wave Theory of light?
Theory of Light What is light ? Light is part of the  electromagnetic spectrum , the spectrum is the collection of all waves, which include  visible light, Microwaves, radio waves ( AM, FM, SW ), X-Rays, and Gamma Rays. In the late 1600s, important questions were raised, asking if light is made up of particles, or is it waves .? Sir Isaac Newton, held the theory that light was made up of tiny particles. In 1678, Dutch physicist,  Christiaan Huygens , believed that light was made up of waves vibrating up and down perpendicular to the direction of  the light travels, and therefore formulated a way of visualising wave propagation. This became known as 'Huygens' Principle'.  Huygens theory was the successful theory of light  wave motion in three dimensions.  Huygen , suggested that light wave peaks form surfaces like the layers of an onion. In a vacuum, or other uniform mediums, the light waves are spherical, and these wave surfaces advance or spread out as they travel at the speed of light. This theory explains why light shining through a pin hole or slit will spread out rather than going in a straight line ( see diffraction ). Newton's theory came first, but the theory of Huygens, better described early experiments. Huygens' principle lets you predict where a given wavefront will be in the future, if you have the knowledge of where the given wavefront is in the present. At the time, some of the experiments conducted on light theory, both the wave theory and particle theory, had some unexplained phenomenon, Newton could not explain the phenomenon of light interference , this forced Newton's particle theory in favour of the wave theory. This difficulty was due to the unexplained phenomenon of light Polarisation - scientists were familiar with the fact that wave motion was parallel to the direction of wave travel, NOT perpendicular to the to the direction of wave travel, as light does. In 1803, Thomas Young studied the interference of light waves by shining light through a screen with two slits equally separated, the light emerging from the two slits, spread out according to Huygen's principle. Eventually the two wave fronts will overlap with each other, if a screen was placed at the point of the overlapping waves, you would see the production of light and dark areas ( see interference ). Later in 1815, Augustin Fresnel supported Young's experiments with mathematical calculations. In 1900 Max Planck proposed the existence of a light quantum, a finite packet of energy which depends on the frequency and velocity of the radiation. In 1905 Albert Einstein had proposed a solution to the problem of observations made on the behaviour of light having characteristics of both wave and particle theory. From work of Plank on emission of light from hot bodies, Einstein suggested that light is composed of tiny particles called photons, and each photon has energy. Light theory branches in to the physics of quantum mechanics, which was conceptualised in the twentieth century. Quantum mechanics deals with behaviour of nature on the atomic scale or smaller. As a result of quantum mechanics, this gave the proof of the dual nature of light and therefore not a contradiction. Waves have two important characteristics - wavelength and frequency. The Sine Wave The sine wave is the fundamental waveform in nature. When dealing with light waves, we refer to the sine wave. The period (T) of the waveform is one full 0 to 360 degree sweep. The relationship of frequency and the period is given by the equation: f  = 1 / T The waveforms are always in the time domain and go on for infinity. Wavelength: This is the distance between peaks of a wave. Wavelengths are measured in units of length - meters, When dealing with light, wavelengths are in the order of nanometres (1 x 10-9)   Frequency: This is the number of peaks that will travel past a point in one second. Frequency is measured in cycles per second. The term given to this is Hertz (Hz) named after t
Kepler's Three Laws Circular Motion and Satellite Motion - Lesson 4 - Planetary and Satellite Motion Kepler's Three Laws Energy Relationships for Satellites In the early 1600s, Johannes Kepler proposed three laws of planetary motion. Kepler was able to summarize the carefully collected data of his mentor - Tycho Brahe - with three statements that described the motion of planets in a sun-centered solar system. Kepler's efforts to explain the underlying reasons for such motions are no longer accepted; nonetheless, the actual laws themselves are still considered an accurate description of the motion of any planet and any satellite. Kepler's three laws of planetary motion can be described as follows: The path of the planets about the sun is elliptical in shape, with the center of the sun being located at one focus. (The Law of Ellipses) An imaginary line drawn from the center of the sun to the center of the planet will sweep out equal areas in equal intervals of time. (The Law of Equal Areas) The ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the sun. (The Law of Harmonies)   The Law of Ellipses Kepler's first law - sometimes referred to as the law of ellipses - explains that planets are orbiting the sun in a path described as an ellipse. An ellipse can easily be constructed using a pencil, two tacks, a string, a sheet of paper and a piece of cardboard. Tack the sheet of paper to the cardboard using the two tacks. Then tie the string into a loop and wrap the loop around the two tacks. Take your pencil and pull the string until the pencil and two tacks make a triangle (see diagram at the right). Then begin to trace out a path with the pencil, keeping the string wrapped tightly around the tacks. The resulting shape will be an ellipse. An ellipse is a special curve in which the sum of the distances from every point on the curve to two other points is a constant. The two other points (represented here by the tack locations) are known as the foci of the ellipse. The closer together that these points are, the more closely that the ellipse resembles the shape of a circle. In fact, a circle is the special case of an ellipse in which the two foci are at the same location. Kepler's first law is rather simple - all planets orbit the sun in a path that resembles an ellipse, with the sun being located at one of the foci of that ellipse.   The Law of Equal Areas Kepler's second law - sometimes referred to as the law of equal areas - describes the speed at which any given planet will move while orbiting the sun. The speed at which any planet moves through space is constantly changing. A planet moves fastest when it is closest to the sun and slowest when it is furthest from the sun. Yet, if an imaginary line were drawn from the center of the planet to the center of the sun, that line would sweep out the same area in equal periods of time. For instance, if an imaginary line were drawn from the earth to the sun, then the area swept out by the line in every 31-day month would be the same. This is depicted in the diagram below. As can be observed in the diagram, the areas formed when the earth is closest to the sun can be approximated as a wide but short triangle; whereas the areas formed when the earth is farthest from the sun can be approximated as a narrow but long triangle. These areas are the same size. Since the base of these triangles are shortest when the earth is farthest from the sun, the earth would have to be moving more slowly in order for this imaginary area to be the same size as when the earth is closest to the sun.   The Law of Harmonies Kepler's third law - sometimes referred to as the law of harmonies - compares the orbital period and radius of orbit of a planet to those of other planets. Unlike Kepler's first and second laws that describe the motion characteristics of a single planet, the third law makes a comparison between the motion characteristics of different planets. The comparison being made is that the ratio of the squares of the periods to th
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Who discovered the law of gravity?
Newton's Law of Gravity - Basic Principles Newton's Law of Gravity Sign Up for Our Free Newsletters Thanks, You're in! What I Learned About Today You might also enjoy: Health Tip of the Day Recipe of the Day There was an error. Please try again. Please select a newsletter. Please enter a valid email address. Did you mean ? Newton did think about gravity watching apples fall from trees, but he didn't have a "eureka" moment by having on fall on his head. That's just not true!.  pinstock, Getty Images Updated August 10, 2016. Newton's law of gravity defines the attractive force between all objects that possess mass . Understanding the law of gravity, one of the fundamental forces of physics , offers profound insights into the way our universe functions. The Proverbial Apple The famous story that Isaac Newton came up with the idea for the law of gravity by having an apple fall on his head is not true, although he did begin thinking about the issue on his mother's farm when he saw an apple fall from a tree. He wondered if the same force at work on the apple was also at work on the moon. If so, why did the apple fall to the Earth and not the moon? Along with his Three Laws of Motion , Newton also outlined his law of gravity in the 1687 book Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) , which is generally referred to as the Principia. continue reading below our video What Are the Major Laws of Physics? Johannes Kepler (German physicist, 1571-1630) had developed three laws governing the motion of the five then-known planets. He did not have a theoretical model for the principles governing this movement, but rather achieved them through trial and error over the course of his studies. Newton's work, nearly a century later, was to take the laws of motion he had developed and apply them to planetary motion to develop a rigorous mathematical framework for this planetary motion. Gravitational Forces Newton eventually came to the conclusion that, in fact, the apple and the moon were influenced by the same force. He named that force gravitation (or gravity) after the Latin word gravitas which literally translates into "heaviness" or "weight." In the Principia, Newton defined the force of gravity in the following way (translated from the Latin): Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Mathematically, this translates into the force equation: FG = Gm1m2/r2 In this equation, the quantities are defined as: Fg = The force of gravity (typically in newtons) G = The gravitational constant, which adds the proper level of proportionality to the equation. The value of G is 6.67259 x 10-11 N * m2 / kg2, although the value will change if other units are being used. m1 & m1 = The masses of the two particles (typically in kilograms) r = The straight-line distance between the two particles (typically in meters) Interpreting the Equation This equation gives us the magnitude of the force, which is an attractive force and therefore always directed toward the other particle. As per Newton's Third Law of Motion , this force is always equal and opposite. Newton's Three Laws of Motion give us the tools to interpret the motion caused by the force and we see that the particle with less mass (which may or may not be the smaller particle, depending upon their densities) will accelerate more than the other particle. This is why light objects fall to the Earth considerably faster than the Earth falls toward them. Still, the force acting on the light object and the Earth is of identical magnitude, even though it doesn't look that way. It is also significant to note that the force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the objects. As objects get further apart, the force of gravity drops very quickly. At most distances, only objects with very high masses such as planets, stars, galaxies, and black holes have
Latin phrases glossary and listing - common and interesting Latin expressions, terminology, translations, meanings, origins glossary, usage in legal, business, science and English language (with) the defendant being absent (legal term) - in the absence of the accused a capite ad calcem thoroughly/completely/from top to bottom - more loosely expressed 'from head to toe' Achilles (Achilles heel) ancient Greek hero weakness - (a Greek word used in Latin - the metaphor refers to the legend of the hero Achilles, as a baby held by the heel and dipped into the river Styx by his mother Thetis to make him immortal, leaving his heel vulnerable, such that when shot there by an arrow he died, hence the 'Achilles heel' or simply 'Achilles' is a person's main weakness) acta est fabula the drama has been acted out it's all over/it's finished/the end A.D. (anno domini) in the year of the Lord denotes that the year is since Christ's birth in the Julian and Gregorian calendars - contrasting with B.C. (Before Christ), which signifies years 'Before Christ', which are counted backwards - there is no zero year ad hoc improvised/devised/applied spontaneously or purely for the purpose ('just for this') a fortiori all the more so, with greater reason ad hominem personally directed - (as when criticizing someone) ad infinitum ad lib (ad libitum) with freedom freely, improvised, spontaneously created - now most commonly an instruction or freedom to 'improvise' in performance, communication ad litteram precisely/according to the 'letter of the law' ad nauseam to the point of causing nausea/unbearably tedious a priori / a posteriori from what comes before/ after (these terms mainly refer to philosophical or mathematical assertions) - an 'a priori' fact is self-evident, known without need of direct specific experience/evidence (for example 'snow is cold') - an 'a posteriori' fact is based on observed evidence or experience, etc (for example snow fell in Ireland on [a particular date]) ad referendum (ad ref) aged... or 'of the age...' (precedes the age of someone/something) affidavit he/she has declared under oath a sworn statement made voluntarily by a person, recorded by a qualified person, usually for legal purposes, such as admission in a court case agenda (agenda sunt or agendum est) things that must be moved forward list of items for a meeting, order of discussion, set of aims, motivational factors - agenda now has a wide range of meanings, after initially referring to a meeting schedule Aiax/Ajax a metaphor for size and stength Albion the ancient Greek word for Britain alia iacta est / iacta alia est the die is cast the die is cast - beyond the point of possible return, fully committed come what may - see the die is cast and cross the Rubicon in cliches origins - the phrase is attributed to Julius Casear, 49BC, on his invasion of Rome from Gaul - as with many other Latin phrases the 'i' of iacta is alternatively a 'j', so that the word was/is jiacta (although some say Caesar spoke this phrase in Greek anyway..) alias dictus (alias) otherwise known as/also known as/aka
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If a president is elected in a presidential election, what name is given to an election to choose a governor?
Presidential Elections - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com Presidential Elections A+E Networks Introduction Departing from the monarchical tradition of Britain, the founding fathers of the United States created a system in which the American people had the power and responsibility to select their leader. Under this new order, George Washington, the first U.S. president, was elected in 1789. At the time, only white men who owned property could vote, but the 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments to the Constitution have since expanded the right of suffrage to all citizens over 18. Taking place every four years, presidential campaigns and elections have evolved into a series of fiercely fought, and sometimes controversial, contests, now played out in the 24-hour news cycle.The stories behind each election—some ending in landslide victories, others decided by the narrowest of margins—provide a roadmap to the events of U.S. history. Google 1789: George Washington – unopposed The first presidential election was held on the first Wednesday of January in 1789. No one contested the election of George Washington , but he remained reluctant to run until the last minute, in part because he believed seeking the office would be dishonorable. Only when Alexander Hamilton and others convinced him that it would be dishonorable to refuse did he agree to run. The Constitution allowed each state to decide how to choose its presidential electors. In 1789, only Pennsylvania and Maryland held elections for this purpose; elsewhere, the state legislatures chose the electors. This method caused some problems in New York , which was so divided between Federalists who supported the new Constitution and Antifederalists who opposed it that the legislature failed to choose either presidential electors or U.S. senators. Before the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment, each elector cast two votes for president. The candidate with a majority won the presidency, and the runner-up became vice president. Most Federalists agreed that John Adams should be vice president. But Hamilton feared that if Adams was the unanimous choice, he would end in a tie with Washington and might even become president, an outcome that would be highly embarrassing for both Washington and the new electoral system. Hamilton therefore arranged that a number of votes be deflected, so that Adams was elected by less than half the number of Washington’s expected unanimous vote. The final results were Washington, 69 electoral votes; Adams, 34; John Jay , 9; John Hancock , 4; and others, 22. 1792: George Washington – unopposed As in 1789, persuading George Washington to run was the major difficulty in selecting a president in 1792. Washington complained of old age, sickness, and the increasing hostility of the Republican press toward his administration. The press attacks were symptomatic of the increasing split within the government between Federalists, who were coalescing around Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, and Republicans, forming around Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson . James Madison , among others, convinced Washington to continue as president by arguing that only he could hold the government together. Speculation then shifted to the vice presidency. Hamilton and the Federalists supported the reelection of John Adams. Republicans favored New York governor George Clinton, but Federalists feared him partly because of a widespread belief that his recent election to the governorship was fraudulent. In addition, the Federalists feared that Clinton would belittle the importance of the federal government by retaining his governorship while serving as vice president. Adams won relatively easily with support from New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, except New York. Only electoral votes are recorded here, because most states still did not select presidential electors by popular vote. Nor was there a separate vote for president and vice president until the Twelfth Amendment took effect in 1804. The results were Washington, 132 electoral votes (unanimous); Adams, 77; Clinton, 50; Jefferson,
Presidential-Project - Ronald Reagan Presidential-Project President Ronald Reagan was a member of the Republican Party. Path to President Reagan became the Governor of California in 1967. He also was re-elected Governor in 1970. Reagan's ran for the Republican Party's nomination for president in 1976, but lost to incumbent President Gerald Ford. Then in 1980, Reagan made a successful bid for Republican nomination and was subsequently re-elected President for a second term. He was President from 1981-1989. Campaign Slogan/Platform Ronald Reagan had two different campaign slogans. His first one, which he used during his campaign in 1980, was, "are you better off than you were four years ago?" His second campaign slogan, "It's morning again in America," was used in his 1984 campaign. Reagan's campaign platform was to stimulate the economy by lowering taxes, have government interfere less with people's lives, states’ rights, and a strong national defense. Election Results Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1981 and then a second time in 1985. The results after his election were considered a "landslide election" in 1981 and were as follows: He received 50.8% of the popular vote with Jimmy Carter having 41%. His number of Electoral College votes was 489 out of 538. Carter took the other 69 votes. Reagan's results after his 1985 election were: He had 58.8% of the popular vote with Walter Mondale having 40.5%. His number of Electoral College votes was 525 out of 538. This election was another, even larger, landslide for Reagan. 1981 electoral votes Country Issues Reagan faced many international issues during his presidency. Here are two: President Ronald Reagan, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation’s Marxist regime, orders the Marines to invade and secure their safety. There were nearly 1,000 Americans in Grenada at the time, many of them students at the island’s medical school. In little more than a week, Grenada’s government was overthrown. The situation on Grenada had been of concern to American officials since 1979, when the leftist Maurice Bishop seized power and began to develop close relations with Cuba. In 1983, another Marxist, Bernard Coard, had Bishop assassinated and took control of the government. Protesters clashed with the new government and violence escalated. Citing the danger to the U.S. citizens in Grenada, Reagan ordered nearly 2,000 U.S. troops into the island, where they soon found themselves facing opposition from Grenadan armed forces and groups of Cuban military engineers, in Grenada to repair and expand the island’s airport. Matters were not helped by the fact that U.S. forces had to rely on minimal intelligence about the situation. (The maps used by many of them were, in fact, old tourist maps of the island.) Reagan ordered in more troops, and by the time the fighting was done, nearly 6,000 U.S. troops were in Grenada. Nearly 20 of these troops were killed and over a hundred wounded; over 60 Grenadan and Cuban troops were killed. Coard’s government collapsed and was replaced by one acceptable to the United States. Afterwards, Reagan withdrew American forces. In 1986, the U.S. launched several airstrikes on a number of targets in Libya. The attacks were supposed to stop Muammar Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, from aiding terrorists. Intel found showed Qdoba as providing a bomb that terrorists used in Milan injuring 63 U.S. citizens. After the attacks were carried out, Reagan addressed the nation from the oval office. He said, "When our citizens are attacked or abused anywhere in the world on the direct orders of hostile regimes, we will respond so long as I'm in this office." Domestic Issues Reagan also faced numerous domestic issues during his presidency. Here are two: In August of 1981, U.S. Air Traffic Controllers went on strike. By going on strike they violated a federal regulation prohibiting government unions from striking as well as became a threat to America's economy by bringing air travel to a halt. Reagan gave the air traffic contro
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Born in 1942, who had her greatest chart successes when a member of Blue Mink?
IMDb: Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "mink" Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "mink" 30 names. Fred MacMurray Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s was able to score so supremely whenever cast against type. Frederick Martin MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Maleta Martin and Frederick MacMurray. His father had Scottish ancestry and his mother's family was German. His father's sister was vaudeville performer and actress Fay Holderness . When MacMurray was five years old, the family moved to Beaver Dam in Wisconsin, his parents' birth state. He graduated from Beaver Dam High School (later the site of Beaver Dam Middle School), where he was a three-sport star in football, baseball, and basketball. Fred retained a special place in his heart for his small-town Wisconsin upbringing, referring at any opportunity in magazine articles or interviews to the lifelong friends and cherished memories of Beaver Dam, even including mementos of his childhood in several of his films. In "Pardon my Past", Fred and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm. MacMurray earned a full scholarship to attend Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and had ambitions to become a musician. In college, MacMurray participated in numerous local bands, playing the saxophone. In 1930, he played saxophone in the Gus Arnheim and his Coconut Grove Orchestra when Bing Crosby was the lead vocalist and Russ Columbo was in the violin section. MacMurray recorded a vocal with Arnheim's orchestra "All I Want Is Just One Girl" -- Victor 22384, 3/20/30. He appeared on Broadway in the 1930 hit production of "Three's a Crowd" starring Sydney Greenstreet , Clifton Webb and Libby Holman . He next worked alongside Bob Hope in the 1933 production of "Roberta" before he signed on with Paramount Pictures in 1934 for the then-standard 7-year contract (the hit show made Bob Hope a star and he was also signed by Paramount). MacMurray married Lillian Lamont (D: June 22, 1953) on June 20, 1936, and they adopted two children. Although his early film work is largely overlooked by film historians and critics today, he rose steadily within the ranks of Paramount's contract stars, working with some of Hollywood's greatest talents, including wunderkind writer-director Preston Sturges (whom he intensely disliked) and actors Humphrey Bogart and Marlene Dietrich . Although the majority of his films of the 30's can largely be dismissed as standard fare there are exceptions: he played opposite Claudette Colbert in seven films, beginning with The Gilded Lily . He also co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in the classic, Alice Adams , and with Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table , The Trail of the Lonesome Pine -- an ambitious early outdoor 3-strip Technicolor hit, co-starring with Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney directed by Henry Hathaway -- The Princess Comes Across , and True Confession . MacMurray spent the decade learning his craft and developing a reputation as a solid actor. In an interesting sidebar, artist C.C. Beck used MacMurray as the initial model for a superhero character who would become Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel in 1939. The 1940s gave him his chance to shine. He proved himself in melodramas such as Above Suspicion and musicals ( Where Do We Go from Here? ), somewhat ironically becoming one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors by 1943, when his salary reached $420,000. He scored a huge hit with the thoroughly entertaining The Egg and I , again teamed with Ms. Colbert and today largely remembered for launching the long-running Ma and Pa Kettle franchise. In 1941, MacMurray purchased a large parcel of land in Sonoma County, California and began a winery/cattle ranch. He raised his family on the ranch and it became the home to his second wife, June Haver after their marriage in 1954. The winery remains in operation today in the capable hands of their daughter, Kate Mac
Record-Breakers and Trivia - everyHit.com Back To The 'Records & Trivia' Index Best-Selling Artist Cliff Richard has sold more singles than any other artist (21.0 million). The Beatles are the top group (20.8 million). Top female artist is Madonna (15.2 million). Only five other acts have sold more than 10 million singles. They are Elvis Presley (20.0 million), Elton John (13.8 million), Michael Jackson (11.5 million), Queen (10.4 million) and Abba (10 million). Best-selling all female group is The Spice Girls (7.5 million). Most Top 40 Hits Cliff Richard has been credited on 124 Top 40 hits (up to, and including, "Singing The Blues"; Sep 2009). This excludes re-entries too! The record for most Top 40 hits by a female is held by Madonna with 66 (the most recent being "Celebration"; Sep 2009). Diana Ross trails with 57 (as of Dec 2005; Madonna caught up with Diana in July 2003 and overtook her in Nov 2003). In addition, Diana Ross has nine uncredited Top 40 hits with the Supremes and Madonna has one with Nick Kamen. The Shadows (often paired with Cliff) are the leading group with 56 (62 when their 6 hits as The Drifters are included.) Status Quo are the group in second place with 55 Top 40 hits (as of Nov 2005). Most Weeks Spent on The Top 40 1060 by Elvis Presley (last there w/e 15th Dec 2007 with the re-issue of "Burning Love") Top female artist is Madonna with 510 weeks (last there with "Celebration" : w/e 3rd Oct 2009) (and another 9 uncredited weeks on the Nick Kamen's 1986 hit "Each Time You Break My Heart") The Shadows are the leading group with 587 weeks inside the Top 40 (including hits with Cliff Richard). Longest Span of Hits Overall, the most durable artist is Elvis Presley on 51 years, 7 months 6 days [2692 weeks] ("Heartbreak Hotel", w/e 12th May 1956 to the re-issue of "Burning Love" w/e 15th Dec 2007). Cliff Richard trails very narrowly behind (and stands a very good chance of overtaking this record). From "Move It" (w/e 12th Sep 1958") to "Singing The Blues" (w/e 26th Sep 2009) is a stretch of 51 years, 0 months and 14 days [2663 weeks]. From her first hit ("Banana Boat Song", w/e 15th Feb 1957) to her latest ("The Living Tree", w/e 5th May 2007), Shirley Bassey's chart career has spanned 50 years, 2 months and 18 days [2620 weeks]. She, became the first artist to have a career of hits spanning more than 50 years and has the longest span of (a) original hits (ie. not re-releases) and (b) hits whilst still alive. The record for longest span of hits by a group is for The Shadows from "Travellin' Light" (9th Oct 1959) to "Singin The Blues" (26th Sep 2009); a period of 49 years, 11 months and 17 days [2607 weeks]. This is all the more impressive if the date of their first hit together ("Move It", 12 Sep 1958) is used, although they were, at the time, known as The Drifters. This gives the aforementioned stretch of 51 years, 0 months and 14 days [2663 weeks] (as Cliff's backing group). By making the Top 40 in Sep 2009, The Drifters broke a long-standing record which had been held by Perez 'Prez' Prado & His Orchestra (40 years, 3 months 12 days) [2103 weeks] (from "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" in Mar 1955 to the departure of "Guaglione" in July 1995). Longest Continuous Run in The Top 40 by an Artist 135 weeks by Elvis Presley. From July 1960 ("A Mess Of Blues") until Feb 1963 (when "Return To Sender" left the chart) - a total of 12 hits. Most Top 40 Hits in One Year 19 - by Michael Jackson (as of w/e 8th July 2006). These were part of a commemorative sequence of releases. Furthermore, two other singles of 2006 sampled him: "Say Say Say" by Hi-Tack and "Somebody's Watching Me" by Beatfreakz (which sampled Jackson's vocal contribution to Rockwell's 1984 hit of the same title). The record for most new Top 40 hits in one year is 12; held jointly by Elvis Presley (in 1957) and The Wedding Present (1992). Most Simultaneous Top 40 Hits 13 - by Michael Jackson. The week after he died (the chart w/e 11th July 2009), he held positions 2, 10, 12, 13, 19, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40 with "Man In The Mirror",
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Which rock legend was born on the island of Zanzibar?
Zanzibar music legend Bi Kidude dies | Arts and Culture | Music | M&G Zanzibar music legend Bi Kidude dies Kidude, a legend in East Africa, was thought to be around 100 years old. She died on Wednesday at her home. "She has died, we are making funeral arrangements," her nephew Baraka Abdullah Said told Agence France-Presse. He said his aunt had been confined to bed for the past several months. Kidude, whose real name was Fatuma binti Baraka, and who performed and toured up until very recently, was best known for Taarab music, which combines Arab and African influences. A diminutive and wrinkled figure with a haunting voice, she displayed immense energy on stage, beating a large drum clamped between her legs and occasionally drawing on a cigarette or taking a swig of liquor from the bottle. In 2005 Kidude, who started her singing career back in the 1920s, received the prestigious World Music Expo award for her outstanding contribution to music and culture in Zanzibar. Zanzibar's most famous musicians Kidude was one of the most famous cultural icons from the East African island of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, whose people and traditions are a melting pot resulting from centuries of trade across eastern Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean. When she was born Zanzibar – once a famous port for slaves, ivory and spices – was under British colonial rule. She was regarded as one of Zanzibar's most famous musicians. Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of rock legends Queen, was also born on the island, but left as a teenager for Britain. – Sapa
The Rock Island Line, a Classic Train Song from Family Garden Trains� Rock Island Line, a Classic Train Song from Family Garden Trains� The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific railroad connected Chicago to most of the midwestern states west of the Mississippi, as well Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico. For over a century, the "Rock Island" competed successfully with other railroads that covered essentially the same ground. But in the 1960s and 1970s, rail traffic fell off in general, and offering essentially the same services as two or three other railroads wasn't enough to keep "The Rock" in the black. The railroad fell behind in payments to creditors and even further behind in maintaining its own infrastructure. After garnering national attention, political support from President Carter, and many attempts at mergers or refinancing, the Rock finally closed down for good in 1980. Most of its assets were divided among competitors, but the old Rock Island connections between Chicago and Joliet survive as the "Rock Island District" of the Metra commuter rail service. The Song - The song "Rock Island Line" has been around for the better part of a century. Pete Seeger and others have hypothesized that it started out a a work song, and the name may have been changed depending on who was paying you to pound steel or break rocks. It was first "collected" by folk song scholar John Lomax, in a 1934 visit to an Arkansas state prison. Not long after, folk singer Hudie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, rearranged and recorded his version in the 1940s. The English Connection - In a strange twist, English singer Lonnie Donegan claimed authorship in Britain, after his 1955 recording of Leadbelly's arrangement became a huge hit there. In fact Donegan's recording of "Rock Island Line" is often given credit for starting the "skiffle" music movement in Britain, the analogue to the folk movement in the U.S., eclipsing Rock and Roll for several years on the radio. If you want to draw an even stranger connection, you should know that Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison first started working together in a skiffle band. So just think - if Lomax hadn't recorded the song, Leadbelly hadn't rearranged it, and Donegan hadn't "borrowed" it, the Beatles might never have existed. The Song's Evolution - In Leadbelly's version of the song, the guitar imitates a train whistle that is presumably signalling to a toll gate operator that he is hauling only livestock, which should pass for free. In some later versions, the engineer actually talks to the toll agent. In still later versions, the story part of the song disappears altogether. In the 1960s, I recall folks singing this song just to draw attention to the then-struggling railroad's plight. If you have a favorite train song, or a favorite performer that I've left out, please contact me and I'll try to track it down. Also, if you don't see the link for a particular song in the lists below, click the refresh button on your browser. It seems like Amazon can never populate all of the links at the same time. On the other hand, sometimes publishers move things around and the links get broken permanently. If you see some cheezy top-40 hit on this page, that's Amazon's not very clever choice of a replacement. Rock Island Line Click here to return to the Classic Train Songs page. Whatever else you get out of our pages, I hope you enjoy your music and figure out how to make enjoyable music for those around you as well. And please stay in touch !     - Paul Race All material, illustrations, and content of this web site is copyrighted � 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 by Paul D. Race. All rights reserved. Classic Train Songs(tm) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. For questions, comments, suggestions, trouble reports, etc. about this page or this site, please contact us
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What are the fibrous bands called that connects muscles to bones
Ligaments - National Library of Medicine - PubMed Health Parts of a joint and ligaments National Institutes of Health About Joints The point at which two or more bones are connected is called a joint . In all joints , the bones are kept from grinding against each other by a lining called cartilage . Bones are joined to bones by strong, elastic bands of tissue called ligaments. Muscles are connected to bones by tough cords of tissue called tendons . Muscles pull on tendons to move joints. Although muscles are not technically part of a joint, they're important because strong muscles help support and protect joints. NIH - National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Terms to know Tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or another structure, such as an eyeball. Tendons help the bone or structure to move. Share on Facebook
Sternum - Anatomy Pictures and Information Home > Skeletal System > Bones of the Chest and Upper Back > Sternum Sternum The sternum, commonly known as the breastbone, is a long, narrow flat bone that serves as the keystone of the rib cage and stabilizes the thoracic skeleton. Several muscles that move the arms, head, and neck have their origins on the sternum. It also protects several vital organs of the chest, such as the heart, aorta, vena cava, and thymus gland that are located just deep to the sternum. The sternum is located along the body’s midline in the anterior thoracic region just deep to the skin. It is a flat bone about six inches in length, around an inch wide, and only a fraction of an inch thick.... Move up/down/left/right: Click compass arrows Rotate image: Click and drag in any direction, anywhere in the frame Identify objects: Click on them in the image 2D Interactive 3D Rotate & Zoom Change Anatomical System Change View Angle Full Sternum Description [Continued from above] . . . The sternum develops as three distinct parts: the manubrium, the body of the sternum (sometimes called the gladiolus), and the xiphoid process. The shape of the sternum looks somewhat like a sword pointing downwards, with the manubrium forming the handle, the body forming the blade, and the xiphoid process forming the tip. In fact, the name manubrium means “handle,” gladiolus means “sword,” and xiphoid means “sword-shaped.” The manubrium is the widest and most superior region of the sternum. It forms joints with the clavicles and the first and second pairs of ribs through their costal cartilages. The clavicles meet the manubrium at the concave clavicular notches to form the sternoclavicular joint, the only point of skeletal attachment between the pectoral girdle of the shoulder and the axial skeleton of the thorax. Slight indentations on the lateral sides of the manubrium provide attachment points for the costal cartilages of the ribs. At its inferior end, the manubrium meets the body of the sternum at the joint with the costal cartilage of the second ribs. Here it forms the sternal angle, a slight posterior bend in the sternum that can be felt through the skin and serves as an important anatomical landmark in the medical profession. Several important muscles attach via tendons to the manubrium, including the sternocleidomastoid, pectoralis major, sternohyoid, and sternothyroid muscles. The body of the sternum is the longest region of the sternum and is roughly rectangular in shape. The costal cartilages of the second through tenth ribs connect to the body of the sternum to form the bulk of the rib cage. Just like in the manubrium, slight concave indentations in the lateral sides of the body of the sternum provide stronger attachment points for the costal cartilages to prevent rib separation. In addition, the powerful pectoralis major muscles that adduct and flex the humerus at the shoulder attach to the anterior surface of the body of the sternum and manubrium. The smallest and most inferior region of the sternum, the xiphoid process, begins life as a region of flexible hyaline cartilage attached to the end of the body of the sternum. The xiphoid process slowly ossifies throughout childhood and adulthood until around age 40 when all of its cartilage is replaced by bone. Regardless of its degree of ossification, the xiphoid process serves as an important attachment point for the tendons of the diaphragm, rectus abdominis, and transverse abdominis muscles. Several undesired events can take place at the sternum. During open heart surgery, the sternum must be cut in half along its long axis to provide access to the heart. After surgery, the two halves of the sternum must be wired back together with stainless steel wire to prevent their separation. Any extreme stresses placed on the broken sternum after surgery, such as lifting heavy objects, can result in the wires cutting through the bony tissue and severely damaging the sternum. Another risk associated with the sternum is the fracturing of the xiphoid process during CPR, which c
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Who is the first Scotsman to appear on the reverse of an Bank of England banknote?
Adam Smith becomes first Scot to adorn an English banknote | Business | The Guardian Adam Smith becomes first Scot to adorn an English banknote Share on Messenger Close Adam Smith, the legendary Scottish economist, is to appear on the new £20 note - the first Scot to adorn an English banknote, and the first economist. Bank of England governor Mervyn King unveiled the new face on the note - taking over from Sir Edward Elgar - during last night's annual Adam Smith lecture at St Bryce's Kirk in Kirkcaldy, where the economist was born in 1723, and within Gordon Brown's constituency. The chancellor initiated the lecture series, in the church where his father used to preach, last year. The notes will be available from next spring and will carry a portrait of Adam Smith and an engraving showing the division of labour in pin manufacturing with the words "and the great increase in the quantity of work that results". His seminal work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, was written in 1776. It is still read the world over and commentators of all political colours try to claim the economist as one of their own. Britain has the right-wing thinktank the Adam Smith Institute, but Mr Brown launched the lecture series hoping to reclaim him as a man of the left. The right has always claimed that Adam Smith's "invisible hand" guiding markets, together with his argument that self-interest among traders produces a socially beneficial result, gives support to a laissez-faire approach to economies with minimal government interference. But the left points to Smith's other classic work - The Theory of Moral Sentiments - where he makes clear his opposition to selfishness and belief that people involved in commerce have a moral duty to show sympathy for others. For the governor of the bank of England, Adam Smith's most relevant theme is that to reap the benefits of the division of labour requires strong social institutions. "Social institutions and market economies go hand-in-hand," said Mr King. "Second, people who, for the most part, pursue their own self-interest, are also prepared to stand back and ask how their actions should be constrained by social institutions. Such institutions arise because we build them." However, the SNP leader, Alex Salmond, was unimpressed by Smith's image appearing only on a £20 note in England, when he features on the Scottish £50 note. "Smith, with the fine appreciation of irony reflected in his work, would appreciate that the £50 note used in Scotland is debased to a £20 note in England," he said.
The Coinage of Britain - Recoinage 1816 to Decimalization 1,488,960   The system of coinage begun in 1816 was to endure with only minor changes until decimalization in 1970.  The minting of copper coins resumed in 1821 when farthings were produced for George IV.  These were followed by pennies and halfpence from 1825 onwards.  All three denominations continued to be produced in most years until 1860 based on the standards established in 1806 and used a seated figure of Britannia for the reverse design.  The date was carried on the obverse below the portrait bust.  Most of the obverses were engraved by William Wyon, whose initials often appear in the design.  George IV large copper penny 1826 Similar pennies were struck until 1860 by William IV and Victoria Weight 288 grains, 18.8 grammes - Diameter 34 mm.   In 1860 a change to the use of bronze instead of copper brought much smaller and lighter coins, half that of the copper coinage, and the use of a new portrait bust of Queen Victoria wearing her hair in a bun, hence the description "bun penny" etc.  This was engraved by William Wyon's son, Leonard Charles Wyon.  The standard for all three bronze coins was maintained until the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.  Production of the farthing ended in 1956 and it ceased to be legal tender after 1960.  The penny and halfpenny were minted until 1967.  The penny enjoyed a brief life after the introduction of decimal coins in 1970 before being demonetized on 31 August 1971.  The halfpenny ceased to be legal tender in 1969.   Victoria bronze halfpenny introduced 1860 together with bronze pennies and farthings   In silver, crowns were minted until 1847, among them the so-called "Gothic Crown" of Queen Victoria, probably the most beautiful coin ever made.  This was followed by a gap of 40 years until the Jubilee coinage of 1887, when production was resumed.  After 1902 production was abandoned, only to be reintroduced in the reign of George V in 1927, after which it became a commemorative issue rather than being intended for circulation.  COMMEMORATIVE CROWNS 1935 Jubilee of George V (Art Deco St.  George and dragon) 1937 Accession of George VI 1951 Festival of Britain in 1951 1953 Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 1960 British Trade Fair in New York 1965 Death of Sir Winston Churchill   This Winston Churchill crown is thought by many to be the most unattractive coin ever produced, an unfitting end to a noble series. The halfcrown was minted fairly constantly until 1850 when it was supplanted by the florin valued at two shillings, intended as the first step to the introduction of a decimal coinage.  In 1874, after the interest in decimalization had waned, the halfcrown was reintroduced, and continued in parallel to the florin until 1967.  It was demonetized in December 1969.  The florin itself, when first introduced in 1849, caused something of a furore as it omitted the letters "D.G.", meaning Dea Gratia (By the grace of God) from the obverse legend and was dubbed the "Godless florin".  The omission was corrected on subsequent issues.  Those issued 1851-1887 used a "Gothic" bust and lettering similar to that on the crown.  The florin was incorporated seamlessly into the decimal coinage of 1970 as ten new pence, well over a century after the purpose for which it was originally intended.  It remained legal tender until 1992.   Queen Victoria - "Godless" florin 1849 An innovation in 1887 was the double florin or four-shilling piece, forming part of the series of coins struck to mark the Queen's Jubilee.  This series used the new "Jubilee head" portrait bust designed by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm.  This double florin was unpopular with the public and only lasted three years before it was discontinued. Queen Victoria - double florin 1887  The shilling was struck in most years until 1966.  From 1831 to 1887 it used the a reverse incorporating the words "ONE SHILLING" surmounted by a crown and surrounded by oak leaves.  Queen Victoria - silver Shilling 1871 The shillings of George V and Elizabeth II had two different reverse types. One with a li
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Which retailer advertises itself as 'Never Knowingly Undersold'?
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Andy Street: Humble MD who is never knowingly underpaid | Business | The Guardian Humble MD who is never knowingly underpaid Share on Messenger Close At 9.25am yesterday more than 1,000 shop staff at John Lewis in Oxford Street drifted towards the vast atrium at the centre of the store and peered over the balconies on each floor. Two minutes later they were jumping, clapping and cheering loudly. The retail group's annual bonus, payable to all of them, had just been announced and at 10 weeks' pay it was the biggest for a decade. By 9.35 normal department-store decorum had been restored. The doors were open and there were shoppers to be served. Among the crowd was Andy Street, managing director of the 26 John Lewis department stores; yesterday's bonus announcement ceremony marked the end of his first year at the helm of middle England's favourite shop. It was a vintage year, and Street declares himself "jolly pleased". The first weeks of this year, however, have been rather more challenging. Fashion sales are still well ahead and electronics are also still selling. But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture. In all, 21 stores are lagging behind last year's sales numbers and one of the worst performers has been the prestige Peter Jones in Sloane Square. Street says its problems are directly linked to the City. "PJ is hugely related to the success of the City, and City bonus payouts are not what they were last year. So we are not really surprised at what is happening there. We've seen it before and we will see it again." Despite the tougher trading conditions, the chain is planning an unprecedented period of expansion. John Lewis has opened in just one new location this century - Trafford Park in Manchester - but Street is working on plans for up to 24 stores in the coming decade, more than doubling the size of the business. He insists the plan makes sense. "We are here for the long term," he says. "These investments have a 50-year time horizon. Short-term trade is difficult, but am I worried about it? No." The JohnLewis.com website is going strong (it now accounts for 10% of sales) and online sales are greatest where shoppers are familiar with the stores. So the idea behind the expansion is to fill in geographical gaps. Leicester will be the first, this summer. The chain is also considering a store in Dublin. Street, brought up in Birmingham and the son of two scientists, is a slight and neat man. He walks fast, turns sharply and is bursting with nervous energy. It is hard to imagine him ever being aggressive, but easy to see him as a demanding detail man. He has worked for John Lewis since leaving Oxford with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics in 1985. He considered a career as a social worker, but Birmingham city council turned him down. So did Marks & Spencer. "They probably did the right thing," he says. He started "on the front line, at Brent Cross", and recalls people being far from impressed. "I remember being on the till that first Christmas and friends from university coming in and saying 'God, Andy, what happened? Has everything gone wrong for you?' But I was right and they were wrong." His career, he reckons, "has worked out OK". His salary, around £500,000 plus yesterday's £100,000 bonus, certainly looks OK. By 1993 he was a store manager in Milton Keynes. "I didn't join with the intention of being here for 20 years, but you really do get the bug," he says. "The fact is, if you stay for three years you are unlikely to ever get out ... Every year over 700 people celebrate their 25th anniversary here." Street is just back from Japan. Japanese department stores "are the best in the world, no doubt about it". He also admires Crate & Barrel in the US, but reckons there isn't a single inspirational British retailer. When pushed, he manages a few good words for the Apple Store and online fashion retailer Asos. Like many
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Which German, together with Ernst Abbe, developed and produced many new lenses and heat resistant glasses?
Ernst Abbe A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # Ernst Abbe Ernst Karl Abbe ( born January 23, 1840 in Eisenach , Saxe-Weimar -Eisenach, † January 14, 1905 in Jena, Saxe-Weimar -Eisenach, [ abə ], Ernst Abbe, Carl ) was a German physicist, statistician, opticians, entrepreneurs and social reformers. Together with Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott He laid the foundations of modern optics and developed many optical instruments. In 1899 he was the sole owner of the company Carl Zeiss Jena and was instrumental in the founding of the company Glass Schott & Gen. (now Schott AG ) involved. Life Ernst Abbe grew up in modest circumstances in Eisenach. His father Georg Adam Abbe was a foreman in a spinning mill. After elementary school years 1846-1850 he was thanks to private support by the employer of his father, the junior high school first-order ( Julius von Eichel - Streiber ) - later to secondary school - visit in Eisenach, which since 1922 all German historical epochs Ernst -Abbe- high school is called. He finished the grammar school in 1857 from the " certificate of maturity " and mostly good grades. His was already recognizable scientific talents, coupled with a strong will, prompted his father to him, despite the modest financial means to study in Jena (1857-1859) and Göttingen (1859-1861) to allow, where Ernst Abbe himself a part of his earning livelihood as a private tutor. Added to this was that the employer his father's family supported him in the years 1858 and 1859 during his studies. The doctorate in Göttingen on March 23, 1861 entitled " Experiential justification of the set of the equivalence between heat and mechanical work." " He then became an assistant at the observatory in Göttingen before accepting a short occupation (1861-1862) at the Physics Club in Frankfurt am Main and habilitated it soon - August 8, 1863 - Jena in with the theme of " regularity in the distribution errors in observation series ". He then taught there as a lecturer of physics and mathematics. 1870 Abbe was appointed associate professor ( since 1891 teaching commitments given birth again ). In 1873 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. In 1878 he became director of the Observatory Jena. In 1889 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences. Ernst Abbe married in 1871 Else Snell, the daughter of the mathematician and physicist Karl Snell, a teacher Abbes. Work His professional life was in 1866 the offer of the University of mechanic Carl Zeiss a decisive turn: Abbe should put his microscope production on a secure scientific foundation. The former production of these devices consisted namely of an art of sampling ( " Pröbelns " ) and did not follow the work instructions due to optical calculations. The trusting relationship between Abbe and Zeiss could not be shaken by an initial setback: The first built by Abbes bills microscope showed a performance drop compared to the products of the older " gepröbelten " manufacturing on. This situation challenged the physicist Ernst Abbe and led to his theory of image formation in the microscope as well as its assessment of the microscopic resolving power ( see below). By using this information, the power of the now -built microscopes could be considerably improved, that Zeiss decided (valid from 15 May 1875) include Abbe on 22 July 1876 as a partner in the company. International recognition came on May 1, 1878 by an honorary membership in the Royal Microscopical Society in London. An important prerequisite for the consistently good quality of optical instruments and their continuous improvement lay in the mastery of the production of the different types of glass with reproducible properties and especially in the development of new optical glasses. Here Abbe permanently Otto Schott, Wittenburg could win an der Ruhr, to build a factory in Jena. At its Carl Zeiss were together with his son Roderick and Ernst Abbe involved ( "Glass Technology Laboratory Schott & "
Jeopardy: Insatiable Edition Jeopardy Template 100 What is the USA (Complementing Great Britain that won a gold at every Summer Games.) Think outside Scandinavia. What is the only country that won a gold medal at every Winter Olympics? 100 What is 'Gone with the Wind'? Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler was the main character of this best-selling novel with this moving title. 100 Therapeutic Foot Cream helps heal dry, rough and cracked feet and heels. 100 Who is Robert Harold Ogle? He proposed the fraternity colors. 100 What is the Southern Ocean? The Southern Ocean is the 'newest' named ocean. It is recognized by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names as the body of water extending from the coast of Antarctica to the line of latitude at 60 degrees South. The boundaries of this ocean were proposed to the International Hydrographic Organization in 2000. Historically, there are four named oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. However, most countries - including the United States - now recognize this body of water as the fifth ocean. 200 What is US Basketball team at the Olympics, the original Dream Team? This statement was made by Chuck Daly. The 1992 team consisting of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson is often regarded as the greatest collection of talent on one team in basketball history. "If we lose, it will be the biggest upset in the history of sports." This was the modest statement of a coach in 1992, an Olympic year. Who is 'we'? 200 What is Achilles tendon! Pitt of course played the role of the warrior Achilles in the movie. During the production of the 2004 movie Troy, Brad Pitt suffered an injury of what body part? 200 A smartphone made by the Canadian company Research In Motion. 200 Who is Vertner W. Tandy? He designed the fraternity pin with this initials hidden inside. 200 What is Red Cross? The Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering and is also known by this name. 300 What is the national sport of Japan? 300 What is 'Stomp the Yard'? Will Packer is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc and the producer of this movice 300 This is the third largest United States-based producer of socks, known for its colorful name. 300 Who is Moses Alvin Morrison? He didn't split the Red Sea, nor was he a chipmunk but he did serve as the first General President. 300 Who is Lance Armstrong? In 2012 Travis Tygart was chiefly instrumental in leading the expose of this, now fallen, athlete. 400 What is Fencing? In which Olympic sport do participants wear an electrically conductive jacket called a lamé to define the scoring areas? 400 What is a horse head? In “The Godfather,” what does Jack Wolz find in his bed when he wakes up? 400 What is Black & Decker An American manufacturer of power tools and accessories, hardware and home improvement products, and technology based fastening systems. 400 What is Louisville, KY? "L1C4" may serve as an unofficial motto of The Alpha Lambda chapter located in this U.S. city. 400 What is Holocaust Museum? In 2014, CNN reported that FBI and other law enforcement agencies send their trainees to what Washington, D.C. museum so they can see for themselves how not protecting civil liberties can lead to bigger horrors? 500 What is 'The Lord of the Rings' In 1992 British journalists Andrew Jennings and Vyv Simson wrote a controversial book about the International Olympic Committee chairman Juan Samaranch. Taking a cue from fantasy literature, what did they call it? 500 What is Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina? This location was chosen by Ridley Scott to signify the huge personal wealth of the character Mason Verger. It built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1888 and 1895 and occupies 175,000 square feet. Still owned by Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gild
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In which US state did the Battle of Yorktown take place in 1781?
