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In the USA during World War I, any reference to things German was considered unpatriotic, in order to avoid this problem which common foodstuff was called a 'Salisbury Steak'?
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COMBAT MilTerms: M Marine Amphibious Brigade. MAC : (mack) Military Airlift Command, redesignated from Military Air Transport Service (MATS) on 1 Jan 1966, which is Uncle Sugar's no-frills airline for "Space Available" travel by dependents and retirees; often interpreted as "Maybe Airplane Come". See ATC, MATS, ATS, AMC, MASQ, SPACE A, DEADHEAD; compare MSC. Also, Military Assistance Command, as in MACV and MACTHAI. MACADAM / MACADAMIZED : a road or airfield base made of broken stone, oil, tar, pitch, or bituminous composition, creating a stable, all-weather surface, that's easily maintained; also called "tarmacadam" or simply "tarmac" (after its inventor J.L. McAdam), as distinguished from cobblestone and corduroy, and also known by the Briticism "road metal". See TAXIWAY, APRON, RAMP, RUNWAY, PSP, MARSDEN MATTING, MOBI-MAT. [v: blacktop; cf: laterite road, two-track] MACCOC : Military Assistance Command (Vietnam) Combat Operations Center; see OPN. MACH : a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object relative to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving; being an eponym (Ernst Mach) that's abbreviated "M". MACH is not a measure of the speed of an object but of the speed of sound from that object passing through a particular medium, as effected by atmospheric pressure and temperature, which is not constant; most modern jets fly at about 420 to 580 miles per hour (mph), or at about 75 percent of the speed of sound. See SONIC BOOM, SUPERSONIC, HYPERSONIC, SCRAMJET, JET PROPULSION, FAE. [nb: the velocity and distance that sound travels in either air or water depends upon atmospheric pressure, medium temperature, molecular density, and turbulence; such that under equivalent conditions, sound moves faster in salt water than in fresh, faster in fresh water than in air. The audible range of sound wave frequencies for humans is 20 - 20,000 Hz; above which ultrasonic waves may be felt, instead of heard.] MACHETE : a heavy utilitarian implement for slashing and chopping, and also used as a weapon in sword-like cutting; this Spanish-American knife derives its name from "macho sledgehammer". Consisting of a painted 16-18 inch carbon steel blade with a straight back, its single-edge curves deeply from the tip and tapers to the handle without a crossguard. Formerly the handle was unfinished wood, but during the VIETNAM WAR, the handle was changed to black plastic, making it harder to grasp. The wrist thong, drilled or molded, is a valuable safety feature for this tool. The pattern of the blade tip and curve have altered over the decades, but the MACHETE is not an axe nor a sickle, neither is it a sword, although it has been so used when nothing else was available. A MACHETE, having a simple beveled edge of mild steel (or of low hardness), is designed to chop woody stalks, reeds, canes, and vines, and is intended to be resharpened often with a rasp or whetstone. Earlier models also included a leather or canvas sheath, but that too became a plastic scabbard, making its carry and use much noisier. See BANANA BOLO, BOLO, ASTRONAUT SURVIVAL KNIFE, SMATCHET, V-44 MARINE RAIDER KNIFE, KNIFE. [v: gollock, kukri; cf: secateurs, pruners, loppers, shears, scissors] [v: Knife Terms ; The Language of Swordplay ] MACHINEGUNNER : see LMG, SAW, PIG, NUMBER SIXTY, HEAVY MG, FIFTY, MA DEUCE, QUAD 50, MINIGUN, LOADER, DOOR GUNNER, COOK-OFF, KICK, COAX, PINTLE, SPONSON, FPL, SPRAY, HOSE, ROCK 'n' ROLL, MOAN 'n' GROAN, MAD MINUTE, FIREPOWER, CREW-SERVED WEAPONS. [nb: Vietnamese term: Xa Thu Lien Thanh] [nb: an MG fires RIFLE ammunition, but an SMG fires PISTOL ammunition] [nb: the field occupations most often targeted in combat, because their loss so immediately influences unit effectiveness and morale, are the leader, pointman, signalman, machinegunner, and medic] MACHO : an assertive or domineering male, especially an arrogant specimen exhibiting exaggerated hypermasculine characteristics out of ignorance, inexperience, or immaturity; a misbegotten attitude that virility and strength, as masculine concomitants, confer
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Steak au Poivre Beef Steaks Steak au Poivre Steak au Poivre is a beef steak, coated in crushed peppercorns, pan-fried and accompanied by a quick sauce made in the same pan. The pepperiness of the dish is mellowed by the sauce: in fact, the dish really is all about the pan sauce. Typical steak cuts used include boneless ones such as filet, entrecôte, strip steak, but can also be rump or sirloin. Classically, the peppercorns used are black ones. They are crushed so that they remain somewhat chunky, not ground. Standard ratios seem to be about 1 generous teaspoon of whole peppercorns per steak. Some people feel that black peppercorns give an acrid taste, and so prefer use to green, white, or red peppercorns, or a mixture of these. You press the steaks into the crushed peppercorns spread out on a surface, to give both sides of the meat a bit of a coating. (You can also buy a paste of crushed peppercorns, oil and garlic to make the process simpler from people such as Williams-Sonoma.) You then pan fry the steaks in oil and / or butter. You can't use a non-stick pan, or you won't get the "Maillard Reaction" (see separate entry) happening that you need in the pan for the flavour of the eventual sauce. Then, when the steaks are cooked to taste, you remove them from the pan, cover them, and make a quick sauce. The quick sauce is where general agreement breaks down. In many restaurants, the sauce became standardized as a brandy cream sauce that many people seem to have tired of. (Maxim's restaurant in Paris in the 1920s appears to have used cream in the sauce.) Julia Child and Jacques Pépin jointly issued a recipe for Steak au Poivre in 1999 in "Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home." For the pan sauce, they used shallots, dark stock, 2 tablespoons of bourbon, cognac or red wine, finished off with a dab of butter. They were very heavy in their use of peppercorns, and advised using mixed. Delia Smith is far lighter on the peppercorns, using only 1 heaped teaspoon per steak, but she recommends coating the steaks with the peppercorns a few hours in advance of cooking for the taste to develop. For the pan sauce, she adds nothing but wine to the cooking pan and has you reduce it to 1/3, and scorns any cream sauces: "Don't be tempted to think that naff restaurants that serve steak au poivre swimming in a sickly cream and brandy sauce have got it right – they haven't. This [ed: wine] version is the classic one and the best." [1] You will also see takes on this dish using chicken or pork. Steak au Poivre is almost always served with some type of potato (thin French fries, baked, mashed, etc.) and a salad. Cooking Tips Some people cheat by brushing the steak with softened butter, then pressing both sides of the steak onto a plate of cracked peppercorns, then refrigerating it to allow the butter coating to harden, sealing the cracked peppercorns to it. Sometimes the meat is just peppered on one side. The steak is seared to a medium rare or rare. You remove the steak, put it on a platter that has been already warmed, then cover it (it will keep on cooking for a few minutes.) Meanwhile, a pan sauce is then usually made. The sauce may be cognac or red wine based, but cream is almost added to the sauce, to help tone down the overtly pepper taste. To make the sauce, you add the sauce ingredients to the pan, reduce the liquid quickly, put the cooked steak on the serving plate, and then drizzle the sauce over it. History Notes The Roman food writer, Apicius, recommended the use of pepper to mask the small of old meat. In the Middle Ages, meat was heavily spiced, but not bad meat -- only the very rich could afford any spices, and it's relatively certain they wouldn't be feeding themselves meat that had gone off. Émile Lerch, in 1950 in La Revue Culinaire magazine, staked his claim to being the inventor of Steak au Poivre,stating that he first made it in 1930. The Restaurant Albert was owned by Albert Blazer, who would go on to head Maxim's later. He said he had received a shipment of frozen beef from America that looked great, but lacked flavour. At t
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Charlotte, Desiree and Rooster are varieties of which type of vegetable?
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Potatoes Potatoes Back to glossary list Potatoes Potatoes were first introduced to Ireland, and then to Britain, from America in the late 16th century and are now one of the most popular staple foods in the world. They are a valuable source of nutrition, particularly for their vitamin C, carbohydrate and fibre content, especially when they are cooked and eaten in their skins. Varieties such as King Edward and Maris Piper are best eaten this way. Varieties such as Desiree, Wilja and Estima are good all-round cooking potatoes. Potatoes are generally divided into two categories - waxy or floury (see below), if you are unsure of the variety of potato you have and want to know before cooking, mix one part salt to 11 parts water in a measuring jug and add the potato. A floury one will almost always sink to the bottom of the jug, while a waxy one will float. When it comes to seasonal availability, different varieties are available at different times of the year. Uses: Potatoes are extremely versatile and can be boiled, steamed, baked, roasted, fried and mashed. To store: It is essential that potatoes are stored in a cool, dark area away from sunlight and in a frost-free, airy place preferably in a brown paper sack. If potatoes are exposed to light they may turn green (which can be poisonous) or start sprouting. Small amounts of green can be removed but very green potatoes should be discarded. Do take potatoes out of the plastic bag that they are usually sold in - the potatoes are likely to go mouldy if kept in plastic. Potatoes should not be stored in the fridge. New potatoes should be eaten within 2-3 days of purchase, while old potatoes can, if stored correctly be kept for several months. Charlotte These long oval potatoes have a firm waxy texture and a subtle nutty flavour. They have a light yellow skin and a yellow flesh. Uses: Suitable for boiling, baking or salads. To prepare: Scrub thoroughly under cold running water or peel. Desiree One of the most popular red-skinned potatoes Desirees have a smooth skin and a creamy yellow flesh. They have a firm texture. Uses: Especially good cooked as wedges or roasted, because they hold their shape. Also suitable for boiling, mashing and chipping. To prepare: Scrub thoroughly under cold running water or peel. Estima A light yellow-skinned potato with a firm, moist texture and a mild flavour. They are usually oval-shaped with a yellowy flesh. Uses: Boiling, mashing and especially good for baking. To prepare: Peel and chop for boiling and chipping or scrub thoroughly for baking. Back to top Floury A type rather than a variety, floury potatoes are especially popular in Britain. They are suitable for baking, mashing and chipping as they have a soft, dry texture when cooked. They are not suitable for boiling, however because they tend to disintegrate. Popular varieties of floury potato include King Edward and Maris Piper. King Edward King Edwards have pinky red skins and distinctively flavoured creamy white flesh that's packed with carbohydrates, fibre, iron and vitamins, including folate. Cooking them in their skins provides the most nutritional value. Uses: Good for boiling, baking, chipping or roasting. To prepare: Rinse in cold water and peel for boiling, chipping and roasting. If necessary, cut out any bruises or green parts. New potatoes These are available all year round and the different varieties encompass a range of skin and flesh colours. They are small, waxy, oval-shaped potatoes. Buy little and often for the best flavour. Uses: Best boiled whole in their skins and delicious served warm or cold, with spring lamb, salmon and salads. To prepare: Rinse in cold water and cook whole or sliced. To obtain the most nutritional value, leave their skins on. If preferred, remove the skin by gently rubbing it away with your fingers. To cook: Place in a pan, add enough water to cover. Bring to the boil, cover, and simmer gently for 20 minutes for whole potatoes, 15 minutes for sliced potatoes. Drain, add a knob of butter and serve. Red Duke of York With a light yellow flesh and a distinct
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1 A costard is what type of fruit? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1 A costard is what type of fruit? 2 ŠWhat is a corrida? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2 ŠWhat is a corrida? 3 ŠWhich British rock band leased a six-acre section of Shepperton Studios in 1977 under the name of Ramport Enterprises? 4 ŠWho painted The Monarch of the Glen? 5 ŠIn which year was Britain's first adhesive postage stamp the Penny Black issued? 6 ŠIn US politics who replaced Spiro Agnew as Richard Nixon's vice-president in 1973? 7 ŠWhat does TGV most commonly stand for? 8 ŠWho was crowned King of Scotland in 1306? 9 ŠThe term 'green-eyed monster' originated from which of Shakespeare's plays? 10 Where is that play set? Š ANSWERS: 1. Apple; 2. ŠBullfight; 3. The Who; 4. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer; 5. 1840; 6. ŠGerald Ford; 7. ŠTrain à Grande Vitesse; 8. ŠRobert the Bruce; 9. ŠOthello; 10. Venice Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent
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Top 20 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of the 1980s - Listverse Top 20 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of the 1980s STL Mo February 20, 2009 Action and adventure dominated sci-fi films in the 1980s, thanks in large part to the Star Wars craze. The decade is splattered with many bad films (Masters of the Universe), terrible movies (Superman IV) and unwatchable garbage (Flash Gordon). Even so, finding standouts was easy; narrowing the list to a manageable length was hard. So, to avoid a really long list, I again forced myself to a limit of 20. (Consequently, only one Star Wars and one Star Trek movie are represented here.) And also to keep the list manageable, the films had to be high in quality of writing, story, acting, direction, music, and etc. 20 Predator 1987 Great action flick, great premise, great ending! What starts out as a typical shoot-‘em-up turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse between Arnie and a high-tech hunter alien. Hey, with the terrific line “I ain’t got time to bleed!” how can you go wrong? ;) 19 The Element of Crime 1984 This Danish film is probably pretty obscure for most people, but if you noticed a pattern from my previous sci-fi lists, I have an affinity for movies that explore situations in a future dystopian society. In this intriguing film (a Sundance favorite when it came out) a detective uses controversial methods from his disgraced mentor to track down a serial killer. The world they live in is quite bleak, the detritus of civilization lies all around, and the seasons of the year have disappeared, replaced with ever-changing weather patterns. 18 The Final Countdown 1980 A U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier gets caught in a storm that sends the ship and crew back in time—to the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and the great Charles Durning, The Final Countdown is one of the few truly good films to explore “What if…??” 17 Venus Wars 1989 Largely unknown in the U.S. until the fledgling Cartoon Network aired it frequently in the 1990s, Venus Wars came out on the heels of the awesome Akira. This tale of a war on Venus between the planet’s two nation-states is based on a manga (Japanese comic), as are many anime. Most of the story follows a group of athletes-turned-rebels fighting the invaders of their land, and a reporter from Earth trying to follow the action. 16 The Quiet Earth 1985 I almost had Jeff Goldblum’s The Fly here, but decided to list The Quiet Earth instead. Both are examples of science gone wrong, but I like New Zealand’s The Quiet Earth better. The movie (based on the novel of the same name) explores how a person can go mad when he realizes he’s the only one left on Earth following a terrible catastrophe that he helped cause. The portrayals of Hobson’s madness and how he pulls back from the brink are both satisfying—especially because the latter happens before Hobson realizes that he’s really not alone. The Quiet Earth ends on an uncertain note (a real WTF?!? moment) that makes you think long after the movie ends. 15 2010: The Year We Make Contact 1984 While nowhere near as grand as its predecessor, 2010 was quite a decent serious sci-fi flick. Nine years after the Discovery mission, a joint US-Soviet mission travels to Jupiter to unravel the mystery of what happened. 2010 diverts significantly from the novel— for example, the script was marred by the unnecessary back story of nuclear tensions between the superpowers—but on the whole, the film was pretty good. The best part is the space walk from the Leonov to the Discovery. John Lithgow as Dr. Curnow all but panics while looking “down” on Jupiter, and the sound—Lithgow’s rapid breathing inside his spacesuit—against this backdrop is just a great piece of filmmaking. 14 Cocoon 1985 Aliens use a pool as an incubator, which inadvertently rejuvenates several senior citizens out for a swim. It’s actually quite good, and not your typical sci-fi fare. Give it a try. Don’t let Steve Gutenberg scare you away. 13 ET: The Extraterrestrial I know many people will cry foul that I didn’t pla
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The Year in Music - 1984 The Year in Music - 1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood performs; the Footloose soundtrack; Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson 1984 marked the high watermark of the "New Music" of the Eighties (see 1983-The Year in Music), and the British invasion was still a force to be reckoned with. In March, 24 of the Top 50 singles in the U.S. were by British acts. It was also a year when soundtracks produced one big hit after another; the Footloose soundtrack was the biggest of these, with Kenny Loggins, Deniece Williams, and the duo of Mike Reno and Ann Wilson all having Top Ten hits off the album. Prince scored several hits, and reached the pinnacle of his career, with songs from the Purple Rain soundtrack, and Ray Parker, Jr. enjoyed a #1 hit with the theme from Ghostbusters -- as well as a plagiarism lawsuit filed by Huey Lewis and the News. Tina Turner made the biggest comeback in rock history, Madonna introduced herself in her first (but certainly not last) incarnation as a "boy toy," and Phil Collins and Steve Perry -- of Genesis and Journey respectively -- discovered just how successful you could be in a solo career if you followed a few simple guidelines: make your music danceable and MTV-compatible. Critics, of course, deplored the paucity of "message" in the New Music, and many blamed video. But there could be no denying that the music industry, suffering so grievously in the late Seventies, was healthy again. And even people like Bruce Springsteen and Hall and Oates, while initially scornful of video's importance to their careers, jumped on the bandwagon -- and profited greatly for the compromise. Reggae entered the mainstream, thanks in no small part to UB40's Labour of Love, and a growing infatuation in white suburbia accounted for a steady stream of Bob Marley albums, singles, videos and books. Electro-pop insinuated itself into every genre, making itself indispensible to artists as diverse as Earth, Wind & Fire to New Order. In fact, in many respects, electro took over soul music and invigorated rap. Just ask deejay-rapper Afrika Bambaata. The Thompson Twins proved you could make some really good music with nothing but high-tech equipment. It seemed like everyone was employing the beatbox and the synth -- even Dr. John ("Jet Set"). Electro continued to stir controversy, as old-fashioned sorts persisted in their belief that the Oberheim DMX and other electronic contraptions betrayed music because anybody could make music with them. As though there was something inherently wrong with that. As controversial as electro remained, the biggest controversy of the year surrounded Frankie Goes To Hollywood, who dared address the twin taboos of sex and politics with their monster hits "Relax" and "Two Tribes." The video for the former was banned in Britain because it dealt with gay sex -- insuring that the single would zoom to #1. The latter stayed at the #1 spot for nine weeks and went gold in seven days. The lesson: even a group of moderately talented fellows producing average material could soar to superstardom if they were willing to be just a little outrageous and iconoclastic. A mirror of the times, music had become awfully conservative. This was nowhere more evident than in country-and-western, where the most unusual thing to happen was that Willie Nelson teamed up with Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias for a hit single. C&W was never more homogenized; The Osmonds went country, Vegas lounge singer Lee Greenwood was named Best Male Singer and Slim Whitman was all the rage in Britain. Before the decade was out, however, country music would be fundamentally changed. On the business end of things, this was the year when the record companies began to rethink giving away videos as free promotional material, and starting thinking of them as a mean to make a profit. MTV cut deals with several major labels, paying out millions for exclusive rights to videos. Nonetheless, MTV showed a profit for the first time in the first quarter of '84. Other entities showed profits, some tremendous. CBS enjoyed a 500% increase i
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Which English king used the pseudonym Ralph Robinson when writing to gardening magazines?
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William II | king of England | Britannica.com king of England Alternative Titles: Guillaume le Roux, William Rufus William II Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban William II, byname William Rufus, French Guillaume Le Roux (born c. 1056—died Aug. 2, 1100, near Lyndhurst, Hampshire, Eng.), son of William I the Conqueror and king of England from 1087 to 1100; he was also de facto duke of Normandy (as William III) from 1096 to 1100. He prevented the dissolution of political ties between England and Normandy, but his strong-armed rule earned him a reputation as a brutal, corrupt tyrant. Rufus (“the Red”—so named for his ruddy complexion) was William’s third (second surviving) and favourite son. In accordance with feudal custom, William I bequeathed his inheritance, the Duchy of Normandy, to his eldest son, Robert II Curthose; England, William’s kingdom by conquest, was given to Rufus. William II, drawing by Matthew Paris from a mid-13th-century manuscript; in the British Library … Reproduced by permission of the British Library Nevertheless, many Norman barons in England wanted England and Normandy to remain under one ruler, and shortly after Rufus succeeded to the throne, they conspired to overthrow him in favour of Robert. Led by the Conqueror’s half brother, Odo of Bayeux , Earl of Kent, they raised rebellions in eastern England in 1088. Rufus immediately won the native English to his side by pledging to cut taxes and institute efficient government. The insurgency was suppressed, but the king failed to keep his promises. Consequently, a second baronial revolt, led by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, broke out in 1095. This time William punished the ringleaders with such brutality that no barons dared to challenge his authority thereafter. His attempts to undermine the authority of the English church provoked resistance from St. Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury , who, defeated, left the country for Rome in 1097; Rufus immediately seized the lands of Canterbury. Meanwhile, Rufus was engaged in military operations in Scotland, Wales, and particularly in Normandy. In 1091 he compelled King Malcolm III of Scotland to acknowledge his overlordship. Malcolm revolted in November 1093, but Rufus’ forces quickly killed him near Alnwick, Northumberland. Thereafter, Rufus maintained the Scottish kings as vassals, and in 1097 he subjugated Wales. William Rufus’ chief interest, however, lay in the recovery of Normandy from the incompetent Robert. After waging war on Normandy for seven years (1089–96), Rufus reduced his brother to the role of a subordinate ally. When Robert left for a crusade in 1096, he mortgaged his kingdom to Rufus, who quickly added Maine to his possessions. In 1100 Rufus was shot in the back with an arrow and killed while hunting in the New Forest in Hampshire. The incident was probably an assassination, and Rufus’ alleged slayer, Walter Tirel, lord of Poix in Ponthieu, may have been acting under orders from the king’s younger brother, Henry. Henry promptly seized the English throne as King Henry I. Learn More in these related articles:
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Pioneer 10 in 1983 was the first man-made object to do what?
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Pioneer 10 Passes Pluto - YouTube Pioneer 10 Passes Pluto 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 18, 2013 A conversion from audio cassette of a recording made by my father on June 13, 1983. At the time there was a phone number set up to listen to the signal being sent back to Earth from Pioneer 10 and the day it officially became the first man made object to leave the solar system. Category
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Silvergate Prep Jeopardy Template 100 Princess Peach In video gaming, what is the name of the princess whom Mario repeatedly stops Bowser from kidnapping? 100 What does Woody from Toy Story have in his boot? 100 We just set a goal, talkin' matchin' Lambos 100 what is the hottest planet 100 Who was the second president of the United States? 200 What Nintendo system was released after the N64 and before the Wii 200 What animals portray surfer dudes in Finding Nemo? 200 Chains Nick jonas I gave all my heart but she won't heal my soul She tasted a break and I can't get more 200 All land-dwelling living things depend upon what source of energy 200 Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? 300 What color is the ring of death on an Xbox that signifies a hardware failure? 300 Which Princess is in the Disney classic Aladdin? 300 Drake best i ever had Cause she hold me down every time I hit her up When I get right I promise that we gone live it up 300 The only planet that has a day longer than its year is ... 300 What did "prohibition" outlaw in the early 1900s? 400 In Mortal Kombat, what phrase is heard when scorpion uses his spear. 400 Which film does Eddie Murphy do the voice-over for a red Chinese dragon? 400 Beyonce irreplaceable Because you was untrue Rollin' her around in the car that I bought you Baby drop them keys Hurry up before your taxi leaves 400 Who was the first American to Orbit the Earth 400 Who allied with America during the Revolutionary war 500 The legend of Zelda Which 1986 Nintendo game is set in the fantasy land of Hyrule, and centres on a boy named Link? 500 Name the rock on which Simba will stand as King in Lion King 500 I want it that way Backstreet Boys Tell me why Ain't nothin' but a heartache Tell me why Ain't nothin' but a mistake Tell me why
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Matthew Boulton was the business partner of which Scottish inventor and engineer?
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Matthew Boulton Biography (1728-1809) Matthew Boulton Biography (1728-1809) Occupation manufacturer and engineer Matthew Boulton had a reputation as a restless man who constantly strove fornew innovations. He was born in Birmingham, England, on September 3, 1728, and became a partner in his father's buckle manufacturing business in 1750, which he eventually inherited in 1759. In 1761, he launched a new factory in Soho; after meeting Benjamin Franklin, however, he became more interested in thescientific and technological advancements of the day, particularly the development of steam engines. In 1764, Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802; grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin,1809-1882) proposed to Boulton the idea of building a steam-powered carriage. Three years later the two met Scottish engineer James Watt, and Boulton decided to join forces with him to further the development of steam power, a field still ripe with promise after the introduction in 1712 of Thomas Newcomen's problematic steam engine. His chance came years later when, in 1772, inventor and close friend John Roebuck (1718-1794) went bankrupt and lost patents on his own, mostly unsuccessful, steam engine developments. Boulton acquired Roebuck's patents in 1775 andthen entered into a partnership with Watt. During the next decade, their engines were to become prime motivators of Europe's Industrial Revolution. The task Boulton and Watt set themselves was monstrous and fraught with financialdifficulties, legal battles, and mechanical delays. Yet they succeeded perhaps beyond anyone's expectations, for the new Boulton & Watt engines boasted an energy efficiency three times that of the most contemporary Newcomen engines. During the 1780s Boulton's fame spread as he became the leading English manufacturer, the man who brought Watt's genius to fruition by means of his optimism and manufacturing expertise. He was quoted by James Boswell as saying, "Isell here what all the world desires--power." In his later years, Boulton patented a steam-driven coin press that restored public confidence in the English monetary system and forced counterfeiters out of the business. A founding member of the prestigious Lunar Society of Birmingham, Boulton ranked at the time of his death, on August 17, 1809, as one of the most prominent figures among scientific circles of his time. User Contributions:
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Late 19th Century Inventions: Plastic Late 19th Century Inventions: Plastic Plastic is a synthetic material made from the small molecules of organic compounds. The widespread use of plastics today makes it hard to believe that the first major breakthrough in plastic development did not occur until 1862. Once this breakthrough occurred, other inventors experimented with organic materials to create new and better versions. Plastic is now found in water bottles, food storage containers, grocery bags, and countless other products. Its widespread use makes it one of the most versatile materials in the world. Parkesine Alexander Parkes invented the first man-made plastic in 1856. Parkes worked in the electroplating department of a brass lock manufacturing company where he developed the skills he would later use in creating his inventions. One of his most important patents was for Parkesine, a celluloid-based thermoplastic that was treated with several solvents. As the first man-made plastic, Parkesine was very useful and had many features similar to that of modern plastic. After inventing Parkesine, Alexander Parkes opened the Parkesine Company and tried to mass-produce his invention. Unfortunately, the company failed because Parkes tried to reduce costs by using cheap, low-quality materials. Although the company failed, other companies continued to produce and sell celluloid. Celluloid The invention of celluloid was one of the most controversial developments in the history of plastic production. John Wesley Hyatt and his brother Isaac conducted several experiments using Parkesine as a substitute for the ivory that was once used to make billiard balls. After many experiments, Hyatt eventually produced a solid nitrocellulose. He patented the product in 1869 and formed the Albany Dental Plate Company in 1870. Hyatt used his company to produce false teeth, billiard balls, and piano keys. This development became controversial when Daniel Spill, an English inventor, filed several court cases against Hyatt. Spill patented the same substance in the United Kingdom, making it difficult to determine who should own the rights. These cases eventually went to court, where it was decided that Parkes really invented celluloid. However, the judge determined that all celluloid manufacturing could continue. Bakelite In 1907, Leo Baekeland developed the first completely synthetic plastic. Baekeland was a Belgian chemist who set up his own consulting business in 1881. After setting up this business, he turned his attention toward producing photographic paper. He and Leonardi Jacobi formed the Nepera Chemical Company together, but there were no buyers for his products. His luck changed when George Eastman offered him $1 million for his process. He used the money from this business deal to fund his other inventions; one of which was Bakelite plastic. Made from coal tar resin, Bakelite took on the shape of its container as it hardened. This invention was an improvement on earlier plastics because Bakelite did not melt under heat or stress. This made it suitable for making clock cases, radio cases, and jewelry that would withstand high temperatures. Bakelite also had several industrial applications due to its high resistance to heat, electricity, and chemical action. Electrical and automobile companies used this material in electron tubes, distributor caps, light bulb sockets, and insulators. The most common modern uses of Bakelite are industrial electrical applications and brake pad construction. Cellophane Jacques E. Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist, developed cellophane in 1908. Ever since he saw a glass of wine spill on a tablecloth, he wanted to invent a cloth to repel liquids. He worked with several types of fabric, and tried spraying waterproof coating on each. He did not get the desired results from any of these experiments, as the coated fabric was too stiff. However, the sprays left behind a clear film that separated easily from the cloth. He began working with this film and experimenting with different production processes. In 1912, he dev
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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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Full text of "All About Space Book Of The Solar System 4th 2016 UK" See other formats NEW More than incredible images & diagrams AU About BOOK OF THE Take a tour through the incredible wonders of our Solar System Welcome to the BOOK OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Over the centuries, humankind has dwelled on the question of how the Solar System came into being around 4.5 billion years ago. In the 21st Century, our pursuit of knowledge is as insatiable as ever, and new technology advances our understanding all the time. The more we know about the planetary system we live in, the closer we are to answering the conundrum of whether Earth - and humankind - are unique. Starting with the star at the heart of it all, the newly revised Book of the Solar System will take you on a guided tour of the essentials. How many rings does Saturn have? Is Mars capable of supporting life? Why is Venus described as our ‘sister planet? You will even get a closer look at our home planet and its only satellite. Discover what makes Earths environment habitable, explore the Moon's surface and learn how the two entities interact. These questions and more are answered through essential guides accompanied by incredible imagery and illustrations, so you will soon feel at home with even our most hostile planetary neighbours! SpcKe BOOK OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Imagine Publishing Ltd Richmond House 33 Richmond Hill Bournemouth Dorset BH2 6EZ « +44 (0) 1202 586200 Website: www.imagine-publishing.co.uk Twitter: @Books_lmagine Facebook: www.facebook.com/lmagineBookazines Publishing Director Aaron Asadi Head of Design Ross Andrews Production Editors Fiona Hudson & Jen Neal Senior Art Editor Greg Whitaker Designer John Ndojelana Printed by William Gibbons, 26 Planetary Road, Willenhall, West Midlands, WV13 3XT Distributed in the UK, Eire & the Rest of the World by Marketforce, 5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HU Tel 0203 787 9060 www.marketforce.co.uk Distributed in Australia by Network Services (a division of Bauer Media Group), Level 21 Civic Tower, 66-68 Goulburn Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia Tel +61 2 8667 5288 Disclaimer The publisher cannot accept responsibility for any unsolicited material lost or damaged in the post. All text and layout is the copyright of Imagine Publishing Ltd. Nothing in this bookazine may be reproduced in whole or part without the written permission of the publisher. All copyrights are recognised and used specifically for the purpose of criticism and review. Although the bookazine has endeavoured to ensure all information is correct at time of print, prices and availability may change. This bookazine is fully independent and not affiliated in any way with the companies mentioned herein. All About Space Book of the Solar System Fourth Edition © 2016 Imagine Publishing Ltd ISBN 9781785462276 Part of the IMAGINi PUBLISHING Complete guides The Earth & Moon Beyond Earth 92 All about Mercury Learn about the planet closest to the Sun 100 All about Venus Explore Earth's twin planet 110 Surviving on Mars How would astronauts live on Mars? 118 Jupiter: planet killer Find out how Jupiter is harmful to the planets in our Solar System 124 All about Saturn Discover the ringed planet 134 All about Uranus Explore the forgotten planet 142 All About Neptune Discover the frozen planet 150 Pluto: our final frontier Travel to the demoted dwarf planet 10 Birth of the Solar System 54 All about Earth 1 ' “ J — “ 1 ' * - J • Get under the surface of our home planet 66 Outpost Earth Discover how Earth is used as an astronauts' training ground 74 All about the Moon Explore the oddities of Earth's only satellite 86 Moon explorer’s guide Learn about the landmarks of the Moon The Sun 30 All about the Sun Explore the star that keeps us all alive 42 Fusion power Sun Learn how to generate power from the Sun's energy resources 50 The Sun’s twin star
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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
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Broken Leg: X-Rays, Therapy & Recovery Time Broken Leg Pictures Broken Leg Facts The lower extremity, commonly referred to as the leg, contains four bones (the femur, the patella , the tibia, and the fibula) and bends at the hip, the knee, and the ankle. These bones may break ( fracture ) into two or more pieces. If a broken bone has been exposed to the outside, either by a cut over the fracture, or by bone sticking out through the skin, it is called an open fracture. An open fracture is also referred to as a compound fracture . A break in the leg may involve any of these bones: The femur is the bone in the thigh. It is the longest and strongest bone of the body. The upper part of the femur fits into the pelvis to form the hip joint. At this joint, it can move frontward, backward, sideways, and rotate in and out. When people refer to a "broken hip," it is this upper part of the femur that is broken. The lower end of the femur rests on top of the tibia, forming the knee joint . At the knee, the leg can swing frontward, backward, and rotate slightly. The kneecap (patella) glides back and forth in front of the knee joint. The kneecap suspends the ligaments from the thigh muscle and helps to add leverage for straightening out the leg. The tibia is the shinbone and supports the body's weight. The fibula runs alongside the tibia below the knee. It is on the outside part of the leg and is smaller than the tibia. The ankle is composed of the bottom ends of the tibia and fibula, the connecting foot bones, and the ligaments and tendons. Severe twisting injuries to the ankle can result in fractures of the tibia or fibula near or within the ankle joint. Picture of the bones of the leg Picture of the bones of the hip Medically Reviewed by a Doctor on 9/29/2016 Medical Author:
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Passable Literature Trivia Quiz In which book would you find a Heffalump? Which detective had a landlady called Mrs. Hudson? Who wrote the Booker Prize winning novel The Life of Pi? Which of Alexandre Dumas' 'Three Musketeers' real identity is Comte de la Fère? In which language did Vladimir Nabokov write Lolita? Which 1949 novel begins 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen?' How many lines are there in a sonnet? Don Diego de la Vega is the secret identity of which hero? In which novel does an alien invasion commence in Woking, England? In the title of a Shakespeare play, who are Valentine and Proteus? In which George Bernard Shaw play are Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle central characters? Which fictional Count's real name is Edmond Dantès? What was the name of Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's novel? Which poet wrote the Canterbury Tales? Who was Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased partner in 'A Christmas Carol?' Question Who created the fictional town of Middlemarch? In which novel would you find the exceedingly strong drink called the 'Pan-galactic Gargle Blaster?' In which Jane Austen novel do the Bennet family appear? Who is the title hobbit in 'The Hobbit?' Which author used the pseudonyms Isaac Bickerstaffe and Lemuel Gulliver among others? What is the name of the sequel to John Milton's 'Paradise Lost?' In which novel does the character Major Major Major Major appear? Who went on a circumnavigation of the world from the Reform Club as the result of a bet? Which Ray Bradbury novel opens 'It was a pleasure to burn?' Which novel was subtitled 'The Modern Prometheus?' Who wrote the short story 'I, Robot' in 1950? In the Harry Potter novels, as whom did Tom Riddle become infamous? Which novel takes place in the Year of Our Ford 632? Who taught children to fly using 'lovely thoughts' and fairy dust? Which John Steinbeck novel centers on the characters George and Lennie? Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? How are the sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy collectively known? Which mythological figure 'Shrugged' in the title of an Ayn Rand novel? How many syllables are there in a haiku? 'Workers of the world, unite!' is the last line of which work? What real-life Soviet organisation is James Bond's nemesis in the early novels? In which fictional country is the castle of Zenda to be found? Who is the chief protagonist in John Buchan's The 39 Steps? How is David John Cornwell better known? What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot? At what age do Adrian Mole's diaries start? Who lived the last few years of his life in Paris under the pseudonym 'Sebastian Melmoth'? Who created Noddy?