American Revolution : The Battle of Yorktown The Battle of Yorktown 1781 General George Washington's resounding defeat of Lord Cornwallis's British army; causing the British to surrender and effectively ending the American Revolutionary War. Battle: YORKTOWN Date: 28th September to 19th October 1781 Place: Virginia, United States of America Combatants: Americans and French against the British American troops storming the redoubt Generals: General Washington commanded the Americans, Lieutenant General de Rochambeau commanded the French and Major General Lord Cornwallis commanded the British. Size of the armies: 8,800 Americans, 7,800 French and 6,000 British Uniforms, arms and equipment: The British wore red coats and headgear of bearskin caps, leather caps or tricorne hats depending on whether the troops were grenadiers, light infantry or battalion company men. The German infantry wore blue coats and retained the Prussian style grenadier mitre with brass front plate. The Americans dressed as best they could. Increasingly as the war progressed regular infantry regiments of the Continental Army wore blue uniform coats but the militia continued in rough clothing. The French royal regiments of foot wore white coats. French troops advancing to attack the British lines during the Battle of Yorktown. Both sides were armed with muskets and guns. The back country riflemen carried long, small calibre rifles, weapons of considerably greater accuracy than the ordinary musket and which their owners used with proficiency. Map of the Battle of Yorktown by John Fawkes British Infantry Officer Winner: The Americans and French British Regiments: 1 troop of 17th Light Dragoons (in Tarleton’s Legion) Royal Artillery A composite brigade of Foot Guards (comprising 1st, 2nd and 3rd Foot Guards) 17th Foot later the Royal Leicestershire Regiment and now the Royal Anglian Regiment 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers 33rd Foot now the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment 43rd later the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and now the Royal Green Jackets 71st Fraser’s Highlanders (disbanded at the end of the war) 76th Foot (disbanded at the end of the war) 80th Foot (disbanded at the end of the war) Regiment of de Voit (Anspach) Regiment of de Seybothen (Anspach) Regiment of Prince Hereditary (Hesse) Regiment of von Bose (Hesse) Tarleton’s Legion Simcoe’s Legion North Carolina Loyalists The British 23rd Regiment of Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers (from Tim Reese’s CD Rom of 116 illustrations of British and American Regiments from the Revolutionary War. French Regiments: 3 brigades of Virginia Militia Sappers and Miners The Americans storming the redoubts on 14th October 1781 during the Battle of Yorktown Account: Losing his grip on the Carolinas, Cornwallis marched his army into Virginia and seized Yorktown and Gloucester, towns on each side of the York River. With the arrival of the French fleet of Admiral De Grasse, General Washington was able to march south from New York with the joint American and French army to attack Cornwallis. The British Army marching out to surrender at the end of the Battle of Yorktown The Americans and French marched out of Williamsburg and arrived before Yorktown on 28th September 1781, forming a semi-circle around the entrenchments and putting the British under siege.  Cornwallis expecting Major General Clinton to sail from New York with a relieving force had decided to remain in Yorktown rather than march south to the Carolinas or attempt to reach New York. His first move was the inexplicable one of abandoning a line of four redoubts that dominated the British positions. The Americans immediately occupied the empty redoubts. View of Yorktown from the York River before it was destro
Bezzerwizzer at Paint Branch High School - StudyBlue StudyBlue Which geometric shape does Frank Llyod Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York echo? A spiral Which painter liked to present himself as the "Man in the Bowler Hat"? Rene Magritte Which IT company is also known by the abbreviation "HP"? Hewlett Packard Which American university is known by the abbreviation "M.I.T."? Massachusetts Institute of Technology What American fashion icon enjoys the sweet smell of success with his Double Black cologne? Ralph Lauren Whon won the Oscar for Best Actor in "The Godfather" in 1972? Marlon Brando Which traditional French dish consists of eggplant, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and onions? Ratatouille Which is the largest city in New Zealand? Auckland In 1960, which Asian country saw a woman elected as head of the government for the first time: Ceylon, Malaya or India? Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) What is the word for illnesses in which physical symptoms are traced back to mental causes? Psychosomatic How many people take part in a tete-a-tete? Two Who, in 1841, wrote about "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"? Edgar Allen Poe Who sang the title song to the James Bond film "Goldfinger"? Shirley Bassey Which species of deer is the most common across the world? Elk (moose) Who was elected President of Poland in 1990? Lech Walesa Which planet is also known as the "evening star"? Venus In a battle of the "hot-heads," who did Jimmy Connors defeat in 1982 in the Wimbledon tennis finals? John McEnroe Which videotape format prevailed in the face of competition from Betamax and Video2000? VHS Which President proclaimed Thanksgiving Day a national holiday? Abraham Lincoln Who was the murder victim at the center of the plot in TV's "Twin Peaks"? Laura Palmer Renaissance architecture emerged from which country? Italy How many people can be seen in da Vinci's painting of "The Last Supper"? Thirteen Which drink did pharmacist John S. Pemberton invent in 1886? Coca Cola Which term, used in sociology denotes the adaption of a minority to the culture and lifestyle of the majority? Assimilation What do the letters of the American fashion label "DKNY" stand for? Donna Karan New York Who played the role of Baron von Trapp in 1965's "The Sound of Music"? Christopher Plummer Which nation brought chocolate to Europe from rainforests of Mexico and Central America? Spain In which country is the Gibson Desert? Australia What was the code name for Allied Invasion of Normandy on D-Day? Operation Overlord What substance gives blood its red color? Hemoglobin Which science deals with the origin, history and meaning of words? Etymology Which generation did Douglas Coupland portray in his 1991 novel? Generation X Which duo sang "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" in 1965? The Righteous Brothers Which bird has the largest wing span? The (wandering) albatross Bill Clinton was governor of which U.S. state before becoming president? Arkansas How is the number 1,500 written in Roman numerals? MD In swimming, how many strokes are there in an Individual Medley? Four Which country launched MIR space station in 1986? Soviet Union How many points does the Jewish Star of David have? Six In which city did the TV series "Frasier" take place? Seattle What is a column or monument made of a single block of stone? Monolith Which male entertainment group, originally Los Angeles, is known for its striptease routine? The Chippendales Which copmany was co-founded in 1975 by Paul Allen? Microsoft What is celebrated on the 8th of March throughout the world? International Women's Day Causing fistfights in toy stores in the 1980s, which must have dolls came with their own adoption papers? Cabbage Patch Kids Who won the 2000 Oscar for Best Actor in "American Beauty"? Kevin Spacey Which exclusive dish meaning "fat liver" in French is prepared from duck or goose liver? Foie Gras Which ocean lies between Africa, Asia, Australia and the Antarctic? Indian Ocean Which Italian explorer gave his name to America? Amerigo Vespucci Who has, on average, more hair on their head: blondes, brunettes, or red
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In 1985, who became the first football player to be sent off during an FA Cup final?
BBC SPORT | Football | Europe | When Bryan Robson tamed Barca When Bryan Robson tamed Barca The 1984 Barcelona team By Jonathan Stevenson and Chris Bevan If Manchester United's previous meetings with Barcelona are anything to go by, their semi-final clash in this season's Champions League ought to be a classic. The clubs met twice in the old European Cup Winners' Cup and have twice found themselves in the same Champions League group. Each tie proved to be memorable for different reasons but for pure drama the first, in March 1984, was arguably the best. 606: DEBATE Do you remember United seeing off Maradona and co? United had lost the first leg of their Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final 2-0 at the Nou Camp through Graeme Hogg's own goal and Juan Carlos P�rez Rojo's last-minute strike. Ron Atkinson's side were given little chance of overturning that deficit against the Spanish giants, who were managed by World-Cup winning coach Cesar Luis Menotti and boasted a certain Diego Armando Maradona in their illustrious ranks. But United had their own icon in Bryan Robson, who showed why he was known to Red Devils fans as Captain Marvel with his display in the return at Old Trafford. Robson began the fightback with 22 minutes gone when he connected with a diving header from Ray Wilkins' corner and then, five minutes after the break, he sent the majority of the 58,350 crowd into raptures by slamming home from close-range after Javier Urruticoechea fumbled a Wilkins cross. UTD v BARCA PAST MEETINGS 1983-84 ECWC q-final 1998-99 Champ Lge groups BARCA 3-3 UTD The tie was level on aggregate but there was only going to be one winner. As United poured forward, Frank Stapleton latched on to a Norman Whiteside knockdown and lashed into the net from an acute angle. United bowed out 3-2 on aggregate in the last four to a Michel Platini-inspired Juventus, while Maradona left Barcelona for Napoli at the end of the season. But what happened to the other players who took part in that remarkable match 24 years ago? BBC Sport tracks down Arthur Albiston, Remi Moses, Jose Ramon Alexanco and the rest ahead of Wednesday's Champions League semi-final, first leg between Barcelona and Manchester United. MANCHESTER UNITED Atkinson spent five years in charge at Old Trafford Manager - Ron Atkinson Flamboyant and suntanned boss who, like his Barca counterpart Menotti, enjoyed a cigar or three. 'Big Ron' won the FA Cup twice with United and the League Cup with Sheffield Wednesday, as well as taking Aston Villa to second place in the Premier League in 1993, his best finish in the top flight. He also worked as a TV pundit before resigning from ITV in 2004 over racist remarks he made about Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly after a Champions League semi-final. Now director of football at British Gas Business Football League Premier Division side Halesowen Town. Gary Bailey Ipswich-born but South African-bred keeper who completed a BSc in physics when in Manchester. After a knee injury ended his career in England in 1987 he returned to South Africa to play for Kaizer Chiefs and study civil engineering but, after an investment in Mabula Game Reserve went wrong, he went to Oxford to get an MBA from Henley College. Now works as a TV presenter and motivational speaker and was an ambassador for South Africa's successful bid for the 2010 World Cup. Arthur Albiston Reliable Scottish left-back who won three FA Cups for United before teaming up again with Atkinson at West Brom in 1988. Later played for Dundee, Chesterfield, Chester, Norwegian side Molde, Ayr United, Sittingbourne, Witton Albion and Droylsden, who he also briefly managed. Now works for MUTV and also hosts tours of Old Trafford. Kevin Moran A successful Gaelic football player, Moran, who studied commerce at University College Dublin and worked as an accountant, was spotted playing football for Dublin side Pegasus and joined United in 1978. A combative centre-back, he spent 10 years at Old Trafford and won 71 Republic of Ireland caps but became the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final in 1985. Retire
Aston Villa 1-0 Bayern Munich - 1982 European Cup Final - Oh, It Must Be! - YouTube Aston Villa 1-0 Bayern Munich - 1982 European Cup Final - Oh, It Must Be! Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Mar 6, 2011 OH IT MUST BE PRESENTS: GREAT MOMENTS FROM VILLA VIDEOS No 14 - Oh, It Must Be! And It Is! Peter Withe! Have you won the European Cup? We have, and here's the proof. There's highlights of the game, which mostly comprises of Spinksy being phenomenal, and key players sharing their memories. Watch out for Peter Withe setting a new world record for most uses of the word "net" in a single sentence. Taken from: The Villenium (1999) Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ohitmustbe Category
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What is the longest winning distance in the Epsom Derby?
Epsom Derby The Derby Known in racing circles as The Derby Stakes or simply as The Derby in England, The Epsom Derby is the mother of all flat races. Inaugurated in 1780, The Epsom Derby is the most prestigious and popular flat race in the world. Despite being over 220 years old, The Derby is still as famous and as thrilling as on May 4, 1780 when Diomed won its inaugural race. Its prize money has grown with the times as well, with today's derby offering more than �1 million (�1.25 million in 2007). Staged annually at the Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey, England, The Derby is held traditionally on June's first weekend each year. The Epsom Derby ranks among the five British Classic Races. It is the second crown of the English Triple Crown along with the 2,000 Guineas and the St. Leger. The Epsom Derby, which involves a distance of one mile and four furlongs, brings together some of the best three-year-old colts and fillies in the world, although fillies have become rare in recent years. In its long history, only six fillies have ever gone on to win the Epsom Derby, the latest of which was Fifinella in 1916. Today, the Epsom Downs Racecourse hosts separate races over the same distance for fillies (Vodafone Oaks) and older horses (Coronation Cup). Each colt in the Epsom Derby carries nine stone while fillies carry eight stone and nine lbs . Contenders typically tune up for the race by participating in any of a series of races in England and Ireland known as the Derby Trials. According to the record books, 16 Epsom Derby winners previously competed in one of the trials during the 20-year period from 1988 to 2007. The winners of the Epsom Derby typically go on to compete in the major events in the international racing calendar, especially the Breeders Cup in the USA and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in France. The Epsom Derby has been the site of some of the greatest moments and achievements in thoroughbred racing. These include the 1995 race, which was won by Lammtarra in the record time of two minutes, 32.31 seconds, and the 1981 race won by Shergar by 10 lengths, the widest winning margin ever. The Derby has also been the site of some of the most improbably winners ever, including three 100/1 odds winners in 1898, 1908 and 1913. Moreover, the Epsom Derby has been the proving ground not only of the great thoroughbreds in history, but also for some of the best jockeys and trainers. Lester Piggott is the most successful jockey at the Epsom Derby with nine victories. Meanwhile, Robert Robson, John Porter and Fred Darling share the record for most successful trainers with seven wins each to their credit. Thousands of spectators attend the Epsom Derby every year to experience some of the biggest thrills in thoroughbred racing. Spectators are composed of people from all walks of life, the most famous being Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, a regular fixture at the Epsom Derby. The Epsom Derby is an ideal sporting event for tourists as many accomodation options are available near the venue, the Epsom Downs Racecourse, which is about 15 miles to the sout of Central London. Tourists are encouraged to book their hotel accommodations early. The track is accessible by bus, train or taxi cab. Foreign visitors will be hapy to know that the track is a short distance (30 minutes to one hour) to three main airports -- London City Airport, London Gatwick Airport and Heathrow Airport. Bookmakers Epsom Derby
Paramount Theme Park | Ebbsfleet International Trains chYps Hospice The proposed �2bn Theme Park Paramount is planned between small Swanscombe harbour and new Ingress Park, just 1 mile from Ebbsfleet International station. The new Theme park would be set across an 872-acre development over 3.5 times larger than Bluewater shopping centre, car parks included or twice the size of the Olympic Stadium in London. Although in most cases children and young people are expected to most frequently use the facility, lots of work is being planned that will encompass the best in family entertainment for all ages. Full-time development could start in 2015 and be completed by 2019. Most local people welcome the venture and it has proved to be a huge success in inspiring young and new careers. The Theme Park is expected to generate over 27'000 jobs and lots of trade for local businesses creating jobs. Local businesses have already volunteered their involvement and some have pledged finical backing for the Paramount Theme park, such as the new owners of local Ebbsfleet United football club reported to have invested a seven figure stake in to the venture. Ebbsfleet International Travel Company support Paramount Theme Park as a local business and Ebbsfleet station will serve as a main access point from Europe on the Eurostar trains. Although the area has been the subject to various plans including more housing proposals and even a site for a new bridge crossing none offer such a lucrative model for the local or national economy as the Theme Park, which is widely supported. The plans also included Europe's "largest" indoor water park, theatres, live music venues and hotels. The Paramount Theme Park will be near Swanscombe village and Ebbsfleet located in Dartford Borough. The Council and along with neighbouring Gravesham Borough Council, have described the development as a "tremendous economic growth opportunity" for the region. Although both local borough's have agreed the plans in principle, the official conclusion will be known until 2014. Drastic plans and upgrades in infrastructure deduce or spell out a forgone conclusion as both Gravesend and Dartford town centre have plans to upgrade facilities and shopping centres, Gravesend station has a �19 million upgrade during Xmas 2013 are among positive signs for a much welcomed approval.
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An archipelago is a group of what?
archipelago - National Geographic Society archipelago The archipelago that makes up Bermuda has 181 islands. Photograph by Dean Conger It's All Greek to Me Archipelago was what the ancient Greeks called the Aegean Sea. Archipelagic Apron An archipelagic apron is the smooth, gentle slope of the seafloor surrounding oceanic islands or seamounts (underwater volcanoes). An archipelago is a group of island s closely scattered in a body of water. Usually, this body of water is the ocean, but it can also be a lake or river. Most archipelagoes are made of oceanic island s. This means the islands were formed by volcano es erupting from the ocean floor. An archipelago made up of oceanic islands is called an island arc . Many island arcs were formed over a single “ hot spot .” The Earth’s crust shifted while the hot spot stayed put, creating a line of islands that show exactly the direction the crust moved. The Hawaiian Islands continue to form this way, with a hot spot remaining relatively stable while the Pacific tectonic plate moves northwest. There are 137 Hawaiian islands, reef s and atoll s, stretching from Kure and Midway in the west to the "Big Island" of Hawaii in the east. The Big Island is still being formed by the active volcanoes Mauna Loa and Kilauea. The island arc will grow as Loihi, a seamount southeast of the Big Island, eventually punctures the ocean surface as Hawaii's youngest island. Japan is another island arc. The Japanese archipelago consists of four large islands, from Hokkaido, in the far north, through Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu in the far south. Japan also includes more than 3,000 smaller islands. In several places in the Japanese archipelago, volcanoes are still active. Volcanoes do not form all archipelagoes. Many archipelagoes are continental island s formed only after the last ice age. As glacier s retreated, sea levels rose and low-lying valleys were flooded. Coastal mountain ranges became archipelagoes just off the mainland. The largest archipelago in the world was formed by glacial retreat . The Malay Archipelago, between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, contains more than 25,000 islands in Southeast Asia. The thousands of islands of Indonesia and Malaysia are a part of the Malay Archipelago. At least some of these islands—and the strait s that separate them—were part of mainland Asia during the last ice age . Finland’s Archipelago Sea, part of the Baltic Sea, also emerged after the last ice age. There are more than 50,000 islands in the Archipelago Sea, although many of them do not measure half a hectare (one acre). Some of the islands are close enough to be connected by bridges. Islands of the archipelago sea were never coastal mountaintops, however. They were formed by post-glacial rebound . In this process, land that was squashed by the weight of heavy glaciers during the Ice Age slowly regains its shape, like a sponge. Because post-glacial rebound is still occurring, islands continue to rise from the Archipelago Sea. Term land once connected to a continent but broken off by shifting tectonic plates. crust process by which glaciers melt faster than precipitation can replace the ice. glacier hot spot Noun intensely hot region deep within the Earth that rises to just underneath the surface. Some hot spots produce volcanoes. last glacial period, which peaked about 20,000 years ago. island land formed from the eruption of a volcano on the ocean floor. post-glacial rebound process in which land that was crushed by a glacier regains its shape. reef Noun a ridge of rocks, coral, or sand rising from the ocean floor all the way to or near the ocean's surface. sea level Noun tectonic plate Noun massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth's lithosphere (crust and upper mantle). Also called lithospheric plate. volcano Noun an opening in the Earth's crust, through which lava, ash, and gases erupt, and also the cone built by eruptions.
Asia and the Pacific Asia and the Pacific Afghanistan Afghanistan is located in southern Asia and shares a border with 6 countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Landlocked, with an area of 652,000 square kilometers (251,737 square miles), Afghanistan is a mountainous country dominated by the Hindu Kush and the Himalayan mountain ranges to the north and arid desert to the south. Australia Australia is a continent and a country in the Southern Hemisphere, lying to the south of Southeast Asia, and dividing the Indian and South Pa cific Oceans. The total area of Australia is 7,686,850 square kilometers (2,967,892 square miles), with land constituting 7,617,930 square kilometers (2,942,282 square miles) and water 68,920 square kilometers (26,610 square miles). Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, a country of eastern Transcaucasia, is located on the western border of the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Russia. It is bounded by Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, Turkey to the southwest by the border of Nakhichevan, and Iran to the south. Indonesia Indonesia is an archipelago (a group of islands) stretching along the equator between the Southeast Asian mainland and Papua New Guinea, with which it shares an island. The country has a total land area of 1,919,440 square kilometers (741,096 square miles), or about 3 times the size of Texas. Iran Iran, a country slightly larger than Alaska, is located in the Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf in the south and the Caspian Sea in the north. It covers an area of 1.648 million square kilometers (636,296 square miles) and is edged between Iraq, with which it shares a border of 1,458 kilometers (906 miles), and Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east, with which Iran has 909 kilometers (565 miles) and 936 kilometers (582 miles), respectively, of common borderline. Japan Japan, an island nation in east Asia, is an archipelago (large group of islands) located east of the Korean peninsula. It has an area of 377,835 square kilometers (145,882 square miles), which makes it slightly smaller than the state of California. Jordan Jordan, a Middle Eastern kingdom, is sandwiched between Saudi Arabia in the south and east, Syria and Iraq in the north, and Israel (including the West Bank of the Jordan River) in the west. The country has an area of 89,213 square kilometers (34,445 square miles) and a coastline of only 26 kilometers (16 miles) along the Gulf of Aqaba in the south. Kazakhstan Kazakhstan is located in the center of the Eurasian landmass in what is known as Central Asia. Kazakhstan is bordered on the east by China, on the south by Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, on the west by the Caspian Sea, and on the north by Russia. Kiribati The Republic of Kiribati comprises 33 atolls in 3 principal island groups, scattered within an area of about 5 million square kilometers (2 million square miles) in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The 3 island groups are the Gilbert Islands, the Line Islands, and the Phoenix Islands. Korea, North North Korea is in eastern Asia and occupies the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. It borders China to the north, Russia to the far northeast, the Sea of Japan / East Sea to the east, South Korea to the south, and the Korean Bay and Yellow Sea to the west. Korea, South South Korea occupies the southern half of the Korean Peninsula in eastern Asia. It is bordered by North Korea to the north, the Sea of Japan / East Sea to the south and to the east, and the Yellow Sea to the west. Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia forms (with Palau) the archipelago of the Caroline Islands, and lies about 800 kilometers (497 miles) east of the Philippines. The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) consists of 607 islands and includes (from west to east) the states of Yap, Chuuk (formerly Truk), Pohnpei (formerly Ponape), and Kosrae. Mongolia Formerly known as Outer Mongolia, the Republic of Mongolia is a landlocked country located between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. The country has an
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According to biblical tradition what came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat, now in eastern Turkey?
1000+ images about NOAH'S ARK on Pinterest | Robert ballard, Underwater and Hieronymus bosch Forward A full-sized replica of the biblical Noah's Ark has been built by a Dutch man, complete with model animals, and a four story theatre. Dutch creationist Johan Huibers built the ark and finished it in 2012 as testament to his literal belief in the Bible. After three years of building the Ark he finally finished this July and attempted to sail it to London for the Olympics but could not get the proper permits. He expects to get around 400.000 visitors a year. This is the second ark he has… See More
Ashtart, the Phoenician Great Goddess Roman Ashtart (either "the Star", or "She of the Womb&"), is better known by the name Astarte, the Greek version of Her name. Ashtart is a Semitic Goddess of love and war and the Canaanite Great Goddess who is the cult partner of Ba'al (the King). Semitic describes a group of languages, and by extension, kindred cultures of the Near East and Africa which include Phoenician, Arabic, Hebrew and Assyrian. She is the Deity of the Planet Venus and a Fertility Goddess, and Her cult was known throughout the ancient world for its practice of temple prostitution. She was the main Deity of the cities Sor (more familiarly Tyre), Zidon (Sidon) and Gubla (Byblos), and is frequently shown as an archer either beside or standing on a lion, much like the Babylonian Ishtar , who is quite similar. Snakes and the cypress tree are sacred to Her; and, like the related Arabic Goddess Al-Uzza , whose name, "the Mighty One", is an epithet of Ashtart, the acacia tree is also Hers. As with many of the other Near Eastern Goddesses of the planet Venus, two of Her aspects are that of the Goddess of War and the Goddess of Love. As Venus the Morning Star, Ashtart is a Goddess of War and Hunting; and as the Evening Star, She is the Goddess of Love, Sex, Fertility and Vitality, depicted as a nude woman. In Her role as Goddess of Love She was honored with sexual rites, especially in the city of Sidon or Zidon, and some of Her priests and priestesses there were chosen from the royal family. In the legends of Ugarit (the modern Ras Shamra on the coast of Syria) of the 14th century BCE, Ashtart is mentioned with the virgin Warrior-Goddess Anath ( Anat ) as restraining the young God Ba'al, who wishes to overthrow the River God, Yam. When Yam is taken captive, Ba'al kills him, and Ashtart rebukes him for the murder, cursing Him with His own name. She is sometimes called "Ashtart-Name-of-Ba'al" which may refer to Her magical knowledge of His secret name in which His power resides; the idea of a secret or cult name of a Deity, known only to the initiated, was not uncommon in the area: Jehovah is supposed to possess a secret name of power, uttered by Lilith when She left the Garden; and in a legend of Isis, the great Egyptian Goddess, She brings about the downfall of the aging God Ra by speaking his hidden name. Several gold pendants from Ugarit, dating to about 1300 BCE depict Ashtart in a highly stylized manner. From a flat gold plate, roughly teardrop-shaped, Her face and breasts emerge; and Her pubic area is depicted as a triangle with dots, I assume representing hair. There is also, however, what appears to be a stylized tree "growing" from that triangle and which ends just below Her navel. This "tree" is perhaps to be equated with the Near Eastern Tree of Life. Ashtart was worshipped with the young God 'Adon, son of Malidthu , in the town of Aphek or Aphaca in Palestine, the modern Afka. 'Adon is a title, rather than a name (as is common among the Phoenicians) meaning "Lord", and He may actually be Eshmun, the young God of Health. The site of the town Aphek was known for its stunning beauty, as it was situated high on a cliff from which a river issued to fall in a great torrent. Under the Greek name Adonis (which also means "Lord"), He was a young and very beautiful God with Whom Aphrodite (the Greek equivalant of Athtart) fell in love. Alas, one day while out hunting He was killed by a boar and the Goddess mourned terribly for Him. He represents the young vegetation/crops that are killed in the droughts of the dry season, and the river at Aphek was said to run red with His blood in the rainy season. He had a famous festival in midsummer celebrating His death and resurrection that eventually spread with His worship to Greece, Egypt and Rome, and which was celebrated primarily by women. For some time Ashtart under the name Ashtoreth seems to have been worshipped side by side with the Hebrew God as His consort; He was early on called Ba'al, a general title meaning "Lord", used in the area to refer to each people's particu
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Which creatures might be bred and reared in a 'ranarium'?
Breed - definition of breed by The Free Dictionary Breed - definition of breed by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/breed v. bred (brĕd), breed·ing, breeds v.tr. 1. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch. 2. To bring about; engender: "Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy" (Jonathan Alter). 3. a. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle. b. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits. c. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with. 4. To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture. 5. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers. 6. To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor. v.intr. 3. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds. n. 1. A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation. 2. A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer. 3. Offensive A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed. Idioms: breed a scab/scabs on (one's) nose Regional To stir up trouble for oneself. breed up a storm New England To become cloudy. [Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan; see bhreu- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] breed vb, breeds, breeding or bred 1. to bear (offspring) 2. (tr) to bring up; raise 3. (Genetics) to produce or cause to produce by mating; propagate 4. (Breeds) to produce and maintain new or improved strains of (domestic animals and plants) 5. to produce or be produced; generate: to breed trouble; violence breeds in densely populated areas. n 6. (Genetics) a group of organisms within a species, esp a group of domestic animals, originated and maintained by man and having a clearly defined set of characteristics 7. (Genetics) a lineage or race: a breed of Europeans. 8. a kind, sort, or group: a special breed of hatred. [Old English brēdan, of Germanic origin; related to brood] breed 1. to produce (offspring); procreate. 2. to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce. 3. to cause (plants or animals) to reproduce and usu. to be improved by selection. 4. to give rise to; engender; produce: Dirt breeds disease. 5. to develop by training or education; bring up; rear: born and bred a gentleman. 6. to impregnate; mate: to breed a mare. 7. to produce more fissile nuclear fuel than is consumed in a reactor. v.i. 9. to be engendered or produced; grow. n. 10. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans. 11. lineage; stock; strain. [before 1000; Middle English breden, Old English brēdan to nourish] breed Verb 1. To produce or reproduce by giving birth or hatching: Mosquitoes breed in water. 2. To raise animals or plants, often to produce new or improved types: breed a new type of corn. Noun A group of organisms having common ancestors and sharing certain traits that are not shared with other members of the same species. Breeds are usually produced by mating selected parents. Breed  a race or variety of animals; a class, sort, or kind of men, things, or qualities; a number produced at one time. See also brood . Examples: breed of bees [a brood], 1580; of duckling, 1802; of thinkers; of wits, 1588. breed I will have been breeding you will have been breeding he/she/it will have been breeding we will have been breeding you will have been breeding they will have been breeding Past Perfect Continuous Noun 1. breed - a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep" animal group - a group of animals variety - (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics; "varieties are frequently recognized in botany" bloodstock - thoroughbred horses (collectively) pedigree - line of de
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Who is the only Rugby Union player to have won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
Sports Personality of the Year 2014: as it happened - Telegraph Sports Personality of the Year Sports Personality of the Year 2014: as it happened SPOTY 2014 - All the latest news, views, results and reaction from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards in Glasgow on Sunday, December 14, 2014 Nominees: Which of the 10 candidates would you choose? Photo: GETTY IMAGES/ REUTERS - Lewis Hamilton wins Sports Personality of the Year - McIlroy 2nd, Pavey 3rd - Young Sports Personality of the year: gymnast Claudia Fragapane - Coach of the Year: Paul McGinley - Team of the Year: England women's rugby union team - Overseas Sports Personality of the Year: Cristiano Ronaldo - Poll: See who you would like to win the Sports Personality prize Latest WRAP: So there we are. It's not been a vintage year for British sport, unless it took place on snow or ice. Golf fans will naturally be up in arms, and for more reasons than one - Paul McGinley a coach, anyone? But there was real warmth for Lewis Hamilton: a genuine guy who perhaps needs our love a little more than he lets on. And whatever you think of the result, I'm sure we can all agree on one thing: thank god it's all over for another year. Thanks for reading, goodnight! 22.38 Ian Poulter's not having this. He's mad as hell and he's not going to take this any more. Related Articles Golf, not Rory McIlroy, has lost its popularity 16 Dec 2014 &amp;lt;noframe&amp;gt;Twitter: Ian Poulter - Obsolutely ridiculous that &amp;lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/McIlroyRory" target="_blank"&amp;gt;@McIlroyRory&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; has not won Sports Personality 2014. Huge respect to &amp;lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/LewisHamilton" target="_blank"&amp;gt;@LewisHamilton&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; but come on.&amp;lt;/noframe&amp;gt; 22.33 Hamilton's the first motorsport winner since Damon Hill in 1996. He's the first non-white winner since 2004. And whatever you think of Formula One, he wasn't born into a mililionaire's penthouse in Monaco. He started out in a council estate in Stevenage. I mean, Stevenage. 22.31 Right, everyone. Let's never speak of any of this again. 22.30 Let the backlash begin... &amp;lt;noframe&amp;gt;Twitter: Michael Vaughan - Not having that at all.... &amp;lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/McIlroyRory" target="_blank"&amp;gt;@McIlroyRory&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; should have won ...&amp;lt;/noframe&amp;gt; 22.29 Lewis is in "humble" mode tonight. "I want to say a huge thank you to all the people that called it. I really was not expecting it. I couldn't have done it without my amazing team. My dad who had four jobs just to get me go-karting, and never gave up on me." 22.28 First person complaining Formula One isn't a real sport in 3... 2... 1... 22.27 And the winner is... LEWIS HAMILTON. 22.26 Second place... Rory McIlroy. Shock! 22.26 Third place... Jo Pavey. 22.25 Right. So. Here we are. A mere six to eight months after we started, we're going to find out who's going to win. Kenny Dalglish and Jonny Wilkinson to present the main award. 22.24 He's still going. For a man who based his entire career on speed, Chris Hoy really does go on a bit. 22.23 OK this is very nice but CAN YOU PLEASE GET ON WITH IT NOW. 22.22 "When I was growing up," Hoy says, "I thought sporting chapions were just born sporting champions. I thought they were a different breed to the rest of us. But with hard graft, you can achieve amazing things." 22.19 Naturally, we're running a bit late. The main award was supposed to be announced at 22.16. And most of those extra minutes have gone into the standing ovation for Sir Chris Hoy, which was really quite something. He's on the verge of tears. 22.18 Matt Law, as usual, is spot on. &amp;lt;noframe&amp;gt;Twitter: Matt Law - Sports Personality of Year has basically highlighted that British women have massively outperformed men this year. Women's sport v strong&amp;lt;/noframe&amp;gt; 22.17 It is, of course, the Honourable, Most Esteemed, Right Reverend, Lord Sir Chris Hoy! 22.16 Lifetime achievement award time. "Here in Glasgow, there's a velodrome named in his honour
BBC SPORT | Wilkinson scoops BBC award Wilkinson scoops BBC award Profile: Jonny Wilkinson England rugby hero Jonny Wilkinson has won the 2003 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The triumph capped a remarkable year for the fly-half, who scored the late drop goal which clinched the Rugby World Cup. On a star-studded night which celebrated the 50th birthday of the annual awards, Sir Steven Redgrave was voted the 'Golden Personality'. The five-time Olympic rowing gold medallist secured more than half the votes against fellow contenders David Beckham, Ian Botham, Bobby Moore and Torvill and Dean. Wilkinson finished ahead of his England captain Martin Johnson, and athlete Paula Radcliffe. The other finalists were three-day eventer Pippa Funnell and motorcyclist Neil Hodgson. All the awards Watched by his proud parents, Wilkinson received the famous trophy from the Princess Royal. He said: "It's difficult to explain how this feels, you can probably tell by the shakiness in my voice. "It's a privilege to be here amongst so many people I've grown up admiring and still watch it on the telly. I've been sat there staring at Boris Becker, one of my heroes, for half the evening. "I've been massively honoured to be part of a wonderful England team. To play under and be led by Martin Johnson is also such a humbling experience. "I want to thank everyone who voted and I'd like to thank my family and friends for sticking by me and helping me through." Wilkinson began 2003 by scoring a tournament-best 77 points as England scooped the Grand Slam for the first time in eight years. And the 24-year-old captained his country for the first time against Italy. WILKINSON FACTFILE Wilkinson stunned by honour Wilkinson was again in supreme form on England's tour down under, as they established themselves as World Cup favourites with historic wins over New Zealand and Australia. With a reputation as one of the world's best players, Wilkinson headed to the World Cup but , along with many of his team-mates, initially struggled. It looked like the pressure was beginning to tell but the doubts proved entirely unfounded. Wilkinson came into his own in the semi-final against France, scoring all of England's 24 points. And the 100th-minute drop goal against Australia merely confirmed what England fans already knew - that Wilkinson was worth his weight in gold. His rugby colleagues shared in the glory, with the England squad named team of the year. And team boss Clive Woodward won the coach of the year award, which was presented by England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. Wilkinson also presented the young personality of the year trophy to swimmer Kate Haywood. Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was named overseas personality, ahead of racing driver Michael Schumacher. Veteran tennis star Martina Navratilova won the lifetime achievement award.
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Burkittsville in Maryland, USA gained notoriety in 1999 after the release of which 'fake real' film that supposedly took place there?
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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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Which element, atomic number 12, is named after a district in Greece?
Why are many chemical elements named after countries? - Quora Quora Updated Sep 15, 2014 The people who discovered them were citizens of that country. They named the elements in honor of their country. When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the element with atomic number 84, they named it Polonium in the honor of Marie's country Poland. Similarly, when Marguerite Catherine Perey, a French chemist discovered the element with atomic number 87, she named it Francium in honour of her country France. Same goes for Germanium, Scandium, Strontium and many other elements. Magnesium was named after the province of Magnesia (a district in Greece) because it was exclusive to Magnesia in ancient times. The term 'milk of magnesia' has similar origins. Interesting, right?
US Cities With Greek Names | USA.GreekReporter.com US Cities With Greek Names US Cities With Greek Names By - Feb 9, 2013 More than 100 cities and villages across the USA have been named after Greek cities, mythological heroes and historical figures of ancient and modern times. This is a short list of the biggest and most well known American cities bearing Greek names across the Atlantic. Olympia is the capital city of the state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It has 46,500 residents and it is named after the sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, the most famous games in history. Athens is a name you can find in several cities in the states of Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania. There is also a New Athens in Illinois and an Athens County in Ohio. The name of the Greek capital and ancient goddess Athena seems particularly popular in the USA. Arcadia is yet another Greek origin name found in various states including California, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wisconsin. The home of ancient Greek god Pan and the praised unspoiled natural environment of the Peloponnese region has been a source of inspiration in the USA. The name of the famous ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts to the Golden Fleece, Argo, is a small town in Texas, while Arion the poet who was kidnapped by pirates and was miraculously saved by dophins is remembered in both Iowa and Ohio. You can also find replicas of the important Greek port city of Corinth in Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, Texas and Vermont. The famous city state of ancient Greece known for its disciplined warriors and its unique social system, Sparta, has reemerged in Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin. Titan Atlas who was punished by Zeus to bear the weight of the heavens on his shoulders is remembered in Atlanta cities in  Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,Missouri , Nebraska, New York, Texas. There is also the name Atlas in Michigan and Kansas, and the name Atlantic City in New Jersey. Troy the ancient city of the Trojan War described in Homer’s epic The Iliad has been a source of inspiration for cities and residences in Alabama, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. The home of Ulysses Ithaca has been used in Nebraska, New York and Ohio, while a city in central Texas was named after Ulysses’ faithful wife Penelope. Echo, the ancient Greek mountain nymph that fell in love and had her heart broken by Narcissus, gave her name to cities in Louisiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Utah. Cities bearing the name of ancient epic poet Homer are found in the states of Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio. The name of Greece’s biggest island Crete has been used in cities both in Illinois and Nebraska, while Delphi, where the famous ancient oracle once was, inspired the residents of Indiana, Kentucky and New York as well. Finally, Greece has given its name to the town of Greece in Monroe County, New York, United States. With a population of 96,095 according to the 2010 census, the Town of Greece was established in 1822 from part of the Town of Gates and was previously called Northampton. The name Greece was selected because of the then contemporary struggle of Greece for independence from the Ottoman Empire. TAGS what about cities ending with polis like Minneapolis, Indianapolis… then the Navy’s Annapolis. Still that link. Then there are those with the names like Phoenix, an ancient Hellenic bird… Chris Moutzikis What about the city Macedonia in Ohio? I’m sure there are many more from other parts of Greece outside
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In which city was the first Disney theme park opened in 1955?
Disneyland's Grand Opening Store      After years of planning, Walt Disney's very  first theme park  Disneyland opened its gates at 2:30PM on Sunday July 17, 1955 in Anaheim, California. Television crews, Art Linkletter, Ronald Reagan, Bob Cummings, the Mouseketeers, Thurl Ravenscroft, California Governor Goodwin J. Knight and over 28,000 guests witnessed the opening of Walt's dream. Broadcast on ABC at 4:30PM, it was the biggest live telecast to date.       Eighteen-year-old Bob Penfield operated the King Arthur Carousel that day - he was suppose to operate Peter Pan's Flight, but the attraction kept breaking down. "On Opening Day I remember standing on the Carrousel when they lowered the drawbridge for the first time and all of the kids came running across." Penfield went on to become the longest working Cast Member in Disneyland history!      Charlie Ridgway, a reporter working for the Los Angeles Mirror-News was covering the opening of Disneyland on that hot July day. He later went on to work for Disney as a publicist before relocating to Orlando, Florida to run Disney's public-relations department for  thirty years!      Actor Ronald Reagan (who would later become president of the United States) introduced 53-year-old Walt Disney - "And now, Walt Disney will  step forward to read the dedication of Disneyland." Walt christened his 160-acre park with these now famous words (penned by Winston Hibler):       The park offered 5 themed lands with a total of  18 attractions . Disneyland  opened as invitation only on this day, given to studio workers, construction workers, the press and officials  of company sponsors. (The park opened to the general public the following day -  July 18 .) Because tickets to the  grand opening were counterfeited, a surprising 28,000-plus attended. The day was marked by numerous disasters, including a traffic jam, a shortage of food, and a gas leak in Fantasyland. Even a chunk of window from the Mark Twain Steamboat crashed on the head of an invited state senator! Disneyland encouraged visitors to arrive before 4:15PM, as during the live ABC telecast the park's gates were closed from 4:20PM to 5:30PM.      Cast Member Ron Dominguez was working as a ticket taker at Disneyland's main gate. "I was a Ticker Taker. Opening Day was a hectic day. The plan was to invite people at different hours so that we could spread out all of the arrivals. But it didn't work out that way. Everyone wanted to come out early to see the stars." Dominguez  would spend his entire career at the park eventually becoming a top executive (between 1971-1994). Ironically he grew up on one of the Anaheim orange groves later purchased by Disney for the theme park. The Dominguez family house was located just about where the entrance to the Pirates of the Caribbean is!      Celebrities visiting Disneyland that day included Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Danny Thomas, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.  July 17, 1955 was known by Disneyland old-timers as  "Black Sunday" (because of the numerous mishaps)  ... yet in those first 7 weeks more than a million  people walked down Disneyland's Main Street USA! OPENING DAY  OPENING OF DISNEYLAND Nine-year-old Bonnie Williams was an opening day guests because her church youth group was invited. She was among the first children to cross the drawbridge into Fantasyland and ride Disneyland's rides! "I remember seeing Walt," she says. "He looked like a giant. I told him, 'I saw you on TV!' The whole day was magical. I felt like a real princess."  "To all who come to this happy place: welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past...and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts which have created America ... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world." THIS SITE MADE IN THE USA A rusty-haired 12-year-old named Tom Nabbe also visited Disneyland. Tom and his mom stood outside the park's entrance seeking autographs from Hollywood st
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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In humans the atlas and axis bones are in which part of the body?
3D Skeletal System: Atlas, Axis, and the Atlanto-Axial Relationship 3D Skeletal System: Atlas, Axis, and the Atlanto-Axial Relationship Tweet There are 33 vertebrae in your vertebral column. Or is it 24? Doesn't matter—both numbers are correct. You're born with 33, but the sacrum and coccyx fuse to the rest of the spine, making it 24 by the time you're an adult. Of those 24 (not counting the sacrum and coccyx), two vertebrae are fortunate enough to have names. The atlas (C01) and axis (C02) are two of the most important vertebrae in the spine. Without them, head and neck movement would be impossible.The atlas and axis vertebrae are the two most superior bones in the vertebral column. They are part of the seven cervical vertebrae. The atlas is the top-most bone, sitting just below the skull; it is followed by the axis. Together, they support the skull, facilitate neck movement, and protect the spinal cord. (Think of them as BFFs—you won't find one without the other.)   Unlike the other vertebrae, the atlas does not have a spinous process. Instead, it is ringlike and consists of an anterior and posterior arch, as well as two lateral masses. The transverse processes (the protrusions of bone on either side of the ring) serve as the attachment sites of muscles that assist in rotating the head. The foramina (the holes) give passage to the vertebral artery and vertebral vein. The axis is somewhat analogous to the other cervical vertebrae in shape, but it differs slightly for two reasons: its spinous process isn't as obviously bifid, and the presence of the dens. The spinous process serves as the attachment site for many muscles of the spine, particularly those close to the skull, as well as the nuchal ligament.   The dens (above, in green), or odontoid process, is a toothlike projection of bone that rises perpendicularly from the upper surface of the body of the axis. Its purpose is very important, but I'll get to that later. Let's talk about joints.   CRANIOVERTEBRAL JOINTS There are many types of vertebral joints, but the atlas and axis form the only craniovertebral joints in the body. A craniovertebral joint is exactly what it sounds like: a joint that permits movement between the vertebral column and the skull. The ligaments in the spine support and reinforce the joints between the vertebrae. The atlas and axis in particular work with the ligaments to move the neck. The atlas and the occipital bone form the atlanto-occipital joint, which allows neck flexion. When you nod your head as if to say "yes," that is neck flexion. The atlas and axis form the atlanto-axial joint, which allows head rotation. If you shake your head as if to say "no," that is head rotation.   The atlanto-axial joint is a compound synovial joint. A synovial joint is a freely moveable joint, differing from other types of joints due to the presence of synovial fluid, which lubricates the joint. Most of the main joints (hands, feet, and other regions in the appendicular skeleton) are synovial joints. It is also a pivot joint. A pivot joint is made by the end of one articulating bone rotating in a ring formed by another bone and its ligaments. Think of a metal washer twisting around a bolt. The dens articulates with the facet on the atlas, as well as the transverse ligament, and this articulation provides the head with approximately 50% of its movement.
See Normal Spinal Anatomy Depending on an individual’s development, the coccyx may consist of three to five different bones connected by fused—or semi-fused—joints and/or disc-like ligaments. While it was originally thought that the coccyx is always fused together, it is now known that the coccyx is not one solid bone, but there is some limited movement between the bones permitted by fibrous joints and ligaments. See Sacrum (Sacral Region) The coccyx connects with the sacrum through the sacrococcygeal joint, and there is normally limited movement between the coccyx and the sacrum. The coccyx usually moves slightly forward or backward as the pelvis, hips, and legs move. When a person sits or stands, the bones that make up the pelvis (including the coccyx) rotate outward and inward slightly to better support and balance the body. See Sacroiliac Joint Anatomy Function of the Coccyx Although the tailbone is considered vestigial (or no longer necessary) in the human body, it does have some function in the pelvis. For instance, the coccyx is one part of a three-part support for a person in the seated position. Weight is distributed between the bottom portions of the two hip bones (or ischium) and the tailbone, providing balance and stability when a person is seated. The tailbone is the connecting point for many pelvic floor muscles. These muscles help support the anus and aid in defecation, support the vagina in females, and assist in walking, running, and moving the legs. In This Article: Coccydynia (Tailbone Pain) Video Why Do More Coccyx Injuries Occur in Women Than Men? Coccydynia is generally much more common in women; some sources from the medical literature find that women are five times more likely to develop coccydynia than men.2 The majority of coccyx injuries occur in women because: A broader pelvic structure, which may decrease the amount of pelvic rotation and leave the coccyx more exposed to injury. Women tend to place more weight on the coccyx when sitting, which leaves it more susceptible to injury. Childbirth, which may cause acute damage as the baby moves over the tailbone
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Which Nobel prize-winning British playwright died in December 2008?
Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dead at 78 | Fox News Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dead at 78 Published December 25, 2008 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Email Print LONDON –  Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. Pinter, whose distinctive contribution to the stage was recognized with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, died on Wednesday, according to his second wife, Lady Antonia Fraser. "Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles," the Nobel Academy said when it announced Pinter's award. "With a minimum of plot, drama emerges from the power struggle and hide-and-seek of interlocution." The Nobel Prize gave Pinter a global platform which he seized enthusiastically to denounce U.S. President George W. Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law," Pinter said in his Nobel lecture, which he recorded rather than traveling to Stockholm. "How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?" he asked, in a hoarse voice. Weakened by cancer and bandaged from a fall on a slippery pavement, Pinter seemed a vulnerable old man when he emerged from his London home to speak about the Nobel Award. Though he had been looking forward to giving a Nobel lecture — "the longest speech I will ever have made" — he first canceled plans to attend the awards, then announced he would skip the lecture as well on his doctor's advice. Pinter wrote 32 plays; one novel, "The Dwarfs," in 1990; and put his hand to 22 screenplays including "The Quiller Memorandum" (1965) and "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1980). He admitted, and said he deeply regretted, voting for Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and Tony Blair in 1997. Pinter fulminated against what he saw as the overweening arrogance of American power, and belittled Blair as seeming like a "deluded idiot" in support of Bush's war in Iraq. In his Nobel lecture, Pinter accused the United States of supporting "every right-wing military dictatorship in the world" after World War II. "The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them," he said. The United States, he added, "also has its own bleating little lamb tagging behind it on a lead, the pathetic and supine Great Britain." Most prolific between 1957 and 1965, Pinter relished the juxtaposition of brutality and the banal and turned the conversational pause into an emotional minefield. His characters' internal fears and longings, their guilt and difficult sexual drives are set against the neat lives they have constructed in order to try to survive. Usually enclosed in one room, they organize their lives as a sort of grim game and their actions often contradict their words. Gradually, the layers are peeled back to reveal the characters' nakedness. The protection promised by the room usually disappears and the language begins to disintegrate. Pinter once said of language, "The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness." Pinter's influence was felt in the United States in the plays of Sam Shepard and David Mamet and throughout British literature. "With his earliest work, he stood alone in British theater up against the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics, the audience and writers too," British playwright Tom Stoppard said when the Nobel Prize was announced
Shakespeare's Plays   Shakespeare's Plays Before the publication of the First Folio in 1623, nineteen of the thirty-seven plays in Shakespeare's canon had appeared in quarto format. With the exception of Othello (1622), all of the quartos were published prior to the date of Shakespeare's retirement from the theatre in about 1611. It is unlikely that Shakespeare was involved directly with the printing of any of his plays, although it should be noted that two of his poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were almost certainly printed under his direct supervision. Here you will find the complete text of Shakespeare's plays, based primarily on the First Folio, and a variety of helpful resources, including extensive explanatory notes, character analysis, source information, and articles and book excerpts on a wide range of topics unique to each drama. Tragedies The story of Mark Antony, Roman military leader and triumvir, who is madly in love with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623).   Coriolanus (1607-1608) The last of Shakespeare's great political tragedies, chronicling the life of the mighty warrior Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623).   Hamlet (1600-1601) Since its first recorded production, Hamlet has engrossed playgoers, thrilled readers, and challenged actors more so than any other play in the Western canon. No other single work of fiction has produced more commonly used expressions . Earliest known text: Quarto (1603). Although there were earlier Elizabethan plays on the subject of Julius Caesar and his turbulent rule, Shakespeare's penetrating study of political life in ancient Rome is the only version to recount the demise of Brutus and the other conspirators. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623). The story of King Lear, an aging monarch who decides to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters, according to which one recites the best declaration of love. Earliest known text: Quarto (1608).   Macbeth (1605-1606) Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most stimulating and popular dramas. Renaissance records of Shakespeare's plays in performance are scarce, but a detailed account of an original production of Macbeth has survived, thanks to Dr. Simon Forman . Earliest known text: First Folio (1623).   Othello (1604-1605) Othello, a valiant Moorish general in the service of Venice, falls prey to the devious schemes of his false friend, Iago. Earliest known text: Quarto (1622). Celebrated for the radiance of its lyric poetry, Romeo and Juliet was tremendously popular from its first performance. The sweet whispers shared by young Tudor lovers throughout the realm were often referred to as "naught but pure Romeo and Juliet." Earliest known text: Quarto (1597). Written late in Shakespeare's career, Timon of Athens is criticized as an underdeveloped tragedy, likely co-written by George Wilkins or Cyril Tourneur. Read the play and see if you agree. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623).   Titus Andronicus (1593-1594) A sordid tale of revenge and political turmoil, overflowing with bloodshed and unthinkable brutality. The play was not printed with Shakespeare credited as author during his lifetime, and critics are divided between whether it is the product of another dramatist or simply Shakespeare's first attempt at the genre. Earliest known text: Quarto (1594). Histories One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, featuring the opportunistic miscreant, Sir John Falstaff. Earliest known text: Quarto (1598). This is the third play in the second tetralogy of history plays, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, and Henry V. Earliest known text: Quarto (1600). Henry V is the last in the second tetralogy sequence. King Henry is considered Shakespeare's ideal monarch. Earliest known text: Quarto (1600). The first in Shakespeare's trilogy about the War of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623). Part two of Shakespeare's chronicle play. Based on Hall's work, the play contains some historical inaccuracies. Earli
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March 28, 1987 saw the death, at age 82, of one Maria von Trapp, who was the inspiration behind what Rogers and Hammerstein musical?
THE SOUND OF MUSIC JULIE ANDREWS MARIA VON TRAPP Color: Color (DeLuxe) Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) / Mono (Westrex Recording System) (35 mm prints) / Stereo (some 35 mm prints) Certification: Canada:F (Ontario) / Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) / Argentina:Atp / Australia:G / Chile:TE / Finland:S / Norway:7 (original rating) / Norway:A (DVD rating) / Peru:PT / Singapore:G / South Korea:All / Sweden:11 / Sweden:Btl (re-release) / UK:U / USA:G (re-rating) (1969) Trivia: The first time they filmed the wedding scene between the Captain and Maria, there was nobody at the altar to wed them when they reached the top of the stairs - someone had forgotten to summon the actor playing the bishop. According to Julie Andrews, the real bishop of Salzburg is seen in the movie.  Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Papa von Trapp was an officer in the Austrian Navy. Yet how can this be? Austria is a landlocked country. But it wasn't, during World War I, when the old Austro-Hungarian empire, which included what became Yugoslavia, had ports on the Adriatic Sea and Papa Von Trapp served in its navy.  Quotes: Frau Schmidt: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.   "The Sound of Music" DVD cover   1981 London revival   In 1981, at producer Ross Taylor's urging, Petula Clark signed to star in a revival of the show at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London 's West End. Despite her misgivings that at age 51 she was too old to play the role convincingly, Clark opened to unanimous rave reviews (and the largest advance sale in the history of British theatre at that time). Maria von Trapp herself, present at the opening night performance, described her as "the best" Maria ever. Due to an unprecedented demand for tickets, Clark extended her initial six-month contract to thirteen months. Playing to 101% of seating capacity, the show set the highest attendance figure for a single week (October 26�31, 1981) of any British musical production in history, as chronicled by The Guinness Book of Theatre. This was the first stage production to incorporate the two additional songs that Rodgers had composed for the film version. The cast recording of this production was the first to be recorded digitally, but the recording has never been released on compact disc.   The 1987 Telarc studio cast recording   The Telarc label made a studio cast recording of The Sound of Music with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel, casting opera stars in the lead roles. Frederica von Stade sang the role of Maria opposite Hakan Hagegard's Captain von Trapp and Eileen Farrell as the Mother Abbess. Kunzel cast children from the Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts to sing the children's parts. This all-digital recording combined the songs of both the stage and screen versions, and included sections of music that had been recorded for the first time.   The 1988 Takarazuka version   In 1988, the Snow Troupe of Takarazuka Revue performed the musical at the Bow Hall, starring Harukaze Hitomi and Gou Mayuka.   The 1991 Japanese Animation version   In 1991, Nippon Animation produced a series of animation with 40 episodes according to the life of the Trappe family, and was broadcasted by Fuji TV. This series had been broadcast in Italy,
Rodgers & Hart :: Rodgers & Hammerstein :: Bio Details Richard Rodgers Rodgers & Hart Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) wrote their first shows together when both were still students attending Columbia University. After writing a series of musical comedies for the University's Varsity Shows and other charities, they made their professional debut with the song "Any Old Place With You," featured in the 1919 Broadway musical comedy A LONELY ROMEO. Their breakthrough came with the score for a 1925 charity show, THE GARRICK GAITIES, which introduced the classic valentine to their hometown, "Manhattan." From 1920 to 1930 Rodgers & Hart wrote an astonishing array of musical comedies for Broadway and London's West End. At their pinnacle the team was writing an average of four new shows a year, and among these were: DEAREST ENEMY, BETSY, PEGGY-ANN, THE GIRL FRIEND, CHEE-CHEE and A CONNECTICUT YANKEE. In 1930 the team relocated to Hollywood, where they contributed songs and wrote the scores for several movie musicals, including the landmark LOVE ME TONIGHT starring Maurice Chevalier; THE PHANTOM PRESIDENT starring George M. Cohan; HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM starring Al Jolson; and MISSISSIPPI starring Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields. They were lured back to New York by legendary Broadway producer Billy Rose in 1935 to write the songs for his circus musical spectacular, JUMBO. Their score introduced "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World," "My Romance" and "Little Girl Blue," and Rodgers & Hart were back on Broadway. From 1936 to 1943 Rodgers & Hart wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies, each of which seemed to top the one before in terms of innovation and box office success. ON YOUR TOES (1936), BABES IN ARMS (1937), I'D RATHER BE RIGHT (1937),I MARRIED AN ANGEL (1938), THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (1938), TOO MANY GIRLS (1939), HIGHER AND HIGHER (1940), PAL JOEY (1940), and BY JUPITER (1942) dazzled Broadway in spectacular succession, and collectively offered such classic songs as "There's A Small Hotel," "I Wish I Were In Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "Where Or When," "The Lady Is A Tramp," "Spring Is Here," "Falling In Love With Love," "Sing For Your Supper," "This Can't Be Love," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "It Never Entered My Mind," "Bewitched," "I Could Write A Book," "Nobody's Heart," and "Wait Till You See Her." The partnership disbanded temporarily early in 1943 when Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on OKLAHOMA! The Rodgers & Hart partnership resumed with a revision of their 1927 musical comedy A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, and the new production (which featured six new songs including "To Keep My Love Alive") opened on Broadway November 17, 1943. Already ill at the time, Lorenz Hart died less than a week later. Richard Rodgers then pursued a career with Oscar Hammerstein II, and their collaboration over the next two decades resulted in the following musical plays: CAROUSEL (1945), ALLEGRO (1947), SOUTH PACIFIC (1949), THE KING AND I (1951),ME AND JULIET (1953), PIPE DREAM (1955), FLOWER DRUM SONG (1958) and THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1959). The team wrote one movie musical, STATE FAIR (1945), and one for television, CINDERELLA. (1957). Oscar Hammerstein II died in 1960. Richard Rodgers continued to write for the musical stage for the rest of his life; his fortieth, and final, Broadway musical, I REMEMBER MAMA, opened on Broadway less than eight months before his death on December 30, 1979. In March of 1990, Richard Rodgers was honored posthumously with Broadway's highest honor when the 46th Street Theatre was renamed in his honor. In 1999, Rodgers and Hart were each commemorated on United States postage stamps.
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Which ancient, fierce warrior nation, upon attacking ancient Israel, ‘…. came down like a wolf on the fold'?
ISM Military History Quiz - Page 16 - International Scale Modeller International Scale Modeller Joined: Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:13 pm Location: Surrey,England,UK. Post by privatepete » Thu Nov 24, 2016 6:05 am Questions & Answers For 23-11-2016 Q:  What is the senior service of the UK armed forces? A: Royal Navy. Q:  Who commands the Army according to the Bill Of Rights of 1869? A: Parliament (Government). Q:  Who is commander in chief for the UK's Armed Forces? A:  The reigning Monarch (at present Queen Elizabeth II). Q:  What is the highest military rank in the army, the navy and the Royal Air Force? A:  Army - Field Marshall,  RAF - Marshall of the Royal Air Force,  RN - Admiral of the Fleet. Q: The Royal Air Force's ground defence unit is called what? A: RAF Regiment. Post by privatepete » Fri Nov 25, 2016 6:06 am Questions & Answers For 24-11-2016 Q:What type of aircraft was used to drop bombs in the first German air raids on London in 1915? A: A Zeppelin. Q:What was the name of the Japanese destroyer that sank PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, on August 2, 1943? A: Amigiri. Q:In what war was the color khaki first used for uniforms? A: The Afghan War in 1880--the color was considered good camouflage. Q:Who was issued ID number 01 when the U.S. military started issuing dog tags in 1918? A: General John J. Pershing. Good Luck. Post by privatepete » Sat Nov 26, 2016 6:22 am Questions& Answers For 25-11-2016 Q:At which naval battle in WWII did the Americans decisively defeat the Japanese Carrier Task Force? A:Battle of Midway Q:In 1944 what was the name of the operation to take key bridges over major rivers in Holland by airborne and land force assaults? Q:Market-Garden Q:After which battle did the British Life Guards first obtain their breast-plates? A:Waterloo - from Napoleon's defeated Cuirassier's breast-plates. Q:Which WWI battle occurred on a peninsular south of Istanbul in Turkey? A: Gallipoli Q:Which ancient, fierce warrior nation, upon attacking ancient Israel, ‘…. came down like a wolf on the fold’? A:The Assyrians.
TRIVIA - THE BIBLE TRIVIA - THE BIBLE Bible Trivia questions and answers. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale? A. Three days and three nights. Why did a Bible published in London in 1632 become known as the Wicked Bible? A. Because "not" was missing from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit adultery." The name of God is not mentioned in only one book of the Bible. Which one? A. The Book of Esther. What kind of wood was used to make Noah's Ark? A. Gopher wood, according to Genesis 6:14. Who was the only Englishman to become Pope? A. Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159. For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday? A. The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile? A. Pitch, or natural asphalt. How old was Moses when he died? A. He was 120 years old, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7). How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling? A. "Six cubits and a span," What biblical Babylonian king cast Daniel into the lion's den for praying to God in defiance of a royal decree? A. Darius the Mede (Book of Daniel, Chapter 6). What is the longest name in the Bible? A. Mahershalalbashbaz, which is also written Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:1). In the Bible, which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse? A. War (Book of Revelation). How many books of the Bible are named for women? A. Ruth and Esther. What language is Jesus believed to have spoken? A. Aramaic -- an ancient language in use on the north Arabian Peninsula at the time of Christ. A modern version of the language is spoken today in Syria and among Assyrians in Azerbaijan. In the Bible, for what "price" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob? A. Pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34). What did the lords of the philistines offer Delilah for revealing the secret of Samson's strength? A. They promised the sum of 1,100 pieces of silver each, according to the Bible (Judges 16:5). In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband? A. Ahab, King of Israel (I Kings 16:28-31). What bird is named for the apostle Peter? A. The petrel, from a diminutive form of Petrus, or "Peter," in Latin. What was the first town in the United States to be given a biblical name? Hint: Its name is the most common biblical place name in the country. A. Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is the shortened form of Jerusalem, which means "the city of peace" in Hebrew. In the Bible, who did the sun and moon stand still before? A. Joshua.
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What was the former name of the famous ship 'The Golden Hind'?
The Golden Hind and the dread pirate Sir Francis Drake The Golden Hind The Ship that Sailed Around the World I've always loved pirate stories and I sort of grew up reading about the derring-do exploits of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Richard Grenville, of Frobisher and Sir Walter Raleigh. So it's clear that no trip to Devon would be complete without visiting the replica of Francis Drake's ship, The Golden Hind, which is moored in Brixham harbour. The Golden Hind is more than just a pirate ship, of course. It's a ship with a history of her very own - and a mysterious history at that. Between 1577 and 1580 Sir Francis Drake's ship The Golden Hind sailed right around the world - the first time in recorded history that a ship had done so. The Golden Hind replica in Brixham Harbour can be toured throughout spring and summer each year and gives a fascinating opportunity to imagine what it might have been like to travel on an Elizabethan ship. The Golden Hind began her known life as The Pelican - even though nobody really knows when, where and by whom she was built - and in 1577 she sailed from Plymouth, just down the Devon coast, to South America and around Cape Horn. Her captain was Sir Francis Drake: sailor, adventurer, businessman and - to be honest - pirate. As well as taking his ship on a voyage of discovery to the 'New World' of the Americas, Drake objective was to capture as many Spanish ships as possible during his travels. Spain was a major European power in those days; tremendously wealthy from the gold found in the Americas. And Catholic Spain had invaded the Protestant Netherlands, so with the balance of power leaning precariously, England's Queen Elizabeth declared war on Spain. Officially, the queen knew nothing of piracy, of course. But Elizabeth greatly approved of Drake's activities - not only did they keep the Spanish on their toes, but they brought literally tons of gold, spices and other valuable commodities to England, much of which ended up in the royal treasury. This in turn financed further expeditions and, ultimately, helped to defend England when the Spanish Armada attacked in 1588. From Cape Horn, Drake sailed up the east coast of South America and across the Pacific to the Philippines. Then The Golden Hind went on to Indonesia, gathering treasure as she went. From there she sailed across the Indian Ocean and around Africa, finally calling at Sierra Leone before arriving back at Plymouth three years after she left. Standing on the deack of the Golden Hind in Brixham Harbour, it seems a miracle that Drake and most of his crew could survive such a long and dangerous journey in such a very small, very primitive wooden ship. The Golden Hind is only about 120 feet long and 20 feet wide (36.5 x 6 metres). Four other ships had set out from Plymouth with Drake, but all four had either sunk or been damaged and cannibalised to outfit the Hind - a statistic that makes her success even more striking. On his return, Drake was knighted by the Queen on the deck of his ship (an event that has inspired many patriotic paintings and prints). Apparently, Drake then treated his Queen to a banquet on the same deck, which seems totally unlikely when you see the size of the ship. There's barely space to turn around, let alone set tables and chairs ... Later, Drake's ship was moored at Deptford as a permanent reminder of his achievement. The replica at Brixham, then, continues a four centuries old tradition of valuing and exhibiting great English ships. She has been there since 1963 and she is well worth a visit. The ship is moored beside the Quay - where there are shops, hotels, excellent fish restaurants, chippies and pubs - and she swims among the fishing boats and dinghies like a whale among minnows. Events linked to her include educational days, pirate re-enactments and sea shanty festivals. And if you go arrive early and have the place to yourself for a while, you can imagine yourself living the life of a pirate... Where to Stay in Brixham As in the rest of Devon, visitors are very well catered for in Brixham. Coup
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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"The names of how many US states begin with the letter ""I""?"
How many American states begin with the letter "A"? | Reference.com How many American states begin with the letter "A"? A: Quick Answer The names of four U.S. states begin with the letter "A." The states are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona and Arkansas. In addition to the states, the U.S. territory of American Samoa also begins with the letter "A." Full Answer Of the four states beginning with the letter "A," Alabama has been in the union the longest, becoming a state in 1819. Alaska is the youngest state on the list, with a statehood admission date of 1959. Arkansas became a state in 1836, and Arizona joined the union in 1912. More state names start with the letters "M" and "N" than any other letters in the alphabet.
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How many times has jockey Richard Dunwoody won the English Grand National?
Richard Dunwoody, retired National Hunt racing jockey talks of his laser eye surgery - YouTube Richard Dunwoody, retired National Hunt racing jockey talks of his laser eye surgery Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 20, 2013 Richard Dunwoody was a three-time Champion Jockey, riding 1699 British winners in his career. He won the King George V1 Chase four times, twice on Desert Orchid in 1989 and 1990. He also won the Grand National in 1986 and 1994 and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1988. Today Richards passion is photography and travel. His outstanding photographic work captures the essence of the moment, and use of light and focus draw the viewer into the image. Richard had lost good distance vision and needed help with it for his photography. Accuvision recommended a treatment plan that would strengthen his left eye. The results speak for themselves after only a week following the surgery. Category
The five 100-1 outsiders who won the Grand National : Features : Grand National The five 100-1 outsiders who won the Grand National Free Bet Mon Mome was the last 100-1 Grand National winner. Dan Fitch takes a look back at the five 100-1 outsiders, who defied the odds to win the Grand National. The Grand National course at Aintree has a reputation of being the toughest event in racing. Run over a distance of four miles and 876 yards and punctuated by 30 challenging fences, it's little wonder that sometimes the form book can go out of the window and a rank outsider can win the race. Since the race was first ran in 1839, there have been a handful of occasions when a real no-hoper shocked the nation by winning at Aintree. Here are the five 100-1 outsiders to have won the Grand National. 1928 - Tipperary Tim The first 100-1 horse to win the Grand National was Tipperary Tim. As the race was about to start, Tipperary Tim's jockey William Dutton heard a friend call out "Billy boy, you'll only win if all the others fall down." As fate would have it, 41 of the 42 riders did fall down, leaving Tipperary Tim to win the race ahead of the re-mounted Billy Barton. The two horses were the only finishers, after a melee at the Canal Turn in treacherous weather conditions. 1929 - Gregalach One year after Tipperary Tim made history, Gregalach became the second successive 100-1 shot to win the Grand National. The horse was given such lengthy odds having fallen at Sandown, just eight days prior to the race at Aintree. Gregalach's jockey Robert Everett rode a clever race in which he gradually gained ground on the leaders and overtook the legendary Easter Hero on the second to last fence, before winning the race by six lengths. 1947 - Caughoo As if the fact that the 100-1 outsider Caughoo won the 1947 Grand National isn't exciting enough, legend has it that his victory wasn't exactly legit. With the Aintree course covered in a thick fog, it has long been rumoured that Caughoo hid behind a fence in the early stages of the race, only to emerge towards the end of the race and win by 20 lengths. Caughoo's jockey Eddie Dempsey was beaten up by another rider after the race, but it seems that this was unwarranted, as photographic evidence emerged years later, clearly showing Caughoo jumping Becher's Brook on two separate occasions. 1967 - Foinavon The most famous 100-1 winner of them all was Foinavon, who entered into Grand National folklore by winning the race amidst a mass pile-up and ended up having a fence named after him. Foinavon was lagging behind the other 27 remaining runners, as they approached the 23rd fence. Popham Down veered wildly to the right as it came to the fence, which resulted in a melee. The only horse to jump the fence first time was Foinavon, who was lagging so far behind that his jockey John Buckingham could steer away from trouble. Although 17 re-mounted horses gave chase, no one could catch Foinavon. 2009 - Mon Mome A total of 42 years passed after Foinavon's victory, before Mon Mome became the next 100-1 winner of the Grand National. Venitia Williams became only the second woman to train a Grand National winner, while Mon Mome's jockey Liam Treadwell rode the horse to victory on his Grand National debut.
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What is the English name of Médecins Sans Frontières?
About Us | MSF USA About Us About Us James Keogh/Wostok Press We are Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). We help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care.
Bezzerwizzer at Paint Branch High School - StudyBlue StudyBlue Which geometric shape does Frank Llyod Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York echo? A spiral Which painter liked to present himself as the "Man in the Bowler Hat"? Rene Magritte Which IT company is also known by the abbreviation "HP"? Hewlett Packard Which American university is known by the abbreviation "M.I.T."? Massachusetts Institute of Technology What American fashion icon enjoys the sweet smell of success with his Double Black cologne? Ralph Lauren Whon won the Oscar for Best Actor in "The Godfather" in 1972? Marlon Brando Which traditional French dish consists of eggplant, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and onions? Ratatouille Which is the largest city in New Zealand? Auckland In 1960, which Asian country saw a woman elected as head of the government for the first time: Ceylon, Malaya or India? Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) What is the word for illnesses in which physical symptoms are traced back to mental causes? Psychosomatic How many people take part in a tete-a-tete? Two Who, in 1841, wrote about "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"? Edgar Allen Poe Who sang the title song to the James Bond film "Goldfinger"? Shirley Bassey Which species of deer is the most common across the world? Elk (moose) Who was elected President of Poland in 1990? Lech Walesa Which planet is also known as the "evening star"? Venus In a battle of the "hot-heads," who did Jimmy Connors defeat in 1982 in the Wimbledon tennis finals? John McEnroe Which videotape format prevailed in the face of competition from Betamax and Video2000? VHS Which President proclaimed Thanksgiving Day a national holiday? Abraham Lincoln Who was the murder victim at the center of the plot in TV's "Twin Peaks"? Laura Palmer Renaissance architecture emerged from which country? Italy How many people can be seen in da Vinci's painting of "The Last Supper"? Thirteen Which drink did pharmacist John S. Pemberton invent in 1886? Coca Cola Which term, used in sociology denotes the adaption of a minority to the culture and lifestyle of the majority? Assimilation What do the letters of the American fashion label "DKNY" stand for? Donna Karan New York Who played the role of Baron von Trapp in 1965's "The Sound of Music"? Christopher Plummer Which nation brought chocolate to Europe from rainforests of Mexico and Central America? Spain In which country is the Gibson Desert? Australia What was the code name for Allied Invasion of Normandy on D-Day? Operation Overlord What substance gives blood its red color? Hemoglobin Which science deals with the origin, history and meaning of words? Etymology Which generation did Douglas Coupland portray in his 1991 novel? Generation X Which duo sang "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" in 1965? The Righteous Brothers Which bird has the largest wing span? The (wandering) albatross Bill Clinton was governor of which U.S. state before becoming president? Arkansas How is the number 1,500 written in Roman numerals? MD In swimming, how many strokes are there in an Individual Medley? Four Which country launched MIR space station in 1986? Soviet Union How many points does the Jewish Star of David have? Six In which city did the TV series "Frasier" take place? Seattle What is a column or monument made of a single block of stone? Monolith Which male entertainment group, originally Los Angeles, is known for its striptease routine? The Chippendales Which copmany was co-founded in 1975 by Paul Allen? Microsoft What is celebrated on the 8th of March throughout the world? International Women's Day Causing fistfights in toy stores in the 1980s, which must have dolls came with their own adoption papers? Cabbage Patch Kids Who won the 2000 Oscar for Best Actor in "American Beauty"? Kevin Spacey Which exclusive dish meaning "fat liver" in French is prepared from duck or goose liver? Foie Gras Which ocean lies between Africa, Asia, Australia and the Antarctic? Indian Ocean Which Italian explorer gave his name to America? Amerigo Vespucci Who has, on average, more hair on their head: blondes, brunettes, or red
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What was the first American mission to land on the moon?
Apollo 11: First Men on the Moon Apollo 11: First Men on the Moon By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor | July 25, 2012 03:39pm ET MORE Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin photographed this iconic photo, a view of his footprint in the lunar soil, as part of an experiment to study the nature of lunar dust and the effects of pressure on the surface during the historic first manned moon landing in July 1969. Credit: NASA The historic launch of the Apollo 11 mission carried three astronauts toward the moon. Two of them would set foot on the lunar surface for the first time in human history as millions of people around the world followed their steps on television. The astronauts The crew of Apollo 11 were all experienced astronauts. All three had flown missions into space before. Cmdr. Neil Armstrong , 38, had previously piloted Gemini 8, the first time two vehicles docked in space. Born Aug. 5, 1930, in Ohio, Armstrong was 38 when he became the first civilian to command two American space missions. Apollo 11 crew: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. Credit: NASA Col. Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin , 39, was the first astronaut with a doctorate to fly in space. Born Jan. 20, 1930, in New Jersey, Aldrin piloted Gemini 12, taking a two-hour, twenty-minute walk in space to demonstrate that an astronaut could work efficiently outside of the vehicle. For Apollo 11, he served as the lunar module pilot. The command module pilot, Lt. Col. Michael Collins, 38, was born in Italy on Oct. 31, 1930. The pilot of Gemini 10, Collins spent almost an hour and a half outside of the craft on a space-walk and became the first person to meet another spacecraft in orbit. From Earth to the moon Mission planners at NASA studied the lunar surface for two years, searching for the best place to make the historic landing. Using high-resolution photographs taken by the Lunar Orbiter satellite and close-up photographs taken by the Surveyor spacecraft, they narrowed the initial thirty sites down to three. Influencing factors included the number of craters and boulders, few high cliffs or hills, and a relatively flat surface. The amount of sunlight was also a factor in determining the best time to land on the lunar surface. Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969. While in flight, the crew made two televised broadcasts from the interior of the ship, and a third transmission as they drew closer to the moon, revealing the lunar surface and the intended approach path. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin entered the lunar module, nicknamed the "Eagle" and separated from the Command Service Module — the "Columbia" — headed toward the lunar surface. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses with the American flag on the surface of the moon in July 1969. Credit: NASA The lunar module touched down on the moon's Sea of Tranquility , a large basaltic region, at 4:17 p.m. EDT. Armstrong notified Houston with the historic words, "Houston, this is Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed." For the first two hours, Armstrong and Aldrin checked all of the systems, configured the lunar module for the stay on the moon, and ate. They decided to skip the scheduled four-hour rest to explore the surface. A camera in the Eagle provided live coverage as Armstrong descended down a ladder at 11:56 p.m. on July 20, 1969, and uttered the words, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Aldrin followed twenty minutes later, with Armstrong recording his descent. Armstrong had the responsibility to document the landing, so most of the images taken from the Apollo 11 mission were of Aldrin. [Images: NASA's Historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Pictures ] While on the surface, the astronauts set up several experiments, collected samples of lunar soil and rock to bring home, erected a United States flag, and took core samples from the crust. They spoke with U.S. President Richard Nixon, whose voice was transmitted from the White House, and placed a plaque that stated: HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT
chapter 4 View of the moon from Apollo 8.   [ 97] NASA's first four manned spaceflight projects were Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab. As the first U.S. manned spaceflight project, Project Mercury-which included two manned suborbital flights and four orbital flights-"fostered Project Apollo and fathered Project Gemini." 1 The second manned spaceflight project initiated was the Apollo manned lunar exploration program. The national goal of a manned lunar landing in the 1960s was set forth by President John F. Kennedy 25 May 1961:   . . . I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goals, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.... But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon-if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. 2   The interim Project Gemini, completed in 1966, was conducted to provide spaceflight experience, techniques, and training in preparation for the complexities of Apollo lunar-landing missions. Project Skylab was originality conceived as a program to use hardware developed for Project Apollo in related manned spaceflight missions; it evolved into the Orbital Workshop program with three record-breaking missions in 1973-1974 to man the laboratory in earth orbit, producing new data on the sun, earth resources, materials technology, and effects of space on man. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was an icebreaking effort in international cooperation. The United States and the U.S.S.R. were to fly a joint mission in 1975 to test new systems that permitted their spacecraft to dock with each other in orbit, for space rescue or joint research. As technology and experience broadened man's ability to explore and use space, post-Apollo planning called for ways to make access to space more practical, more economical, nearer to routine. Early advanced studies grew into the Space Shuttle program. Development of the reusable space transportation system, to be used for most of the Nation's manned and unmanned missions in the 1980s, became the major focus of NASA's program for the 1970s. European nations cooperated by undertaking development of Spacelab, a pressurized, reusable laboratory to be flown in the Shuttle.   [ 98] Apollo 11 command and service module being readied for transport to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, in left photo. Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., below, setting up an experiment on the moon next to the lunar module. Opposite: the Greek god Apollo (courtesy of George Washington University). .   [ 99] APOLLO. In July 1960 NASA was preparing to implement its long-range plan beyond Project Mercury and to introduce a manned circumlunar mission project-then unnamed-at the NASA/Industry Program Plans Conference in Washington. Abe Silverstein, Director of Space Flight Development, proposed the name "Apollo" because it was the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology with attractive connotations and the precedent for naming manned spaceflight projects for mythological gods and heroes had been set with Mercury. 1 Apollo was god of archery, prophecy, poetry, and music, and most significantly he was god of the sun. In his horse-drawn golden chariot, Apollo pulled the sun in its course across the sky each day. 2 NASA approved the name and publicly announced "Project Apollo" at the July 28-29 conference. 3 Project Apollo took new form when the goal of a manned lunar landing was proposed to the Congress by President John F. Kennedy 25 May 1961 and was subsequently approved by the Congress. It was a program of three-man flights, leading to the landing of men on the moon. Rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit of Apollo spacecraft components were vital techniques for the intricate flight to and return from the
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What is the name of the mountain range that runs for 870 miles for the full length of Italy?
Apennine Range | mountains, Italy | Britannica.com Apennine Range Alternative Titles: Appennines, Appennini, Appennino Related Topics Ariano Irpino Apennine Range, also called the Apennines, Italian Appennino, series of mountain ranges bordered by narrow coastlands that form the physical backbone of peninsular Italy . From Cadibona Pass in the northwest, close to the Maritime Alps , they form a great arc, which extends as far as the Egadi Islands to the west of Sicily . Their total length is approximately 870 miles (1,400 kilometres), and their width ranges from 25 to 125 miles. Mount Corno , 9,554 feet (2,912 metres), is the highest point of the Apennines proper on the peninsula. The range follows a northwest–southeast orientation as far as Calabria , at the southern tip of Italy; the regional trend then changes direction, first toward the south and finally westward. The Apennines mountain range. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The Apennines are among the younger ranges of the Alpine system and, geologically speaking, are related to the coastal range of the Atlas Mountains of North Africa . Similarities have also been observed with the Dinaric Alps , which extend through the Balkan region, including Greece. Nearby Sardinia and Corsica , on the other hand, are dissimilar to the Apennines, their granitic rock masses being linked to outcroppings along the Spanish and French coast, from which they parted some 20 million years ago. Physical features Geology The majority of geologic units of the Apennines are made up of marine sedimentary rocks that were deposited over the southern margin of the Tethys Sea , the large ocean that spread out between the Paleo-European and the Paleo-African plates during their separation in the Mesozoic Era (about 250 to 65 million years ago). These rocks are mostly shales, sandstones, and limestones, while igneous rocks (such as the ophiolites of the northern Apennines, the remains of an older oceanic crust) are scarce. The oldest rocks—metamorphic units of the late Paleozoic Era (about 300 to 250 million years ago), with their continental sedimentary cover containing plant remains—represent the relicts of the ancient continental crust of Gondwanaland and are found in small outcroppings. The granitic intrusions and metamorphic units of the Calabrian and Sicilian ranges are also Paleozoic (Hercynian orogeny), but they are believed to be Alpine in origin and only became part of the Apennine chain through subsequent major tectonic movements. Similar Topics Jura Mountains The Apennine orogeny developed through several tectonic phases, mostly during the Cenozoic Era (i.e., since about 65 million years ago), and came to a climax in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (about 23 to 2.6 million years ago). The Apennines consist of a thrust-belt structure with three basic trending motions: toward the Adriatic Sea (the northern and central ranges), the Ionian Sea (Calabrian Apennines), and Africa (Sicilian Range). During Plio-Pleistocene times (i.e., about 5,300,000 to 11,700 years ago), ingression and regression of the sea caused the formation of large marine and continental sedimentary belts (sands, clays, and conglomerates) along the slopes of the new chain. In the past million years numerous large faults have developed along the western side of the Apennines, which may be connected to the crustal thinning that began about 10 million years ago and resulted in the formation of a new sea, the Tyrrhenian. Most of these faults have also facilitated strong volcanic activity, and a volcanic chain has formed along them from Mount Amiata in Tuscany to Mount Etna in Sicily; most of these volcanoes—including Mount Amiata, Mount Cimino, the Alban Hills near Rome , and the Ponza Islands—are extinct, but, to the south, Mount Vesuvius, the Eolie Islands , and Mount Etna are all still active. Seismic activity is common along the entire length of the chain (including Sicily), with more than 40,000 recorded events since ad 1000. Mostly earthquakes are shallow (three to 19 miles deep), and their occurrence is probably connec
Italian volcanoes, volcanoes in italy, volcanic activity italy, mount etna, mount vesuvius, stromboli,active, dormant, extinct volcanoes Italian volcanoes, volcanoes in italy, volcanic activity italy, mount etna, mount vesuvius, stromboli,active, dormant, extinct volcanoes Profile Menu Jack of the Italian Navy Current time in Italy Level three Volcanoes in Italy Italy is home to three active volcanoes, all located in the south of the country. Mount Vesuvius, in Naples, is the only active volcano on mainland Europe. It is famous for the destruction of the Roman towns of Pompei and Herculaneum in 79 BC, an event described in great detail by Pliny the Younger. The last eruption was in 1944. Vesuvius is considered to be the most dangerous volcano in the world as it could erupt at any time, threatening the lives of the three million people who live nearby. Stromboli is one of the Aeolian Islands , situated off the north coast of Sicily, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is 926 metres high and has been erupting almost constantly for the last 2,000 years. The spectacular explosions are visible many miles out to sea, leading to the Island being nicknamed 'The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean'. Mount Etna is located on the eastern side of Sicily, between Messina and Catania. It is in an almost constant state of activity, and is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. At over 3,000 metres high, it is the tallest, active volcano on the European continent. It covers an area of 1,190 square kilometres, making it the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy. What are volcanoes?
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The Duke of Monmouth, who was executed in 1685 after leading a rebellion against King James II, was the illegitimate son of which monarch?
ExecutedToday.com » 1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth 1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth July 15th, 2008 Headsman On this date in 1685, the haughty Duke of Monmouth mounted the scaffold at London’s Tower Hill to suffer beheading for treason, and tipped the headsman with the words, “Here are six guineas for you and do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell . I have heard you struck him four or five times; If you strike me twice, I cannot promise you not to stir.”* Upon this tart public reminder of his recent and infamous failure of craft, the eponymous executioner Jack Ketch quite came apart. Monmouth, certainly, would have appreciated the advance that would bring the guillotine . Beheading by a free-swinging axe was a ghoulishly inexact procedure : bad aim, insufficient force, an untimely flinch, or the tough neck muscles of a grizzled campaigner regularly complicated the process. Jack Ketch is sometimes reported a sadist, and sometimes a professional hangman so rarely summoned to give a nobleman the chop that he simply lacked proficiency. Either way, he’d been on the job for a generation by this time: his reputation for infelicity with the blade preceded him. Historical fiction from the perspective of the Duke of Monmouth. Monmouth , an illegitimate son of King Charles II, had cause to dread Ketch’s offices for the rebellious culmination of a long power struggle with his uncle, the future King James II. The personal contest between these men for the throne of England was the echo of the decades-old struggles straining the English polity — the Reformation and the reach of royal authority . As it became known that the king’s brother James had gone from Catholic sympathizer to Catholic convert, Protestants began maneuvering to keep him from inheriting the crown. For three years, Parliament pushed the Exclusion Bill , which would have excluded James from succession.** Favor among the bill’s supporters settled on the Protestant playboy Monmouth — politically convenient rumors that he was actually a legitimate child began circulating. “Weak, bad, and beautiful,” this unfriendly-to-Monmouth free book has him; whatever he was, his allies in the House of Commons were handily outmaneuvered. The Exclusion measures failed, and in 1685, James II began his reign as England’s last Roman Catholic monarch. Monmouth’s hopes had been raised, however, and he proceeded to invade England at Dorset with a somewhat ragtag army that was routed by the Protestant royal troops who remained loyal to James at the Battle of Sedgemoor — not quite the last battle fought on English soil, but the last consequential one (the last fought with pitchforks makes a livelier distinction). Monmouth was caught trying to get away in a shepherd’s disguise . Other fugitives of his cause were hunted mercilessly . The defeated duke was reputedly not above begging the sovereign for his life; obviously, that didn’t work out. But his cause was a popular one, nearing reverence among some commoners. Jack Ketch may have had a case of the butterflies even before the duke undressed him … and as it turns out, Ketch almost left the scaffold worse than his victim. Here is the scene in Macaulay’s words : The hangman addressed himself to his office. But he had been disconcerted by what the Duke had said. The first blow inflicted only a slight wound. The Duke struggled, rose from the block, and looked reproachfully at the executioner. The head sank down once more. The stroke was repeated again and again; but still the neck was not severed, and the body continued to move. Yells of rage and horror rose from the crowd. Ketch flung down the axe with a curse. ‘I cannot do it,’ he said; ‘my heart fails me.’ ‘Take up the axe, man,’ cried the sheriff. ‘Fling him over the rails,’ roared the mob. At length the axe was taken up. Two more blows extinguished the last remains of life; but a knife was used to separate the head from the shoulders. The crowd was wrought up to such an ecstasy of rage that the executioner was in danger of being torn in pieces, and was conveyed away under a
Jordan's King Abdullah, Queen Rania and war on ISIS - CNN.com Story highlights King Abdullah II personally vowed vengeance to the father of Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh Queen Rania consoled the grieving wife of the pilot who was burned alive in a cage (CNN) After the horrific burning death of Jordanian pilot Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh by ISIS militants, King Abdullah II personally vowed to the pilot's father that he would take vengeance, unleashing airstrikes against key targets of the terror group in Syria. "You shall know who the Jordanians are," the armed forces warned in a statement. Such words could have come straight from the mouth of the King himself -- a former major general in the Jordanian army. Queen Rania consoled the grieving wife of the pilot who was burned alive in a cage. The Queen, a mother of four, took to the streets of Amman with thousands of Jordanians to honor al-Kasasbeh and condemn his killers. Jordanian King Abdullah II, right, talks with Safi al-Kasasbeh, father of slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, on February 5. The calm but defiant throngs waved signs saying: "Moath, the martyr of justice." Read More They chanted: "Long live the King." Here are five things to know about the royals and the ramifications of Jordan's war on ISIS: Who is King Abdullah II? The opening line of the King's official profile lays out his place in the Hashemite dynasty as the "41st-generation direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammad." He inherited the Hashemite crown in February 1999 following the death of King Hussein. The dynasty has held power in Jordan since 1921. Abdullah, 53, was a political unknown who was catapulted into the limelight when his father, before he died, pushed aside the crown prince, Abdullah's uncle Hassan, as heir to the throne. King Abdullah II of Jordan waits for a meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee February 3 in Washington. The son of King Hussein's second wife, the British Princess Mona, Abdullah headed Jordan's special forces, a critical position in a country where the army is one of the throne's important pillars. Educated in Britain and the United States, Abdullah was seen as a bridge between traditional Arab values and the surging westernization of Jordan's younger generations. He attended St. Edmund's School in England, and Eaglebrook School, followed by Deerfield Academy, both prep schools in Massachusetts. His command of the English language is greater than his Arabic -- which has raised some eyebrows at home. His lack of experience when he became King led some to question his ability to hang around long in one of the world's roughest neighborhoods. His official biography describes Abdullah as a "man of action" even as a young prince. He flew helicopters, planes and parachuted. He has a passion for cars and motorcycles. He is a former Jordan National Rally champion. A Trekkie, Abdullah appeared as an officer in a 1996 episode of "Star Trek: Voyager." In a country the size of Maine, with staggering unemployment and a widening gap between rich and poor, the new monarch was known to venture out incognito to get a feel for the problems plaguing ordinary Jordanians. He visited hospitals and government offices in disguises, including wigs and a fake beard. "The greatest fear I have, as time goes on, you can very easily become isolated," he told CNN in 2000. Who is Queen Rania? Rania Al-Yassin met Abdullah in 1993. They were engaged and married that year. Queen Rania has become known for her philanthropic work, pushing for better educational facilities for Jordan's school children and supporting efforts to empower women. Some see Rania, 44, as a symbol of the contradictions that still blight the region as it tries to come to terms with modernity. She is the business graduate who left her job at a multinational to marry into a monarchy that has ruled Jordan for decades -- at times an iron rule. Queen Rania of Jordan consoles Anwar Al Tarawneh, the wife of the Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh, who was burned to death by ISIS. She speaks passionately about freedom of speech an
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What grape is used to make Beaujolais wine?
Learn About Gamay Red Wine, Often From Beaujolais Never tried Gamay before? You should, especially if you already enjoy Pinot Noir . You may have had Gamay before, but not even realized it. Gamay is a grape that has been around since the 1300s, yet many wine drinkers are not familiar with the name. This is primarily because the most famous wine the grape produces is Beaujolais, the red wine most widely known for the Beaujolais Nouveau craze. But we’re not talking about Beaujolais Nouveau here, the marketing phenomena only available in the fall , we’re talking about Beaujolais, the mature version of the wine available all year. So what is Beaujolais? First and foremost, Beaujolais is a French wine appellation. It’s also a geographical region, one that exists at the far south of the famous wine region of Burgundy . In this region, the Gamay grape is used to produce red wines, and because those wines are produced in the Beaujolais region, as is the Old World winemaking tradition, they take on the name of the region, instead of the name of the grape. We like to think of Gamay as a wonderful little secret for anyone that loves Pinot Noir, but is seeking a more affordable alternative. Think of Gamay as the little brother that never received all the attention and accolades that his older sibling did. Even though the older sibling was never as consistent as the little brother, when the older sibling ever did anything well, it was like they could walk on water. This is the same relationship between Gamay and Pinot Noir. We like to think of Gamay as a wonderful little secret for anyone that loves Pinot Noir, but is seeking a more affordable alternative. Due to the fact that the grapes were both born in the same region of Burgundy, Pinot Noir has always overshadowed the Gamay grape, except in the subregion of Beaujolais. This means Gamay flies under many wine drinker’s radar, which results in a much more affordable bottle of wine. The wine produced from the Gamay grape tends to exhibit characteristics that are very similar to that of Pinot Noir. Gamay is a light-bodied, fruity red with tart flavors of cherries and raspberries and even banana. The banana flavor is the result of something called carbonic maceration, but that’s for a geekier post. Gamay is a great red wine to accompany meat and cheese plates as well as salad dishes and even roast chicken and fish. So give the little brother some love for a change, and pop a bottle of Gamay. Spread The Knowledge With Your Friends: Core Grapes & Wines
Aquitaine | French Canal Connection Contact Us The wonderful cuisine and fine wines are what make the sunny Aquitaine region in the south west of France stand out from the crowd. As you cruise along the famous waterways in “Musketeer country”, stop off at restaurants and markets abounding in delicacies such as foie gras, Agen prunes, and regional cheeses, wines from nearby Bordeaux, and the distinctive Armagnac brandy. Aquitaine is full of waterways, flowing from Toulouse in the south of Aquitaine towards Bordeaux and the Atlantic coast, and from Cahors to Valence-sur-Baïse, and forming a kind of cross as the canals intersect in the center of the region. The beauty of this area is that you can choose from a cruise down three major canals: the calm tree-lined waters of the Garonne past interesting villages; the meadows, orchards, and vineyards along the Baïse towards Armagnac country; and the more rugged landscape of the Lot with its medieval hilltop towns and strongholds.   Food and Drink Bordeaux wine, distinctive Armagnac brandy, Buzet wine, truffled foie gras, prunes from Agen, and cheeses such as Bleu des Basques… the list goes on, and it is not hard to see why Aquitaine has such a reputation for fine food and drink. Visit the wine cave in the small town of Buzet-sur-Baïse for tastings of this delightful local wine. If you are traveling in August, you will see the festivities of the Buzet Wine Festival in Nérac. The Château Le Courréjot near the town of Moncrabeau is famous for producing Armagnac and Chablis. The town of Condom on the Baïse is also known for producing Armagnac, and here you can visit a museum dedicated to the brandy. As you stop by villages on your cruise, don’t forget to visit the markets for fresh produce and some of the wines of the region. The market in Valence d’Agen, the Marché au gras, is one not be missed.   The Garonne The Garonne is a beautifully calm waterway, much of it tree-lined, and dotted with small villages. On its way north from Toulouse, the Garonne meets the Canal de Montech, making a detour east to link with the Tarn River and the town of Montauban. The town was built on the banks of the Tarn in the 12th century, mostly from red brick, giving it the distinctive look of the region. Take time to visit the Musée Ingres next to the old bridge. Today it houses the art collection of French neo-classical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and is built on the site of a palace that was the residence of the bishops of Montauban. Stop by the old square,La Place nationale, surrounded by unusual double archways, or arcades. Montauban also holds a notable jazz festival each year in July. Once again on the Garonne, you will arrive at Moissac. This charming town has many industries, including glassworks that you can visit, and the beautiful Abbaye St Pierre. In Agen, the Canal de Garonne crosses the Garonne River on the Agen Aqueduct. Built entirely from Quercy stone, it is the largest Aqueduct in France. Part of the Canal des Deux Mers (along with the Canal du Midi), the Canal de Garonne continues from here on its path to the Atlantic Ocean. In Agen, see also the bustling market and the Musée des Beaux-arts. Further north towards Bordeaux, the waterways take you past the picturesque little town of Le Mas d’Agenais with its nearby Basilique de Bazas, and the 12th-century Château du Hamel in Castets-en-Dorthe.   The Baïse The Baïse winds through meadows, orchards, and vineyards on its way to Condom and Valence-sur-Baïse, the heart of Armagnac country. On the way, stop at picturesque Damazan with its wonderful town square and craft fairs; see Buzet from where the delicious local wine gets its name; and see the glassworks in the nearby town of Vianne. Nérac is a small town on the banks of the Baïse, its half-timber houses full of flowers overhanging the river. Nérac was the home of King Henri IV in the late 16th century and today you can visit his former residence at the Château-Musée Henry IV.   See works by Goya, Sisley and Dufy in Agen Great farmers markets and shopping in Montauban Local sp
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What is the name of the dog in the primer books Dick and Jane?