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By The Pricking Of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie Synopsis By The Pricking Of My Thumbs About the Book An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace… When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic… By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. William Shakespeare, Macbeth More about this story The title of the novel is a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Agatha Christie dedicated the novel to her readers in other countries who would write to her and ask “What happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?” It was adapted for film in France by Pascal Thomas and titled Mon petit doigt m'a dit... The characters of Tommy and Tuppence were changed slightly, but the plot remains fairly true to the novel. In 2006 it was adapted for the series Agatha Christie’s Marple, with much of Tommy’s part in the story adapted for Miss Marple’s character, played by Geraldine McEwan. Both Tommy and Tuppence still featured, although Tuppence was portrayed as resentful of her husband’s success, having been unable to accept a job with MI6 because she was pregnant. Did you know? Unlike Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Tommy & Tuppence aged in real time. In By the Pricking of my Thumbs, Tommy & Tuppence are an elderly couple. Buy By The Pricking Of My Thumbs ⌺Read
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Shakespeare's Globe: About Us - Original Globe / Shakespeare's Globe History does not repeat itself In 2010 Henry VIII was staged to great acclaim, and perhaps more importantly no fires! + share this page During the first years of Elizabeth’s reign, the English playing companies used inns, inn yards, college halls and private houses for their performances. It was not until 1576 that the actor-manager James Burbage built the Theatre in Shoreditch, the first purpose-built playhouse in London. Shakespeare joined the resident troupe at the Theatre in the 1580s and the company (later known as the Chamberlain’s and then the King’s Men) flourished there for 20 years. In 1596 a dispute arose over the renewal of the lease and negotiations were begun to acquire a disused hall in the precincts of the old Blackfriars priory to use as an indoor theatre. James Burbage died in February 1597; in April the lease expired, but the dispute continued for two years, during which time the company performed at the nearby Curtain playhouse. In Christmas 1598 the company sought a drastic solution: they leased a plot near the Rose, a rival theatre in Southwark, demolished the Theatre and carried its timbers over the river. To cover the cost of the new playhouse, James Burbage’s sons Cuthbert and Richard, offered some members of the company shares in the building. Shakespeare was one of four actors who bought a share in the Globe. By early 1599 the theatre was up and running and for 14 years it thrived, presenting many of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, wadding from a stage cannon ignited the thatched roof and the theatre burned to the ground ‘all in less than two hours, the people having enough to do to save themselves’. The theatre was quickly rebuilt, this time with a tiled roof. Shakespeare may have acted in the second Globe, but he probably never wrote for it. It remained the home for Shakespeare’s old company until the closure of all the theatres under England’s Puritan administration in 1642. No longer of use, it was demolished to make room for tenements in 1644. Shortcuts
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Soldier Soldier Entertainment Soldier Soldier One of the most famous roles for Jerome was in 1990 in the hit TV show Soldier, Soldier. It was this series that brought him together with Robson Green - a partnership that eventually led to the show's most recognisable double-act, and would bring fame and fortune in other ventures. Jerome and Robson shared the same hotel and they spoke to each other for the first time in a taxi. Jerome recalls how the more they got to know each other, the more difficult it was to keep a straight face and act responsibly. "In one scene with the two of us and Robson, the camera turned to Holly for the reverse shot, but we just couldn't keep it together and had to be sent out of the room. Holly acted the scene on her own with the director reading our lines. We were waiting outside, in disgrace." Both actors were enjoying the work and the relationships they were striking up with the other actors around them, even though they were both convinced the series would be a big flop. But the first series screened in 1991 was an instant success with nine million viewers a week, reaching number seven in the ITV ratings. It won the Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival for the best drama series. The chemistry between Paddy and Tucker was fast becoming a main focus of the show. So much so that a special video was released featuring highlights of their exploits, which became a great seller. Paddy and Tucker Nancy and Paddy While the first series was filmed in Staffordshire, England, production would move to other countries as "The King's Fusiliers" received postings around the world. Jerome was delighted: it was an opportunity to continue to work with Robson, and to travel and explore. Soldier Soldier - Series 1. With a six month tour of duty in Northern Ireland behind them, the officers and men of the King's Fusiliers Infantry Regiment look forward to an emotional return to their Midlands' headquarters. Major Tom Cadman, the Company Commander, has to deal with a military problem which results in his judgement being called into question and Corporal Tony Wilton has pressing worries of his own - will he get back in time to see the birth of his first child? When Major Tom Cadman is pitched against a rival officer in the Regiment's inter-company manoeuvres, he discovers the stakes are far higher than winning the war games. His arch rival Major 'Dickie' Bird is having an affair with his wife Laura - leaving Cadman to fight for his honour on the battle field and the home front. Meanwhile, Laura Cadman faces the biggest decision of her life - to stay with her husband or to go with the womanising Dickie Bird, who has shown her affection and attention at a lonely time. However, a hazardous night crossing through a freezing river and a gruelling assault course keep the men's minds far from domestic problems. The company deputise for dustmen on strike. Chick Henwood has to choose between duty to his men or loyalty to his family. Tony Wilton's marriage hits a rocky stage putting his boxing career before his wife and new-born baby. Wilton and his wife celebrate their son's christening. Freddie Lewis suspects Chick Henwood is having an affair with his wife. When Major Tom Cadman is pitched against a rival officer in the Regiment's inter-company manoeuvres, he discovers the stakes are far higher than winning the war games. His arch rival Major 'Dickie' Bird is having an affair with his wife Laura - leaving Cadman to fight for his honour on the battle field and the home front. Meanwhile, Laura Cadman faces the biggest decision of her life - to stay with her husband or to go with the womanising Dickie Bird, who has shown her affection and attention at a lonely time. However, a hazardous night crossing a freezing river and a gruelling assault course keep the men's minds far from domestic problems. A large amount of equipment in the care of Ian Anderson goes missing at the same time that he wins a commissson into the Intelligence Corps In 1992 Soldier, Soldier
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Quiz Link 4 1. Who founded the Tamla Motown record label? Berry Gordy 2. What folksy British singer-songwriting guitarist was famous also for his whistling? Roger Whittaker 3. What was Hugo Montenegro's instrumental hit, composed by Ennio Morricone for the film of the same name? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 4. Tom Parker managed which huge star? Elvis Presley 5. Who won (barefoot) the British Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with Puppet on String? Sandie Shaw 6. Who originally fronted Herman's Hermits? Peter Noone 7. Which jazz singer, whose career actually spanned the 1930s-90s, was known as the First Lady of Song? Ella Fitzgerald 8. Which singer played Alfie's girlfriend Siddie in the 1966 film? Millicent Martin 9. What name was given to the 1950-60s mainstream country music style of artists including Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves, and Charlie Rich? Nashville Sound 10.What Canadian-born teen idol of the 1950s-60s wrote the lyrics to Sinatra's song My Way? Paul Anka 11.Which harmonica-paying frontman of Manfred Man sang on their early hits and later became a successful radio presenter? Paul Jones 12.What group became famous in the 1960s for their parody impressions of other hit songs? The Barron Knights 13.Peter Potter in the USA and David Jacobs in the UK presented which pop music TV show? Juke Box Jury 14.What was the 1962 space-age instrumental hit by the Tornados? Telstar 15.Who wrote and sang the novelty hit Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, about Camp Granada? Allan Sherman ~
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Ambassador 1902 Encyclopedia > Ambassador Ambassador AMBASSADOR, a word introduced into the English language from the Fr. ambassadeur, the Ital. ambasciatore, of the Span. embaxador, which Wicquefort derives, perhaps without sufficient authority, from the Span embiar, to send. The word denoted a public minister of the highest rank, accredited and sent by the head of a sovereign state to a foreign court or country, with power to represent the person of the sovereign by whom he sent, to negotiate with foreign government, and to which over the interests of his own nation abroad. The power thus conferred is contained in the credentials or letters of credence of which the ambassador is the bearer, and in the instructions under the sign-manual delivered to himself. The credentials consists in a sealed letter addressed by the sovereign in person whose representative he is, to the sovereign to whom he is sent, and they contain a general assurance that the sovereign by whom he is dispatched will approve and confirm whatever is done by the ambassador in his name. In England these letters of credence are under the sign-manual of the queen, and are not countersigned by the Secretary of State. On special occasions, as for the negotiation of treaties, additional and express powers are given to an ambassador under the great seal, and sometimes (but very rarely) full general powers to treat on all subjects. Lord Clarendon held such powers at the congress of Paris in 1856. Diplomatic envoys are three ranks, as was finally determined by a common agreement of all the powers which was annexed to the final act of the treaty of Vienna in 1815: --- 1. Ambassadors; the ambassador of the pope being called a nuncio, and the ambassador of the Emperor of Austria to the Sublime Porte being called his inter-nuncio. These only have representative rank. 2. Envoys extraordinary or ministers plenipotentiary, accredited to sovereigns (aupres des souverains). 3. Charges daffaires, whoa re only entitled t transact business with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. We shall confine ourselves in this article to the diplomatic officers of the first rank. The relative number of ambassadors, as distinguished from ministers, has of late years been considerably increases. The Emperor Nicholas refused for many years to send an ambassador to the court of France, and he therefore suppressed the grade for a time altogether. His example was imitated by other powers. But the old practice has now been reverted to. The Queen of England has embassies at Paris, Constantinople, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. The number of British ministers plenipotentiary is twenty-three, and three charges daffaires; but these numbers vary. From the 15th century, when the practice of sending resident embassies may be said to have commenced in Europe, down to the close of the prodigious amount of splendour, ceremonial, and contentious dignity. British ambassadors were commonly set out till within the last thirty years in ships of war. The ambassador represented a monarch, and was to play the part of one. The memoirs of those ages are full of the magnificence and profuse display which their progress --- lacqueys, liveries, state coached, led horses, and all the pageantry of state. Fierce disputes frequently arose between rival ambassadors for precedence; sometimes these disputes even extended to the courts and ministers to whom these envoys were dispatched as messengers of peace, and a vast deal of time was lost (especially at the Congress of Munster) in adjusting them. On the part of the sovereign to whom they were to present their credentials the same display was made. The new ambassador was fetched by the master of the ceremonies in the kings coaches and feasted at the kings expense. The solemn entry and the public audience, as they were termed, were an essential part of the mission. The ambassador had the right to stand covered in the presence of royalty. At Venice the doge placed Sir Harry Vane, covered and seated, on his right hand in the Council of Ten. A speech was then del
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Ambassador Bridge - Ambassador Bridge Detroit Ambassador Bridge Wineries Share Ambassador Bridge spans the Detroit River, connecting the city of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, to the Michigan city of Detroit . If you contrast the trade volume of other borders between the United States and Canada or Mexico, the Ambassador Bridge Detroit represents the busiest of all international border crossing points in North America. One of the interesting Ambassador Bridge facts is that it is privately owned and maintained as a profit-making business, very unusual for an international border crossing that is so important. Another of the unusual Ambassador Bridge facts is that its sections from the anchorage points to the main towers are not suspended, but rather supported by a network of deck truss spans. The Ambassador Bridge was completed in 1929, and was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. The George Washington Bridge in New York City replaced it in the record books in 1931. The state of Michigan, in fact, is distinguished by having built two of the world’s longest suspension bridges. The Mackinac Bridge that connects the two non-contiguous sections of Michigan was the other. The Ambassador Bridge Detroit is now the 60th longest suspension bridge in the world. There are several Ambassador Bridge neighborhoods of particular note. Mexicantown, with about a 50 percent population of Hispanics is an emerging center of business and commerce, and (as its name suggests) boasts a number of excellent Mexican restaurants. Plans for a roadway providing direct access to the bridge is sure to make this area even more popular. Downtown Detroit is located along the riverfront just to the northeast of the bridge, and is the central business district. A revitalization of the riverfront has added many new attractions. There are Detroit casinos here, including the Greektown Casino , the MotorCity Casino, and the MGM Grand Casino . This is also the site of numerous Detroit hotels . There are also casinos across the river in Windsor, so many people use the Ambassador Bridge Detroit to get back and forth between them. Michigan Map Also across the river in Windsor are two other Ambassador Bridge neighborhoods of note. One is Walkerville, the historic center of the city. Here are some of the most beautiful and historic mansions in the area, including the Willistead Manor designed by famed architect Albert Kahn who is often referred to as Detroit’s architect. Ten of his buildings are recognized as Michigan historic landmarks. Sandwich Towne overlooks the bridge. It was founded in 1748 and is the oldest continually occupied town in Canada west of Montreal. The sidewalk and bicycle path was closed after the September 11 terrorist attacks, which has led to controversy and complaints from the public. In an attempt to draw attention to the need of this non-vehicle route, the Ambassador Bridge facts added an annual Bike the Bridge event in 2009. Only 60 cyclists participated in that event in which on direction of the roadway was closed to vehicle traffic. The owners of the bridge are cooperating with the event organizers, and this could be a groundbreaking event that could change the ban. Hotels
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Mad Max: Fury Road YIFY subtitles source Superficial action movie that lacks depth4/10 I'm not completely sure what I was expecting from Fury Road, but it was more than this. This is the latest example of Hollywood rehashing a successful and good movie franchise solely for profit. It's mindless, repetitive action sequences melded between horrible acting and overused cliches. One of the allures of this series is seeing the outlandish road vehicles that are used, and in this the movie mostly delivers. You have the high-powered Warrior Rig driven by Furiosa. There's battle vehicles equipped with spikes, rigs with counter-balanced poles for launching warriors into other vehicles, and there's even a vehicle equipped with large bass drums and a stack of speakers that would make KISS jealous with a psychotic guitarist wailing away for our musical enjoyment. And of course, each vehicle comes equipped with more explosive arsenal than a battle ship. And it's put to good use. However, once you get past the eye candy, you realize there's nothing else to it. The story is weak. The characters are weaker. And the acting is the worst. The movie never drew me in. Not even close. Whenever the movie 'tried' to add depth and be dramatic, it was painful and embarrassing to watch. The scene where Furiosa reacts to finding out her birth home is gone by taking off her prosthetic arm and dropping down to her knees may be the worst movie scene I've ever watched. And it says something when the most interesting character is Nux, a relentless slave/warrior who actually has a mind of his own and decides to help Max and Furiosa in their quest. Of course, one of Immortan Joe's wives falls for him, representing one of the many poorly executed cliches this movie is riddled with. I can watch a superficial action movie and enjoy it for what it is, to a point. This one, however, is just generally so poorly executed that it leaves a lot to be desired. I didn't hate it, but I have absolutely no desire to see it again. source Dark Yet Visually Exhilarating. Beautifully Brutal and Yet Still Visceral9/10 Even at the beginning, there's no hint MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is going to a stop. Right at the very start, the engines are already rewing, gathering furious fires of vengeance and redemption, and before the audience could snap out of the sheer moments of brutal grittiness and exhilarating high-octane drama, they are surely already held hostage within the confines of a post-apocalyptic world, where everything is horrendously scarce. Not that it's a bad thing, no it's not. I tell you, this is like being hurled into the space in a roller-coaster ride. It's dangerous, but it's also thrilling. Witnessing this dystopic world and all its hellish drama unfold might make you grope for seatbelt under your seat. The film shares Max Rockatansky's (Tom Hardy) adventures. Max is an ex highway patrolman. He's been haunted by the past, by family he never saved. He meets the Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) who is being pursued by the dictatorial Wasteland leader "Joe". Furiosa reaches for Max for help in keeping the 'Five Wives'women she brought with herinto safety, as Joe's deranged breed of warriors called The War Boys, that are barely humans, are raging across the desert to capture them. This pursuit throws the unlikely partners into the whalloping dangers of bloody escape, suddenly sending them into a game of survival. After a rip-roaring opening chase sequence, Max is held captive in the Citadel, the city where the ruthlessly totalitarian leader "Joe" is ruling over. The grotesquely brutal lord maintains tight grip of every valuable resouces across the land. This brings the entire populace crippling under his control. As for Max, he becomes merely a blood bag for Nux (Nick Hoult) one of Joe's War Boys, who is a fatal devout to the cause of their fascist leader, who has promised them the glory of getting into Valhalla, the promised land. Everything in this cinematic behemoth screams grandeur, even the feverish chase, even the dark erubescents spurred from the ruthless viol
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DR STRANGELOVE : definition of DR STRANGELOVE and synonyms of DR STRANGELOVE (English) Box office $9,164,370 (US) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare . It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick , starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott , and featuring Sterling Hayden , Keenan Wynn , and Slim Pickens . The film is loosely based on Peter George 's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert , also known as Two Hours to Doom. The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union . It follows the President of the United States , his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse . It separately follows the crew of one B-52 as they try to deliver their payload. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry . It was listed as number three on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs . Contents 9 External links Plot United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper ( Sterling Hayden ) is the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which hosts the 843rd Bomb Wing of nuclear-armed B-52s . The base's aircraft are currently part of a SAC airborne alert force, holding at their fail-safe locations only hours from Soviet airspace. Ripper calls Group Captain Lionel Mandrake ( Peter Sellers ), a Royal Air Force exchange officer serving as General Ripper's executive officer , and has him place the base on alert and issue attack orders to the aircraft. Mandrake initially suspects this is a drill, but Ripper tells him it is not. Onboard the aircraft, the attack code is received and the crews express concern about whether or not it is real. After receiving confirmation from Burpelson, they begin their attack. As part of this process, the aircrew enter a code into their CRM 114 Discriminator, which blocks any unauthorized radio transmissions. When Mandrake discovers the country is not at war, he confronts Ripper, demanding the code. Ripper refuses, locking them into his office. In the " War Room " at The Pentagon , General Buck Turgidson ( George C. Scott ) briefs President Merkin Muffley (Sellers). When the president asks whether or not the bombers will stop at their fail-safe points, Turgidson notes they were already there, and only the recall code will be useful. He mentions the problems with the CRM and states they are trying every possible code, although he admits this will take over two days. When the president asks how the attack could be carried out without his direct authorization, Turgidson notes the president himself signed the orders to remove this requirement to allow counterattacks in the event a Soviet first strike obliterated Washington. When President Muffley angrily begins to question the wisdom of the plan, the general states he does not "think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up". Muffley proposes that troops be sent to the Air Force base to seize Ripper (and hopefully force the recall code from him), Turgidson warns that General Ripper will have put the security forces there on high alert. The Army general dismisses this concern, stating the airborne units being sent would brush them aside. In the meantime, Turgidson tries to persuade Muffley to seize the moment and eliminate the Soviet Union by launching a full-scale attack. The general believes that a first strike would destroy the majority of the Soviets' missiles before they could retaliate. Even if the remainder were launched, the US would suffer only "ten, maybe twenty million dead". Muffley refuses to have any part of such a scheme, and instead summons the Soviet ambassador, Alexei de Sadeski ( Peter Bull ). The Ambassador calls Soviet premier Dimitri Kisov on the " Hot Line " and gives the Soviets information to help them shoot do
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Cold War (1947-1991) | Lies, Liars, Beatniks & Hippies: War Lies, Liars, Beatniks & Hippies: War For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation) . Photograph of the Berlin Wall taken from the West side. The Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing Communism and to stop an economically disastrous drain of workers. It was an iconic symbol of the Cold War and its fall in 1989 marked the approaching end of the War. Part of a series on the History of the Cold War Historiography The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States , its NATO allies and others such as Japan ) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in Warsaw Pact ). China was originally close to the USSR but became distanced over the question of fidelity to Marxism . Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1946-1991 is common. It was “cold” because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars in Korea , Vietnam and Afghanistan that the two sides supported. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany , leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences over communism and capitalism , totalitarianism and liberal democracy. A self-proclaimed neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement founded by Egypt, India, and Yugoslavia ; this faction rejected association with either the US-led West or the Soviet-led East. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily in preparation of an all-out nuclear World War III. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that deterred an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total destruction of the attacker: the doctrine of mutually assured destruction or MAD. Aside from the development of the two sides’ nuclear arsenals , and deployment of conventional military forces, the struggle for dominance was expressed via proxy wars around the globe, psychological warfare , propaganda and espionage , and technological competitions such as the Space Race . The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. The USSR consolidated its control over the states of the Eastern Bloc while the United States began a strategy of global containment to challenge Soviet power, extending military and financial aid to the countries of Western Europe (for example, supporting the anti-Communist side in the Greek Civil War ) and creating the NATO alliance. The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was the first major crisis of the Cold War. With victory of the Communist side in the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950–53), the conflict expanded. The USSR and USA competed for influence in Latin America and decolonizing states of Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was brutally crushed by the Soviets. The expansion and escalation sparked more crises, such as the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961 , the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Following this last crisis a new phase began that saw the Sino-Soviet split complicate relations within the Communist sphere while US allies, particularly France, demonstrated greater independence of action. The USSR crushed the 1968 Prague Spring liberalization program in Czechoslovakia and the Vietnam War (1955–1975) ended with a defeat of the US-backed Republic of South Vietnam , prompting further adjustments. By the 1970s both sides had become interested in accommodations to create a more stable and predictable international system, inaugurating a period of détente that saw Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the US opening relations with the People’s Republic of China as a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union. Détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the Soviet war in Afghanistan beginning in 1979. The early 1980s were another period of elevated tension, with
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Who patented the 'Zip fastener' in 1893?
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The History of the Zipper - Who Invented the Zipper? The History of the Zipper The History of the Zipper YKK on Zipper. Courtesy MorgueFile By Mary Bellis Updated August 10, 2016. It was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept our lives "together" in many ways. On its way up the zipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, though none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday fashion. It was the magazine and fashion industry that made the novel zipper the popular item it is today. The story begins when Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine, received a patent in 1851 for an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure." It didn't go much further beyond that though. Perhaps it was the success of the sewing machine, that caused Elias not to pursue marketing his clothing closure system. As a result, Howe missed his chance to become the recognized "Father of the Zip." Forty-four years later, Whitcomb Judson, who also invented the "Pneumatic Street Railway," marketed a "Clasp Locker" device similar to system described in the 1851 Howe patent. continue reading below our video Should I Buy my House or Continue to Rent? Being first to market, Whitcomb got credit for being the "Inventor of the Zipper," However, his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper. The Chicago inventor's "Clasp Locker" was a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener . Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The clasp locker debuted at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and was met with little commercial success. It was a Swedish-born electrical engineer named Gideon Sundback whose work helped make the zipper the hit it is today. Originally hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company, his design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led to a position as head designer at Universal. In his position, he improved the far from perfect "Judson C-curity Fastener." And when Sundback's wife died in 1911, the grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913, came up with what would become the modern zipper. Gideon Sundback's new and improved system increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven, had two facing-rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. His patent for the "Separable Fastener" was issued in 1917. Sundback also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. The "S-L" or scrapless machine took a special Y-shaped wire and cut scoops from it, then punched the scoop dimple and nib and clamped each scoop on a cloth tape to produce a continuous zipper chain. Within the first year of operation, Sundback's zipper-making machine was producing a few hundred feet of fastener per day. The popular "zipper" name came from the B. F. Goodrich Company, which decided to use Gideon's fastener on a new type of rubber boots or galoshes. Boots and tobacco pouches with a zippered closure were the two chief uses of the zipper during its early years. It took twenty more years to convince the fashion industry to seriously promote the novel closure on garments. In the 1930's, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring zippers. The campaign advocated zippers as a way to promote self-reliance in young children as the devices made it possible for them to dress in self-help clothing. A landmark moment happened in 1937 when the zipper beat the button in the "Battle of the Fly." French fashion designers raved over the use of zippers in men's trousers and Esquire magazine declared the zipper the "Newest Tailoring Idea for Men." Among the zippered fly's many virtues was that it would exclude "The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray." The next big boost for the zipper came when devices that open on both ends arrived, such as on jackets. Today the zipper is everywhere, in clothing, luggage, leather goods and cou
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Paper Clip History - Invention of the Paper Clip American Milestones: 1867 Samuel Fay invents and patents a Ticket Fastener that also can be used to hold paper 1899 William D. Middlebrook invents and patents paper clip and production machine 1899 Middlebrook sells patent to Cushman & Denison 1899 Cushman & Denison trademark the name GEM for their paper clip 1901 Johan Vaaler patents paper clip 1903 George McGill patents a paper clip that looks very similar to today's version paper clip, gem paper clip, fastener, clasp, george middlebrook, cushman and denison, johan vaaler, samuel fay, george mvgill, invention, history, inventor of, history of, who invented, invention of, fascinating facts. The Story: Consider the humble paper clip: Its just a thin piece of steel wire bent into a double-oval shape, but over the past century, no one has invented a better method of holding loose sheets of paper together. The common paper clip is a wonder of simplicity and function, so it seems puzzling that it wasnt invented earlier. For centuries, straight pins, string and other materials were used as fasteners, but they punctured or damaged the papers. While the paper clip seems like such an obvious solution, its success had to wait for the invention of steel wire, which was "elastic" enough to be stretched, bent and twisted. The first paper clip was invented in 1867 by Samuel Fay. The patent (#64,088) was issued on April 23, 1867 for a Ticket Fastener. Fay specified in the description that in addition to attaching tickets to garments it could be used to hold papers together. Fay's design along with the 50 other designs patented prior to 1899 are not even close to the modern design we know today. But the modern paper clip existed on paper as early as April 27, 1899. It appears on a patent (#636,272) issued November 9, 1899 to William D. Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut. Middlebrook invented not just the paper clip but he also invented a machine to produce the paper clip. The patent drawings clearly show the final product, the common paper clip. In his description he makes reference that both the machine and the paper clip design are to be covered by the patent. Cushman and Denison a manufacturing company already in the paper clip and office supply buisness purchased the Middlebrook patent in 1899. That same year Cushman and Denison also trademarked the name "GEM" for their new paper clip. The design was perfected further by rounding the sharp points of the wire so they wouldnt catch, scratch or tear the papers. By 1907, the Gem brand rose to prominence as the perfect paper clip that "will hold securely your letters, documents, or memoranda without perforation or mutilation until you wish to release them." Since then, literally zillions of paper clips have been sold. Over the years, many different inventors have been credited with the invention of the paper clip. First because so many patents were issued and second because their are so many design possibilities. One of the most prolific inventors was George McGill who patent under his name or in conjunction with other inventors over 15 different designs from 1888 to 1903. His 1903 patent (#742,893) even shows a design that looks like Middlebrook's. But the inventor who is named the most often as the inventor is Johan Vaaler. He properly is named most often because the story surrounding his paper clip makes for good reading. In 1899 a Norwegian named Johan Vaaler, patented the paper clip in Germany because Norway had no patent law at the time. Vaaler's device received an American patent (#675,761) in 1901. Vaaler's American patent drawing shows several kinds of paper clips, from square to triangular to one that looks a lot like the elliptical ones in wide use today. But the wire does not form t
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BBC - Travel - Stepping back in time in Socotra Nature & Outdoors Stepping back in time in Socotra As visitors flock to see the Yemen island’s Candyland-like features, the increase in tourism is both helping to ease poverty and straining traditional ways of life. By Tik Root 10 May 2013 Nestled high on a plateau between the Haghier mountain range and the Arabian Sea, five Socotrans gathered in a stone hut devoid of electricity, running water and all but the most essential supplies. After a fire-cooked dinner of goat, rice and tea, a group of Dixam plateau men settled in for a standard night of song, poetry and discussion about their island’s future. Related article: Oman’s underground playgrounds Socotra is an island of roughly 50,000 people located 380km off the coast of Yemen, the country to which it only technically belongs. Far removed from the political and security instability on the mainland, Socotra’s stunning microclimates, exceptional biodiversity and Candyland-like features make it an inimitable paradise. A Unesco World Heritage Site , the Socotra archipelago is home to hundreds of endemic or endangered plant and animal species. The iconic “Dragon’s Blood” tree (Dracaena cinnabari), for instance, defies expectations, with moisture-capturing canopies that reach toward the sky and sap that runs red, giving the plant its name. Socotran culture is equally unique, having been preserved by centuries of near total isolation. As is typical of the island’s residents, none of the men in Dixam know their age, let alone their birthdate. A few are fluent in Arabic, but most prefer to speak Socotri, a sharp yet pleasant native language spoken only on the island. Since 1999 though, when a commercial airport was built on the outskirts of the capital Hadibu, outsiders have started to discover Socotra, a trend that is helping to ease poverty and diversify the economy, but is also putting the traditional way of life at risk. “We protect the environment and nature because when visitors come they are comfortable,” said one man in the hut, unconsciously verbalising Socotra’s shift from a self-sufficient oasis to one increasingly reliant on external support. Over the last decade, tourism has been a boon to the economy. The pristine environment and untouched feel makes Socotra an alluring, yet under-travelled destination. Visitors can wander over cragged peaks, through Dragon's Blood forests, deep into stalagmite caves and across white sand dunes before plunging into the crisp, blue ocean. They can hike the 1,520m-high Skand peak, swim alongside dolphins, rock climb, lounge on world-class beaches or stop and try the locals’ fermented goat’s milk; no doubt an acquired taste. From the western-most city of Qalansiyah to the Dihamri Protected Area on the island’s northeastern point, goats are a notably ubiquitous part of the landscape. Brought to Socotra centuries ago by sailors, they reproduced rapidly and are now a staple of island life, providing both food and income for their owners. Unfortunately, they also eat virtually everything in their path, including the seedlings of rare plants. Harry Jans, a passionate traveller and amateur botanist, learned about Socotra after seeing a picture of the Dragon’s Blood tree on the side of a garbage can at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Intrigued, he typed the words into Google and was blown away by the strange images before him. A quick search for Socotra brings up not only the Dragon’s Blood, but also the gnome of the plant world: the endemic Desert Rose (Adenium obesum sokotranum). With its stout, branchless trunk topped with tufts of green leaves, the Desert Rose is the island’s most well-known type of Bottle tree, a variety that survives in island’s drier regions by storing water in their trunks. “This is an inspection tour to get more info about Socotra,” he explained less than a year later, sitting on a beach during a break from snorkelling in Dihamri. Jans leads botanical tours around the world, and plans to return to Socotra again in 2015 with, as he puts it, “20 plant freaks”. Des
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Free Flashcards about GK 6 Which horse was involved in the 1913 incident that killed Emily Davison? Anmer What is the meaning of "discursive"? digressing from subject to subject What was the German 'Jugendstil' known as in Britain and the USA? Art Nouveau The artists Odilon Redon and Fernand Khnopff were most closely associated with which artistic movement? Symbolism What nationality was artist Fernand Khnopff? Belgian What is the meaning of 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc'? "After which, therefore because of which" In which year did BBC Radio 2, in the guise of the BBC Light Programme, start broadcasting? 1945 What radio programme used the signature tune "At The Sign Of The Swinging Cymbal" by Bryan Fahey? Pick of The Pops Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain, was which Roman writer's father-in-law? Tacitus Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain, was recalled in disgrace by which Emperor? Domitian Which Iron Age tribe had a capital at Emain Macha in Ulster? Ulaid Who had a 1955 Number 1 with "Softly, Softly"? Ruby Murray Who had UK hits with "Be My Love" and "Because You're Mine"? Mario Lanza Who took "Rose Marie" to No 1 spot in the UK IN 1954? Slim Whitman In 1955 Jimmy Young had a No 1 single with "The Man From..." - where? Laramie Which singer was the indirect cause of 1944's Columbus Day Riot? Frank Sinatra In which year did "Rock Around The Clock" hit No 1 in both the UK and the US? 1955 Both "boogie-woogie" and "rock and roll" supposedly got their names from what? Euphemisms for sex Who coined the term "Rhythm and Blues"? Jerry Wexler Which Cleveland DJ is usually credited with coining the term "rock n roll" to apply to the music of that style? Alan Freed Which band were originally called "The Rambling Yodeller And The Sandmen"? Bill Haley & The Comets Who had a 1950s hit with "Be-Bop-A Lula"? Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps Which chemical elements occupy positions 89-103 on the Periodic Table? Actinides What name is given to a 3D co-ordinate system with three planes, x, y, and Z? Cartesian What are the names given to the three sides of a right-angled triangle? Hypotenuse, Base, Altitude If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is sinθ equal to? a/c If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is cosθ equal to? b/c If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is tanθ equal to? a/b (or sinθ/cosθ) What is the meaning of sin(squared)θ? sinθsinθ An object that has both magnitude and direction in space Which letters are traditionally used for the three base vectors? i, j, k Who had a 1962 Number 1 with "Wonderful Land"? The Shadows Which artistic group was founded in 1911 by Kandinsky and Marc? Der Blaue Reiter Artist Franz Marc was born in wRhich country? Germany Who painted "Luxe, Calme et Volupte"? Matisse Who is generally held to be the originator of the Suprematist art movement? Malevich The artists Boccioni, Carra and Severeni, all Italians, belonged to which movement? Futurism What was the real name of The Big Bopper, who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly? JP Richardson What was the stage name of the singer Rosemary Brown? Dana Which country singer got to No. 1 in the UK with "Coward Of The County"? Kenny Rogers Who composed "The Stars And Stripes Forever"? John Phillip Sousa Who composed the waltz "Tales From The Vienna Woods"? Johann Strauss Robert-Francois Damiens attempted to assassinate (and failed, although he did wound) which king? Louis XV of France When was the Seven Years' War? 1756-63 Whose final work was 1804's "Opus Postumum"? Kant The Pregolya River, which features in Euler's 'Seven Bridges'problem, runs through which city? Kaliningrad Who wrote 1848's "The Principles Of Political Economy"? John Stuart Mill What is defined as "the composite of an organism's observable traits"? Phenotype The Japanese word 'hara',
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BINGO (Learn It) - Super Simple Learning BINGO (Learn It) Language Focus Other songs about: alphabet/spelling , intonation/rhythm Letter recognition, simple spelling and English intonation patterns. BINGO (Learn It) Lyrics and Actions ♫ There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. [Pat your legs to the rhythm.] B-I-N-G-O [Point to the letter picture cards.] B-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. [Pat your legs to the rhythm.] (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "B" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. (* = clap) (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "I" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "N" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-*-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "G" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-*-*-O And Bingo was his name-o. (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "O" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-*-*-* And Bingo was his name-o. (Remove all the "clapping hands" picture cards.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. B-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. ♫ Preparation Print the picture cards and use them as you sing the song. Place the B, I, N, G, and O cards at the front of the room. Before singing the song, introduce or review the letters. As you sing the song, place the "clapping hands" picture cards over the letters one by one as you progress through each verse (or print a hand card on the back of each letter and flip them over). This will help students understand when and how many times to clap in addition to developing letter recognition skills. Classroom Benefits "BINGO" is a popular kids' song that follows a familiar pattern. For each verse, remove one letter and replace it with a hand clap. It is a great introduction to spelling, good for listening comprehension and helps kids develop rhythm. Activity Ideas Pause the song before each verse and select a student to come up and cover (or turn over) the next card. 1 Instead of clapping, try rhythm sticks, tambourines, or any of your favorite noisemakers. 2 After you learn this song, you can sing it without the CD and practice spelling other words. For more information on this, see our blog post on a holiday version of BINGO . 3 Your Videos
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Bingo Number-calling Nicknames 35.. Jump and jive - Flirty wives 36.. Three dozen - Perfect (as in 36-24-36) - Yardstick... he wishes! (USA) 37.. A flea in heaven - More than eleven 38.. Christmas cake 39.. Those famous steps - All the steps - Jack Benny 40.. Two score - Life begins at - Blind 40 - Naughty 40 - Mary (USA) 41.. Life�s begun - Time for fun 42.. That famous street in Manhattan - Whinny the Poo 43.. Down on your knees 44.. Droopy drawers - All the fours - Open two doors - Magnum (USA) 45.. Halfway house - Halfway there - Cowboy's friend - Colt (USA) 46.. Up to tricks 48.. Four dozen 49.. PC (Police Constable) - Copper - Nick nick - Rise and shine 50.. Bulls eye - Bung hole - Blind 50 - Half a century - Snow White's number (five-oh - five-oh..) - Hawaii five O, Hawaii (USA) 51.. I love my mum - Tweak of the thumb - The Highland Div[ision] - President's salute 52.. Weeks in a year - The Lowland Div[ision] - Danny La Rue - Pack 'o cards - Pickup (USA) 53.. Stuck in the tree - The Welsh Div[ision] - The joker 54.. Clean the floor - House of bamboo (famous song) 55.. Snakes alive - All the fives - Double nickels - Give us fives - Bunch of fives 56.. Was she worth it? 57.. Heinz varieties - All the beans (Heinz 57 varieties of canned beans) 58.. Make them wait - Choo choo Thomas 59.. Brighton line (engine 59 or it took 59 mins to go from London to Brighton) 60.. Three score - Blind 60 - Five dozen 61.. Bakers bun 62.. Tickety boo - Turn on the screw 63.. Tickle me - Home ball (USA) 64.. The Beatles number - Red raw 65.. Old age pension - Stop work (retirement age) 66.. Clickety click - All the sixes - Quack quack (USA) 67.. Made in heaven - Argumentative number 68.. Saving grace - Check your weight 69.. The same both ways - Your place or mine? - Any way up - Either way up - Any way round - Meal for two - The French connection - Yum yum - Happy meal (USA) 70.. Three score and ten - Blind 70 - Big O (USA) 71.. Bang on the drum - Lucky one 72.. A crutch and a duck - Six dozen - Par for the course (golf) - Lucky two 73.. Crutch with a flea - Queen B - Under the tree - Lucky three 74.. Candy store - Grandmamma of Bingo - Lucky four 75.. Strive and strive - Big Daddy - Granddaddy of Bingo - Lucky five 76.. Trombones - Seven 'n' six - was she worth it? - Lucky six 77.. Sunset strip - All the sevens - Two little crutches - The double hockey stick - Lucky seven 78.. Heavens gate - Lucky eight 79.. One more time - Lucky nine 80.. Gandhi's breakfast - Blind 80 - Eight and blank - There you go matey 81.. Fat lady and a little wee - Stop and run - Corner shot 82.. Fat lady with a duck - Straight on through 83.. Fat lady with a flea - Time for tea - Ethel's Ear 84.. Seven dozen 87.. Fat lady with a crutch - Torquay in Devon 88.. Two fat ladies - Wobbly wobbly - All the eights 89.. Nearly there - All but one 90.. Top of the shop - Top of the house - Blind 90 - As far as we go - End of the line Explanations of some nicknames: 1 Kelly's eye: In reference to the one-eyed Australian bushranger gangster Ned Kelly. (Note: apparently this explanation is incorrect. A viewer from Australia sent this message: "Ned Kelly didn't have one eye! He didn't even lose an eye in the shoot out at Glenrowan. And when he was wearing his helmet, you couldn't even see his eyes through the slot." But another Australian viewer sent this explanation: "The reason for "Kellys eye" may have been referring to Ned Kelly's helmet, which had one large slot for his eyes that looked like one eye.") 2 One little duck: The shape looks a bit like a swan. 3 One little flea: Looks a bit like a flea. 7 One little crutch: Looks like a crutch. 8 One fat lady: Resembles the two halves of a large lady. 9 Doctor's orders: A pill known as Number 9 was a laxative given out by army doctors in Britain. Apparently in the second world war in Britain doctors wrote on sick notes a 9 pm curfew, thus if patients were found out of their homes after that time they were violating their sick note. (Provided by a visitor) The curfew story's not true. In the Great War, however, there was su
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With Halifax as its capital, what Canadian provinces' name literally translates as New Scotland?
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Canadian Capital Cities Halifax: Founded June 21, 1749, and named for George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax (1716-71), then President of the Board of Trade. Became the capital of Nova Scotia on July 14, 1749. Nova Scotia: The Latin form of New Scotland. FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK Fredericton: Assigned by order-in-council, February 22, 1785 - "a town at St. Anne's Point, on the River Saint John, to be called Fredericktown after His Royal Highness Prince Frederick, Bishop of Osnaburg". The "k" and "w" were dropped shortly thereafter. New Brunswick: Was named in 1784 in honour of the reigning Monarch, King George II was also the Duke of Brunswick. CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Charlottetown: Listed as Charlotte Town on the Holland Survey map of 1765, the city was named for Queen Charlotte, (1744-1818), the consort of King George III. Incorporated as a town in 1855 and as a city in 1875. Prince Edward Island: Was named in 1799 after a son of King George III, Prince Edward who was commander in chief of British North America at the time. QUÉBEC, QUEBEC Quebec: Derived from the Amerindian word kebek, indicating a strait or channel that narrows. The name was applied first to the region of the modern city and the word is of undoubted Algonquin origin. Early spellings: Quebecq (Levasseur, 1601); Kébec (Lescarbot, 1609); Quebec (Champlain, 1613). Champlain wrote of the location in 1632: "It...is a strait of the river, so called by the Indians" - a reference to the Algonquin word for "narrow passage" or "strait" to indicate the narrowing of the river at Cape Diamond. The term is common to the Algonquin, Cree, and Micmac languages and signifies the same in each dialect. Quebec: Was named in 1763, after the Algonquin word for narrow passage. TORONTO, ONTARIO Toronto: Details surrounding exact origin are uncertain. For many years it was thought to stem from a Huron word translated as "a place of meeting"; however, recent scholarship indicates that it may be of Mohawk origin. The Mohawk descriptive phrase tkaronto was used to indicate the fishing weirs located at The Narrows near present day Orillia. Literally translated as "where there are trees standing in the water", the name was noted by Champlain in 1615. Over time it was to move 125 kilometres southward to the site of the city of Toronto (Rayburn, 1994). Listed as Tarantou (Sanson, 1656); in 1793 Governor John Graves Simcoe moved the capital from Newark (Niagara) to Toronto Bay and renamed it York. In 1834 the city was incorporated as Toronto. Contemporary Metropolitan Toronto comprises the cities of Toronto, North York, Scarborough, York, Etobicoke and the borough of East York. Ontario: Is of Native origin from the Huron words, "onitari" for lake and "io" for beautiful; and the Iroquoian word "kanadario" for sparkling water. It appeared in 1641 and was applied to the province in 1867. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA Winnipeg: This name is from the Cree Winnipi and may be freely translated as "dirty water" or "murky water". The lake was designated as Sea Lake by Thompson in 1816. Metropolitan Winnipeg, an amalgamation of neighbouring municipalities, was created November 1, 1960, and reorganized as the city of Winnipeg, January 1, 1972. Manitoba: Comes from Manitou bou, which in Cree means, " narrows of the Great Spirit ". Regina: Assigned August 23, 1882, by the Governor General, the Marquess of Lorne (1845-1914), in honour of his wife's mother, Queen Victoria. Originally called Pile O'Bones. Saskatchewan: Was derived from the Cree name for the Saskatchewan River, "Ksiskatchewananisipi" which means "swift flowing river". EDMONTON, ALBERTA Edmonton: Name taken from Fort Edmonton, built in 1795 farther down the North Saskatchewan River than the present city. The fort was destroyed in 1807, but was relocated within the site of the present city limits by the Hudson's Bay Company some time before 1819. The fort is reputed to have been named by William Tomison for Edmonton, now part of metropolitan London, England, in hono
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How many provinces and territories make up Canada? How many provinces and territories make up Canada? How many provinces and territories make up Canada? How many provinces and territories make up Canada? Ten provinces and three territories make up Canada, which is the second-largest country by territory. The main difference between territories and provinces is that the former derive their powers and mandates from the federal government while the latter derive their authority and powers from the Constitution Act. In other words, the territories are not considered sovereign. The three territories are Yukon , Nunavut , and Northwest Territories . The capital of the Northwest Territories is Yellowknife , and Aboriginal people make up the majority or 50.3 percent of the population. Nunavut is the newest and the largest Canadian territory, and it was separated from the Northwest Territories through two formal agreements. Nunavut is the size of Western Europe, and it is the least populous Canadian territory. Its population is around 31,900, and most residents are Inuit. Yukon is the smallest, westernmost Canadian federal territory, named after the Yukon River. Alberta is a prairie province and the fourth largest in Canada. It has a population of 3.6 million, and its capital city is Edmonton . British Columbia is part of the Pacific Northwest, and it is the westernmost Canadian province. The capital city is Victoria , and the largest city is Vancouver . Manitoba is a prairie province with a flat topography, largely continental climate , and more than 110,000 lakes. Major industries are agriculture, tourism, energy, forestry, mining, and manufacturing. Winnipeg is the capital and the largest city of Manitoba. New Brunswick is one of the 3 maritime provinces of Canada and the only bilingual province . The largest city is Saint John, and the capital city is Fredericton . Newfoundland and Labrador incorporates mainland Labrador and the island Newfoundland. It is the easternmost Canadian province, and its largest city and capital is St. John�s . The island has its dialects of Irish, French, and English. Nova Scotia is the second smallest Canadian province and one of the Maritime Provinces. The provincial capital of Nova Scotia is Halifax . Ontario is the most populous province, which is located in the east-central part of the country. Te province is home to the national capital Ottawa and the most populous Canadian city, Toronto . Ontario is divided into Southern and Northern Ontario, and the province�s arable land is found in the southern part where the majority of residents live. Prince Edward Island is the smallest province in land area and population. The capital city of this maritime province is Charlottetown . Quebec is found in east-central Canada and is the second largest province by administrative division and the largest by area. The capital city of Quebec is Quebec City , and most residents live in urban areas between Quebec City and Montreal , near the Saint Lawrence River. The population of Quebec is predominantly French-speaking. English-speaking communities are present in Gaspe, Eastern Townships, and Outaouais, and west of the island of Montreal. Finally, Saskatchewan is a prairie province, bordered by the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Manitoba, and the U.S. states North Dakota and Montana. The provincial capital is Regina and the largest city � Saskatoon.
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Who was mayor of New York during the race riots of 1996?
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The Night New York Avoided a Riot - The Morning News The Morning News New York, April 1968. Credit: John VanderHaagen . The Night New York Avoided a Riot by Clay Risen In the days following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, more than 100 cities experienced significant civil disturbance. In New York, everyone expected riots. What happened next. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis a little after 6 p.m., Central Standard Time, on April 4, 1968. As the news spread around the country, angry and grieving inner-city residents poured into the streets. In many places, marches and protests broke out; in some, the crowds turned violent. Scores of shops and restaurants along Washington’s 14th Street were looted that night, and several were set on fire, some only a few minutes’ drive from the White House. Over the following few days, more than 100 cities would experience significant civil disturbance. In many cases it took National Guard troops to bring peace, and in three—Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington—it took thousands of active Army and Marine units. Strangely, however, New York City almost completely avoided violence, despite widespread expectation during the previous year that the city was due for a massive riot. This is the story of how the city avoided conflagration on that first, tense night. The following is excerpted from Clay Risen’s book, A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination . The nation’s capital wasn’t the only place teetering on the edge of violence. Memphis remained surprisingly calm, but in the middle of the state, four thousand Tennessee National Guardsmen deployed in northern Nashville after reports of vandalism and looting began pouring into police headquarters. Farther east, in Raleigh, North Carolina, a march near predominantly black Shaw University descended into a window-smashing spree, and police sealed off the area. Cops used tear gas in Jackson, Mississippi, after a mob started breaking car windows and set a reporter’s car on fire. Molotov cocktails ignited a furniture store in Houston. Hartford, Connecticut, and Tallahassee, Florida, experienced minor riots, while police battled with youths throwing bottles and rocks in two separate sections of Newark. But with Memphis intact, the real concern shifted to New York. Ever since the 1965 Watts riot, the media, the public, and the city and federal governments had assumed that the Big Apple was in for a major conflagration—“the mother of confrontations between black youths and the police force,” as New York magazine later characterized it. Almost as soon as the news of King’s death hit the airwaves, Harlem residents were out in the streets. Music-store owners pointed speakers out their front doors, playing recordings of King’s speeches. Like the crowds in Washington, most people were looking for comfort, conversation, and more news. But others were expressing their anger in more direct ways, harassing motorists and roughing up pedestrians. When H. Rap Brown came to town talking about violent revolution, a drug dealer and his crew jumped him, saying, “If you ever come back here talking that sort of shit, we’ll kill you.” In midtown Manhattan, Mayor John Lindsay was at the Alvin Theater, sitting through the first act of a new Broadway musical, The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n, starring his friend Tom Bosley. Lindsay was a liberal Republican, one of the most liberal in national politics. It was he who, as deputy chair, had pushed the Kerner Riot Commission to blame “white racism” for the riots, and it was he who had urged its members to call for massive new federal spending efforts. First elected in 1965, Lindsay had spent most of the previous summer dealing with minor and not-so-minor outbreaks of violence around northern Manhattan and Brooklyn, a few of which would have been classified as full-scale riots in other cities. A July 1967 disturbance involving several hundred people in East Harlem resulted in the looting of 25 stores and three deaths. But Lindsay ruled this merely an “anti-police demonstrat
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New York City, New York (U.S.) This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website New York City, New York (U.S.) Courtesy of Joe McMillan, 4 June 2000 See also: History of New York City subdivisions by Harry Macy, Jr. Boroughs/Counties of New York City Boroughs and counties refer to the same geographical entities. New York (City) contains five subdivisions, called boroughs. The boroughs are also counties, making New York (City) one of the only (perhaps *the* only) cities in the U.S. which has counties contained *within*. As counties, they are entitled to have county governments, including sheriffs, etc. The borough of Brooklyn, where I grew up, was an independent city till the end of the 19th century. In fact, Brooklyn had been itself originally composed of villages. One of them, Flatbush, had its own Town Hall. Lewis A. Nowitz, 1 July 2000 The Official City Flag From Official Directory of New York City - Description: A flag combining the colors orange, white and blue arranged in perpendicular bars of equal dimensions (the blue being nearest to the flagstaff) with the standard design of the seal of the city in blue upon the middle, or white bar, bearing the number 1625, which colors shall be the same as those of the flag of the United Netherlands in use in the year sixteen hundred twenty-five. Kurt Stutt, 1 July 1996 On December 30, 1977, the seal and flag were changed in two ways. First, the date appearing on the 1915 seal was changed from 1664, when the English captured the city, to 1625, the date of the original founding of the city by the Dutch. Secondly the clause in the ordinance regarding the inscription on the seal on the flag was changed from "shall" to "may", thereby creating two official variants of the flag, one with the inscription and one without. Unofficially, the seal in both forms is a bit elongated into a slight oval while the official seal is a circle. Both flags can be found in use. Dave Martucci, 24 November 2002 From the on-line city administrative code City Flag: § 2-103 Official city flag. a. The following design is hereby adopted as the design of the official flag of the city: 1. A flag combining the colors orange, white and blue arranged in perpendicular bars of equal dimensions (the blue being nearest to the flagstaff) with the standard design of the seal of the city in blue upon the middle, or white bar, omitting the legend "Sigillum Civitatis Novi Eboraci," which colors shall be the same as those of the flag of the United Netherlands in use in the year sixteen hundred twenty-five. Joe McMillan, 15 August 2003 Unofficial Flag Used Until 1915 image by Mark Sensen, 21 July 2001 (before 1915 an unofficial flag was in use: a white field with the seal of that time) In September 1609 Henry Hudson, commander of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Halve Maen (Half Moon) discovered Manhattan. The VOC however was not interested, although in the next years still some voyages were made by Dutch skippers. In 1614 exclusive privileges were given to the United New Netherland Company. In 1915 Fort Nassau was build near modern Albany, but the company was dissolved in 1618. In 1621 the newly-organized Dutch West India Company (GWC) was given an octroi by the Dutch Estates General for the monopoly of America and the west coast of Africa. Most attractive was the trade in beaver skins, and a beaver was the main feature on the New Netherland provincial seal. In 1625 Director-General Pieter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians and built there Fort Amsterdam and laid the foundations of New Amsterdam which became the capital of New Netherland and the other Dutch Colonies in the Americas. King Charles II of Great Britain disregarded the rights of the Dutch over New Netherland and granted it in 1664 to his brother James, Duke of York and Albany. The latter as Lord High Admiral of England set up an expedition. Because the defense of the colony was very weak, Director-General Peter Stuyvesant had to surrender on 29 August/8 September **. The very same day both the province and the city were
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Lobjoits, Webbs Wonderful and Winter Density are varieties of which summer vegetable?
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Butter Lettuces Soft Round Heads and Frilly Leaves Photo by: DK - The Complete Gardener's Guide © 2011 Dorling Kindersley Limited DK - The Complete Gardener's Guide , 2011 Dorling Kindersley Limited Probably the easiest and most rewarding of crops, fast-growing lettuce can be grown in the smallest of spaces, including containers, and will provide you with fresh salads all summer and even into the winter months. How to Grow Lettuce needs a bright spot, shaded from midday sun, and grows best at temperatures of 50–68 degrees F. It also prefers moist, free-draining soil, improved with well-rotted organic matter. For an early-summer harvest, sow hardy types outdoors in the late winter. Tender varieties can also be sown under cover in the winter and early spring, 1/2-inch deep in modules to be planted outside when the frost has passed. For summer crops, sow outdoors once temperatures rise to above 41 degrees F. Lettuce should be thinned or planted 6–12 inches apart, but this depends on the variety, so always check the packet. Keep plants well watered, especially during dry spells to help prevent bolting, and weed them often to reduce competition. Loose-leaf varieties can be harvested leaf by leaf as soon as they are large enough; harvest traditional hearting varieties as soon as a small heart develops, cutting them cleanly through their stems with a sharp knife. To prevent disease, clear away all plant debris after picking. Types of Lettuce to Try These various varieties of lettuce will provide you with a health mix of crisp greens: Loose-leaf: Try ‘Cocarde’, ‘Delicato’, ‘Fristina’, ‘Granada’, ‘Green Salad Bowl’, ‘Lollo Bionda’, ‘Lollo Rossa’, ‘Red Salad Bowl’, ‘Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo’ and ‘Verde a Foglia Riccia’ Butter: Try ‘All The Year Round’, ‘Buttercrunch’, ‘Cassandra’, ‘Clarion’, ‘Marvel of Four Seasons’, ‘Mottistone’ and ‘Tom Thumb’ Romaine: Try ‘Chartwell’, ‘Dazzle’, ‘Freckles’, ‘Frisco’, ‘Little Gem’, ‘Little Gem Pearl’, ‘Lobjoits Green Cos’, ‘Nymans’, ‘Pandero’, ‘Parris Island’, ‘Pinokkio’, ‘Tintin’ and ‘Winter Gem’ Head: Try ‘Challenge’, ‘Frisee’, ‘Great Lakes’, ‘Iceberg’, ‘Mini Green Improved’, ‘Radicchio’, ‘Red Iceberg’, ‘Saladin’, ‘Webbs Wonderful’ and ‘Winter Density’ Cut-and-Come-Again In addition to lettuce varieties, quick-maturing leaf crops are perfect for growing as a fresh and plentiful crop. Just one sowing will provide you with tasty leaves for several weeks. Like, lettuce, cut-and-come-again greens thrive in small areas, making them an ideal way to grow salad if you have limited space. How to Grow As the name suggests, cut-and-come-again crops are sown, harvested young, left to grow back, then cropped again. Leafy crops are best suited to this approach, and you can buy seed mixes for different tastes and uses. Sow seeds as you would lettuces indoors in early spring in pots, or outside in pots or into well-drained, fertile soil, once the temperature has risen above 41 degrees F. After two to three weeks leaves should be ready to pick. To harvest, either pick the larger leaves individually, leaving the smaller ones to grow, or cut back the whole plant with scissors. The latter approach is quicker, although the plants are slower to recover. Once they have regrown, however, plants can be harvested again in the same way. Plants will regrow a number of times, but for the strongest crop, resow a fresh batch every three weeks for a succession. Keep the plants well watered at all times, and feed crops in containers every two weeks. Clear plant debris after picking to avoid diseases, and keep plants well weeded. The Complete Gardener's Guide © 2011 Dorling Kindersley Limited Next Up
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Free Flashcards about GK 9 Which science-fiction writer coined the term "cyberspace"? William Gibson What is a male swan known as? Cob What is a female swan known as? Pen Which giant screen film projection system, which gives an enhanced visual impact, has its origins in Montreal's Expo 67? IMAX Which actress was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, in 1908? Joan Crawford Which military leader poisoned himself in Bithynia in Asia Minor in around 182BCE? Hannibal What is the branch of astronomy that is concerned solely with the moon called? Selenology The mouflon, native to Corsica and Sardinia, is a small, wild form of which animal? Sheep Which religion, founded in 3rdC CE Persia, at its 3rd-7thC height one of the world's biggest, taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness? Manichaeism The Loyalty Islands in the Pacific are part of which territory? New Caledonia Which orchestral march by William Walton was first performed at the coronation of King George VI, and was used as the recessional music at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011? Crown Imperial What was the real name of 'Dr Seuss'? Theodore Geisel The sixth labour of Hercules involved defeating what sort of creatures who were destroying the countryside around Lake Stymphalia? Birds The address of which constituent college of the University of London is: Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE? London School of Economics Extending from 500 to 10,000 kilometres above the earth’s surface, what is the uppermost layer of the earth’s atmosphere called – beyond which there is only outer space? Exosphere Which species of cat, with scientific name Acinonyx jubatus, is found in much of Africa, can be known as the hunting leopard, and is unusual among cats in having claws which are not fully retractable? Cheetah At the Academy Awards held in February 2015, Ida became the first film from which nation to win the award for Best Foreign Language Film? Poland What shrub gave its name to the revolution which saw Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrown as President of Tunisia in 2011? Jasmine Which musical features numbers including "Gee, Officer Krupke" and "I Feel Pretty"? West Side Story What flower gave its name to the revolution which saw Askar Akayev overthrown as President of Kyrgyzstan in 2005? Tulip What name is given to the Persian language in Afghanistan? Dari How was the Amu Darya river known in Ancient times? Oxus Which mountain range divides the Amu Darya and Indus valleys? Hindu Kush Give a year in the rule of the Achaemenid Empire. 550-330BCE Which large snake-like lake monster said to live in Lake Seljord in Seljord, Telemark, Norway? Selma Which parliament is located in Karasjok, Norway? Sami parliament Which Norwegian figure skater and film star was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies' Singles, a ten-time World Champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931–1936)? Sonja Henie Johann Koss of Norway won four Winter Olympic golds at what sporting event? Speed skating Who won a total of 29 medals in the Olympics and World Championships in the period between 1991 and 1999, making him the most successful cross-country skier in history? Bjorn Daehlie Which Dutch city is the home of Rabobank? Utrecht The bulk of the Great Pyramids at Giza are constructed in which stone? Limestone Which Theban king reunited Egypt after the First Intermediate Period and started the Middle Kingdom? Mentuhotep II Which group of "foreign princes" ruled a part of Northern Egypt during the latter Middle Kingdom at the Second Intermediate Period, from their capital at Avaris? Hyksos Which Egyptian deity was god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead? Osiris What two-word term indicated the "life-force" in Ancient Egypt that would be reunited with the soul by the process of mummification? Ka Hatshepshut was the widow of which Egyptian king who preceded her as ruler? Tuthmosis II In which century was Tutankhamun's rule of Egypt? F
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Diversity: Dance Group - Britain's Got Talent 2009 - The Final - YouTube Diversity: Dance Group - Britain's Got Talent 2009 - The Final Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on May 30, 2009 Britain's Got Talent 2009: With plenty of competition in the same category this evening, the pressure is certainly on this group of dancers. What can Diversity do this evening to secure your vote? Is this performance a winning one? Category
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Bradley Walsh - TV Celebrities - ShareTV [Complete List] BIOGRAPHY: Bradley Walsh (born 4 June 1960) is an English Light Entertainer, television actor, comedian and former professional footballer Background Bradley Walsh grew up in Leavesden, near Watford. He attended Francis Combe, a comprehensive school in Garston, Hertfordshire.[1] Football In the early 1980s, Walsh played professional football for Brentford F.C., although he failed to make the first team. An injury finished his career in the game. He also played for Barnet FC at the same time as Jimmy Greaves Television He first came to prominence on television in 1994 as a presenter of the National Lottery before going on to host the British version of Wheel of Fortune in 1997. In 1998, he presented another ITV1 game show, Win, Lose or Draw (both made by Scottish Television) before turning his attention to acting. Walsh was in the cast of short lived British soap opera Night and Day in 2002. He appeared as Burglar Bill at the Children's Party at the Palace in 2006. Walsh took part in Northern Rock's All Star Golf Tournament on ITV, which his team, Team Europe, won. Walsh said that he has been playing golf since he was 20. On 9 September 2006, he hosted the 50 Greatest Stars Polls. He appeared in the three part TV drama Torn. He hosted No. 1 Soap Fan on 29 December 2007 for ITV. In August 2008, Walsh appeared in the reality talent show television series, Maestro on BBC Two. Walsh is also making a series for ITV called 'My Little Soldier', in which the young contestants are required to do "grown-up things" such as travelling on their own by train. Walsh was confirmed as the host of a new ITV1 game show called Spin Star that aired from 10 November - 19 December 2008. Walsh joined the Doctor Who universe by playing three roles in the 2008 Sarah Jane Adventures story The Day of the Clown. Including a sinister clown called Odd Bob, and a mysterious European sounding ringmaster named Elijah Spellman, and the infamous Pied Piper of Hamelin. Along with his son Barney, he is also featured in one edition of a factual TV series for Five, Dangerous Adventures for Boys, based on the best-selling book written by Conn and Hal Iggulden, The Dangerous Book for Boys. In June 2009, Bradley hosted a game show for ITV called The Chase. The first series had 10 shows and a second series ended on Friday 23 July 2010. He can currently been seen as the host on the ITV Saturday night gameshow Odd One In with Peter Andre and Jason Manford. The show has 8 shows which will be on each week, with the last of the series on 4 September 2010. Coronation Street On 31 May 2004, he began playing the role of factory boss, Danny Baldwin, in the Granada TV soap opera, Coronation Street, for which he is now best known. Danny was originally going to be called Vic, but Walsh asked for the name to be changed to Danny after his late father. People had previously called him Young Danny, so he thought it would not be so bad when people called him by his character's name. He won the 'Best Dramatic Performance' award at the British Soap Awards in May 2006 for his role. He was written out of the serial at his own request at the end of that year, however he was not killed off. Law & Order UK Bradley has filmed the third series to be aired later this year on ITV1 playing DS Ronnie Brooks in Law & Order: UK. Film Walsh starred in the 2001 film Mike Bassett: England Manager. He also appeared in the TV series, Lock, Stock.... Books Walsh has co-authored a series of personalised Football Story Books in the series 'My Dream Cup Final with...'. Personal life Walsh married choreographer Donna in 1997, and they have one son, Barney (born 1998). The family live in Epping, Essex. He has a daughter Hayley (born 1982), from a previous relationship. Walsh is currently in training as he will be cycling from the North of France to Portugal to raise money for Sane. He appeared on 'That's What I Call Television' with Fern Britton and declared that he is an Arsenal FC fan, On 22 October 2010, Walsh was in attendance at the funeral of fe
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The Sound of Music :: Rodgers & Hammerstein :: Show Details GUEST BLOG: Liesl from THE SOUND OF MUSIC Live! on NBC A guest blog from the amazing young woman portraying Liesl in the upcoming NBC broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC Live! read more Did you know? The real Captain von Trapp was offered command of a submarine in the Navy of the Third Reich, which he refused. The von Trapps were invited to sing for Hitler?s 50th birthday party, which they also declined. The eldest son, Rupert, was offered a medical post in a good Viennese hospital; but, he realized it was because many Jewish doctors had been fired. With tensions rising, the family emigrated to Italy four months after the Anschluss in 1938. Did you know? In THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Maria von Trapp was a novice at Nonnberg Abbey. The historic Nonnberg Abbey was founded in the 8th century by Avendrid, niece of St. Rupert who is considered the patron saint of Salzburg. The city also has a cathedral monastery and is often called ?The Rome of the North.? Did you Know? At the 1960 Tony Awards Mary Rodgers found her musical ONCE UPON A MATTRESS competing against a show by her father Richard Rodgers - THE SOUND OF MUSIC - for the category of Best Musical! In 1967 THE SOUND OF MUSIC finished its run at the Palace Theatre, London, after six years and 2,385 performances - at the time, the longest running American musical in British theatrical history. The birthday of Maria von Trapp. In 1905, Maria Augusta Kutschera Trapp was born aboard a train in the Tirol, Austria. The story of her early life served as the inspiration for THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The birthday of Florence Henderson, who played Maria von Trapp in the first U.S. National Tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, starting in 1961. Best known for playing Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch from 1968 to 1974, Florence Henderson began her career as a stage actress. In addition to THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Henderson starred as Laurey in the 1953 Broadway revival of OKLAHOMA!, as Anna in the Los Angeles Music Center's inaugural production of THE KING AND I, and as Nellie at the Music Theater of Lincoln Center?s SOUTH PACIFIC in 1967. In 2010 she performed on "Dancing with the Stars"" - even waltzing to ""Edelweiss"" from THE SOUND OF MUSIC!" In 1990, in celebration of THE SOUND OF MUSIC's silver anniversary, Twentieth Century Fox hosted a gala screening/reunion for director Robert Wise, star Julie Andrews, and other members of the cast in Los Angeles; the movie is subsequently rereleased for a limited engagement in Los Angeles and New York. The birthday of Russel Crouse, book writer of the musicals CALL ME MADAM and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Crouse was born in 1893. The birthday of singer Marni Nixon. Marni Nixon became famous as the singing voice of Deborah Kerr in Rodger & Hammerstein?s film THE KING AND I, as well as Audrey Hepburn in MY FAIR LADY and Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY. Nixon finally appeared as a performer on camera while singing the part of Sister Sophia in the film THE SOUND OF MUSIC. In 1961, the national tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, starring Florence Henderson, began at the Riviera Theatre, Detroit. It played in 35 cities before closing at the O'Keefe Center, Toronto, on November 23, 1963. In 1965, Twentieth Century Fox premiered the movie version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. It played in New York for a record-setting 93 weeks. The movie's initial U.S. release lasted 4.5 years, and from 1966 to 1972 THE SOUND OF MUSIC was cited by Variety as the "All-Time Box Office Champion."" It remains the most popular movie musical ever made." The birthday of Julie Andrews, born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. International star of stage and screen, her long and cherished association with Rodgers & Hammerstein includes starring as the title character in the original TV production of CINDERELLA (1957), playing Maria in the iconic movie version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965), and singing the role of Anna in the studio cast recording of THE KING AND I (1992) In 1959, the w
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Did you know - Scottish Music Hall & Variety Theatre Society Scottish Music Hall & Variety Theatre Society Interesting facts from the Scottish Music Hall and Variety Theatre "DID YOU KNOW!" At the turn of the last Century, Glasgow boasted at having approximately 26 Theatres in the City. Today the City only has six main Theatres left, The Kings, Pavilion, Theatre Royal, Mitchell, Tron and the Citizens. Those were the days!!!!! "DID YOU KNOW!" Music Hall Artist Mark Sheridan appeared in four Panto seasons in Glasgow at the Theatre Royal. They were: 1895-96 Sinbad the Sailor with Marie Loftus. 1898-99 Cinderella with Evie Green. 1901-02 Dick Whittington starring Mark Sheridan. 1907-08 Babes In The Wood with Harry Conlin. "DID YOU KNOW!" During the recent demolition of the former STV Studios in Cowcaddens, the stone rectangular proscenium of the Alexandra Music Hall built in 1867 for James Baylis as part of the complex of buildings of his Royal Colosseum and Opera House has been found. An article on this find will feature in the December edition of STAGEDOOR. "DID YOU KNOW!" Ronnie Coburn and his cast from �A Breath of Scotland� have the nickname �Coburn�s Commandos�. In the 45 year history of the show, casts have been rescued by Helicopter from 50ft snowdrifts in Labrador and blown of the highway by horrendous storms. One year the cast once woke up in the morning to find their hotel buried in 30ft of snow and they have also been known to form human chains to get from the bus to the motel due to seriously high winds. A commando course indeed. There�s no business like show business! "DID YOU KNOW!" The Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow staged a Royal Variety performance on the night of the 3 July 1958. The cast included Alec Finlay, Rikki Fulton, Margo Henderson, Clark and Murray, Jimmy Logan, Kenneth McKellar, Jack Radcliffe, Alistair McHarg, Tommy Morgan, Stanley Baxter, Jimmy Shand and his Band and the Glasgow Police Pipe Band. "DID YOU KNOW!" In the 1920�s, Sir Harry Lauder was commanded to give a special performance in front of King George and Queen Mary at Balmoral Castle. After the performance, Sir Harry was presented with two silver framed signed photographs from their Majesties. "DID YOU KNOW!" Daily Record 3rd May 1955: �The Spring Show: Every week in every way, we�re getting better and better. If that�s the Spring Show company slogan for their season at the Pavilion, they�re certainly living up to it. Jack Anthony, and Chic Murray and Maidie are tops in this week�s better than ever edition. Chic Murray enhances his growing reputation with his novel form of comedy."DID YOU KNOW!" The 1956/57 choice of pantomimes in Glasgow included: �Puss in Boots� with Jack Milroy at the Pavilion Theatre, �We�re Joking�, with Chic Murray, Duncan Macrae, Jack Anthony and Robert Wilson at the Empire Theatre, �Robinson Crusoe� with Harry Gordon and Jack Radcliffe at the Theatre Royal, �Scotland the Brave� with Clark and Murray at the Metropole Theatre and �Babes in the Wood�, with Jimmy Logan, Rikki Fulton and Kenneth McKellar at the Alhambra Theatre. "DID YOU KNOW!" Wartime entertainment in Glasgow remained unchanged during Christmas of 1940 when no fewer than seven first class pantos were being presented. Glasgow was the only city in Britain which had an unaltered Christmas Entertainment Season. Among the pantos running that year are �Babes in the Wood� with Dave Willis at the Theatre Royal, �Bonnie Prince Charlie� with Tommy Morgan at the Metropole and �Humpty Dumpty� with Frank and Doris Droy at the Queens Theatre. "DID YOU KNOW!" In 1962 there was a Royal Gala Performance of Rob Roy at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in honour of The King of Norway, The Queen and HRH Duke of Edinburgh, two very well know Actor/Comedians appeared in this Royal Production, they were Walter Carr and John Cairney."DID YOU KNOW!" The following bill appeared at the Empire Theatre , Glasgow. Monday 1st March, 1954, twice nightly - 6.10 and 8.25 pm. BERNARD DELFONT PRESENTS STAN L
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Vienna | national capital, Austria | Britannica.com national capital, Austria Alternative Titles: Bécs, Videň, Vindobona, Wenia, Wien, Wienis Related Topics Vienna, German Wien, Czech Videň, Hungarian Bécs, city and Bundesland (federal state), the capital of Austria . Of the country’s nine states, Vienna is the smallest in area but the largest in population . Neptune’s Fountain (foreground) and the Gloriette, on the grounds of Schloss Schönbrunn, … © Goodshoot/Jupiterimages Time-lapse video tour of Vienna, Austria. Emilio Carral (A Britannica Publishing Partner) Modern Vienna has undergone several historical incarnations. From 1558 to 1918 it was an imperial city—until 1806 the seat of the Holy Roman Empire and then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . In 1918 it became the capital of the truncated, landlocked central European country that emerged from World War I as a republic. From 1938 to 1945 Austria was a part of Adolf Hitler ’s “Greater” Germany , and Vienna became “Greater” Vienna, reflecting the Nazi revision of the city limits. In the decade following World War II , Austria was occupied by British, French, American, and Soviet forces, and Vienna was divided into five zones, including an international zone, covering the Innere Stadt (“Inner City”). In 1955 the State Treaty, by which the country regained independence, was signed with the four occupying powers, and Vienna became once again the capital of a sovereign Austria. An introduction to Vienna, Austria. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Vienna is among the least spoiled of the great old western European capitals. Its central core, the Innere Stadt, is easily manageable by foot and public transportation. In a city renowned for its architecture, many of Vienna’s urban prospects remain basically those devised over several centuries by imperial gardeners and architects. The skyline is still dominated by the spire of St. Stephen’s Cathedral and by the giant Ferris wheel in the city’s chief park, the Prater. The city suffered heavy damage in the last months of World War II, and much rebuilding was done after the war. Nevertheless, the character of Vienna as a whole remains much the same as in the years before 1914. Once the seat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna is filled with majestic sights, both old and … Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Zell am See Viennese Lebenskunst (“art of living”) has survived changing rulers and times. It is still possible to live in Vienna at almost the same pace and in much the same style as it was a century ago. The same music is played in the same rebuilt concert halls, and a theatrical or operatic success still stimulates lively conversation. One can drink the same sourish local wines in the taverns on the outskirts of town, consume the same mountains of whipped cream at Sacher’s and Demel’s, and sample the same infinite varieties of coffee in countless cafés. Thick woolen suits and overcoats in shades of green, gray, or brown loden cloth and colourful dirndl dresses may still be seen. It is even possible for tourists, and for others on festive occasions, to ride in a traditional fiacre, the two-horse carriage driven by a bowler-hatted coachman. Austria’s capital has avoided many of the problems—financial crises, social unrest, urban decay—that afflict other European cities. Its people enjoy an enlightened health and welfare system, which originated in the reforms of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Joseph II in the 18th century. A city of green parks with ponds, cafés, and playing bands; opulent stores and elegant shopping streets; banks, bookshops, and crowded theatres; and boulevards for leisurely sauntering—Vienna is an invigorating distillation of human energy and imagination. Area city, 160 square miles (415 square km); metropolitan area, 1,491 square miles (3,862 square km). Pop. (2011) city, 1,714,227; (2016 est.) city, 1,840,226; urban agglom., 2,157,434. Physical and human geography The landscape Site Vienna lies in the northeastern corner of Austria , between the foothills of the Alps and the Carpathians, where t
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Geography of Europe A-Z - Q-files Encyclopedia Geography of Europe A-Z Geography of Europe A-Z Aegean Sea Part of the Mediterranean Sea that lies between Turkey and Greece . Alps A mountain range stretching from the Mediterranean coast of France to Central Europe . The highest peak is Mont Blanc in France, which is 4810 metres (15,781 feet) high. Apennines A mountain range stretching nearly 1400 kilometres (875 miles) down the centre of the Italian Peninsula . Athens The capital of Greece . At the heart of the city is the flat-topped Acropolis , where the remains of several ancient temples stand. Balaton, Lake The largest lake in Central Europe , also known as the Hungarian Sea. Balkan Mountains A mountain range that stretches 550 kilometres (340 miles) across Bulgaria to the Black Sea. Its highest point is Botev Peak, which is 2376 metres (7795 feet) high. Baltic Sea Part of the Atlantic Ocean enclosed by the Scandinavian Peninsula and mainland Europe. Berlin The capital of Germany , in the east of the country. It was once divided into East and West by the Berlin Wall , which came down in 1989. Black Sea A sea almost completely enclosed by Eastern Europe , Russia , Georgia and Turkey . Bosporus A narrow channel of water that divides Europe and Asia and connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. British Isles The group of islands off the northwestern coast of Europe. They include Britain , Ireland and other small island groups. Brussels The capital of Belgium and the European Union . Bucharest The capital of Romania . Once known as the “Paris of the East” because of its French-style architecture, today it is a major centre of industry. Budapest The capital of Hungary , situated on the banks of the River Danube. It is Europe’s largest spa town, with more than 100 natural hot springs. Carpathian Mountains The second longest mountain range in Europe , stretching over 1500 kilometres (930 miles) from the Czech Republic to the Iron Gate. Its highest point is Gerlach Peak in Slovenia , which is 2655 metres (8709 feet) high. Caucasus Mountains A mountain range stretching 1100 kilometres (680 miles) from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. The highest point in the Caucasus is Europe’s highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, which is 5664 metres (18,582 feet) high. Danube The second longest river in Europe, flowing 2860 kilometres (1777 miles) from western Germany to the Black Sea in Ukraine . Dardanelles A narrow body of water in northwest Turkey linking the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. Dinarides A mountain range spanning 645 kilometres (400 miles) from Croatia to Montenegro . Its highest point is Maja Jezercë in Albania , which is 2694 metres (8839 feet) high. Dnieper A river that flows 2145 kilometres (1333 miles) from Russia , through Belarus and Ukraine , to the Black Sea. English Channel Part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from mainland Europe. At its narrowest point, it is only 34 kilometres (21 miles) wide. Gibraltar, Strait of A narrow strait, measuring just 14.3 kilometres (8.8 miles) at its narrowest point, that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, separating Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa. It is named after the Rock of Gibraltar, which comes from the Arabic, Jebel Tariq ("Tariq's Mountain"). Iberian Peninsula Part of southwestern Europe that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean. It is shared by Spain and Portugal . Iron Gate A deep gorge through which the River Danube flows. It forms part of the Romanian – Serbian border. Isthmus of Corinth A strip of land joining the Peloponnese Peninsula to mainland Greece . It is cut across by the Corinth Canal . Italian Peninsula A boot-shaped area of land bordered by the Mediterranean Sea on three sides. Kiev The capital of Ukraine and one of the largest cities in Eastern Europe, with a population of 2.8 million. Lapland A region stretching across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. It is home to the Sami people, once known as Lapps or Laplanders
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The Crosby Family – Bing Crosby No products in the cart. The Crosby Family GARY CROSBY Gary Evan Crosby, born June 25, 1933 and named after his father’s friend Gary Cooper, was often referred to by his father as “number one son.” In 1941 he auditioned for the part of the young boy who grows up to be Bing’s character in Birth of the Blues, but his screen debut occurred the next year in Star Spangled Rhythm. Gary next appeared in 1945 along with his brothers in two more movies identified with Bing: Duffy’s Tavern and Out of this World. Like all of his brothers, Gary was educated at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, later enrolling at Stanford University where he studied animal husbandry (having spent summers at the family cattle ranch in Elko, Nevada) and played football. He did not graduate. Gary became a teen sensation in 1950 when, credited as “Gary Crosby and Friend”, a two-sided hit boasted of back-to-back million sellers: “Sam’s Song” and “Play a Simple Melody.” The duo waxed several more recordings: “Moonlight Bay,” “When You and I Were Young, Maggie Blues,” and “Down by the Riverside.” By now a Bing look-alike, Gary appeared regularly on his father’s radio show; and even hosted his own series as a summer replacement for Bing’s show in 1954. Gary made several solo records and albums, showing promise as a jazz vocalist. In 1955 he recorded “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue” with his father’s friend, Louis Armstrong. Gary was inducted into the Army in 1956, serving in Germany. Upon discharge in 1958, Gary and his brothers formed “The Crosby Boys,” headlining at several top nightclubs and appearing on the cover of Life magazine. After internecine quarrels and disputes, Gary left to pursue a movie career; and through the intercession of his father, secured a Fox contract, appearing in Mardi Gras, Holiday for Lovers, and Girl Happy, among others. But major stardom eluded him, and Gary, along with his brothers, constantly struggled with alcoholism and had embarrassing scrapes with the law. He appeared on television, frequently joining his father; and made guest appearances on a variety of programs (most famously as the bedeviled troubadour Floyd Burney on “Come Wander with Me,” a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone.) Gary was a semi-regular on The Bill Dana Show from 1963-64. He was perhaps best known as Officer Ed Wells on the police series, Adam 12, running from 1968-75. Several years after Bing died, Doubleday approached Gary to write an autobiography. To guarantee success, he was asked to wildly exaggerate Bing’s self-acknowledged paternal strictness. Going My Own Way, published in 1983 and co-authored by Ross Firestone, was Gary’s controversial attempt to transfer his professional and personal shortcomings onto his father; and to achieve the long desired leading role – playing Bing, no less – should his book be adapted to the screen. This wasn’t to be, as the book created considerable turmoil within the Crosby family. Subsequently, Gary recanted large portions of his unfortunate memoir. To further the rehabilitation Gary decided in 1995 to record an album overdubbing his father’s classic recordings. This came too late. With one side complete, a persistent cough interfered with the endeavor. A doctor’s visit confirmed that he had advanced lung cancer. Gary died on August 24, 1995. Twice divorced, he was survived by his third wife and his adopted son. PHILLIP CROSBY Phillip Lang Crosby, born on July 13, 1934, was the twin of Dennis. His middle name was given in tribute to Bing’s close friend, guitarist Eddie Lang. Phillip’s first recording was the Decca two-side medley, A Crosby Christmas, on which the twins sang a duet, “The Snowman.” He attended college with Dennis at Washington State College at Pullman and was inducted into the Army on January 5, 1955. Before the formation of The Crosby Boys, the twins sang “The Jones Boy” on Bing’s Oldsmobile special of March 2, 1959. Gary’s early departure from the group did not deter the others, and the act recorded an album for their father’s Project Records label, which was
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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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CBRD » Motorway Database » M4 Main Images Timeline Exit List Easily one of the most varied motorways in Britain, from urban chaos in west London and Heathrow Airport, out through the rolling hills of Gloucestershire, across the Severn Estuary and through industrial South Wales, the M4 does it all. efore the M4 Severn Bridge was built, there was no road crossing of the Severn south of Gloucester, meaning that traffic between South Wales and southern England had to drive the A40, far out of its way to the north and frequently congested at Gloucester, or go via Bristol and Chepstow, choosing between the Severn ferry or the railway tunnel. The train and boat options were not particularly well used, but the bridge certainly is today, which suggests that the lack of a decent crossing was preventing a great number of journeys from happening at all. In 1996, the Second Severn Crossing opened, carrying a widened and improved M4 over the estuary. The original Severn Bridge and Wye Bridge, along with a substantial length of ex-M4 at each side, now form the M48 . Built and opened at the same time, the M49 was designed to cut congestion at the M5 junction, cutting the corner between the south-west, Bristol and the new bridge. Because of these multiple motorway connections ( M48 , M49 , M48 again, M5 and M32 ), the M4 holds the UK record with five consecutive motorway-to-motorway interchanges. Given that the first section of this motorway was opened in 1959 — the Chiswick Flyover, which was initially part of the A4 but was designed to become part of the motorway a few years later — it is surprising to learn that it remained in two disconnected parts until 1994. Plugging the gap was a six-mile section of the A48 at Briton Ferry in South Wales, with a motorway bypass delayed again and again due to the difficult marshy land and a navigable river. The problem was only solved very late in the day with a large and horrendously expensive viaduct over the top of the whole thing. Factfile
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Spanish Translation of “beach” | Collins English-Spanish Dictionary At the beach it was immediately surrounded by a knot of people. Stuart Harrison LOST SUMMER (2002) He wandered up the beach to the Coast Guard station, a grandiose weatherboard affair perched high on the frontal dune. Mark Mills AMAGANSETT (2004) The whale had altered its course and was heading inshore at an angle to the beach. Mark Mills AMAGANSETT (2004) Brazilian Portuguese: chegar em terra firme Chinese: 使上岸
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Boracay - Number One Beach in the Philippines - TravelOnline Boracay, an Island Tropical Paradise in the Country of the Philippines Boracay Island, Philippines – Boracay Map Boracay Island is in Southeast Asia, about 316 kms or two hundred nautical miles south from the capital of the country, called Manila and part of the Panay Island group in the Western Visayan region of the country. The island of Boracay is the Philippine’s most well known tourism attraction and the island itself is composed of three main ‘barangays’ or small districts which are called Manoc-Manoc, Balabag and Yapak. These are actually three of the 17 small districts which comprise the town of Malay in which Boracay belongs to. The island is governed in by both the provincial government of Aklan and the Philippine Department of Tourism or DOT. Local and international visitors and vacationers go to Boracay to experience what the powdery white sands and crystal clear waters of the beach are all about. Etymology of the name “Boracay” Boracay Beaches, Philippines Bo-ra-cay as said in three syllables, is attributed to the Aklanese or local dialect’s word “Borac” which, when translated to English means Cotton. This is in connection to the colour and texture of the world famous sand of the island. Boracay Beaches: Boracay’s Geographical Qualities Boracay Beaches, Philippines Geography Boracay Island’s shape is somewhat similar to a butterfly, which is appropriate for its beauty. The whole island is about 7 kilometers in length and 1 kilometer wide at its narrowest point. In terms of governance, Boracay is a portion of the town of Malay, Aklan Province within the Panay island group. This is just one island collection of islands which comprise the middle region of the Philippine’s island chains. Now Yapak Beach is one of the beaches which is found over some of the island’s hills and is located a few meters distant from the primary tourist areas. Although it is composed of gorgeous, unspoiled sands away from the crowds such as the Puka and Balinghai Beaches. It is also the location of the sole 72-par golf course on the island called the Fairways and Bluewaters golf and country club. Getting there takes only 3-5 minutes by tricycle from White Beach and the heart of Boracay. See Boracay Geography Languages and Dialects Spoken in Boracay The official language of the country is called Pilipino and is a mixture of Tagalog. But many local dialects are used in Boracay, along with English. Aklanon or Aklanese is mainly used in the whole province where Boracay is located. The main portion of the province is about 20-30 minutes away by boat. Guests coming from Manila to Boracay Island will find it very easy since most Filipinos are well versed in the English language. Boracay Island’s Climate and Weather The Amihan and Habagat Winds Boracay Weather / Climate The weather of Boracay Island is commonly divided into 2 seasonal weather phenomena which are locally called the Amihan and Habagat. The Pilipino language describes Amihan as the cool wind which comes from the northeast and the Habagat is the wind which comes from the southwest and brings the south to west monsoons. These two seasons are usually associated with the La Nina and El Nino weather phenomena which affect the whole world. Amihan seasons are usually those which are hot, with very minimal rainfall and a constant wind coming from an eastern direction. And Habagat is usually the cold with hot and humid climates, maximum rainfall with hurricane like storms called typhoons and a constant wind coming from a western direction. On Boracay Beach, locals can always tell the transition from the Amihan and Habagat weather when there is a change in the direction of the wind. Usually, this switch is very fast and may even happen after just a day. Other times, there is a longer transition where the winds will go from Amihan to Habagat many times prior to becoming stable and entering the new weather pattern. Generally, Boracay Island experiences the Amihan climate during the months starting from September or October all the
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How and when did St. Nicholas day (December 6th) become associated with Christmas day (December 25th)? - Quora Quora Written Jan 8, 2016 December 6 is the Feast Day for Saint Nicholas - meaning that Catholics (all Christians before the Reformation) remembered him and celebrated him on that day. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of children, and so there would be many celebrations featuring children - some churches would have "boy bishop" celebrations where boys would perform the functions of the bishop. Because Saint Nicholas gave gifts to children, and his feast was during the time of Advent (the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas) he became linked with Christmas celebrations. Some countries and traditions use St. Nick and Santa Claus interchangeably, but they are 2 very distinct individuals. St. Nick doesn't have elves or live at the north pole :) You can learn more about St. Nicholas at the St. Nicholas Center website: Discovering the Truth About Santa Claus
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Our Sunday Message In Virtual Church: The Real St. Nicholas Previous Message From Virtual Church The Real St. Nicholas Commentary By The Pastor It has always been a concern of mine that when Christians rant about Santa Claus they act very un-Christlike. As I have collected what I could find about the real St. Nicholas, I have often wondered what he would think about Santa Claus as we adopted him into the secular world. I wonder what the real St. Nicholas would think about giving all those gifts to children on Christmas morning. I wonder what the real St. Nicholas would think about all those people across the United States who, on Christmas, spend most of the day working in soup kitchens and homeless shelters serving a big turkey meal to the less fortunate. I wonder what the real St. Nicholas must think about the monumental sharing of love through gift giving we do as adults. I suspect, as he peers down at us from heaven, St. Nicholas beams with joy. I also wonder if God doesn't send St. Nicholas, in his spirit form, around the world on Christmas eve to make sure as many children as possible receive the joy of Christ. After all, St. Nicholas started something that the secular world can't stop. In addition, in every secular heart on Christmas day, there is that reminder to every secular heart, that this day is not Santa Claus day, it is Christ's birthday. Here is the real story, as best as we can determine, about the real St. Nicholas. Reprinted for educational purposes only. ST. NICHOLAS, THE GIFT GIVER (about AD 280- 349) By Kathie Walters, Good News Ministries (www.goodnews.netministries.org/kathie.htm) Nicholas was born in Patara, Lycia. As a child he loved God and every Weds. and Fri. fasted. He served in the monastery of Holy Sion, near Myra and he eventually was ordained as Abbot. He was considered very pious and charitable, and many great miracles were attributed to him. Nicholas became Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor and was imprisoned for his faith by the Emperor Diocletian during the persecutions. He was present at the famous Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, where the Arian doctrine was condemned officially by the church. A rich merchant in Myra went bankrupt during Nicholas' tenure as Bishop. The merchant had three daughters and no dowries for them (a real disgrace). Incredibly, the merchant decided that his daughters might as well become prostitutes, at least they would earn a living. When Nicholas heard of this he devised a way to save the girls. He surreptitiously tossed a bag of gold through the window one night. The next day the father, amazed, used the money as a dowry for the eldest daughter. A second time Nicholas did this, and the second daughter had her dowry. The third time the father caught him and thanked him. Nicholas, because of this and many other "anonymous" acts of charity, became known as "the gift giver." Nicholas was also known for his great charity to the outcasts, and rescue of children, prisoners, and famine victims. He died in Myra in 349 AD and was buried in the church there. The Emperor Justinian built a church in his honor in Constantinople in 430 AD. In 1087 AD, when the Saracens (Muslims) captured Myra, Nicholas bones were stolen by merchants from Bari, Italy, and taken to the west. It was reported that when they opened the casket a wonderful aroma filled the whole area around. Nicholas's bones arrived on May 9. Two Italian cities, Venice and Bari vied for the honor of being selected to be the place where the bones remained. There were many miracles that occurred during the pilgrimages. These are reported about by John, Archdeacon of Bari. The same account is also reported by Nicephonus, also of Bari, and confirmed by an eyewitness who
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Opium tincture: Indications, Side Effects, Warnings - Drugs.com Know what to ask with our GIST Doctor Discussion Guide Opium tincture Brand Name: Generic only. No brands available. Overview Opium tincture is used for: Treating diarrhea. Opium tincture is an opiate. It works by decreasing intestinal muscle contractions, which helps to reduce diarrhea. Do NOT use opium tincture if: you are allergic to any ingredient in opium tincture or any other opium- or morphine-related medicine (eg, codeine) you are taking sodium oxybate (GHB) you have severe bowel motility problems (eg, paralytic ileus), diarrhea due to poisoning, or severe diarrhea associated with antibiotic use (pseudomembranous colitis) you have severely slow or difficult breathing or severe asthma, or you are having an asthma attack Contact your doctor or health care provider right away if any of these apply to you. Slideshow Prescription Drug Addiction - Top 18 Facts for You and Your Family Before using opium tincture: Some medical conditions may interact with opium tincture. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you: if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement if you have allergies to medicines or other substances if you have a history of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or other lung or breathing problems if you have a history of recent head injury, increased pressure in the brain, brain blood vessel problems, growths in the brain (eg, tumors), or seizures if you have a history of heart problems, low blood pressure, liver or kidney problems, an underactive thyroid, adrenal gland problems (eg, Addison disease), stomach or bowel problems, gallbladder problems, inflammation of the pancreas, a blockage of the bladder or bowel, an enlarged prostate, or the blood disease porphyria if you have a history of drug or alcohol abuse, mood or mental problems, or suicidal thoughts or behavior Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with opium tincture. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following: Cimetidine, furazolidone, monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors (eg, phenelzine), phenothiazines (eg, chlorpromazine), or sodium oxybate (GHB) because the risk of side effects such as severe drowsiness, slow or difficult breathing, confusion, and seizures may be increased Buprenorphine, butorphanol, nalbuphine, naltrexone, or pentazocine because the effectiveness of opium tincture may be decreased This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if opium tincture may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine. How to use opium tincture: Use opium tincture as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions. Opium tincture may be taken with or without food. Use the dropper that comes with opium tincture to measure your dose. Ask your pharmacist for help if you are unsure of how to measure your dose. If you miss a dose of opium tincture and you are using it regularly, use it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not use 2 doses at once. Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use opium tincture. Important safety information: Opium tincture may cause dizziness or drowsiness. Do not drive, operate machinery, or do anything else that could be dangerous until you know how you react to opium tincture. Using opium tincture alone, with other medicines, or with alcohol may lessen your ability to drive or perform other potentially dangerous tasks. Avoid drinking alcohol or taking other medications that cause drowsiness (eg, sedatives, tranquilizers) while taking opium tincture. Opium tincture will add to the effects of alcoho
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Quartilla's Cure Quartilla's Cure by Dennis P. Quinn In this paper I intend to argue that it is possible that Petronius presents a mystery cult of Priapus in his Satyricon 16-26.1 I begin with the questions: (1) does he use the rubric of Priapic mysteries as a humorous framework to create a literary construct of a sexually explicit cult, divorced from any reality? (2) Does he use some elements of actual Priapic ritual to move in and out of fiction and reality as his satirical mind pleases? Or (3) could he be describing actual practices of a cult of which he had substantial knowledge, having the characters do humorous things within its established framework? I hope to show that an affirmative answer to the first question is unlikely, that second is probable, and the third is indeed a possibility. I will analyze the major events in this ritual in light of what is known about mystery cults in general, particularly that of Dionysus, and what is known about the god Priapus specifically. I intend to show that, along with similarities with other mysteries, the mystery cult of Priapus contained some peculiar elements that distinguish it from the rest. For the most part we will discover that ritual rape is central to the cult. The cult is officiated by the Priestess Quartilla with at least two maid servants, one named Psyche, as assistants to the ritual. Male sexuality controlled by females dominates the ritual and the two main characters, Encolpius and Ascyltos, are subjected to several ordeals culminating in a final rape by a Priapus-manifest. There is much use of an aphrodisiatic drug called satyrion and expensive wine is imbibed during the ceremony. There is a ritual meal, another rape by "Priapus," and then a puberty initiation of two children in the form of a wedding ceremony, with references to its consummation. Since Petronius' work was designed to be comic in nature, it is difficult for historians to distinguish the "fact" from the "fiction." The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also a comic novel, presents an initiation scene into the cult of Isis, and most scholars agree that it gives tremendous insight into actual cult practices when taken seriously. As with the case of Apuleius, I ask, what if we take Petronius seriously for a moment in his portrayal of the cult of Priapus? Certainly if any of the cult can be taken seriously it could help in our understanding of ancient religions in general, and, perhaps, the cult of Priapus in particular. The Quartilla episode in Satyricon 16-26 has been explained by scholars in a number of different ways, but none through the lens of what is known about ancient mystery cults. I intend to fill this gap here. P. G. Walsh describes the scene purely within the context of sexual humiliation: the effeminate men are simply raped by domineering women.2 J. P. Sullivan argues that the scene reveals Petronius' own psychosexual interests and should be understood to be a product of his own fantasies and sexual fetishes.3 P. B. Corbett, following Sullivan, sees the Quartilla episode as pure escapism from an uncertain society, and all the scenes are completely unreal.4 H. D. Rankin argues that the characters were taken by a 'monumental bluff.' A joke was played on the main characters, much like the plot of a mime on stage.5 C. Panayotakis emphasizes the scene's theatricality and sees it completely within the context of the Roman stage. All of the events in this section of the Satyricon was designed to evoke laughter, even the main characters' 'alleged' intrusion of the cult of Priapus was simply a theatrical device to appease Quartilla's nymphomania.6 N. W. Slater believes that Quartilla's people are very un-Priapic and the scene should be viewed as a 'striking disjunction of emotion and expression,' emphasizing its potency as a theatrical device.7 But these scholars have not examined in detail the events in relation with other mystery cults for what it might tell us about Priapic rituals. Thus my concerns are historical rather than literary, and recourse to what is known about other mystery cults will