Vintage Children's Books, Flash Cards, and Collectible Pressed Steel Toys - DICK AND JANE VINTAGE ORIGINAL BOOKS & RARE ITEMS Vintage Children's Books, Flash Cards, and Collectible Pressed Steel Toys Dick & Jane, The Boxcar Children, Little Black Sambo, and More!! 1954 DICK AND JANE SERIES TEACHER'S SALESMAN BOOK SOLD! Vintage 1954 Helping Every Child Do His Best In Reading, Dick and Jane Series, (Salesman Sample) Teacher's Resource Booklet. Rare Dick and Jane ephemera. 31 pages, measures approx. 9" x 12". The New Basic Readers Curriculum Foundation (Dick and Jane) Series. Grades 1-3. Publisher: Scott Foresman and Company. Jam-packed with resources about the Dick and Jane books, teaching materials, information about the authors, detailed information, pictures, samples, graphs, charts, and more... all about the vintage Dick and Jane series. ~ Item # 000051 1934 MORE DICK AND JANE STORIES PRE-PRIMER READER SOLD! 1934 MORE DICK AND JANE STORIES (Elson-Gray) Pre-Primer! By: William S. Gray and William H. Elson. Illustrated by: Miriam Story Hurford. Soft cover. 48 Pages. First Edition!!! This title is the one and only Second Pre-Primer ever created in the 1930's for the Dick and Jane series! This title, was Never reprinted!!!  Item #000336 1956 DICK AND JANE UK PRE-PRIMERS TEACHER EDITION SOLD! ~ 1956 Dick and Jane Three Pre-Primers Teacher Guidebook, UK - Wheaton of Exeter Edition. "The Teaching of Reading with The Happy Trio Reading Scheme", By: William S. Gray, Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artley, May Hill Arbuthnot, and Lillian Gray. Published by in Great Britain by Wheaton of Exeter with arrangment from Scott Foresman and Company.  Like the American edition... this UK edition contains ALL three of the 1950's Pre-Primers: We Look and See, We Work and Play, and We come and Go, plus the Teacher's Edition, all in one big book!  There are a total of 405 pages in this book. Blue Hard Cover with Gilt (gold) lettering on the spine. An interesting thing to note is that the text font is different than the American Editions. Also, some of the words are changed to reflect words used in the UK  in place of those used in the USA. For instance, in the American edition the word "cookie" is used; however in the UK edition "cookie" is replaced with the word "bun". Item # 000986 VINTAGE DICK AND JANE "BLACKOUT" GAME Circa 1950 SOLD! ~ 1950's Dick and Jane Pre-Primer "Blackout" Game. This game goes directly to the three 1950's Dick and Jane Pre-Primers: The New We Come and Go, The New We Look and See, and The New We Work and Play. This game is complete with original box, game pieces and instruction booklet! There are eight game cards in four different color coded sets. There are several black square chips (game pieces), a spinner,  the original instructions, and it comes with the original pictorial box! Also, as you can see in the pictures... the names of : Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff, and Tim, (Sally's teddy bear), are on these cards, as well as words from all three of the 1950's original Dick and Jane Pre-Primer Readers! Please click on the title to view additional pictures!  A must have for the serious Dick and Jane collector! Very few of these games survived over the years... especially in complete and near mint condition!  Item # 000971 1951 WE READ PICTURES DICK AND JANE TEACHER'S ED SOLD! ~ Vintage 1951 WE READ PICTURES Dick and Jane Pre-Reader! RARE Teacher's Edition. Filled with adorable pictures of Sally, Dick and Jane!!! 1st Edition! Large soft cover that measures approx. 9" x 12" and contains BOTH the student book plus the teacher's guide section Item # 000120 1962 DICK & JANE PRE-READER BOOK ~ BEFORE WE READ SOLD ~ vintage 1962 "Before We Read", Dick and Jane, oversized pre-reader, UNUSED student workbook. Beautiful book, ~ NO writing, and NO missing pages! The cover has a touch of light soiling, (mainly along spine) and very light edge wear, otherwise fine! This is a beautiful book that is in Excellent condition! Filled with exercises for the student to complete, of which feature Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, and Puff. The New
SparkNotes: Pride and Prejudice: Chapters 1–4 Pride and Prejudice Chapters 1–4, page 2 page 1 of 2 Summary: Chapters 1–2 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (See Important Quotations Explained ) The news that a wealthy young gentleman named Charles Bingley has rented the manor known as Netherfield Park causes a great stir in the neighboring village of Longbourn, especially in the Bennet household. The Bennets have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet, a foolish and fussy gossip, is the sort who agrees with the novel’s opening words: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” She sees Bingley’s arrival as an opportunity for one of the girls to obtain a wealthy spouse, and she therefore insists that her husband call on the new arrival immediately. Mr. Bennet torments his family by pretending to have no interest in doing so, but he eventually meets with Mr. Bingley without their knowing. When he reveals to Mrs. Bennet and his daughters that he has made their new neighbor’s acquaintance, they are overjoyed and excited. Summary: Chapters 3–4 (See Important Quotations Explained ) Eager to learn more, Mrs. Bennet and the girls question Mr. Bennet incessantly. A few days later, Mr. Bingley returns the visit, though he does not meet Mr. Bennet’s daughters. The Bennets invite him to dinner shortly afterward, but he is called away to London. Soon, however, he returns to Netherfield Park with his two sisters, his brother-in-law, and a friend named Darcy. Mr. Bingley and his guests go to a ball in the nearby town of Meryton. The Bennet sisters attend the ball with their mother. The eldest daughter, Jane, dances twice with Bingley. Within Elizabeth’s hearing, Bingley exclaims to Darcy that Jane is “the most beautiful creature” he has ever beheld. Bingley suggests that Darcy dance with Elizabeth, but Darcy refuses, saying, “she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.” He proceeds to declare that he has no interest in women who are “slighted by other men.” Elizabeth takes an immediate and understandable disliking to Darcy. Because of Darcy’s comments and refusal to dance with anyone not rich and well bred, the neighborhood takes a similar dislike; it declares Bingley, on the other hand, to be quite “amiable.” At the end of the evening, the Bennet women return to their house, where Mrs. Bennet regales her husband with stories from the evening until he insists that she be silent. Upstairs, Jane relates to Elizabeth her surprise that Bingley danced with her twice, and Elizabeth replies that Jane is unaware of her own beauty. Both girls agree that Bingley’s sisters are not well-mannered, but whereas Jane insists that they are charming in close conversation, Elizabeth continues to harbor a dislike for them. The narrator then provides the reader with Bingley’s background: he inherited a hundred thousand pounds from his father, but for now, in spite of his sisters’ complaints, he lives as a tenant. His friendship with Darcy is “steady,” despite the contrast in their characters, illustrated in their respective reactions to the Meryton ball. Bingley, cheerful and sociable, has an excellent time and is taken with Jane; Darcy, more clever but less tactful, finds the people dull and even criticizes Jane for smiling too often (Bingley’s sisters, on the other hand, find Jane to be “a sweet girl,” and Bingley therefore feels secure in his good opinion of her). Analysis: Chapters 1–4 The opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice—“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”—establishes the centrality of advantageous marriage, a fundamental social value of Regency England. The arrival of Mr. Bingley (and news of his fortune) is the event that sets the novel in motion. He delivers the prospect of a marriage of wealth and good connections for the eager Bennet girls. The opening sentence has a subtle, unstated sign
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What is the name of the Japanese verse form of 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines?
Haiku | Define Haiku at Dictionary.com haiku noun, plural haiku for 2. 1. a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. 2. a poem written in this form. Origin of haiku 1895-1900; < Japanese, equivalent to hai(kai) haikai + ku stanza; see hokku Dictionary.com Unabridged Examples from the Web for haiku Expand British Dictionary definitions for haiku Expand an epigrammatic Japanese verse form in 17 syllables Word Origin from Japanese, from hai amusement + ku verse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for haiku Expand n. 1899, from Japanese, where it is singular of haikai, in haikai no renga "jesting linked-verse;" originally a succession of haiku linked together into one poem. The form developed mid-16c. "Traditionally, there is mention of a season of the year somewhere in a haiku, as a means of establishing the poem's tone, though this may be only the slightest suggestion." [Miller Williams, "Patterns of Poetry," Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1986]. Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Let's Count in Japanese! Let's Count in Japanese! *The same pattern applies up to 99* 99 (kyu-ju-kyu) *The same pattern applies up to 199* 200 (ni-hyaku) *the same pattern applies up to 8,000,000,000,000* 8,000,000,000,000 (hatcho) *irregular pronunciation* *remain irregular up to 100,000,000,000,000* * 9,876,543,219,876,543 (9 quadrillion 876 trillion 543 billion 219 million 876 thousand 543) is kyu sen happyaku nana ju roku cho go sen yon hyaku san ju ni oku sen kyu hyaku hachi ju nana man roku sen go hyaku yon ju san
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In England, who was Princess Diana referring to when she said her marriage was ' a bit crowded?'
Diana's personal struggles | UK | News | Daily Express UK Diana's personal struggles Throughout her life, Princess Diana appeared a tower of strength and energy. But privately she faced an ongoing battle with feelings of low self-esteem and unworthiness. 00:00, Thu, Feb 22, 2007 Diana, Princess of Wales In 1993 Diana gave a remarkably frank interview with the BBC in which she spoke about the breakdown of her marriage and her struggles with bulimia and post-natal depression. Her fairytale wedding to Prince Charles at the tender age of 19 bought with it an intense amount of pressure, not least from the media. She later spoke of how she did not receive enough preparation or support for such an overwhelming role. Having seen her own parents go through a bitter divorce, Diana desperately wanted her marriage to work. She was clearly in awe of Charles during their courtship, but it quickly became clear that the couple were ill-matched. The public and media showered Diana with attention and affection, but this only caused more problems for her marriage. It is said Charles grew to resent being constantly overshadowed by his popular new wife. After the birth of Prince William when Diana was 20, she experienced post-natal depression and turned to self-harm as an escape. She went on to suffer from the eating disorder bulimia for a number of years. I was crying out for help, but giving the wrong signals. Diana, Princess of Wales She later said, “I was crying out for help, but giving the wrong signals. ” Diana’s feelings of “being useless and hopeless” were compounded when Prince Charles resumed his relationship with Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles in around 1986.   Diana famously said, “There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. ” Desperately unhappy in her marriage and not feeling that she had enough support from the establishment, Diana found strength in helping others through her charity work. As Charles Spencer said at Diana’s funeral, “Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release herself from deep feelings of unworthiness. ” Her turbulent private life was always the focus of intense speculation in the media. She admitted to having an affair with Life Guards officer James Hewitt, who published a book about their relationship. In 1989, a telephone conversation between her and car dealer James Gilby was recorded and leaked to the press. During the conversation, he infamously referred to her as “squidgy”. Diana was also linked to a married arts dealer called Oliver Hoare. She was accused of making up to 300 nuisance phone calls to his wife after their affair finished – something she always denied. In 1995, Diana struck up a relationship with Will Carling, the England rugby union  captain, who she had met at her exclusive London gym. Although he denied an affair, speculation heightened when Carling’s marriage broke up. In the last year of her life, Diana was linked with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan. She met him through her charity work at the Royal Brompton Hospital, where she watched a heart operation. But Khan was a shy and conservative man who found Diana’s fame and ‘baggage’ too overwhelming. Tragically, it seems Diana was killed at a time when she had finally found joy in her private life. Although we will probably never know the extent of her relationship with Dodi Fayed – there have been suggestions of an engagement and even pregnancy – the couple looked happy and relaxed in their final days together. Most read in UK
Obituary: Diana Mosley | Politics | The Guardian BNP Diana Mosley The third of the Mitford sisters, she married fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and counted Hitler as a friend Thursday 14 August 2003 09.00 EDT First published on Thursday 14 August 2003 09.00 EDT Share on Messenger Close The most hated woman in England was imprisoned in Holloway in the second world war as a danger to the king's realm. Diana Mosley, who has died in Paris aged 93, was that "famous awful person" - her words - scandalous beauty, friend to Adolf Hitler and wife of the leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), Sir Oswald Mosley. And a Mitford girl, the third of six daughters of Lord Redesdale. Her elder sisters were Nancy, the novelist, and Pam, the least well-known. Younger than her were the pro-Hitler Unity, the communist Jessica and Deborah, who is the Duchess of Devonshire. Her elder brother Tom was killed in Burma in 1945. Diana Freeman-Mitford, known as Nardy, Corduroy and Honks, had what passed for a normal childhood in that household, Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire (an appendectomy on a spare-bedroom table, side-saddle hunts with the Heythrop hounds) before first revealing her looks and revelling in their power on visits to Paris, although she was gated for months after the discovery of a diary entry about going to a cinema with a boy . The only exit from chaperones and chilblains was marriage. Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society. They were engaged secretly and Diana sulked until her parents approved the marriage. As she fretted over her bridal veil, Nancy told Diana, as she always had, "Nobody will be looking at you". But they were: it was the wedding of the year of 1929. Her mother-in-law led the Guinness household's amazement at Diana's ability to fry eggs - "I've never heard of such a thing, it's too clever". Not that Diana needed even that rudimentary culinary level, as the couple had £20,000 a year, a London house, Hampshire estate, Dublin home and so on. A court of smitten men attended Diana in her progressions round the properties, even during her pregnancies with sons Jonathan and Desmond; Evelyn Waugh was the most passionate ("her beauty ran through the room like a peal of bells") and dedicated to her Vile Bodies, his novel inspired by a party the couple had thrown. The Guinnesses were too late and not nearly silly enough to be Bright Young Things, but knew all of those whom Diana called "originals" in the arts. So Diana was a Cecil Beaton-photographed goddess at a summer ball in her Chelsea house in 1932, dancing until dawn "in all the diamonds I could lay hands on". Oswald Mosley declared his love that night. He had charisma and sexual avidity, later associated with showbiz, but then invested in public life: he had been a Conservative and Labour politician and, rejecting or rejected by both, founded his New Party in 1931 and soon after decided that fascism was the only answer to global collapse after the 1929 crash and set up the BUF in 1932. Diana was intrigued by his ideas - "I followed him politically absolutely blindly" - and in love: "I knew it would never end except with death." They briefly encountered each other at parties; they were indiscreet among aristo-Brits holidaying on the Venice Lido. Against family advice, Diana left her husband, but Mosley would not part from his wife, Cynthia "Cimmie" Curzon, daughter of a former Viceroy of India. Gentlemanly Guinness offered the requisite fake evidence of his "infidelity" for a divorce and Diana moved with her children to Belgravia, where (because a pending divorce could be denied if the King's Proctor found evidence of collusion), Mosley visited stealthily. She was a social pariah; he was in furious dispute with his wife, who collapsed with a perforated appendix. Mosley went straight from Cimmie's side to Diana: Cimmie died, unresisting, of peritonitis. Mosley, guilty and grieving, began yet another affair; Diana fled to Bavaria with her
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The Sabine River forms the border of Texas with what other area?
Borders in Dispute: The Sabine Free State and Texas Borders in Dispute: The Sabine Free State and Texas June 11, 2012 Jack H. Schick The French started the whole thing in 1735, when they moved their post at Natchitoches, Louisiana Territory, to across the Red River. The move was, in effect, an invasion of Spanish lands. The governor of Texas, Manuel de Sandoval, did absolutely nothing about it, even after the French began colonizing the area. In 1740, and again in 1744 and 1751, Spain ordered investigations into the French intrusion. Because of this argument, the region, in what is now in southwestern Louisiana, became a disputed, Neutral Ground, and remained so for over a century. For a brief time, it existed as the independent Sabine Free State sandwiched between New Spain (Mexico), and the United States . Manuel de Sandoval, who was born in Santa Fe sometime toward the end of the 1600's, rose to prominence in the colonial army of New Spain. The king appointed him governor of the state of Coahuila in 1729, and, in 1733, as governor of Texas. Though the administrative ‘capital' of Texas was Los Adaes (in western Louisiana), Sandoval chose to reside in San Fernando de Bexar (now, San Antonio), a distant settlement that was under constant attack by Apaches. Due to the governor's ‘distraction' and remote location, in 1735, French commander Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, moved his Natchitoches military post across the Red River and occupied land he knew to be Texas. Sandoval and his deputy at Los Adaes, Jose Gonzales, issued strong protests, with no results. Due to his ineffectual response to the ‘invasion,' Viceroy Juan Antonio de Vizarron y Equiarreta deemed Sandoval's ‘political management' of Texas a failure and replaced him with Carlos Benites Franquis de Lugo in September of 1736. When de Lugo assumed power, he had Sandoval arrested, accusing him of seven counts of official misconduct. In 1737 the Viceroy called both ‘governors' to Mexico City and demanded an accounting.* The charges against Sandoval were dismissed, but he was required to pay a $500 fine for not living in Los Adaes while he was governor and for having incompetent book keeping. He spent several years in prison but was released in 1741. However, the Natchitoches problem remained.  *  The investigation of Sandoval was extensive, filling thirty volumes. An additional forty volumes were collected describing events that occurred in Texas during his tenure. In the early 1800's, the information was important in the negotiations between Spain, France and the United States over the eastern border of Texas. The Sabine Free State Arguments between Spain and France over ownership of the land continued and, in 1753, Texas governor Jacinto de Barrios y Juaregui issued ‘official findings.' The French had, indeed, encroached on Texas. The area in question was west of Arroyo Hondo (Calcasieu River), bordered by the Sabina River to the west and the Red River to the north. Still, nobody did anything about it and when France ceded its Louisiana colony to Spain in 1764, the boundary dispute became irrelevant. The new Spanish possessions were administered from Havana, not Mexico City, though. Napoleon negotiated with Spain the ‘secret' Third Treaty of San Ildefonso and on October 1, 1800, Louisiana was transferred back to France. United States President Thomas Jefferson ‘caught wind' of the treaty and approached Bonaparte's government about purchasing the land. He wanted to secure access to the Gulf of Mexico for the U.S. via the Mississippi River. The French Republic was under siege by Austria, Russia, Prussia and Britain so Napoleon was more than willing to sell the ‘Louisiana Purchase' to help finance the impending war. France took ‘official' control of Louisiana on November 30, 1803 and turned New Orleans over to the United States on December 20th. On March 10, 1804, the rest of the territory was transferred, effectively doubling the size of the United States and enabling potential expansion to the Pacific Coast. However, in all of the ‘agreements,' the 65+ year old boun
The Capitals of Texas | Texas Almanac The Capitals of Texas Timeline of Texas History   Many different locations have served as capitals of the area that is now Texas, including a number that served only briefly. The National Capitals of Texas Capitals of the six nations that have ruled Texas have been: Spain: Valladolid (before 1551) and Madrid; France: Paris; Mexico: Mexico City, D.F.; Republic of Texas: San Felipe de Austin, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston Island, Velasco, Columbia, Houston and Austin; United States: Washington, D.C.; Confederate States of America: Montgomery, Ala., and Richmond, Va. A replica of the 1836 capitol in West Columbia. The Administrative Headquarters The administrative headquarters for Texas shifted many times from the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the end of the Civil War. Spanish Provincial Capitals In 1686, Monclova, Coahuila, Mex., became the first provincial capital for the area that became Texas. While Texas was associated with Spain and the Republic of Mexico, its government was administered largely from Coahuila, which alternately had Monclova and Saltillo as its provincial capital. In 1721-22 Marqués de Aguayo, governor of Coahuila including Texas, led an expedition north of the Rio Grande and established the presidio of Los Adaes a short distance east of the Sabine River on the site of present-day Robeline, La. Los Adaes became the capital of Texas and remained so for half a century. The seat of government was moved to San Antonio in 1772, where it remained until 1824. For two short periods during this time, the administrators of Coahuila y Texas conducted business from La Casa Piedra (today commonly called the Old Stone Fort) in Nacogdoches: Manuel Antonio Cordero y Bustamante in 1806 and Manuel María de Salcedo for three months in 1810. Mexican Provincial Headquarters After Mexico became independent of Spain in 1821, Texas was again united with Coahuila, of which Saltillo was then the capital. The first state congress convened there Aug. 15, 1824. The capital of Coahuila-Texas was moved to Monclova, March 9, 1833. A heated controversy between Saltillo and Monclova ensued. When the issue was placed before President Santa Anna, he favored Monclova. The capital of the first Anglo-American colony in Texas was San Felipe de Austin. The conventions of 1832 and 1833, as well as the Consultation of 1835 met at San Felipe, which continued to be the official headquarters until March 1, 1836. Capitals of the Republic of Texas The provisional government of the Republic of Texas met at Washington-on-the-Brazos March 1, 1836. This convention, in which all powers of sovereignty were claimed and exercised, adopted the Declaration of Independence on March 2. They also wrote a constitution and inaugurated executive officers. Because of the movement of Santa Anna's troops, President Burnet selected Harrisburg on Buffalo Bayou as the temporary capital. As Mexican troops moved eastward after their victory at the Alamo, President Burnet and part of his cabinet boarded the steamboat Cayuga at Harrisburg on April 15, 1836, making it the de facto capital of the Republic until the Texas officials went ashore at Galveston on April 26. The capital then moved to Velasco until October. In October 1836, Columbia (today's West Columbia) became the first capital of an elected government of the Republic of Texas. President Houston, on Dec. 15, 1836, ordered the seat of government removed to Houston. The government began operating from Houston on April 19, 1837. In 1839, the Capital Commission selected the "site of the town of Waterloo, on the north bank of the Colorado" as the permanent capital. This was confirmed by the Texas Congress Jan. 19, 1839, and the place was renamed Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin. President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet moved there October 17, 1839. When Mexican troops threatened San Antonio in March 1842, President Sam Houston ordered the government moved to Houston. Officials moved to Washington-on-the-Brazos, in September, and Houston sent
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What is fossilized tree resin called?
What is amber? Thanks for visiting the World of Amber! What is Amber? Amber is the fossilized resin from ancient forests. Amber is not produced from tree sap, but rather from plant resin. This aromatic resin can drip from and ooze down trees, as well as fill internal fissures, trapping debris such as seeds, leaves, feathers and insects. The resin becomes buried and fossilized through a natural polymerization of the original organic compounds. What type of depositional environment preserved amber? How is amber formed? Amber is a fossilized resin, not tree sap. Sap is the fluid that circulates through a plant's vascular system, while resin is the semi-solid amorphous organic substance secreted in pockets and canals through epithelial cells of the plant. Land plant resins are complex mixtures of mono-, sesqui-, di-, and triterpenoids, which have structures based on linked isoprene C5H8 units (Langenheim, 1969, p. 1157). Volatile terpenoid fractions in resins evaporate and dissipate under natural forest conditions, leaving nonvolatile terpenoid fractions to become fossilized if they are stable enough to withstand degradation and depositional conditions. The fossil resin becomes incorporated into sediments and soils, which over millions of years change into rock such as shale and sandstone. Therefore, amber is formed as a result of the fossilization of resin that that takes millions of years and involves a progressive oxidation and polymerization of the original organic compounds, oxygenated hydrocarbons. Although a specific time interval has not been established for this process, the majority of amber is found within Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks(approximately 30-90 million years old). Why is resin produced? Although there are contrasting views as to why resin is produced, it is a plant's protection mechanism. The resin may be produced to protect the tree from disease and injury inflicted by insects and fungi. Resin may be exuded to heal a wound such as a broken branch, and resins possess odors or tastes that both attract and repel insects (Langenheim, 1969, p. 1167). In mature trees, resin may simply exude from vertical fissures in the bark due to tension produced by rapid growth (Langenheim, 1969, p. 1166). Resin may also be produced as a plant's method for disposing of excess acetate. What is amber's botanical affinity? There is no one tree responsible for the resin that fossilizes into amber. Botanical affinities have been suggested based on examination of the entombed debris and through chemical studies of the resin. The botanical affinity of jelinite, Kansas amber, appears to be from the Araucariaceae family, which is considered to be a primary Mesozoic amber tree. Although this tree does not exist today in the northern hemisphere, it would closely resemble Agathis australis, or the huge Kauri pine found today in New Zealand. During most of the Mesozoic geologic time period, gymnosperms dominated land vegetation. Conifers are the most successful gymnosperm living today (Cleal & Thomas, 1999, p. 62). Some of the amber land plants were probably conifers from the order Pinales, in the families: Araucariaceae (e.g., Norfolk Pine, Monkey Puzzle, Kauri Pine), Taxodiaceae (e.g., sequoias and bald cypresses), Taxaceae (e.g., yews), Pinaceae (e.g., pine and larches), Cupressaceae (e.g., cedars, cypresses, junipers), and Podocarpaceae. Studies by G�ppert (1836), based on botanical debris entombed in amber, concluded that members of the Pinaceae were the source of Baltic amber. Specifically, G�ppert (1836) designated the amber tree as Pinites succinifer, although he clearly stated this wood anatomy was not the same as any living pine today. Disregarding botanical evidence and concentrating on chemical evidence, Beck (1999) and Larsson (1978) suggested sources other than Pinaceae for Baltic amber, including Araucariaceae, Cupressaceae, and Taxodiaceae; they believed that chemically G�ppert's Pinites was a closer match to the Araucariaceae than to Pinaceae. When was Kansas amber produced? Kansas amber was found among
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Which element is the best conductor of electricity?
What Is the Most Conductive Element? What Is the Most Conductive Element? What Is the Most Conductive Element? The Element That Is the Best Conductor of Electricity Silver has the highest electrical conductivity of any element.  Alchemist-hp, Creative Commons License Updated March 09, 2016. Question: What Is the Most Conductive Element? Conductivity refers to the ability of a material to transmit energy. There are different types of conductivity, including electrical conductivity , thermal conductivity and acoustical conductivity. Here is a look at the three most electrically conductive elements. As you might expect, all three conductive elements are metals. Answer: The most electrically conductive element is silver , followed by copper and gold. Silver also has the highest thermal conductivity of any element and the highest light reflectance. Although it is the best conductor , copper and gold are used more often in electrical applications because copper is less expensive and gold has a much higher corrosion resistance. Because silver tarnishes, it is less desirable for high frequencies because the exterior surface is less conductive. As to why silver is the best conductor, the answer is that its electrons are more free to move than those of the other elements. continue reading below our video Test Your General Science Knowledge This has to do with its valence and crystal structure. Most metals conduct electricity. Other elements with high electrical conductivity, are aluminum, zinc, nickel, iron and platinum. Brass and bronze are electrically conductive alloys , rather than elements. Table of the Conductive Order of Metals This list of electric conductivity includes alloys as well as pure elements. Because the size and shape of a substance affects its conductivity, the list assumes all samples are the same size. Rank Factors That Affect Electrical Conductivity Certain factors can affect how well a material conducts electricity. Temperature - Changing temperature of silver or any other conductor alters its conductivity. In general, increasing the temperature causes thermal excitation of the atoms and decreases conductivity (increases resistivity). The relationship is linear, but it breaks down at low temperatures. Impurities - Adding an impurity to a conductor decreases its conductivity. For example, sterling silver is not as good of a conductor as pure silver. Oxidized silver is not as good a conductor as untarnished silver. Impurities hinder electron flow. Crystal Structure and Phases - If there are different phases within a material, conductivity will slow slightly at the interface and may be different from one structure than another. The way a material has been processed can affect how well it conducts electricity. Electromagnetic Fields - Conductors generate their own electromagnetic fields when electricity runs through them, with the magnetic field perpendicular to the electric field. External electromagnetic fields can produce magnetoresistance, which can slow the flow of current. Frequency - The number of oscillation cycles an alternating electrical current completes per second is its frequency in hertz. Above a certain level, a high frequency can cause current to flow around a conductor rather than through it (skin effect). Since there is no oscillation and hence no frequency, the skin effect does not occur with direct current. Learn More
Discovery of the Electron: J. J. Thomson Elements and Atoms: Chapter 16 Discovery of the Electron: J. J. Thomson Joseph John Thomson (J. J. Thomson, 1856-1940; see photo at the Science Museum, London) is widely recognized as the discoverer of the electron. Thomson was the Cavendish professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge University and director of its Cavendish Laboratory from 1884 until 1919. For much of his career, Thomson worked on various aspects of the conduction of electricity through gases. In 1897 he reported that "cathode rays" were actually negatively charged particles in motion; he argued that the charged particles weighed much less than the lightest atom and were in fact constituents of atoms [Thomson 1897a, 1897b ]. In 1899, he measured the charge of the particles, and speculated on how they were assembled into atoms [ Thomson 1899 ]. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1906 for this work, and in 1908 he was knighted. His Nobel lecture is reproduced below. The case of the electron raises several interesting points about the discovery process. Clearly, the characterization of cathode rays was a process begun long before Thomson's work, and several scientists made important contributions. In what sense, then, can Thomson be said to have discovered the electron? After all, he did not invent the vacuum tube or discover cathode rays. Discovery is often a cumulative process. The credited discoverer makes crucial contributions to be sure, but often after fundamental observations have been made and tools invented by others. Thomson was not the only physicist to measure the charge-to-mass ratio of cathode rays in 1897, nor the first to announce his results. (See Pais 1986.) But Thomson did carry out this measurement and (later) the measurement of the particles's charge, and he recognized its importance as a constituent of ordinary matter. Carriers of negative electricity Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1906; in Nobel Lectures: Physics, 1901-1921 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1967), pp. 145-153 Introductory In this lecture I wish to give an account of some investigations which have led to the conclusion that the carriers of negative electricity are bodies, which I have called corpuscles [1] , having a mass very much smaller than that of the atom of any known element, and are of the same character from whatever source the negative electricity may be derived. [2] The first place in which corpuscles were detected was a highly exhausted tube [3] through which an electric discharge was passing. When an electric discharge is sent through a highly exhausted tube, the sides of the tube glow with a vivid green phosphorescence. That this is due to something proceeding in straight lines from the cathode--the electrode where the negative electricity enters the tube--can be shown in the following way (the experiment is one made many years ago by Sir William Crookes [4] ): A Maltese cross made of thin mica is placed between the cathode and the walls of the tube. [5] When the discharge is past, the green phosphorescence no longer extends all over the end of the tube, as it did when the cross was absent. There is now a well-defined cross in the phosphorescence at the end of the tube; the mica cross has thrown a shadow and the shape of the shadow proves that the phosphorescence is due to something travelling from the cathode in straight lines, which is stopped by a thin plate of mica. The green phosphorescence is caused by cathode rays [6] and at one time there was a keen controversy as to the nature of these rays. Two views were prevalent: one, which was chiefly supported by English physicists, was that the rays are negatively electrified bodies shot off from the cathode with great velocity; the other view, which was held by the great majority of German physicists, was that the rays are some kind of ethereal vibration or waves. [7] The arguments in favour of the rays being negatively charged particles are primarily that they are deflected by a magnet in just the same way as moving, negatively electrifie
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Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 2nd February - The Questions Macclesfield Pub Quiz League SET BY THE ROBIN HOOD 1.                       Arts and Entertainments 8.                       Sport (Pics) Apologies for the smaller than traditional pictures…we live in austere times. sorry I'm having some problems with the pictures - I'll come back to it but have posted in the meantime - Nick Arts and Ents – Waxing Lyrical.  Identify either the song/novel/poem OR the singer/band/author as appropriate. Q1 With reference to our stay in the A-League…. 2002 Song, taken from album “A rush of blood to the head” – Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be this hard Oh take me back to the start Coldplay or “The Scientist” 1993 Song taken from album “Pablo Honey” I’m a _BLANK_, I'm a weirdo, What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. I only knew what hunted thought quickened his step, and why He looked upon the garish day with such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved and so he had to die. Oscar Wilde or “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” Q4 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains      One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunkMy heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains          My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains          One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats Q5 1987 Song taken from the album “Actually” At school they taught me how to be so pure in thought and word and deed They didn't quite succeed Pet Shop Boys or “It’s a Sin” Q6 1967 Song from an eponymous album The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray Procol Harum or “A Whiter Shade of Pale” Q7 "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy or “Anna Karenina” Q8 1963 Novel "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." Sylvia Plath, or “The Bell Jar” S1 Supp 1 1989 Novel "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die." Salman Rushdie or “The Satanic Verses” S2 Song – Original Artist from 1975 or title Required She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne, and she cut your hair Hallelujah or “Leonard Cohen” Geography – Picture Round. Identify the country from the image provided. Q1 S1 / VI 1 SUPP/VISUALLY IMPAIRED 1. Kinshasa is one of the 20 biggest cities (by population) in the world.  In which country is it found. DR Congo (accept Zaire with reluctance) S2/ VI 2 Dili is the capital of which country which achieved independence in 2002. East Timor/ ( or Timor-Leste) Runners Up – in honour of the position the Robin keeps achieving on a Tuesday night.   In each case you will be given the name of a winner of an event.  Name the memorable 2nd placer. Q1 1997 General Election.  Enfield Southgate constituency.  Winner, Stephen Twigg (Labour) Michael Portillo (..were you still up for him?...) Q2 2015. General Election. Twickenham Constituency. Winner, Tania Mathias (Conservative) Vince Cable 2002 Pop Idol.  Winner – Will Young Gareth Gates 2009 Britain’s Got Talent.  Winner – Diversity Susan Boyle 2015. General Election. Thanet South Constituency.  Winner Craig Mackinlay (Conservative) Nigel Farage 2015 General Election. Bradford West constituency.  Winner Naseem Shah (Labour) George Galloway 1990-1994. 5 World Snooker Championship Finals.  Winners – Stephen Hendry and John Parrott Jimmy White 1993 Wimbledon Ladies Singles (tearfully).  Winner: Steffi Graf Jana Novotna 2000 US Presidential Election.  Winner: George W. Bush Al Gore Science – Periodic Table.  All of these are chemical elements – but there are other routes to the answer if you are not a scientist.  Slight errors in the ending of the name should be tolerated. Q1 Atomic Number 84.  Radi
Zahn Family Jeopardy Jeopardy Template The brand of underwear Marty McFly wears in Back to the Future 200 What is The Boston Tea Party This took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773. 300 How many of the United States Supreme Court Justices are women? 300 Who is Lord Alfred Tennyson? He wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade 300 What is Pi Math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determined this mathematical symbol to be a transcendental number in 1882. 300 Alfred Hitchcock used this to portray blood in the shower scene of Psycho 300 Who is Rosie the Riveter Norman Rockwell's illustration of this US iconic World War II heroine appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in May 1943 400 What is The Wounded Warrior Project? This charity for veterans has recently been under fire for blowing millions of dollars in donation money on spoils for its staff. 400 This famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus' 400 What is a conjunction? The part of speech that the word "but" plays in the following sentence: Sam wants to play Xbox, but he hasn't gotten his reading done yet. 400 The date of Harry Potter's birthday 400 Who is Spiro Agnew In October 1973, he resigned as Vice President of the US, and then pleaded no contest to the charges of income tax evasion in a federal court in Baltimore 500 Both Turkish and NATO radars detected a jet from this country violating Turkish airspace 500 He wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince 500 Light reactions, and the Calvin cycle are the two stages of this. 500 The only non Jedi in the original Star Wars trilogy to use a lightsaber 500
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Who wrote the 1897 poem 'Drake's Drum'?
Readings   •  Background Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) was a lawyer who, in his thirties, transferred his attention to literature and became one of the best-loved poets of late-Victorian and Edwardian England. He put forward an ideal of English manhood, an ideal that people of that period, by no means only English people, found admirable and inspiring. His best-known poem is the 1898 production "Vitaï Lampada", each of whose three stanzas ends with the exhortation to:  "Play up! play up! and play the game!" Of this poem and its author, Paul Fussell has the following to say in his classic literary survey of World War One : The author of these lines was a lifetime friend of Douglas Haig [commander of British forces in WW1]. They had first met when they were students together at [private boys' boarding school] Clifton College … Much later Newbolt wrote:  "When I looked into Douglas Haig I saw what was really great — perfect acceptance, which means perfect faith."  This version of Haig brings him close to the absolute ideal of what [WW2 hero and author] Patrick Howarth has termed homo newboltiensis, or "Newbolt Man": honorable, stoic, brave, loyal, courteous — and unaesthetic, unironic, unintellectual and devoid of wit. Newbolt was knighted by George V in 1915 for his contributions to Imperial élan. "Drake's Drum" appears in a collection titled Admirals All, published in 1897. On the strength of this book, Newbolt was sometimes tagged as "the naval Kipling." The poem relates to a legend about the late 16th century (1545-1595) English explorer and admiral Sir Francis Drake , who died while on a raiding expedition against Spanish settlements in the West Indies. The legend concerns Drake's drum — the one that would have been beaten on his ship to summon the sailors to their battle stations. This drum was brought home and hung in Buckland Abbey, near Drake's home port of Plymouth, in the county of Devon. It can still be seen there. According to the legend, if this drum is beaten when England is in danger, Drake will return to save his country once again. (Although an alternative version says only that the drum will be heard beating itself at moments of national crisis.) •  Notes "in his hammock … slung atween the round shot" — To bury a sailor at sea, you wrapped him in his hammock, with a cannonball at head and foot to sink the package. "Nombre Dios Bay" — Sir Francis's place of burial; properly "Nombre de Dios," a small town on the north coast of Panama. "Plymouth Hoe" — A hoe is a promontory, a piece of land sticking out into the sea. The dockside at Plymouth has this form. "the island" — St. Nicholas' Island in Drake's time, now called Drake Island; in Plymouth Sound, visible from the Hoe. "the Dons" — The Spanish, England's great enemy all through Drake's career. ————————— This text will be replaced by the flash music player. ————————— Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand mile away,     (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?) Slung atween the round shot in Nombre Dios Bay,     An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. Yarnder lumes the island, yarnder lie the ships,     Wi' sailor lads a-dancin' heel-an'-toe, An' the shore-lights flashin', an' the night-tide dashin'     He sees et arl so plainly as he saw et long ago. Drake he was a Devon man, an' ruled the Devon seas,     (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?), Rovin' tho' his death fell, he went wi' heart at ease,     An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe, "Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore,     Strike et when your powder's runnin' low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven,     An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago." Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come,     (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?), Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum,     An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. Call him on the deep sea, call him up the Sound,     Call him when ye sail to meet the foe; Where the old trade's plyin' an' the old flag flyin',     They shall find him, ware an' wakin', as th
Listen to "The Rake's Progress", Opera in Three Acts by Igor Stravinsky - Listening Library - The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Composed 1951 George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) Stravinsky thought of writing an opera in English not long after he arrived in the United States in 1939. The idea waited until 1947, when Stravinsky saw an exhibit of 18th-century engravings by William Hogarth titled A Rake’s Progress. Having found his subject, Stravinsky began looking for a librettist to elaborate the scenario, a search that led him to the poet W.H. Auden. The Russian composer and the British poet, meeting in America, embarked on a dynamic and fruitful collaboration; they sketched the shape of the opera in a matter of days. Auden brought in another poet, Chester Kallman, to assist with the elegant verse libretto. Stravinsky wrote his only full-length opera in a language he barely knew. Conductor Robert Craft, one of Stravinsky’s closest musical partners, met the composer on the very day Auden delivered the libretto in 1948, and recounted the unusual process by which Stravinsky set the unfamiliar words to music: He would ask me to read aloud, over and over and at varying speeds, the lines of whichever aria, recitative, or ensemble he was about to set to music. He would then memorize them, a line or a couplet at a time, and walk about the house repeating them, or [do so] when seated in his wife’s car (a second-hand, ancient and dilapidated Dodge) en route to a restaurant, movie, or doctor’s appointment. Much of the vocabulary was unfamiliar to him but he soon learned it and began to use it in his own conversation, charging someone with “dilatoriness,” or excusing himself for having to “impose” upon us, which sounded very odd from him. The piquant story and sophisticated libretto of The Rake’s Progress, entertaining as they are, might have been forgotten but for the miraculous music they inspired. After 30 years of neo-classical compositions, Stravinsky reached an apotheosis with this opera. It is, in some ways, his most mannered music, with self-conscious arias and old-fashioned recitatives accompanied by harpsichord. Yet somehow Stravinsky transcended mere stylistic mimicry to create music with beguiling clarity and lyricism, heir to the pure spirit of Monteverdi, Mozart and Rossini and utterly free of sarcasm (except where intended, e.g. Baba the Turk). Its first critics, many still hoping for a rehashing of The Rite of Spring, seemed not to know whether to take The Rake’s Progress seriously. Now, after nearly 60 years in the repertoire, the opera stands as a masterpiece of 20th-century musical drama, one of many high points in the wide-ranging career of the era’s most influential composer. The action of The Rake’s Progress centers on Tom Rakewell, a young man determined to “live by [his] wits and trust to [his] luck.” In Act I, he courts Anne Trulove, whose father disapproves of Tom’s lack of income. Just when Tom expresses his wish for money, the diabolical Nick Shadow appears with news that an unknown uncle has left Tom a fortune. Tom heads to London, with Nick as his new servant, and soon the pair find their way to Mother Goose’s brothel. After expressing his “sorrow” and “shame” in a beautiful cavatina, Tom exits with Mother Goose. Meanwhile, Anne worries about Tom and heads to London to find him. Act II begins with Tom bored and disconsolate. With the phrase “I wish I were happy,” Nick Shadow again makes a timely entrance, and manages to convince Tom to marry Baba the Turk, the hideous bearded lady from a nearby fair. In the next scene, Tom returns to his house in a coach with his unsightly new bride, and finds Anne waiting outside. He tells Anne to leave, professing himself “unworthy,” and enters his new life with the jealous and irascible Baba. The next scene shows the unhappy marriage, with Tom finally silencing the relentless Baba by throwing his wig over her head. Tom sleeps, and dreams of a “fantastic baroque machine” that converts stones to bread. Shadow just happens to have rigged just such a con
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James H Pierce was the last silent film actor to play who?
James Pierce : definition of James Pierce and synonyms of James Pierce (English) 4 External links   Early life/College/Early film career Big Jim Pierce, as he was known to family and friends, was an All-American center on the Indiana Hoosiers football team. Following his graduation in 1921, he coached high school football in Arizona , and began acting in his spare time. After he was cast in the 1923 production of The Deerslayer, he remained in California and coached football at Glendale High School (one of his players was John Wayne ).   Portrayal of Tarzan Pierce's life changed when he attended a party given by Edgar Rice Burroughs and his daughter Joan. Burroughs, the creator and author of the Tarzan books, immediately wanted Pierce to star in the next Tarzan movie. Pierce gave up a role in the film Wings to accept the Tarzan role. His part in Wings was given to a newcomer named Gary Cooper . The silent Tarzan film Burroughs talked him into accepting was released in 1927 by RKO Radio Pictures , and entitled Tarzan and the Golden Lion .   Marriage/Radio career/Later life Joan Burroughs and James Pierce married on Pierce's 28th birthday, August 8, 1928. From 1932 to 1934, James and Joan Pierce were the voices of Tarzan and Jane on national radio. They remained married until Joan's death in 1972. Both are buried in Shelbyville, Indiana, and their tombstones bear the inscriptions Tarzan and Jane. They had a daughter Joanne II Anselmo née Pierce (1930–2005) and a son James Michael Pierce (1935–1984). For many years, near the end of his life, Pierce attempted, to no avail, to find a print of Tarzan and the Golden Lion, which was thought lost. After his death, a copy was found in a foreign archive. Big Jim Pierce is also remembered for playing Prince Thun of the lion men in the 1936 movie serial Flash Gordon . He acted in small roles in several films, mostly westerns , through 1951, and worked in a lucrative real estate agency in the San Fernando Valley . He was an accomplished pilot, active during World War II with the National Airmen's Reserve , the forerunner of today's Air National Guard .   External links
TV ACRES: Quotations > Signoffs > TV Character Closing Lines   Signoffs - TV Character Closing Lines  "Be seeing you!" - On the bizarre espionage series THE PRISONER/CBS/1968-69 Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) and other reluctant residents of "The Village" would part company by saying "Be seeing you!" The expression was combined with a saluting hand signal which had the thumb and index finger touching as the hand was brought up to one's eye (as if to peep through). According to Patrick McGoohan (as told by actress Norma West), the hand sign was the same one used by the ancient Christians: the sign of the fish. The "seeing" aspect of the sign could also be interpreted as an inference that "Big Brother is watching"!...that he's got an "eye" on you. The same sign was used by Mr. Bester (Walter Koenig), a ruthless PSI Corps officer on the syndicated sci-fi series BABYLON 5/SYN/1994-98. "Good night, John Boy" - On the rural drama THE WALTONS/CBS/1972-81 the last scene of each episode featured a night view of the Walton homestead with its windows illuminated and someone in the family starting to say goodnight to the rest of the family. This started a cascade of responses as each member of the Walton family wished each other goodnight. This classic program closing originated on Christmas eve in 1931 when a tired Elizabeth (Kami Cotler) tried to say goodnight to everyone but was interrupted by her sister Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) who said "Don't say goodnight yet. Wait until we're all in bed and the last light is out." Thus began the now famous Goodnight Ma, Pa, Grandpa, Grandma, John-Boy, Mary Ellen, Elizabeth, Zeb, Erin, Jason, Ben, and Jim-Bob scenario. According to the two-hour special "TV Road Trip" (2002) hosted by John Ritter for The Travel Channel, the classic Walton's "Good Night" ritual was based on the real life of experiences of Earl Hamner, the series creator and narrator. Apparently, at one point in his life, Hamner's sibling of seven brothers and sister used to bid each other lengthy goodnights at bed time. Sometimes taking up to ten minutes. Eventually, however, Hamner's father had enough of the practice and told the kids to knock it off and just go to bed. "I'll be back next week at this same time with another Sea Hunt story" - One of many closing comments made by actor Lloyd Bridges as he concluded his action maritime adventure SEA HUNT/SYN/1957-61. For more closing monologues from the program check out BEGINNING & ENDING
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In which year did singer Elvis Presley marry Priscilla Beaulieu?
Elvis and women: He couldn't help falling in love Elvis and women: He couldn't help falling in love The King loved to surround himself with beautiful women. We recall his notable flames. Post to Facebook Elvis and women: He couldn't help falling in love The King loved to surround himself with beautiful women. We recall his notable flames. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1cO76xU CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 14 To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Elvis and women: He couldn't help falling in love Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY 9:00 a.m. ET Aug. 12, 2013 The King loved to surround himself with beautiful women. We recall his notable flames. Singer Elvis Presley and his bride, the former Priscilla Beaulieu, gaze into each other's eyes after their wedding on May 1, 1967. (Photo: AP) Presley met Priscilla Beaulieu, the only girl he'd marry, when she was just 14 Co-star Ann-Margret was the one who gave Priscilla something to worry about Barbara Gray, his date for the day, came forward after seeing her photo in USA TODAY Like many young men, Elvis Presley longed to surround himself with gorgeous, glamorous women who adored him. Unlike most, he had the opportunity to do exactly that. The singer was linked to a number of high-profile beauties during his short life, and those who have remembered him publicly have generally done so with affection. USA TODAY recalls some of his more notable flames. Priscilla Beaulieu Elvis married just once, to a young woman he had courted for nearly eight years. As is well known, he met 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu during his stint in the Army, while serving in Germany. Instantly smitten, he began dating the stunning teen; the couple kept in touch after he returned home, with Beaulieu occasionally visiting her beau in the USA. In 1963, she moved there for good — under strict conditions put forward by her parents, who expected that Elvis would ultimately marry her. After sowing a few remaining wild oats — see the entry on Ann-Margret — Elvis did tie the knot with Priscilla, in 1967. They welcomed their only child, Lisa Marie, the following year. But the union soon faltered. In her 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me, Priscilla suggested that her husband's sexual interest in her waned once she became a mother, and confessed that she eventually sought consolation in an affair with a karate instructor, Mike Stone. The fairy tale ended in 1972, when the Presleys separated; their divorce was final a year later, and the two shared custody of Lisa Marie. Priscilla made the decision to open Graceland to tourists in 1982, and remained in the public eye, launching careers as an actress and a businesswoman. Having never remarried, Presley, 68, keeps her ex-husband's name, and oversees his legacy, with discernible pride.  (Photo: AP) Ann-Margret It's no secret that the chemistry between Elvis and his leading lady in 1964's Viva Las Vegas didn't dissolve when the cameras stopped rolling. In Elvis and Me, Priscilla Presley describes Ann-Margret as the woman she feared most in the period leading up to her marriage. Elvis had assured her that there was nothing inappropriate going on; when Priscilla found out otherwise, she "picked up a flower vase and threw it across the room." Though he chose Priscilla in the end, Elvis' sexy Swedish co-star, now 72, clearly made an enduring impression, and vice versa. In her autobiography, Ann-Margret: My Story (1994), the screen siren recalled how Presley sent her guitar-shaped floral arrangements each time she played in Las Vegas, even after she got married — a week to the day after Elvis wed Priscilla. And when Presley died, Ann-Margret traveled to Memphis, with her husband, to be at his funeral. Natalie Wood It has been speculated that Elvis' early, brief relationship with Natalie Wood, one of several young starlets he was linked to in the mid-'50s, was a publicity stunt. But in her book Natalie: A Memoir By Her Sister, published
Elvis Presley - Biography - IMDb Elvis Presley Biography Showing all 302 items Jump to: Overview  (5) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (10) | Trivia  (225) | Personal Quotes  (36) | Salary  (24) Overview (5) The King of Rock 'n' Roll Height 5' 11¾" (1.82 m) Mini Bio (1) Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Presley (née Gladys Love Smith) and Vernon Presley (Vernon Elvis Presley). He had a twin brother who was stillborn. In September 1948, Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he attended Humes High School. In 1953, he attended the senior prom with the current girl he was courting, Regis Wilson. After graduating from high school in Memphis, Elvis took odd jobs working as a movie theater usher and a truck driver for Crown Electric Company. He began singing locally as "The Hillbilly Cat", then signed with a local recording company, and then with RCA in 1955. Elvis did much to establish early rock and roll music. He began his career as a performer of rockabilly, an up-tempo fusion of country music and rhythm and blues, with a strong backbeat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, made him popular - and controversial - as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Jailhouse Rock" and "Hound Dog" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop music. Teenage girls became hysterical over his blatantly sexual gyrations, particularly the one that got him nicknamed "Elvis the Pelvis" (television cameras were not permitted to film below his waist). In 1956, following his six television appearances on The Dorsey Brothers' "Stage Show", Elvis was cast in his first acting role, in a supporting part in Love Me Tender (1956), the first of 33 movies he starred in. In 1958, Elvis was drafted into the military, and relocated to Bad Nauheim, Germany. There he met and fell in love with 14-year old army damsel Priscilla Ann Wagner ( Priscilla Presley ), whom he would eventually marry after an eight-year courtship, and with whom he had his only child, Lisa Marie Presley . Elvis' military service and the "British Invasion" of the 1960s reduced his concerts, though not his movie/recording income. Through the 1960s, Elvis settled in Hollywood, where he starred in the majority of his thirty-three movies, mainly musicals, acting alongside some of the most well known actors in Hollywood. Critics panned most of his films, but they did very well at the box office, earning upwards of $150 million total. His last fiction film, Change of Habit (1969), deals with several social issues; romance within the clergy, an autistic child, almost unheard of in 1969, rape, and mob violence. It has recently received critical acclaim. Elvis made a comeback in the 1970s with live concert appearances starting in early 1970 in Las Vegas with over 57 sold-out shows. He toured throughout the United States, appearing on-stage in over 500 live appearances, many of them sold out shows. His marriage ended in divorce, and the stress of constantly traveling as well as his increasing weight gain and dependence upon stimulants and depressants took their toll. Elvis Presley died at age 42 on August 16, 1977 at his mansion in Graceland, near Memphis, shocking his fans worldwide. At the time of his death, he had sold more than 600 million singles and albums. Since his death, Graceland has become a shrine for millions of followers worldwide. Elvis impersonators and purported sightings have become stock subjects for humorists. To date, Elvis Presley is the only performer to have been inducted into three separate music 'Halls of Fame'. Throughout his career, he set records for concert attendance, television ratings and recordings sales, and remains one of the best-selling and most influential artists in the history of popular music. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan and Chris Holland Spouse
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Visible sunspots vary in number according to a cycle of how many years?