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Could the UK drive on the right? Could the UK drive on the right? By Tom Geoghegan BBC News Magazine Motorists in Samoa have switched the side of the road they drive on, overnight. It's a move that Britain has considered - but how would it work? It's the kind of interview question that has reduced confident job seekers to quivering wrecks. Imagine you are the minister in charge of the UK's roads and you have to switch the country to driving on the right-hand side. How would you do it? A study of Samoa, in the South Pacific, this week might offer some clues. The country is experiencing its first day of driving on the left on Monday, the start of a special two-day bank holiday to ease Samoans into the new regime. WHY THE RIGHT/LEFT SPLIT? In the pre-industrial era, horses kept to the left so riders could draw their sword Napoleon changed Europe to the right The US followed France See which countries drive where What if the UK were to follow? Driving on the right would make trips to the European mainland easier, when taking or hiring a car. And cars with steering wheels on the left could be cheaper. The idea is not as fanciful as it sounds. Although the Department for Transport says it has no plans to change, it did examine such a plan in the late 1960s, two years after Sweden successfully switched to driving on the right. Its report rejected the idea on grounds of safety and costs. But that was before Britain's entry into the European Union and the opening of the Channel Tunnel, which for the first time established a land link between Britain and the Continent. So, if the UK was to think again about a switch, what would be the key issues? SIGNS & JUNCTIONS Road markings and roadside signs would have to be switched to the other side of the road, but ready in advance of the day of change, in a huge logistical exercise. One-way streets would have to be reconfigured and traffic lights with filters changed, says Paul Watters of the AA. To get an idea of the cost, changing signs from miles to kilometres alone was estimated at £750m, he adds. Japan is also left-hand side The biggest engineering issue would be highway building, says Benjamin Heydecker of the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. About one in 10 motorway junctions is asymmetric or incomplete, so would need to be dug up and rebuilt. "Motorway signs would have to be turned round and repositioned, so approaches to junctions would not be in the same place." Accident blackspots would all need looking at too, because the signs there are site-specific and so would need to change. ADJUSTING SLIP ROADS "Entrance and exits to motorways are not symmetrical either, so there would be consequences there too," says Mr Heydecker. Slip roads that were deceleration lanes would suddenly be used for accelerating, so their lengths would need to be extended; and vice versa. EDUCATING DRIVERS Although many motorists would be used to driving on the right - thanks to trips abroad - a comprehensive retraining programme would be needed, according to Mr Heydecker. Particular emphasis would be put on negotiating roundabouts (which would run anti-clockwise) and left-hand turns, which would require cutting across oncoming traffic. After years of driving, habits are well entrenched and it might take more than a few lessons to get used to the new arrangements. But where could "learners" practise, before the switch? CAR STEERING WHEELS & BUS DOORS Making life even harder for motorists is the fixed right-hand driver's position of cars sold in the UK - suddenly drivers would find themselves further away from the centre of the road. Over time British drivers would buy cars with left-hand steering, so they would be changing gears with their right hands. The global manufacturing of cars would be simplified if all countries were to opt for left-hand steering, says Mr Heydecker. "If cars were all manufactured the same way, it would reduce the cost of design and improve the quality of vehicles." Public service vehicles like buses would also have to undergo a
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General Knowledge #4 - StudyBlue Good to have you back! If you've signed in to StudyBlue with Facebook in the past, please do that again. General Knowledge #4 Which European capital has a skyline dominated by St Stephen�s cathedral? Vienna Shogi is a Japanese form of which boardgame? Chess Which astronomer discovered the planet Uranus? Herschel, What type of vessel to explore ocean depths was invented in 1947 by Auguste Piccard? Bathyscaphe On the Fahrenheit scale, what temperature is boiling point? 212 degrees, In which US state is the city of Pittsburgh? Pennsylvania, What does someone suffering from dysphagia have difficulty in doing? Swallowing On what date do the French celebrate Bastille Day? 14-Jul Which instrument derives its name from the fact that it can be played soft or loud according to the pressure on the keys? Pianoforte How many players are there in a lacrosse team? 12 Which German tennis player won five successive Grand Slam tournaments in the 1980s? Steffi Graf What is meant by the musical term �andante�? At a moderate tempo Which patron saint of the British Isles does not have his cross on the union flag? David In which ocean does the country of Vanuatu lie? Pacific Which French novelist wrote Madame Bovary? Gustave Flaubert Advertisement Under Genoese control from the 14th century, which Mediterranean island was sold to France in 1768? Corsica In May 1999, who succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel�s prime minister? Ehud Barak How many dozens are there in a gross? Twelve Carmine is a vivid shade of which colour? Red Which word for the act of killing someone painlessly, especially to relieve suffering, is derived from the Greek for �easy death�? Euthanasia What sort of films are sometimes referred to �horse operas�? Westerns, Which German physicist laid down the principles of quantum theory? Max Planck Which famous sportsman was presented with a gold medal during the 1996 Olympics, to replace the one he threw away in the 1960s? Muhummad Ali Which saint�s day falls on 17 March? Patrick, What is the longest river in France? Loire, In a bullfight, what is a mounted man with a lance called? Picador. What was the first name of the composer Mussorgsky? Modest The Kara Sea is an arm of which ocean? Arctic Who wrote the 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea? Iris Murdoch Which famous UK fashion designer married Andreas Kronthaler in 1992? Vivienne Westwood, Which husband and wife shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel? Pierre and Marie Curie Who wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm? Kate Wiggin In which sport is the James Norris Memorial Trophy awarded? Ice hockey In which European country is the summer and ski resort of Zell am See Austria Who is the patron saint of music? St Cecilia What name is given to the Japanese art of flower arranging Ikebana Of which country did Jean-B�del Bokassa proclaim himself emperor in 1977? Central African Republic Name the walled city in Canada that has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Quebec City What name is given to the fruits of plants of the genus Ficus? Figs Which body of water in Scotland does the Kincardine Bridge span Firth of Forth Which British author wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps? John Buchan In which African country is the resort of Sharm El Sheikh? Egypt, Which Frenchman made the first flight across the English Channel in 1909? Louis Bleriot In which part of the body would you find the organ of Corti? The ear, In which New Mexico city was the atomic bomb developed in the Manhattan Project? Los Alamos Which famous English landscape artist�s works include The Vale of Dedham? John Constable Which novelist wrote The Young Caesar and The Aerodrome? Rex Warner Which Brazilian racing driver was killed at Imola in 1994? Ayrton Senna If something is �clavate� what shape is it? Club-shaped. Which Norwegian painter�s works include The Scream? Edvard Munch Which of the gifts brought by the Magi is also known as olibanum? Frankincense Who was the goddess of youth and spring in Greek mythology? Hebe Which Austrian composer wrote the oratorios The Creation and
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Program Notes for Symphonie fantastique Program Notes for Symphonie fantastique Sept 25 - 27 Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72 Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra Allegro Dream of the Witches’ Sabbath Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72 Timing: approx. 6 min. Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, strings CSO SUBSCRIPTION PERFORMANCES Premiere: December 1920, Eugene Ysaÿe conducting Most Recent: September 2007, Paavo Järvi conducting Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn and died on March 26, 1827 in Vienna. The Fidelio Overture, the last of the four he composed for the opera, was written in 1814 as part of the work’s final version, which began its run at Vienna’s Kärntnertor Theater on May 23; the Overture was not finished for the first performance, however, and was premiered two days later, under the composer’s direction. The decade (1804–1814) that Beethoven devoted to his only opera, Fidelio, was an unprecedented amount of time to spend perfecting such a work during the early 19th century. Given the same time span, Rossini dispensed 31 (!) operas between 1810 and 1820, and Donizetti cranked out 35 (!!) specimens of the genre from 1827 to 1837. Even Mozart launched seven operas during his decade in Vienna. For Beethoven, however, Fidelio was more than just a mere theatrical diversion—it was his philosophy set to music. This story of the triumph of justice over tyranny and love over inhumanity was a document of his faith. To present such grandiose beliefs in a work that would not fully serve them was unthinkable, and so Beethoven hammered and rewrote and changed until he was satisfied. In his book The Interior Beethoven, Irving Kolodin noted: As tended to be the life-long case with Beethoven, the overriding consideration remained: achievement of the objective. How long it might take or how much effort might be required was not merely incidental—such consideration was all but nonexistent. The most visible remnants of Beethoven’s extensive revisions are the quartet of overtures he composed for Fidelio, the only instance in the history of music in which a composer generated so many curtain-raisers for a single opera. The first version of the opera, written between January 1804 and early autumn 1805, was initially titled Leonore after the heroine, who courageously rescues her husband from his wrongful incarceration. For this production, Beethoven wrote the Overture in C Major now known as the Leonore No. 1, using themes from the opera. The composer’s friend and early biographer Anton Schindler recorded that Beethoven rejected this first attempt after hearing it privately performed at Prince Lichnowsky’s palace before the premiere. (Another theory, supported by recent detailed examination of the paper on which the sketches for the piece were made, holds that this work was written in 1806–07 for a projected performance of the opera in Prague that never took place, thus making Leonore No. 1 the third of the Fidelio overtures.) He composed a second C major overture, Leonore No. 2, and this piece was used at the first performance, on November 20, 1805. (The management of Vienna’s Theatre an der Wien, site of the premiere, insisted on changing the opera’s name from Leonore to Fidelio to avoid confusion with Ferdinand Paër’s Leonore.) The opera foundered. Not only was the audience unsympathetic—it was largely populated by French officers of Napoleon’s army, which had invaded Vienna exactly one week earlier—but there were also problems in Fidelio’s dramatic structure. Beethoven was encouraged by his aristocratic supporters to rework the opera and present it again. This second version, for which the magnificent Leonore Overture No. 3 was written, was presented in Vienna on March 29, 1806, but met with only slightly more acclaim than its forerunner. In 1814, some members of the Court Theater approached Beethoven, by then Europe’s most famous composer, about reviving Fidelio. The idealistic subject of the opera had never been far from his thoughts,
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Camille Saint-Saens The Swan Lyrics "LYRICSLRC.COM" Charles Camille Saint-Sa?ns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer and performer, best known for his orchestral work The Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Sa?ns' early start and his 86 years provided him with time to write hundreds of compositions; during his long career, he wrote many dramatic works, including four symphonic poems, and thirteen operas, of which Samson et Dalila and the symphonic poem Danse Macabre are among his most famous. In all, he composed over three hundred works and was the first major composer to write music specifically for the cinema, for Henri Lavedan's film L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise. Saint-Sa?ns wrote five symphonies, although only three of these are numbered. He withdrew the first, written for a Mozartian-scale orchestra, and the third, a competition piece. His symphonies are a signficant contribution to the genre during a period when the French symphonic tradition was otherwise in decline. Saint-Sa?ns also contributed voluminously to the French concertante literature; he wrote five piano concertos, three violin concertos, two cello concertos, and about twenty smaller concertante works for soloist and orchestra, including a colorfully orchestrated piano fantasy, Africa; the Havanaise and the Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra; and the Morceau de Concert for harp and orchestra. Of the concertos, the Second, Fourth and Fifth Piano concertos, the Third Violin Concerto, and the First Cello Concerto remain popular. Indeed, Saint-Sa?n's Concerto in G minor is one of the most popular virtuoso piano concertos of all time, but when Saint-Sa?ns heard Harold Bauer play it, he said, "That is very good, but please remember that I wrote five piano concertos: FIVE." In 1886 he wrote his final symphony, the Symphony No. 3, "avec orgue" ("with organ"), one of his best-known works. Aided by the monumental symphonic organs built in France by Aristide Cavaill?-Coll, at that time the world's foremost organ builder, this work demonstrates the spirit of "gigantism" and the confidence of France at the end of the 19th century, a period that produced also the Eiffel Tower, the Universal Exposition at Paris and the Belle ?poque. The confident Maestoso fourth movement perhaps reflects the confidence of Europe in its technology, its science, its "age of reason". He was frequently named as "the most German of all the French composers", perhaps due to his use of counterpoint. In 1886, Saint-Sa?ns completed Le Carnaval des Animaux, which was first performed on 9 March. Despite the work's great popularity today, Saint-Sa?ns forbade complete performances of it shortly after its premi?re, allowing only one movement, "Le Cygne" ("The Swan"), a piece for cello and two pianos, to be published in his lifetime. The Carnival was written as a musical jest, and Saint-Sa?ns believed it would damage his reputation as a serious composer. In fact, since its posthumous publication, this work's imagination and musical brilliance have impressed both ordinary listeners and music critics. Translate CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS - THE SWAN lyrics to: In order to see the lyrics of CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS - THE SWAN it is necessary to have java script enabled browser. We have another 1 lyrics of songs by Camille Saint-Saens, that you are able to see on the right or clicking on the artist's name. We plan in the future to enable the possibility to make translations of CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS - THE SWAN lyrics on your own or other languages. Example: To see English translation for the CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS - THE SWAN lyrics please choose from the dropdown list English. 9.3 out of 10 based on 23 Lyrics Lrc ratings. Artist: Camille Saint-Saens
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British Airways announces plans to merge with Spanish airline British Airways announces plans to merge with Spanish airline By Jane Fazackarley Nov 12, 2009 in Business British Airways has announced plans to merge with Iberia, a Spanish airline. The deal has not yet been completed but should be made formal in 2010. Before the deal can be completed it must receive the go-ahead from the European Commission. Once the merger has been made final, the new company will become one of the largest airlines in the world. British Airways (BA) has been struggling due to the recession and other factors. The company recently announced a £292 million loss over the last six months. The merger will mean that a holding company called TopCo is to be set up and BA will retain the biggest share of the business at 55 percent, while Iberia will have a 45 percent share. The two airlines first met for talks back in 2008 to discuss the possibility of a deal. British Airways currently holds a 14 per cent stake in Iberia. The Spanish airline still has the option of backing out of the plans should BA not find a way of addressing the pensions black hole which exists in its company. The merger will mean the company will own a total of 419 planes and flights will go to more than 200 different destinations. Virgin Atlantic, a rival of British Airways, has some reservations over the deal and the market share it will acquire. Both BA and Iberia have announced heavy losses in the past year and both faced the threat of strike action . The Chairman and CEO of Iberia Airlines Antonio Vázque issued a statement on their website which said: “It has been a long process where many people, both at British Airways and Iberia, have worked very hard to reach this agreement. But in the end it was worth it. This agreement is a giant step in the history of both Iberia and British Airways. We are laying the foundations of what will be one of the most important airlines in the world, a real global airline. I believe that, thanks to this transaction, which is the most important in the European airline industry in recent years, we are more prepared than ever to face future challenges." British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh said: “The merger will create a strong European airline well able to compete in the 21st century. Both airlines will retain their brands and heritage while achieving significant synergies as a combined force.” Union leaders seem to be in favour of the deal and don't forsee job losses as a result.
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"Masterminds" - Manchester Evening News, November 7, 2015 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt 1. Playboy Russia covergirl Maria Kozhevnikova, boxer Nikolai Valuyev, and tennis player Marat Safin shared which honour in December 2011? 2. What William S Burroughs 1961 book popularised the rock music term 'heavy metal', and provided the names for at least two rock bands of the 1970s? 3. What main religion celebrates festivals including Nuakhai, Yatra (or Zatra/Jatra), Pongal, Holi and Shigmo? 4. Which country experienced the Velvet Revolution in Nov-Dec 1989? 5. According to the UK General Teaching Council how many of the 28,000 newly qualified teachers in 2010 had a computerrelated degree: 3; 30; 300 or 3,000? 6. Spell the word: Remanisence; Reminissense; Remeniscence; or Reminiscence? 7. What ancient Sanskrit word loosely meaning 'region' commonly now refers to people (and culture, products, etc) of Indian sub-continent origins? 8. Whom did Forbes Magazine list as the most powerful woman in the Southern Hemisphere in 2011? 9. Unrelated, what is a set of slats and a museum? 10. What ship, whose name means thunderbolt, was Nelson's flagship 1799-1801, and later a training ship for boys? 26 11. The Showa period of Japan coincided with what Emperor's reign? 12. Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's book War Horse, on In state Luther which the 2012 Spielberg film (of the same name) is based, held what UK position from 2003-5? 13. What fashionable Mediterranean resort hosted the G20 international economics conference at the height of the Greek Euro membership crisis? 27 14. How many cubic metres is the space in a room four metres square and three metres high? 15. Which politician bowled faster than Dennis Lillee and Andy Roberts? 16. What element is also known as hydrargyrum? David shows around 17. Whose father wrote and sang the popular Secret Lemonade Drinker song in the award-winning British 1970s-80s R Whites Lemonade TV advert ? … Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Newspapers Encyclopedia Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details
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'Juno And The Paycock'is a play written by who?
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Juno and the Paycock: A play ahead of its time - The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Monday, Jul. 28, 2014 4:11PM EDT Last updated Title Juno and the Paycock Written by Sean O’Casey Directed by Jackie Maxwell Starring Mary Haney, Jim Mezon Venue Shaw Festival City Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Juno and the Paycock, the second play in Irish playwright Sean O'Casey’s great Dublin Trilogy, is a stylistically slippery son of a gun. Set during the Irish Civil War of the early 1920s, it shifts from broad comedy to high tragedy on a dime – with long patches of vaudevillian clowning interrupted by heart-wrenching speeches by mourning women that seem ripped right out of Euripides. In Roller Derby Saved My Soul Nancy Kenny stars as a shy 30-year-old who discovers her inner superhero after a trip to the roller derby. Multimedia Has the Fringe circuit been good for Canadian theatre? In one of her most sensitive productions to date, director Jackie Maxwell skillfully steers the Shaw Festival ensemble through even the choppiest waters of O’Casey’s 1924 play. She has two able hands helping keep the ship on course: Mary Haney and Jim Mezon, who star as the title characters – the heroic Juno Boyle and her strutting, preening husband, “Captain” Jack Boyle. You’ll recognize their working-class family dynamic from any number of Irish stories on stage or on screen: While Jack Boyle shirks work and spends what money he gets on going to the pub, Juno never stops working in and out of the home to keep the family together. As Juno and the Paycock begins, straits are even direr than usual as daughter Mary (Marla McLean) is on strike and son Johnny (Charlie Gallant) is unemployable, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after losing his arm in the War of Independence that preceded the current civil unrest. When an anglophile solicitor named Bentham (Gord Rand, effectively aloof) shows up with news that the Boyle family has inherited a small fortune from a long-lost relative, it seems too good to be true. Of course, and this is hardly a spoiler, it is: Whether rich or poor, the men of the Boyle family are fated to tear the family to pieces just as the men of Ireland are doing the same with the country. It’s odd how prominent a role Henrik Ibsen is playing this season at the Shaw Festival despite there being none of the Norwegian’s works on the bill. Half of Bernard Shaw’s play The Philanderer takes place at a club named after Ibsen – to which only manly women and womanly men are admitted. In Juno and the Paycock, Ibsen pops up when Captain Jack Boyle – whose bluster and buffoonery Mezon applies an unsettling undercoat of menace – stumbles upon what his daughter is reading. “The Doll’s House, Ghosts, an’ The Wild Duck,” he scoffs. “Buks only fit for chiselurs.” (That’s how O’Casey wrote it – and the cast, most of the time, does an okay job selling the dialect.) O’Casey, like Shaw, may have been inspired by Ibsen’s naturalism, but the very metatheatrical presence of these plays on the stage shows that he couldn’t be constrained by it. Maxwell’s production, expressionistically designed by Peter Hartwell, is most riveting when exploring the moments that Juno and the Paycock moves into heightened registers – especially, the last two astounding scenes. First comes the punch to the gut, with Haney, rising to the occasion, delivering the play’s most famous speech as the family suffers its largest loss. “Sacred heart o’ Jesus, take away our hearts o’ stone, and give us hearts o’ flesh!” she cries, straight out, breaking the fourth wall and every heart in the audience. If this penultimate scene harkens back to Greek tragedy, the final one looks ahead to the works of Samuel Beckett as Boyle and his ne’er-do-well pal Joxer (an uneven Benedict Campbell) return from a night of drinking and stumble around the apartment in the dark. It’s a scene pulled off terrifically here with Mezon and Campbell descending into terrifying incoherence. If the play has its dull patches earlier, it’s more O’Casey’s fault than the cast. (There’s a terrific supporting performan
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Sir Alan Ayckbourn | British playwright | Britannica.com Sir Alan Ayckbourn Sir Peter Ustinov Sir Alan Ayckbourn, (born April 12, 1939, London , Eng.), successful and prolific British playwright, whose works—mostly farces and comedies—deal with marital and class conflicts and point up the fears and weaknesses of the English lower-middle class. He wrote more than 70 plays and other entertainments, most of which were first staged at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough , Yorkshire, Eng. Alan Ayckbourn, 1975. Tim Graham—Hulton Archive/Getty Images At age 15 Ayckbourn acted in school productions of William Shakespeare , and he began his professional acting career with the Stephen Joseph Company in Scarborough. When Ayckbourn wanted better roles to play , Joseph told him to write a part for himself in a play that the company would mount if it had merit. Ayckbourn produced his earliest plays in 1959–61 under the pseudonym Roland Allen. His plays—many of which were performed years before they were published—include Relatively Speaking (1968), Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage (1970), How the Other Half Loves (1971), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1973), Absurd Person Singular (1974), Intimate Exchanges (1985), Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays (1989), Body Language (1990), Invisible Friends (1991), Communicating Doors (1995), Comic Potential (1999), The Boy Who Fell into a Book (2000), and the trilogy Damsels in Distress (2002). In 2002 he published a work of advice and instruction for aspiring playwrights and directors, The Crafty Art of Playmaking. After suffering a stroke in 2006, Ayckbourn limited his activities, though he soon resumed writing. In 2009 he stepped down as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, a post he had held since 1972. His numerous honours include Laurence Olivier (2009) and Tony (2010) awards for lifetime achievement. Ayckbourn was knighted in 1997. Learn More in these related articles:
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 28 | 1986: Swedish prime minister assassinated About This Site | Text Only 1986: Swedish prime minister assassinated The Swedish prime minister has died after being shot in a street ambush in central Stockholm. His wife was wounded. Olof and Lisbeth Palme were attacked as they were leaving a cinema at about 2330 local time. Mr Palme was shot twice in the stomach, his wife was shot in the back. Police say a taxi-driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm. Two young girls sitting in a car close to the scene of the shooting tried to help the Prime Minister. He was rushed to hospital but was dead on arrival. Mrs Palme is being treated for her injury, but it is not thought to be life threatening. Advocate of peace Mr Palme, 59, and a social democrat, was serving his second term as leader. He believed in open government and shunned tight security. He had two bodyguards to protect him on official functions but frequently walked unattended through the Swedish capital and went on holidays unescorted to his summer cottage on the island of Gotland. His assassination will come as a shock to the Swedes. They have always taken great pride in the fact their prime minister could walk openly in the streets without the security which accompanies other heads of state. Mr Palme will be remembered as a campaigner for the working classes and Third World causes. He was first elected as prime minister in 1969. He became a leading advocate of peace and non violence and campaigned for an end to the war in Vietnam. He saw himself carrying the banner of Social Democracy through Europe at a time when the Right was only temporarily in triumph. He once said: "I know that the Thatchers and the Reagans will be out in a few years. We have to survive till then."
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Leaflets of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm SGM Herbert A. Friedman (Ret.) Note: Images from this article were used in Three Practical Lessons from the Science of Influence Operations Message Design by M. Afzal Upal, Canadian Military Journal, Volume 14, No 2, 2014. Images from this article were also used with permission by Captain David Bergman (Swedish Armed Forces) in his book KRIGSPROPAGANDA - fran 1914 till idag, (War Propaganda from 1914 to the present). Images were also used for a Rowan Technology Solutions enhanced e-Book entitled The West Point History of Warfare for use by the History Department of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Images from this article were used by Matthew Wallin of the American Security Project in his 2015 white paper on U.S. Military public diplomacy entitled Military Public Diplomacy: How the Military Influences Foreign Audience. In 2016, images from this article were used in an Aviation News magazine article commemorating the 25th Anniversary of B-52 bombers in Desert Storm. This foreword is not meant to explain the origin and the tactics of the Persian Gulf War. It is a quick look at the way things happened as I remember them and is really just an introduction to the leaflets and other psychological operation (PSYOP) campaigns that took place at the end of 1990 and early 1991. It is not a historical look at the war, it is my own recollections and interpretation of what happened. George Bush and his fellow Arab nations backed him believing that the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran were the greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East. At the end of the war Saddam found himself deep in debt to the Arab countries who had loaned money to Iraq . He owed 40 billion dollars to Kuwait alone. Worse, he felt that they had taken advantage of him. On 17 July 1990, he accused Kuwait of oil overproduction (which drove that price of Iraqi oil down on the world market) and theft of oil from the Rumailia Oil Fields. He claimed that Kuwaiti oil rigs were drilling diagonally into Iraqi oil reserves. Official Iraqi Saddam Hussein Patriotic Portrait Set Some of these alleged causes of the war were refuted in 2008 when Lebanese FBI agent George Pirro assigned to the joint FBI/CIA Iraq Survey Group discussed his interviews with Saddam Hussein on the subject of the Kuwait invasion on the CBS news show Sixty Minutes. Saddam stated he invaded Kuwait because of a personal insult. Saddam had sent his foreign minister to Kuwait to try and resolve their issues. According to Saddam, the Emir of Kuwait told his emissary that he would not cease his actions until every Iraqi woman was a ten dollar prostitute. Saddam allegedly decided that Kuwait must be punished and this led directly to the invasion. An Official Saddam Hussein Portrait The portrait of Saddam Hussein above was found by U.S Army Chief Warrant Officer Fourth Grade Max Stecker. Max told me: This is one of the standard pictures of Saddam, which was required to be in every classroom throughout Iraqs school system and apparently in just about every book. I found maintenance logs in a motor pool at Talil Air Base and the soldiers had taped the picture into regular ledger books. This particular copy was captured from a former trade school for high school age kids that was converted into a Fedayeen training camp supported by the Arab socialist Ba'ath party. George Santayana once said, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the early 1950s, North Korea was led to believe that the Republic of (South) Korea was not within the sphere of American protection. Soon afterwards, they invaded the south. Similarly, on 25 July 1990, US Ambassador to Iraq , April Glaspie, told Saddam Hussein that the dispute between Iraq . The Kuwaiti government-in-exile fled to Saudi Arabia where it was recognized as the legitimate voice of Kuwait . President Georg
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In psychology the (positive) 'Pygmalion effect' and opposite (negative) 'Golem effect' influence people by?
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Management Secrets: Pygmalion and Galatea Effects By Susan M. Heathfield Updated September 20, 2016 Your expectations of employees and their expectations of themselves are the key factors in how well people perform at work. Known as the Pygmalion effect and the Galatea effect, respectively, the power of expectations cannot be overestimated. These are the fundamental principles you can apply to performance expectations and potential performance improvement at work. The Pygmalion Effect: The Power of the Manager's Expectations You can summarize the Pygmalion effect, often known as the power of expectations, by considering: Every supervisor has expectations of the people who report to him. Supervisors communicate these expectations consciously or unconsciously. People pick up on, or consciously or unconsciously read, these expectations from their supervisor. People perform in ways that are consistent with the expectations they have picked up on from the supervisor. The Pygmalion effect was described by J. Sterling Livingston in the September/October 1988 Harvard Business Review. "The way managers treat their subordinates is subtly influenced by what they expect of them," Livingston said in his article, Pygmalion in Management. The Pygmalion effect enables staff to excel in response to the manager’s message that they are capable of success and expected to succeed. The Pygmalion effect can also undermine staff performance when the subtle communication from the manager tells them the opposite. These cues are often subtle. As an example, the supervisor fails to praise a staff person's performance as frequently as he praises others. The supervisor talks less to a particular employee. Livingston went on to say about the supervisor, "If he is unskilled, he leaves scars on the careers of the young men (and women), cuts deeply into their self-esteem and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if he is skillful and has high expectations of his subordinates, their self-confidence will grow , their capabilities will develop and their productivity will be high . More often than he realizes, the manager is Pygmalion." Can you imagine how performance will improve if your supervisors communicate positive thoughts about people to people? If the supervisor actually believes that every employee has the ability to make a positive contribution at work, the telegraphing of that message, either consciously or unconsciously, will positively affect employee performance. And, the effect of the supervisor gets even better than this. When the supervisor holds positive expectations about people, she helps individuals improve their self-concept and thus, self-esteem. People believe they can succeed and contribute and their performance rises to the level of their own expectations. The Galatea Effect: The Power of Self-expectations Even more powerful than the Pygmalion effect, the Galatea effect is a compelling factor in employee performance. The manager who can assist employees to believe in themselves and in their efficacy has harnessed a powerful performance improvement tool. I'm sure you've heard of the words, self-fulfilling prophecy. Applied as the Galatea effect, these words mean that the individual's opinion about his ability and his self-expectations about his performance largely determine his performance. If an employee thinks she can succeed, she will likely succeed. Consequently, any actions the supervisor can take that increase the employee's feelings of positive self-worth, will help the employee's performance improve. I don't mean to over-simplify this concept. Many other factors also contribute to the level of an employee's performance including your company culture , the employee's life experiences, education, family support and relationships with coworkers. However, positive supervision is one of the key factors that keeps good employees on the job. These are ways in which you can encourage positive, powerful self-expectations in employees. Provide opportunities for the employee to experience increasingly challenging assi
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Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman | World of Books.com Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman £2.79 Availability: In stock The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum. Only 3 left Description Details From the bestselling author of "The English" comes "Empire", Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was "to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable"') and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and ourselves. "Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated...In short, he carries the whole thing off with panache bordering on effrontery". (Piers Brendon, "Sunday Times"). "Paxman is a magnificent historian, and "Empire" may be remembered as his finest work". ("Independent on Sunday"). Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for "Panorama". He is the author of five books including "The English". He is the presenter of "Newsnight" and "University Challenge" and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen. Additional Information Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British Author Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual cover or edition may vary. Note: This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us. Description Details From the bestselling author of "The English" comes "Empire", Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was "to grasp the fleeting moment between t
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On which river does Harwich stand?
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Harwich (Haven Port) [Expanded View] - East Coast: pilotage, charts, photos and marine business listings http://www.hha.co.uk/leisure.html Approach from the North. All small craft approaches lay of the South of the main shipping channel, so if coming from the North you will have to cross it. The recommended crossing point in a north-south direction is chosen because at this place the dredged channel is much narrower than farther eastwards, meaning less time crossing it. The crossing is shown clearly on the chart and is adjacent to the red can buoy Inner Ridge (Q.R). NB This differs from a crossing of a TSS in that they specify a track to be maintained whereas with a TSS the boat/ship's head should be at right angles to the TSS. From here the East/West going small craft track parallels the main shipping channel, and you can follow this in by keeping the red can buoyage on your starboard side. Approach from the South. From the South you will be coming from the Wallet. Approaching Walton on the Naze it is necessary to maintain a good offing from the coast to avoid shallows. 1 mile minimum is recommended. The area is infested with lobster pots waiting to snag your propeller so a sharp lookout will be needed during the day, and at night it would be best to stand well offshore. Keeping well off the shore and heading generally northwards you should be able to spot and identify the green conical Medusa buoy (Fl.G.5s), you can leave this to starboard and set a NNW course. Find and identify the Stone Banks Buoy (Fl.R.5s) which can also be left to starboard. This marks patches with only around 2 m at CD. From here providing the visibility is reasonable you should be able to see Harwich just to the west of North. Head towards Harwich and about a mile before you get there you should be able to find the Pye End Buoy on your port side. It is then a matter of locating the red can buoyage marking the ship Channel into Harwich and parallel this by leaving the buoys to starboard and following them. Approach from the East. Any kind of approach from the East will need large scale and up-to-date charts showing the Sunk traffic separation schemes. This area can be avoided by making your approach from the North East. Closer approaches. Dredging work has now finished: Update March 2010, dredging work finished although some work is still going on with the ship berths. In effect the entrance should be back to normal now. See chart. In the closer approach there are shallows lying off the end of the breakwater projecting from Blackman's Head, with least depths of 1.3 m. Keeping close to the red can buoyage will clear this. Alternatively it is possible to pass close to the head of the breakwater and then make a generally north-easterly course (towards Felixstowe) before picking up the red can buoyage again which is left to starboard. An easterly Cardinal buoy, Harwich Shelf (Q(3)10s) is laid from April to October marking the shallow Guard Shelf off the town of Harwich as you make your entry. This needs to be left on your port side and the red can buoy Grisle (Fl.R.2.5s) on your starboard side. Pass between these two. Continuing onwards in a generally north westerly direction will bring you to the red can Guard buoy (Fl.R.5s) and at this point you can either make a hard turn to port and head west past the Ro Ro terminal (for the visitors pontoon at Halfpenny Pier) or crossover directly to the Shotley Spit southerly Cardinal buoy (Q(6)+Lfl.15s).(If you're planning to go up the River Stour or to Shotley Point Marina). Navigate on your Android tablet. An Android tablet can make a great offline instrument for actually navigating on. Light, portable, self-contained with GPS and compass, with "instant on" ability. We make charts for this purpose, £7.99 members/ £14.99 non members. Find out how it all works . Berthing, Mooring & Anchoring Moorings in this area consist of Halfpenny Pier, and Shotley Point Marina. Full details including prices follow: In the area covered anchoring is prohibited in the fairway or within 200 feet of the edges from P
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City of Harare Harare Travel Guide The capital city of Zimbabwe, Harare, is a beautiful, light-filled, open city; high on the country's central plateaux. It is a city of modern buildings, wide thoroughfares, numerous parks and gardens. A city whose streets are lined with flowering trees and a wonderful and invigorating climate. There is a strong appreciation for the city's cultural and historical heritage and a number of the older buildings have been preserved. The Mining Pension Fund Building at Central Avenue and Second Street is one example and many more are to be found along Robert Mugabe Road between Second Street and Julius Nyerere Way. The National Gallery houses not only a valuable and interesting national collection but also hosts travelling international exhibitions and has a permanent display of some outstanding Shona soft-stone carvings. The priceless collection of Rhodesiana and Africana in the form of diaries, notebooks and reports of various origins, are housed in the National Archives. Some of the original works of some of the greatest names in African exploration and missionary can be viewed. Other institutions which are well worth visiting include the Queen Victoria Museum and the Queen Victoria National Library, both at the Civic Centre; in Rotten Row. The city was laid out with large open spaces like the 68ha National Botanic Garden with more than 900 species of wild trees and shrubs from all over the country. The Mukuvisi Woodlands is 277 hectares of remarkably preserved natural woodland that stances astride the banks of the small Mukuvisi stream. A variety of bird and of wild animal species such as giraffe, zebra, impala, tsessche, wildebeest, bushbuck, steenbuck, reed buck and eland can be viewed. If you want to experience shopping the way it is traditionally done in many African countries, you need to stroll around at the open flea-market at Mbare. Here tourists can feast their eyes on a colourful array of baskets, food, clothing and other items. The Kopje, a granite hill rising above the south-west corner of central Harare, is a great place to go for views of the city. Harare Map: What our clients say: Thank you very much for your assistance with my accommodation at the Durban beach hotel. I have already positively responded to the survey and have included attached herewith some photos for publication. The weather...
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Jim Moss & Rebecca Wilcox Married, Children, Joint Family Tree & History - FameChain Rebecca Wilcox's grandfather was Henry Rantzen Rebecca Wilcox's grandmother is Katherine Flora Rebecca Wilcox's great grandparents: Rebecca Wilcox's great grandfather is Louis Leverson Rebecca Wilcox's great grandmother was Millie Leverson Rebecca Wilcox's great grandfather was Hyam Rantzen Rebecca Wilcox's great great grandfather was Montague Leverson Rebecca Wilcox's great great grandmother was Kate Leverson Rebecca Wilcox's great great grandfather was Abraham Rantzen Rebecca Wilcox's great great grandmother was Sarah Rantzen Rebecca Wilcox's 3x great grandfather was Manass Rantzen Rebecca Wilcox's 3x great grandmother was Tamar Rantzen Rebecca Wilcox's 4x great grandfather was David Rantzen Rebecca Wilcox's 5x great grandfather was Moszek Rantzen Who's In The News?...
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Billy Cotton: A life less ordinary - BBC News BBC News Billy Cotton: A life less ordinary 23 December 2014 Close share panel Image caption Billy Cotton's shows would begin with his "Wakey wakey" catchphrase For several decades Billy Cotton was a household name in Britain, as a band leader, radio and TV presenter. But there was a lot more to him than met the eye. Billy Cotton was showbusiness for two decades after the war. His Sunday lunchtime radio show - which transferred to television in 1956 - was heralded with his trademark catch phrase "Wakey wakey" and became a staple for millions of households between 1949 and 1968. Ironically his great-niece Fearne Cotton is herself a household name now and she presents a special documentary about him on Radio 2 this week. Image copyright Getty Images Listen to Fearne Cotton telling the story of Big Band, Big Man - The Billy Cotton Story, broadcast on Radio 2 on Tuesday 23 December at 22:00 GMT. Big Band, Big Man One of Billy Cotton's band's most famous songs was "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" but Michael Grade told the programme his appeal was always "broad brush" and never "vulgar". What many people did not realise was that despite being a band leader and arranger he could not play an instrument or read a word of music. At its peak in the early 1960s the show had an audience of 20 million and regular guests included Dionne Warwick, Cliff Richard, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw, Adam Faith, Tom Jones and Lulu. And many, like Jones, got their big break on the show. Cotton's former producer Brian Tesler described his qualities as a presenter: "He had natural ability, a great sense of humour and a way of making good friends with good people once he thought they were on the same wavelength as he was." Image caption Billy Cotton's womanising was well known in the industry Cotton, an avuncular figure, was 50 when the programme first aired. But he had packed an awful lot into those 50 years and his life sounds like something out of Boy's Own. The youngest of 10 children, he was born into a close-knit, working class family in Smith Square, Westminster, which was a very different place from what it is today. He joined the army at the age of 15 - his dad threatened to "send him to bed" when he found out he had joined up - and served at Gallipoli in World War One. Pilot, boxer, footballer Later he became a pilot for the Army Flying Corps, but crashed his plane and was nearly killed on the same day the Royal Air Force was created. After the war he boxing as a welterweight for London Polytechnic and played football briefly for Brentford - scoring on his debut against QPR. Later he turned out for non-league Wimbledon. Cotton worked the 4am shift in an east London factory and married Mabel Gregory in 1921. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Young Billy Cotton as a band leader When Mabel got pregnant Cotton got a job as a bus conductor, and played the drums in a band at Ealing Palais from 7pm until midnight. He later got a job fronting the London Savannah Band. The band, who started out playing in Brighton and then Southport, made it big in the 1930s when they moved to Ciro's club in London's West End and recruited singer Alan Breeze. His signature tune would be "Somebody Stole My Gal". He loved speed and danger and in September 1936 he tried to break the world land speed record on the sands at Southport. In his memoirs, he joked that the car had two speeds - "fast" and "stop". He did not break the record but his 121.5mph was a very impressive speed. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Cotton loved planes, speedboats and racing cars He raced at the British Grand Prix at Donington in 1938 and finished his racing career in 1949 at the Silverstone International Grand Prix, coming fourth. Cotton was a life-long Charlton fan and his recording of Red Red Robin is still played at The Valley before the team's matches. His love of speed, danger, sport and fun made him a "bloke's bloke", according to Michael Grade, whose father Leslie was his agent. "He was a man of the people. He brought
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Saddam Hussein facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Saddam Hussein BIBLIOGRAPHY Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937, in the northern town of Tikrit, Iraq , to a landless family. His mother was widowed and lost Hussein’s older brother while she was pregnant with Saddam. After his mother remarried, the family moved to the tiny village of Uja, a few miles south of Tikrit, where they led an impoverished life. His mother had three more children with her new husband, and Hussein’s stepfather preferred them over him. Being fatherless, Hussein was exposed to abuse on the part of the village’s children. His parents did not want to send him to school, but when he turned ten he insisted on moving to Tikrit to stay with his maternal uncle, Khayr Allah Tilfah, and attended primary school there. In 1955 he moved with his uncle’s family to Baghdad to attend high school, but before graduating he became involved in political activities, having joined the revolutionary underground Baath Party in 1957. Later, as an exile in Cairo , he completed his secondary education and took some classes in law. As vice president of Iraq, he took private lessons in law, but he never completed his formal education. On July 14, 1958, General Abdul-Karim Qassem (1914–1963) toppled the monarchy in Baghdad and established a semibenevolent dictatorship. Within weeks it became clear that Qassem’s approach to Arab unity was opposed to that of the Baath Arab Socialist Party, Hussein’s chosen venue for political action. With the support of Iraqi communists, Qassem objected to unification with Gamal Abdel Nasser’s (1918–1970) Egypt , and he placed a heavy emphasis on Iraqi identity and Iraqi interests, rather than on pan-Arab ideology and practice. In October 1959 Hussein participated in a failed assassination attempt on Qassem’s life. Hussein and his collaborators managed to wound the Iraqi dictator, but Hussein himself was wounded in his thigh and one of his team was killed, apparently from bullets shot by their own colleagues. Hussein managed to escape to Syria , an odyssey that became the object of a heroic myth weaved by his media after he became president. In Damascus he met the founder and chief ideologue of the Baath Party, the Syrian Christian intellectual Michel Aflaq (1910–1989). Aflaq was impressed by Hussein’s audacity and strength of character, and thereafter Hussein’s position in the party was assured. Hussein soon left Damascus for Cairo, where he lived a modest life sponsored by Nasser. BAATH PARTY COMES TO POWER On February 8, 1963, the Baath Party, in collaboration with a few army officers, staged a coup d’état and killed Qassem. Hussein immediately left Cairo and arrived in Baghdad, where he became a midlevel internal security official. This was also when he married his maternal cousin, Sajidah Khayr Allah Tilfah. Qassem’s downfall was apparently not the exclusive result of his mistake of denying the Communists weapons, nor of the Baath Party’s talent for staging coups. According to reliable sources, the coup was supported, if not actually engineered, by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ). Starting in 1959, the CIA identified Qassem as a sworn enemy of the United States and a staunch ally of the Soviet Union . Over this issue there were deep disagreements between the CIA and the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. The Israeli analysts were convinced that Qassem was not a Communist, nor a Soviet satellite, and they had sufficient evidence that he was not an enemy of Israel. In fact, his rivalry with Nasser served Israel’s purpose of separating Iraq from Egypt. In 1963 the CIA, if it was indeed involved, had the upper hand. The Baath regime under General Abdul Salam Arif (1920–1966) as a titular figurehead launched a bloody campaign against Iraqi Communists who, despite deep reservations, had supported Qassem. Within six months the regime managed to slaughter around ten thousand men, real or perceived Communists. This, however, was no victory for the United States, because the Baath regime was still s
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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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Names for Collectors - Everything2.com Names for Collectors Sat Mar 03 2001 at 3:13:44 The following are English language names for collectors of various things: Arctophile , Arctophillist : A lover or collector of teddy-bears. Aurelian - Collector of butterflies or moth s. Cartophilist - Collector of cigarette cards etc. Conchologist - An expert in or collector of shell s. Copoclephile - A collector of key-rings. Deltiologist - Collector of postcards. Iconophile - Connoisseur or collector of book illustrations, engravings, etc. Lepidopterist - Expert in or collector of butterflies and moths. Notaphilist - Collector of banknotes. Numismatist - Expert in or collector of coins. Oologist - Expert in or collector of bird's eggs. Paroemiographer - Writer or collector of proverb s. Phillatelist - Collector of postage stamps. Phillumenist - Collector of matches, matchboxes, and books of matches. Porcelainist - Connoisseur or collector of porcelain . Tegestologist - Collector of beermats.