Sunspots: Modern Research 4 of 7 The Sunspot Cycle Cycles have been around In the last few decades, we've started to understand the forces behind sunspots, but we've known for over a 150 years that sunspots appear in cycles. The average number of visible sunspots varies over time, increasing and decreasing on a regular cycle of between 9.5 to 11 years, on average about 10.8 years. An amateur astronomer named Heinrich Schwabe, was the first to note this cycle, in 1843. The part of the cycle with low sunspot activity is referred to as " solar minimum " while the portion of the cycle with high activity is known as " solar maximum ." In fact they go around twice By studying the sun's magnetic field, modern astronomers have discovered that the cycle covers twenty-two years, with each eleven-year cycle of sunspots followed by a reversal of the direction of the Sun's magnetic field. According to Fisher, "the overall magnetic field structure changes in a way that is very interesting. It turns out that if the magnetic fields primarily point from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere (of the sun), they point from east to west in the Southern Hemisphere. In the next eleven-year cycle, the fields are reversed. So the cycle is really twenty-two years." Migration Sunspots appear mostly in the low latitudes near the solar equator. In fact they almost never appear closer than 5 or further than 40 degrees latitude, north or south. As each sunspot cycle progresses, the sunspots gradually start to appear closer and closer to the equator. The sunspot locations for the most recent 11-year cycle are shown in this "butterfly" diagram." The locations "migrated" toward the equator (0 latitude) from both hemispheres throughout this half of the cycle.   Do sunspots affect earth's climate? From 1645 to 1715, there was a drastically reduced number of sunspots. This period of reduced solar activity, which was first noticed by G. Spörer, was later investigated by E.W. Maunder, is now called the Maunder Minimum . That the same period of time was also unusually cold on Earth.  Similar periods of low solar activity seem to have occurred during the Spörer Minimum (1420-1530), the Wolf Minimum (1280-1340), and the Oort minimum (1010-1050). This succession of low-temperature periods is now called the "Little Ice Age," and the corresponding pattern of extreme sunspot minima has led to speculation that sunspot activity may affect the earth's climate.
Transit of Venus FAQ: Everything You Need to Know Transit of Venus FAQ: Everything You Need to Know By SPACE.com Staff | June 2, 2012 06:50am ET MORE Michael Wilce of Central London, UK took 20 composite shots to create this image of the Venus transit on June 8, 2004. Credit: Michael Wilce On June 5, skywatchers around the world will be treated to a rare astronomical event when Venus dances across the solar disk for the last time this century. The so-called transit of Venus is a much-anticipated event that has attracted wide interest around the globe. To prepare for the historic spectacle, here are some frequently asked questions (and answers) on the rare celestial sight: What is the transit of Venus? When Venus crosses in front of the sun, astronomers refer to this as a "transit." As the planet moves along its orbital path, it will travel across the solar disk, making it appear to observers on Earth as a small black blemish on the face of the sun. What's so special about it? Due to the tilt of the planet's orbit, transits of Venus are some of the rarest astronomical sights because they only occur in pairs eight years apart, once every 100 years or so. The last Venus transit occurred on June 8, 2004, and the next one will not be visible again until the year 2117, more than 100 years from now. [ Transits of Venus Through History (Gallery) ] Prior to 2004, the last pair of Venus transits took place in 1881 and 1889. World visibility of the transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012. Spitsbergen is an Artic island – part of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway – and one of the few places in Europe from which the entire transit is visible. For most of Europe, only the end of the transit event will be visible during sunrise on 6 June. Credit: Michael Zeiler, eclipse-maps.com (via ESA) How can I watch the transit? As Venus passes in front of the sun, the planet will cover only a small fraction of the solar disk, which means observers need to protect their eyes. It is very dangerous for humans to stare at the sun (even mid-transit) without proper eclipse glasses or solar filters for binoculars and telescopes. To observe the sun, dense filters are used to block damaging rays. The only safe filters are #14 welder's glass, which is sold in specialized welder's supply stores. Special eclipse glasses are also available from telescope stores and astronomy clubs (they should only cost a couple of dollars). Another way to watch the transit is using a "pinhole camera," which can be made from a large cardboard box. [ Video: How to Make a Pinhole Camera ] If you plan to watch the transit with binoculars or a small telescope , you will need a proper full-aperture solar filter. When and where can I see the 2012 transit of Venus? Venus will cross the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, and will be visible from many parts of the world. Since the event takes place across the International Date Line, the transit will occur on Wednesday, June 6 in Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe. Skywatchers in North America, Europe, Asia and eastern Africa will be well-placed to see at least part of the transit in person. To see if there are any local events in your hometown to view the transit of Venus, NASA has put together a map showing the location of various viewing parties around the world on its Sun-Earth Day website: http://venustransit.nasa.gov/2012/transit/event_locations.php If, however, you are unable to witness the event in person, several organizations will be broadcasting footage from observatories and telescopes online. For example, NASA will be hosting a webcast on June 5 that will last the entire length of the Venus transit. Viewers who tune in will be able to see the entire event unfold, through footage streamed live from t he summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. These views will be accompanied by commentary from astronomers and transit experts. The webcast is currently scheduled to begin at 5:45 p.m. EDT (2145 GMT). For more information, SPACE.com has put together a handy guide for how to watch the transit of Venus online: http://www.space.com/15956-venus-tran
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The Rutshire Chronicles is a series of romantic novels by which author?
Order of Rutshire Chronicles Books - OrderOfBooks.com Home | Characters | Authors Order of Rutshire Chronicles Books The Rutshire Chronicles is a series of romance novels by British author Jilly Cooper . The series is about the British upper class, including the crowds involved with show-jumping and polo. As it is romance, the situations do get steamy as well as scandalous. One of the central characters is Rupert Campbell-Black, who ties many of the characters together. Jilly Cooper began her Rutshire Chronicles series in 1986 with the novel Riders. The series can be read in order or as standalone novels. Below is a list of Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order): Publication Order of Rutshire Chronicles Books Riders
Aspects of E.M. Forster: Maurice Plot Maurice, a novel by E. M. Forster, written during 1913/14, but published posthumously in 1971, is the story of a young middle class man searching for an own identity within a society which denies his desire for love to a person of the same sex. With the plot starting just before the protagonist's 15th birthday the reader follows Maurice's life through public school, Cambridge and his deceased father's stock broking firm, Hill and Hall. Forster omits the childhood of - and by that the influences of society on - Maurice Hall. The reader only learns about his early childhood, that he and his sisters Ada and Kitty were brought up by their widowed mother. Maurice is depicted as an ordinary man. That makes it easier for him to disguise as 'normal' (i.e. heterosexual) person. Successively he experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. His first homosexual relation to Clive Durham at Cambridge breaks up when Clive decides to marry. Later Maurice thinks about overcoming his sexual desires but fails falling in love with Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate. The novel ends happily. Forster wrote that although the happy end was not plausible, he had not wanted to let the novel end disastrous. Maurice is a plea for emotional and sexual honesty, and it criticises the repressive attitudes of British society. Aware that the publication of that novel would cause a furore, Forster prepared it for posthumous publication adding the line 'Publishable - but worth it?' to the cover of the manuscript. Film Adaption Maurice (1987) was directed by James Ivory, adaption for film by Kit Hesketh-Harvey et al.. Cast overview: James Wilby - Maurice Hall, Rupert Graves - Alec Scudder, Hugh Grant - Clive Durham; rest of cast listed alphabetically: Kitty Aldridge - Kitty Hall, Maria Britneva - Mrs. Sheepshanks, Simon Callow - Mr. Ducie, Denholm Elliott - Doctor Barry, John Elmes - Hill, Peter Eyre - Rev. Borenius, Alan Foss - Old Man on Train, Barry Foster - Dean Cornwallis, Philip Fox - Dr. Jowitt, Patrick Godfrey (I) - Simcox, Olwen Griffiths - Mrs. Scudder, Chris Hunter (I) - Fred Scudder, Michael Jenn - Archie, Ben Kingsley - Lasker-Jones, Breffni McKenna - Guardsman, Helena Michell - Ada Hall, Phoebe Nicholls - Anne Durham, Judy Parfitt - Mrs. Durham, Mark Payton - Chapman, Catherine Rabett - Pippa Durham, Miles Richardson - Third Undergraduate, Phillada Sewell - Matron, Matthew Sim - Featherstonhaugh, Andrew St. Clair - Second Undergraduate, Mark Tandy - Risley, Harriet Thorpe - Barmaid, Julian Wadham - Hull, Richard Warner (I) - Judge, Orlando Wells - Young Maurice, Billie Whitelaw - Mrs. Hall, Alan Whybrow - Mr. Scudder, ....; runtime: 140 min.; country: UK; language: English; colour: colour (Technicolor); sound: Dolby; certification: Finland:K-16, France:U, Hong Kong:III, Sweden:11, UK:15, USA:R. Resources On-line material
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Which Brazilian footballer won the World Cup as a player in 1958 and 1962 and as a manager in 1970?
Pele and the 20 Greatest Brazilian Footballers of All Time | Bleacher Report Pele and the 20 Greatest Brazilian Footballers of All Time Pele and the 20 Greatest Brazilian Footballers of All Time 1 of 21 Brazil has produced some of the most iconic players in the history of world football. From Pelé to Garrincha and Ronaldo to Kaká, the country has a back catalogue of stars that is scarcely believable. No other nation can match it. For all of Italy, Germany or Argentina's great pedigree as footballing powers, they are no equal for Brazil in terms of star power and status. Even now, there are children the planet over who know the names Zico and Socrates. They may have no idea where they played, or even who they were, but they have heard these names spoken of in hallowed terms by their elders. Brazil's teams in 1958, 1970 and 1982 are widely mentioned in the context of the greatest footballing sides of all time. World Cup winning efforts in 1994 and 2002 also packed a punch on the star radar. But, where do the individual players rank in relation to each other? Without further hesitation, let's take a look at who I personally rate as the Top 20 players in Brazil's footballing history. No. 20: Careca 2 of 21 A veteran of the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, Careca was a national champion in both Brazil and Italy in a career that took him from 1978 through to the late 1990s. Having missed the 1982 World Cup through injury, Careca's early career was marked only by domestic success. Before leaving for Italy in 1987, he would win the Brazilian championship with both Guarani and São Paulo. For the latter of those titles, in 1986, he finished as the Brasileirão's top scorer with 25 league goals and was voted Placar magazine's Player of the Year. That same year, though, he would spring to wider attention as the second top-scorer at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, before moving to Serie A giants Napoli the following season. He would later add two more World Cup goals to his tally in 1990. At Napoli, he would form an effective partnership with Argentine superstar Diego Maradona, who would lead the club to unprecedented success. In 1989, the Partenopei would secure the only continental title in their history by winning the UEFA Cup, while the Italian Serie A title followed a year later. Following Maradona's departure from the club, Careca would later strike up a partnership with a young Gianfranco Zola, before moving on to Japan in 1993. He would spend three years there with Kashiwa Reysol, before returning to Brazil with Santos in 1997. No. 19: Heleno De Freitas 3 of 21 Heleno de Freitas is as famous in Brazil for his off-pitch antics as he is for his performances on it. However, when it comes to his on-pitch performance, there are few who could claim to be his equal. The biggest idol in the pre-Garrincha history of Botafogo , Heleno scored 209 goals in 235 matches for the Carioca giants between 1940 and 1948. It was at this point in his career that he was selected to play at international level, starring at the 1945 South American championship, where he scored six goals. He would end his international career with 19 goals in just 18 games. In 1948, in what was the biggest transfer in the history of South American football, he moved to Argentine giants Boca Juniors . However, his time at the club would last just one year. At 30, he would achieve state championship success with Vasco da Gama upon his return to Brazil, but failed to hold down a spell of any notable duration at any of his remaining clubs. The tall, elegant striker's career was on a downward spiral as personal issues began to take full effect. From early in his career, he had endured problems with drug addiction, while his famed love of women ultimately led to his demise. Heleno died in 1959, aged 39, having spent his final years in a hospice after contracting syphilis, which led to madness. Sadly, he was denied the chance to represent his country at a World Cup due to the competition's absence during the Second World War. No. 18: Clodoaldo 4 of 21 A World Cup winner in 1970, Clodo
World Cup winners list: A complete history - SBNation.com World Cup winners list: A complete history Rec Dean Mouhtaropoulos In 1930, thirteen teams participated in the first World Cup held in Uruguay. Since then, the countries of the world have come together every four years (except in the 1940's-yes Germany, looking at you here) to play in the tournament, with 77 countries having participated in 20 tournaments as of 2014. Despite, the large number of countries to participate, only eight of them have enjoyed the glory of actually winning it. Brazil are on the top with five (don't mention this to Brazilians right now, though), and Germany are next on the list with four, their most recent having been secured against Argentina on Sunday. Here's a quick tour of each winning nation. Brazil 2014: Germany Germany became the first ever European team to win a World Cup in South America, and lifted the trophy for the first time since reunification. Fittingly, in a tournament in which nothing was predictable, Germany didn't look completely convincing en route to their final against Argentina, and notably needed extra time to get past the unfavoured Algeria in the first knockout round. However, Die Mannschaft grew into the tournament, and inflicted a historic 7-1 thrashing on tournament hosts Brazil in the semis before Mario Götze's last-gasp extra time strike settled a close final. Argentina captain Lionel Messi earned the Golden Ball as a consolation which was really none at all. South Africa 2010: Spain The Spanish team in 2010 was special, which makes its early exit in Brazil even more of a mystery. In South Africa, Andrés Iniesta scored in the 116th minute agaist the Netherlands to give Spain their first World Cup. Six members of the team, along with their coach Vincente del Bosque, were voted onto the team of the tournament. Iker Casillas, the goalkeeper, won the Golden Glove award (previously the Yashin Award), shutting out his opponents in five of the seven matches. The team also won the FIFA Fair Play Trophy. Germany 2006: Italy Italy's victory over France in the final was one for the memories. Not only did Italy win 5-3 on penalty kicks, but France's captain Zinedine Zidane was red-carded for head-butting Marco Materazzi in extra-time.  Italy's goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon won the Yashin Award given to the best goalkeeper, and was one of seven Italian players voted to the All-Star team. The victory gave Italy their fourth World Cup title, then second only to Brazil's five, but matched by Germany this year. Korea-Japan 2002: Brazil This World Cup was Ronaldo's World Cup. The old one. The Brazilian striker won the Golden Boot award (highest scoring player), scoring eight goals in the tournament. Two of those came in the final, as Brazil shut out Germany 2-0 and won their record fifth World Cup. Ronaldo was voted to the team of the tournament along with teammates Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, and Roberto Carlos finished with a 7-0-0 record and a plus-14 goal differential. France 1998: France If you think the header is a typo, you are mistaken! When France won the tournament in France they became the sixth country to win the tournament on home soil. France's goalkeeper won the inaugural Yashin Award, letting in only two goals, and eight French players scored in the tournament. Zinedine Zidane headlined the French attack, as France ended with a plus-13 goal differential. They were also given the FIFA Fair Play Trophy and voted the Most Entertaining Team. USA 1994: Brazil When Brazil faced Italy in the '94 final both teams were looking for their record fourth title. Brazil defeated Italy 3-2 on penalty kicks, becoming the first country to win the final via a shootout. Romário scored five goals and won the Golden Ball award (best player), and Brazil won the FIFA Fair Play Trophy and was voted the Most Entertaining Team. On a side note, the US chose this as the the mascot for the tournament. #Fifa #WorldCup World Cup In honor of this amazing month of soccer, #tbt World Cup '94 with the mascot Striker #b ... pic.twitter.com/ri1nVPC4iT — FI
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Spiny, Clawed and Slipper are varieties of which creature?
Lobsters, Lobster Pictures, Lobster Facts - National Geographic Size relative to a tea cup Please add a "relative" entry to your dictionary. To many, it may seem that the lobster’s most natural habitat is on a large, oval plate between a cup of drawn butter and a lemon wedge. In fact, only a few of the hundreds of types of lobster are caught commercially. But those few species are some of the most heavily harvested creatures in the sea, and generate a multi-billion-dollar industry, with more than 200,000 tons (181,436 metric tons) of annual global catch. The lobsters that most people know from their dinner plates are the American and European clawed lobsters Homarus americanus and Homarus gammarus. These are cold water species that live on either sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean. There are also tropical lobsters that are widely consumed, but these are generally clawless varieties called spiny and slipper lobsters. Lobsters are ten-legged crustaceans closely related to shrimp and crabs. These benthic, or bottom-dwelling, creatures are found in all of the world’s oceans, as well as brackish environments and even freshwater. They have poor eyesight but highly developed senses of taste and smell. They feed primarily on fish and mollusks, but will consume algae and other plant life and even other lobsters. Female lobsters carry their eggs under their abdomens for up to a year before releasing them as larvae into the water. The larvae go through several stages in the water column before settling on the bottom, where they spend the rest of their lives. They generally prefer to live in self-dug burrows, in rocky crevices, or hidden among sea grasses. Lobsters must shed their shells in order to grow, and some species can live to be 50 years old or more, growing continually throughout their lives. Lobsters have not always been considered chic eats. In 17th- and 18th-century America, they were so abundant in the northeast that they were often used as fertilizer. Laws were even passed forbidding people to feed servants lobster more than twice a week. However, improvements in U.S. transportation infrastructure in the 19th and 20th century brought fresh lobster to distant urban areas, and its reputation as a delicacy grew. Populations of commercially important lobster species are thought to be declining, and overfishing, particularly of clawed lobsters in Europe, is taking a toll. Additionally, pollution is causing shell rot and other illnesses in normally disease-resistant species.
BFI Screenonline: Six-Five Special (1957-58) Synopsis Show analysis Synopsis Warning: screenonline full synopses contain 'spoilers' which give away key plot points. Don't read on if you don't want to know the ending! Edition originally transmitted on BBC on 31 August 1957 Pete Murray introduces Eric Delaney and his Band. They play 'Ole King Rock'n'Roll' (a rock'n'roll version of 'Ole King Cole'). The studio audience jives. Pete Murray introduces Spike Milligan, playing an inventor, Mr Pym, who has invented a device which indicates when jelly is present in a room. Michael Holliday mimes to 'Old Cape Cod', then sings 'Love you Darlin', accompanied by Don Lang and his Frantic Five. Holliday introduces Jo Douglas, Freddie Mills and Pete Murray, who sing a comic song around the Six-Five Special train theme. Mills is dressed as a Teddy Boy and Murray enacts rock'n'roll steps. Don Lang's tenor sax player, Rex, plays a solo. Don Lang sings his new record 'White Silver Sands'. Don Lang says the programme has received many letters from people who want to know the difference between jive and rock'n'roll dancing. He introduces Bill Ross and Lesley who perform a rock'n'roll dance to Rex playing his own composition 'Rex's Rock'. Lesley wears a very, very short flared skirt, neckerchief, flat pumps and seamed tights; Bill Ross wears a check shirt, sneakers and denim jeans. Murray introduces American band leader Ray Anthony. Anthony says he finds the show very exciting and comments that there is nothing like it on US television. He says that he is on a 'goodwill tour' of the UK and his band will be brought over to Britain in a few months. Murray asks him which is his favourite composition; Anthony replies 'Mr Anthony's Boogie'. They speak briefly on the Band's film work. Anthony has made a record called 'Bunny Hop' - Bill Ross and Lesley dance to it after brief instruction from Anthony. The studio audience joins in and Don Lang plays. Douglas on location with climbers from the Polytechnic Climbing Club. They climb the Milestone Buttress in North Wales. Douglas introduces Chris Barber and his Band and Ottilie Patterson, who sings 'Steamboat Bill'. Chris Barber and his Band play an instrumental as the studio audience jives. Milligan, Mills and Douglas in a sketch in which Milligan is a butcher cutting up meat as the two customers ignore him and gossip. He eventually blows the meat joint up with dynamite. Murray introduces the Deep River Boys who sing 'All Shook Up', 'Love Me Tender', 'When Rock'n'Roll Came to Trinidad' and 'Not Too Old to Rock'n'Roll'. Eric Delaney and his Band play their version of 'The Banana Boat Song'.
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Which duo had the top selling single of 1981
UK Top 10 Best Selling Singles from ukcharts.20m.com Candle In The Wind 1997 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight Elton John (4.8 million copies) 1997 On 31st August 1997, Princess Diana died in a car crash with companion Dodi al Fayed. The news shocked the world. The world was plunged into mourning. Tributes flooded in. The funeral was held on 6th September 1997 (coincidentally, her wedding heads the top TV list, with 39m and the funeral is 5th with 31m). Sir Elton John performed this song of his at the funeral. It was originally a tribute to Marilyn Monroe when released in 1974, reaching #11, and #5 in 1988 when recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It was released on 13 September (a Saturday, unusually) and sold 658,000 copies on that one day, enough to send it straight to number one after just one day on release. It had sold 2 million by the end of its second week on chart, 3 million the next week, and eventually reached 4.8 million, thus making it the biggest selling single in the UK by a fair lead. In the USA, it received the grand total of 11 million sales. In Canada it probably fared best in terms of chart success, spending an astonishing 45 weeks at Number One over there. It became the best-selling single in the world, with total sales standing at 37 million. Fact: It was actually voted the third WORST Number One single in Channel 4's 100 Greatest #1s poll. 2 Do They Know It's Christmas? Band Aid (3.51m) 1984/5 This record was the brainchild of Boomtown Rats (2 #1s) frontman Bob Geldof. Watching the news one night, he saw the disturbing images of starving children in Ethiopia, and felt he simply had to do something. So the biggest superstar line-up was arranged for each star to sing their own part in this record, co-written and produced by former Ultravox (#2 with Vienna in 1981) frontman Midge Ure. At the time it was the fastest-selling single in UK history, shifting 750,000 copies in its first full week alone. The same recording returned to #3 the next Christmas, and a SAW (Stock, Aitken and Waterman) version recorded with SAW stars such as Kylie Minogue and Bananarama with the group entitled Band Aid II was the Christmas #1 for 3 weeks in 1989. Together with the Live Aid concert in 1985, they successfully raised �110 million for the worthy cause. Sadly, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to drop the VAT (Value Added Tax) bill on the record. Artists featured on Band Aid: Adam Clayton, Bono (U2); Bob Geldof, Johnny Fingers, Simon Crowe, Pete Briquette (Boomtown Rats); David Bowie; Paul McCartney; Holly Johnson; Midge Ure, Chris Cross (Ultravox); Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, Roger Taylor, John Taylor (Duran Duran); Paul Young; Tony Hadley, Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, John Keeble, Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet); Martyn Ware, Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17); Francis Rossi, Nick parfitt (Status Quo); Sting; Boy George, Jon Moss (Culture Club); Marilyn; Keren Woodward, Sarah Dallin, Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama); Jody Watley; Paul Weller; Robert "Kool" Bell, James Taylor, Dennis Thomas (Kool And The Gang); George Michael. 3 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen (2.13m) 1975 & 1991 Allegedly mapped out by songwriter Freddie Mercury of Queen on the back of a cereal packet, this almost six minute wonder is like three songs in one, with stunning nine-part harmony vocals and combining grunge metal with almost kitsch opera, accompanied with what was conceived as the first pop video. The group consisted of Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Brian May and Mercury. It entered at #47 and was #1 within three weeks, where it stayed for a groundbreaking 9 weeks. It sold a million copies. Then, 16 years later it returned, upon Mercury's AIDS-related death, to the #1 spot for another five weeks, pushing the total weeks at #1 to 14 (4th most) and it shifted, astonishingly, another million copies helped with the coupling of new track These Are The Days Of Our Lives (winner of 1992 award for Best British Single at the BRITs), and in addition all profits from the 1991 release went to charity, complet
1. What is the name of the hit show based on the songs of Abba? - Liverpool Echo News 1. What is the name of the hit show based on the songs of Abba? 2. Which “G” is the name of the Italian astronomer who improved the telescope so much as to discover that there were craters on the moon?  Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. Which “G” is the name of the Italian astronomer who improved the telescope so much as to discover that there were craters on the moon? 3. For which series of films were the actors Kenneth Williams and Sid James best known? 4. What is the name given to the largest bee in a hive? 5. Which alternative word for the Devil is a Hebrew word with translates as “Lord Of The Flies”? 6. On which TV island might you have found actor Ricardo Montalban? 7. Mozart’s opera, which was a continuation of The Barber Of Seville, was called The Marriage Of . . . who? 8. What is the nearest planet to the Sun? 9. What was the name of the road sweeper played by Roger Lloyd-Pack in Only Fools And Horses? 10. What connects the answers above? 11. What was the nickname of the first Spice Girl to go solo? 12. Which of the following events did Carl Lewis not win a gold medal for at the 1984 Olympics? Long Jump, 400m or 100m relay? 13. Which two actors were nominated for best actor awards at the Oscars in 1991, both for playing wheelchair-bound characters? 14. How is Eldrick Woods better known? 15. Who did Iain Duncan Smith beat in September, 2001, to become the leader of the Conservative Party? 16. Who was the main villain in the cartoon Wacky Races? 17. When the band Hear‘say formed, who was the oldest member at 24? 18. What is the name of the third book of the Bible? 19. What was advertised with Eva Herzagovia using the slogan “hello boys”? 20. Which model gave birth to her daughter, Lola, in September, 2002? 21. “All children, except one, grow up” is the opening line from which famous story? 22. How are Fizz, Milo, Jake and Bella better known collectively? 23. What number on the Beaufort Scale represents a hurricane? 24. In which film did Jodie Foster play a character called Tallulah? 25. What is pathophobia the fear of? 26. What was the title of the TV show Bonanza changed to? 27. What mountain range is the natural habitat of the llama? 28. What nationality was scientist Marie Curie? 29. Who played the title role in the TV series Worzel Gummidge? 30. Which toy was originally called the Pluto Platter when it was first introduced in 1957? 1. Mama Mia; 2. Galileo; 3. Carry On; 4. Queen; 5. Beelzebub; 6. Fantasy; 7. Figaro; 8. Mercury; 9. Trigger; 10. The song Bohemian Rhapsody; 11. Ginger Spice; 12. 400m; 13. Tom Cruise (for Born On The Fourth Of July) and Daniel Day-Lewis (for My Left Foot); 14. Tiger Woods; 15. Ken Clarke; 16. Dick Dastardly; 17. Kym Marsh; 18. Leviticus; 19. The Wonderbra; 20. Kate Moss; 21. Peter Pan; 22. The Tweenies; 23. 12; 24. Bugsy Malone; 25. Illness; 26. Ponderosa; 27. Andes; 28. Polish; 29. Jon Pertwee; 30. Frisbee Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent
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Which is the brightest of the asteroids?
Vesta: Facts About the Brightest Asteroid Vesta: Facts About the Brightest Asteroid By Nola Redd, SPACE.com Contributor | January 29, 2015 08:09pm ET MORE In this image of the giant asteroid Vesta obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, numerous impact craters illustrate the asteroid's violent youth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Vesta is the second most massive body in the asteroid belt, surpassed only by Ceres, which is classified as a dwarf planet. The brightest asteroid in the sky, Vesta is occasionally visible from Earth with the naked eye. It is the first asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft. The Dawn mission orbited Vesta in 2011, providing new insights into this rocky world. Celestial Police In 1596, while determining the elliptical shape of planetary orbits,  Johannes Kepler  came to believe that a planet should exist in the gap between Mars and Jupiter. Mathematical calculations by Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode in 1772 — later known as the  Titus-Bode law  — seemed to support this prediction. In August 1798, a group known as the Celestial Police formed to search for this missing planet. Among these was German astronomer Heinrich Olbers. Olbers discovered the second known asteroid, Pallas.  In a letter  to a fellow astronomer, he put forth the first theory of asteroid origin. He wrote, “Could it be that Ceres and Pallas are just a pair of fragments … of a once greater planet which at one time occupied its proper place between Mars and Jupiter?” Olbers reasoned that the fragments of such a planet would intersect at the point of the explosion, and again in the orbit directly opposite. He observed these two areas nightly, and on  March 29, 1807 , discovered Vesta, becoming the first person to discover two asteroids. After measuring several nights’ worth of observations, Olbers sent his calculations to mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, who remarkably computed the orbit of Pallas in only 10 hours. As such, he was given the honor of naming the new body. He chose the name Vesta, goddess of the hearth, and sister to Ceres. [ Photos: Asteroid Vesta and NASA's Dawn Spacecraft ]  NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 kilometers) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Physical characteristics of Vesta Vesta is unique among asteroids in that it has light and dark patches on the surface, much like the moon. Ground-based observations determined that the asteroid has basaltic regions, meaning that lava once flowed across its surface. It has an irregular shape, roughly that of an oblate spheroid (in nontechnical terms, a somewhat smooshed sphere).  Diameter: 329 miles (530 kilometers) Mass: 5.886 X 1020 lbs. (2.67 x 1020 kilograms) Temperature: 85 to 255 K (minus 306 to 0 F / minus 188 to minus 18 C) Albedo: 0.4322 Closest approach to Earth: 1.14 AU Surface, composition and formation When Vesta made a close approach to Earth in 1996, the Hubble Space Telescope mapped its topographic surface and features. This  revealed a large crater  at the south pole that slices into its interior. The crater averages 460 km in diameter — remember: Vesta itself is only 530 km across. It cuts an average of 13 km into the crust, and most likely formed from an impact in the asteroid’s early life. The material ejected from this collision resulted in a number of smaller —  Vestoid  — asteroids that orbit near their parent, as well as some of the meteorites that have crashed into Earth. Unlike most asteroids, the interior of Vesta is differentiated. Like the terrestrial planets, the asteroid has a crust of cooled lava covering a rocky mantle and an iron and nickel core. This lends credence to the argument for naming Vesta as a protoplanet, rather than as an asteroid. Vesta’s core accreted rapidly within the first 10 million years after the formation of the solar system. The  basaltic crust  of Vesta also formed qu
AmazingSpace - Glossary Glossary A-B Absolute brightness (absolute magnitude) A measure of the true brightness of an object. The absolute brightness or magnitude of an object is the apparent brightness or magnitude it would have if it were located exactly 32.6 light-years (10 parsecs) away. For example, the apparent brightness of our Sun is much greater than that of the star Rigel in the constellation Orion because it is so close to us. However, if both objects were placed at the same distance from us, Rigel would appear much brighter than our Sun because its absolute brightness is much larger. Absolute zero The coldest possible temperature, at which all molecular motion stops. On the Kelvin temperature scale, this temperature is the zero-point (0 K), which is equivalent to -273°C and -460°F. Absorption The process by which light transfers its energy to matter. For example, a gas cloud can absorb starlight that passes through it. After the starlight passes through the cloud, dark lines called absorption lines appear in the star’s continuous spectrum at wavelengths corresponding to the light-absorbing elements. Absorption line A dark line in a continuous spectrum caused by absorption of light. Each chemical element emits and absorbs radiated energy at specific wavelengths, making it possible to identify the elements present in the atmosphere of a star or other celestial body by analyzing which absorption lines are present. Accelerating universe A model for the universe in which a repulsive force counteracts the attractive force of gravity, driving all the matter in the universe apart at speeds that increase with time. Recent observations of distant supernova explosions suggest that we may live in an accelerating universe. Accretion disk A relatively flat, rapidly rotating disk of gas surrounding a black hole, a newborn star, or any massive object that attracts and swallows matter. Accretion disks around stars are expected to contain dust particles and may show evidence of active planet formation. Beta Pictoris is an example of a star known to have an accretion disk. Active galactic nucleus (AGN) A very bright, compact region found at the center of certain galaxies. The brightness of an active galactic nucleus is thought to come from an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. The black hole devours matter from the accretion disk, and this infall of matter provides the firepower for quasars, the most luminous type of active galactic nucleus. Active galaxy A galaxy possessing an active galactic nucleus at its center. Advanced Camera For Surveys (ACS) An optical camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope that uses CCD detectors to make images. The camera covers twice the area, has twice the sharpness, and is up to 10 times more efficient than the telescopes Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The ACS wavelength range spans from ultraviolet to near-infrared light. The cameras sharp eye and broader viewing area allow astronomers to study the life cycles of galaxies in the remotest regions of the universe. Astronauts installed the camera aboard the telescope in March 2002, but the camera experienced an electrical short in 2007 that shut down all but one data channel. During Servicing Mission 4 in 2009, astronauts replaced the failed circuit boards and added a new power supply box to restore power to the camera. Afterglow The fading fireball of a gamma-ray burst – a sudden burst of gamma rays from deep space – that is observable in less energetic wavelengths, such as X-ray, optical, and radio. After an initial explosion, an expanding gamma-ray burst slows and sweeps up surrounding material, generating the afterglow, which is visible for several weeks or months. The afterglow is usually extremely faint, making it difficult to locate and study. Alloy A mixture of two or more metals. Brass (a mixture of copper and zinc) and bronze (a mixture of copper and tin) are common alloys. Alpha process A process by which lighter elements capture helium nuclei (alpha particles) to form heavier elements. For example, when a carbon nucleus
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What was the Ed Sullivan Show originally called?
SOFA Entertainment | Ed Sullivan Show Affiliate Sales Program SOFA Entertainment In 1990, Andrew Solt formed SOFA Entertainment, Inc. and purchased The Ed Sullivan Show, which had originally been broadcast on the CBS Network from 1948 to 1971. Considered the greatest variety show in primetime television history, SOFA Entertainment re-introduced The Ed Sullivan Show to the American public starting in 1991. The Ed Sullivan Show (which was originally called “Toast of the Town” when it began) is considered one of the most eclectic and storied archives of 1950’s and 1960’s American television. The Ed Sullivan Show remains as vibrant today with the show being honored with its own stamp and a growing presence on the internet. Every night millions of people are reminded of The Ed Sullivan Show when they watch The David Letterman Show broadcast from The Ed Sullivan Theater . Many unforgettable moments took place on Sullivan’s stage including the three historic appearances of Elvis Presley in 1956-57 and The Beatles’s U.S. television debut in February 1964. The Sunday night showcase also benefits from the fact the musical performances on the show were almost always performed live — whether they were pop, rock, jazz, Broadway, opera, classical, etc. The library also includes great comedians, novelty acts, children’s favorites and appearances by film and theater stars as well as top names from the worlds of sports and politics. Ed Sullivan’s aim was to produce and host a show for the entire family and for 23 years Americans gathered around the television sets on Sunday nights at 8 pm.to enjoy the entertainment Ed chose to offer them. Sullivan became a much beloved TV personality who the public related to for his everyman qualities and his down to earth style. Over time, Ed became a key arbiter of American taste and popular culture. SOFA Entertainment is the copyright holder of over 1,000 hours of original Ed Sullivan programs as well as approximately 100 hours of “new” programming created in the form of television specials, home-video programs and cable shows for networks such as CBS, Vh-1, TV Land and PBS. New programming is constantly being created for distribution on DVDs as well as on this website. The show is featured on CBS.com, TV.com and Hulu.com and The Ed Sullivan Channel on YouTube . We are currently in the process of adding 2,000 audio clips as well as 500 video clips for downloading on iTunes. For licensing Ed Sullivan Show material for biographies, documentaries or commercials contact Mary Sherwood at mary.sherwood@sofaent.com or (310) 276-9522.
Have a Go - UKGameshows Have a Go At the piano: Jack Jordan (1946-7), Violet Carson (1947-53), Harry Hudson (1953-66), Eric James (1966-7). Broadcast Home Service North (as "Have a Go, Joe!"), 5 March to 9 August? 1946 BBC Manchester for Light Programme, 16 September 1946 to 1967 Synopsis Britain's very first broadcast quiz to give away money prizes, "Have a Go" was a hugely popular "people show" in which Wilfred Pickles (and his wife, Mabel) travelled around the country, turning up in village halls and asking ordinary folk up on stage to talk about their lives and memories. Who's next? Pickles (on the right) and a contestant. This done, the member of the public would then be invited to "have a go" at the quiz, which consisted of four questions worth increasing amounts between 2s 6d and one guinea. In 1953, the total prize was £1/18s/6d, though it may have varied over time. At the end of the show, a "jackpot question" was asked with a slightly bigger prize available. All the previous contestants would write their answer down and one of them (quite likely, the one judged by the producer to be the audience's favourite) would be awarded the money. There would also often be items of local produce awarded in addition to the money, hence the catchphrase "What's on the table, Mabel?" Is madam ready to order? A good time is had by all. Catchphrases "How do, how are yer?" "Are yer courtin'?" "What's on the table, Mabel?" "Give 'im the money, Mabel!" (or "...Barney!", when producer Barney Colehan handed out the cash) Theme music
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Dave Brock has been leader of which psychedelic rock group for over 40 years?
Hawkwind Discography at Discogs Hawkwind Profile: Formed in 1969, Hawkwind are a prolific and pioneering space-rock group from the UK. Within weeks of their formation, the band had made a name for themselves on the free festival circuit and would perform live without fee wherever they were able. By the time of their 1971 album ' X In Search Of Space ', Hawkwind were infamous for their science fiction themed music and theatrical concerts, the latter renowned as exhibitions of pulsing electronics, dazzling light shows, LSD consumption and (from 1971-75) a nude dancer in the form of Stacia Blake . Despite a near-constant revolving door of members, Founder member Dave Brock has been the sole mainstay and the core of the band since its inception and has steered the band from its psychedelic rock roots into flirtations with heavy metal, new wave, ambient and techno. Notable contributors have included "accidental" bassist Lemmy (who would go on to greater fame with Motörhead ), Cream (2) 's Ginger Baker and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock . Sites:
Rock Eyez Webzine - Music News Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013 MUSIC NEWS   07/17/2013 Asked about SLIPKNOT's plans to get back into the studio and make a new album following the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray, Corey Taylor said: "We are talking about getting together next year and putting some new music together. Everybody's kind of getting some demos together right now. I've got about four or five songs that I'm working on. Joey's [Jordison, drums] got a ton of stuff. Clown's [Shawn Crahan, percussion] got a bunch of stuff. Jim's [Root, guitar] got some stuff, Mick [Thomson, guitar]… I mean, we all write so it's gonna take a lot of time to kind of get the madness under control. But right now that's the plan — to get together early next year and start throwing ideas at each other." SLIPKNOT has performed live over the past two years but has not recorded a new album since 2008's "All Hope Is Gone". SLIPKNOT mastermind/percussionist M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan spoke with Kerrang! magazine about the band's continued delay in recording a new studio CD. The SLIPKNOT co-founder explained: "We haven't written an album in five years because we wrote one, we toured it for two years, and Paul died, and it's been three years. What do you want from me? Nothing. When I come back, when we come back, it will be time, you will understand, we will understand, and it will be right. We'll be the first band that could be off for five years and come back like we never were gone. So that's what it's all about." TOOL drummer Danny Carey was interviewed this week by  Loudwire  and naturally the subject of a new album came up. Carey explained: "It's still the three of us [Carey, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Justin Chancellor] right now and [we will be joined by singer Maynard James Keenan] soon, you know, just working on all our parts and working on our compositions together. Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like TOOL no matter what we're trying to do. We're working everyday on it and it's going really well, so I'm hoping we'll get into the studio by the end of the year." Asked about a possible 2013 release date for the new TOOL CD, Careysaid: "I doubt it. Right now, since we haven't started tracking stuff at this point, it'll be hard. We could have the record finished by the end of the year — that's a possibility, but the logistics of getting it manufactured and getting the record company in line and all this stuff, I doubt we'll be able to get it out before Christmas. We'll see how it goes. Most likely, it'll be early 2014." TOOL has not released a new album since 2006's "10,000 Days". Jones recently told Revolver magazine, "It's unfortunate that we haven't put anything out in a while, but you know, we've changed as a band . . . We've become even more eclectic and distant, so getting things done and getting together is very hard."     5/3/2013 SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman passed away at about 11 a.m. today (Thursday, May 2) near his Southern California home. He was 49.Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael andLarry, and will be sorely missed.  Hanneman — who in January 2011 contracted necrotizing fasciitis, likely caused by a spider bite, and has been undergoing surgeries, skin grafts and intense rehab since — spoke to U.K.'s  Classic Rock  magazine in the fall of 2011 about his recovery which has seen him sit out an entire two years' worth of touring with the band. Hanneman was kicking back in a hot tub with a couple of beers when noticed a spider bite him on the arm. "Didn't even feel it," he said. "But an hour later, I knew that I was ill." On his way to the hospital, "I could see the flesh corrupting," he recalled. "The arm was real hot. I got to the emergency room, and thank god the nurse knew straight away what it was. By chance, although it's pretty rare, she had seen a case a little while before. At that point, I was an hou
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Who played Kate in the BBC1 comedy Kiss Me Kate
Kiss Me Kate (TV Series 1998–2000) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A situation comedy portraying the frenetic everyday life of a woman counselor. Stars: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 14 titles created 23 Jul 2014 a list of 223 titles created 02 Mar 2015 a list of 167 titles created 30 Nov 2015 a list of 100 titles created 8 months ago a list of 80 titles created 7 months ago Title: Kiss Me Kate (1998–2000) 6.6/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 1 win & 1 nomination. See more awards  » Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Storyline A situation comedy portraying the frenetic everyday life of Kate Salinger ( Caroline Quentin ), a woman counselor who not only must deal with the various problems of her clients but also the permanently depressed state of her business partner Douglas ( Chris Langham ), the unrequited romantic attention of her travel agent neighbor Craig ( Darren Boyd ) and the love-sick Italian Tony ( Cliff Parisi ), owner of the local wine bar. Written by Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk> 4 May 1998 (UK) See more  » Also Known As: Let's skip the kiss, Kate. 29 February 2004 | by cascade_ice (USA) – See all my reviews Kate Salinger (Caroline Quentin) is a marriage and relationship counselor who seems to be able to solve everyone else's problems but not her own. Her flatmate, Douglas (series writer Chris Langham), works with Kate and is also in love with her. He makes it so obvious, we as the audience wonder how someone as intelligent as Kate could be so dense about it. Kate, on the other hand, is crazy about Douglas' brother, Ian, a doctor who changes girlfriends faster than he changes underwear. Kate seems oblivious to this as well. The only long-term couple on the show is Kate's secretary, Mel (Amanda Holden), and Craig, the downstairs computer geek (Darren Boyd). The series follows the ups and downs in Kate's life, and reveals her own imperfections and insecurities as she tries to help others with theirs. "Kiss Me Kate" is a Britcom that features a quirky cast with chemistry and some hilarious situations, but at times Kate's condescending attitude and crass talk can be a turn-off. It's difficult to like her character; it's easier to feel sympathy for her and her friends. And the lovely, dark-haired Quentin proves that a woman doesn't have to be a size 4 to be talented and beautiful. 8 of 8 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you? Yes
Rumpole of the Bailey Rumpole of the Bailey 1 9 7 8 - 1 9 9 2 (UK) 37 x 60 minute episodes Rumpole of the Bailey, a mix of British courtroom comedy and drama, aired on the UK's Thames Television in 1978. The programme also made a successful transatlantic voyage and was popular on the American PBS Network. The wag in a wig had originally appeared in a BBC  Play For Today  but the BBC took so long deciding about a series that Thames Television snapped it up. All episodes featured the court cases of Horace Rumpole (Australian actor Leo McKern), a short, round, perennially exasperating, shrewd but lovable barrister who took only defence cases. His clients were often caught in social conflicts - A father accused of devil worship; a gay newspaper sued for blasphemous libel; a forger of Victorian photographs who briefly fooled the National Portrait Gallery; a pornographic publisher etc. Rumpole's deep commitment to justice led him to wholeheartedly defend hopeless cases and the spirit of the law, as opposed to his fellow barristers who stubbornly defended the letter of the law. Rumpole was given to frequent outbursts from the Oxford Book of English Verse and managed to aim the elegant passages at upper-class hypocritical trumpeters, buffoons and other barristers, and prosecution inspiring justices. He constantly commented on the phenomenon of "judgitis" - which he maintained "like piles, is an occupational hazard on the bench." His suggested cure? Banishment to the golf course! Like barrister Mortimer, Rumpole hated prison, liked cocking a snook at authority and relished such crimes as the Penge Bungalow Murders and the Great Grimsby Fish Fraud. Rumpole was married to Hilda (played at various times by Joyce Heron, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, and Marion Mathie), who he called "She Who Must Be Obeyed." Even though Hilda (whose father was head of chambers) aspired for a more prestigious position for her husband and a more luxurious lifestyle for herself, she always supported her husband's brand of justice rather than that sought by egotistical or social climbing royal counsels. Rumpole loved to lampoon his fellow colleagues ("a group of twits") including the dithery and pompous Claude Erskine-Brown, the full of himself Samuel Ballard, and the variety of dour judges who presided in court - The bumbling Justice Guthrie Featherstone, the blustering "mad bull" Justice Bullingham, the serious and heartless Justice Graves, and the almost kindly Justice "Ollie" Oliphant. Among Rumpole's colleagues he favoured the savvy and stylish Phillida Neetrant Erskine-Brown (Patricia Hodge), and the endearing Uncle Tom, an octogenarian waiting to have the good sense to retire while practising his putting in chambers. There was a second series in 1979, but Leo McKern reused a third, fearing being stuck in the one role. He relented in 1983 and again in 1987, by which time he could command £100,000 for six shows. John Mortimer (the creator of the Rumpole stories) called upon both his 36 years of experiences as Queen's Counsel and his life with his father, a blind divorce lawyer. Many of Rumpole's character traits are shared by Mortimer himself - He adores good food, enjoys a bottle of claret before dinner, loves Dickens, and fights for liberal causes. Sadly, Leo McKern died on 23 July 2002, aged 82. Horace Rumpole  Peter Blythe EPISODES Rumpole & the Younger Generation | Rumpole & the Alternative Society | Rumpole & the Honourable Member | Rumpole & the Married Lady | Rumpole & the Learned Friends | Rumpole & the Heavy Brigade | Rumpole & the Man of God | Rumpole & the Case of Identity | Rumpole & the Showfolk | Rumpole & the Fascist Beast | Rumpole & the Course of True Love | Rumpole & the Age for Retirement | Rumpole's Return | Rumpole & the Genuine Article | Rumpole & the Golden Thread | Rumpole & the Old Boy Net | Rumpole & the Female of the Species | Rumpole & the Sporting Life | Rumpole & the Last Resort | Rumpole & the Old, Old Story | Rumpole & the Blind Tasting | Rumpole & the Official Secret | Rumpole & the Judge's Elbow | Rumpole & the Bright Seraph
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What was the first name of the furniture maker Chippendale?
Everything you need to know about Chippendale furniture Everything you need to know about Chippendale furniture 1 comment Chippendale is a style of furniture that became popular towards the end of the 18th century, designed by English cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale – after whom the style is named. Chippendale furniture is as popular as ever today, helping people create a period elegance in their homes. If you want to learn more about the popular style of furniture and its origins, read on. Who was Thomas Chippendale? Thomas Chippendale was born in the early 1700s but little more is known of his early life until he married in 1748. A few years later, he moved to the edge of Covent Garden and set up home, as well as establishing workshops where he made furniture. In 1754, Chippendale published a collection of furniture designs called Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, which was enormously well-received by the public at the time. He was elected to the Society of Arts in 1759 and partnered with upholsterer James Rannie for a number of years until Rannie’s death, when Chippendale recruited his clerk Thomas Haig. Chippendale married again in 1777 after the death of his first wife in 1772, and died in 1779 from tuberculosis.   Styles of Chippendale furniture The Chippendale style is often described as being an anglicised type of Rococo, and Rococo is one of the styles Chippendale encompasses, along with Gothic and Chinese. Rococo Chippendale furniture often displays French influence, with chairs based on Louis XV designs, although usually less ostentatious. The ribbonback chair with a broad seat and cupid’s bow-style back rail is perhaps the most famous Chippendale design. Gothic Chippendale furniture is characterised by s-shaped curves and pointed arches in the backs of chairs, while Gothic bookcases were triangular at the top and had wooden glazing bars to hold the glass in place. Chinese Chippendale creations often included cabinets and shelves for china, and typically features pagoda-style pediments and glazing bars arranged in a fretwork design. This fretwork was also used on the edges of tea tables and on the backs and legs of chairs, often coated with lacquer. Modern Chippendale furniture Chippendale furniture continues to be popular in modern times as the furnishings are not only attractive and help to create an upmarket, classic feel in the home, they are also hardwearing and long-lasting. While original furniture from the 1700s is hard to come by – especially in a well-preserved form, you can invest in replica pieces made from solid mahogany that is virtually undetectable as a modern equivalent. Mahogany is a reddish-brown hardwood that is extremely durable and ideal for carving. It resists wood rot and can be transformed into items of furniture that, with little maintenance, will last for years. You’ll find bedside tables, writing desks and dressing tables among the Chippendale furniture available, and simply need to wipe the furnishings down with a damp cloth to remove dust that has settled. To keep your mahogany Chippendale furniture in good condition, avoid placing it near to sunlight, as this can cause the wood’s colour to fade. Similarly, furnishings should not stand near to radiators or fireplaces. Avoid placing hot dishes directly on your Chippendale furniture, and use coasters lined underneath with felt, as other materials may scratch or damage the wood. You can also add extra shine to your furniture by giving it a regular polish when the pieces are beginning to look a little dull.
Theatres in Victorian London Theatres in Victorian London [ Victorian Web Home —> Authors —> Music, Theatre, and Popular Entertainment —> Theatres ] Much of the following information has been gathered from Frederick and Lise-Lone Marker's in "A Guide to London Theatres, 1750-1880" in The Revels History of Drama in English, Vol. VI: 1750-1880 (1975). They, in turn, consulted H. Barton Baker's History of the London Stage (London, 1904), Allardyce Nicoll's A History of English Drama 1660-1900 (Cambridge, 1966), E. B. Watson's Sheridan to Robertson (Cambridge, Mass., 1926), and The London Stage (Carbondale, Ill., 1962-68). Phyllis Hartnoll's Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre offers more detailed information about many of these nineteenth-century theatres. Additional images and links added by George P. Landow . For supplementary texts, consult the "Reference List" below. Adelphi (Strand) Built in 1806 opposite Adam Street by merchant John Scott (who had made his fortune from a washing-blue) as the Sans Pareil to showcase his daughter's theatrical talents, the theatre was given a new facade and redecorated in 1814. It re-opened on 18 October 1819 as the Adelphi, named after the imposing complex of West London streets built by the brothers Robert (1728-92) and James (1730-94) Adam from 1768. The name "Adelphoi" in Greek simply means "the brothers." Among the celebrated actors who appeared on its stage was the comedian Charles Matthews (1776-1835), whose work was so admired by young Charles Dickens. It had more "tone" than the other minor theatres because its patrons in the main were the salaried clerks of barristers and solicitors. The Adelphi was also noted for melodramas ("Adelphi Screamers") and dramatic adaptations, for example, Pierce Egan's Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, adapted by dramatist T. W. Moncrieff. Its first notable manager was Frederick Yates (1825-42), and its longest-tenured manager Ben Webster (1847-71). The well-known Anglo- Irish dramatist and actor Dion Boucicault performed on its stage in 1860, 1861, 1875, and 1880, while his second wife, Agnes Robertson, appeared on the stage of the Adelphi in 1861, 1875, and 1893. Noted adaptor and Dickensian "pirate" Edward Stirling was acting manager in 1838, and stage director in 1839. The Adelphi has the distinction, according to the research of Philip Bolton, of being the first house to stage an adaptation a work by Charles Dickens , the piece being J. B. Buckstone's "The Christening," a comic burletta (farce) which opened on 13 October 1834, based on "The Bloomsbury Christening," which would eventually be published in the first volume of Sketches by Boz. Indeed, many of Dickens's early works were adapted for the stage of the Adelphi, including The Pickwick Papers as W. L. Rede's The Peregrinations of Pickwick; or, Boz-i-a-na, a three -act burletta first performed on 3 April 1837, Yates's production of Nicholas Nickleby; or, Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall in November-December 1838, and Edward Stirling's two-act burletta The Old Curiosity Shop; or, One Hour from Humphrey's Clock (November-December 1840, January 1841). In 1840, a fresh façade was added, and in 1844 it came under the management of Madame Céleste and comedian Ben Webster, with John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-79) as its principal dramatist. On 28 January 1844, the theatre's lessee, Gladstane, wrote to John M. Kemble, Examiner of Plays in the Lord Chamberlain's offices, for permission to play Edward Stirling's "official" adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future, which opened 5 February. Here, too, on 19 December 1844 Lemon and à Beckett's "official" adaptation of Dickens's The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that rang an Old Year out and a New One In opened. In total, à Beckett staged six of his plays at the Adelphi between 1844 and 1853. Still manager in 1848, Ben Webster made application on 12 December to the Lord Chamberlain's office for the licensing of Mark Lemon's adaptation of Dickens's The Haunted Man, to op
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What name is given to a castrated chicken?
The Livestock Conservancy Cattle domesticated mammals of the genus Bos.  Bull  is an in-tact male bovine.  Bull  calf is a  male calf. Calf is a young bovine. This term is used from the time of birth up until about 6 to 10 months of age when the animal is weaned. Cow is a female bovine that has had a calf. (This term may also be used for other species) Heifer is a female bovine that has not had a calf. Heifer calf is a female calf. Steer is a castrated male bovine or can be a future ox that is less than 4 years old. Ox is castrated bull that has been trained to work and is at least 4 years of age. Oxen is the plural of ox.   Goat the domesticated form of capra hircus. Buck is a male goat over 1 year of age. Buckling is a young male goat less than a year old. Doe is a female goat over 1 year of age. Doeling is a young female goat less than a year old. Flock is a group of goats. (The term may be used in reference to other livestock.) Kid is a baby goat of either sex. Wether is a castrated male goat (or sheep).   Horse is a domesticated large single hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) with a short-haired coat, a long mane, and a long tail used for riding, pulling, or carrying loads. Colt is a male horse under 3 years of age. Filly is a female horse under 3 years of age. Foal is a young equine under 1 year of age. Gelding is a castrated male horse. Mare is a female horse after her 4th birthday. Stallion is an intact male horse.   Rabbit is a mammal of the family Leporidae or the domesticated Old World species Oryctolagus cuniculus. Buck is a male rabbit. Doe is a female rabbit. Fryer or “young rabbit” is a rabbit that is 2 months old and weighs 3 ¾ lbs to 4 ½ lbs. Kit is a baby rabbit. Rabbitry is where owners keep their herd of rabbits in separate cages. Stewer or “mature rabbit” is a rabbit 3 months of age or older averaging 6 pounds or more. Warren is where owners keep their herd of rabbits as a group in a large cage or enclosure.   Sheep the domesticated species ovis aries. Ewe is a female sheep at least 1 year of age. Ewe lamb is a female sheep under 1 year of age. Flock is a group of sheep. (The term may be used in reference to other livestock.) Lamb is a young sheep. When referring to meat, lamb is meat from a sheep that is 12-14 months old or less. Lambkin or lambling is a newly born lamb. Ram is an in-tact male sheep that is at least one year of age. Ram lamb is a male sheep that is under 1 year of age. Sheep is a mature ovine at least one year of age and may also refer to the ovine species. Wether is a castrated male sheep (or goat).   Swine are even-toed ungulates of the family Suidae, including pigs, hogs, and boars. Barrow is a castrated (before sexual maturity) male swine. Boar is an adult male swine. Gilt is a female swine that has not given birth. Drove is a group of swine. Feeder pig is a young pig, most often between 40-70lbs that is produced by one farmer and sold to another for growing out to market weight. Hog is a mature swine with an adult weight above 150 pounds. Lard types of pig were developed to have large deposits of fat that could be more easily butchered from the animal in large chunks. This makes rendering easier and results in less loss of good meat. Market hog is a hog that weighs from 220-260 pounds and is 5-7 months of age when it is sent to market. Meat types of pig (also known as Bacon types) were developed to have more lean meat with moderate marbling of fat. Pig is a young swine that is not sexually mature or a mature swine with an adult weight under 150 pounds. Piglet or baby pig refers to a young pig in its first 14-21 days of life and is still nursing. Shoat is a young hog (not sexually mature) that has been weaned and is ready for market weighing 150-260 pounds Sow is an adult female swine. Stag is a castrated (after sexual maturity) male swine.   Poultry are domesticated birds that are kept for meat or eggs including birds of the order Galliformes: chicken, turkey, natatorial (swimming) birds: duck and goose. Flock is a group comprised of one species of poultry. Trio is typically a grou
Issue 157 by East Cork Journal (page 54) - issuu issuu Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 - The East Cork Journal The Puzzler WIN2TICKETS FOR... TEL. (021) 4630066 WITH OUR Tea-Break Crossword 4 Test your concentration with this word ladder H E A D 25 ELEANOR HERLIHY GARRYVOE Congratulations to last week’s winner: ACROSS 8. Home on wheels (7) 9. Bend (5) 10. Regal (5) 11. Disrepute (7) 12. Memory (4) 13. Various (8) 16. Soldier (8) 18. Magician’s stick (4) 21. Umpire (7) 23. Powerful beam (5) L B S K 25. Birds’ homes (5) 26. Push under water (7) DOWN 1. Mark from a wound (4) 2. Coloured pencil (6) 3. Sins (5) 4. Writing fluids (4) 5. Eight-sided figure (7) 6. Commendation (6) 7. Sheltered, private (8) 12. Short pasta (8) 14. Town with healing springs (3) 15. Holiday maker (7) 17. Say no (6) 19. Guarantee (6) 20. Ascend (5) 22. Discharge (4) 24. Grass (4) ACANSERWS TO LAST WEEK: ACROSS: 8. Picture 9. Cacti 10. Chess 11. Monarch 12. Wind 13.Turmeric 16. Expelled 18. Stop 21. Torment 23. Never 25. Ended 26. Inferno. DOWN: 1. Epic 2. Screen 3. Fussy 4. Beam 5. Economy 6. Scorer 7. Nightcap 12. Wreathes 14. Use 15. Already 17. Parade 19. Tavern 20. Knife 22.Trio 24. Rook. Name: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Tel (mobile):______________________________ Home:_______________________________ Entries to East Cork Journal, 1st Floor, Watersedge, Riverside Way, Midleton T A I L Five Minutes - Five Questions 1. Translating as ‘place of the way’ what Japanese word describes a facility for teaching physical skills such as martial arts? 2. In botany, if a plant is monocarpic what does it do only once? 3. What is the call-sign name of the US presidential helicopter? 4. Over which desert did France test its first atom bomb in 1960? 5. What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot in the novel ‘Treasure Island?’ Answer to last week’s Medium 3 ANSWERS TO WORDGAMES: 1. Backflips 2. HEAL TEAL TELL TALL ANSWERS: 1. Dojo 2. Bear fruit 3. Marine One 4. Sahara 5. Captain Flint 8
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Who invented the revolver (handgun)?
The Colt Revolver - Invention and History By Mary Bellis Updated February 01, 2016. Samuel Colt invented the first revolver, a gun named after its inventor "Colt", and after its revolving cylinder "revolver". In 1836, Samuel Colt was granted a U.S. patent for the Colt revolver, which was equipped with a revolving cylinder containing five or six bullets and an innovative cocking device. Before the Colt revolver only one and two-barrel flintlock pistols had been invented for hand held use. Colt revolvers were all based on cap-and-ball technology until the Smith and Wesson license on the bored-through cylinder (bought from Rollin White) expired around 1869. According to www.midwestgunshows.com: "Horace Smith & Daniel Wesson formed their second partnership (S&W) in 1856 for the development and manufacture of a revolver chambered for a self contained metallic cartridge. During this development period, while researching existing patents, it was found that a Rollin White had patented a bored through cylinder for a paper cartridge some time earlier." continue reading below our video 5 Best Places to Retire A licensing agreement was arranged between Smith and Wesson and Rollin White. In 1855, Rollin White patented the bored-through cylinder. According to www.armchairgunshow.com: "The Rollin White patent covered the right to make a revolver cylinder bored-through end to end - an obvious requirement for an effective cartridge revolver. This fact didn't slow down some firms, who proceeded to make the highly popular cartridge style revolvers. Some used their own designs, and some just produced outright copies of the Smith and Wesson pattern. Smith and Wesson pursued redress in court, resulting in several US makers being required to mark "Made for S&W" or words to that effect on their revolvers."
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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Which war is the setting for 'Goodbye To All That' by Robert Graves?
Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves review – a timely reissue | Books | The Guardian Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves review – a timely reissue Graves's superbly sardonic memoir should be essential reading for the centenary of the first world war A 'bitter leave-taking of England' … Robert Graves. Photograph: Alamy Friday 16 May 2014 11.30 EDT First published on Friday 16 May 2014 11.30 EDT Share on Messenger Close Robert Graves 's superbly sardonic account of his childhood, schooling, the great war and his first marriage was written in just four months in 1929, when he was 33. It was his attempt at "a formal good-bye to you and to you and to you and to me and to all that". By then he had separated from his wife and was living with the American poet Laura Riding. The idea of a farewell to the past was hers. In 1957, when Graves re-edited the memoir, "the book's hidden mentor was effaced", as Andrew Motion says in the introduction to this timely reissue of the original edition. It is a remarkable book, a "bitter leave-taking of England" as Graves described it. He hated Charterhouse school , where he was mercilessly bullied: "I came near a nervous breakdown." He enlisted within days of the outbreak of war because he "dreaded" going up to Oxford. His vivid account of life and death in the trenches is haunting: "I kept myself awake and alive by drinking about a bottle of whisky a day." Seriously wounded (and reported dead), he found life back in Blighty almost as bad: "everyone was mad". Essential reading for the centenary of the first world war.
Brief biographies of 25 poets of the First World War, THE WAR POETRY WEB SITE RUPERT CHAWNER BROOKE , 1887-1915. Georgian poet. Born at Rugby. Educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge. He was an atheist and active Socialist. He was a friend of Edward Marsh and worked with him to prepare and promote the first Georgian Anthology of poetry. After travelling in Germany, and, following his nervous breakdown he went on a long tour to recuperate, taking in the USA, Canada, Honolulu, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, and Tahiti. After hesitation about what course of action to take at the start of the First World War he joined the navy. He was a witness at the siege of Antwerp before writing his famous set of five sonnets called 1914. Though he had seen the devastation and suffering created by the war he kept it all at an emotional distance from himself, denying the realities of war. He had a deeply confused personality - given to both ecstatic enthusiasm and suicidal doubt. Following a mosquito bite he died of acute blood poisoning on board ship on his way to Gallipoli, and was buried on the Greek Island of Skyros. Minds at War and Out in the Dark contain all five of Brooke's 1914 war sonnets, plus his sombre and realistic last poem, Soon to Die. Minds at War contains a further thirteen and a half pages of discussion of Brooke's ideas, and extracts from his letters which reveal something of the way his mind worked, and the origins of some of the ideas in his sonnets. There are five pages of information about Brooke, and extracts from his letters in Out in the Dark. ELEANOR FARJEON, 1881-1965. Born in London. Well known as an author of children's stories. She was a close personal friend of Helen and Edward Thomas in the last few years of his life. She loved Edward, but knew that expressing her feelings to him would mean the immediate end of their friendship. They often visited each other and went on long country walks together. She typed his poems for him and submitted them, on his behalf, under the pseudonym of Edward Eastaway, to various publications. Helen was aware of Eleanor's feelings towards Edward and was perfectly content with the situation, believing that it might help to make Edward a little happier. There are two of her poems in Minds at War and one in Out in the Dark. The poem that is common to both books is "Now that you, too" which is a moving poem about saying goodbye to Edward Thomas for the last time. JULIAN GRENFELL , 1888-1915. Educated at Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the army in 1910. He seemed to take a psychopathic joy in killing people. His poem Into Battle is said to be the most anthologised poem of the First World War. He died of wounds on 30th April, 1915, a few days after sending his poem to The Times. Into Battle appears in both Minds at War and Out in the Dark. IVOR GURNEY , 1890-1937. Born in Gloucester. Educated at King's School Gloucester and the Royal College of Music. He wrote poetry and music from before the war. He volunteered to fight and was initially turned down because of his poor eyesight. He was gassed and wounded and returned to Britain. Mental illness developed. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1922. He was committed to mental hospital where he continued to write poetry and compose - sometimes believing that he was still taking part in the war. He died of tuberculosis. Three of his poems appear in Minds at War and two in Out in the Dark. RUDYARD KIPLING , 1865-1936. Born in Bombay. As a small child he was sent to England (Southsea)
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Which Channel Four game show was remade in the USA under the title Junkyard Wars?
Junkyard Wars Needs A Few Good Contestants - Slashdot Slashdot Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter   Check out the new SourceForge HTML5 internet speed test! No Flash necessary and runs on all devices. × 1380727 story on Saturday January 27, 2001 @09:07AM from the gentlemen-start-your-torches dept. Andy B writes: "At long last, we have got an address for aspiring contestants to send their Junkyard Wars applications to (Slashdot slightly jumped the gun last autumn). Hurry to get you applications in, as the deadline for applications is Fri 16th Feb." ← You may like to read: → Yes, but its license states that it must act as a public service broadcaster: This [itc.org.uk] is taken from the ITC [itc.org.uk] website: The main points in the new licence are: redefinition of the remit in relation to all channels, not just ITV, and further commitment to innovation and experiment; a revised and strengthened statement on education; a commitment to provide at least three hours on average per week of multicultural programmes, and also to schedule at least some of these in peak time; a major commitment to the UK film industry, giving some preference to innovative and risky subjects and treatments; a new commitment to programmes for and about people with disabilities; increased requirement of 60 per cent of programmes specially commissioned for the Channel by 1999; a new commitment for production outside the London region, including a minimum requirement of 30 per cent by 2002; new maxima for repeats; a new commitment and new minimum requirement for spending on training; a new requirement for diversity in the peak-time schedule, including news, current affairs, educational, religious and multicultural programmes; revised commitments to subtitling and other provisions for those with hearing and sight impairments. I think it's not fully privatised either - doesn't the government still own a proportion of it and fund it a bit too? by MrP- ( 45616 ) writes: if you watched the last episode of junkyard wars (the rocket one), cathy said you can go to the site and submit an idea for them to build, i forget what site she said, probably either the junkyard wars site, or tlc.com, either way you should submit that, that would be cool to see... but only thing is theyd probably want to fight during the show at the end, unless they go tape the fight at battlebots, show the match during junkyard wars, then battle bots later, like they did with jay lenos chinkilla, they aired the match early on the tonight show then again on battle bots... but i dont know since battle bots is comedy centrals, maybe theyd have to do robot wars, but they dont air robot wars enough in america :( by Uberminky ( 122220 ) writes: The new Junkyard Wars episodes stink. I mean yeah, it's still a cool show, but it's just not what it used to be. I miss the silly Brits, they cracked me up. But yunno... maybe it's just me, but I swear the type of things they do on the show have changed since they got the new host and stuff. I mean.. one of the last episodes the Scrapheap Challenge did was drag racing. And what's the first Junkyard Wars thing? Drag racing. They also did all-terrain vehicles, which Scrapheap Challenge did.. and.. just tons of them. They're all the same sorts of things. Maybe it's just my perception, and the fact that I miss the old show, but it really seems like they've dumbed it down to suit us redneck Americans or something. I dunno... I just wish they'd give me my Scrapheap Challenge... Looking forward to next week's episode.... by ScuzzMonkey ( 208981 ) writes: I haven't seen all that many episodes, but of those I have seen, this seems to be the theme. The team that comes up with the more brilliant, elegant design has it crap out on them almost immediately, because, after all, it's made out of junk. The crowd that bangs together some brute-force job powers through and wins it. Apparently, it doesn't pay to get too creative. Makes it more fun to watch, though. by Uberminky ( 122220 ) writes: that would be so lame. On the one hand, we have people turning scrap met
All Mediatheque films | BFI All Mediatheque films Here’s the full list of titles currently available to view in Mediatheques. Please note that a very small number of titles, marked with an asterisk (*), are currently available to view only in our London Mediatheque due to rights issues. We hope to make these available in all BFI Mediatheques in the future. 1908 London Olympics 1908 | 12 min Surviving footage of Track & Field and Marathon events during London’s first ever stint as host city. Collection: Sport at Heart Rarely-seen 50s feature ‘freely adapted’ from George Orwell’s classic novel. Collection: The Book Group 1984  Designing a Nightmare 1984 | 25 min Join Christopher Frayling on the set of the 1984 film version of Orwell’s classic novel. Collection: The Book Group 24 Hour Party People 2002 | 112min Welcome to Madchester: Steve Coogan stars in Michael Winterbottom’s biopic of Tony Wilson and Factory Records. Collection: Once Upon a Time in the North West 28 Up 1984 | 160min The children first interviewed when they were 7 in 1964 are revisited at the age of 28. Collection: Essentially British ‘Candid Camera’ with attitude featuring the soon-to-be Little Miss Jocelyn. Collection: Black Britain A boy’s own adventure from London to Scotland. Hitchcock’s best British film? Collection: Essentially British 4D Special Agents 1981 | 60min TA group of East End kids track down a gang of jewel thieves. To the helicopter, everyone! Collection: Box of Delights 50 Years of BBC TV News 2004 | 150min Three-part series exploring the breadth of news covered by BBC television from 1954 to 2004. Collection: TV Heaven An eccentric sport courtesy of East Midlands tradition. Collection: Heartlands 617: The Last Days of a Vulcan Squadron 1982 | 40min The final days of the ‘Dam Busters’ squadron. Collection: Heartlands 64 Day Hero: A Boxer’s Tale 1985 | 92min The turbulent life and death of championship boxer Randolph Turpin. Collection: Black Britain Love among the second hand books. Collection: Play for Today Re-edited sound version of ‘The Great White Silence’, with commentary from director Herbert Ponting. Collection: Into the White The perceptions and experiences of autistic people, told using their own words and images. Collection: Unlimited: Disability on Screen ABC Xmas and New Year Greetings 1946 | 3min Santa doles out the pressies courtesy of Associated British Cinemas. Collection: Pandora’s Box Beverly hands out the brickbats with the ‘little cheesy pineapple ones’. Collection: Play for Today Above Us the Earth 1977 | 85min The closure of Ogilvie Colliery by the National Coal Board, shown through a mixture of documentary footage and dramatisation. Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow Absolute Hell 1991 | 120min Judi Dench and Bill Nighy escape post-war austerity in a crumbling Soho drinking den in this tragicomic TV treat. Collection: Beautiful Things Absolutely 1989 | 37min Pythonesque C4 comedy sketch show created by a mostly Scottish cast and crew. [Series 1 Episode 6.] Collection: Scottish Reels Absolutely Fabulous 1992 | 30min Sweetie darling! Edina’s putting on a charity fashion show, and things aren’t going to plan… Collection: Brit Chic Roll up, roll up! The fly circus is in town! Collection: Pandora’s Box Across the Sahara: The Record of a Journey to Timbuctoo 1932 | 20min Welcome to the Dream Palace Fascinating documentary made during the filming of West Africa-set feature ,Timbuctoo,. Collection: Welcome to the Dream Palace Actor (Meredith Edwards) The Ealing star chats about his life with Meredydd Evans. Collection: Through the Dragon’s Eye: Wales on Screen A.D.A.M. 1973 | 47min A sentient computer develops an unusual relationship with a vulnerable housewife in this dark and intelligent TV drama. Collection: Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder Adeste Fideles The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in wartime Britain. Collection: Pandora’s Box The Adventure Game 1986 | 39min Journey to the planet Arg with this episode from the fourth series of the cult game show. Collection: Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder Adventures of Rob
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Which planet is closest to the sun?
Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets By Robert Roy Britt | January 22, 2016 12:35pm ET MORE The planets of the solar system as depicted by a NASA computer illustration. Orbits and sizes are not shown to scale. Credit: NASA Ever since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, kids grew up learning about the nine planets of our solar system. That all changed starting in the late 1990s, when astronomers began to argue about whether Pluto was a planet. In a highly controversial decision , the International Astronomical Union ultimately decided in 2006 to call Pluto a “dwarf planet,” reducing the list of “real planets” in our solar system to eight.  However, astronomers are now hunting for another planet in our solar system, a true ninth planet , after evidence of its existence was unveiled on Jan. 20, 2016. The so-called "Planet Nine," as scientists are calling it, is about 10 times the mass of Earth and 5,000 times the mass of Pluto. [ Solar System Pictures: A Photo Tour ] If you insist on including Pluto , then that world would come after Neptune on the list; Pluto is truly way out there, and on a wildly tilted, elliptical orbit (two of the several reasons it got demoted). Interestingly, Pluto used to be the eighth planet, actually. More on that below. Terrestrial planets The inner four worlds are called “ terrestrial planets ,” because, like Earth, their surfaces are all rocky. Pluto, too, has a solid surface (and a very frozen one) but has never been grouped with the four terrestrials. Jovian planets The four large outer worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — are known as the “Jovian planets” (meaning “Jupiter-like”) because they are all huge compared to the terrestrial planets, and because they are gaseous in nature rather than having rocky surfaces (though some or all of them may have solid cores, astronomers say). According to NASA , "two of the outer planets beyond the orbit of Mars — Jupiter and Saturn — are known as gas giants; the more distant Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants." This is because, while the first two are dominated by gas, while the last two have more ice. All four contain mostly hydrogen and helium. Dwarf planets The  IAU definition of a full-fledged planet goes like this: A body that circles the sun without being some other object's satellite, is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not so big that it begins to undergo nuclear fusion, like a star) and has "cleared its neighborhood" of most other orbiting bodies. Yeah, that’s a mouthful. The problem for Pluto, besides its small size and offbeat orbit, is that it shares its space with lots of other objects in the Kuiper Belt , beyond Neptune. Still, the demotion of Pluto remains controversial . The IAU planet definition puts other small, round worlds in the dwarf planet category, including the Kuiper Belt objects Eris , Haumea , and Makemake . Also now a dwarf planet is Ceres , a round object in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was actually considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and then later deemed to be an asteroid. Some astronomers like to consider Ceres as a 10th planet (not to be confused with Nibiru or Planet X ), but that line of thinking opens up the possibility of there being 13 planets, with more bound to be discovered. The planets Below is a brief overview of the eight primary planets in our solar system , in order from the inner solar system outward: Mercury The closest planet to the sun, Mercury is only a bit larger than Earth's moon. Its day side is scorched by the sun and can reach 840 degrees Fahrenheit (450 Celsius), but on the night side, temperatures drop to hundreds of degrees below freezing. Mercury has virtually no atmosphere to absorb meteor impacts, so its surface is pockmarked with craters, just like the moon. Over its four-year mission, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed views of the planet that have challenged astronomers' expectations. Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye Named for: M
Smallest and Largest Planets in the Solar System By: Maria Temming | July 15, 2014 There are a couple of different ways to measure how “big” something is. The first is an object’s mass (how much matter it contains) and the second is its volume (how much space it takes up). The smallest and largest planets in our solar system are Mercury and Jupiter , respectively. The smallest planet in regards to both mass and volume is Mercury —this tiny world is nearly 20 times less massive than Earth, and its diameter is about times 2 ½ smaller. In fact, Mercury is closer in size to our Moon than to Earth. The largest planet in our solar system by far is Jupiter, which beats out all the other planets in both mass and volume. Jupiter’s mass is more than 300 times that of Earth, and its diameter is about 11 times larger than Earth’s diameter. (Jupiter's Great Red Spot, even at its current diminished size , spans 15,900, just over a full Earth diameter.) Jupiter is 2 ½ times more massive than the rest of the planets in the solar system combined. A size comparison of the planets in our solar system. In order of increasing distance from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.  NASA Lunar and Planetary Institute Learn more about our solar system's most ostentatious planet — the ringed giant Saturn and its fascinating family of moons — in our FREE ebook, Saturn's Bounty . Enter your email address to download the ebook, and you'll also receive our weekly e-newsletter with the latest astronomy news. *
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Hamida Djandoubi was the last person in France to be executed by what method, in September 1977?
ExecutedToday.com » 1977: Hamida Djandoubi, Madame Guillotine’s last kiss 1977: Hamida Djandoubi, Madame Guillotine’s last kiss September 10th, 2008 Headsman On this date in 1977, the guillotine claimed its last head. The famous and infamous blade dropped for the last time at Les Baumettes prison in Marseilles on Hamida Djandoubi , a Tunisian immigrant convicted of the torture-murder of the naive young girlfriend he had forced into prostitution. Oddly, he had already had another appendage — a leg — amputated as a result of a work accident; it was while recuperating that he caught the fascination of his hospital roommate’s 19-year-old daughter, Elisabeth Bousquet. Though the death penalty was grinding to a halt in 1970’s France, Djandoubi was not the last person condemned (the link is French); the guillotine was only abolished with the election of the Francois Mitterand government in 1981. Today, Executed Today discusses the case with the man who wrote the book on Djandoubi :* expat Canadian writer Jeremy Mercer . Be sure to check his photo series on the Djandoubi case — including discomfiting shots of Djandoubi re-enacting his crime with a police secretary playing the victim, and the killer in happier times. ET: Thanks for joining us. JM: Thanks for the opportunity to speak with Executed Today. I moved to Marseille in 2003 and shortly after I stumbled upon the rather arcane fact that the last man guillotined in France was executed at the local prison on September 10, 1977. I thought it was interesting angle on capital punishment and I decided to try and write a book that mixed true crime and death penalty philosophy. As a result, I’ve been immersed in the death penalty debate for the better part of five years. Let’s start with Hamida Djandoubi himself — 31 years on, he looks like a nasty but fairly run-of-the-mill criminal. Was it strictly coincidental that he became the last man executed? It was absolutely random fate. It was really odd – during the 1970s, the death penalty debate was raging in France and most capital cases became national news. But the Djandoubi case went completely under the radar, partly because his lawyer didn’t drum up any attention and partly because his victim was a presumed prostitute and the media prefers ‘sexier’ victims – the elderly, little children, a dentist of good standing walking her dog at night. Even odder, if you surveyed most French people today, they would tell you that Christian Ranucci was the last man guillotined. Ranucci was a young white man who was accused of killing a little girl. He claimed his innocence, but was nonetheless executed in June 1976 (14 months before Djandoubi). Afterward, a best-selling book and major film were released that argued Ranucci was innocent so his name really sticks in the minds of the French. Obviously, there’s plenty of tension with North African communities in France still today. Djandoubi was Tunisian, and he was convicted of murdering a white woman. How significant was racial marking in the way his case was handled, inside the courts and out? This is really curious. In the 1960s and 1970s, the French courts were tainted by racism and one of the national papers even ran an editorial saying that it is better to be named “Marius than Mohamed” when appearing before a French judge. But, in this case, it was Djandoubi’s own lawyer who was a member of a far-right party and staunchly anti-Arab so his case was undermined even before it went to court. It is one of those frustrating moments. You assume that a death penalty case is of such importance that top professionals are involved. Instead, Djandoubi chose the civil lawyer who negotiated his accident benefits after he had an accident at work and ended up with a very poor defence. As I said above, his murder victim had worked as a prostitute, which diminished some of the public outrage. As well, his three rape victims were all Algerian girls aged 14 – 16. I guarantee you the case would have been much more explosive if those three girls had been white. Your book is partly about Djandoubi himself,
quizballs 50 -- part 2 - Google Groups quizballs 50 -- part 2   41. What Cumbrian town was used as a 2007 pilot for the digital TV switch-over?   42. It was announced in April 2007 that Lord Justice Scott Baker would replace Baroness Butler-Sloss in what position?   43. What remarkable sale price did Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull achieve?   44. Which world champion 400m runner successfully overturned her Olympic Games ban for missing drug tests?   45. Monks featured strongly in the September protests in which country?   46. Which northern England city was flooded by torrential rain on on 25 June 2007?   47. In what US city did Barack Obama announce his presidential candidacy in February 2007?   48. Which Bollywood actor was at the centre of the 2007 Big Brother TV Show racism uproar?   49. Shinzo Abe resigned in September 2007 as prime minister of which country?   50. Which corporation bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240m?   51. The Kate Moss Collection was launched by what store chain?   52. The two CDs lost by the UK department HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) contained personal details of 20m people relating to claims of what?   53. Who resigned as England cricket coach after the 2007 Ashes series 5-0 defeat?   54. What nickname was used by the media for the senior policeman in charge of the Cash for Honours investigation?   55. In May 2007 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the biggest what in history to date?   56. Intensive British forces operations in Afghanistan through 2007 were centred in which province?   57. In what significant UK location was the August 2007 Climate Change Camp sited?   58. Which movie star left the much publicized 'rude pig' phone message for his twelve year old daughter?   59. In a bizarre 2007 confessional frenzy, Ruth Kelly, Jacqui Smith, Harriet Harman, Hazel Blears and Alistair Darling where among several British government ministers to make what admission?   60. At the end of 2007 how many England Premiership football (soccer) clubs were foreign owned?   61. In June 2007 the Millennium Dome re-opened under what name?   62. Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing over the Nevada Desert in September 2007?   63. The perfume brand 'Mwah' was launched in 2007 by which 'celebrity'?   64. What country celebrated on August 15th 2007 its 60th anniversary of independence from British rule?   65. Who resigned as World Bank President after failing to disprove allegations of his nepotism?   66. Which country won the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup?   67. Following an Ofcom investigation which TV company was judged in September 2007 to be the worst offending in the premium line phone-in scandals?   68. What film won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Picture?   69. Speculation towards the end of 2007 suggested that Rupert Murdoch's News International Group was in discussion to buy what significant business networking website?   70. Which rapper cancelled his UK tour when refused entry to the country?   71. What was the name of the Space Shuttle which launched on June 8th 2007?   72. Who made this amusing statement: "I have expressed a degree of regret that may be equated with an apology..." ?   73. Whose secret donations of over half a million pounds caused a big problem for the Labour Party when they were exposed in November 2007?   74. Who became the new French president in 2007?   75. Who was charged with fraud when he reappeared five years after going missing in a canoe off the Cleveland coast?   76. Clarence Mitchell was appointed media spokesman for whom in September 2007?   77. Which Formula One racing team was expelled from the 2007 Constructors Championship for spying on a competitor?   78. Blake Fielder-Civil achieved notoriety as whose errant husband?   79. Which former newspaper owner and business mogul was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for fraud in December 2007?   80. Which major city switched off its lights for an hour on the evening of 31 March 2007 as a political statement about climate change?   81. What was the village and laboratory site na
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Lasting for 13 days before the final battle, Mexican revolutionaries began a siege of what Texas mission on Feb 23, 1836?
Chronology Chronology 300 Alamo Plaza • San Antonio, Texas • 78205 Regular Hours: 9:00am - 5:30pm Summer Hours: 9:00am - 7:00pm from Memorial Day through Labor Day Closed Christmas Eve & Christmas Day CONTACTS Chronology The Mission Period: 1700-1793 The story of the Alamo begins with the establishment of the Mission San Francisco de Solano near the Rio Grande River in 1700. There, Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares worked to convert many of the Coahuiltecan bands to Catholicism, the official religion of Spain. After Olivares traveled to Texas with an expedition in 1709, he was struck by the potential of the San Antonio area and later recommended it to the Spanish viceroy, Marques de Valero, as a site for a mission waypoint on the road to Spanish settlements in East Texas. In 1718, after many Indians had left Mission Solano, Olivares moved the mission’s belongings to the new site near present-day San Antonio. He named the new mission in honor of Saint Anthony de Padua and the Spanish viceroy who had approved his plan: San Antonio de Valero. While the mission changed locations several times, the present location was chosen in 1724. The foundation of the stone mission church was laid in 1744. Until it was secularized nearly 70 years later, San Antonio de Valero was home to Spanish missionaries and their Indian converts. It was the first of five Spanish missions in the San Antonio area. A Spanish mission was much more than a religious institution. Its purpose was to take an indigenous population and convert it not only to Catholicism, but to the Spanish way of life. In establishing the missions in Texas, the Spanish hoped to create a self-sufficient population that would continue to exist and grow as loyal Spanish subjects, thereby staving off any involvement of foreign powers like France. Indian converts were taught farming, raising livestock, blacksmithing, carpentry, stonework, and weaving. Indians and missionaries at San Antonio de Valero also found protection at the mission. Encroachment by warlike Apaches from the west and Comanches from the north meant local Coahuiltecan tribes were under constant threat. Thus, mission life brought protection from other indigenous people as well as shelter and a more stable food supply. It also gave the Coahuiltecans access to two important technological developments of the period: firearms and horses. On June 30, 1745, an Apache attack on the nearby town of San Fernando was driven off with the aid of 100 mission converts from Valero. Mission San Antonio de Valero was originally overseen by the Franciscan College of Querétaro but was taken over by the Franciscan College of Zacatecas in 1773 after the expulsion of the Jesuits from New Spain (1767). The void left by the departure of the Jesuits from New Spain was filled by reassigning the missionaries from other orders who remained in the various Spanish colonies. By the late 1700s much had changed on the Texas frontier. Indian convert populations had dwindled at most of the Spanish missions, sometimes from increased mortality due to exposure to new diseases carried by the Europeans. The rich mission lands, cultivated over a century, were also coveted by local populations. As a result, by 1793, Mission San Antonio de Valero was secularized and control passed to local authorities. Much of the mission lands and goods were distributed amongst the Spanish locals and remaining Indian residents. The other San Antonio missions would meet a similar fate. The former mission, with its convento, adobe houses and an incomplete stone church, would soon play host to the first of many military garrisons. San Antonio Missions: MORE LESS Decline of Spanish Rule: 1794-1821 In response to increased French and American threats from nearby Louisiana, Spain mobilized its military into the Texas frontier after the turn of the century. Since San Antonio de Valero was now secularized, the Spanish military occupied the old mission compound and converted it into a frontier outpost and military garrison. The first soldiers to arrive were a troop of pre
1929 : Map (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki Wikipedia article: Map showing all locations mentioned on Wikipedia article: The year 1929 (see full calendar ) was a Gregorian calendar year in the 20th century . The year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression . In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War , a counter-revolution in Mexico , a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway , which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph Stalin expelled Leon Trotsky and adopted a policy of collectivization . The Grand Trunk Express began service in India. In the Middle East, rioting occurred between Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem over access to the Western Wall . Mohammed Nadir Shah became King of Afghanistan. Britain, Australia and New Zealand began a joint Antarctic Research Expedition . The centenary of Western Australia was celebrated. In international affairs, the Kellogg-Briand Pact , a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, went into effect. In Europe, the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy signed the Lateran Treaty . The Idionymon law was passed in Greece to outlaw political dissent. Spain hosted the Ibero-American Exposition which featured pavilions from Latin American countries. The BBC broadcast a television transmission for the first time (see " 1929 in television "). The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flew around the world in 21 days. Events January–June On August 16 of this year the 1929 Palestine riots broke out between Arabs and Jews over control of the Western Wall . The rioting, initiated in part when British police tore down a screen the Jews had constructed in front of the Wall, continued until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs were killed. Two of the more famous incidents occurring during these riots were the August 23 and August 24 1929 Hebron massacre , in which 65–68 Jews were killed by Arabs and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron . The Arabs had been told that Jews were killing Arabs. Jews would not return to Hebron until after the Six Day War in 1967. The other major clash was the 1929 Safed massacre , in which 18–20 Jews by were killed by Arabs in Safed in similar fashion. Elsewhere in the Middle East, Iraq took a big step toward gaining independence from the British. The Iraqi government had, since the end of World War I and the beginning of the British Mandate in the Middle East, constantly resisted British efforts to control or restrict them. In September, Britain announced that it would support Iraq's inclusion in the League of Nations , this signaled the beginning of the end of their direct control of the region. Early in 1929, the Afghani leader King Amanullah lost power through revolution and civil war to Amir Habibullah II . Habibulah's rule, however, only lasted nine months. Nadir Shah replaced him in October, starting a line of monarchs which would last 40 years. In neighboring India, a general strike in Bombay continued throughout the year despite efforts by the British. On December 29 , the All India Congress in Lahore declared Indian independence from Britain, something it had threatened to do if Britain did not grant India dominion status. China and Russia engaged in a minor conflict after China seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway . Russia counterattacked and took the cities of Hailar and Manchouli before issuing an ultimatum demanding joint control of the railway to be reinstated. The Chinese agreed to the terms on November 26. The Japanese would later see this defeat as a sign
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Which is Israel's southernmost city, located on the Red Sea?
Eilat | Virtual Israel Experience Virtual Israel Experience Home Take the Tour On Your Own Israel Quiz Get Involved! Credits Eilat A resort town of 20,000 and bustling port, combining sea and desert, Eilat lies at Israel's southernmost tip. The sun always shines in Eilat (it rains about a half dozen days a year) and the average daytime temperatures rarely dip below 70°F (21°C), even in winter. During the summer, temperatures can soar well above 100°F and the water can feel almost like a Jacuzzi. Even in mid-winter, the average daytime water temperature stays above 68°F (20°C). Make sure to drink lots of water, keep your head covered and wear sun screen (your mother asked me to put this in). Unless you're going by plane from Tel Aviv (an hour flight), it's a very long schlep (about a four hour drive from Tel Aviv or Jerusalem), but one you'll be glad you took, especially if you're into water sports. Eilat is a great place for water skiing and swimming. The calm surface of the sea is also ideal for boating activities: sailboats, rowboats, kayaks and motor boats. The main attraction of Eilat is diving in the Red Sea (actually an inlet from the sea known as the Gulf of Eilat or Aqaba), one of the world's most spectacular underwater preserves. You can see brightly colored coral and fish and may see everything from a venomous lionfish to a moray eel to a shark to a sea turtle to a manta ray. Even if you're not a diver, you can enjoy the magnificent coral reef from the surface with a snorkel and mask or on a glass-bottom boat ride (though you usually don't see nearly as much). If you want a really unique view (and don't mind spending the money), try an underwater safari in a submarine (yup, it's a real one) that holds 50 people and takes you 200 feet below the surface.  And, if you're really a landlubber, there's the Coral World Underwater Observatory that lets you enjoy the wonders of the Sea as if it were an aquarium. One of only four in the world, the observatory offers a kaleidoscopic view of the reef and sea life 15 feet below the surface. One of the newer Eilat attractions is Dolphin Reef, where you can swim and dive with dolphins. And there's plenty of activities outside the water, including rappelling on craggy cliffs of the desert mountains, hiking in the desert and mountain biking. Less well-known is the fact that Eilat is one of the best places in the world for bird watching . Approximately one billion birds traverse the area between the Mediterranean coast and the Jordan mountains, making southern Israel the site of one of the greatest concentrations of migrating birds in the world. The migration from Europe to Africa takes place from September to November and the return flight begins in March and lasts through May. Eilat is the headquarters for the Internati
Africa & Europe - History with Rubinstein at Springer Elementary School - StudyBlue Which sea is directly north of Africa? The MediterraneanSea What large island is east of Mozambique? Madagascar Which strait lies between Morocco and Spain? The Strait of Gibraltar What cape is on the southwestern tip of Africa? The Cape of Good Hope What African country border the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea? Egypt What is the capital of Africa's large island country to the east? Antananarivo What is Africa's southernmost country? South Africa What African country is closest to Italy? Tunisia What large African lake does the Equator cross? Lake Victoria What country shares borderss with Egypt and Ethiopia? Sudan What channel is west of Madagascar? Mozambique What lake in Ghana does the Prime Meridian cross? Lake Volta What is Africa's westernmost capital? Dakar What is the national capital of Egypt? Cairo What is the national capital of Congo? Kinshasa What is the national capital of Nigeria? Abuja What is the national capital of Algeria? Algiers What is the national capital of Somalia? Mogadishu What is the national capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababa What mountain is shown in the elephant picture? Mt. Killmanjaro What river is in the picture of Victoria Falls? Zambize River Do African rivers begin in the coast or end at the coast? African rivers end at the coast. True or False The hottest temperature on record, 136.4 F was taken in Death Valley False The Sahara is larger than 48 contiguous United States True The Sahara is in southern Africa False Sahara means "desert" in Arabic True The Sahara is made up of entirely of sand. False The Sahara is the largest desert in the world. True What year did African countries begin winning theri independene? 1941 Today, what is the only territory in Africa? Western Sahara In many places in Africa, what is the only common thing from the colonial power? Language Which country has about seven times the number of people per car as Senegal? South Africa What sea separates Europe from Africa? MediterraneanSea There are three peninsulas in southern Europe. The Balkan Peninsula is west of the Black Sea. The country of Italy is a peninsula. What is the name of the third peninsula, which is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay? Ibererian Peninsula What are the two mountain ranges that separates Europe from Asia? Caucus and Urals Mountain Ranges Which mountain range is south central Europe and lies just north of the Italian peninsula? Apenines Which is the correct land cover for the regions for the Black Sea Lowland, Ukraine: cropland In Italy the ___River flows from the Alps into the Adriatic Sea. PO River West of the Alps, the _____ River flows into the Gulf of Lion Rhone (River) In Great Briian, the ____ River flows through London. Thames (River) What country borders Spain to the west? Portugual What is the island west of the United Kingdom? Ireland What country is south of Macedonia? Greece What country shares borders with both Poland and France? Germany What island country shares borders with both Belarus and Romania? Ukrane What country lies between Crotia and Serbia? Monterago What country borders Latvia to the north? Estonia What country borders Bulgaria and is also partly in Aisa? Turkey Which three countries share a vast northern peninsula with Russia? Norway, Sweden, Finland Which three countries are in both Europe and Asia? Russia
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Who’s autobiography is entitled ‘The Naked Civil Servant’?
The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): Quentin Crisp, Michael Holroyd: 9780141180533: Amazon.com: Books The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) One of these items ships sooner than the other. Show details Buy the selected items together This item:The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Quentin Crisp Paperback $13.98 Only 20 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Paperback $8.90 In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details 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. Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Published at the height of the sexual revolution?1968, to be exact?Crisp's memoir flaunting his homosexuality nonetheless raised plenty of eyebrows, even though he had been completely open about it for more than 30 years. Though quite humorous, the book is still sensitive to the feelings of anyone looking for acceptance for any reason. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more From the Back Cover "As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake", Quentin Crisp declares, giving a small hint of the witty and wry approach he takes toward the life he describes with uninhibited exuberance in this classic autobiography, which is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Crisp not only came out as a gay man in 1931, when the slightest sign of homosexuality shocked public sensibilities, but he did so with grand and provocative flamboyance, determined to spread the message that homosexuality did not exclude him or anyone else from the human race. His hilarious descriptions of encounters with parents, friends, employers, soldiers and sailors, and the law reveal the strength and humor of an honest man, determined to face the world with the uncensored, unapologetic truth about himself.