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Round One Jeopardy Template The name of Dr. Sieuss's egg-hatching elephant 100 Well-known Tasmanian-born leading lady who launched her entertainment career under the name of Queenie O'Brien. 100 What is the kitchen? Room in the average American home that is the scene of the greatest number of arguments. 100 The distance between bases on a little league baseball field. 100 The part of the brain that regulates physiological stability. 200 Clark Kent's high school sweetheart 200 Yves Montand was born in this country. 200 What is Truth or Consequences? Current name of the town that was formerly Hot Springs, New Mexico, that was re-named in 1960 by its citizens in honor of a popular radio show. 200 First sport in which women were invited to compete at the Olympics. 200 What is Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, with 823 words Novel containing the longest sentence in literature 300 What are George and Michael? Brummel was George Geste was Michael The real names of Beau Brummel and Beau Geste. 300 What are Patience and Fortitude? (Names were given by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.) Names of the two landmark stone lions sitting in front of the New York Public Libaray at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City. 300 What is bicycle moto x (cross)? In cross-country bike racing, what the initials BMX stand for. 300 What are hiccups? DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Term for a series of uncontrollable intakes of air caused by sudden spasms of the diaphragm. 400 What is The Little Engine That Could? Famous book that begins: "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff." 400 Who is Peter Lorre? Famous actor who prepared for a career in psychiatry - studying and working with pioneer psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler - before he turned to performing. 400 What are six months? Time - in months - the average American motorist spends during his lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green. 400 Who is Jackie Robinson? (He later gained national fame playing professional baseball.) In 1939, the famous American athlete who starred on UCLA's undefeated football team and was the top scorer in the Pacific Coast Conference for basketball. 400 What is the retina?
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Monster (2003) - IMDb IMDb Debbie Reynolds’ Last Words: ‘I Want to Be with Carrie,’ Son Says 16 hours ago 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 WATCH NOW ON DISC Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer. Director: a list of 44 titles created 02 May 2012 a list of 33 titles created 22 Jan 2013 a list of 45 titles created 5 months ago a list of 22 titles created 2 months ago a list of 41 titles created 2 months ago Search for " Monster " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Oscar. Another 26 wins & 23 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuernos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted. Written by garykmcd The first female serial killer of America See more » Genres: Rated R for strong violence and sexual content, and for pervasive language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 30 January 2004 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Monster: Asesina en serie See more » Filming Locations: $86,831 (USA) (26 December 2003) Gross: The word "fuck" and all permutations of it are spoken 189 times. See more » Goofs When they are sitting at the bus station, Aileen reaches into her jacket to give Selby some money. Selby's hand is on Aileen's knee. In the next shot, Aileen's legs have moved. See more » Quotes Aileen : I always wanted to be in the movies. [pause] Aileen : When I was little I thought for sure that one day, I could be a big, big star. Or maybe just beautiful... beautiful and rich, like the women on TV. Yeah, I had a lot of dreams. And I guess you can call me a real romantic, because I truly believe that one day, they'll come true. So I dreamed about it for hours. As the years went by, I learnt to stop sharing them with people. They said I was dreaming. But back then, I believed it... [...] Courtesy of Universal Records, Atlantic Recording Corp. By Arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing Under License from WB Music Corp. Theron's Performance Makes It Worth A Look 11 January 2006 | by ccthemovieman-1 (United States) – See all my reviews This was not an easy movie to like but I was so enthralled at Charlize Theron's makeover and performance that it took center stage over the story. Theron's physical transformation from the incredibly beautiful woman she is to hard-and-rough looking serial killer Aileen Wournos was just amazing. More than that, I appreciated her effort here, not just with all the makeup but all the mannerisms, the way she walked, moved her head, speech inflection....everything. She was worth the price of the film and I felt the same way after the second viewing months later. The story is a sordid one, filled with a lot of f-words, so be ready for that if you haven't seen it and wondered about the language. It's very rough. It also includes a lesbian relationship between the two main characters, a relationship I have yet to find that anyone found appealing, frankly. I may not be able to recommend the movie for its story but if you want to see an actress really step out of her element and give a great performance, c
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History of Teddington Studios Remind Me History of Teddington Studios For close to a century, Teddington Studios has been an important source of production for the entertainment industry, with an output ranging from silent films to contemporary television shows. The studio, located in Teddington in South-West London, had its origins in the early 20th century when stockbroker Henry Chinnery, the owner of a property in Teddington called Weir House, permitted local filmmakers to use his greenhouse as an impromptu studio. Within a few years studio facilities had been built, and from 1916 to 1922 a company called Master Films produced full-length features at Teddington. In 1931 filmmaker E.G. Norman and actor Henry Edwards bought the property and renamed it Teddington Film Studios Limited. Facilities were expanded to include up-to-date cameras, lighting and recording equipment, along with workshops, dressing rooms and other amenities. The company had produced only one film, Stranglehold (1931), when Warner Bros. leased the studio as its British base later in 1931. Under the title Warner Bros. First National Productions Ltd., the American company began producing "quota quickies," low-budget films with short shooting schedules that were made to meet the quota of British-made films required by the Cinematograph Films Act of 1927. (The act, created to diminish the dominance of American-made films in The United Kingdom, was modified by the Cinematograph Films Act 1938 and further acts, and eventually repealed by the Films Act of 1960.) In 1934 Warners bought the studio and initiated some major rebuilding. The facility thrived throughout the 1930s, producing a long line of thrillers, crime dramas and "women's pictures," along with occasional musicals. Among the actors who appeared in Teddington films of the period were Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood and Ida Lupino. Errol Flynn was featured in Murder at Monte Carlo (1934), a Teddington movie credited with bringing him to the attention of Warner Bros. executives back in the States. The distinguished English director Michael Powell had some of his early experience in Warners' "quota quickies." Other directors, from both sides of the Atlantic, included Monty Banks, John Daumery, Leslie Hiscott, Ralph Ince, John Rawlins and Frank Richardson. Many of Britain's most accomplished scriptwriters worked on these cheaply made movies, including Guy Bolton, John Dighton, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, Reginald Purdell and A.R. Rawlinson. As one of the few British film studios that managed to continue operating during World War II, Teddington produced a series of patriotic films designed to help the war effort. In July 1944 a German rocket exploded on the property, destroying several buildings and killing three employees including the American studio manager Doc Salomon. At the war's end, reconstruction began, with some buildings being completely rebuilt. The studios were formally reopened in 1948 and attracted such noted film actors as Richard Burton, Joan Greenwood, Peter Lorre, Burgess Meredith, Kenneth More and Richard Todd. After a decline in British filmmaking in the 1950s, Teddington rebounded when it was bought for use as a television studio by Associated British Corporation (ABC) in 1958. Among the studio's most famous television productions was The Avengers, which began filming at Teddington in 1960. In 1968, ABC merged with the London company Rediffusion to form Thames Television, which based itself at Teddington and, during the following two decades, created an impressive array of distinguished TV productions. Today Teddington is a part of the Pinewood Studios Group and, with its modern, multi-stage facility, provides a production site for various companies including the BBC. by Roger Fristoe
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Grease 2 (1982) - 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 An English student at a 1960's American high school has to prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 25 titles created 21 Mar 2011 a list of 25 titles created 02 Oct 2012 a list of 45 titles created 19 May 2014 a list of 36 titles created 9 months ago a list of 44 titles created 3 months ago Search for " Grease 2 " 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. Edit Storyline Return to rockin' Rydell High for a whole new term! It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors - and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie Zinone? He's surely going to try! Written by Anonymous Grease is still the word! See more » Genres: 11 June 1982 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Son of Grease See more » Filming Locations: $4,645,411 (USA) (11 June 1982) Gross: Dolby (35 mm prints)| 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Pamela Adlon was starring the on The Facts of Life (1979) when this movie came out See more » Goofs Johnny and Stephanie are trying to paddle the raft when Michael shows up. A few seconds later he jumps the pool on his motorcycle and we can see that now Johnny and Stephanie aren't moving at all, and the water is suddenly completely still. On top of that, a second later one of the motorcycle gang jumps his bike into the pool and it's once again calm. Then his buddy also tries to jump the pool right after him and the water is still somehow flat as a pancake when he hits it. See more » Quotes Sharon : Personally, I think that-... T-Birds: [in unison] We don't care, Sharon! (NYC) – See all my reviews I used to work in a record store in the late 80s/early 90s, and one thing we sold a copy of at least every week was the Grease 2 soundtrack. I used to ask the people buying about it, and they all acknowledged that it was one of the worst movies, but that there is something about it so lovable, and that the songs are terrible, but there's something about them so charming
Now that I've seen the movie, I know what they mean. This movie is appalling in nearly every respect, but there's just something about it--perhaps how brazenly appalling it is--that gives it an almost hypnotic fascination. I love how the producers made only the most surface-level attempt to even appear 50s. The clothes, hairstyles, songs, and ways of speaking all scream 80s. I haven't the slightest idea why they decided to dress Michelle Pheiffer in things that essentially look like sweatshirts for the first half of the movie. And she's got on those huge dark glasses all the time
making her look like early Debbie Harry. You just really have to wonder. As for the sets
I don't think I've ever seen such low production values in a movie released by a major studio. The sets also are brazenly 80s
When Michelle is being tutored, they are OBVIOUSLY in an Elias Brothers Big Boy! Couldn't they at least have found a 50s-themed diner? There is also a scene showing guys motorcycling through a subdivision that looks like 1985 Westland, Michigan, and another time--my favorite--when Michelle and someone are sitting out in what is obviously some municipal park, with a huge superhighway with massive 18-wheelers barreling by in the background. I really have to take my hat off. What's also charmingly appalling is how the producers made NO attempt to recapture ANYTHING you may have loved abo
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The Golden Years: 1982 Deaths Music The big hits of 1982 came from The Jam with Town Called Malice, Dexy's Midnight Runners had Come On Eileen, Bucks Fizz with Land of Make Believe, Odyssey did Inside Out, and Adam and the Ants had Goody Two Shoes. German group, Kraftwerk got to #1 with The Model. Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder had Ebony and Ivory at #1, while Tight Fit revived The Tokens' 1961 hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Sting covered Spread A Little Happiness, while Japan covered the old Smokey Robinson and the Miracles classic, I Second That Emotion. 1982 was the year of the “New Romantics”. Posters of Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, ABC, Haircut 100, Flock Of Seagulls, and Wham, were on the bedroom walls of millions of young girls. Culture Club, led by Boy George, had their first hits, as did Yazoo, Tears For Fears, and Simple Minds. Elton John, Carly Simon, and Marvin Gaye were all back in the charts of 1982, while the Motown record label got a rare 80s number one with I've Never Been To Me by Charlene, that originally flopped when released in 1977. Irene Cara's Fame finally charted in the UK, having been a US hit in 1980. J Geils Band had Centerfold and Freeze Frame, Steve Miller finally got a UK top 10 hit with Abracadabra, as did fellow Americans John Cougar with Jack & Diane, and Survivor with Eye of the Tiger. Toni Basil scored with Mickey, Soft Cell had Torch, Human League had Mirror Man, and 14 years after his #1 with The Equals on Baby Come Back, Eddy Grant was back at #1 with I Don't Wanna Dance. Novelty hits of 1982 came from Renee & Renato with Save Your Love, Seven Tears by The Goombay Dance Band, Nicole—who won Eurovision—with A Little Peace, Trio with Da Da Da, Keith Harris & his duck Orville, Brown Sauce from TV's Swap Shop with I Wanna Be A Winner, and Brat who imitated tennis player John McEnroe's on court tantrums on Chalk Dust (The Umpire Strikes Back). Ex-lead singer of The Damned, Captain Sensible, was the surprise hit of 1982, as his version of Happy Talk hit #1. News Argentina invaded The Falkland Islands. British forces recaptured the islands in June, and Argentina surrendered. Michael Fagin broke into The Queen's bedroom for a chat. Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, was raised from the seabed off Portsmouth. Prince William was born. IRA bombs exploded in parks in London. 20,000 Women circled the American airbase at Greenham Common to protest against the new Cruise missiles. Laker Airways collapsed. The Belfast car firm, DeLorean, went bust. Erika Roe streaked at an England vs Australia match. Mark Thatcher went missing in the Sahara Desert for 3 days. Prince Andrew went on holiday with model Koo Stark. Snow caused chaos in the worst winter for 20 years. 78 were killed, when a Boeing 747 crashed in blizzard conditions in America. Unemployment hit 3 million for the first time since the 1930s. A state of emergency was declared in Nicaragua. Israel invaded the Lebanon. The Iran/Iraq war escalated as Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni called on the Iraqis to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein. Plain-clothed police fired on members of the banned Solidarity trade union in Poland. Leader of the union, Lech Wałęsa, was freed after a year in detention. Australians Lindy & Michael Chamberlain went on trial, after claiming their baby was killed by a dingo. Ozzy Osbourne was taken to hospital, after biting the head off a live bat thrown at him during a concert. Actress Sophia Loren was jailed in Italy for tax evasion. Elvis Presley's mansion, Graceland, was opened to the public. Pope John Paul II visited Britain. Paul Weller announced The Jam were splitting up. Michael Jackson released his album Thriller. New in 1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Blade Runner An Officer and a Gentleman Ghandi
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My dishonourable friend | This is Money My dishonourable friend comments BORN with so many aristocratic titles that he started selling a few to wealthy Americans, Richard Bentinck Boyle, 9th Earl of Shannon; Viscount Boyle, Baron of Castle-Martyr, Co. Cork; and Baron Carleton of Yorkshire, comes from the bluest of blue-blooded stock. He was born into the pomp and luxury of the Indian Raj and served as a page at the coronation of George VI. After Eton, he joined the Irish Guards, rising to the rank of captain, and in 1947 married glamorous Italian Caterina Imperiali di Francavilla. As Katie Boyle, she found fame as a television presenter in the Sixties and Seventies. They divorced after eight years. But now, the 80-year-old earl and his titles have cropped up in connection with a string of business failures, a fraud investigation and a new venture with an ex-convict. Earlier this year, Paul Fenton, a semi-retired businessman who splits his time between Spain and Southampton, was approached to put £100,000 into a computer training business by self-styled businessman Richard Kelly-Wiseham. Fenton learned that Kelly-Wiseham was a convicted fraudster. Boyle, a friend of Kelly-Wiseham, was to be chairman of Inspire IT, which was sponsored by respected accountancy firm Mazars. Believing that Fenton had promised some money, Boyle sent him a letter on House of Lords stationery saying: 'I will be very pleased to invite you and your wife for lunch, by which time we will see the benefits of our investments.' Boyle, who has not put a penny of his own money into the venture, signed the letter 'Shannon', under which was typed 'Rt Hon The Earl of Shannon'. Though he had been Deputy Speaker in the Lords in the Seventies, he lost his seat when hereditary peers were scrapped in 1999. He said the paper for the lunch invitation was 'probably in my desk somewhere from years ago'. Lords stationery is not supposed to be used for private purposes, but Boyle said: 'If that is the rule, you can throw out every member of the House.' Boyle - family motto Let Us Be Judged By Our Actions - has known Kelly-Wiseham for more than 15 years and was aware he had served eight months in Ford open prison for false accounting and other fraud. Both men had been directors of two other failed companies, Carleton Ltd and Concept Accessories, which were dissolved in late 2002. Of Inspire IT, Boyle said: 'Somebody I knew said he was doing this business, which seemed rather a good idea. It was selling training on IT. I've been involved in manufacturing for most of my life and this was another product to sell.' Unfortunately, the 50-page document produced by Mazars to sound out its wealthy clients about investing in Inspire IT makes no mention of Boyle's age, nor of the fact that Kelly-Wiseham was jailed in 1998 for obtaining credit by deceit and false accounting and was subsequently an insurance salesman. Mazars' proposal letter contains highflown statements such as: 'The future is the belief in the product delivery as being a vehicle that will make a difference in enabling individuals greater access to learning through a range of methods that suit learner participation and style.' Glowing CVs describe Boyle as the ' proposed' non-executive chairman and Kelly-Wiseham as the intended 'business development manager'. At his home in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, Kelly-Wiseham admitted his fraud conviction to Financial Mail but denied any wrongdoing. Mazars, which published the informal proposal, said that the investment communication would go only to ' experienced' investors to gauge their interest. They were also advised to seek professional advice in respect of it with their own financial advisers. The firm added: 'As is made clear in the Terms of Issue, no reliance is to be had on it, including for the purposes of investment decisions.' There is no suggestion that Mazars was aware of Kelly-Wiseham's past. More reliance can perhaps be placed on Companies House records, which show that Boyle, who now lives with his third wife, Almine, near Reading, Berkshire, had dire
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BBC - Wales - Katherine Jenkins biography Katherine Jenkins biography top Last updated: 28 March 2011 In 2004, at the age of 23, Katherine Jenkins signed the largest record deal in UK classical recording history. But it was hardly an overnight success for this mezzo-soprano from Neath. By the age of seven, Katherine's early interest in pop had given way to a love of classical music, and she began taking piano lessons and joined the local choir. My three ambitions have always been to sing at the Millennium Stadium and the Sydney Opera House, and to get to number one in the classical charts. I can't believe I've done all three. Katherine Jenkins In the decade that followed she represented Wales three times in the Choirgirl Of The Year competition, twice won the BBC Radio 2 Welsh Choirgirl Of The Year contest, and won the BET Welsh Choirgirl Of The Year. She was a member of the Royal School of Church Music Cathedral Singers and the National Youth Choir of Wakes. Katherine won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London and graduated with honours. In October 2003 she sang at a mass honouring the Pope's silver jubilee at Westminster Cathedral. The same month she supported Aled Jones on tour, before performing at the Sydney Opera House as a special guest of Max Boyce . Since then she has become the official mascot for the Wales rugby team. Before the 2003 Rugby World Cup she recorded the Welsh team's official song, a version of Bread Of Heaven backed by a 100-piece male voice choir. Prior to that, she'd sung the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium before the Wales/England game. "I was so nervous before," she said, "but as I walked along the tunnel 70,000 people were singing Delilah. I just felt so at home that I wasn't the least bit nervous. I sang, walked off, and halfway up the tunnel I turned to jelly." Released in April 2004, Katherine's classical chart-topping debut album Premiere, is a mix of old standards including Ave Maria and The Lord Is My Shepherd, plus a smattering of traditional Welsh songs and new interpretations of classic tunes by Handel, Bach, Erik Satie and others. Before signing to Universal Classics, Katherine had worked as a music teacher. The catalyst for her pursuit of success was the death of her father when she was just 15 years old. In 2004 she performed at Westminster Cathedral, Sydney Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall and Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. In October the same year, Katherine's second album, Second Nature, was released, reaching number 16 in the UK pop charts. 2005 saw appearances at Tsunami Relief Cardiff and the G8 concert, Live 8, in Berlin. Katherine also became the new forces' sweetheart, performing at the VE Day anniversary concert at Trafalgar Square, at which she was introduced by Dame Vera Lynn. She went on to perform for the troops in Iraq in December 2005 and 2006. Following the release of Katherine's third album, Living A Dream, in October 2005, her three albums occupied the first three positions in the classical crossover music charts, making her the first artist to achieve this. The album earned Katherine her second Classical Brit award, following her win the previous year for Second Nature. Her fourth, Serenade, was released in 2006, followed by Rejoice in 2007 and Sacred Arias in 2008, her last recording for Universal before signing with Warner Music for allegedly the biggest classical recording deal in history. The album Believe was released in 2009. Katherine's high profile has led to appearances on many different platforms. She's had a cameo role in Emmerdale; modelled on the catwalk for Naomi Campbell's Fashion Relief charity event; appeared in The Apprentice and the Last Night Of The Proms in Hyde Park; toured with ballerina Darcey Bussell in their Viva La Diva tour; and sang alongside Rhydian Roberts in the X Factor final In 2010, she was a mentor on the ITV show, Popstar to Operastar, and made her TV acting debut in the Doctor Who Christmas special. Bookmark this page:
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When he was killed in a car crash in 1960, which existentialist became the shortest-lived of any literature Nobel laurate till date?
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Den första människan by Albert Camus — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Shelves: favorites , autobiography , camus This book was not what I expected. Due to the philosophical, melancholy nature of the first two Camus books I’ve read, (The Stranger and The Plague), I expected this book to be more academic, but it was far from it; it’s a more personal book, nostalgic, full of feelings and memories. This book is considered to be an autobiographical novel, and its unedited manuscript was found in the car wreckage in which Camus was killed. Even for an unedited piece of work, it is simply a masterpiece. It was int This book was not what I expected. Due to the philosophical, melancholy nature of the first two Camus books I’ve read, (The Stranger and The Plague), I expected this book to be more academic, but it was far from it; it’s a more personal book, nostalgic, full of feelings and memories. This book is considered to be an autobiographical novel, and its unedited manuscript was found in the car wreckage in which Camus was killed. Even for an unedited piece of work, it is simply a masterpiece. It was interesting to read Camus' annotations, and “see” the thought-process in his writing. The markings and notes definitely made Camus appear more "human" than he seems to be in his other books. The deep philosophical musings from his other books is notably missing. Jacques Cormery (Camus), a poor, gifted French child, was born and raised in Algeria by a semi-deaf mother and a domineering grandmother. As an adult (40 years old), he becomes more curious about his father, Henri, who died during the war at the very young age of 29. Not knowing his father clearly affected Cormery: “Something here was not in the natural order and, in truth, there was no order but chaos when the son was older than the father.” Unfortunately, nobody in his family could really help him on his quest: “In a family where they spoke little, where no one read or wrote, with an unhappy listless mother,who would have informed him about his young, pitiable father?” However, despite his frustration, Cormery (Camus) understands the situation; he understands poverty and its effect on people: “To begin with, poor people’s memory is less nourished than that of the rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughout lives that are grey and featureless. Of course there is the memory of the heart that they say is the surest kind, but the heart wears out with sorrow and labour, it forgets sooner under the weight of fatigue. Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.” I will end with an excerpt from a letter that Louis Germain (Camus' teacher, the man responsible for rescuing Camus from illiteracy) wrote to Camus: "Who is Camus? I have the impression that those who try to penetrate your nature do not quite succeed. You have always shown an instinctive reticence about revealing your nature, your feelings. You succeed all the more for being unaffected, direct." I would highly recommend it to all Camus fans. This is the kind of book that will stay with the reader for a very long time. ...more Shelves: african-lit , war-stories , international-intrigue , mesmerizing , fiction , french-translations , the-psyche , on-memory , fav-authors Who knew I would be reading Camus' last novel as though it was his first? In this world of the passed away French-Algiers, the present and past are blurred, as a man recalls his childhood, and the voice of the third-person narrator is so close, it might as well be first-person. This harrowing account of a fatherless boy living in poverty is so pure that it's perfect in its stimulation. How can an author who grew so popular for his structural peculiarity in The Stranger , bring us such a completel Who knew I would be reading Camus' last novel as though it was his first? In this world of the passed away French-Algiers, the present and past are blurred, as a man recalls his childhood, and t
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Ernest Hemingway - Biographical Ernest Hemingway The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Ernest Hemingway Share this: Ernest Hemingway - Biographical Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961. From Nobel Lectures , Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel . It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures . To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. Selected Bibliography Baker, Carlos. Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. Fourth edition, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1972. Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Ed.). Ernest Hemingway's apprenticeship: Oak Park, 1916-1917. NCR Microcard Editions: Washington, D.C., 1971. Bruccoli, Matthew J., and Robert W. Trogdon (Eds.). The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence 1925-1947. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1996. Clifford, Stephen P. Beyond the Heroic "I": Reading Lawrence, Hemingway, and "masculinity". Bucknell Univ. Press: Cranbury, NJ, 1999. Hemingway, Ernest. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway. Selected articles and dispatches of four decades. Edited by William White, with commentaries by Philip Young. Collins: London, 1968. - Complete poems. Edited with an introduction and notes by Nicholas Gerogiannis. Rev. ed., University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 1992. - The Complete Short Stories. The Finca Vigía ed. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1998. - Death in the Afternoon. Jonathan Cape: London, 1932. - Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961. Ed. Carlos Baker. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1981. - A Farewell to Arms. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1929. - Fiesta. Jonathan Cape: London, 1927. - For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York 1940. - The Garden of Eden. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1986. - Green Hills of Africa. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York 1935. - In Our Time. Boni and Liveright: New York, 1925. - Islands in the Stream. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1970. - A Moveabl
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The Perishers (Comic Strip) - TV Tropes The Perishers You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share WMG The Perishers was a long-running British newspaper comic strip, appearing in the Daily Mirror from about 1959 until its final cancellation in 2006. The strip was mostly written by Maurice Dodd, who also worked as an advertising copywriter. In actual fact, Dodd was neither the strip's creator, nor its original writer — the strip was jointly created by its original artist Dennis Collins, and the Daily Mirror's entertainments editor, while its first writer, Ben Witham got fired within weeks after the first few strips were regarded as dismally unfunny — but his name has always been the one most closely associated with the strip. Until 1983 it was drawn by Dennis Collins, in a highly detailed style which subsequent artists could never quite match. As of 2010 the Mirror is reprinting 1960s strips with Collins art and new colouring, somewhat squashed to fit a modern comic page and containing some updates to topical material - e.g., Maisie's references to "That nice Mr. Wilson " are now directed to "That nice Mr. Cameron ". The strip features a group of urban schoolchildren and a dog. As such it is sometimes described as a British equivalent of Peanuts , although it has a very different art style and relies on quirkily British humour in the tradition of music hall and Spike Milligan (Charlie Brown and Snoopy were featured since the late 50s in the Daily Sketch and the Daily Mail since the 1970s). The Alcoholic : Tatty Oldbitt. Bad Liar : "Poor Girl", a kid who tries to plead poverty as an excuse for getting Wellington (who really is poor) to part with all his birthday presents. Never mind that she has a poor butler, maid, chauffeur etc. and wears a fur coat she got from the impoverished furriers. A Boy and His X : Wellington and Boot are a boy and his Old English Sheepdog. Cigar Chomper : Fiscal is always chomping on a chocolate cigar, as part of the general millionaire stereotype. Cloud Cuckoolander : Marlon and occasionally Boot - the latter frequently believed himself to be an 18th century Lord transformed into a dog by a vengeful gypsy. Comic-Book Time : Lampshaded by Wellington in one New Year strip, when he notices that he and his friends never seem to get any older. Depending on the Artist : After Dennis Collins retired, Maurice Dodd drew the strip for over a decade, but it was obvious that his drawing skills weren't really anywhere near those of Collins. The third and final artist, Bill Mevin didn't quite pull off a perfect imitation of Collins, but it was a pretty good one nonetheless. The Ditz : Marlon. Free-Range Children : especially when they go on holiday without adult supervision. Garden Hose Squirt Surprise : One mid-60s had Wellington asking Maisie to inspect the end of a hose while he went to adjust the "hydro control valve". Soon afterward Maisie found him leaning against a wall, and being Genre Savvy assumed that as soon as she took his place the wall would fall on her. She did it anyway, "just to go along with the gag", and a lampppost fell on her instead . Hollywood Magnetism : There's a strip where Wellington is demonstrating a magnet to Marlon, and he turns it backward so it will repel things. In reality, magnets will only repel other magnets, and only when their like poles are facing each other. It's Been Done : On one occasion Marlon took up inventing for a hobby. When his friends pointed out that his inventions (fire, the wheel and the horse and cart) had all been invented by other people, he wasn't worried because he invented them quicker and was therefore catching up. Minor Living Alone : Wellington lives alone in a squat with his dog, even managing to go to school with the other kids. Before moving into the squat, he and Boot lived in a section of concrete sewer pipe that had been left lying around in a closed builder's yard. No Communities Were Harmed : The kids lived in Croynge, which suggests a South London district modelled on Croydon and Penge. Once a Season : Onc
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Departures | WORLD News Group January 01, 2011 Tokunboh Adeyemo 66, March 17 | Nigerian Muslim convert to Christianity in 1966 who became a leading evangelical scholar (two doctorates), African educator, editor (the monumental African Bible Commentary), head of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa and Madagascar for 22 years, and executive director of the Center for Biblical Transformation in Nairobi, Kenya. Alex Anderson 90, Oct. 22 | Artist who created Crusader Rabbit, television's first animated cartoon series in 1949, and also the popular 1960s TV cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, a flying squirrel and luckless moose. Sparky Anderson 76, Nov. 4 | Hall of Fame baseball manager who led the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers to World Series championships. Louis Auchincloss 92, Jan. 26 | New York lawyer and prolific polished writer of many novels (Venus in Sparta, The Partners, East End Story), biographies (Woodrow Wilson), and short stories. Vernon Baker 90, July 13 | Heroic U.S. Army lieutenant in World War II, the last survivor among only seven black men who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for battlefield valor-belatedly, 52 years after the war ended, in 1997, having been denied the honor because of their race. Ivy Bean 104, July 28 | British centenarian who, with her donated nursing home computer, became the world's oldest Twitter user, attracting 56,000 followers on the short-messages networking website, which she joined when she reached Facebook's maximum number of friends (5,000) but still had 25,000 Facebook "friend" requests. Glen Bell 86, Jan. 17 | Restaurateur who founded the Taco Bell fast food chain in 1962 and sold it in 1978 to Pepsico for $125 million. Barbara Billingsley 94, Oct. 16 | Film and television actress best known as June Cleaver in TV's Leave It to Beaver. George Blanda 83, Sept. 27 | Hall of Fame quarterback and field goal kicker for the Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers, and Oakland Raiders, whose 26-year career was the longest in pro football history. Donald Bloesch 82, Aug. 24 | Evangelical theologian ordained in the United Church of Christ and longtime professor at Dubuque Seminary (Presbyterian), whose opus magnum was his seven-volume Christian Foundations (InterVarsity Press). Lisa Blount 53, Oct. 28 | Academy Award-winning film actress known for her roles in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) and Prince of Darkness (1987). Jerry Bock 81, Nov. 3 | Broadway composer of Fiddler on the Roof and other acclaimed musical productions, including, with lyricist Sheldon Harnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fiorello! Jim Bohlen 84, July 5 | Quaker-inspired activist environmentalist and co-founder of Greenpeace International. Manute Bol 47, June 19 | Lithe 7-foot-7 pro basketball shot-blocker for four NBA teams over 10 years, known for his humanitarian work in his native Sudan. Denise Borino-Quinn 46, Oct. 27 | Actress who played weight-battling Mafia wife Ginny Sacrimoni on the HBO series The Sopranos. Tom Bosley 83, Oct. 19 | Actor best known for his TV series roles as Howard "Mr. C" Cunningham in Happy Days, Sheriff Tupper in Murder, She Wrote, and the priest in Father Dowling Mysteries. Robert Bratcher 90, July 11 | Controversial Southern Baptist translator of Good News for Modern Man, the New Testament portion of the American Bible Society's Good News Bible, who rejected claims that the Bible is inerrant and infallible. David Brown 93, Feb. 1 | Movie producer (Jaws, Cocoon, The Sting) and editor who married Helen Gurley (Brown) in 1959, helped her to revamp Cosmopolitan magazine, and coaxed her to write Sex and the Single Girl, a 1962 bestseller based on her freewheeling single years. Solomon Burke 70, Oct. 10 | Grammy-winning R&B gospel and soul singer ("Everybody Needs Somebody," "Don't Give Up on Me") nicknamed "King Solomon" for often wearing a crown and carrying a scepter. Orval Butcher 92, Oct. 5 | Influential suburban San Diego megachurch founder, a mentor to pastors, and a leader in the Wesleyan Church. Robert Byrd 92, June 28 | Fiddle-playing self-ed
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STPB Badminton Club ENHAII STPB Badminton Club ENHAII Latihan Rutin setiap hari Senin dan Kamis pkl 16.00 - 20.00 WIB di Dome STPB Join Us Be Sportive and Be the Best SBC News besok lusa SENIN, oh yess.. Mulai Kuliah lagi, Semangat buat Kawan-kawan enhaii.. STPB Badminton Club, kita udah mulai latihan lagi hari Senin, 6 Feb 2012, pukul 16.00 - 20.00 WIB.. Good News: PENERIMAAN ANGGOTA BARU di buka kembali, buat kalian semua yang berminat maramaikan dunia pebulutangkis STPB, langsung aja datang ke dome untuk daftar dan bisa langsung latihan.. we can't wait to see you soon to join us @domestpb.. persiapan sparing dengan beberapa universitas di Bandung Be Sportif and Be The Best Terima kasih Visitors since march 05 2011 *-* Thomas and Uber Cup 2012 Wuhan China 22.55 | Diposkan oleh STPB BADMINTON CLUB ENHAII The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation 1982 tournament , amended from being conducted every three years since the first tournament held in 1948-1949 . (BWF), the sport's global governing body. The championships have been conducted every two years since the The final phase of the tournament involves twelve teams competing at venues within a host nation and is played concurrently with the final phase of the world women's team championships, the Uber Cup ( first held in 1956-1957 ). Since 1984 the two competitions have been held jointly at the various stages of play. Of the twenty-six Thomas Cup tournaments held since 1948-1949, only three nations have won the title. Indonesia is the most successful team, having won the tournament thirteen times. The current cup holder, China , which did not begin to compete until the 1982 series, follows Indonesia with eight titles, while Malaysia All-England Championships , the BWF World Championships , and even the badminton competitions at the Olympic Games . has won five titles. Thomas Cup and, to a lesser extent, Uber Cup are the world's "biggest" and most prestigious regularly held badminton events in terms of player and fan interest, trumping major tournaments for individual competitors such as the venerable The final phase of the most recent edition of Thomas Cup in 2010 was contested in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia . The 2012 tournament will be held in Wuhan , China from May 20–27, 2012. Successful national teams Only three nations, Malaysia (formerly Malaya), Indonesia, and China have ever held the Thomas Cup. Curiously each of them won the first Thomas Cup competition that it entered: Malaya, the initial contest in 1949; Indonesia, the 1958 contest against Malaya; and China, the 1982 contest over Indonesia. Indonesia leads in total titles with thirteen. It won four consecutive titles from 1970 through 1979 and five consecutive titles from 1994 through 2002. Indonesia's ten year reign as champions was ended by the resurgence of China in 2004 when the Chinese won the title in Jakarta. Indonesia has played in the decisive final tie on eighteen occasions. Since the Thomas Cup format was overhauled in 1984, it has never failed to place among the top four teams. China has captured the Cup on eight occasions including the last four in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. It has contested the final tie ten times and, like Indonesia, has never failed to place among the top four teams. Malaysia has won five times, the last being in 1992. It has played in the final tie on thirteen occasions. Since the format change in 1984 it has reached the "final four" nine of thirteen times. Despite its small population, Denmark has traditionally been Europe's strongest power in men's badminton and the strongest badminton nation not to have captured the Thomas Cup. The only European nation to have played in the final tie, it has finished second eight times spanning from the first competition in 1949 to the 2006 tournament. The USA, a power in the early days of international badminton (especially in women's competition), finished second to Malaya in
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Clay Court Tennis World Clay Court Tennis Around the World The Surface of the "French Open" - One of the Four Grand Slams The Roland Garros tennis tournament, held each summer in Paris, France, and known in the US as the "French Open", is played on red clay. The French call this type of surface "terre battue", or "beaten earth or ground". In the Spanish speaking world it is called either "tierra batida" (beaten earth) or "arcilla" (clay). Around the world, the actual color of this type of tennis court surface varies according to the qualities of the local clay used to surface the courts and how the clay is prepared before it is laid on the tennis court. In Roland Garros, for example, crushed bricks are used to produce the clay. Since the bricks are originally produced by firing clay, their courts have a deep red color, both soothing and full of energy, reminiscent to some of Frank Lloyd Wright's Cherokee Red. Here in the US, we call a surface like that of the French Open "red clay", to distinguish it from the most frequent kind of clay court in the US, which is made from crushed dark green stone and trademarked as "HarTru". American HarTru courts have similar playing characteristics as red clay courts, although they look very different and they require more maintenance. Clay Courts and World Leading Performance Spain and Russia, which only in the last two decades have risen to become tennis powerhouses, are seen to have a large proportion of their tennis courts in clay. In contrast, predominantly hard court countries which used to dominate world tennis in the past like the United States and Australia are no longer by themselves at the top of the game. Each year there are female and male championships by country, known as the Fed Cup (3) and the David Cup (4). We can look at the Fed Cup and Davis Cup winners and runners up through the years to see how countries with high proportion of clay courts have risen in the ranks of world tennis. Fed Cup winners (5) vs percentage of clay courts (1): Davis cup winners (6) vs percentage of clay courts (1): France not favored to win French Open! Interestingly, although back in 1960, 84% of the tennis courts in France were surfaced with clay, today 50% of their courts are in porous concrete and only 14% are in clay (1). No wonder French players are not favored to win their own Open! Clay Courts Around the World Around the world, there are many countries in which clay courts far outnumber other types of surfaces. This is not only due to the performance benefits of playing tennis on clay, but also to the lower cost of clay tennis courts in the long term. Clay courts last indefinitely with proper maintenance, which can average 20-30 minutes of daily grooming, whereas hard surface tennis courts like concrete or asphalt need to be resurfaced every 5-7 years and require major restoration work every 12-15 years (2). Percentage of clay courts vs total tennis courts per country (1): Argentina: 99%.
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Fugitive tycoon granted bail to return to England and face a 17-year-old trial over £34m fraud | Daily Mail Online Fugitive tycoon granted bail to return to England and face a 17-year-old trial over £34m fraud By David Wilkes for the Daily Mail and Michael Theodoulou for MailOnline Updated: 14:01 EST, 30 July 2010 Returning to England: Asil Nadir, former bankrupt chairman of the Polly Peck empire, pictured at his home in Cyprus Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir was called 'extremely lucky' by a judge today as he was given bail, paving the way for him to return to the UK to stand trial. He fled 17 years ago to avoid a £34m fraud trial but now wants to return to clear his name of the theft allegations surrounding the collapse of his Polly Peck business empire. However, former Conservative Party donor Nadir, 69, had said he would not risk returning without assurances that he will not be jailed while he waits for his case to be heard and asked his lawyers to apply for bail. Yesterday William Clegg QC, representing Nadir, argued that granting bail would provide a 'a sensible and pragmatic solution' in the case and 'facilitate' his return to stand trial. The Old Bailey heard that the Serious Fraud Office had agreed not to oppose granting of bail if stringent conditions were imposed. But Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, said Nadir should not use the court as a 'bargaining chamber' and the bail application should be adjourned until he returned to this country and could be present at the hearing. The judge, Mr Justice Bean, said it was 'unusual' for a bail application to be made when the defendant is out of the country. But he granted bail saying he hoped it would end the 'legal limbo' which has existed since Nadir fled Britain for Northern Cyprus, which does not have an extradition agreement with the UK. Ten conditions on bail were imposed, including a requirement that Nadir must be at the Old Bailey for a hearing on September 3, must pay £250,000 surety to the court before his return to this country and be electronically tagged within eight hours of his arrival. Luxury bolthole: Nadir, seen here in 1993, claims there was an abuse of process in his original fraud trial - which he fled the country to escape Afterwards, Nadir told the Mail: 'It’s good news. It’s a very good first step. I’m more hopeful that we’ll have some fair play than I have been in the last 20 years.' Asked if he will go back for September 3, he replied: 'Obviously. I’ve been battling for this for all these years. It’s what I’ve been fighting for.' Nadir, who jumped £3.5million bail and fled to his native Cyprus in 1993 as his trial approached, claims he was facing false charges and a serious injustice. He has said he wants to come back to Britain to argue that there was an abuse of process in the case brought against him by the Serious Fraud Office, meaning he could never receive a fair trial. Yesterday the judge also quashed an arrest warrant for Nadir issued shortly after he fled after hearing that that it was issued on the misapprehension that he was on bail at that time - when technically he was not. End of an empire: Nadir arriving at court in 1991, and the sale of his fleet of cars the same year, including a Ferrari and Rolls-Royce, as a result of bankruptcy Mr Clegg described Nadir as 'in legal limbo as the result of slipping through the web of legislation governing the granting and surrendering of bail'. So, the judge said, the warrant - issued on the basis that he had breached his bail - was not valid. 'As Mr Clegg has frankly accepted, Mr Nadir is an extremely lucky man,' the judge said. 'He probably thought when he left the country that he was commiting an offence of breach of the bail act but it turns out he was not.' He added: 'I think it is desirable that the legal limbo as to Mr Nadir's bail status should be brought to an end and he should be given the opportunity to submit to the jurisdiction of this court.' The bail conditions also include giving notice of his flight and surrendering travel documents. Nadir will have to apply for a British passport be
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Free Flashcards about GK 1 What does 'Beijing' mean? Northern capital Which author (1874-1936) said 'thieves respect property, they merely wish the property to become their property that they may properly respect it'? GK Chesterton What was the original meaning of 'decimated'? Reduced by 10% The Circumlocution Office appears in which Dickens novel? Little Dorrit Maxwell's Pergamon Press specialised in what type of journal? Scientific 'Danny Deever', 'Mandalay' and 'Gunga Din' are poems in which Kipling work? Barrack Room Ballads Who wrote 'Totem And Taboo' in 1913? Sigmund Freud Which alphabet system using Roman letters is used to transcribe Chinese? Pinyin Filippo Marinetti founded which art movement in 1909? Futurism What was William Sydney Porter's pseudonym? O Henry What was Dickens illustrator Phiz's real name? Hablot Knight Browne Which 1946 drama was based on the Archer Shee case? The Winslow Boy Who is the clown in 'The Merchant Of Venice'? Lancelot Gobbo Who were the houygnhnms in Gulliver's Travels? Race of noble horses Speed is whose servant in 'The Two Gentleman of Verona'? Valentine What was Rosie's surname in 'Cider With Rosie'? Burdock What is the English translation of Latin 'Stabat Mater'? The mother stood What was the surname of 'The Railway Children'? Waterbury What were the Christian names of 'The Railway Children'? Phyllis, Roberta, Peter Which artist painted 'Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard'? Stanley Spencer Fernand Khnopff painted 'Listening to.....' who in 1883? Schumann Klimt, Loos and Otto Wagner belonged to which movement? Viennese Succession What was the German equivalent of Art Nouveau? Jugendstil Famed for masked figures, who painted 'Christ's Entry Into Brussels 1889'? Ensor Whose autobiographical account was 'Papillon'? Henri Charriere Who wrote poem 'For Johnny' that appeared in 1945 film 'The Way To The Stars'? Pudney Which 1939 Llewellyn novel is about Welsh coal-mining family the Morgans? How Green Was My Valley Which painting technique lays paint on thickly so brushstrokes are visible? impasto Who wrote WW2 poem 'The Naming Of Parts'? Henry Reed Which almanac was published 1732-1758 by Benjamin Franklin? Poor Richard's Which almanac, also called Vox Stellarum, was first published 1697? Old Moore's What was 'Uncle Vanya's real name in Chekhov's play? Ivan Petrovich Voinitski Which French word refers to a scale model of an unfinished sculpture? Maquette Mark Tapley and Tom Pinch appear in which Dickens novel? Martin Chuzzlewit What name is given to a preparatory study for a fresco? Cartoon What is Finland's national epic? Kalevala Who won a Pullitzer Prize for poem collection 'For The Union Dead'? Robert Lowell Iitalla and Arabia glass and porcelainware come from which country? Finland Palawan Island is part of which country? Philippines What is the world's second largest lake? Lake Superior What is the world's third largest lake? Lake Victoria What is the biggest lake entirely within one country? Lake Michigan What is the biggest lake island in the world? Manitoulin Island Manitoulin Island, the biggest lake island in the world, is in which lake? Huron In which US state is Wupatki National Monument? Arizona Which Scottish geologist (1726-1797) advanced the priniciple of uniformitarianism or gradualism, which is that slow geological processes occurring today have also occurred throughout time? James Hutton Which promontory in Berwickshire was important in providing geologist James Hutton's 'proof' of uniformitarianism? Siccar Point Which element is unusually abundant in the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary? iridium How old is the earth to the nearest 0.05 billion years? 4.55 billion What was the occupation of Galileo's father? Lutenist/lute player On which island was Pythagoras born? Samos What is Newton's first law of motion? When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or moves at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external force. Which component of Challenger did Richard Feynman famously find fault with? O-Ring Which historically shadowy char
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Culina THE CULINA The culina or kitchen was usually small, dark, and poorly ventilated, relegated to an obscure corner of the house. Wealthy matronae did not prepare meals; that was the job of their numerous household slaves , so it did not matter if the room was hot and smoky. Baking was done in ovens , whose tops were utilized to keep dishes warm. Embers from the oven could be placed below metal braziers for a form of stove-top cooking; some braziers were more elaborately decorated, like this bronze brazier from Chiusi. Barbara F. McManus
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DIANA, Roman Mythology Index Venus Binding Cupid (detail Diana), by Tiziano Vecelli (Titian) (1485-1576), Italian Renaissance painter An original Italian divinity, whom the Romans completely identified with the Greek Artemis . The earliest trace of her worship occurs in the story about Servius Tullius , who is said to have dedicated to her a temple on the Aventine, on the ides of Sextilis (August.) It is added that, as Diana was the protectress of the slaves, the day on which that temple had been dedicated was afterwards celebrated every year by slaves of both sexes, and was called the day of the slaves (dies servorum; Fest. s. v. servorum dies; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 100; Martial, xii. 67.) Besides that day of the slaves, we hear of no festival of Diana in early times, which may be accounted for by supposing that either she was a divinity of inferior rank, or that her worship had been introduced at Rome without being sanctioned or recognized by the government, that is, by the ruling patricians. The former cannot have been the case, as the goddess was worshipped by the plebeians and the Latins as their patron divinity; for a tradition related that the plebeians had emigrated twice to the Aventine, where stood the temple of Diana (Liv. ii. 32, iii. 51, 54; Sallust, Jug. 31); and the temple which Servius Tullius built on the Aventine was founded for the benefit of the Latin subjects, who assembled and sacrificed there every year. (Dionys. iv. 26; comp. Liv. i. 45; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 4.) The Sabines and Latins, who formed the main stock of the plebeians, were thus in all probability the original worshippers of Diana at Rome. Now we know that the Aventine was first occupied by the conquered Sabines who were transplanted to Rome (Serv. ad Aen. vii. 657; Dionys. iii. 43), and as it is stated that shortly before the decemviral legislation the Aventine was assigned to the plebeians, and that the law ordaining this assignment was kept in the temple of Diana (Dionys. x. 32; Liv. iii. 54), it seems clear that Diana's worship was introduced at Rome by the Sabines and Latins on their becoming plebeians, and that she was worshipped by them in particular without the state taking any notice of her, or ordaining any festival in honour of her. Varro (de L. L. v. 74) moreover expressly attests, that the worship and name of Diana had come from the Sabines. Now, as the religion of the Latins and Sabines did not differ in any essential point from that of the Romans, we may ask what Roman divinity corresponded to the Sabine or Latin Diana? Diana loved to dwell in groves and in the neighbourhood of wells; she inspired men with enthusiasm and madness; she dreaded the very sight of male beings so much, that no man was allowed to enter her temple, and she herself remained a virgin (Horat. Epist. ii. 1. 454; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 3; Fest. s. v. Juvenilia; Augustin, de Civ. Dei, vii. 16); and these characteristics at once show a striking resemblance between Diana and Feronia or Fauna Fatua . This circumstance, and the fact that Diana was the goddess of the moon, also render it easy to conceive how the Romans afterwards came to identify Diana with the Greek Artemis, for Fauna Fatua bore the same relation to Picus and Faunus that Artemis bore to Apollo . (Hartung, Die Relig. der Röm. ii. p. 207, &c.; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, i. p. 367, &c.) [Comp. VIRBIUS .]
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By what name is the Italian painter Jacopo Robusti, born the son of a silk dyer in 1518, better known?
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Tintoretto | Italian painter | Britannica.com Italian painter Alternative Titles: Jacopo Robusti, Jacopo Rubusti Tintoretto Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Tintoretto, byname of Jacopo Robusti (born c. 1518 ce, Venice [Italy]—died May 31, 1594, Venice), great Italian Mannerist painter of the Venetian school and one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance . His paintings include Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars, the Mannerist Christ and the Adulteress, and his masterpiece of 1594, The Last Supper of San Giorgio Maggiore . Increasingly concerned with the drama of light and space, he achieved in his mature work (e.g., The Law and the Golden Calf, c. 1562) a luminous, visionary quality. Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Tintoretto, 1588; in the Louvre, … © SuperStock Background and early years Little is known of Tintoretto’s life. In a will of 1539 he called himself an independent professional man—not a surprising description in view of his imposing and forceful personality. No documents have survived regarding Jacopo’s artistic education. His biographers, among them Carlo Ridolfi, whose book was published in 1648, speak of an apprenticeship with Titian that was broken off because of the master’s resentment of the pupil’s proud nature and exceptional accomplishment. On the other hand, a contemporary pointed out that Tintoretto’s style was formed by studying formal elements of the Tuscan school, especially those of Michelangelo , and pictorial elements derived from Titian. Most probably, Jacopo’s precocious talent prompted his father to place him in the workshop of some undistinguished painter, but one with a solid artisan tradition so that his son might learn the foundations of his craft. Traces of an absolute style in his youthful works tend to corroborate this hypothesis . But he soon became aware of the variety of approaches tried by painters working between 1530 and 1540 in Venice and already reacting against the style of Giorgione , who was the first to merge forms and to subordinate local colour to its pervading tone. The emigration of Roman artists to Venice in 1527 after the sack of Rome by imperial troops, as well as subsequent contacts with painters from Tuscany and Bologna, induced the painters of the Venetian school to return to greater plasticism, without altering the fundamental chromatic nature of the Venetian tradition. The influence of Michelangelo, the visit of the art historian and biographer Giorgio Vasari to Venice in 1541, and the journeys of Venetian artists to central Italy renewed Venetian painting in depth, giving it means of expression adapted to different types of pictures. In the renewed idiom , form and colour were blended in a synthesis in which light dominated so as to express a richly fantastic and visionary spirit. Thus, the early works of Tintoretto were affected by all of these influences. Critics have identified a group of youthful works by Tintoretto, above all Sacre Conversazioni. One of these, painted in 1540, represents the Virgin with the Child on her knees, facing away from her, and six saints. While the style echoes various elements of the Venetian art of Tintoretto’s time, it also shows a definite Michelangelesque influence. Career Leap Second Tintoretto’s first phase includes a group of 14 octagonal ceiling paintings with mythological themes (originally painted for a Venetian palace), which exhibit singular refinement in perspective and narrative clarity. Among other influences, they recall the fashion of partitioned ceiling paintings imported to Venice by Vasari. This was also the period of Tintoretto’s closest collaboration with Andrea Meldolla; together they decorated the Palazzo Zen with frescoes. The fresco technique had an important part in the formation of Tintoretto’s idiom, for it suggested to him the quickness of execution that was to become fundamental to his manner of painting. Unfortunately only some 18th-century prints of his frescoes and a few fragments of the numerous frescoed facades that adorned Venice survive. Art & Architecture: Fact or Fiction? Tintor
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Rossini Home Page History Instrumentation Band News Photos & Trivia Music Diary Young Generation Honours Links Members Page Contact us Search Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro on the Adriatic coast of Italy on 29 February 1792. He was a prolific composer but was best known in his lifetime and ever since for his operas of which William Tell, The Barber of Seville, Cinderella and Thieving Magpie are four out of thirty- nine. He made great use of dynamics, earning the nickname of Mr. Crescendo – he was also referred to as the Italian Mozart. Born into a musical family, he started training early. By the time he was six, he was playing the triangle in his father’s band, and he went on to learn the harpsichord, piano and subsequently the cello. He was also composing from a tender age - his first opera appeared when he was twenty but he had actually composed it six or seven years earlier. At twenty- one, his big break came with the two Naples Theatres where his opera output plus his share from the gambling tables earned him more money than any musician of the time could have imagined. He is generally accepted today as one of the world’s great opera composers. Written for singers, Rossini’s music lends itself readily to flutes, and many of his overtures have appeared as flute band test pieces including William Tell, Thieving Magpie, Barber of Seville, Turk in Italy, Silken Ladder.
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What was the name of the double-decker bus designed by Douglas Scott and introduced into London Transport in the 1950s?
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London Transport - Design Museum London Transport Posted October 12, 2015 -- Updated November 4 A progressive public transport system, London Transport is home to many of the most familiar design icons of Britain. Share > London Transport From the 1916 red, white and blue roundel symbol, to the 1933 diagrammatic underground Tube map, and the 1956 Routemaster bus, many of the most familiar design icons of Britain belong to LONDON TRANSPORT in its heyday during the first half of the 20th century. In the 1930s the London Transport network of underground trains, buses and trams was regarded as the world’s most progressive public transport system and a role model of enlightened corporate patronage of contemporary art and design. The red, white and blue roundel symbol redesigned by Edward Johnston for the Underground in 1916 and adopted by the newly founded London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) in 1933 has come to symbolise the whole of London, not just its transport system. The same can be said for the diagrammatic London Underground map devised by Harry Beck in the early 1930s, which has since been imitated all over the world as a model of modern map design. In its golden era of the 1930s, London Transport was also an important patron of contemporary art. Eminent artists such as Man Ray and Graham Sutherland created publicity posters, while Paul Nash designed upholstery fabric for the seats of trains. London Transport commissioned work from noted designers, such as Hans Schleger and László Moholy-Nagy; while the poet, John Betjeman, wrote its tourist leaflets. Many of the most famous examples of London Transport design were commissioned by Frank Pick (1878-1941), a Lincolnshire-born solicitor, who joined the Underground Group in 1906. After expressing an interest in publicity, with the support of the Chairman Lord Ashfield, Pick presided over the introduction of the roundel and bright graphic posters to the Underground before the First World War. He became managing director of the LPTB in 1933. Convinced that London Transport should be an exemplar of design excellence, Pick commissioned work of the highest quality for everything, from station architecture to litter bins. He ensured that it was implemented with great rigour, regularly travelling the length and breadth of the network, often late at night, to check that every detail was up to scratch. After Pick’s departure in 1940, his work was continued by the publicity manager Christian Barman, and later by Harold Hutchison. After the Second World War London Transport was facing a changed world with rising costs and falling passenger numbers. In this climate there were fewer opportunities for new work in design, although the loss of Pick as a driving force is noticeable. Even so, the Routemaster Bus and the Victoria line stand out as notable achievements of this period. Some of London’s most familiar and best loved designs date from the ‘golden age’ of transport in the early 1900s to 1940 and their legacy still influences the design philosophy of London’s transport today, from the construction of the landmark Jubilee Line stations in the 1990s – notably by Foster & Partners at Canary Wharf and Michael Hopkins at Westminster – to the new Crossrail stations opening in 2018. THE ROUNDEL, 1916 Among the earliest – and most enduring – manifestations of London Transport design is the bar and circle symbol, known originally as the bullseye, and renamed the roundel by Misha Black in 1972. The first version of the logo (bullseye) was introduced in 1908 with a solid red circle at the centre. In 1916, Frank Pick commissioned the typographer Edward Johnston to revise the symbol so that it was suitable for use both as a company logotype on printed materials as well as station signage. This version of the logo was trademarked in 1917. Johnston replaced the solid red circle with a circular frame and introduced Johnston Sans, the typeface he had designed for the Underground Group in the same year, to spell out the company or station name in white across the central blue b
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STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS History of Technological Achievement Design in four concentric circles depicts mankind's industrial and technological progress from the Iron Age to the Internet designed by Bruce Rushin 2015 - present QUATUOR MARIA VINDICO Britannia Antony Dufort’s stunning interpretation of Britannia is respectful of times past, but recasts her for a brand new era; timeless, symbolic, stirring and inspirational. 1999 Rugby World Cup 1999 Rugby World Cup Design depicts a stadium, on which is superimposed a rugby ball and goalpost. The date '1999' above separated by goal-posts from the value 'TWO POUNDS' below designed by Ron Dutton 2001 WIRELESS BRIDGES THE ATLANTIC...MARCONI 1901... 100th Anniversary of Marconi's 1st Wireless Transmission across the Atlantic Radio waves decorating centre and outer border while a spark of electricity linking the zeros of the date represents the generation of the signal designed by Robert Evans 2002 SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP,MANCHESTER 2002 XVII Commonwealth Games in Manchester Stylised figure of an athlete holding a banner and the inscription XVII Commonwealth Games 2002 designed by Matthew Bonaccorsi 2003 DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID 50th Anniversary of the discovery of DNA A representation of the double helical structure of DNA with the words DNA Double Helix above and 'TWO POUNDS' and the dates '1953-2003' below designed by John Mills 2004 Is milled with an incuse railway line motif. 200th Anniversary of the first steam locomotive by Richard Trevithick A representation of a steam locomotive engine with the words 'TWO POUNDS' above and inside a cog wheel, the words R.TREVITHICK 1804 INVENTION INDUSTRY PROGRESS 2004 as a circumscription designed by Robert Lowe 2005 REMEMBER REMEMBER FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot An arrangement of crossiers, maces and swords surrounded by stars and the dates 1605 & 2005. Denomination TWO POUNDS below. Designed by Peter Forster 2005 In Victory Magnanimity in Peace Goodwill Design depicts St Paul's Cathedral illuminated by searchlights and the value 'TWO POUNDS' sbove and the dates 1945-2005 below. Designed by Bob Elderton 2006 SO MANY IRONS IN THE FIRE Design Depiction of a section of the roof of Paddington Station with the dates 2006 above and the name BRUNEL to the right and the denomination TWO POUNDS below Designed by Robert Evans 2006 1806-1859 ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL ENGINEER Design A portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel with two of his engineering achievments, encircled by a chain with the denomination TWO POUNDS above and the date 2006 below Designed by Rod Kelly 2007 UNITED INTO ONE KINGDOM Tercentenary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland A design dividing the coin into four quarters, with a rose and a thistle occupying two of the quarters and a portcullis in each of the other two quarters. The whole design is overlaid with a linking jigsaw motif and surrounded by the dates "1707" and "2007", and the denomination "TWO POUNDS" Designed by Yvonne Holton 2007 AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire The date "1807" with the "0" depicted as a broken chain link, surrounded by the inscription "AN ACT FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE" and the date "2007" Designed by David Gentleman 2008 I CALL UPON THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD Olympic Handover Ceremony The Royal Mint Engraving Team 2008 The Centenary of the London Olympic Games of 1908 Designed by XIII COMMONWEALTH GAMES JULY 1986 XIII Commonwealth Games Cross of St Andrew, crown of laurel leaves and Scottish Thistle designed by Norman Sillman 1989 Milled Tercentenary of the Bill of Rights and Claim of Right Cypher of 'W&M' (King William and Queen Mary) interlaced surmounting a horizontal Parliamentary Mace and representation of the Royal Crown above and the dates 1689 and 1989 below, all within the inscription 'Tercentenary of the Bill of Rights' or 'Tercentenary of Claim of Right' (latter Scotland only) designed by John Lobban 1994 SIC VOS NON VOBIS (thus you labour but not for yourselves) Terc
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Who after Real Madrid have won the European Cup/Champions League Trophy the most times?
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Real Madrid – UEFA.com 9-0: Madrid v Odense BK 25/10/61, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-8: Olympiakos Nicosia FC v Madrid 24/09/69, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-4: Madrid v FC Bayern München 29/02/00, UEFA Champions League second group stage 1-3: Madrid v FC Spartak Moskva 20/03/91, European Champion Clubs' Cup semi-final second leg 0-2 on five occasions, most recently v FC Barcelona 27/04/11, UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 twice, most recently v AC Milan 19/04/89, European Champion Clubs' Cup semi-final second leg UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only) • Biggest home win 8-0: Madrid v Malmö FF 08/12/15, group stage 1-6: Galatasaray AŞ v Madrid 17/09/13, group stage 1-6: FC Schalke 04 v Madrid 26/02/14, round of 16 first leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-4: Madrid v FC Bayern München (see above for details) 0-2 on three occasions, most recently v FC Barcelona (see above for details) • Heaviest away defeat
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1968: Manchester Utd win European Cup About This Site | Text Only 1968: Manchester Utd win European Cup Manchester United have become the first English club to win the European Cup beating Portuguese side Benfica by four goals to one. Ten years after the Munich air crash, which killed eight of Matt Busby's young team, Manchester United have reached the pinnacle of European football. Celtic became the first Scottish and British club to win the cup the previous year. United's star player, George Best, was named European Footballer of the Year - just a fortnight after being named the football writers' Footballer of the Year. Massive crowd Tonight's match at Wembley was watched by a crowd of 100,000 and an estimated 250 million TV viewers. It was the biggest television audience since the World Cup final two years before. As both teams wear red kit, United opted to play in their blue away strip for the game. The first half passed in a flurry of fouls before Bobby Charlton headed the opening goal in the second half to make it 1-0. With only 10 minutes left to go, Benfica scored the equaliser - and very nearly won the match when their feared striker Eusebio broke away from Nobby Stiles, the player tasked with marking him, and blasted the ball towards the net. But it was saved by keeper Alex Stepney and the game went into extra time. Winning goal Two minutes into extra time Best put United ahead again, slipping round the keeper and gently tapping it over the line. It was followed by two more United goals, from 19-year-old Brian Kidd and captain Bobby Charlton, taking the final score to 4-1. Manager Matt Busby said: "They've done us proud. They came back with all their hearts to show everyone what Manchester United are made of. This is the most wonderful thing that has happened in my life and I am the proudest man in England tonight." Busby was seriously injured in the crash which claimed the lives of his so-called Busby Babes and there was speculation at the time that the club had been so badly damaged it would have to fold. But they struggled on to complete the 1958/59 season and when Busby returned to the manager's role the following season he began the task of rebuilding the side. The club won the league in 1965 and 1967, but today's win marks the pinnacle of the club's achievements. Charlton and Bill Foulkes were the only survivors of the crash who played in today's final.
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What is the Second Biggest Planet in the Solar System? - Universe Today Universe Today What is the Second Biggest Planet in the Solar System? Article Updated: 24 Dec , 2015 by Fraser Cain The biggest planet in the Solar System is Jupiter. But the title for the second biggest planet in our Solar System goes to Saturn. Just for a comparison, Jupiter measures 142,984 km across its equator. Saturn for comparison is only 120,536. So Jupiter is only 1.18 times as big of Saturn. Saturn is big, but it has a much lower mass. Once again, Jupiter is 3.34 times as massive as Saturn. Since Saturn is so big, but has so little mass, it has a very low density. In fact, if you had a pool big enough, Saturn would float. The density of Saturn is less than water. And this means that you wouldn’t experience a lot of gravity if you tried to walk on the “surface of Saturn”. If you were standing on the surface of Saturn (I know, that’s impossible), you would experience only 91% the force of Earth’s gravity. If you wanted to compare Saturn to Earth, it’s 9.4 times as big as the Earth, and 95 times as massive. It it was just a hollow shell, you could pack 763 Earths inside Saturn, with a little room to spare. Wanna see Jupiter? Here are amazing telescopes from Amazon.com which you can buy at reasonable prices: Here’s the article about how Jupiter is the biggest planet . And here’s another article about just how big planets can get . If you’d like more info on Saturn, check out Hubblesite’s News Releases about Saturn , and another page on Saturn from NASA’s Solar System Exploration Guide . We have recorded a whole series of podcasts about the Solar System at Astronomy Cast . Check them out here.
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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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75 Engineer Regiment - British Army Website 75 Engineer Regiment 75 Engineer Regiment 75 Engineer Regiment 75 Engineer Regiment is an Army Reserve unit numbering some 296 reserve personnel with a regular enhancement of 91 regular soldiers, combined strength of 387 soldiers. We come under command of 8 Force Engineer Brigade based in Minley. The Regiment has a unique role within Defence as we provide amphibious and logistic bridging; nobody else provides a wide water gap crossing in the British Army. We are the only Royal Engineer Regiment (commonly known as Sappers) based in the North West of England. Our Army Reserve Centres are based in Warrington (Cheshire), Birkenhead (Merseyside), and Failsworth (Greater Manchester). The Regimental Headquarters (RHQ) is now well established in Peninsula Barracks, Warrington and commands Cheshire Garrison. Looking for a challenge? Royal Engineers are soldiers first and engineers second. The perform tasks such as bridge construction, water supply, Field fortification and explosive demolition. Our soldiers have deployed on Operations with Regular Army units to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, also United Nations peace keeping tour of Cyprus as well as being attached to units in the USA, Canada and the Ascension Islands. What’s in it for me? You’ll be paid for attending training on a Tuesday night and weekends subject to your availability, you’ll even receive annual tax-free bonus if you complete 27 days training per year (including a 14 day annual camp). Current rates of pay can be found at www.armyjobs.mod.uk . You will also get paid leave. You will make new friends, develop your teamwork skills and discover new challenges and enhance your employability. There are great opportunities for travel all over the world, Participation in sport is encouraged. You can even gain new qualifications such as driving or management and engineering qualifications. Training In peacetime, we train with 36 Engineer Regiment in Maidstone; together with our own routine training and participation in major exercises in Canada, Kenya and Germany, this allows us to maintain a reasonable level of military engineering expertise. A great deal of the time and effort is spent training our Reservists in basic military and engineering skills. Military engineering encompasses: Mine Clearance Obstacles and Field Defences for combat troops Depending on how much time you can commit, it will normally take between 6-12 months to train you as a soldier and a further 6-12 months to train you sufficiently in your trade to be qualified for exercises or Operations. Want to join the Regiment? Our Reserves bring with them a vast skills base from their civilian employment. They find their experiences challenging but very rewarding. With a real sense of camaraderie created through shared values and experiences. If you are interested and would like further information then please contact your nearest Reserve Centre using the links on the right hand side of the page or contact the Regimental Operations Support Officer direct on 01925 642 839 or email: 75engr-rhq-roso@mod.uk The M3 Amphibious Rig being linked together to create a ferry
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Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: February 2011 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League 22nd Feb–Cup/Plate Semi Finals Questions set by Plough Horntails and the Dolphin 1. How many hoops are used in the standard game of Croquet? A, 6. 2. Which African kingdom was known as Basutoland before it gained independence in 1966? A. Lesotho. 3. The work "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is the textbook of which religious movement founded in 1879? A. Christian Science. 4. What is the fruit of the Blackthorn called? A. The Sloe. 5. How many countries sit on the full United Nations Security Council? A. 15. 6. According to the book of Genesis, which land lay to the "east of Eden"? A. The Land of Nod. 7. What is the name of the southernmost point of Africa? A. Cape Agulhas (note: The Cape of Good Hope is just south of Cape Town and is NOT correct). 8. Responding to a pressing issue in year 1095, what appeal did Pope Urban II make to Kings, Nobles and Knights in a sermon at the Council of Clermont? A. Please help to regain the Holy Lands… the First Crusade. (Accept any answer relating to freeing Jerusalem from Moslems/ Mohammadens / Turks/ Saracens) 9. Who holds the post of High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union? A. Baroness Ashton (Accept Catherine Ashton). 10. Which city was awarded the 1944 Summer Olympic Games? A. London. 11. In which country did the Maoist organization the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) operate? A. Peru. 12. Which major city’s name translates into English as Fragrant Harbour? A. Hong Kong. 13. In which country was the Granny Smith apple first grown? A. Australia (in 1868) 15. Who was the architect of Coventry Cathedral? A. Basil Spence. 16. Who opened an historic address to his people with the following, “In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.” A. King George VI (as taken from the King’s Speech) 17. Which car company makes the Alhambra model? A. Seat. 18. Which car company makes a model called the Sirion? A. Diahatsu 19. What is the Nationality of Stefaan Engels who set a World record on Saturday 5th February in Barcelona by completing a marathon every day for a year, a total of 9,569 miles? A. Belgian. 20. Who wrote Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, as well as collections of poetry? A. Siegfried Sassoon. 21. Approximately what percentage of the planet’s surface is covered by Tropical rainforests? A. 2% (but they are home to more than 50% species on Earth). Accept any figure less than 5%. 22. What is the name of the point on the Celestial sphere directly below an observer or a given position? A. Nadir. (Note this is the opposite of zenith). 23. What is the term, of French origin, loosely translated 'into mouth', for using facial muscles and shaping the lips for the mouthpiece to play a woodwind or brass musical instrument? A. Embouchure (origin, em = into, bouche = mouth) also accept embrasure. 24. In his 2011 memoir, ‘Known and Unknown’, which US ex-politician tries to deflect blame onto others including Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, for Iraq War mistakes? A. Donald Rumsfeld. (The book title alludes to Rumsfeld's famous statement: "There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know..." The statement was made by Rumsfeld on February 12, 2002 at a press briefing addressing the absence of evidence linking the Iraq government with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups.) 25. How many vertices (corners) has a regular dodecahedron (a dodecahedron is a 3D form with 12 faces)? A. 20. 26. The Salmon River in Idaho, USA is known by what nickname, It is also the name of a 1954 film, whose title soundtrack was recorded b
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Who plays a lounge singer who has to hide out in a convent after witnessing a gangland killing in the 1992 film ‘Sister Act’?
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Sister Act: Broadway musical retains the fun of the film, but not the music | Theater | St. Louis News and Events | Riverfront Times Sister Act: Broadway musical retains the fun of the film, but not the music Sister Act: Broadway musical retains the fun of the film, but not the music Sister Act Performed through December 1 at the Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard. Tickets $25 to $80. Call 314-534-1678 or visit www.fabulousfox.com . Midway through Act One of Sister Act, the ingratiating musical that is currently on view at the Fox Theatre, a shy police officer named Eddie Souther (Chester Gregory, reprising the role he created on Broadway) imagines what it might be like if he were as cool as Tony Manero, the disco-dancing dynamo portrayed by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. In the batting of an eyelash, Eddie's basic blue uniform vanishes, and fantasy becomes reality. Or perhaps reality becomes fantasy. Whatever is going on, it occurs with surprising dexterity and is very clever indeed. Eddie's "how'd they do that?" costume change is as effective as anything you're going see (or hear) all night long. Thanks to unexpected moments like this one, the show charms. If you can't have a good time at Sister Act, you're not trying. Chances are that you already know the plot. The popular 1992 movie upon which this musical is based has grossed in the neighborhood of $230 million worldwide. In the film Whoopi Goldberg portrays Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who must hide out in a San Francisco convent disguised as a nun after witnessing a gangland murder. As Sister Mary Clarence, Deloris takes over the feeble choir and lives are impacted, including her own. This stage version has changed the locale to 1970s Philadelphia, but the general arc of the story is the same. Deloris is portrayed with assurance, aplomb and a killer smile by Ta'Rea Campbell. As the conservative Mother Superior who resists Deloris' willful ways, Hollis Resnik is masterful. From the moment Resnik first enters twirling the sleeves of her habit as if they were a pair of maracas, this actress commands the stage. Her number in Act Two, "Haven't Got a Prayer," could be renamed "A Life in the Theater," because Resnik's performance is the culmination of a lifetime of having honed the tricks of her trade: timing, simplicity, focus. Although the strict Mother Superior is an entertaining foil to the free-spirited Deloris, during those rare occasions when Campbell and Resnik support each other, their combined energy provides a power surge that suffuses the stage with a nigh-holy glow. But here's the thing. Although the original Sister Act benefited from the chemistry of the irrepressible Whoopi and the brittle Maggie Smith as Mother Superior (not to mention a string of acerbic one-liners hurled by St. Louis' own Mary Wickes), this otherwise formulaic movie was made special by the way it redeployed already-familiar pop songs like "My Guy" and "I Will Follow Him" into songs of faith. Alas, none of the songs from the film are included in this stage adaptation. Those popular standards have been replaced. In their stead we hear a new score from composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater (who has concocted some clever rhymes indeed). But because the Menken-Slater tunes are unfamiliar to us, that original concept of reinvigorating popular song — which was the axis upon which the movie turned — has been lost. Instead we are treated to rousing, shake-the-rafters choral numbers that entertained Broadway audiences for a year and a half and which surely will delight Fox Theatre audience during the current St. Louis run. But we cannot respond as we responded to the musical numbers in the movie, simply because these songs are not already part of our fiber. Anyone who attends this stage adaptation of Sister Act should have a high time, because the easygoing fun is contagious, and the laughs are bountiful. But it's a different kind of fun than you had with Whoopi, Maggie and the singing nuns at St. Katherine's. Here we get more choreography but less soul.
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Whoopi Goldberg - Biography - IMDb Whoopi Goldberg Biography Showing all 107 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (66) | Personal Quotes (27) | Salary (3) Overview (4) 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mini Bio (1) Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in a funeral parlor and as a bricklayer while taking small parts on Broadway. She moved to California and worked with improv groups, including Spontaneous Combustion, and developed her skills as a stand-up comedienne. She came to prominence doing an HBO special and a one-woman show as Moms Mabley . She has been known in her prosperous career as a unique and socially conscious talent with articulately liberal views. Among her boyfriends were Ted Danson and Frank Langella . She was married three times and was once addicted to drugs. Goldberg first came to prominence with her starring role in The Color Purple (1985). She received much critical acclaim, and an Oscar nomination for her role and became a major star as a result. Subsequent efforts in the late 1980s were, at best, marginal hits. These movies mostly were off-beat to formulaic comedies like Burglar (1987), The Telephone (1988) and Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986). She made her mark as a household name and a mainstay in Hollywood for her Oscar-winning role in the box office smash Ghost (1990). Whoopi Goldberg was at her most famous in the early 1990s, making regular appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). She admitted to being a huge fan of the original Star Trek (1966) series and jumped at the opportunity to star in "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Goldberg received another smash hit role in Sister Act (1992). Her fish-out-of-water with some flash seemed to resonate with audiences and it was a box office smash. Whoopi starred in some highly publicized and moderately successful comedies of this time, including Made in America (1993) and Soapdish (1991). Goldberg followed up to her success with Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), which was well-received but did not seem to match up to the first. As the late 1990s approached, Goldberg seemed to alternate between lead roles in straight comedies such as Eddie (1996) and The Associate (1996), and took supporting parts in more independent minded movies, such as The Deep End of the Ocean (1999) and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998). Goldberg never forgot where she came from, hosting many tributes to other legendary entertainment figures. Her most recent movies include Rat Race (2001) and the quietly received Kingdom Come (2001). Goldberg contributes her voice to many cartoons, including The Pagemaster (1994) and Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990), as Gaia, the voice of the earth. Alternating between big-budget movies, independent movies, tributes, documentaries, and even television movies (including Theodore Rex (1995)). Whoopi Goldberg is accredited as a truly unique and visible talent in Hollywood. Perhaps she will always be remembered as well for Comic Relief, playing an integral part in almost every benefit concert they had. Currently, Whoopi Goldberg is the center square in Hollywood Squares (1998) and frequently hosts the Academy Awards. She also is an author, with the book "Book". - IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott msa0510@mail.ecu.edu Spouse (3) The role of Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) Trivia (66) Discovered by director Mike Nichols . 1994: Became the very first woman to host the Academy Awards solo. 2000: Broke up with boyfriend of five years Frank Langella . Travels to locations by bus since she hates flying. She won a Grammy Award for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Broadway". Once worked in a mortuary where her job was applying makeup to corpses. 1985: Listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1985 in "John Willis's Screen World", Vol. 37
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In Hans Anderson’s tale, the princess could feel the presence of a pea under how many mattresses?
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.Fairy Tales and Myths.: The Princess and the Pea The Princess and the Pea Monday, November 30, 2009 The Princess and the Pea The Princess and the Pea was written in 1835, by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. The first time it was published was in a booklet with three other fairy tales. Andersen said that he had heard the story as a child. Though there is no Danish story that matches up to this tale there is a Swedish one. The Swedish version is called The Princess Who Lay on Seven Peas. He could have heard as a child becasue Denmark and Sweden are close geographically. Among the fairy tales writers Anderson's fairy tales are more light in content than Grimm fairy tales. Unlike The Grimm Fairy tales Anderson’s stories were not reviewed well because they were told in a catchy way and lacked moral lessons. Grimm fairy tales were written mainly for moral lessons and to scare children starite; Andersons stories were meant for more entertainment. He wrote in a voice that was more geared towards the oral traditions that had humor in them rather than be more proper in the literary style of the age. This brings me to think that Anderson is a mix of Disney and Grimm brother’s fairy tales because he did not solely rely on lessons. The Princess and The Pea beings with a prince who is searching to find his one true love who obviously has to be a princess. However every time he meets a girl she cannot prove she is a princess or live up to his high expectations. The prince begins to think all is lost and that he will never find his love. One night there was terrible a lighting storm with torrents of rain, and wind that howled in the night. All of a sudden there was a knock on the door,and the old King hobbled to answer it. Standing there in the rain was a girl. The rain had soaked her hair, drenched her dress and dribbled down to her shoes. however this girl clamed she was a true princess but from the looks of her you could not tell. As the old Queen and King shut the door the Queen made up a plan in her head. She wanted to test this vister to see if this girl was really a princess. While the Prince and King talked to the girl the Queen went to make up a chamber to house the unexpected visitor. While making the bed the Queen placed a pea under the mattress but the Queen still thought that the girl might feel it to easily and laid twenty more mattresses on top of the pea. The Queen still thought the girl might feel the pea through the mattresses to easily and decided to add twenty down blankets. In the morning the girl was asked how she slept and she replied “I have not slept well at all something was keeping me up all night, making me toss and turn. It felt like there was something under my mattresses, and it was has left me with black and blue bruises.” The Queen at once told the King and Prince of her secret test and they were amazed that this girl had passed. This had proved that she was a princess for who but a princess could feel the pea through so many layers. The prince promptly took the princess to be his wife. They married and lived full and happy lives. The pea was pu t in a museum and would be there today however it was sadly stolen and was never seen again. There are stories that are similar to this one about the girl actually being an orphan and just posing as a princess. The orphan has animal friends that told her what the Queen put under her many mattresses each night because she had to identify them just by sleeping on them. I like both versions. They are lighter than most fairy tales and make me smile rather than make me think. Posted by
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It's Behind You - Cinderella THE ORIGINS Cinderella- the most popular pantomime story owes its popularity to Perrault. Either Charles or Pierre Perrault retold this already ancient tale in �Histories ou Contes du temps pass��, published in Paris in 1697. There are many older versions of this �rags to riches� story �Scotland had a version called �Rashin Coatie�-after the garment of rushes a King�s daughter had to wear because of her three wicked step-sisters. In this version, as with many others, there is no fairy godmother- Rashin Coatie received her magic from a slaughtered calf- other versions , like �Ashenputtel� from the Grimm Brothers sees her with two step-sisters, and she is aided by a white bird, perched on a tree. In each case the heroine is able to meet her Prince through her kindness to others. One version of the story had already been printed in English before the Perrault publication- �Finetta the Cinder Girl� had been published in 1721 by Madam d�Aulnoy In this story three children are abandoned in the wood, and are taken in by an Ogre. Two sisters live the grand life, and Finetta is forced to be their servant. In this tale she discovers a golden key in the ashes of the fire. This opens a chest filled with beautiful gowns, and again, she gets to meet her Prince in disguise. Even earlier was the Italian story of �La Gatta Cenerentola�- �The Hearth Cat� which dates from 1634. This is a much darker tale, with the heroine not so pure of heart- by her plotting to rid herself of her Step-mother events pass which see her faced with six step-sisters! This version actually has a fairy (living in a date tree) who grants her wishes. Possibly the oldest version exists in China, from a book written around 850-860AD. Yeh-hsien the heroine is kept in rags by her step mother. This time it is a magic fish- or the ghost of a magic fish that grants her desires. The version includes the loss of a slipper, and after a search for the owner, Yeh-hsien gets to marry the King. The Chinese story has nearly all the elements that occur in the later European versions. The slipper- in some versions made of silk, is often believed to be the result of a mis-translation of Perrault�s story- It has been mooted that he described the slipper as �Vair�- rabbit fur, rather than �verre�-Glass. However, it is likely that Perrault always intended the slipper to be made of glass- glass cannot be stretched, and by being made of glass, it could be seen to fit. The final proof must be that the Perrault title was �Cendrillon, ou la petit pantoufle de verre�. THE PERRAULT 'CINDERELLA' 'CINDERILLA' or The Little Glass Slipper A gentleman- now a widower, married his second wife �The proudest and most haughty woman that ever was known�. She had two daughters who were exactly like her. The gentleman had a daughter by his former wife �but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper�. After the wedding the Step-Mother began to display her ill humour. She could not bear the good qualities in her step-daughter, as it made her own daughters all the more hated and despised. The gentleman�s daughter was treated as a servant by these three, and lived in the top rooms of the house in a garret,on a bed of straw, while her own daughters lay in fine rooms, upon beds in the newest fashion. The poor girl bore all patiently, and dared not tell her Father, who was governed entirely by his wife. When she had finished her work, she would sit in the chimney corner, and sit down upon the cinders. Her cruel step-sister gave her the name �Cinderbreech�, but the youngest of her step-sisters, not as rude and uncivil as her sister called her �Cinderilla�. It happened that the King�s son gave a ball, and invited all persons of quality to it. The step-sisters were invited to it, and were very busy choosing out �such gowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might become them best�. This was a new trouble for Cinderilla, as she had to iron, and pleat their ruffles. The Sisters
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Peroni Italy View article Peroni Nastro Azzurro believes in the spirit of collaboration and has worked on long-term projects with a handful of inspiring brand ambassadors. Bringing Peroni Nastro Azzurro’s unique Italian Style proposition to life, brand ambassador projects have crossed the spheres of fashion with Antonio Berardi, design with Alessi, and food with Giorgio Locatelli. Peroni Nastro Azzurro also works with inspiring partners on various collaborations in creative fields and has recently worked with: Eataly, Vogue Italia, The Serpentine, Prada - Luna Rossa and America’s cup.
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End of the dynasty that made Irn-Bru – from girders | The Independent Tuesday 17 March 2009 00:00 BST Click to follow Indy Lifestyle Online For years, its slogan was "Barr's Irn-Bru: made in Scotland from girders". But now the beloved Scottish fizzy drink's catchphrase is wrong in two ways: first, the closest it gets to girders is 0.002 per cent of ammonium ferric citrate listed in its ingredients. And second, the last member of the Barr family, who have made Irn-Bru for more than 130 years, is to step down. Robin Barr, whose great-grandfather set up the family business in 1875, said he was retiring as chairman of AG Barr in May, after 31 years of running the company. His decision all but ends the Barr family's involvement with the bright orange-coloured drink that has been synonymous with Scottish culture for more than 100 years. Until six years ago, Irn-Bru was one of a couple of brands in the world to outsell the behemoth Coca-Cola on home soil. The other is Inca Kola in Peru. Under Mr Barr's chairmanship, Irn-Bru was launched in a host of other countries, including Russia (where it is much-loved), Ireland, Poland, Greece and the Middle East. A G Barr has other brands including Tizer, which it bought in 1975, and Strathmore Spring Water, but Irn-Bru which remains its most powerful and recognisable brand. At the heart of Irn-Bru's success has been its powerful advertising campaigns, which have not only tapped into the Scottish sense of humour but also national pride. In fact its slogans, "made in Scotland from girders", and "Scotland's other drink", referring to whisky, gave it a resonance that extended way beyond Scotland's borders. Other ads involved a man singing a song about his girlfriend who liked Irn-Bru and was therefore perceived to be more macho than he was. The lines went: "They say that love hurts but that's an understatement, With you love makes me turn black and blue. Got a funny feeling you've been drinking Irn-Bru". It is so revered that when McDonald's opened in Scotland people complained, and apparently picketed, the restaurants for not selling Irn-Bru. It is available in some branches. The Barr family's ability to maximise the brand's value and capture the zeitgeist has been evident throughout Irn-Bru's history. For instance, Iron Brew was rebranded Irn-Bru in 1947 as fears grew that the Labour government under Clement Attlee was to change food-labelling laws to ensure product names had to be literally accurate. Mr Barr's great-grandfather Robert founded the business in 1875 in Falkirk. Two years later, his son, Robert Fulton Barr, started a second soft-drinks business in Glasgow, taken over by his brother Andrew Greig Barr in 1892. He started selling Iron Brew in 1901, initially under the Strachan's brew name. In the UK, Irn-Bru is the third-biggest selling soft drink, after Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Last year, AG Barr said that Irn-Bru's sales were bigger than those of Lilt, Sprite and Tango combined. Mr Barr, 71, who still owns 6.5 per cent of the company, will stay as a non-executive director. Ronnie Hanna, who has been a non-executive director for five years, will become non-executive chairman. But another family member, Julie Barr, remains A G Barr's company secretary and legal affairs manager. More about:
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Daily Telegraph Newspaper Archive - Historic Newspapers Historic Newspapers Free Delivery when buying 3 or more items 03300 669700 Call for Assistance Daily Telegraph Newspaper Archive Search Past Dates for Old Daily Telegraph Back Issues Search for any day, month and year going back as far as 1900 below to check the availability of historic issues in the world's largest Daily Telegraph archive. Once a title has been selected for the given date you can choose a gift presentation pack to accompany it, this will also help keep your newspaper safe for years to come. There are a huge range of presentation options, all come with a free certificate of authenticity personalised with the recipient's name, your chosen date and a personal message for the perfect gift. Choose your Date View Available Newspapers from the Archive Choose your Gift Pack option Personalise your Certificate of Authenticity The Perfect Gift for Any Occasion The Daily Telegraph Archives Since its launch in 1855 the Telegraph has risen to be on the UK's most popular broadsheets and is renowned world wide as a reliable and groundbreaking news source. This is what makes an original Daily Telegraph such an interesting gift for any occasion, ideal for special dates such as birthdays and anniversaries. Recipient's of a past Daily Telegraph will love pondering over the reports and coverage from a bygone age, ensuring this will be a gift to be treasured for years to come. Discovering what happened the day you were born is easily achieved by looking at the front page and headlines from your date of birth. Paying attention to the smaller details, such as advertisements and sports coverage, is what really gives you a feel for what life was like at the time. The Daily Telegraph 1932 If 1932 is your birth year then it's also shared with singer Johnny Cash and noble prize winning chemist Michael Smith. Whilst they wouldn't have been making the news just yet some historical events that may appear in archived Telegraph newspapers include: Date Event 25th March 1932 The first ever Tarzan film is released where many favourites such as Cheetah the chimpanzee and the famous Tarzan call were born, having never been featured in previous novels. 19th December 1932 The BBC's Empire Service is launched, now known as World Service. This included the famous opening lines from John Reith stating initial programmes would be "neither very interesting nor very good". The Daily Telegraph 1942 Famous 1942 birth dates include musician Paul McCartney and presenter Des Lynam, current news in a 1942 Daily Telegraph from the day you were born may include: Date The first manmade object to reach space is launched by Germany, the A-4 rocket. 27th November 1942 A train in Kent manages to take out a low flying German plane after its boiler is hit releasing a powerful jet of stream. The Daily Telegraph 1952 Born in 1952? This was also the birth year of musician Joe Strummer, from The Clash, and actor Laurence Tureaud, better known as Mr T, who is also celebrating his 60th birthdays this year. Some other interesting historical events from 1952 include: Date Event 7th February 1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom, and her five other Commonwealth realms, at St. James's Palace. 25th November 1952 A murder mystery play by Agatha Christie, The Mousetrap, opens in London and is still the longest continuously running play in history. 1st December 1952 The first successful sexual reassignment operation is completed on a transsexual woman in Denmark, making the front page of the New York Daily News. The Daily Telegraph 1962 If you were born in 1962 then you also share your year of birth with comedian Eddie Izzard and snooker player Jimmy White. Interesting events likely to be covered in an old Telegraph 50th birthday newspaper from this year include: Date The first ever female FBI agents are hired in the US. A Brief History of the Daily Telegraph The Daily Telegraph is part of the Telegraph Media Group and is owned by identical twin brothers, Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay. It is p
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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.