Trying to find the real Lady Day: Those who try to tell Billie Holiday's story often discover an unknowable life -- by Robert Fulford Trying to find the real Lady Day: Those who try to tell Billie Holiday's story often discover an unknowable life by Robert Fulford ( The National Post , 17 May 2005) The sign on the bus, "Lady Day Orchestra," announced in 1950 that Billie Holiday had organized a big band to go on the road. Eighteen musicians left New York for a four-week tour of one-nighters, to end in New Orleans. They would play dances and Billie would sing. It sounded promising. But this was not a shrewd project. It was run by Billie's boyfriend-manager, John Levy, who acquired his business knowledge as a pimp. Promotion was handled by Dewey Shewey, a part-time burglar, new to the music business. He was wanted by the police, who arrested him during the tour. It turned out he hadn't done much promoting. Levy didn't know what to do. Lady Day's Orchestra was dying. Tempers flared. Billie broke a Coke bottle over Levy's head and he knifed her, both of them requiring hospital attention. The musicians were unpaid. Somewhere in the Carolinas the bus driver, also unpaid, walked off. Billie and Levy also disappeared. The musicians, all of them black, had to find their way home through the hostile, segregated South. Those who knew Billie's history were not astonished. Her professional life was a series of calamities, as Julia Blackburn, a British novelist who has also written books about Napoleon and Goya, demonstrates in the latest Holiday biography, With Billie (Random House). Blackburn leans on research prepared in the 1970s by a writer named Linda Kuehl. Planning a book about Billie, Kuehl interviewed everyone from the woman trombonist on that southern tour to a nun at the Home of the Good Shepherd, the Baltimore reform school where the 10-year-old Billie was incarcerated for truancy. Kuehl tried to write a biography but failed; she committed suicide in 1979. Donald Clarke used some of her interviews in his account of Billie's life, Wishing on the Moon, in 1994. Blackburn makes them the core of her book. There will never be an authoritative Life of Billie Holiday. The documents don't exist, and the witnesses have often lied, many of them because they were crooks. Even honest witnesses have faulty memories, inflected by narcotics; Billie herself would tell the same story several ways. So Blackburn acknowledges that the anecdotes are often contradictory, calls her book an oral history and tries to catch her subject in a web of interviews. She provides a cheerless glimpse at black show business, a place that was exciting and illuminating for those who took pleasure in its music yet perilous and frantic for those, like Billie, who lived within it. Billie was a teenage prostitute who began singing because she felt like it and kept at it because a few night clubs paid her a little money. An untrained amateur, she turned out to be much better than any of the professionals. She impressed the world's toughest critics, the jazz musicians of New York -- among them Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Lester Young. Today most vocalists of the 1930s are all but entirely forgotten, but we still admire records she made more than 70 years ago. Blackburn has no idea how this happened. Her knowledge of narcotics law far exceeds her knowledge of jazz history. She mentions only a few specific records, and the great players Billie worked with are discussed mostly for their place in her personal odyssey. Male companions dominate. A pianist friend said that Billie was a fool for men: "She went through the whole zoo until she got to the leopard," which was where she remained. All her life she lived with abusive men who were also pimps. She goaded them to violence, then fought back ferociously. Her men, without exception, stole her money. A couple of them seem to have betrayed her to narcotics agents. There's no record that any were interested in her music or her health. Possibly the most sinister was her last husband, Louis McKay, who talked about her
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On which radio programme did the dreaded batter pudding hurler of Bexhill on sea appear
The Goon Show Site - Script - The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (Of Bexhill-On-Sea) (Series 5, Episode 3) The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler. Orchestra: [Sinister Horns chord] Greenslade: The English Channel 1941. Across the silent strip of green-grey water - in England - coastal towns were deserted, except for people. Despite the threat of invasion and the stringent blackout rules, elderly gentlefolk of Bexhill-on-Sea still took their evening constitutionals. FX: Ohhh, dear, dear, dear, ohh, it's quite windy on these cliffs Minnie. Minnie Bannister: Yes, yes, what a nice summer evening, typical English evening. Henry Crun: Mnk yes, the rain is lovely and warm. Minnie, I think I'll take one of my sou'westers off... Minnie Bannister: ...Here, Minnie, hold my elephant gun. Minnie Bannister: Oh dear, I don't know what you brought it for, you can't shoot elephants in England you know! Henry Crun: Oh. Does this mean we shall have to have pelican for dinner again? Minnie Bannister: I fear so, I fear so! Henry Crun: Then I'll risk it. I'll shoot an elephant out of season. Minnie Bannister: You can't shoot an elephant out of season. Henry Crun: Elephants mustn't be shot out of season! Greenslade: Listeners who are listening will, of course, realise that Minnie and Henry are talking rubbish; as erudite people will realise, there are no elephants in Sussex. They're only found in Kent. North of a line drawn between two points thus making it the shortest distance. FX: ...Well, if that's how it is I can't shoot any. Minnie Bannister: Come Henry, we'd better be getting home. I don't want to be caught on the beaches if there's an invasion. Henry Crun: Neither do I Minnie. I'm wearing a dirty shirt and I don't... FX: Minnie, did you hear a gas oven door slam just then? Minnie Bannister: Don't be silly, Henry! Who'd be walking around these cliffs with a gas oven? Henry Crun: Yes, but apart from the obvious ones, who'd want to... FX: No, I've never heard of him. Minnie Bannister: Help Henry! I've been struck down from behind, buddy. Heelp! Henry Crun: Mnk - oh dear dear! Poor Minnie! Police! English Police! Law Guardians... Minnie Bannister: Not too loud, Henry, they'll hear you. Henry Crun: Can I help you, sir? Henry Crun: Oh, what is the difference? Seagoon: Ohhhhhh, help me differently spelt constable. Seagoon: Oh! What's happened to this dear old silver bearded lady? Henry Crun: She was struck down from behind. Seagoon: And not a moment too soon. Congratulations, sir. Henry Crun: I didn't do it. Seagoon: Coward, hand back your OBE. Now tell me, who did this felonious deed. What's happened to her? Henry Crun: It's much too dark to see, strike a light. Seagoon: Strike a dark light. Seagoon: No madam! Madam we daren't. Why, only twenty eight miles across the Channel the Germans are watching this coast. Henry Crun: Don't you be a silly pilly policeman. Minnie Bannister: Pittle Poo. They can't see a match being struck. Seagoon: [Striking match - bomb whistle - explosion] Seagoon: Yes, where are my legs? Minnie Bannister: Now are you aware of the danger of German long range guns? Henry Crun: Mnk ahh I have it! I've got it, I've got the answer. Just by chance I happen to have on me a box of German matches. Seagoon: Wonderful! Strike one. Ha, they won't dare fire at their own matches. Henry Crun: [Striking match - bomb whistle - explosion] Henry Crun: ...Curse... The British, the British!!! Seagoon: We tried using a candle, but it wasn't very bright and we daren't light it, so we waited for dawn, and there, in the light of the morning sun, we saw what had struck Miss Bannister. It was... A batter pudding! Orchestra: Oh. Thank heaven, I hate cold batter pudding. Henry Crun: Come, dear little Minnie, I'll take you home with me Minnie, I'll give you a hot bath, rub you down with the anti-vapour rub, put a plaster on your back, give your little feet a mustard bath, and then put you to bed. Seagoon: Do you know this woman? Henry Crun: Naughty man! Henry Crun: Naughty, naughty, horrible, naughty man! ...Of course I do, this, this is Minnie Bannister
Arthur Askey - The Bee Song / Chirrup (1938) - YouTube Arthur Askey - The Bee Song / Chirrup (1938) 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 Jun 24, 2012 Arthur's most famous song, The Bee Song, was also his first commercial record. Arthur Bowden Askey CBE (6 June 1900 -- 16 November 1982) was a prominent English comedian and actor. Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed, his improvising, and his use of catchphrases, as parodied by the Arthur Atkinson character in The Fast Show. His catchphrases included "Hello playmates!", "I thank you all" (pronounced "Ay-Thang-Yaw'll"), and "Before your very eyes". He was known as "Big-Hearted Arthur". Askey was born at 29 Moses Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, the eldest child and only son of Samuel Askey (d.1958), secretary of the firm Sugar Products of Liverpool, and his wife, Betsy Bowden (d.1949), of Knutsford, Cheshire. Six months after his birth the family moved to 90 Rosslyn Street, Liverpool. Askey was educated at St. Michael's Council School (1905--11) and the Liverpool Institute for Boys (1911--16), where he was known for winning an egg and spoon race at a school sports day. He was very small at 5' 2" (1.58 m), with a breezy, smiling personality, and wore distinctive horn-rimmed glasses. He served in the armed forces in World War I and performed in army entertainments. After working as a clerk for Liverpool Corporation, Education Department, he was in a touring concert party and the music halls, but he rose to stardom in 1938 through his role in the first regular radio comedy series, Band Waggon on the BBC. Band Waggon began as a variety show, but had been unsuccessful until Askey and his partner, Richard Murdoch, took on a larger role in the writing. In the early 1930s, Askey appeared on an early form of BBC television — the spinning disc invented by John Logie Baird that scanned vertically and had only thirty lines. Askey had to be heavily made up for his face to be recognisable at such low resolution. When television became electronic, with 405 horizontal lines, Askey was a regular performer in variety shows. During World War II, Askey starred in several Gainsborough Pictures comedy films, including Band Waggon (1940), based on the radio show; Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940); The Ghost Train (1941); I Thank You (1941); Back Room Boy (1942); King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942); Miss London Ltd. (1943) and Bees in Paradise (1944); as well as the popular West End musical Follow the Girls. When television arrived, he made the transition well. His first TV series was Before Your Very Eyes! (1952), named after his catchphrase. In 1957, writers Sid Colin and Talbot Rothwell revived the Band Waggon format for Living It Up, a series that reunited Askey and Murdoch after 18 years. He also made many stage appearances as a pantomime dame. He continued to appear frequently on television in the 1970s, notably as a panellist on the ITV talent show New Faces, where his usually sympathetic comments would offset the harsher judgments of fellow judges Tony Hatch and Mickie Most. He also appeared on the comedy panel game Joker's Wild. His last film was Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978), starring Debbie Ash. Soon afterwards, he was forced to give up performing, and had both legs amputated owing to circulatory problems. Anthea, his daughter by his marriage to Elizabeth May Swash (m. 1925, d. 1974), was also an actress and often starred with him. For many years, he was an active member of the Savage Club (a London gentlemen's club). He was awarded the OBE in 1969 and the CBE in 1981. Askey carried on working until just before he was hospitalised in July 1982. Poor circulation resulted in gangrene which led to him having both legs amputated and he died in London's St Thomas's Hospital on 16 November 1982. Askey is buried in Putney Val
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Which SS commander died as a result of an assassination attempt in Prague in 1942?
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich – Prague Blog By Tracy A. Burns June 4, 1942 When head of Nazi security police and governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, died 70 years ago, June 4, 1942, due to wounds inflicted by Czech parachutists during an assassination attempt, it marked one of the highlights in the history of Czech resistance and proved a great blow to the Nazi war effort. The death of the man nicknamed “The Butcher” signified that even the top-ranking German officials were not invincible. Ruthless Reinhard Heydrich One of the architects of the Final Solution, the ruthless Heydrich had engineered the 1942 Wansee Conference that planned the extermination of all Jews in Nazi occupied territories. During 1938 he had helped prepare Kristallnacht, pogroms against Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Within three days of becoming the Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia September 27, 1941, he had 92 people executed. As a child Heydrich had been taunted for his alleged Jewish ancestry, though an official Nazi investigation claimed he was pure Aryan. His love of music was obviously no impediment to his brutality. Operation Anthropoid Planned by British special operations and supported by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, the preparation for Heydrich’s assassination called Operation Anthropoid involved officers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš as the major players. They were airlifted from Great Britain to Czechoslovakia along with seven other Czech soldiers in December of 1941. After scratching plans to kill Heydrich on a train and in his car in a forest, the plan was to attack him at a sharp turn in the Libeň district of Prague on his way from his home in Panenské Březany. The assassination attempt Gabčík and Kubiš were positioned at the tram stop near Bulovka Hospital where there was a bend in the road while their colleague Josef Valčík signaled with a mirror the arrival of Heydrich’s open-roofed Mercedes Benz. Gabčík jumped in front of the vehicle, but his sten gun jammed. Heydrich had his car stopped and tried to shoot Gabčík when Kubiš hurled a grenade. Although the bomb only hit the rear wheel of the car, Heydrich suffered a broken rib, ruptured diaphragm and splinters in his spleen, and Kubiš was injured as well. The explosion shattered the windows of a tram as shards of glass maimed passengers. Though severely injured, Heydrich tried to chase Gabčík but soon collapsed. The driver Klein raced after Kubiš, but his gun jammed, and the resistance fighter got away. Following Heydrich’s orders, Klein then set after Gabčík, who hid in a butcher’s shop. The owner, a Nazi sympathizer, revealed his hideout to Klein, who collided with Gabčík in the shop. The assassin injured the driver in the leg and scurried away to safety. The 38-year old Heydrich was taken to nearby Bulovka hospital where he died June 4 at 4:30 am. The manhunt The assassination triggered the greatest manhunt in the history of the Third Reich. The Gestapo knew they were on the hunt for parachutists due to an unused bomb with British parts and a British sub-machine-gun abandoned at the scene. The Nazis offered a reward of one million marks for the Czechs’ arrest. Martial law was proclaimed, and everyone over the age of 15 had to register with the police by May 30, or they would be shot. Evidence left at the scene was displayed in the window of Baťa shoe store on Wenceslas Square. Some 21,000 Germans searched over 36,000 houses but came up empty. The battle at the Cyril and Methodius Church After taking refuge with two Prague families, the assassins, along with five other paratroopers, hid in the Karel Boromějský Greek Orthodox Church in Prague’s New Town. Resistance fighter Karel Čurda betrayed them, and 700 German soldiers pounced upon the church. Three resistance fighters, including Kubiš, were killed in the prayer loft after a battle that lasted two hours, even though the Czechs only had pistols and the soldiers were armed with sub-machine guns and hand grenades. After a preacher revealed that the others wer
BONN CHANCELLOR ARRIVES IN ISRAEL - NYTimes.com BONN CHANCELLOR ARRIVES IN ISRAEL By DAVID K. SHIPLER Published: January 25, 1984 Correction Appended JERUSALEM, Jan. 24— Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany arrived in Israel today amid extraordinarily tight security and small, angry demonstrations by Israeli survivors of the Nazi scourge. He was met by about 100 protesters at his first stop, the Yad Vashem museum and memorial in Jerusalem to the six million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis. As his armored black limousine sped past the group, a small, gray-haired woman shook her fist and shouted until she nearly wept. Along the routes of his motorcade, young men tried to tear down some of the West German flags that were flying alongside the Star of David. The police said they arrested a student. Another youth was also hustled into a police car after he purportedly tried to throw a stone at the motorcade. Among the demonstrators were young members of the Herut Party's right-wing Betar movement. The 53-year-old Mr. Kohl, who will be here until Sunday, is the second Chancellor to visit Israel, the first being Willy Brandt, who came in 1973. Earlier Visit Postponed Mr. Kohl was scheduled to visit Israel last August, but postponed the trip because of the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Relations between Israel and West Germany became strained after Chancellor Helmut Schmidt discussed the Palestine issue after a trip to Saudi Arabia in April 1981. Mr. Schmidt also said that Saudi Arabia was West Germany's most important partner, economically and politically, apart from the United States and the other Western European countries. Prime Minister Begin denounced Mr. Schmidt, accusing him of arrogance, greed and callous disregard of the Jews killed in World War II. He also said that Mr.Schmidt had served in the wartime German armies that helped wipe out the Jews. Mr. Schmidt fought in an antiaircraft artillery battalion. Issue of Saudi Arms Deal The major substantive issue in Mr. Kohl's talks is expected to be the prospect of West Germany selling advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who held his first meeting with the Chancellor this evening, is reportedly making a strong effort to dissuade Mr. Kohl from agreeing to let the Saudis buy Gepard antiaircraft tanks and Marder armored personnel carriers. The Chancellor has made it clear that West Germany would not sell heavy Leopard 2 battle tanks to Saudi Arabia. According to a West German Foreign Ministry official, West German exports to Saudi Arabia rose to $3 billion in 1982 from $1.5 billion in 1979. Saudi Arabia is West Germany's fourth largest oil supplier, after Britain, Libya and Nigeria, and accounts for 50 percent of the country's foreign building contracts. As Israeli officials explain it, they are driven less by their military calculations than by the symbolic significance of German armaments going to enemies of Israel. ''There is an enormous amount of emotional overhang,'' explained one senior Israeli official who closely follows European affairs. ''In our day and age, to see German weapons in the Middle East, with the moral and historical background,'' would be intolerable, he said. He added: ''In spite of everything, Germany is Germany, and there exists a certain history around it. There would be a worldwide Jewish reaction.'' Fears of Additional Sales Concern has been voiced outside official circles as well. Gideon Hausner, who prosecuted Adolf Eichmann, declared in an interview on the Israeli radio, ''It is unthinkable for Israel and for the Jews of the world - I believe for every decent human being - to realize that Hitler will be allowed a victory from beyond his grave.'' In addition, the Israelis are convinced that West Germany will not be able to stop with a modest sale to the Saudis. ''If they supply to Saudi Arabia,'' the Israeli official said, ''how are they going to say no to the other Arab countries? How do you say no to the Jordanians? How do you say no to the Egyptians?'' The demonstrators acted out of p
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Who was the last British monarch to sack a British Prime Minister?
British Monarchs And Their Prime Ministers - British Monarchy Family History British Monarchy Family History British Monarchs And Their Prime Ministers 10, DOWNING STREET                                                                    The five major political parties of the United Kingdom are the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, the Labour Party, the Green Party and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).     The Liberal Democrats - who were originally founded in 1678 under the name of the Whig Party. During their history they have also been known as the Peelite Party, the Radicals and the Liberal Party. They have a classic liberalism and social liberalism ideology.     The Conservative Party - also known as the Tories, which is a centre right party with a conservatism and strong British unity ideology, whose movement was founded in 1834.   The Labour Party - which is a centre left party with a socialist ideology, whose movement was founded in 1900.     The Green Party - which is a centre left party with a strong environmentalist and eco-socialism ideology, which was founded in 1990.     The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) - which is a far right party with an anti-federalist and right wing populism ideology, whose movement was founded in 1993.      Major regional nationalist parties around the United Kingdom include;    The Ulster Unionist Party - which was formed in 1905, and The Democratic Ulster Unionist Party, formed in 1971, both of which are the two main political parties within Northern Ireland.      Plaid Cymru - which was formed in 1925 and is a social democratic party striving for nationalism and independence in Wales.   The Scottish Nationalist Party - which was formed in 1934, which is a social democratic party striving for nationalism and independence in Scotland.       U.K STAMPS ISSUED ON THE 14th OF OCTOBER 2014  DEPICTING EIGHT FORMER PRIME MINISTERS                                                                                                                                                 The position of British Prime Minister was never created, but evolved over a number of years. Because of this modern historians have given the title of first British Prime Minister to that of Sir Robert Walpole, who ran King George I's government from 1721 - 1742, making his twenty one year tenure the longest of any British prime minister.  As Great Britain is a monarchy, both the government and monarchy were originally run as a single entity, with the highest ministerial position, that of the Lord of the Treasurer.     After every British election, the leader of the winning party is invited to form a government by the serving monarch.     As a serving prime minister, the man or woman who holds this title is the only person in the United Kingdom who is allowed to sit in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.  The prime minister is a commoner, therefore he or she is eligible to sit in the House of Commons, but the Lord of the Treasurer, which is one of the automatic titles of the prime minister, is a lord, thus enabling him or her to sit in the House of Lords. Even the monarch is denied this privilege, as two of the monarch's titles are Lord of Man and Lord High Admiral of the British Navy, thus only enabling him or her entry into the House of Lords.  At the end of a prime minister's tenure, it is customary for the monarch to award the outgoing prime minister with the Most Noble Order of the Garter, or in the case of a Scots born prime minister the Most Ancient & Noble Order of the Thistle, although Scottish born former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair are not members of the order due to Brown declining the honour and Blair being disinherited due to public opinion over the Iraq war.      Every outgoing prime minister is granted a life peerage, thus allowing them automatic elevation into the House of Lords.  Ten Downing Street was built between 1682 - 1684 by property investor Sir George Downing. The house was inhabited by both royals and politicians over the years, until it
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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What is the medical term for an artificial limb
Artificial limb | definition of artificial limb by Medical dictionary Artificial limb | definition of artificial limb by Medical dictionary http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/artificial+limb Related to artificial limb: prosthesis limb  [lim] 1. one of the paired appendages of the body used in locomotion and grasping; see arm and leg . Called also member , membrum , and extremity . 2. a structure or part resembling an arm or leg. anacrotic limb ascending limb (def. 2). artificial limb a replacement for a missing limb; see also prosthesis . ascending limb 1. the distal part of Henle's loop . 2. the ascending portion of an arterial pulse tracing; called also anacrotic limb. catacrotic limb descending limb (def. 2). descending limb 1. the proximal part of Henle's loop . 2. the descending portion of an arterial pulse tracing; called also catacrotic limb. lower limb the limb of the body extending from the gluteal region to the foot; it is specialized for weight-bearing and locomotion. See also leg . pectoral limb the arm ( upper limb ), or a homologous part. pelvic limb the leg ( lower limb ), or a homologous part. phantom limb the sensation, after amputation of a limb, that the absent part is still present; there may also be paresthesias, transient aches, and intermittent or continuous pain perceived as originating in the absent limb. thoracic limb pectoral limb . upper limb the limb of the body extending from the deltoid region to the hand; it is specialized for functions requiring great mobility, such as grasping and manipulating. See also arm . artificial limb See prosthesis . artificial limb A PROSTHESIS designed to replace an amputated arm or leg. Artificial limbs may perform a purely supportive function or may simulate, to varying degrees, some of the functions of the part. artificial made by art; not natural or pathological. artificial abortion includes diagnosis of estrus, semen collection and handling, and artificial insemination (see below). artificial breeding organization a proprietary or cooperative organization dealing in the selection, purchase and maintenance of selected sires, mass collection, storage and sale of semen, employment of artificial inseminators, and often veterinarians skilled in the diseases of the reproductive tract, and the provision of artificial insemination services to individual cows and to herds, flocks or bands of animals. The responsibility is usually assumed for the keeping of complete records and the provision of these to clients and in the form of a periodic report. It is inherent in the animal industries that artificial breeding has as its objectives the genetic improvement and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases of the species that it serves. Embryo transplantation and its attendant technologies could become part of an artificial breeding service. artificial digestion for trichinosis a sample of the meat to be examined is incubated with a mixture of pepsin and hydrochloric acid and the digesta examined under a microscope for specimens of Trichinella spiralis. artificial drying drying or dehydrating of feed by other than natural means of sun and air movement; usually by fossil fuel. artificial kidney a popular name for an extracorporeal hemodialyser. artificial limb a replacement for a natural limb. See also prosthesis . artificial milk see milk replacer. artificial organ a mechanical device that can substitute temporarily or permanently for a body organ. Not usually used in veterinary medicine. artificial parturition induction see parturition induction. artificial rearing the rearing of newborn animals by the use of milk replacer as an artificial diet, and often the provision of an artificial environment with a cloth-lined box and a heat lamp or other heating device. The provision of an appropriate amount of relevant antibodies or a prolonged course of antibiotics is an essential part of the program. The need may be a permanent one because of the death or complete agalactia of the dam, or because management insists on early weaning. It may be temporary if t
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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Who is the voice of the title character in the recent film 'Puss in Boots'?
Puss in Boots (2011) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor and regain the trust of his mother and town. Director: a list of 28 titles created 16 Jan 2012 a list of 40 titles created 13 Jun 2012 a list of 33 titles created 22 Jan 2013 a list of 41 titles created 12 Aug 2014 a list of 40 titles created 30 May 2015 Title: Puss in Boots (2011) 6.7/10 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. Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 42 nominations. See more awards  » Videos When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams. Director: Carlos Saldanha Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpel rules supreme. Director: Mike Mitchell The supervillain Megamind finally defeats his nemesis, the superhero Metro Man. But without a hero, he loses all purpose and must find new meaning to his life. Director: Tom McGrath A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth. Directors: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real. Directors: Byron Howard, Chris Williams Stars: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. Director: Gore Verbinski     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.1/10 X   When his new father-in-law, King Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming. Directors: Chris Miller, Raman Hui Stars: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know, that things are about to take a turn for the worst. Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Stars: Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X   Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear, finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters. Directors: Roger Allers, Jill Culton, and 1 more credit  » Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Martin Lawrence, Debra Messing Directors: George Miller, Warren Coleman, and 1 more credit  » Stars: Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, and 1 more credit  » Stars: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock Directors: Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, and 1 more credit  » Stars: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger Edit Storyline Years before meeting Shrek and Donkey, the adorable but tricky Puss in Boots must clear his name from all charges making him a wanted fugitive. While trying to steal magic beans from the infamous criminals Jack and Ji
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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In which U.S. state was the gas chamber first used
gas chamber | execution device | Britannica.com execution device beheading Gas chamber, method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal gas. The gas chamber was first adopted in the U.S. state of Nevada in 1921 in an effort to provide a more humane form of capital punishment . On February 8, 1924, Gee Jon became the first person to be executed by lethal gas. By 1955, 11 U.S. states had adopted the gas chamber as their method of execution, but by the early 21st century it was available in only two states (California and Missouri), where condemned prisoners were allowed to choose between lethal injection and lethal gas. In Arizona , inmates sentenced to death before November 1992 were allowed to choose between lethal injection and lethal gas; in Wyoming , lethal gas was designated to replace lethal injection if the latter method was ruled unconstitutional. From 1921 to 1972 (when the U.S. Supreme Court commenced its moratorium on the death penalty), lethal gas was applied in some 600 executions; from 1976 (when the moratorium ended) to 1999 it was used in only 11 executions. The high cost of renovating disused gas chambers, as well as a growing perception of the method as unconstitutionally cruel, contributed to this trend, leading some scholars to predict in the early 21st century that the method would not be used again. California ’s lethal gas procedure (the most thoroughly documented) was carried out in a sealed, modified octagonal chamber. The inmate was strapped to a chair with holes in the seat, below which was placed a container of sulfuric acid , distilled water, and sodium cyanide crystals. The executioner pulled a lever that mixed the cyanide crystals into the sulfuric acid–water container to create the hydrocyanic gas that the inmate inhaled. Although there is a consensus that cyanide affects many parts of the body, it is unclear at which point an individual becomes unconscious or dies, because pain and consciousness are difficult to measure. In 1996 a federal appeals court unanimously held that California’s statute authorizing lethal gas violated the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, based on a lower court’s conclusion that gassed inmates can suffer an extreme amount of pain and that there is a substantial likelihood that such pain would last for several minutes. (Over time, eyewitnesses had also reported a number of long and gruesome lethal gas executions in California and other states.) Similar Topics lethal injection The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of lethal gas. It did, however, vacate the federal appeals court ruling that lethal gas was unconstitutional because the California legislature called for lethal injection unless a prisoner specifically requested lethal gas. The United Nations Human Rights Committee has considered California’s gas chamber torturous and inhumane. Outside the United States no other country has adopted lethal gas as a constitutional method of carrying out capital punishment. During the Holocaust , however, Nazi Germany employed gas chambers for the purpose of killing Jews and other targeted groups. The chambers were established at concentration camps and usually disguised as bathhouses. Men, women, and children were herded naked into the chambers after being told that they were going to take showers. The doors were closed, and poison gas was injected. See also extermination camp . gas chamber - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) The gas chamber was first adopted in the U.S. state of Nevada in 1921 in an effort to provide a more humane form of capital punishment. On February 8, 1924, Gee Jon became the first person to be executed by lethal gas. By 1955, 11 U.S. states had adopted the gas chamber as their method of execution, but by the early 21st century it was available in only two states (California and Missouri), where condemned prisoners were allowed to choose between lethal injection and lethal gas. In Arizona, inmates sentenced to death before November 1992 were allowed to choose between
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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He will sleep till noon but before it's dark, are words from which cartoon theme song
Yogi Bear Lyrics - Theme Song Lyrics Yogi Bear Lyrics Yogi Bear is smarter than the average bear, Yogi Bear is always in the ranger's hair. At a picnic table you will find him there Stuffing down more goodies than the average bear. He will sleep till noon but before it's dark, He'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park. Yogi has it better than a millionaire That's becasue he's smarter than the average bear.
Zahn Family Jeopardy Jeopardy Template The brand of underwear Marty McFly wears in Back to the Future 200 What is The Boston Tea Party This took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773. 300 How many of the United States Supreme Court Justices are women? 300 Who is Lord Alfred Tennyson? He wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade 300 What is Pi Math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determined this mathematical symbol to be a transcendental number in 1882. 300 Alfred Hitchcock used this to portray blood in the shower scene of Psycho 300 Who is Rosie the Riveter Norman Rockwell's illustration of this US iconic World War II heroine appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in May 1943 400 What is The Wounded Warrior Project? This charity for veterans has recently been under fire for blowing millions of dollars in donation money on spoils for its staff. 400 This famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus' 400 What is a conjunction? The part of speech that the word "but" plays in the following sentence: Sam wants to play Xbox, but he hasn't gotten his reading done yet. 400 The date of Harry Potter's birthday 400 Who is Spiro Agnew In October 1973, he resigned as Vice President of the US, and then pleaded no contest to the charges of income tax evasion in a federal court in Baltimore 500 Both Turkish and NATO radars detected a jet from this country violating Turkish airspace 500 He wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince 500 Light reactions, and the Calvin cycle are the two stages of this. 500 The only non Jedi in the original Star Wars trilogy to use a lightsaber 500
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In 1997, what was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell?
BBC ON THIS DAY | 22 | 1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned 1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned Scientists in Scotland have announced the birth of the world's first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep. Dolly, who was created at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, was actually born on 5 July 1996 although her arrival has only just been revealed. Dolly is the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. Previous clonings have been from embryo cells. The sheep's birth has been heralded as one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of the decade although it is likely to spark ethical controversy. Scientists in Scotland cloned a ewe by inserting DNA from a single sheep cell into an egg and implanted it in a surrogate mother. They now have a healthy seven-month-old sheep - Dolly - who is an exact genetic duplicate of the animal from which the single cell was taken. DNA tests have revealed that Dolly is identical to the ewe who donated the udder cell and is unrelated to the surrogate mother. It will enable us to study genetic diseases for which there is presently no cure Dr Ian Wilmut, embryologist Embryologist Dr Ian Wilmut, from the Roslin Institute, said: "It will enable us to study genetic diseases for which there is presently no cure and track down the mechanisms that are involved." The research, published in Nature magazine, follows the Edinburgh team's success in cloning sheep embryos. Last year they produced two identical sheep, which were clones of an original embryo. The company which has bought the rights to the research, PPL Therapeutics, said Dolly would help to improve understanding of ageing and genetics and lead to the production of cheaper medicines. US President Bill Clinton has set up a special task force to investigate cloning in order to examine the legal and ethical implications.
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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Which (liquid) foodstuff has the chemical formula CH3COOH?
Chemical Properties of Acetic acid - For chemical knowledge For chemical knowledge Chemical Properties of Acetic acid Published on January 14 2014 by maryhonghong Acetic acid is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3COOH (also written as CH3CO2H or C2H4O2). It is a colourless liquid that when undiluted is also called glacial acetic acid. Acetic acid is the main component of vinegar (apart from water; vinegar is roughly 8% acetic acid by volume), and has a distinctive sour taste and pungent smell. Besides its production as household vinegar, it is mainly produced as a precursor to polyvinylacetate and cellulose acetate. Although it is classified as a weak acid, concentrated acetic acid is corrosive and attacks the skin. Acetic acid is one of the simplest carboxylic acids. It is an important chemical reagent and industrial chemical, mainly used in the production of cellulose acetate for photographic film and polyvinyl acetate for wood glue, as well as synthetic fibers and fabrics. In households, diluted acetic acid is often used in descaling agents. In the food industry, acetic acid is used under the food additive code E260 as an acidity regulator and as a condiment. As a food additive it is approved for usage in many countries, including Canada, the EU, USA and Australia and New Zealand. Acetic acid is a weak acid which is probably most famous for being the primary acid in vinegar. In fact, acetic acid has a wide range of uses beyond sprinkling on salads, and it is produced in large volumes all over the world. People have been working with this acid in a number of contexts for centuries, with acetic acid being one of the substances explored by alchemists, the predecessors of modern chemists. This organic acid can be prepared in varying concentrations. In pure form, it is known as glacial acetic acid because it crystallizes in cool temperatures. This form of the acid is extremely corrosive and can be hazardous to work with, requiring special precautions for protection. Vinegar, by contrast, usually has an acetic acid concentration of around five percent. Name:Acetic acid
Citypages May 2016 online by CityPages Kuwait (page 114) - issuu issuu HOMEWORK FOR GROWN UPS EVERYTHING YOU LEARNED AT SCHOOL... BUT CAN YOU REMEMBER? General Knowledge Quiz Test Your Vocabulary 1. The Latin prefix 'dino' (as in dinosaur) means: Giant; Terrible; Noisy; or Old? The opposite of leader is: 3. Argan oil, chiefly from Morocco, used in cooking and cosmetics, is extracted from a: Seaweed; Cactus; Tree nut; or Camel? 4. Mocha is coffee with added: Alcohol; Chocolate; Cream; or Tea? 5. According to The Bible's Book of Genesis in which God created Heaven and Earth in six days, on the first day God created: Man and Woman; Fire and Air; Darkness and Light; or The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? 6. A 'cricket box' is a: Painted batting zone; Safe area for spectators; Chest for stumps, balls, bats, etc; or Batsman's groin protector? 1. mourner 2. agent 3. avatar 4. follower A leader is the head guy or gal, the one running the show. The leader of the band calls the shots and sets the tempo for the music. A conductor is the leader of an orchestra; all musicians look to him or her to know when to begin and end playing their instruments. A president is the leader of a country whose decisions make a difference to the whole population. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. A leader comes first in line â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a parade or a social system â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and gets a lot of attention, but ultimately, a leader needs followers. 2. Approximately how much Francium (the rarest metal on the planet) exists on Earth: 1000 tonnes; 10 tonnes; 50 kilos; or less than an ounce? people and moves them to action. 7. Paraguay, Bolivia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Nepal, and Lesotho have no: Coastlines; Armies; Cathedrals; or McDonald's? A leader is the one in the charge, the person who convinces other people to follow. A great leader inspires confidence in other 9. The area of a circle with a radius of 56.5cms is approximately how many square metres: 1; 3; 5; or 10? 10. Italian clothier Emilio Ceccato redesigned/provided the traditional striped shirts in 2016 for: Venice's gondoliers; Vatican guards; Inter Milan soccer club; or Segregated Mafia prison inmates? 11. Endemic means: Contagious; Geographically native/unique; Historically significant; or Final/fatal? ANSWER: 4. In this question, leader is a noun that means a person who rules or guides or inspires others. 8. What Greek word meaning 'upon/additionally' prefixes these words to create different words and a rock'n'roll brand: Centre/Center, Cure, Dermis, Gram, Tome, and Phone? MATH PROBLEMS When you have three, you have three. When you have two, you have two. But when you have one, you have none. 12. Persian, Venetian, Roman, and Vertical are types of: Doorways; Staircases; Window blinds; or Pure cat breeds? 13. What African nation is known in parts of Asia by the local names of two of its famous cities Marrakech and Fes? 14. Macau, Monaco and Singapore have the world's most (What?): Dense populations; Rainfall; Prisoners; or Sherry drinkers? ANSWER: Choices. 15. What drink from the Camellia sinensis plant has green, black and white varieties: Sarsaparilla; Coffee; Tequila; or Tea? 16. The dermis and cutis are parts of the human: Heart; Brain; Skin; or Bones? JUMBLED WORDS 17. The largest theme park in Europe, subject to approval 2016, is planned by Paramount in: Dartford; Helsinki; Reykjavik; or Calais? 18. The standard spoken English accent of the UK, abbreviated to 'RP', traditionally used by BBC newsreaders, the Royal Family and 'upper class' is fully called '(What?) Pronunciation': Revised; Revived; Received; or Rhubarb? B A I N C 19. Volvic, Evian, Perrier and San Pellegrino are famous brands of: Knitwear; Bottled water; Cosmetics; or Golf equipment? R O M M E Y 20. The Arabic word 'al' (AL) roughly translates in English to mean: Go; The; Me; or You? T E R A T O FEBRUARY, MAY, 2016 2016 DECEMBER, 2016 S L U R P A ANSWERS: GUPPY, CABIN, MEMORY, ROTATE, PULSAR ANSWERS:1.Terrible (saurus = lizard), 2.Less than an ounce (it has
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What do Australian aborigines call Ayers Rock?
3 Things You Should Know about Uluru's Aboriginal Name Uluru-Ayers Rock: What’s in a Name? Many people ask us what is the Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock means. So we’ve written this page to not only help you to learn what the original name for Ayers Rock is, but also to dispel some of the myths about Ayers Rock’s original name. We often see information written on the internet about Ayers Rock that simply isn’t true. For example, I’ve seen websites stating that Ayers Rock is the heart chakra of the world! Until recently, Wikipedia’s entry claiming that Uluru means ‘island mountain’. I’ve even heard one ignorant tour guide at Uluru’s base spreading this ‘island mountain’ meaning to tourists. Not only is this untrue, it’s also offensive to Aboriginal people who have their own spiritual traditions associated with the Rock. So we want to make sure that you have the real facts about Uluru – and especially about the Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock. On this page, I (Amanda) will share my knowledge as an anthropologist and tell you the real story behind Ayers Rock’s original name. 1. Uluru: The Original Name The Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock is Uluru. Uluru is a Yankunytjatjara word. Yankunytjatjara is the name of the Aboriginal people whose land Ayers Rock is located on. Uluru is not just the name of Ayers Rock itself, but also of the country around Ayers Rock. Uluru is in fact the name of a large tract of land where a particular sub-group of Yankunytjatjara people (anthropologists call this an ‘estate group’) live. 2. What Does Uluru Mean? Uluru is first and foremost a place name. It does not have any specific meaning, although it may have some connection to the Yankunytjatjara words for ‘crying’ and ‘shadows’. As I really wanted to know what the word meant, I asked Senior Traditional owners, Reggie and Cassidy Uluru and well known Alice Springs historian, Richard (Dick) Kimber, about the meaning of Uluru. After a few ignorant comments on this post, I then asked several Yankunytjatjara people who are highly skilled language interpreters about the meaning as well. They all told me that Uluru was the name of the place, and that it had no specific meaning. I also read through the writings of Charles Mountford, one of the first anthropologists to live and work with Yankunytjatjara and Luritja people, and the books of Bill Harney (the first ranger at Ayers Rock). I consulted the anthropological work of Robert Lawton, who worked on land claims in the area during the 1970s. Mountford worked with Aboriginal people at Ayers Rock in the 1930s and 1940s. He records that Uluru is both the name of a Dreaming ancestor, a snake, AND the name of a rockhole that is a Men’s Sacred site located on top of the Rock. Traditionally, only initiated senior men could climb the Rock and visit this special site (this fact is often hidden from public knowledge, but is there in historical and anthropological records for anyone to discover.) Bill Harney arrived at Uluru in the late 1950s. He was told by the Aboriginal custodians of Uluru that it was a place name. Robert Lawton was the anthropologist who interviewed all of the old people for the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Land Claim. He also established that Uluru was a place name. After doing this research and asking expert people, the evidence suggested that the Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock, Uluru, is indeed a place name with no specific meaning. Aboriginal people felt that the connection to ‘crying’ or ‘wailing’ was actually associated with ‘Yulara’, which is the name of the township where Ayers Rock Resort is located. There are several named places on the south western side of the Rock (near the Park HQ) which refer to shade or shadows. (The ‘ul-‘ sound refers to shade or shadow in several Central Australian Aboriginal languages ). There may be some connection of the word ‘Uluru’ to shadows or shade, however, the Aboriginal men I spoke with did not suggest this. So we can conclude that just as Niagara Falls is the name of a place, or London or the Amazon River, so too is Uluru. It does not mean ‘Ear
Did You Know? - Nicknames of Scottish Towns Did You Know? - Nicknames of Scottish Towns Here's a list of the nicknames applied at times to a selection of Scottish cities and towns. In some cases, it's the residents rather than the town itself that carry the nickname. If you have any additions to the list, drop an e-mail to Scottie . The illustration here is of the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh - the "Athens of the North". Aberdeen - Granite City due to the number of buildings built from local granite or Silver City with the Golden Sands. In Ian Rankin's Rebus novel "Black and Blue" Aberdeen is referred to as "The Furry Boots Toon" Why? Because when you get there, all the Aberdonians ask you "Furry boots are you from?" (Read it as it sounds, if you don't speak Doric). Anstruther in Fife is called Ainster by the locals - though that is perhas due more to their pronunciation than a nickname. Arbroath - Residents of Arbroath are called Arbroathians, or Reid Lichties (due to the prominent red harbour light of the town). Auchterarder - Lang Toon due to its 1½ mile long High Street. Ayr - Robert Burns description of Ayr as Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, for honest men and bonnie lasses has stuck. Bishopbriggs - The large number of children born in this dormitory town next to Glasgow resulted in it being referred to as Baby Briggs. Broughty Ferry - is nicknamed simply The Ferry. Carnoustie - The atrocious weather conditions during the 1997 Open Golf Championship in the town resulted in at least the golf course being called by disgruntled, over-par golfers as Car-nasty. Clydebank - Residents (and the local football team are known as The Bankies. Coatbridge - Iron Burgh from the large number of iron foundries which once operated in the town. Comrie - Shaky Toun, a nickname due to being on the Highland Fault line and subject to an above average number of earth tremors. Darvel - The Lang Toon, one of a number due to the ribbon layout of the town. Dufftown - Whisky Capital of the World, immodest but appropriate for this town in the heart of Speyside. Dumfries - The people from this town at the southern end of Scotland are known as "Doonhamers" (down home). But Wick and Thurso are not "Uphamers"! Dumfries is also known as Queen of the South". Dunbar in East Lothian is known as the Sunny Dunnie after its Trades Holiday fame of the 19th and 20th century eras when it was a popular seaside holiday resort for the cirizens of nearby Edinburgh Dunfermline - "The Auld Grey Toun" - many of the old buildings are built from grey stonework. East Kilbride - Polo Mint City, a nickname prompted by over 85 roundabouts in the road system. "Polo Mints" are peppermint sweets/candies - with a hole in the middle... Edinburgh - Scotland's Capital is known as "Auld Reekie" (old smoky) from the days when it was black with the smoke from coal and wood fires. It is also given the more complimentary title of Athens of the North due to the number of fine buildings with Grecian columns. Putting these two together, produces another (little heard) nickname of Auld Greekie. Fraserburgh - The Broch. A broch in Scots is both a prehistoric circular tower from Pictish times and a halo round the sun or moon. Galashiels - Truncated often to just Gala. Understandably, Gala residents are are not keen on their nickname of 'pailmerks'. It is said they got this name from days gone by when there were no toilets in Gala as we know them today - so inhabitants sat on pails - and if they sat too long, their rear end would be 'marked' by the rim of the pail! The story does not explain what inhabitants of other towns in those days did to avoid this! Glasgow - Dear Green Place, a name that was applied long before the grime and squalor of industrialisation, as it comes from the Brittonic "glas cau" or "green hollow". On the other hand, Glasgow has a reputation for the large number of parks created by those same Victorian industrialists. Hawick - The people call themselves "Terries" from Teribus ye teri odin, the war cry of the men of Hawick at the Battle of Flodde
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Which American author created the character Rip Van Winkle?
Washington Irving Washington Irving Washington Irving Most Popular American Writer of the Early 1800s Washington Irving first achieved fame as a young satirist in New York City.  Stock Montage/Getty Images By Robert McNamara Updated June 30, 2016. Washington Irving was the first American to make a living as an author and during his prolific career in the early 1800s he created celebrated characters such as Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane. His youthful satirical writings popularized two terms still closely associated with New York City , Gotham and Knickerbocker. Irving also contributed something to holiday traditions, as his conception of a saintly character with a flying sleigh delivering toys to children at Christmas evolved into our modern depictions of Santa Claus . Early Life of Washington Irving Washington Irving was born April 3, 1783 in lower Manhattan, during the week that New York City residents heard of the British ceasefire in Virginia that effectively ended the Revolutionary War. To pay tribute to the great hero of the time, General George Washington , Irving's parents named their eighth child in his honor. When George Washington took the oath of office as the first American president at Federal Hall in New York City, six-year-old Washington Irving stood among the thousands of people celebrating in the streets. continue reading below our video 10 Best Universities in the United States A few months later he was introduced to President Washington, who was shopping in lower Manhattan. For the rest of his life Irving told the story of how the president patted him on the head. While attending school, young Washington was believed to be slow-witted, and one teacher labeled him "a dunce." He did, however, learn to read and write, and became obsessed with telling stories. Some of his brothers attended Columbia College, yet Washington's formal education ended at the age of 16. He became apprenticed to a law office, which was a typical route to becoming a lawyer in the era before law schools were common. Yet the aspiring writer was far more interested in wandering about Manhattan and studying the daily life of New Yorkers than he was in the classroom. Early Political Satires Irving's older brother Peter, a physician who was actually more interested in politics than medicine, was active in the New York political machine headed by Aaron Burr . Peter Irving edited a newspaper aligned with Burr, and in November 1802 Washington Irving published his first article, a political satire signed with the pseudonym "Jonathan Oldstyle." Irving wrote a series of articles as Oldstyle over the next few months. It was common knowledge in New York circles that he was the real author of the articles, and he enjoyed the recognition. He was 19 years old. One of Washington's older brothers, William Irving, decided that a trip to Europe might give the aspiring writer some direction, so he financed the voyage. Washington Irving left New York, bound for France, in 1804, and didn't return to America for two years. His tour of Europe broadened his mind and gave him material for later writing. Salmagundi, a Satirical Magazine After returning to New York City, Irving resumed studying to become a lawyer, but his real interest was in writing. With a friend and one of his brothers he began collaborating on a magazine that lampooned Manhattan society. The new publication was called Salmagundi, a familiar term at the time as it was a common food similar to present day chef's salad. The little magazine turned out to be shockingly popular and 20 issues appeared from early 1807 to early 1808. The humor in Salmagundi was gentle by today's standards, but 200 years ago it seemed startling and the magazine's style became a sensation. One lasting contribution to American culture was that Irving, in a joking item in Salmagundi, referred to New York City as "Gotham." The reference was to a British legend about a town whose residents were reputed to be crazy. New Yorkers enjoyed the joke, and Gotham became a perennial nickname for the city. Diedrich Knickerbocke
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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Which children's character lives in 'Pontypandy'?
Fireman Sam: the worst children’s programme ever? | Dean Burnett | Science | The Guardian Brain flapping Fireman Sam: the worst children’s programme ever? Fireman Sam is a popular, long-running children’s TV show. It is also, scientifically speaking, possibly the worst TV show for children ever Even in cake form, you can sense the darkness inherent within him. Photograph: Tama Leaver/flickr Friday 7 February 2014 02.15 EST Last modified on Wednesday 10 February 2016 11.24 EST Share on Messenger Close Fireman Sam is a well loved children’s TV character. His adventures have been popular for nearly 30 years . For those of you unfamiliar with the programme, it focuses on the exploits of the eponymous fireman and his colleagues in the small Welsh valley town of Pontypandy. The Pontypandy fire brigade are regularly called out to deal with relatively low-key but still-potentially-dangerous mishaps that plague the town, usually due to the antics of local child Norman Price . Granted, it was never without its flaws. Even as children my friends and I were suspicious of the number of emergencies Pontypandy experienced, especially in a town with an apparent population of 23, over 25% of whom are actually firemen . And it was always a bit suspect how the closest thing they had to a protagonist, the aforementioned Norman Price, was singled out as the only ginger child, implying that red hair is directly correlated with mischief and untrustworthiness. But for all that, I loved it. It was a delightfully charming stop-motion cartoon made in Wales, so there was even a sense of national pride mixed in with the enjoyment of an easy-to-relate-to set of characters and circumstances. I’m a grown man now though. Until I had my son nearly 2 years ago, I had no idea it was still on. I’ve watched it since, and really wish I hadn’t. I’m a trained scientist now and as a result there is too much evidence to ignore the inevitable conclusion: something has gone terribly wrong in Pontypandy. As a former fan and Welshman, my disappointment is tinged with the bitterness of betrayal. I’ve hinted at this before , and it would be a ludicrous exercise to list all my problems with the show here. But then, this blog has a ludicrous premise, so what the hell? Stop motion to CGI The original Fireman Sam was animated in the 1980s using charming stop-motion . These days it’s done with CGI . I know CGI is all the rage and offers more scope than other techniques, but it’s so omnipresent these days that cheap, less sophisticated CGI becomes more noticeable. And whoever it is that makes the modern Fireman Sam, they certainly are no Pixar . Sam’s vanity In fairness, Sam was always the focus of the show for reasons that were never that clear. Station Officer Steele is the chief of the fire service, and Sam appears to be no more senior or dedicated than any of his colleagues. But it’s typical for one member of a group to be the spokesperson or the popular one, just by dint of being the most charming or friendly or what have you, and this always seemed to be the case originally. The latest incarnation takes this to extremes though. Sam now looks and sounds more like a stripper who happens to be wearing the fireman’s outfit for this particular booking. All the characters now specifically say they’ll call Sam. Not the fire brigade or the emergency services; Sam specifically. And I've not witnessed one occasion where he tackles an issue single-handed. Yet he’s happy to take the credit, never correcting anyone when they thank him specifically, when his colleagues have all risked their lives as much as he has. His fellow firefighters once sang a song praising him specifically in front of the whole town and he just accepted this as normal. Part of me thinks he causes all of the calamities himself, for the attention. He’s probably got Munchausen by proxy , but with an entire town. Elvis’s mental condition Previously, fireman Elvis Cridlington was a perfectly competent individual, as you’d expect from someone employed in the emergency services whose role would likely involve savin
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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Miriam Gonzalez Durantez married which UK politician in 2000?
Miriam González Durántez - Mrs Clegg - Spain News in English Profiles Miriam González Durántez - Mrs Clegg She is wife of the Liberal Democrats leader in the U.K., Nick Clegg, but she can't vote for him Apr 19, 2014 - 7:21 PM Spanish national right wing newspaper, La Razón, has carried out an interview with Míriam González, the Spanish lawyer wife of the British Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. The paper says it had the privilege of sharing coffee with her in Putney, and notes the forthcoming UK election could result in a hung parliament for the first time since 1974. She tells the paper that the two party system should be done away with in Britain, and although she is a politician’s wife she does not have a role. ‘I’m just married to him’, she says, although admits it would be ‘a complete privilege’ to move into Downing Street. She interrupted an interview on ITV with Marie Nightingale after being described as ‘a political wife’. She met Nick Clegg in Bruges at the start of the 90’s where both were on post-graduate courses, and it was said to be love at first sight. She had to steal him from a friend who was going out with him at the time – ‘I lost a friend and gained a husband’, she is said to have said. The couple originally communicated in ‘schoolboy’s French’. The couple got married in 2,000, and have three children, Antonio, Alberto and Miguel, who are all kept fiercely out of the limelight. Born in Valladolid in May 1968, she grew up in Olmedo. She worked with Chris Patten when he was European Foreign Affairs Commissioner, and then Nick Clegg was an MEP. She worked briefly in the Foreign Office in London, and is now a partner of the international law firm DLA Piper, where she will continue to work during the present election campaign in the U.K., bringing home more money than her husband. She never sets a meeting after six so that there is more time to be with the children. Miriam González Durántez - Archive Photo La Razón comments that the fierce British press is falling at her feet, describing her as elegant, watchful, and with a special passion when talking about politics. Much of the coverage of her in the UK press, with a big piece in the Daily Mail, has been that, being Spanish, she is not allowed to vote for her husband, to which she told La Razón that she is proud to be Spanish. The UK press note too that she has kept her Spanish surname, but she says that is just a cultural question. Míriam González father, José Antonio González Caviedes, was Mayor of Olmedo, and also a Partido Popular senator. He died in a traffic accident in 1996. The paper asks her whether it is more difficult to be a politician’s daughter than a politician’s wife, and she notes that when she supported her father she was only responsible for herself, but now the difference is she is responsible for a family. She notes that the fundamental thing is to put matters into perspective, and to realise that a crisis is never such a big crisis, or a triumph is never such a big triumph. She comments too on her sadness at the state of Spanish politics, saying what is needed is more internal democracy in the Spanish political parties, so they can contact again with the electorate. Asked what her husband Nick Clegg likes most about Spain, she says ‘The jamon y croquetas’.