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The only breed of dog named after a literary character! - Nicola Cornick Blog Navigation → The only breed of dog named after a literary character! One of the “characters” in Whisper of Scandal is Max the terrier. Max, whose topknot ribbon is always colour-co-ordinated to Joanna’s gown, gives the impression of being lazy and – dare I say it – a little bit stupid, but of course like many dogs he simply has his world arranged to suit his own convenience and is clever enough to get away with it. Alex quickly learns that if he throws Max out of the bedroom the dog will find away to sneak back in – and creep into bed between him and Joanna. Max was in fact modelled on Becky, a much-loved Dandie Dinmont terrier who has been one of our family pets for eleven years. Sadly Becky passed away a couple of days ago and so this is my tribute to her. Becky, you were brave and clever and very warm. You were wilful, determined and tenacious. You had the heart of a lion inside a terrier’s body! No one is quite sure of the origins of the Dandie Dinmont breed but there are various theories. One idea is that Dandies are a cross between an Otterhound and another breed of terrier, and the deep bark and hound-like ears of the breed are cited to support this theory. What is certain is that a distinctive terrier, low to the ground, long backed and rough coated has existed in the Border Counties of Scotland since at least the mid 18th century. The Dandie is the only breed of dog to be named after a fictional character. In Sir Walter Scott’s 1814 novel “Guy Mannering”, Dandie Dinmont was a farmer who kept six terriers of this description on his farm. The old farmer had only two names for any of his dogs. His six dogs were named Auld Pepper, Auld Mustard, Young Pepper, Young Mustard, Little Pepper and Little Mustard. To this day the two colours of the breed are still known as Pepper, which is a blue gray/black and Mustard, a creamy golden brown. Walter Scott’s description of Mr Dandie Dinmont and his dogs was said to match very closely a James Davidson who was a tenant farmer of Hindlee on Lord Douglas’s estate in the Teviotdale hills. Scott however claimed that he did not draw his character from any one individual, but from up to a dozen or so of the Liddesdale yeomen of his acquaintance. The publication of “Guy Mannering” sparked a craze for Dandie Dinmont terriers, which were bred by border farmers to meet the demand. Because “Guy Mannering” was not published until 1814 and Whisper of Scandal takes place in 1811 I have not called Max a Dandie in the story to avoid anachronism. But there is no doubt he looked liked a Dandie Dinmont, that clever, affectionate and tenacious breed.
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A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) - 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 Matter of Loaf and Death ( 2008 ) 30min WATCH NOW ON DISC Wallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But, when Wallace falls in love Gromit is left to solve the case. Director: a list of 29 titles created 01 May 2012 a list of 40 titles created 08 Mar 2013 a list of 24 titles created 27 Mar 2014 a list of 22 titles created 11 Feb 2015 a list of 48 titles created 5 months ago Title: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) 7.7/10 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 2 wins & 4 nominations. See more awards » Videos Wallace falls for Wendolene, a wool shop owner, while Gromit is framed for the sheep rustling. Director: Nick Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X Wallace takes a break from trying to decide on a holiday destination only to find he has no cheese for his crackers. The solution to both problems is a trip to the moon, with dog Gromit, because everybody knows the moon's made of cheese. Director: Nick Park Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers. Director: Nick Park Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest. Directors: Steve Box, Nick Park Stars: Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes Wallace and Gromit try out a number of their latest inventions which rarely work as planned. Stars: Peter Sallis A compilation of the first three Wallace & Gromit short films: "A Grand Day Out", "The Wrong Trousers", and "A Close Shave". Stars: Peter Sallis, Anne Reid A collection of some of the most popular work featuring Wallace and Gromit. Director: Nick Park Wallace introduces correspondents, inventors and experts who explain various real-life contraptions, inventions and scientific accomplishments. Stars: Peter Sallis, Ashley Jensen, Jem Stansfield A humourous and thought provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings. Director: Nick Park When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners. Directors: Peter Lord, Nick Park Stars: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels Creature Comforts (TV Series 2003) Animation | Comedy | Family Stop-motion animated series with a cast of animals, sound-biting on a specific topic each episode, such as creatures' sporting adventures, Christmas, and visits to veterinarians. The show ... See full summary » Stars: The Great British Public, David Rafique Edit Storyline Wallace and Gromit have a brand new business. The conversion of 62 West Wallaby Street is complete and impressive, the whole house is now a granary with ovens and robotic kneading arms. Huge mixing bowls are all over the place and everything is covered with a layer of flour. On the roof is a 'Wallace patent-pending' old-fashioned windmill. The transformation is perfect. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have 'disappeared' this year - but Wallace isn't worried. He's too distracted and 'dough-eyed' in love with local beauty and bread enthusiast, Piella Bakewell, to be of much help. While they enjoy being the 'Toast of the Town', Gromit, with his master's life in jeopardy, must be the sleuth and solve the escalating murder mystery - in what quickly becomes a 'Matter of Loaf and Death'. Written by WelshHobo 25 December 2008 (UK) See more » Also Known As: Auf Leben und Brot See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia In this film Gromit reads a book called "Electronic surveillance for Dogs". In The Wrong Trousers (1993) he gained infor
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Which US Senator who ran for the White House in 2008 was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936?
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McCain: Citizenship issue put to rest long ago - politics - Decision '08 - John McCain News | NBC News McCain: Citizenship issue put to rest long ago GOP candidate born on military base when Panama Canal was U.S. territory Below: x + - RICHARDSON, Texas — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says the question of whether he can run for president, despite being born in the Panama Canal Zone, was put to rest 44 years ago in Barry Goldwater's run for the White House. McCain added that he doesn't know why his campaign sought legal analysis of whether his birth outside the continental United States might disqualify him from the presidency. The Constitution says only a "natural-born citizen" may serve as president. McCain's campaign asked former Solicitor General Ted Olson for a legal interpretation of the issue. Territorial dispute McCain himself insists the issue was put to rest when fellow Arizonan, Barry Goldwater, ran for president in 1964. "Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona when it was a territory, Arizona was a territory, and it went all the way to the Supreme Court," McCain told reporters Thursday on his campaign plane. "And there's no doubt about that. And it was researched again in 2000." The Panama Canal Zone was a U.S. territory when McCain was born on Aug. 29, 1936. Advertise As for the reason for seeking Olson's opinion: "I don't know," McCain said. "Maybe my staff talked to him, but I didn't. But I have absolutely no concern about that." "It's very clear that (the idea that) an American born in a territory of the United States whose father is serving in the military would not be eligible for the presidency of the United States is certainly not something our founding fathers envisioned." McCain's father was stationed in the Canal Zone by the Navy at the time of his birth. McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said the request for Olson's help was routine, and it wasn't necessary to bring it to the attention of the senator. Constitutional research Olson said he is still researching the issue but is certain McCain is qualified. The plain meaning of "natural-born citizen" includes those born to parents who are citizens, particularly when they are born on a U.S. military base as McCain was, Olson said. Other political news of note Fluke files to run in California "I am confident that the United States Supreme Court, should it ever address the issue, would agree," Olson said in a statement. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, people are born U.S. citizens if they are born in the U.S. or their parents are U.S. citizens. The question arises because Article II of the Constitution limits the office of president to a "natural-born citizen," a term on which the Founding Fathers did not elaborate. Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a prominent backer of Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama , introduced legislation Thursday that would define a "natural-born citizen" as anyone born to any U.S. citizen while serving in the active or reserve components of the U.S. armed forces. Obama's campaign announced late Thursday that he will co-sponsor the bill. "Those who serve and sacrifice for their country, like John McCain and his father, deserve every honor and privilege that our nation can possibly provide, and that includes the ability to run for the highest office in the land," Obama said in a statement. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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James Buchanan - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com Google James Buchanan’s Early Years and Personal Life James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791, in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania , to James Buchanan Sr. (1761-1833), a merchant who had emigrated from Ireland, and Elizabeth Speer Buchanan (1767-1833). The younger Buchanan graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and then studied law. After being admitted to the bar in 1812, he opened a successful practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Did You Know? James Buchanan was nicknamed "Old Buck" and "Ten-Cent Jimmy." The latter was given to him by the Republicans in the presidential campaign of 1856 after Buchanan said 10 cents was fair daily pay for manual laborers. A member of the Federalist Party , Buchanan began his political career by serving in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1814 to 1816. In 1820, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he remained for the next decade. In Congress, Buchanan aligned himself with the Democrats as the Federalist Party dissolved. After Democrat Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was elected president in 1828, he appointed Buchanan the U.S. ambassador to Russia in 1831. The following year, Buchanan negotiated a trade and maritime agreement with Russia. Buchanan is the only U.S. president who never married. In 1819, he was engaged to Ann Coleman (1796-1819), the daughter of a wealthy Pennsylvania manufacturer; however, the wedding was called off that same year. When Coleman died unexpectedly soon afterward, rumors circulated that her death had been a suicide. During Buchanan’s time in the White House , his niece, Harriet Lane (1830-1903), assumed the social duties of first lady and became a popular figure. Senator and Diplomat In 1834, after returning from Europe the previous year, James Buchanan was elected to represent his home state in the U.S. Senate. He resigned from the Senate in 1845, when President James Polk (1795-1849) named him U.S. secretary of state. During Buchanan’s tenure in this post, which lasted until 1849, the nation’s territory grew by more than one-third and extended across the continent for the first time. The United States annexed Texas , acquired California and much of the present-day Southwest during the Mexican-American War and secured what would become the Oregon Territory after settling a boundary dispute with Great Britain. The question of whether to extend slavery to America’s newly acquired territories, as well as the moral legitimacy of slavery as an institution, became increasingly divisive issues across the United States. In 1846, Buchanan sided with Southerners who successfully blocked the Wilmot Proviso , which proposed banning slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War. Buchanan later supported the Compromise of 1850 , a series of congressional acts that admitted California as a free state but let the new western territories decide whether they would allow slavery before applying for statehood, a concept that became known as popular sovereignty. In 1853, President Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) appointed Buchanan as minister to Great Britain. In this role, Buchanan helped draft the 1854 Ostend Manifesto, a plan for America to acquire Cuba from Spain. Although never acted upon, the proposal generated protests from anti-slavery Northerners and others in the United States who feared Cuba would become a slave state. Election of 1856 In 1854, President Pierce signed the Kansas- Nebraska Act, which created two new territories and allowed settlers to determine whether they would enter the Union as free states or slave states. Pierce’s support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act hurt him politically, and in 1856 the Democrats opted not to re-nominate him. Instead, they chose James Buchanan, who was living abroad at the time of the controversial bill’s signing and had taken no position on it. In the general election, Buchanan maintained that slavery was an issue to be decided by individual states and territories, while his Republican challenger, John Fremont (1813-1890), an exp
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Home :: Browse by subject :: Art :: Chapter 1 - Fellini, Painting On Film Chapter 2 - Giulietta degli spiriti: Symbolist virgins meet Decadent femmes-fatales in Art Nouveau interiors Symbolist strands embedded in Giulietta's childhood scenes Suzy's domain: Symbolist femmes fatales roaming art nouveau interiors The Master's Bedroom and the Jungian Shadow Chapter 3 - Toby Dammit: Rembrandt meets Velázquez on Screen The hanging carcass - Rembrandt to Fellini via Soutine and Bacon The bambina diavolo, or "Velázquez on film" Fellini, Picasso, and Las Meninas after Velázquez Severed head and white ball: Fellini's Jungian universe The severed head: Symbolist intertexts Toby Dammit: the creative artist as mystical initiate Chapter 4 - Fellini-Satyricon: Bruegel meets Klimt in the sewers of imperial Rome Fellini's (re)presentation of Romanità Fellini’s "Byzantium" Picasso’s Minotaur meets Encolpio in Fabrizio Clerici's labyrinths Chapter 5 - Fellini’s Casanova: Casanova meets De Chirico on Böcklin's Isle of the Dead Casanova, Fellini's version of the Golem Through the half-drawn curtain: Casanova, De Chirico and The Enigma of the Oracle The Isoletta di San Bartolo, or Isle of the Dead A bridge over the Thames: Fellini's Casanova meets Whistler’s Nocturnes Conclusion - "A new hypothesis of the truth": Painting as vehicle of the Real in Fellini's films, 1960s-70s List of Illustrations Bibliography “Beautifully, elegantly, and clearly written, Hava Aldouby’s Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film is an outstanding and wonderfully original work. The range and depth of the artistic knowledge Fellini had and that Aldouby chronicles completely debunks the public image Fellini himself created—that of a simple artisan and storyteller lacking in any profound intellectual qualifications. Aldouby’s explications of the intricate connections between Fellini’s intentions, his sources, and his ultimate artistic creations will change forever the way we see this multifaceted cinematic genius.” Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University “With Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film, Hava Aldouby has undertaken the daunting challenge of adding a new chapter to the voluminous scholarship on Fellini and succeeded admirably. Highly original, compelling, and important, it will make a striking contribution to Fellini studies and to the work on transmediality.” Millicent Marcus, Department of Italian, Yale University ‘Aldouby’s work contributes to the revitalization of the classical field of inquiry about cinema and painting, addressing both scholars in the broad domain of visual studies and cinephiles looking for fresh gaze on Fellini’s oeuvre.’ Giacomo Tagliani, Annali d’Italianistica vol 32:2014 ‘This book is by far the most serious and successful attempt to date to document and interpret pictorial intertexts in Fellini’s work.’ Albert Sbragia, Quaderni d’Italianistica vol 36:01:2015 ‘With this superb book the author has offered us a paragon of inter-arts study one which provides not only a new understanding of Fellini’s creative process, but also furnishes a compelling approach to the work of other auteurs who may have devised their own unique forms of ‘painting on film’.’ Millicent Marcus, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies vol 3:03:2015 ‘This impressively researched book is a welcome and important contribution to film scholarship… Aldouby’s assiduous and intricate analysis of intertextual meanings in Fellini’s films enriches our sense of the film maker.’ Faye McIntyre, University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 ‘A compelling and original contribution to Fellini scholarship by demonstrating the director’s astonishingly sophisticated knowledge of art history, as well as masterful manipulation of the historical and cultural hyperlinks that these works invoke.’ M. Thomas Van Order, Modern Language Review vol 111:03:2016 ‘This is a well-researched, fresh, and thought-provoking book that provides new perspectives on some of Fellini’s most fascin
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San Francisco Symphony - DELIUS: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring San Francisco Symphony Music Then and Now: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Frederick Delius was born January 29, 1862, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, and died June 10, 1934, in the village of Grez-sur-Loing, in the French département of Seine-et-Marne, where he lived the last thirty-seven years of his life. He was from a German family, probably of Dutch descent; Delius was accordingly baptized with the names Fritz Theodor Albert. He composed his tiny tone poem On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring in 1912, and its first performance took place on October 23, 1913, with Arthur Nikisch conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. The piece is dedicated to Balfour Gardiner, a British composer fifteen years Delius’s junior, who at the time was studying at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. The first San Francisco Symphony performances, in October 1930, were led by Basil Cameron; the SFS most recently performed the work in February 1952, under the baton of Sir Thomas Beecham. The score calls for an orchestra of flute, oboe, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, and strings. Performance time: about four minutes. Frederick Delius studied violin and piano as a youngster, but he showed no prodigious inclination toward a musical career. At the age of twenty-two, he left England for Florida, where he worked on an orange plantation and, rather as a sideline, undertook a systematic study of music theory with an organist in the region. This propelled him to further musical instruction at the Leipzig Conservatory, a magnet for international students in the late nineteenth century. He enrolled there in 1886 and studied with such teachers as the noted composer Carl Reinecke and the violinist-and-violist Hans Sitt. In 1888 he moved to Paris, and in 1897 he settled in the tiny village of Grez-sur-Loing (forty miles southeast of the French capital, just south of Fontainebleau), where he would remain for the rest of his life. Delius was not disposed to seek publicity for himself or his work, showing rather little concern about whether anyone was listening to his music or not. He was much ravaged in his later years by syphilis, which rendered him blind and nearly paralyzed. Sir Thomas Beecham, a strong advocate of the composer’s music, referred to this with sesquipedalian circuitousness: “Delius had suffered a heavy blow in the defection of his favorite goddess Aphrodite Pandemos who had returned his devotions with an affliction which was to break out many years later.” During his formative years, particularly those he spent at the Leipzig Conservatory, Delius became immersed in the mainstream of Germanic musical tradition (including the advances of Wagner) and showed a special affinity for the works of contemporary Scandinavian composers. In fact, his stage works include incidental music to a Norwegian play (Gunnar Heiberg’s Folkeraadet) and an opera (Fennimore and Gerda) after the Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen’s Niels Lyhne. Delius was unfazed by stasis in his compositions, which tend to unroll elegiacally over extended spans. His operas bear a certain kinship to the obsessive, sometimes dour, introspection of Ibsen and Strindberg, but his shorter works often display an appealing sweetness, resembling the music of his close friend Edvard Grieg. A taste for Delius’s music is not a universal attribute of music lovers, but those who do like his ultra-relaxed, late-Romantic style can be fanatical in their devotion. Early on, his music found a mixed reception in his native land, and he never returned to Great Britain after he settled in France. Nonetheless, his works would eventually strike a sympathetic chord among the British, who responded with belated enthusiasm to the way he infused the tradition of English pastoralism with densely harmonized sounds redolent of the English organ-loft and alluded in a non-threatening way to the advances of Debussy and other exponents of “the modern French school.” “I never was
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The top ten most well-known bingo phrases : SWNS The top ten most well-known bingo phrases January 21, 2014 | by SWNS Reporter | 0 Comments Legs 11 is called in bingo because the number resembles a pair of long legs like these Bingo is a game everybody loves – and just about everyone knows its most popular phrases. Whether it is the Queen playing with the Royal family at Sandringham over Christmas, Robbie Williams calling the balls with Gary Barlow and friends, or a group of pensioners visiting the local bingo hall on a Saturday night, they all know they’re legs eleven from a garden gate. The terms have become as well-liked as the game itself. In fact, they’ve worked themselves firmly into the British language. Many use historical references or rhyming slang from the mid-20th century, when bingo really took off, especially in bustling halls around London. Bingo terminology is witty, fun, cheeky and entertaining. But most importantly, anybody who wants to stay on the ball – whether they play online bingo at Paddy Power at a local venue, should be well-versed in the common phrases used for each number in a game of bingo. Here’s a guide to the most well-known and loved phrases. Legs Eleven Legs eleven is called when the number 11 ball appears. Why? Because a number 11 resembles a pair of long slender legs, of course. Audiences often accompany this number with saucy wolf whistles. Two fat ladies This mischievous label is given to the number 88. Bingo phrases often draw similarities between the shapes of the number and certain images. In this case, two overweight women sitting next to each other. Lucky seven One of the more simple bingo phrases, lucky seven is shouted by the caller when the seven ball drops. Seven is believed to be lucky in all walks of life. Unlucky for some ‘Unlucky for some, it’s number 13’. It’s a phrase that brings joy and heaps of cash to some playing bingo and disappointment to others. Everyone knows 13 is an unlucky number. Or is it? Clickety click This phrase usually accompanies the number 66. The caller will say ‘clickety click, 66’. It’s origins are unclear, but it has its roots in rhyming slang. Garden gate One bingo number that definitely derives from Cockney rhyming slang is 88. Garden gate rhymes with 88, so it is also used for this in bingo. Rhyming slang originates from east London, and was used as a covert language that the authorities could not understand – but found its way into bingo halls because many people from that time and era played bingo. Kelly’s eye This one isn’t as obvious as others, but it is just as well-known by those who play the game. Kelly’s Eye often refers to the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, who had only one eye. Another suggestion is that it derived from the military as bingo was the only gambling they were allowed to take part in. Other phrases for number one are ‘At the beginning’, ‘Nelson’s Column’, ‘Buttered scone’ and ‘Little Jimmy’. Knock at the door Knock at the door, number four. A quick and easy piece of rhyming slang, this is used by the caller for number four. Doctors orders A slightly more obscure historical reference, doctors orders means number nine. This was because during World War II, Number 9 was a laxative handed out by medics. Dirty Gertie This really does give away the age and origins of bingo slang. Not only does this phrase use rhyming slang for 30, it is a reference to a statue called ‘La Délivrance’ of a naked lady called that was installed in north London in 1927 by the French sculptor Émile Oscar Guillaume.
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Bingo Number Names History And Meanings Part 3: Calls 46 - 90 - Bingo History - Playing Bingo 48. Four dozen 49. Rise and Shine, PC 49, Copper, Nick-Nick. ‘PC 49’ is taken from the popular radio show that was broadcast by the BBC from 1947 to 1953: ‘Incidents in the career of Police Constable Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby’. This call, unlike the call for 22, ‘PC Parker’ has evolved over time to become ‘Copper’, and later to borrow the working class comedian Jim Davidson’s catch phrase ‘Nick Nick’ (c.1977). 50. Blind fifty. Bull’s Eye (on a dart board). 51. The Highland Div[ision], Tweak of the Thumb, I Love My Mum. The 51st Highland Division was a first line division of the territorial force, formed in 1908. They saw continuous front-line action during the First World War. [ 1 ] The other two calls here are rhymes. 52. The Lowland Div[ision], Danny La Rue, Weeks of the Year. The 52nd were a Territorial Army division and saw action in the first and second world wars. Danny La Rue became famous in the early 1960s as a glamorous drag artist and entertainer, especially on the BBC television programme ‘The Good Old Days’. 53. The Welsh Div[ision], Stuck in the Tree. The 53rd were a Territorial Army division and saw action in the First and Second World Wars. 54. Clean the Floor. A simple rhyme. 55. All the fives, Snakes Alive. Snakes Alive was a phrase used in American comic strips of the inter-war and immediate post-war era, including in Little Orphan Annie. 56. Five and Six. 57. Heinz Varieties, All the Beans, Heinz. Heinz canned products have been available in Britain throughout the twentieth century. The ‘Heinz 57 Varieties’ slogan was first used in 1896. The origin of the slogan was an advertisement for ‘21 styles of shoes’. Henry John Heinz thought he could adopt a similar slogan but that his own products were varieties. The number 57 does not relate to the number of products made by the company, which was greater than 57 even in 1896, but rather to the significance of the 5 and 7 to Henry Heinz and his wife. [ 2 ] 58. Make them Wait. A simple rhyme. 59. The Brighton Line. This call also survives, although seemingly only in the south of England. It was heard in Folkestone and Margate during July 2002. The call has Royal Navy origins: The LBSG fare from Portsmouth to London was 5/9. 60. Blind sixty, Three Score. 61. Baker’s Bun. A simple rhyme. 62. Turn of the Screw, Tickety-boo, To Waterloo. ‘To Waterloo’ is a Royal Navy call; the LSW fare from Portsmouth to London was 6/2. Tickety-boo is army slang for something being satisfactory, and was first recorded in 1939. [ 3 ] ‘Turn of the Screw’ was a popular novella first published in 1898. 63. Tickle Me. A simple rhyme. 64. Red Raw, When I’m Sixty-Four, The Beatles Number. Red Raw is one of the many rhyming calls with no particular origin; the other two calls have origins in the 1960s, with the song ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’ released by The Beatles in 1967. 65. Old Age Pension, Stop Work. The Contributory Pensions Act (1925) introduced a 10s per week pension for manual workers and those earning up to £250 per year. 66. Clickety-click, All the sixes, Clickety Click This is onomatopoeic – sounding like sixty six and has become shorthand for bingo, and was used in the famous Monty Python sketch that parodied ideas of Britishness. In the sketch Russian and Chinese characters famously confused cricket with the clickety-click used in bingo; the characters assumed that all the British played both cricket and bingo; the joke lies in the failure to understand the class distinctions that ran through the various games of cricket, bridge and bingo. 67. Made in Heaven. A simple rhyme. 68. Saving Grace. This could be linked to the hymn Amazing Grace: it seems unlikely to be linked to the novel of that title as it was published in 1981 and was not a huge popular success. Although the novel was adapted as a film and had some success it does not seem the most likely source for the call which appears in sources from the 1950s. 69. Whichever way you look at it (see number six), Meal for Two, Yo
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Stockport County F.C | The Freindly Football Club The Freindly Football Club Links The Basics Stockport County Football Club are an English football club based in Stockport, England. They play in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football pyramid. Their home stadium is Edgeley Park, and are nicknamed The Hatters, although are usually referred to by supporters simply as County. Formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers F.C., shortly after they merged with a similarly named club, Heaton Norris F.C., and on 24 May 1890 changed their name to Stockport County F.C. to reflect Stockport becoming a County Borough. They joined the Football League in 1900, and have competed in it continuously since 1905. Having spent most of their history in the lower reaches of the Football League, the 1990s were notably successful, competing in the Football League First Division (2nd Tier) for five seasons. Instability on & off the pitch led to Stockport quickly tumbling back down the leagues, narrowly avoiding a drop into the Football Conference (5th Tier) in 2006. The History Stockport County were formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers by members of the Wycliffe Congressional Church, and played their first recorded game in October the next year. The club adopted 'The Hatters' as their nickname, owing to Stockport's history as the centre of the Victorian hat-making industry, a nickname that is shared with Luton Town. Stockport played in the Lancashire League until 1900. They then gained admission to the Football League Second Division. Unfortunately, the club finished in the bottom three for their first four seasons and at the end of 1903-04 they failed to gain re-election. They spent one year in the Lancashire Combination, won the league, and were re-admitted to the Football League. County were fortunate that, despite an awful 1921-22 campaign that saw them end the season bottom of the Second Division, which would normally have seen them face re-election, they were placed in the brand new Third Division North. The Hatters won the league at the first time of asking in 1921-22, but struggled and soon returned to the bottom division where, barring a couple of seasons, the club would stay for more than 40 years. The 1933-34 season saw goals galore, 115 in total, including a 13-0 win over Halifax Town, which still stands as a Football League record. In 1936-37 County won the Third Division North, but failed to gain a foothold in the Second Division, finished 22nd out of 22 and were relegated. The 1950s brought little league success, but were notable for some fine goalscoring by Jack Connor, whose 140 goals are still a club record, including 13 hat-tricks, two instances of 4 goals in a match, and two of five goals in a match. When the regional Third Divisions were to be combined into national Third and Fourth Divisions after the 1957-58 campaign, Stockport managed to finish in the top half of the Third Division North and so were placed in the following season's national Third Division. Just one season was spent at this level, Stockport were demoted and didn't return until winning the Fourth Division in 1966-67. After being relegated in 1969-70, the 1970s and 80's consisted of little other than mediocrity or struggling against re-election. The introduction of automatic promotion & relegation between the Football League & the Conference was not a good sign for Stockport and, in 1986-87 they had just 6 points from 13 games and faced a real prospect of non-League football, exemplified by crashing out of the FA Cup to Caernarfon Town. Colin Murphy was brought in for his second spell as manager, County gained 45 points from their final 31 games and survived, although Murphy left shortly after the end of the season. Danny Bergara was appointed as manager in March 1989, quickly transforming the team and automatic promotion was gained in 1990-91. The next three seasons saw County make the play-offs, but failed to result in another promotion. In March 1995 Bergara was sacked after an altercation with then chairman Brendan Elwood, and Dave Jones was appo
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Piscina definition, Illustrated Dictionary of British Churches, History and Architecture Illustrated Dictionary of British Churches History and Architecture BY DAVID ROSS , EDITOR A stone basin used for washing holy vessels used during Mass or Communion services. Piscinas are usually set into a niche in the church wall near the altar (usually to the south side of the sanctuary or chancel). Infrequently, piscinas could be free-standing, on a column of stone. There is a drain hole at the bottom of the piscina to allow water to escape. Very infrequently you may see a pair of side by side piscinas in one niche. These so-called double piscinas are rare but not unheard of. The term piscina is frequently, and erroneously, applied to a similar recess for holy water placed near the main door of the church. These are more correctly called a holy water stoup, and were used for washing hands by worshippers entering or leaving the church, whereas a true piscina is used for washing vessels used during services.
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THE GREAT SCHISM OF THE WEST AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TODAY THE GREAT SCHISM OF THE WEST AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TODAY 1. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TODAY EACH feast of Ss Peter and Paul (29 June), or on an adjacent weekday should the feast occur on a Sunday, the attention of a large number of Catholics around the world is directed towards an event taking place in a hamlet in the Swiss canton of the Valais. That hamlet is Ecône, the world-famous site of the main seminary of the Fraternity of St Pius X; and the ceremony is its annual ordination of new priests, mostly members of the Fraternity, but also the occasional Dominican, Capuchin or member of another religious community. A hundred or more clergy assist at the Ecône ordinations, and among the several thousand strong congregation are to be seen many religious sisters, some clearly young, and all wearing traditional habits. Among the more numerous are the black-habited sisters of the Fraternity, and also the contrastingly white-habited Dominican teaching sisters, come together from their various boarding schools for girls across France. The young men ordained to the priesthood according to the traditional Latin rite at Ecône, like their colleagues ordained at Zaitzkofen in Germany, at Winona in the United States, and at La Reja in Argentina, may find themselves sent to help man the priories or schools in their home countries, or alternatively be dispatched to distant lands where Catholics are crying out for traditional Catholic worship and teaching. The Ecône ordinations do not now capture the headlines in the world media, as they used to do in the later 1970s and throughout the 1980s, when the Fraternity's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was still alive, and engaged in a somewhat bizarre ritual of diplomatic defiance of the Vatican. All that came to an explosive climax in 1988, when Mgr Lefebvre and his ally from Campos, Brazil, Bishop de Castro Mayer, crowned their defiance of John Paul II by consecrating, without his authorisation, four new bishops to guarantee the work of the Fraternity of St Pius X and its allies. They were consequently declared excommunicated, not for unauthorised consecrations only, but also for schism. The work of these priests is pre-eminently to celebrate Mass and administer the sacraments in the traditional Latin rites, but also to teach the traditional Catholic faith, and - necessarily - to increase the associated institutions, including churches, schools, priories and convents. That two distinguished Catholic prelates, one a former Apostolic Delegate (the Pope's personal representative) to the countries of French-speaking Africa, should have taken such extraordinary action - and that their rebellion should still be continuing after their deaths in 1991 - is by now virtually unintelligible to the vast bulk of newspaper readers. After all, is not the renowned "Polish Pope" an archconservative? Do not leading media commentators, for all their admiration of John Paul II's dedication and style, make it plain that the current reactionary regime in the Vatican cannot last long into the twenty-first century? Are not many bishops simply waiting for a change of Vatican personnel, which will authorise the ordination of women to the priesthood, the recognition of Anglican Orders, and a much more comprehensive view of sexual preferences and activities? How, in such a situation, can one have Catholics, clergy, religious and laity, rebelling against John Paul II in the name of traditional doctrine and worship? And the Ecône stance is not the most extreme. While some of its former members have made their peace with the Vatican in exchange for the indulgence of their conservative liturgical preferences, yet others have left because they refuse to keep silent about their view that John Paul II (like his Conciliar predecessors) is not in theological reality a valid Pope. So it is that one finds not only individual Catholics in many countries who hold that the See of Peter is in reality vacant (sede vacante) - or, according to an extraordinary the
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Bbcknowledge201202 by Rewel Acosta Rivera - issuu issuu Dirt is good for you: Curbing our hygiene obsession p61 www.knowledgemagazine.in Volume 2 Issue 2 February 2012 ` 100 SCIENCE • HISTORY • NATURE • FOR THE CURIOUS MIND A history of the in natural objects Surprising objects that illustrate the human journey p24 Plus: How the Homo sapiens beat other hominids to become the only surviving species p66 UP, CLOSE & personal WITH PANAMA BATS p36 DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES LED BY LUCK p46 Q&A: If our body cells are replaced, why do we age? p80 SECRETS OF THE STONEHENGE REVEALED p56 On the cover Portfolio February 2012 FEATURE PORTFOLIO IN HERE Panama Bats Panama’s forests are home to a vast array of bats, each uniquely adapted to exploit the habitat. Photographs by Christian Ziegler XXX February Jan/Feb 2012 2011 XXX REFLECTED GLORY The skies above Barro Colorado Island teem with thousands of bats. This 1600-hectare rainforest oasis in Lake Gatún in the Panama Canal offers such an abundance and variety of food and roosts that 74 different species of bat live here. Each species has evolved unique physical adaptations, roost preferences, flight zones and foraging strategies that enable it to avoid competition with its neighbours. Some, such as this greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus), specialise in hunting fish. Flying low over a pool at night, the bat skillfully plucks its quarry from just beneath the water’s surface. Using echolocation, it can detect tiny ripples as the fish move through the water. 43 SCIENCE 46 Blast from the Past Digging for dinosaur bones has a lot to do with luck, as Cavan Scott discovers SECRETS OF STONEHENGE science The secrets of STONEHENGE After the recent discovery of a second henge, Robert Matthews investigates how cutting-edge tech looks set to uncover even more archaeological sites 62 this new view are revelations provided by the seemingly miraculous powers of 21st-century science, from groundpenetrating radar and magnetometry to GPS technology. The power of these techniques was demonstrated in July last year, when an international team of archaeologists made headlines worldwide with an astonishing discovery near Stonehenge. After just nine days of searching, the team uncovered 3 evidence for an entire new structure on Salisbury Plain: a 25-metre wide walled ditch or ‘henge’, containing a circle of pits. Situated less than a kilometre from Stonehenge, the structure is believed to be as old, and to have had a similar appearance, its ditches aligned with the more famous structure. The discovery has been hailed as the fi rst major ceremonial site to be discovered near Stonehenge for half a century. Yet anyone visiting the site would fail to see anything, as the newly discovered henge lies buried several metres beneath the surface. Its presence was revealed to the world by the techniques being pioneered during the three-year project that began last summer. February 2012 56 The Secrets of Stonehenge Avant-garde technology has made the discovery of the second henge possible Science A history of world in 100 Natural Objects A history of the 100 NATURAL OBJECTS 100 in 02 ARTHROPOD EXOSKELETO N Arthropods (insects, spiders, crustaceans and their relatives) have become highly successful. Some are very numerous, but none are very big. often depict giant creepy-crawliesYet science-fiction films conquering our world. impossible! Arthropods It’s have an external skeleton and must moult it to grow, so are weak and immobilised until a larger one forms and hardens. In other words, they cannot get bigger than the maximum survivable size without a skeleton, and, as a result, the largest spiders and insects weigh less than a small rat. 03 BALEEN PLATE NATURAL OBJECTS Whales in the suborder Mysticeti have 100 or so of these tough but flexible structures hanging from their upper jaws. They scoop up massive mouthfuls of seawater, then use their tongues to force it out through the baleen plates, trapping plankton. Thus, the world’s largest animals have no need for the teeth so characteristic of most other mammals. Bale
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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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Pontefract Castle: History of England's Most Fearsome Fort - Exploring Castles Exploring Castles Home » UK » England » Pontefract Castle Pontefract Castle: History of England’s Most Fearsome Fort Pontefract Castle, in Yorkshire, England (or Pomfret Castle, as it was known at its time) used to be the most important, and most terrifying castle in the whole of Early Modern England. However, visitors today would find this unbelievable to understand. Nowadays, Pontefract is absolutely ruined, and it’s incredibly difficult to visualise this vast castle as it once was. Nonetheless, this mighty stone castle was a real force to be reckoned with – and had such a feared reputation that it was even mentioned in the works of Shakespeare. It’s undoubtedly the most important castle in the whole of Yorkshire, England, and is well-worth your time for a visit. Here are six highlights from Pontefract’s long and incredible history. Pontefract Castle is generally ruinous. These tower segments are the largest remaining constructions. Credit: Tim Green, CreativeCommons (CC BY 2.0). 6. Pontefract Castle has a blood-stained history: of death, decay and dark dungeons Pontefract Castle has attracted a phenomenal amount of death, decay and misery over the years. As an ominous precursor, the entire place was constructed on an old Anglo-Saxon burial ground. In addition to this, the castle was the spot of Richard II’s infamous ‘murder’ (see our next point below), and hundreds of soldiers were killed or imprisoned here during the Wars of the Roses. A different angle of the remaining two towers of Pontefract Castle. Credit: Tim Green, CreativeCommons (CC BY 2.0). To add to the general feeling of despair, Pontefract has a huge and oppressive network of dungeons – hollowed out of the bedrock 35 feet below the castle. Prisoners were trapped in the winding, pitch-black pits for weeks at a time, and scratched their names into the walls during their miserable imprisonment. You can see the prisoner’s names, scratched into the dungeon walls, when you visit the castle today. This is part of the tour to the ‘magazines’ and armour cellars – these cellars were originally the dungeons. Pontefract was the site of some dark moments in history – in 1311, Edward II gained the upper hand on his own cousin, Thomas Earl of Lancaster, and had him executed in the castle- along with beheading 20 other rebels. It was in Pontefract too that Richard III condemned Sir Richard Grey, Sir Thomas Vaughan and Earl Rivers to execution, as their faction-fighting endangered his rule. These three were killed in 1483 – the same year of the alleged ‘murder’ of the two young princes in the Tower of London. Other unfortunate events occurred in the castle. It was the place where Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, began her affair with Thomas Culpepper. Both were eventually beheaded for their ill-advised liaison. 5. And Pontefract Castle was the spot where King Richard II was murdered – which served as inspiration for Shakespeare King Richard II was certainly held in Pontefract Castle in 1399. We don’t know exactly what happened to him, but most sources think that he was either intentionally neglected until he starved to death; or was cruelly murdered in the dungeons. A couple of scholars have suggested the dungeon of the Keep to be the spot of his murder- a tiny, pitch-black space seeping with the cold and damp. A broader view of the castle grounds, showing the extent of the ruins (and, er, a power station). Credit: Tim Green, CreativeCommons (CC BY 2.0). Writing in the late 1500s, Shakespeare used Pontefract Castle (at his time, Pomfret Castle) as a setting in two of his history plays, Richard II and Richard III. In Richard II, the King is dragged to Pomfret Castle, where he ruminates on his life when imprisoned in the dungeons – and is killed as the play ends. In Shakespeare’s Richard III, Rivers is dragged to the castle, and describes it thus: III.iii.9. O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison! Fatal and ominous to noble peers! Within the guilty closure of thy walls Richard the Sec
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Timeline: 1300-1400 King Wenceslas II ascends the throne in Poland. Birth of Guillaume de Machaut, French musician and poet. c. 1300 Cursor Mundi written and Marco Polo's Travels. 1300-1400 English displacing French as language of the upper classes and in schools and law courts. Mystery plays increasingly performed by guilds rather than churches--more actors, more spectacles, outdoor stages, comic elements. 1301 Edward I of England invests his baby son Edward as Prince of Wales 1302 Battle of Courtrai: Flemish burghers defeat the flower of French chivalry and save Flanders from French occupation. 1303 Guillaume de Nogaret, emissary of Philip IV of France, kidnaps Pope Boniface VIII and beats him. The pope is rescued by Italians from Anagni, but dies shortly thereafter in Rome, probably as a result of his injuries. His death ends the struggle between Philip IV of France and the pope over papal powers in France. 1304 Francis Petrarch (Franceswco Petrarca), Italian poet born. 1305 Pope Clement V (Bertrand de Got, Archbishop of Bordeaux) claims the Papal See. The "Babylonian Captivity" begins as the Papal See removed from Rome to Avignon, defying medieval custom. The English capture and execute Scottish rebel William Wallace. 1306 Philip IV expels the Jews from France. New Scottish rebellion against English rule led by Robert the Bruce. Robert is crowned King of Scotalnd at Scone, rules until 1329. This ends the ten-year interregnum in Scotland. 1307 King Edward dies while on campaign against Robert the Bruce. Edward II, King of England, rules until 1327. Dante's Divine Comedy written about 1307-1321 1308 Albert I, Holy Roman Emperor, dies. His replacement: Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor to 1313. 1310 English barons appoint appoint 21 peers--the Lords Ordainers--to manage Edward II's household and control the country until the king reaches his maturity. 1312 The King of France abolishes the Order of Knights Templar, accusing them of witchcraft. Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer's father, John Chaucer. 1313 Battle of Bannockburn: Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II and makes Scotland independent. Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor at civil war withhis rival, Frederick of Austria. Louis X, (Louis the Quarrelsome) King of France to 1316. 1315 Swiss forces beat Leopold of Austria at battle of Morgarten. 1316 John XXII becomes Pope. He holds the papal see until 1334. The papacy orders eight Dominican friars to travel to Ethiopia in search of Prester John, a legendary Christian emperor. 1317 France adopts the Salic Law, excluding women from succession to the throne. 1318 The Swiss make peace with the Habsburgs. 1320 Tughluk Dynasty in Delhi rules until 1413. Founded in 1320 by the Turk Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluk. 1321 Death of Dante Alighieri shortly after his completion of the Divina Commedia. 1322 Charles IV, the Fair, King of France. (Rules until 1328). 1325 Traditional date of the Aztecs arrival in Tenochtitlán (Mexico
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The Motown Story The Motown Story By David Edwards and Mike Callahan Last update: August 8, 2012 The Motown story is the story of Berry Gordy, Jr., who was born in Detroit Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh of eight children of Berry Gordy II and Bertha Gordy. His parents had migrated to Detroit from Milledgeville, Georgia in 1922. His father ran a plastering contracting business and his mother sold insurance and real estate; they also ran a grocery store and print shop. Berry Gordy, Jr. dropped out of school after his junior year to become a professional boxer; he decided to get out of the fight game at about the time the Army drafted him in 1951. During his stint in the Army, he obtained his high school equivalency degree. In 1953, he married Thelma Coleman and in 1954 his first child was born, a daughter Hazel Joy. They had two other children, named Berry IV and Terry, but were divorced in 1959. When Berry got out of the Army 1953, he opened a jazz-oriented record store called the 3-D Record Mart that was financed by the Berry family. By 1955, the store had failed and Berry was working on the Ford automobile assembly line. While working on the line, Berry constantly wrote songs, submitting them to magazines, contests and singers. His first success as a songwriter came in 1957 when Jackie Wilson recorded "Reet Petite", a song he, his sister Gwen and Billy Davis (under the pseudonym of Tyran Carlo) had written. "Reet Petite" became a modest hit and netted Berry $1000 for the song. Over the next two years he co-wrote four more hits for Wilson, "To Be Loved", "Lonely Teardrops", "That's Why" and "I'll Be Satisfied". Berry later chose the title To Be Loved for his autobiography. Successful as a songwriter, Berry decided to produce his songs himself. His first production was titled "Ooh Shucks" by the Five Stars, which was released on George Goldner's Mark X label in 1957. Gordy had an extraordinary ability to recognize talent. In 1957 at a Detroit talent show, he saw a group the Miracles and decided to record them. The Miracles consisted of Claudette Rogers, Ronnie White, Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers and the lead singer William "Smokey" Robinson. Berry's first production for the Miracles was an answer record to the Silhouettes "Get a Job," titled "Got a Job," which he leased to Goldner for release on End records. The record got some airplay, but then died a quick death, as did the Miracles follow-up on End titled "I Cry." In 1958, Berry produced a record by Eddie Holland titled "You," which was leased to Mercury records. Also that year, Kudo Records issued 4 more Gordy productions, two of which are significant to the Motown story: the first Marv Johnson release, titled "My Baby O," and a Brian Holland (Eddie's brother) vocal, titled "Shock". With Smokey Robinson and the Holland brothers, Berry had discovered three incredible songwriters and producers. Also in 1958, he produced a record by Herman Griffin titled "I Need You" on the H.O.B. label, which is notable in that it was the first song to be published by Berry's publishing company called Jobete (pronounced "jo-BET"), named after his three children, Hazel Joy [Jo], Berry IV[Be], and Terry [Te]. "I Need You" was also the first record to credit the Rayber Voices, background singers named after Berry's second wife, Raynoma, and himself. Gordy decided to take total control of his songs, so on January 12, 1959, he borrowed $800 from his family's loan fund to start his own record label, called Tamla. He had originally wanted to call his label "Tammy," after a Debbie Reynolds film, but that title was already taken. Tamla Records was located at 1719 Gladstone Street in Detroit, and the first release was Marv Johnson's "Come to Me" [Tamla 101]. The song was picked up by United Artists and it became a mid-sized hit. United Artists signed Marv Johnson to a recording contract and Berry Gordy continued to produce him for that label. In 1959, Marv Johnson's "You Got What It Takes" became his first production to break into the pop Top 10. The th