Labour party: The 1960s to the Present Labour party The 1960s to the Present Harold Wilson , who became leader on Gaitskell's death in 1963, was able to lead the party to victory in 1964. He was prime minister until the Conservative party returned to power in 1970. Wilson's administration was marked by a continued decline in Britain's international political and economic position, which gave little opportunity for social innovation. After 1970, the Labour party, in opposition, again found it difficult to present a united front. The reversal of the party's position on Britain's entry into the European Community (now the European Union ), after having earlier supported it, and a renewed call for further nationalization of industry were indications of a greater left-wing militancy within the party. The party returned to power as a result of the elections of Feb., 1974, but as a minority government. Wilson's second administration began renegotiation of the terms of Britain's membership in the European Community and announced plans for large-scale nationalization. Despite continuing economic difficulties he called new elections in Oct., 1974, and Labour won a small majority. James Callaghan took over as prime minister following Wilson's resignation in 1976. The party lost power to the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 elections and remained in the opposition until the late 1990s. Michael Foot became party leader in 1980 but was succeeded by Neil Kinnock in 1983. Kinnock led the party to abandon some of its traditional left-wing positions but proved unable to achieve victory at the polls. He resigned in 1992 after the Conservative victory in the general elections and was succeeded by John Smith . After Smith's untimely death in 1994, moderate Tony Blair was chosen to lead the party. Under Blair's leadership, the party formally abandoned traditional socialism in 1995 and subsequently won (1997, 2001) consecutive resounding victories at the polls. The party's narrower victory in 2005 marked the first time Labour had won three consecutive national elections. Blair stepped down as party leader and prime minister in 2007, and was succeeded by Gordon Brown . In the 2010 elections Brown and Labour lost to the Conservatives, who won a plurality. Brown resigned the party leadership, and Ed Miliband was elected party leader. Sections in this article:
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What former monetary unit was equal to a quarter of an old penny?
farthing - definition of farthing in English | Oxford Dictionaries Definition of farthing in English: farthing noun 1A former monetary unit and coin of the UK, withdrawn in 1961, equal to a quarter of an old penny. Example sentences ‘Back in 1698, the mill was used to forge copper blacks for the Royal Mint to strike farthings and halfpennies.’ ‘However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others.’ ‘The verdict went in favour of the companies, though with derisory damages of one farthing.’ ‘Nestled inside, laying on a cushion of cloth, lay a medallion about the size of a farthing.’ ‘Whistler won, but was bankrupted after the judge awarded him only one farthing's damages and told him to pay the costs of the trial.’ ‘Pennies were cut in half and quartered into farthings, but were never to become numerous enough or of low enough value to function as ‘small change’ during this period.’ ‘There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.’ ‘We didn't save the groat, the guinea or the farthing, and thrive without them.’ ‘During that period, he said, there was a national shortage of small-denomination half penny and farthing coins - so many local towns and even tradesmen took to minting their own tokens.’ ‘By next February, the punt and the penny will be going the way of the farthing and half crown, becoming curios and museum pieces.’ ‘The half-penny and farthing would gradually be replaced by a half-cent and quarter-cent.’ ‘Edward I carried out a grand recoinage in 1279-80, minting new coins, silver halfpennies and farthings, to remove the need to cut, and a fourpence groat, which was not at first successful.’ ‘The silver farthing was worth a quarter of a penny.’ ‘Renovation work at the Blenheim Road school has also unearthed an old shilling and a farthing hidden behind the children's coat pegs.’ ‘The Farthing Office was a part of the Mint and Charles II had introduced, in 1672, the copper half-penny and farthing with the Britannia type.’ ‘Well what do I get for my six pence and three farthings?’ ‘Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings.’ ‘He showed examples of some of the first minted Thai coins, which were actually modelled on the English farthing.’ ‘The penny piece is now worth less in real terms than either the farthing or the decimal halfpenny when they were withdrawn from circulation.’ ‘In the time of Samuel Pepys one farthing was worth roughly the same as a 10p coin would be today (you can compare monetary values since 1264 here).’ 1.1[usually with negative] The least possible amount: ‘she didn't care a farthing for the woman’ More example sentences ‘Anybody who slogs through the first five pages of it knows perfectly well the book cares not a farthing for ideas; it's entertainment.’ ‘Ivy Island was an inaccessible piece of barren land, not worth a farthing.’ ‘You don't give a farthing for any of the characters, and so the work, whatever its commercial value, is artistically nil.’ ‘The funny thing is that the cable TV company has never realized that the boxing public won't pay a farthing to see Jones do anything.’ ‘They don't care a farthing about other peoples' feelings.’ ‘But they did not care a farthing about defeat, to which they became accustomed.’ ‘Izumi was standing in the middle of vast darkness, so dark that not even a farthing of dust or any particle could be seen.’ ‘Have they, then, expended a single farthing on the improvement of that river?’ Origin Old English fēorthing, from fēortha ‘fourth’, perhaps on the pattern of Old Norse fjórthungr quarter. Pronunciation: Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? cappuccino Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? Diana monkey Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? mandrill Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? propolis monkey Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? mar
Half Crowns - Sell your coins Half Crowns We are always interested in buying all types of coins. Please contact us on 01223 503073 or use the contact information tab at the bottom of the page. We will get back to you as soon as we can. Newsletters Half Crowns Half Crowns The half crown was a denomination of British money worth two shillings and sixpence, being one-eighth of a pound and half of a crown. The half crown was first issued in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI. No half crowns were issued in the reign of Mary, but from the reign of Elizabeth I half crowns were issued in every reign except Edward VIII, until the coins were discontinued in 1967. The half crown was demonetised (ahead of other pre-decimal coins) on 1 January 1970, the year before the United Kingdom adopted decimal currency on Decimal Day. Display per page 1 - 36 of 684 results 1 1 - 36 of 684 results 1
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According to the song Frosty The Snowman, what were Frosty's eyes made out of?
Anita Baker - Frosty's Rag Lyrics | MetroLyrics Frosty's Rag Lyrics New! Highlight lyrics to add Meanings, Special Memories, and Misheard Lyrics... Submit Corrections Cancel He's a jolly happy soul Got a corncob pipe, cute button nose Got two eyes made out of coal Frosty the Snowman Is a fairytale they say He was made of snow But all the girls know How he came to life one day Must have been some magic In that old silk hat we found When we placed it on his head Sure he began to dance around And Frosty the Snowman Was alive as he could be And all the girls say He could laugh and play Just the same as you and me Frosty the Snowman Knew the sun was hot that day He said girl, let's run Come on, let's have some fun Now before I melt away He led them down the streets of town Right to the traffic cop He only paused one moment When all the girls just cheer, "Ooh" Frosty the Snowman Had to hurry on his way But he waved bye bye Ladies don't you cry I'll be back again some day Ooh, mercy What should I say, miss? Beaucoup Oh, he led them down the streets of town Right to the traffic cop He only paused one moment When all the girls just cheer, "Ooh" Frosty, stop Had to hurry on his way But he waved bye bye Said Anita, don't you cry I'll be back, oh baby baby I'll be back some day Gonna get you
Do I Know This ? Do I Know This ? Updated May 17, 2013, 12:23 AM Have you ever wondered who's got the most number of top singles in U.K ? Have you ever wondered which company is the world's top Global Brand ? Have you ever wondered which country has got the most or the highest number of Netizens ? Use template Amazing Facts 100 amazing & unknown facts! # Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. # The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. # The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. # Ants never sleep! # When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. # Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. # An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. # “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. # Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years. # Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. # Butterflies taste with their feet. # A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. # It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. # Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. # Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. # No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. # Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” # Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. # Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. # The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. # The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. # The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. # The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. # The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. # Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. # TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. # You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. # Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton. # Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. # The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle. # A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why! # The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles. # Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. # Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. # There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” # If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. # Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. # The original name for butterfly was flutterby. # By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. # Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed. # Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. # Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”. # The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. # Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. # The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.” # All Polar bears are left-handed. # In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. # “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” # Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family. # Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. # The only 15 letter word
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In what year of WW2 was the German battleship 'Bismarck' sunk?
The Bismarck - History Learning Site The Bismarck Citation: C N Trueman "The Bismarck" historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 25 May 2015. 16 Aug 2016. The Bismarck, probably Germany’s most famous battleship in World War Two , was sunk on May 27th 1941 . The Bismarck had already sunk HMS Hood before being sunk herself. For many, the end of the Hood and Bismarck symbolised the end of the time when battleships were the dominant force in naval warfare, to be replaced by submarines and aircraft carriers and the advantages these ships gave to naval commanders. Survivors from the ‘Bismarck’  The Bismarck displaced over 50,000 tons and 40% of this displacement was armour. Such armour gave the Bismarck many advantages in protection but it did not inhibit her speed – she was capable of 29 knots. Launched in 1939, the Bismarck carried a formidable array of weaponry – 8 x 15 inch guns, 12 x 5.9 inch guns, 16 x 4.1 inch AA guns, 16 x 20mm AA guns and 2 x Arado 96 aircraft. The Bismarck had a crew of 2,200. In comparison, HMS Hood (built 20 years before Bismarck) was 44,600 tons, had a crew of 1,419 and was faster than the Bismarck with a maximum speed of 32 knots. The Hood had been launched in 1918 and was armed with 8 x 15 inch guns, 12 x 5.5 inch guns, 8 x 4 inch AA guns, 24 x 2 pounder guns and 4 x 21 inch torpedoes. However, the Hood suffered from one major flaw – she did not have the same amount of armour as the Bismarck. The fact that the Hood was faster than the Bismarck by 3 knots was as a result of her lack of sufficient armour. Within two minutes of being hit by the Bismarck, the Hood had broken her back and sunk. On May 18th, 1941 , the Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen slipped out of the Baltic port of Gdynia to attack Allied convoys in the Atlantic . Grand Admiral Raeder had already had experience of large warships attacking convoys at sea. Ships such as the Graf Spee , Admiral Scheer (both pocket battleships), Hipper (a cruiser) and Scharnhorst (a battle cruiser) had already been at sea but had found that their power was limited by the fact that they were so far from a dock/port that could carry out repairs if they were needed. Such a difficulty meant that mighty ships such as the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were loathed to take on a convoy if that convoy was protected by any naval ship. In 1940 , both the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau came across a convoy returning from the UK to Halifax, Canada. However, the convoy was protected by HMS Ramillies and neither German ship could risk being hit by a ship that in other circumstances would easily be outgunned by both German ships. To overcome the fear of damage at sea, Raeder’s plan was for the German Navy to concentrate a powerful naval force in the Atlantic so that there would not be a concern about convoys and their protection. He intended for the Bismarck, the Prinz Eugen, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau to operate in the Atlantic fully supported with supply and reconnaissance ships – with such a force, no convoy would be safe regardless of how many naval protection ships they had. However, Raeder’s plan, code-named “Exercise Rhine”, was severely hampered from the start when the Gneisenau was hit by bombs while in Brest and the repairs needed for the Scharnhorst would take much longer than Raeder had anticipated. Regardless of this, Raeder ordered the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen to sail as planned. The ships sailed on May 18th – but on May 20th, they were spotted by the Swedish cruiser ‘Gotland’ off the Swedish coast and the admiral in command of both ships – Lütjens – knew that such information would be received in London before the 20th was out. He was right. On May 21st, both ships docked at Kors Fjord, near Bergen. The Prinz Eugen needed to refuel. At night both ships left, and not long after this the area around Kors Fjord was bombed by the British. To get into the Atlantic, both ships had to pass north of Scapa Flow – one of Britain’s largest naval bases. At this base was the battleship ‘King George V’, the newly commissioned (but not battle r
World War II Bomber Command Dambuster Raids 19 aircraft Operation Chastise Overview: During the early days of World War II, the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command sought to strike at German dams in the Ruhr. Such an attack would damage water and electrical production, as well as inundate large areas of the region. Assessing the feasibility of the mission, it was found that multiple strikes with a high degree of accuracy would be necessary. As these would have to take place against heavy enemy resistance, Bomber Command dismissed the raids as unpractical. Pondering the mission, Barnes Wallis, an aircraft designer at Vickers, devised a different approach to breaching the dams. While first proposing the use of a 10-ton bomb, Wallis was forced to move on as no aircraft capable carrying such a payload existed. Theorizing that a small charge could break the dams if detonated below the water, he was initially thwarted by the presence of German anti-torpedo nets in the reservoirs. Pushing on with the concept, he began developing a unique, cylindrical bomb designed to skip along the surface of the water before sinking and exploding at the dam's base. To accomplish this, the bomb, designated Upkeep, was spun backwards at 500 rpm before being dropped from low altitude. Striking the dam, the bomb's spin would let it roll down the face before exploding underwater. Wallis' idea was put forward to Bomber Command and after several conferences was accepted on February 26, 1943. While Wallis' team worked to perfect the Upkeep bomb design, Bomber Command assigned the mission to 5 Group. For the mission, a new unit, 617 Squadron, was formed with Wing Commander Guy Gibson in command. Based at RAF Scampton, just northwest of Lincoln, Gibson's men were given uniquely modified Avro Lancaster Mk.III bombers. Dubbed the B Mark III Special (Type 464 Provisioning), 617's Lancasters had much of the armor and defensive armament removed to reduce weight. In addition, the bomb bay doors were taken off to allow the fitting of special crutches to hold and spin the Upkeep bomb. As the mission planning progressed, it was decided to strike the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe Dams. While Gibson relentlessly trained his crews in low-altitude, night flying, efforts were made to find solutions to two key technical problems. These were ensuring that the Upkeep bomb was released at a precise altitude and distance from the dam. For the first issue, two lights were mounted under each aircraft such that their beams would converge on the surface of the water then the bomber was at the correct altitude. To judge range, special aiming devices which utilized towers on each dam were built for 617's aircraft. With these problems solved, Gibson's men began test runs over reservoirs around England. Following their final testing, the Upkeep bombs were delivered on May 13, with the goal of Gibson's men conducting the mission four days later. Flying the Dambuster Mission: Taking off in three groups after dark on May 17, Gibson's crews flew at around 100 feet to evade German radar. On the outbound flight, Gibson's Formation 1, consisting of nine Lancasters, lost an aircraft en route to the Möhne when it was downed by high tension wires. Formation 2 lost all but one of its bombers as it flew towards Sorpe. The last group, Formation 3, served as a reserve force and diverted three aircraft to Sorpe to make up for losses. Arriving at Möhne, Gibson led the attack in and successfully released his bomb. He was followed by Flight Lieutenant John Hopgood whose bomber was caught in the blast from its bomb and crashed. To support his pilots, Gibson circled back to draw German flak while the others attacked. Following a successful run by Flight Lieutenant Harold Martin, Squadron Leader Henry Young was able to breach the dam. With the Möhne Dam broken, Gibson led the flight to Eder where his three remaining aircraft negotiated tricky terrain to score hits on the dam. The dam was finally opened by Pilot Officer Leslie Knight. While Formation 1 was achieving success, Formation 2 and its reinforcements c
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In which country would you find the Oland Island Bridge?
Sweden - Oland - Travel Tales - A Country Tour - Lorry Patton's Travel Tips 'n' Tales Lorry Patton's Travel Tips 'n' Tales   Oland Travel Tale by Lorry Patton ... We zigzagged a piece of southern Sweden this spring from Stockholm to Soderkoping to Granna to Vazjo to Kalmar and to the Island of Oland. Bits of land reminded me of Canada; but mostly, it was unfamiliar. The black-roofed cities, brick towns, rural red farmhouses and pools of clear blue waters, created a unique piece of embroidery. The landscape is soft, almost fragile, in southern Sweden's countryside -- slightly rolling hills, golden with rape seed in mid-May. Somehow, even the woods show an atmosphere of gentleness. How incongruous to the massive stone castles, the fortresses, the rock-faced churches and the dungeons . . . incongruous to the stories of fighting Vikings, to the bigger than life battles lost and won. The people we met were reserved yet friendly. Nearly all spoke English. They were amazed --a bit envious -- of the relaxed openness of us North Americans. I envied their civilized manner, their obvious rapture with their families, their ability to savor holidays, their cleanliness and their historical pride. Even in the tiniest towns a glorious event prevails. Granna for example, a simple town of no pretense has an elaborate museum dedicated to keeping the story of the famed Polar Expedition alive. Lest we don't remember and why would we: it was back in 1897 when three men, Andree, Strindberg and Fraenkell, set out in an air balloon to explore the North Pole. They never returned. Then there's the House of Immigration. A gallery where North Americans of Swedish decent can find out who their ancestors were by searching through the thousands of stored documents. The museum is incredibly accurate of the events that took place when one thousand people left Sweden for the New World in the 1600's. The building is located in Vaxjo, another visually arresting town that just happens to be along Sweden's modern highways. The world's most famous exhibition is in Kalmar: The Kronan Exhibition. The Royal Ship went down in 1676 and was discovered at the bottom of the Baltic Sea on August 9, 1980. It was the biggest warship ever built ( then ). Sixty meters long. The wreck is still lying on the bottom of the sea; however, over twelve thousand objects have been salvaged -- seamen's boots, buttons, plates, pewter, clay pipes, gold coins and cannons. Kalmar also has the Kalmar Castle. A stroll on the grounds and across the moats is spine-tingling. Built on the water's edge, it was a protector of the people, standing grand and imposing to any enemy that might appear. The Kronan and the castle are physical proof -- a testimony -- that wars were fought, despite the peace and tranquillity of today. Roughly half of Sweden is surrounded by water and there are thousands of islands along the jagged coast. One special island is the island of Oland. There are thirty-two species of orchid and 24,000 residents on Oland and a one of a kind exhibit. Through careful excavation, parts of communities from three different time eras ( 300 A.D., 400-650 A.D., 1000-1200 A.D. ) have been uncovered. The Eketorp Fort Museum has been partially reconstructed so that the visitor can gain firsthand knowledge of what it was like for the inhabitants that lived in these unearthed grass and stone shacks so very long ago. Oland can be reached by crossing a 6070-meter bridge -- the longest bridge in Europe. A bridge that the people of Oland objected to, believing their beautiful and peaceful island would be bombarded with developers. But, said our learned guide, the people of Sweden didn't come to build. They came and continue coming, to picnic, to hike, to bike and to paint the landscape. Oland is said to have the light of France -- which is supposed to be the best light to paint by. Two other facts about Sweden, although not historical as such, are worthy of mention: Stockholm is the birth place of Mr. Alfred Nobel of the important and coveted world-famous
Cycling history                                        Cycling history The return of ‘The Silent Ones’ The Isle of Man CC is the intellectual property of Greenrock Ltd Top image: Ellan Vannin (Isle of Man) Cycle Club late 19th / early 20th century (© MNH) With huge thanks to Katie King of Manx National Heritage for all the information and images on this page, which are taken from the exhibition ‘Our Sporting Life’ at the Manx Museum, Kingwood Grove, Douglas.  Cycling and the Isle of Man have a history, from the annual Bicycle & Athletic Festivals of the nineteenth century to the excitement of Manx International Cycle Week. The Island’s first Commonwealth Games team contained six cyclists, with a Bronze medal being won by cyclist Stuart Slack. The Island has since gone on to win two further Gold medals in the Commonwealth Games with Peter Buckley in 1966 and Mark Cavendish in 2006, and our cyclists make up a good portion of the Isle of Man team at every Commonwealth Games and also dominates the Island Games. The Beijing 2008 Olympics saw two Manx cyclists competing for Team GB and we have high hopes for Manx success at the London 2012 Olympics. The Isle of Man has been producing talented cyclists since the 1950s, competing on the British, European and world stage with Millie Robinson, Ron Killey, Reg Quayle, Mike O’Hare, Peter Kennaugh Snr, Steve Joughin, Mike Doyle and Marie Purvis being just a few well known names.  The success of these individuals has inspired consecutive generations of young sports men and women to follow in their wheeltracks. The Isle of Man today is punching well above its weight in terms of cycling talent. The question asked by many sport commentators is how a population of just 80,000 can produce so many world class cyclists? The successes of Mark Cavendish, Jonny Bellis, Peter Kennaugh and the many more talented youngsters ready to follow in their wheel tracks is nothing short of remarkable. So great is the Isle of Man’s reputation for cycling that two of the UK’s top cyclists, Rob Holden and Ben Swift, have even moved to live here! So, what is it about the Isle of Man? Is it our roads, our history, our passion, our development scheme – or does success breed success?   Mark Cavendish – The Manx Missile Mark Cavendish MBE, the Manx Missile, is a professional racing cyclist, heralded as the fastest man on two legs. Achieving 11 wins in his first professional road race season, his was the most successful debut in European road racing history. Mark won the points jersey in five major races, and most impressively of all, beat some of the established legends of road sprinting. In the 2008 Tour de France he won four stages, a then unprecedented achievement for a British cyclist.  He now has 20 Tour de France stage wins under his belt and in 2011 made history by becoming the first British rider to win the Tour’s prestigious maillot vert, the green points jersey. ‘Cav’, as he is universally known, started cycling for fun at the National Sports Centre and developed his skills on the challenging Manx roads. His prodigious talent was noticed and he was admitted onto the British Olympic Academy programme. Together with his achievements on the road, Mark is also a double Madison World Champion, won a Gold medal for the Isle of Man at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 and competed for Team GB in the Beijing Olympics 2008. His phenomenal success on the professional road racing circuit has inspired many hundreds of the Island’s young people to take up the sport. Mark continues to dominate the road racing circuit and has won stages at all the major classics, including winning the Milan-San Remo. He has been described as the fastest sprinter in the world. Now riding for Team Sky Mark is looking forward to achieving more success on the road and has his eyes set on the London 2012 Olympic road race.  Isle of Man Youth Development – The Conveyor Belt of Inspiration “What kept me going was that I wanted to do what Steve Joughin was doing, winning Merseyside titles and National titles – it was like a conveyor bel
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The kissing disease (infectious mononucleosis) has what common name?
Overview - Mononucleosis - Mayo Clinic Print Infectious mononucleosis (mono) is often called the kissing disease. The virus that causes mono is transmitted through saliva, so you can get it through kissing, but you can also be exposed through a cough or sneeze, or by sharing a glass or food utensils with someone who has mono. However, mononucleosis isn't as contagious as some infections, such as the common cold. You're most likely to get mononucleosis with all the signs and symptoms if you're an adolescent or young adult. Young children usually have few symptoms, and the infection often goes unrecognized. If you have mononucleosis, it's important to be careful of certain complications such as an enlarged spleen. Rest and adequate fluids are key to recovery.
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Which stage and screen actor was born in Huyton, Liverpool in 1908?
IMDb: Most Popular People Born In 1908 Most Popular People Born In 1908 1-50 of 1,993 names. Sort by: STARmeter▲ | A-Z | Height | Birth Date | Death Date 1. James Stewart Actor, It's a Wonderful Life James Stewart was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition for The Philadelphia Story and receiving an Academy Lifetime Achievement award. Stewart was named the third greatest male screen legend of the Golden Age Hollywood by the American Film Institute. He was a major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star... 2. Dennis Morgan Actor, Christmas in Connecticut Dennis Morgan was born Stanley Morner in the small town of Prentice, Wisconsin. His first jobs in Hollywood were mostly bit parts, but he scored big after playing opposite Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle . He starred in films like My Wild Irish Rose (1947)_, God Is My Co-Pilot and The Very Thought of You . He teamed up with buddy Jack Carson to do Two Guys from Milwaukee ... 3. Don Ameche Actor, Cocoon Don Ameche was a versatile and popular American film actor in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also popular as a radio master of ceremonies during this time. As his film popularity waned in the 1950s, he continued working in theater and some TV. His film career... 4. Mae Questel Actress, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Her Orthodox Jewish family were totally adverse to her having an entertainment career. Her parents and grandparents forced her to leave the Theatre Guild school (New York) while still a teenager and had their wills drawn up accordingly so as to discourage this career choice. Studied drama at Columbia University, and belonged to the American Theatre Wing... 5. Bette Davis Actress, All About Eve Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but then she discovered the stage... 6. Fred MacMurray Actor, My Three Sons Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s was able to score so supremely whenever cast against type. Frederick Martin MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Maleta Martin and Frederick MacMurray... 7. Billie Bird Actress, Home Alone Vaudeville comedienne Billie Bird Sellen was discovered at an orphanage at the age of eight years and hired to tour theater circuits with a vaudeville troupe. During the Vietnam War she accompanied 12 USO tours entertaining the troops in the war zone in the 1960s and 1970s. She had worked as recently as 1995 when she appeared in Jury Duty ... 8. Eve Arden Actress, Our Miss Brooks Eve was born just north of San Francisco in Mill Valley and was interested in show business from an early age. At 16, she made her stage debut after quitting school to joined a stock company. After appearing in minor roles in two films under her real name, Eunice Quedens, she found that the stage offered her the same minor roles... 9. Carole Lombard Actress, To Be or Not to Be Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family on a trip out West. While there they decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. After being spotted playing baseball in the street with the neighborhood boys by a film director... 10. Penny Singleton Actress, The Jetsons Her father was Irish Philadelphian newspaperman, Benny McNulty. He was related to Jim Farley Roosevelt's campaign managers and later Postmaster General. As a child, she sang songs at a silent movie theater. After the sixth grade she joined a touring vaudeville act called "The Kiddie Kabaret." Billed as Penny McNulty... 11. Buddy Ebsen Actor, The Beverly Hillbillies Buddy Ebsen began his career as a dancer in the late 1920s in a Broadway chorus. He later formed a vau
The High Chaparral Cast               Leif Erickson, real name William Wycliffe Anderson, came to The High Chaparral after a long and successful career in films.  He was born October 27, 1911 in Alameda, California, and his mother often took him as a child to the old San Francisco Opera House, where music quickly became his Number 1 passion.  It was always his plan to become the greatest singer who ever lived, but his father, a rugged sea captain, thought real men were carpenters and plumbers.  It did not faze his son.  Harvesting wheat in Texas in 1929, Erickson sang on the combine.  Two years later, he was knocking them dead in the aisles from Santa Monica to San Francisco with his bass-baritone.  It was Ted Fio Rito, the bandleader, who changed his name to Leif Erickson.        He got into serious acting almost by accident.  Paramount sent him a telegram in Peoria, where he was part of the cast of a touring version of Olsen & Johnson's Hellzapoppin.  They wanted to screen test him, only they were looking for someone else named Erickson.  By the time they discovered their mistake, Leif, then 23, had already been signed.  By his own account, he has been in more than 100 movies, having signed his first contract with Paramount in 1935.  From there, his career was non-stop, although he fell into the limbo reserved for near-stars who were too good-looking to be believable.  It was only after he acquired that rugged, interesting face, which makes older men so attractive, that he captured the attention of America.  David Dortort, creator of The High Chaparral, first noticed him in a Bonanza episode in 1961, where he played God, and signed him up as ranch patriarch John Cannon.       Leif Erickson died on January 29, 1986 in Pensacola, Florida. Cameron Mitchell               Cameron Mitchell, real name Cameron McDowell Mitzell, was born November 4, 1918 in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, one of seven children of a minister.  As a child during the Depression, he wore his sisters' hand-me-down shoes and coats.  While in school, he became interested in acting, and one of his high school teachers lent him the money to go to a New York City dramatic school.  It was while he was struggling at odd jobs in New York that he wrote letters to producers, actors and agents.  None of his hundreds of letters ever got a reply, until he criticized a performance of Alfred Lunt's in the motion picture The Guardsman.  Lunt replied, inviting Cameron to audition.  Afterward, Lynn Fontanne told him, "Acting is your life's work, and you're not only going to be a good actor, you're going to be a great actor."   She changed his name to Mitchell, and the rest is history.        With hundreds of film roles behind him, Cameron came to The High Chaparral when he ended up seated next to David Dortort and his wife, Rose on a flight to Tucson.  By the time they reached Tucson, he had become Buck Cannon, younger brother to John Cannon.        Cameron Mitchell died of lung cancer on July 6, 1994 in Pacific Palisades, California. Mark Slade Played Billy Blue Cannon         Mark Van Blarcom Slade was born May 1, 1939 in Massachusetts, spending most of his time in and around Danvers.  From the moment he laughed his way through his first Charlie Chaplin movie as a child, he was fascinated with movie-making.  In 1956, he enrolled in the Worcester Academy, intending to become a cartoonist, but after he filled in for a sick classmate, playing the role of an English professor in the play, The Male Animal, he knew he wanted to be an actor.         He got the part of Billy Blue Cannon, son of ranch patriarch John Cannon on The High Chaparral, through his electric performance in producer David Dortort's office, even after the part had been temporarily assigned to another actor.  Dortort was wanting a young man with just the right generation clash with authority, and Mark provided it by yanking Dortort up out of his chair by the lapel of his suit in the impromptu audition.  Three hours later, Mark was hired.  He is alive and well, living in California and still pursuing h
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'Glass of Absinthe' is a sculpture by which 20th century artist?
Looking at Absinthe Art and the “Green Fairy” | Peachridge Glass Looking at Absinthe Art and the “Green Fairy” Posted on 26 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V “la fée verte” (the green fairy) While looking in to an an incoming e-mail yesterday and the eventual development of a post that partially touched New Orleans Absinthe makers , I became side tracked with reading about Absinthe and the “la fée verte” or Green Fairy. Many of the pieces of art I looked at were represented by an image of  la fée verte. The Green Fairy is the female embodiment of the enticing, oft-mistrusted green elixir.  Absinthe arose to great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers. Owing in part to its association with bohemian culture, the consumption of absinthe was opposed by social conservatives and prohibitionists. Ernest Hemingway, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, Erik Satie and Alfred Jarry were all known absinthe drinkers. [Wikipedia] Absinthe Spoons I was really impressed with the artwork on many of the large lithographic advertising pieces of the late 19th century. This was at the height of the absinthe boom. Some of the greatest poster artists of the period – Cappiello, Privat-Livemont, Lefevre, Tamagno – created famous images to advertise the absinthe grand marques. [oxygenee]. Of equal interest were the artists who were using absinthe in their subject matter in their paintings. Artist such as Viktor Oliva, Albert Maignan, Pablo Picasso, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas to name a few. Examples are represented below. Please enjoy the art. Personally I feel a little bit more educated about absinthe this week. I definitely want to go to the oldest bar in downtown Houston, “La Carafe”, on one of my creative jaunts and order a glass of absinthe. I will then pull out my journal or iPad and get creative or bohemian. Or try at least. A B S I N T H E    G A L L E R Y An unrecorded lithographic poster for Rosinette, Absinthe Rosé Oxygénée, (37″ x 50″), printed by Camis around 1900. – Oxygenee.com “The Absinthe Drinker” by Viktor Oliva Felix Pernod Poster Albert Maignan’s painting of “Green Muse” (1895) shows a poet succumbing to absinthe’s mind-altering effects. (Credit: Courtesy of the Musée de Picardie, Amiens) “ASBSINTHE la Fee Verte” Poster “The Absinthe Drinker” – 1901 – Pablo Picasso A striking 1895 2 sheet poster showing Absinthe Mugnier’s famous desert legionnaireby Lucien Lefèvre, a pupil of Chéret. – Oxygenee.com “The absinthe drinker” – 1850, Paris, France – Edouard Manet One of the most iconic art nouveau images of all, this 1896 image for Absinthe Robette by the Belgian posterist Privat-Livemount has spawned a million reproductions. – Oxygenee.com “The Absinthe Drinker Au Café (l’Absinthe)” – Edgar Degas – The two figures in this painting are Ellen Andree, a noted French Actress, and Marcellin Desboutin, an artist and noted bohemian personality, sitting at the Café de la Nouvelle-Athenes, in Paris, France. In front of the woman sits a glass of the greenish colored liquid, Absinthe. It was first exhibited in 1872, where it was criticized as ugly and disgusting, and a later exhibition in 1892 it was removed from the show. It was shown a year later inn England, where it sparked controversy. The woman in the painting was derided as a whore and the entire image was seen as a blow to morality and the degradation of society due to absinthe. The often reproduced Absinthe Blanqui poster quintessential art-nouveau image, heavily influenced by the then fashionable vogue for orientalism. The original is rare, with only three surviving copies recorded. – Oxygenee.com Poster for J. Edouard Pernot Absinthe One of the most spectacular and important of all absinthe posters, this famous image by Gantner laments the prohibition of absinthe in France in 1915. In the centre, trampling the mortally wounded Green Fairy, is Raymond Poincaré, the arch-prohibitionist Pr
Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Visual Arts: Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon text version   Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso,1907, painting, oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Photo © CORBIS / Burstein Collection, Painting © 2000 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 With Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso offends the Paris art scene in 1907. Showing his eight-foot-square canvas to a group of painters, patrons, and art critics at his studio, Picasso meets with almost unanimous shock, distaste, and outrage. The painter Matisse is angered by the work, which he considers a hoax, an attempt to paint the fourth dimension. "It was the ugliness of the faces that froze with horror the half-converted," the critic Salmon writes later. The painter Derain comments wryly, "One day we shall find Pablo has hanged himself behind his great canvas." In the months leading up to the painting's creation, Picasso struggles with the subject -- five women in a brothel. He creates more than 100 sketches and preliminary paintings, wrestling with the problem of depicting three-dimensional space in a two-dimensional picture plane. The original composition includes two men -- a patron surrounded by the women, and a medical student holding a skull, perhaps symbolizing that "the wages of sin are death." In the final composition, the patron is gone and the medical student -- who has been called a stand-in for the painter himself -- has become a fifth woman with a primitive mask, holding back the crimson curtain to reveal her "sisters." The painting is described as a battleground, with the remains of the battle left on the canvas. The Iberian women in the center of the canvas clash with the hideously masked creatures standing and squatting on the right. In creating Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso turns his back on middle-class society and the traditional values of the time, opting for the sexual freedom depicted in a brothel. He also rejects popular current movements in painting by choosing line drawing rather than the color- and light-defined forms of Impressionism and the Fauves. The painter's private demons take shape in the figures on the canvas. Picasso later calls Les Demoiselles d'Avignon "my first exorcism painting." He likens the act of painting to that of creating fetishes, or weapons: "If we give spirits a form, we become independent." The originality of Picasso's vision and execution in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon help plant the seeds for cubism, the widely acclaimed and revolutionary art movement that he and painter Georges Braque develop in years to come. After its initial showing, the painting remains largely unseen for 39 years. It is shown at the Galerie d'Antin in Paris in 1916, then lies rolled up in Picasso's studio until it is bought in the early 1920s by Jacques Doucet, sight unseen. It is reproduced in the publication La Revolution Surrealiste in 1925, but remains relatively unknown until 1937, when it is shown at the Petit Palais in Paris. The Museum of Modern Art in New York buys it soon afterwards, and in later years it becomes a prized part of the collection.
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What word can be a hairstyle, a wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings, and a nickname of the state of Utah?
What does beehive mean? Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Beehive(noun) a hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Beehive A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Natural beehives are naturally occurring structures occupied by honeybee colonies, such as hollowed-out trees, while domesticated honeybees live in man-made beehives, often in an apiary. These man-made structures are typically referred to as "beehives". Several species of Apis live in hives, but only the western honey bee and the eastern honey bee are domesticated by humans. A natural beehive is comparable to a bird's nest built with a purpose to protect the dweller. The beehive's internal structure is a densely-packed group of hexagonal cells made of beeswax, called a honeycomb. The bees use the cells to store food and to house the "brood". Artificial beehives serve several purposes: production of honey, pollination of nearby crops, housing supply bees for apitherapy treatment, as safe havens for bees in an attempt to mitigate the effects of colony collapse disorder, and to keep bees as pets. Artificial hives are commonly transported so that bees can pollinate crops in other areas. A number of patents have been issued for beehive designs. Numerology The numerical value of beehive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2 Pythagorean Numerology
Do I Know This ? Do I Know This ? Updated May 17, 2013, 12:23 AM Have you ever wondered who's got the most number of top singles in U.K ? Have you ever wondered which company is the world's top Global Brand ? Have you ever wondered which country has got the most or the highest number of Netizens ? Use template Amazing Facts 100 amazing & unknown facts! # Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. # The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. # The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. # Ants never sleep! # When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. # Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. # An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. # “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. # Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years. # Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. # Butterflies taste with their feet. # A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. # It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. # Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. # Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. # No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. # Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” # Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. # Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. # The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. # The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. # The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. # The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. # The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. # Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. # TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. # You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. # Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton. # Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. # The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle. # A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why! # The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles. # Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. # Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. # There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” # If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. # Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. # The original name for butterfly was flutterby. # By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. # Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed. # Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. # Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”. # The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. # Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. # The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.” # All Polar bears are left-handed. # In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. # “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” # Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family. # Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. # The only 15 letter word
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"Which Romantic artist painted ""Liberty Leading the People""?"
July 28: Liberty Leading the People | artble.com July 28: Liberty Leading the People July 28: Liberty Leading the People July 28: Liberty Leading the People Date of Creation: July 28, 1830, Liberty on the Barricades Height (cm): July 28: Liberty Leading the People Story / Theme Delacroix writing to his brother: "I have undertaken a modern subject, a barricade, and although I may not have fought for my country, at least I shall have painted for her. It has restored my good spirits." July 28: Liberty Leading the People Eugene Delacroix Charles X Through July 28: Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix tells the story of Trois Glorieuses - Three Glorious Days - the Parisian uprising on July 27, 28, and 29 of 1830. The liberal republicans were outraged by the violation of the Constitution, and overthrew Charles X, who was to be the last Bourbon king of France. His predecessor was Louis Philippe, the Duke of Orleans. In this artwork Liberty is personified in the form of a vibrant, rebellious, bare breasted woman who leads the people to victory. She carries the flag proudly. Thrilled to have a modern subject to paint, Delacroix took to the canvas with great pride and patriotism. Though he had not taken an active part in the fighting of the revolution he had done his share for his country. Instead of guns and cannons he used an easel and a paintbrush - he felt it was his duty as a painter to record this event as the revolutionists felt it was their duty to fight. The artist was touched by the three days of revolt by the upper-class, the middle-class, and the lower-class in France all fighting to overthrow Charles X to show their outrage of the violation of the constitution and thus he paid honor to this event by providing a historical recount of French history. July 28: Liberty Leading the People is one of his most remembered and favored works today. July 28: Liberty Leading the People Analysis July 28: Liberty Leading the People Eugene Delacroix July 28: Liberty Leading the People Critical Reception July 28: Liberty Leading the People Eugene Delacroix Musée du Luxembourg Paris It comes as no surprise that July 28: Liberty Leading the People, as most works of genius, was rejected by contemporary critics. As it was hidden from public view until the year of Eugene Delacroix's death, it wasn't until afterward that the painting received positive reflections from critics. Contemporary reception: July 28: Liberty Leading the People was not available for public viewing during the king's reign. Critics failed to respond to this innovative work, accustomed to a more classical representation of reality. Delacroix's mix of reality with allegory, actuality and fiction, symbolism and documentary proved too advanced and imaginative for them. Posthumous reception: July 28: Liberty Leading the People entered the Musée du Luxembourg in 1863, the same year that Delacroix died. It was moved to the Louvre 11 years later. The response to the work was slightly more favorable after being relocated but it didn't receive the credit it duly deserved until much later on. Modern day reception: Critics of today perceive July 28: Liberty Leading the People as a masterpiece and a universal work. They admire the Romantic historical painting and appreciate Delacroix's unique take on this historical landmark. July 28: Liberty Leading the People Related Paintings Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), 1886: It is said that the Statue of Liberty was inspired by Delacroix's very own personified character of Liberty in his July 28: Liberty Leading the People. A gift from France to New York City, the Statue of Liberty was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and was constructed just 50 years after Delacroix's masterpiece. The statue, with a raised right arm holds a torch proudly, very similar to the pose in which Liberty holds the French flag. July 28: Liberty Leading the People Locations Through Time - Notable Sales Musée du Louvre Paris July 28: Liberty Leading the People was purchased by the French government in 1831. Its intention
Untitled Page Third Parties: The first third party in the U.S., the Anti-Masonic Party, is founded. Science André Ampere (1775-1836) publishes his "Treatise on Electrodynamics." Inventions The first permanent photograph is produced by J.N. Niepce (1765-1833), a French scientist. Inventions Samuel Morey (1762-1843) patents an internal combustion engine. Inventions The first reflecting telescope is built in the U.S. by Amasa Holcomb (1787-1875) in Massachusetts. Inventions Bassell designs a pendulum that takes exactly one second per swing. Education Education of Women: The first public high schools for girls open in New York and Boston. Education The American Lyceum—a mechanism for adult education—is founded. Education The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, DC, endowed by James Smithson (1765-1829). Arts and Letters The U.S. Academy of Design is founded by Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872). Arts and Letters Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) publishes "Essays on Mind, with Other Poems." Adams, Abigail John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd President of the U.S., dies in Braintree (now Quincy), MA. Jefferson, Martha Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) dies on July 4 at Monticello (near Charlottsville, VA). Harrison, Anna Lucy Singleton Harrison Este (1800-1826), daughter of William Henry and Anna Harrison, dies April 7. Taylor, Margaret Richard Taylor (1826-1879), son of Zachary and Margaret Taylor, is born January 27. Fillmore, Abigail Abigail Powers (1798-1853) marries Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) on Feb. 5 in Moravia, NY. Lincoln, Mary Mary Todd (1818-1882) enters the academy of Dr. John Ward; stays until she is 14. Grant, Julia Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902), future wife of President Ulysses S. Grant(1822–1885), is born on January 26 on her family’s plantation near St. Louis, Missouri. Economics Transportation: Railroad History: The first line of rails in the New England States is said to have been laid down at Quincy, Mass., 3 miles in length and pulled by horses. Discovery The first overland journey to Southern California is led by Jedediah Strong Smith (1798-1831). Daily Life Newspapers: The first issue of the "United States Telegraph" is published; it reflects an anti-John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) bias. Popular Culture James Fennimore Cooper (1789-1851) publishes "The Last of the Mohicans." Social Issues Native Americans: The Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Washington, which voids the previous treaty and cedes less land to the government; it requires the Indians to move in 1827. Social Issues Slavery: A Pennsylvania law makes kidnapping a felony, thereby nullifying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. Reform Temperence Movement: The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance is founded in Boston. 1827 Joint occupation of the Oregon territory is agreed upon by the U.S. and Britain. War Congress gives the President the right to call out the militia. Science The mammalian ovum (egg) is discovered, proving that mammals do develop from eggs. Science John J. Audubon (1785-1851) publishes "Birds of North America." Medicine Brights’ disease (of the kidneys) is described by English physician Richard Bright (1789-1858). Inventions The screw propeller for ships is invented. Education Joanne Bethune founds the Infant School Society in New York City. Education African American Education: A letter in the Freedom Journal demands education for black women. Education The first nautical school in America is opened in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Education Public Education: Massachusetts requires every town with 500 or more families to establish a public high school. Education Public Education: Massachusetts passes a law making all grades of public school open to all pupils free of charge. Arts and Letters "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), premieres. Economics Transportation: The first public transit system—horse-drawn busses—appear in New York City. Economics Transportation: Railroad History: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is chartered to run from Baltimore to the Ohio River in Virginia. It was the fi
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The Almeria region, driest in Europe, used for filming many famous Cowboy/Western films, is in?
1000+ images about ALMERIA - ESPAÑA on Pinterest | Spanish, Turismo and Mars Forward Located in the south-eastern corner of Spain, Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park is Andalucia's largest coastal protected area, a wild and isolated landscape with some of Europe's most original geological features. The eponymous mountain range is Spain's largest volcanic rock formation with sharp peaks and crags in red / ochre-hues. It falls steeply to the Mediterranean Sea creating jagged 100m-high cliffs, which are riven by gullies leading to hidden coves | Picture by Germán Rubia, on 500px. See More
Reviews of fiction books "Wuthering Heights" "After Rain" by William Trevor Trevor was born (in 1928) and brought up in rural Ireland but has lived in Devon, England since the 1950s. Although he has written novels, he is best known for his short stories and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. "After Rain" is a collection of 12 stories published in 1996. Trevor has a quiet, understated style and often writes about rather domestic situations but frequently with an underlying air of menace. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho Coelho is a Brazilian writer whose work has been translated into 55 languages and who has sold almost 43 million books world-wide (including over 21 million copies of "The Alchemist"), but this is the first material of his that I have read. I was looking for a short novel that I could read in a day off work and this fitted the bill. It is a simple tale - mystical, spiritual, almost religous - about a young Andalusian shepherd called Santiago who seeks an unidentified treasure on a journey that takes him to a crystal shop in Tangiers and an oasis in the Saharan desert. Leavened with uplifting aphorisms, the central message of the work is that, if you have the courage to seek your treasure, along the way you will discover many things, not least about yourself, and may come to discover that the treasure is in fact much closer to home than you thought. "The Almond" by Nedjma "Nedjma", a pseudonym which means "star", is a Moroccan woman in her forties who is convinced that she has to remain anonymous, otherwise she would be stoned in the streets. This is because she has written an erotic novel about the sexual awakening of a Muslim woman that is apparently around 40% autobiographical and otherwise based on the experiences of dozens of Muslim women that she knows. It is a work that could not have been published in the Arab world and so it originally came out in France where it was a literary phenomenon. Rights have now been sold in 17 countries. The title refers to a woman's sexual genitalia and this is a remarkably explicit and erotic work, but it is also one full of anger, as it tells the tale of Badra, a Moroccan girl from a small village who is forced into a marriage at the age of just 17 to a local notary of 40. Eventually fleeing to the city of Tangiers, she discovers passion and pain with a sophisticated doctor called Driss whom she describes as at once "my master and my torturer". In the preface, the author writes: "Through these lines, in which sperm and prayer are joined ... my ambition is to give back to the women of my blood the power of speech confiscated by their fathers, brothers and husbands." Ultimately, therefore, this is a powerful political statement. Link: feature on author and novel click here "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman First published in 2000, "The Amber Spyglass" is the third and final part of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy and, as the longest, it runs to almost 550 pages - making the trilogy as a whole a formidable 1,300 pages. This concluding volume is not simply the most extensive; it is the most complex, moving frequently between half a dozen different universes, several of them - notably the world of the dead - being new to the storyline. Lyra and Will are still central to the tale, many earlier characters return, and there are all kinds of new life forms, including the tiny Gallivespians and the wheeled mulefa. The alethiometer and the subtle knife are still very much in use, but now a third device - the eponymous spyglass - is deployed to see the strange phenomenon of dust which is defined as "only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself". As well as being the lengthiest and most complicated, "The Amber Spyglass" is the most ambitous of the three novels with huge themes and the most direct references to religion. At the beginning, we are told that the Authority or God is not the creator but 'simply' the first of the angels whose regent is the angel Metatron. Towards the en
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In which of the rooms of Buckingham Palace are investitures held?
About Buckingham Palace About Buckingham Palace About Buckingham Palace The Palace today Buckingham Palace is the working headquarters of the Monarchy, where The Queen carries out her official and ceremonial duties as Head of State of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh live in the private apartments on the north side of the Palace, while rooms on the upper floors of the north and east sides are occupied by other members of the Royal Family. Much of the ground floor and the south wing of the Palace are used by Household staff. The principal State Rooms used for court ceremonies and official entertaining occupy the main west block facing the gardens. The Queen receives a large number of formal and informal visitors to the Palace. To be received by The Queen privately is to   be granted an Audience. The Prime Minister has a weekly Audience with The Queen when both are in London, and before presenting a Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer always has an Audience. The Queen often receives members of the Privy Council, foreign and British Ambassadors and High Commissioners, bishops, senior officers of the Armed Services and the Civil Service. Over 50,000 people visit the Palace each year as guests at occasions of all sizes, from small lunches to large-scale receptions. Some receptions have a theme, such as ‘The British Clothing Industry’, ‘Women in Business’ or ‘Maritime Britain’. At other times, the guests may be a successful sporting team or Commonwealth teams who are competing in the UK. The Queen’s Garden Parties are held three times each summer and are attended by roughly 30,000 guests. The Diplomatic Reception is the main diplomatic social event of the year in London and reflects The Queen’s importance in the country’s diplomatic relations. It is the largest reception held at Buckingham Palace and takes place annually in early November. Over 1,500 people are invited from around 130 countries, including members of the British government, past Prime Ministers, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and other public figures. Members of the public who are awarded an honour in either the New Year's Honours List or The Queen's Birthday Honours List receive their award at a ceremony known as an Investiture. Around 25 Investitures are held each year and are attended by about 120 people who are receiving their Order, decoration or medals. The majority take place in the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace. The highpoint of royal entertaining at Buckingham Palace today is the State Banquet, given by The Queen in the Ballroom on the evening of the first day of a State Visit of a foreign Head of State to the United Kingdom. The Ballroom is specially decorated for the occasion with flowers from the royal gardens and plate and porcelain from the Royal Collection.
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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