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MUSIC OF MY LIFE : July 2011 MUSIC OF MY LIFE Quality in music is ONE!...and simply needs to be SPREAD OUT and be SHARED! (If you want me to share with you the music material please send me request to ghikasathan@gmail.com) Saturday, July 30, 2011 Mudcrutch Mudcrutch is the first studio album by American rock band Mudcrutch , released on April 29, 2008. The album was recorded during a two-week period in August 2007. Mudcrutch was originally formed in 1967. The band recorded several demos and singles but never released an album. Mudcrutch was disbanded by the record company in 1975 and did not play together again until recording this album 32 years later.[ citation needed ] After the initial break-up, band members Tom Petty , Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench went on to form Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . The album entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at number eight, selling about 38,000 copies in its first week. [1] Personnel Randall Marsh - drums Tom Leadon - guitar , vocals, lead vocal on "Queen of the Go-Go Girls", co-lead vocal on "Shady Grove" Benmont Tench - keyboards , vocals, lead vocal on "This Is a Good Street" 1. "The Wrong Thing to Do" Petty "Special Place (iTunes Bonus Track)" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Members Danny Roberts Charlie Souza Mudcrutch is a Southern rock band from Gainesville, Florida best known for being the forerunner of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. History Early Years Mudcrutch was formed in 1970 by Tom Petty and Tom Leadon, who had been playing together in a band called the Epics. Mudcrutch's lineup consisted of Tom Petty (bass and vocals), Tom Leadon (guitar and vocals), Randall Marsh (drums) and Mike Campbell (guitar). Leadon left the band in 1972 and was replaced by bassist/guitarist/vocalist Danny Roberts. Keyboardist Benmont Tench also joined the band.Ricky Rucker was a part of the band for a short time. Mudcrutch served as the house band at Dub's Lounge in its hometown of Gainesville, Florida. Depot Street vinyl, signed by Mike Campbell In 1974, Mudcrutch signed with Shelter Records and re-located to Los Angeles, California. The band released one single, "Depot Street," in 1975, which failed to chart. After Danny Roberts left the group, Tom invited Charlie Souza to take over on bass guitar and the band continued recording in Leon Russell's Tulsa Studio, and later at Leon's Encino California home. The band's record company broke them up in late 1975. Petty, Campbell and Tench went on to form The Heartbreakers in 1976 with fellow Gainesville natives Stan Lynch and Ron Blair.[1] 2008 return In August 2007, Tom Petty invited Randall Marsh and Tom Leadon, original members of Mudcrutch, to reunite with Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell to reform Mudcrutch. They recorded an album, Mudcrutch, which was released on April 29, 2008, by Reprise Records, and contains 14 old and new tracks. "We would play and then we would just talk about the old days," said Tom Leadon. The band toured briefly in California to promote the album throughout April and the beginning of May 2008. Fans who bought tickets to the tour through Ticketmaster were given six free downloads from their debut album. On November 11, 2008 a live EP titled Extended Play Live was released. All the tracks were recorded live in April 2008. On the same day American music channel VH1 Classic broadcast a documentary about the band. Personnel Catfish pie in gris gris bag I'm the lover of the bayou Mark your doorstep with a half wet rag I'm the lover of the bayou Raised and swam with the crocodile Snake-eye taught me the Mojo style Sucking weed on chicken bile I'm the lover of the bayou I learned the key to the master look I learned to float in the water clock I learned to capture the lightning shock I'm the lover of the bayou And I got cat's an' teeth and hair for sale I'm the lover of the bayou Look out, look out, Baron Zombies on your tail I'm the lover of the bayou I cooked the bat in the gumbo pan I drank the blood, drank the blood from a rusty can Turned me into the Honga man I'm the lover of t
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5 Most Beautiful Canal Cities in Europe – GoEuro Blog Benelux Destinations France Germany Netherlands We’ve voted Utrecht the most beautiful of canal cities in Europe! While there is no denying the canals of Venice are truly magical – with many still considering them the most beautiful in Italy – today they are often tarnished by excessive tourism and tacky romantic souvenirs. This top five highlights the cities boasting of equally impressive waterways, dotted with less overpriced gondolas than those in Venice. 1. Utrecht , The Netherlands Utrecht, The Netherlands The canals of Utrecht have something unlike any other inner-city canal in the world: wharfs. These are flat areas at canal level on which boats can dock and unload their cargo. The wharfs lead on to traditional cellars that have mostly been adapted to serve as houses, shops and restaurants. During summer, people greet you from the terraces next to the water while enjoying a beer in the sun. The canals make for a great picture from the streets, but the views are most spectacular from the water itself in a canoe, a boat, or on a tour through the water on a waterbike. Floating leisurely down the Oudegracht in autumn, as the late afternoon sun filters through green and red leaves, and you will see why we’ve chosen Utrecht as the most beautiful canal city. 2. Annecy , France Annecy, France Annecy, often called the Venice of the Alps, in many ways surpasses its Italian namesake. The main draw for tourists is the serene beauty and soothing atmosphere of the city. The medieval Annecy is built around the former castle of Lord Annecy, which still forms the centerpiece of the Thiou canal. Along the canals run many small, winding paths that take you through the old centre and across the many waterways. The colour of the houses that adorn the canal quays is reflected in the crystal clear water. 3. Bruges , Belgium Bruges, Belgium Bruges is a small historic city in Belgium and a popular destination for couples who often come for the astonishing beauty of the canals. Some bridges lie dilapidated and have not been repaired for years, whilst others are overgrown with plants… all have their own charm. The canals of Bruges are called ‘Reien’, and together they encircle the city to form the ‘Bruges egg’. The compact, charming and lively city center along with the friendly locals makes it easy to feel at home. By wandering through the many narrow streets and crossing bridges you will find yourself falling in love with the city like many before you. It is no coincidence that the entire city of Bruges is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 4. Hamburg, Germany Hamburg, Germany Hamburg is the largest port in Germany, with the city home to more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined. It’s not only the quantity but the consistently simple charm of these bridges and canals that won Hamburg number 4 on our list. The canals run in straight lines between a mix of old and new German architecture, making for wonderfully symmetrical walkways connected by water. 5. St. Petersburg, Russia St Petersburg, Russia As soon as the sun shines through the clouds and the temperature rises, the canals of St. Petersburg fill with boats. The water provides a perfect opportunity to experience the city from a different perspective, either on an organized canal trip or traveling to another city via public ferry. You can sail past architectural masterpieces from the 18th and 19th centuries, contrasting brightly colored buildings and a wide range of different bridges. The parks, palaces, museums, churches, theaters and gardens make passing St. Petersburg a marvel to behold. CRITERIA Here are the three categories we judged these cities on: Uniqueness – Every canal city has its own character, but we looked for that extra special something that isn’t found elsewhere in Europe. History – There’s nothing more impressive than floating down a canal that is several hundreds of years old, passing between castles and churches that have been standing for generations. Tourism – A problem with Venice is arguably
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Russian National Football / Soccer Team - RussiaTeam.com : Euro 2008 Austria Switzerland Basle | Geneva | Zurich | Berne | Vienna | Salzburg | Innsbruck | Klagenfurt EURO 2008 QUALIFYING GROUPS The top two in each of the seven groups will automatically qualify for the finals. There are no play-offs. Austria and Switzerland automatically qualify as hosts. Euro 2008 Qualifying Groups UEFA EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by the UEFA. Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations Cup, changing to the name European Football Championship in 1968. Specific championships are often referred to in the form "Euro 2008" or whichever year is appropriate. There is a UEFA Women's Championship inaugurated in 1984 and from 1997 held every four years, as well as a Men's Under-21 equivalent of the UEFA European Championship tournament, taking place every two years. The competition Until 1976, only four teams qualified for the final tournament. From 1980 eight teams competed and in 1996 the tournament expanded again to the current number of teams, 16. The competing teams are chosen by a series of qualifying games: in 1960 and 1964 through home and away play-offs; from 1968 through a combination of both qualifying groups and play-off games. Until 1976, the host country was selected from the four finalists after they were determined through qualifying. Since the expansion of the final tournament starting from 1980, the host country, or countries, have been chosen beforehand and qualify automatically. The defending champions have never been granted an automatic place in the finals. Trophy The Henri Delaunay Trophy, which is awarded to the winner of the European Football Championship, is named in honor of Henri Delaunay, the first General Secretary of UEFA, who came up with the idea of a European championship but died five years prior to the first tournament in 1960. His son Pierre Delaunay was the person in charge of making the trophy.[1] Since the first tournament it has been awarded for the winning team to keep for four years, until the next tournament. For the 2008 tournament, the trophy was slightly remodelled making the trophy larger, as well as minor cosmetic changes. The trophy was made 18 centimetres taller and two kilograms heavier[2]. History In 1956, the groundwork for a European national team competition was laid. Two years later, in 1958, the first European Nations Cup began. The original format of the competition saw the early rounds played in home and away matches between the countries on a knockout basis. This continued until the semi-finals, where the remainder of the competition was played in the host country, chosen from the four semi-finalists. Henri Delaunay was a footballing visionary. (�Getty Images) The French Football Federation's Henri Delaunay came up with the idea of a European championship in 1927. Given the immense efforts that Delaunay had put into setting up a European national teams competition, UEFA deemed it appropriate that the inaugural competition be hosted by France. The trophy presented to the competition winner still bears his name. The first final was held in Paris and saw the Soviet Union defeat Yugoslavia, after extra time, and be first to have their name engraved onto the trophy. The 1964 competition was the first European Nations Cup to be affected by politics as it saw Greece refusing to play Albania as they were technically (though not officially) at war. The finals were hosted by Spain, and they saw the hosts beat the Soviet Union 2-1 in Madrid. The European Nations Cup changed its name to the UEFA European Football Championship for 1968 and also a new format was introduced. Eight groups of seeded teams played each other twice and the top side of each
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Michelle Obama - U.S. First Lady, Lawyer - Biography.com » quotes “Every day, the people I meet inspire me, every day they make me proud, every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on Earth. Serving as your first lady is an honor and a privilege.” “When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” “I have the privilege of working on the issues that I choose and the issues that I feel most passionate about.” “These are the moments that define us—not the day you get the promotion, not the day you win teacher of the year, but the times that force you to claw and scratch and fight just to get through the day; the moments when you get knocked down and you're wondering whether it's even worth it to get back up. Those are the times when you've got to ask yourself, who am I going to be?” “That's what's always made this country great—embracing the diversity of experience and opinion that surrounds us everywhere we go.” “The only difference between me and every other woman that I know is that my challenges are publicized, and I'm doing this juggling in front of cameras.” “We should always have three friends in our lives—one who walks ahead who we look up to and we follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journeys; and then, one who we reach back for and we bring along after we've cleared the way.” “People told me, "You can do it all. Just stay the course, get your education and you can raise a child, stay thin, be in shape, love your man, look good and raise healthy children." That was a lie.” “Exercise is really important to me—it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.” “It would be hard for me to edit myself and still be me.” “We learned about dignity and decency—that how hard you work matters more than how much you make . . . that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.” “As women, we must stand up for ourselves. As women, we must stand up for reach other. As women, we must stand up for justice for all.” “She's fundamentally honest—goes out there, speaks her mind, jokes. She doesn't parse her words or select them with an antenna for political correctness.” Michelle Obama Synopsis Michelle Obama was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985, and went on to earn a degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. Following her graduation from Harvard, she worked at a Chicago law firm, where she met her husband, future U.S. president Barack Obama . The couple married on October 3, 1992. As first lady, she has focused her attention on current social issues, such as poverty, healthy living and education. Michelle Obama - Mini Biography (TV-14; 3:33) Watch a mini biography of Michelle Obama, who in 2009 became the United States' first African-American First Lady, in this video. Background and Early Life Michelle Obama was born Michelle LaVaughn Robinson on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois. She would later become a lawyer, Chicago city administrator, community-outreach worker and—as the wife of President Barack Obama—the first African-American first lady of the United States. Michelle was raised in a small bungalow on Chicago's South Side. Her father, Fraser Robinson, was a city-pump operator and a Democratic precinct captain. Her mother, Marian, was a secretary at Spiegel's but later stayed home to raise Michelle and her older brother, Craig. They were a close-knit family, typically sharing meals, reading and playing games together. Craig and Michelle, 21 months apart in age, were often mistaken for twins. The siblings also shared close quarters, sleeping in the living room with a sheet serving as a makeshift room divider. They we
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The 1993 Inauguration The 1993 Inauguration Help Site Map Text Only An aerial view of the "Reunion on the Mall" held as part of the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. With tents stretching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, it was reported to be the largest festival ever held on the Mall. This photo was taken from a U.S. Park Police helicopter hovering so the top of the Monument is in the foreground of the picture. A dramatic night photo of the Washington Monument covered by lights during the ceremonies marking the opening of the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. The Lincoln Memorial and a bank of spotlights are in the background. This photo was taken from the top of the clock tower on the Smithsonian Castle building on the Mall. Hillary Clinton greets visitors and shakes hands along a fence on the Mall in Washington during her visit to "The Reunion on the Mall" held as part of the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. An aerial view of the Lincoln Memorial during the "Call for Reunion," a two-hour outdoor concert kicking off the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. Hundreds of thousands of people crowded onto the Mall for the free concert which featured such entertainers as Aretha Franklin, Michael Bolton, Tony Bennett, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross and rapper L-L Cool J. The Clintons and the Gores wave to the crowd at the opening to the "Call for Reunion" a two-hour outdoor concert kicking off the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. Hundreds of thousands of people crowded onto the Mall for the free concert. Bill Clinton, with the statue of Lincoln behind him , addresses the hundreds of thousands of people who crowded onto the Mall for the "Call for Reunion" a two-hour outdoor concert kicking off the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. Singer Diana Ross, on stage at the Lincoln Memorial giving it her all in her finale for the "Call To Reunion", which kicked off the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. Hundreds of thousands of people crowded onto the Mall for the free two-hour outdoor concert. The Clintons and the Gores lead a procession of thousands across the Memorial Bridge from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington Virginia on their way to the Bell Ringing Ceremony which was part of the kick off of the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. The procession and bell ringing followed a Call To Reunion concert at the Lincoln Memorial. While the Clintons and Gores watch, Chelsea Clinton rings a replica of the Liberty Bell during festivities kicking off the Clinton/Gore Inaugural At the stroke of 6 p.m., Clinton and Gore grasped the red rope attached to the bell and led the nation in a bell ringing ceremony. Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, kept up the ringing long after her father let go of the rope. (~15K). (~16K) Bill Clinton holds up an American Flag passed to him by someone in the crowd at the Bell Ringing Ceremony which was part of the kick off for the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. One of the most spectacular fireworks displays ever seen in Washington caps the day's events which kicked off the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. This photograph was taken from the Virginia side of the Potomac River. The Lincoln Memorial, to the left, is almost hidden by the bursts. A spectacular red, white and blue burst of fireworks , seen from the unique perspective from the top of the Washington Monument, cap the day's events which kicked off the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. Looking down from the Monument, in addition to the fireworks, the Lincoln Memorial, and bridges over the Potomac Rover to Virginia can be seen. President-elect Bill Clinton waves to the waiting crowd as he, Vice President-elect Al Gore, and their wives leave a meeting of introduction with diplomats at Georgetown University. Perhaps the most spectacular fireworks ever seen in Washington burst over the Potomac River during the kick off to the Clinton/Gore Inaugural. Behind the red, white and blue bursts, three of D.C.'s most distinct landmarks - the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol can be se
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Full text of "Stoke Poges Church : the "country churchyard."" See other formats X >. u 4) O cn o (ft 1357 ^^H HB||H ■ The date shows when this volume was taken. H H ^^H^^^^^^^^^^B To fehew this book copy the call No. and give to ■ ^^H ^■^■■H /\\\\/^/ the librarian. ^| ^^1 \\/\\ll HOME USE RULES. ^~ ^^^^^^^^^^1 ^JC/ r All Books subject to Recall, 1 ^^^^^^^H ■ ^f- 'U Books nbt used for instruction or research 1. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1/^ ■ 1 are returnable within ^^1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \\ 4 weeks. ^^B ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Volumes of periodi- ^H ^B^H^' cals and of pamphlets are held in the libraiy H ^■' ' as much as possible-. For special purposes 1 ^^^1' they are given out for ^^1 ^^^1' ' a limited time. ^^p ■ ' Borrowers should hot -use their library privileges for the bene^ fit of other persons. I ^^^1 i ^^1 ^^^1 , Books not needed ^^1 ^^^B during recess periods ^^B ^^H should be returnSd to ^H ^^H . the library, or arrange- , ^H ^^^1 taents made- for their ^^B ^^^1 ' return during borrow- ^^B ^^^1 er's abseace.if wanted. ^^1 ^^^1 Books needed by ^^B ^^^H more than one person ^^1 ^^^^^^^ are held .on the reserve list. H ^^H r' Books of special value and gift books, when the giver wishes it, are not allowed to 1 ^^^1 ^« " 'circulate. ~ Readers are asked to report all cases 'of books marked or muti- 1 lated. ^1 Do not deface book» by marks and writing. ■ 1 ^^H^ * • " ^ 1 ^M'^^'-- . ^^^^H 1 The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028281560 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS. BURNHAM BEECHES lie 2J miles to the north-west, through the village of Farnham Royal. BEACONSFIELD is three miles further on in the same direction. From this little town Benjamin Disraeli took his title, and in its fine old Church Edmund Burke, the statesman, and Edmund Waller, the poet, are buried. JORDANS, where William Penn is buried, is seven miles to the north, on the way to Chalfont St. Giles. CHALFONT ST. GILES is about nine miles distant. Here is the cottage in which Milton lived during the time of the Great Plague. It is now fitted up as a museum with Milton relics. ETON COLLEGE, the most famous of English schools, is si miles to the south, and on the direct road to WINDSOR CASTLE, about | of a mile further. h <B < UJ I I o a. I O o o HI o f- STOKE POGES CHURCH. % THE MANOR. 'J2r'HE history of Stoke Poges goes back to Angio- ma Saxon times, when the manor was held by " Siret. a man of Earl Harold." Siret may have shared the fate of his lord at the Battle of Hastings ; bis lands, at any rate, were confiscated, and at the date •of the compilation of Domesday Book (1086 a.d.) they were held by William Fitz-Ansculf as "part of that extensive fief which lay in twelve counties and had Dudley Castle for its head." The Domesday entry is as follows : — Walter holds of *William STOCHES. It is assessed at 10 hides. There is land for 10 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ; and 10 fvilleins with 3 fbordars have 6 ploughs, and there could be 2 more. There are 4 serfs and i mill worth 4 shillings, and woodland (to feed) 500 swine. In all it is worth 5 pounds ; when received 3 pounds ; T. R. E. \\i.e., in the time of King Edward the Confessor] 6 pounds. From Fitz-Ansculf Stoke passed with other manors to the Paganell family, and then to the de Someries, whose tenant Robert Pogcs — 1290 to 1330 a.d. — gave to the parish the name, his own, which it has held ever since. About 1330 A.D. the manor came into the possession of Sir John de Molyns, whose fam
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John Milton - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. John Milton John Milton (1608-1674), English poet, wrote what many consider to be one of the greatest epic poems in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667); Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor--one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.--Book I and Paradise Regained (1671). Or, if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?--Book IV England was in a great state of flux during his lifetime; Milton sided with the Puritans and Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), rejected popular political and religious beliefs, adopted an anti-royalist stance against King Charles I, and joined the pamphlet wars, writing many polemics on the Church of England including "Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England" (1641) and "The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth" (1660). As George Saintsbury (1845-1933) states in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Vol. VII, 1907-21) "the inspirers of his pamphlets were furies rather than muses". Milton also wrote pamphlets on various political issues like free speech and the censorship exerted by Parliament as in "Areopagitica: A speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England" (1644). But today Milton is best remembered for his heroic epic verse retelling the story of Adam and Eve and the Fall. In his sympathetic portrayal of man's struggle with good and evil, "That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Milton has inspired countless works by artists, film makers, musicians, authors, and poets into the 21st Century including John Keats 's "Endymion"; William Blake created illustrations for Paradise Lost and wrote Milton: a Poem (1804-10); Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Milton stands alone in the age which he illumined." in his Preface to "The Revolt of Islam"; and Lord George Gordon Byron , in his Introduction and Dedication to Don Juan writes; If, fallen in evil days on evil tongues, Milton appealed to the Avenger, Time, If Time, the Avenger, execrates his wrongs, And makes the word "Miltonic" mean "Sublime," He deigned not to belie his soul in songs, Nor turn his very talent to a crime; He did not loathe the Sire to laud the Son, But closed the tyrant-hater he begun. John Milton was born on 9 December 1608 on Bread Street in London, England to Sarah Jeffrey (1572-1637) and John Milton (1562-1647), scrivener in legal and financial matters. He had an older sister Anne and younger brother Christopher. John was born with poor eyesight which increasingly worsened over time. A life-long student, his schooling started at home under tutor Thomas Young before he went to read the works of Homer and Virgil in Greek and Latin at St Paul's School in London. He entered Christ's College, Cambridge in 1625 with the intent to become a minister. However, upon graduation in 1632 with a Master of Arts degree, Milton was disenchanted with the Church, did not take his orders, and decided to further his studies in languages including Hebrew. He also learned French and Italian, countries he travelled through extensively in the late 1630s where he immersed himself in their history and culture, and met many prominent learned men of the time including Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Upon his return to England from the continent in 1639 he moved to his parent's home in Horton, Bu
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Bernard Miles, 83, an Actor, Peer And Founder of London Theater - NYTimes.com Bernard Miles, 83, an Actor, Peer And Founder of London Theater AP Published: June 15, 1991 LONDON, June 14— Bernard Miles, the actor and founder of the Mermaid Theater in London, who was made a life peer, died today. He was 83 years old. He died in his sleep at a nursing home in Knaresborough, north Yorkshire, 150 miles north of London, his son, John, said. He had recently suffered fractures in both legs, according to the Press Association, the domestic news agency. Knighted in 1969, Lord Miles was made a life peer in 1979. Laurence Olivier was the only other British actor to be honored with a peerage. Lord Miles appeared in more than 100 plays after making his professional debut in 1930 as the second messenger in Shakespeare's "Richard III." His roles included Iago in "Othello," Christopher Sly in "The Taming of the Shrew," Antonovitch in "The Government Inspector," and Face in "The Alchemist." In 1959, he played Long John Silver in his adaptation of "Treasure Island," a part he was to reprise often. During the 1960's, he starred in productions of Brecht's "Galileo," Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" and Sophocles's "Oedipus the King" and "Oedipus at Colonus." But it was for his advocacy of good theater rather than his acting that Lord Miles was best known. He formed the Mermaid Theater Trust in order to build the first playhouse in 300 years in London's financial district, the City. "I regard the Mermaid as a popular theater," Lord Miles once said. "We want people to come to this place and take their shoes and socks off and make themselves comfortable." His first attempt to found the Mermaid Theater in 1950 did not succeed. But in May 1959 he opened a second Mermaid Theater at Puddle Dock on the River Thames with "Lock Up Your Daughters," a musical that became a long-running hit. The theater has been active ever since, and in recent years has housed productions of "Glengarry Glen Ross," "Mother Courage," starring Glenda Jackson, and "A Moon for the Misbegotten," with Frances de la Tour. Lord Miles's film credits include "In Which We Serve" (1942), "Great Expectations" (1946), "Carnival" (1946) and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). He wrote four books -- "The British Theater" (1947), "God's Brainwave" (1972), "Favorite Tales From Shakespeare" (1972) and, with J. C. Trewin, "Curtain Calls" (1981). "The theater is the home of the ego," he once said. "You stand in the middle of the stage with all the lights on you, and people roar with laughter every four minutes, and there's no feeling like it." His wife, the actress Josephine Wilson, died last year. In addition to his son, he is survived by a daughter, Bridget. Photo: Lord Bernard Miles (Camera Press, 1984)
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Has London's congestion charge worked? - BBC News BBC News Has London's congestion charge worked? By Claire Timms BBC News, London 15 February 2013 Close share panel Image caption The congestion charge has generated a net revenue of over £1bn since 2003 The biggest congestion charge scheme to launch in any city got off to a smooth start on the morning of 17 February 2003, much to the surprise of London's then mayor Ken Livingstone. A decade on he readily admits it was the only thing in his entire political career that "turned out better than I expected". Motorists travelling into central London on that Monday morning faced the new £5 daily charge, and by the afternoon 57,000 had paid it. The RAC reported there was not the anticipated early rush of drivers trying to get across the eight-square mile zone before 7am - the time the charge came in. 'Political cowardice' Mr Livingstone said: "What was amazing was nothing went wrong. "We'd expected we'd have quite a few bits of congestion on the periphery, but we couldn't find a single point where the traffic didn't flow. "The only real problem we had were the buses were all running so ahead of schedule they had to wait at the bus stop for a couple minutes." At the time officials from 30 other British cities were reported to be considering introducing congestion charges if London's scheme was successful. Image caption No other British cities have adopted congestion schemes since London That never happened and, further afield, the only cities to adopt a similar scheme since are Milan and Stockholm. Mr Livingstone believes there are two reasons: political cowardice and "modern" cities built after the introduction of the car that do not need a congestion charge. He said: "If it wasn't for the Republicans, who control the New York State Assembly, Manhattan island would have one. Mayor Bloomberg really wants to do it but he can't get the votes. "In Manchester the politicians were so nervous they said: 'we'll have a referendum first'. "If I'd had a referendum first, with all the hysteria in the newspapers - I had two and a half years of newspapers saying it would be a disaster - you'd never have got it through. It was all doom and gloom. "Political cowardice is always going to be a problem: people think they might lose votes if they do it - but very few cities actually need it." Mr Livingstone now sees pollution as London's biggest challenge. Low-emission zone "We've all woken up to the fact that in London over 4,000 people die prematurely every year because of the air quality - that's worse than 9/11," he said. "We're not just talking about a few elderly people dying a few months early. On average they're dying 11 years early. "We've got to tackle it - that's the low-emission zone and Boris [Johnson] should be pressing ahead very rapidly and tightening up on diesel vehicles." Although he scrapped the scheme's western extension zone when he succeeded Mr Livingstone in 2010, Mr Johnson has described the original scheme as a success which had benefited London. On Wednesday he announced his vision to see the world's first "Ultra Low Emission Zone", meaning by 2020 only zero or low-emission cars would be allowed into central London. Time will tell if the argument for what seems a radical change can be won. And although the congestion charge - which was also seen as a radical step a decade ago - has won over many of the original doubters, there are still those who claim it has not been a success. Media captionTwo firms give their verdicts on how the congestion charge has helped or hindered them According to TfL figures, traffic levels over the past 10 years have gone down by 10.2% but journey times for drivers have remained flat since 2007. Barry Neil, whose east London-based company Ambient Computer Services travels into central London daily delivering computer equipment, claims this is evidence the congestion charge has failed. He said: "We said when it launched it wasn't going to make any difference and unfortunately it hasn't. "If it made it easier to drive through London, then great.
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Jimmy's Monopoly Challenge Jimmy's Monopoly Challenge Thursday, 4 April 2013 ________________________________________ 10:am -Collect £200 and it's off to Elephant & Castle for the walk to Old Kent Road ________________________________________ Old Kent Rd Old Kent Road - The street is famous as the equal cheapest property on the London Monopoly board and as the only one in South London. Things can only get better.... ________________________________________ Found at Tesco off Old Kent Road ________________________________________ Tower of London - But what can we find for GO TO JAIL? ________________________________________ Over Tower Bridge to Vine Street ________________________________________ Walk past the Tower of London to the first of the stations, tiny Fenchurch Street . ________________________________________ Could this TARDIS be GO TO JAIL? ________________________________________ Whitechapel Road The first set is completed with Whitechapel Road . And we thought Old Kent Road was rough! ________________________________________ Calm down, calm down...the second station is - Liverpool Street . ________________________________________ On the tube to the third station, King's Cross ________________________________________ Outside King's Cross, is Euston Road ________________________________________ Then it's Jimmy's first food stop at McDonalds on Pentonville Road ________________________________________ On the bus to The Angel, Islington - Light Blue Set Complete! ________________________________________ A famous detective could make him GO TO JAIL? ________________________________________ On the tube to the last of the Stations - Marylebone . ________________________________________ With Jimmy's Casino winnings we visit Park Lane . ________________________________________ The Dark Blues are completed as we buy a car in Mayfair . ________________________________________ On to the Greens with a spree in Oxford Street ... ________________________________________ ...and then Bond Street . James Street is not on the board, but should be. Or should it be James Bond Street? ________________________________________ No-one here to make him GO TO JAIL. ________________________________________ Another Orange with Marlborough Street . ________________________________________ Regent Street The Greens are completed with Regent Street , so there's time to drop into Hamley's for some Lego. Mmmm - I didn't realise how many streets are on this thing.... ________________________________________ The Yellows are in Theatreland, starting with Piccadilly . ________________________________________ A full set of Yellows with Leicester Square . ________________________________________ Bow Street Bow Street Magistrates Court completes the Orange set. Unfortunately the famous Court that sent the Krays down is closed down, so no GO TO JAIL here either! ________________________________________ After a nice meal in the West End it's over to Trafalgar Square . ________________________________________ Over the road to Northumberland Avenue . ________________________________________ Then it's on to Whitehall . ________________________________________ GO TO JAIL? When James trumps outside Number 10 , the police cover their noses but don't make him GO TO JAIL. ________________________________________ Pall Mall completes the Purples. ________________________________________ Now for a (very) long walk down The Strand . ________________________________________ At last, on The Strand, justice is done. ________________________________________ Fleet Street We arrive at Fleet Street to complete the Monopoly Challenge at 8:30pm! Not a reporter in sight. _________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Euston to Elephant and Castle on Northern Line. 2. Walk to Old Kent Road. 3. Turn left at Tesco for Free Parking. 4. Head for Tower Bridge for City Hall. 5. Look across the river to Tower of London. 6. Cross the bridge, head north to Vine Street. 7. Short walk to Fenchurch Street Station.
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Habanero Orange Pepper - Heirloom Seeds: Sustainable Seed Company Full Planting Tips for Heirloom Hot Peppers: Start these vegetable seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before your last frost date. Be sure to keep them in a warm place so that the soil temperature stays above 75°. Young heirloom pepper plants like it to stay warm and will develop best if kept happy. Only transplant after the heirloom pepper seedlings have shown several sets of their true leaves and only once you are sure the outside soil temperature is consistently above 65°. Heirloom seeds are hardy, but always take care with your garden seeds to give them the appropriate amount of moisture - don't let the vegetable seeds dry out prematurely, and don't overwater and possibly have them rot. Directions: Cut the large peppers into 1/4 inch rings and simply pierce the very small peppers a few times, or you can cut all peppers into 1 inch pieces. this will depend on how you wish to eat them. Pack the peppers into 1 qt jar. Place all remaining ingredients into a pot or medium sauce pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and let simmer for 5 minutes. Pour the hot brine into the jar of peppers, place lids, and seal. Serve within a month, and refrigerate after opening. Note** To seal the jar you can either place it on a canning rack or directly into a pot with the water filled up to cover the whole jar. Bring to a boil for 10-15 minutes. Your name
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The Many Views of Abbey Road | Mental Floss The Many Views of Abbey Road Image credit: Like us on Facebook The Iain MacMillan photograph gracing the 1969 Beatles album Abbey Road made it one of the most famous album covers ever. It's such an iconic image that whenever you see a group walking single file on a zebra crossing, you automatically think of Abbey Road. It's been imitated, honored, lampooned, and recreated by countless artists. We'll take a look at just a few of their creations, but first, the original. The Simpsons The Simpsons TV show contains frequent Beatles references . This is one of three Simpsons covers that Rolling Stone used for its November 2002 issue. The Zimmers The Zimmers recorded their 2007 album at Abbey Road studios, and took the opportunity to pose for a classic picture . Lots more Abbey Road recreations after the jump. The Yale Record The Yale Record rock and roll issue (winter 2007) combined the classic image of evolution with the Abbey Road picture. T-Shirt In another clever combination of cultural idioms, this Threadless T-Shirt asks the question, "Why did the chicken cross Abbey Road?" Freeda Freeda , the Free Range Canberra chook mascot takes the "chicken crossing the road" symbolism to heart in recreating the image. Tribute Band Abbey Road LIVE! is a Beatles tribute group from Athens, Georgia. They play music from the Beatles later albums, including Abbey Road. Here they are in a publicity shot. Pocoyo This image was created by Pedro Bascon , a designer for Pocoyo , a preschool television show from Spain. The characters from the show do the Beatles' walk. Lego Lego artist Dunechaser committed the image to brick form. See more of his work at The Brothers Brick . Tabby Road Even LOLcats get into the act! This photo was featured at I Can Has Cheezburger . Sumo Wrestlers A Reuters photographer caught a group of Sumo wrestlers in New York during the World Sumo Challenge in 2005. Paul McCartney You'll find Abbey Road reincarnations on other album covers more than anywhere else. Paul McCartney released an album in 1993 entitled Paul is Live , using the background of the original Abbey Road photo for its cover art. A contemporary picture of McCartney was edited in. Kanye West The cover of Late Orchestration by Kanye West (recorded at Abbey Road studios) is also a tribute to the Abbey Road cover. The Red Hot Chili Peppers released The Abbey Road EP in 1988. It contained five songs that were all eventually available on other albums. The cover of the EP featured the four band members walking single file on a zebra crossing, naked except for socks over their penises. See it here . Other Album Covers Many musicians have used the same imagery as cover art. See a large collection of them at Am I Right . mental_floss But the best one of all is the cover of mental_floss issue #2! Mangesh says: That was our second issue from all the way back in Oct. 2001, and it shows how little we knew about putting together a magazine. People take their own Abbey Road pictures every time they see a chance, in London or anywhere they can cross the street. Abbey Road Studios even has a live webcam trained on the zebra crossing. Check in during English daytime to catch tourists setting up their own photo shoots! It is a busy street, as you can see in this video . Still, I can't imagine passing up the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of The Beatles. More from mental_floss...
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 19 | 1975: Davis campaigners stop Test match About This Site | Text Only 1975: Davis campaigners stop Test match Campaigners calling for the release of robber George Davis from prison have vandalised the pitch at Headingley cricket ground in Leeds. They dug holes in the pitch and poured oil over one end of the wicket. The walls surrounding the ground were also daubed with the now- familiar slogans demanding the release of Davis, the east London minicab driver jailed for his part in an armed robbery. The damaged pitch was discovered early on Tuesday by the head groundsman, George Cawthray. Mr Cawthray said: "When I first saw the damage it did not sink in. I was amazed. I thought I should be able to repair the holes but it was the oil that did the damage." The campaigners' actions led to the final match between England and Australia on Tuesday being abandoned. It was declared a draw robbing England of the chance to win back the Ashes and the trophy. 'Mistaken identity' Detectives are searching for several men believed to have travelled from London to Leeds on Monday. Four police officers from Leeds have travelled to London to assist the Metropolitan police in their investigations Davis, 34, who was sentenced to a 20-year term last year, is serving his sentence at Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight. His supporters say he was the victim of mistaken identity and did not take part in a payroll robbery in Ilford, Essex, when a police officer was shot and injured. Since Davis' imprisonment they have organised marches, petitions and fund-raising events to increase public awareness of his case. In May two campaigners - Davis' brothers-in-law Jim and Colin Dean - carried out a seven-hour roof-top protest at St Paul's cathedral in London.
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Griffin Park | Brentford FC | Football Ground Guide Football Ground Guide Address: Braemar Road, Brentford, TW8 0NT Telephone: 08453 456 442 Pitch Size: 110 x 73 yards Club Nickname: The Bees Home Kit: Red, White & Black Away Kit: Grey and White Bill Axeby and Brook Road Stands Braemar Road Stand WHAT IS GRIFFIN PARK LIKE? The ground is rather compact and certainly has an individual feel. On one side is the recently christened Bill Axbey Stand (formerly the New Road Stand), which is named after a long time supporter who watched the Bees for an incredible 89 years before passing away in 2007. This stand is a single tiered, covered all seated stand, which has a number of supporting pillars running across the front of it. The roof of the stand is painted with a large advert, designed to catch the eye of passengers flying into Heathrow Airport. Currently this is an advert for Qatar Airways, but in the past amongst others, it has been for KLM and easyJet. Opposite is the Bees United (Braemar Road) Stand. Again this stand is single tiered, all seated and has a number of supporting pillars. It has a very low roof, which makes you wonder what the view would be like from the very back row of the stand. At one end is the BIAS Stand (aka the Ealing Road Terrace), which up to 2007, was an open terrace that was given to away supporters. However the Club have now erected a roof on this end and decided to give it back to the home fans. This should really help boost the atmosphere within the stadium. Interestingly the sponsors of the terrace BIAS are not a company but the Brentford Independent Association of Supporters. Opposite is the Brook Road Stand. This stand which was opened in 1986, is a strange affair; a small double decker stand that has seating on the first tier and terracing below. It is known affectionately by the Brentford fans as the 'Wendy House'. The ground is complete with a set of four imposing floodlights. Griffin Park is also used for Chelsea reserve team matches. NEW STADIUM The Club have received planning permission to build a new 20,000 capacity stadium, at Lionel Road (in-between Kew Bridge Railway Station and the M4). The site is just under two miles away from Griffin Park. The scheme will also see the construction of 910 flats and a hotel. The stadium may also be shared with London Welsh Rugby Club. If things go to plan then works could start in early 2017, with Brentford could be kicking off in their new home for the start of the 2019/20 season. WHAT IS IT LIKE FOR VISITING FANS? Away fans are housed in the Brook Road Stand at one end of the ground. This covered two tiered stand has 600 seats in its upper tier and room for around 1,000 fans below in the terrace. The upper tier has good unhindered views of the playing area, whilst below in the lower terraced area there are a couple of prominent supporting pillars, which may affect your view. There is a good selection of refreshments on offer including a selection of Pies (£3.30), Pasties (£3), Hot Dogs (£3.50), Burgers (£3.50), Cheeseburgers (£3.60) and Sausage Rolls (£2). I also have been informed that an enterprising home owner has set up a hot dog and cake stall in their front garden on Brook Road South, just along from the away supporters entrance. Tim Porter a visiting Torquay United supporter adds; 'The home fans were the most friendly I've come across for a long time - before kick-off, the stadium announcer asked all the home fans to put their hands together for the Torquay fans who had made such a long journey. I expected indifferent silence or abuse, but there was almost universal clapping!' I also had an enjoyable visit to Griffin Park and didn't experience any problems. PUBS FOR AWAY FANS Brentford is famous for being the only ground in England that has a pub at every corner of the ground. The surrounding land was formerly owned by the Griffin Brewery, hence the name Griffin Park. However one of these pubs the Royal Oak is currently closed. The other three; The Griffin (which serves Fullers real ale), The Princess Royal and The New Inn. The New Inn
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Kylie Minogue - Biography - IMDb Kylie Minogue Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (232) | Personal Quotes (15) Overview (4) 5' (1.52 m) Mini Bio (1) Kylie Ann Minogue was born on 28 May, 1968. The eldest of three children, Kylie's acting career began early, but it was her role as "Charlene" in the Australian soap, Neighbours (1985), which established Kylie as an international star. Her singing career began, purely by accident, when a record company executive heard Kylie's rendition of Little Eva 's 1962 hit, "The Loco-Motion". She signed with PWL Records and hit-makers Stock/Aitken/Waterman in 1987. Five albums and a greatest hits compilation followed, and she made history by having more than 20 consecutive top ten hits in the UK. Her motion picture debut came with the starring role of "Lola" in The Delinquents (1989). She left PWL Records in 1992 to head in a decidedly more mature musical direction, and her self-titled debut on deconstruction records was released in 1994, spawning chart hits like "Confide In Me" and "Put Yourself In My Place". Kylie's doings were always a favorite subject of the press, but she really made waves with her controversial 1995 duet with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , "Where the Wild Roses Grow". 1997 saw the release of Kylie's first single in more than 3 years, "Some Kind of Bliss", co-written and produced by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore of The Manic Street Preachers . - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jonathan Ruskin Trade Mark (3) Older sister of Dannii Minogue and Brendan Minogue . Performed at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. 1997 saw a rather alternative Kylie crop up after two years of silence. Collaborations with Manic Street Preachers and others gave the "Impossible Princess" album an indie touch. Although not a commercial success, it was acclaimed by critics as being the final proof that Kylie and her music had matured. Kylie did, however, return to her roots and what she knows best with her smashing comeback to pop music in the year 2000. The first single released from the album "Light Years" immediately hit the number one spot in the UK, making her one of the few artists such as Madonna and Elton John with number one hits in both the eighties, nineties and noughties. Kylie also released a duet, "Kids", with pop star Robbie Williams . Her father is Australian, with Irish ancestry. Her mother was born in Wales. Voted best dressed female by readers of "Heat" (UK) magazine. [December 2001] January 2002: Received the Showbusiness Personality of the Year Award at The Variety Club of Great Britain Showbusiness Awards 2002. Miss Minogue was absent from the ceremonies as she was abroad promoting her latest single so she sent a televised message. Former sister-in-law of actor/producer Julian McMahon . Younger brother Brendan Minogue is a television cameraman. She has her own lingerie brand called "Love Kylie". 2001: Nominated for the prestigious 'Best International Female' Award at the Brit Awards 2001 (2001). February 2002: Won 2 of the major awards at the 2002 Brit Awards: Best International Female & Best International Album for Fever. She was also nominated for Best Pop Act and Best Video (with Robbie Williams for "Kids") and stole the show with an incredible performance of "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" mixed with "Blue Monday". Won Best Dance Act at the 2004 Swedish NRJ Awards in Stockholm. (25th January 2004) Nominated for Best International Female at the 1995 Brit Awards. (1995) Nominated for Best International Female at the 1989 Brit Awards. (1989) Winner of the 2004 Grammy for Best Dance Recording for her single "Come Into My World", beating off strong competition such as Madonna , Cher , Télépopmusik & Groove Aramada. (8th February 2004) Single "Slow" become the most added track to U.S. radio in its first week of release. (January 2004) Sold out 7 nights at the London Hammersmith Apollo with her "On A Night Like This Tour". (2001) Became the first Ambassador for the NSPCC. A foundation preventing cruelty to ch
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UK MUSIC CHARTS, No.1 Singles 1: Al Martino - Here In My Heart - 14/11/1952. 1953 2: Jo Stafford : You Belong To Me - 16/1/1953 3: Kay Starr : Comes A-Long A-Love - 23/1/1953. 4: Eddie Fisher: Outside Of Heaven - 30/1/1953. Feb 5: Perry Como: Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes - 6/2/1953 March 6: Guy Mitchell: She Wears Red Feathers - 13/3/1953 April 7: Stargazers: Broken Wings - 10/4/1953 8: Lita Roza: (How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window - 17/4/1953 9: Frankie Laine: I Believe - 24/4/1953 June 10: Eddie Fisher: I'm Walking Behind You - 26/6/1953 Aug 11: Mantovani Song: from 'The Moulin Rouge' - 14/8/1953 Sept 12: Guy Mitchell: Look At That Girl - 11/9/1953 Oct 13: Frankie Laine: Hey Joe - 23/10/1953 Nov 14: David Whitfield: Answer Me - 6/11/1953 15: Frankie Laine: Answer Me - 13/11/1953 1954 16: Eddie Calvert: Oh Mein Papa 8/1/1954 March 17: Stargazers: I See The Moon 12/3/1954. April 18: Doris Day: Secret Love 16/4/1954 19: Johnnie Ray: Such A Night 30/4/1954 July 20: David Whitfield: Cara Mia 2/7/1954 Sept 21: Kitty Kallen: Little Things Mean A Lot 10/9/1954 22: Frank Sinatra: Three Coins In The Fountain 17/9/1954 Oct 23: Don Cornell: Hold My Hand 8/10/1954 Nov 24: Vera Lynn: My Son My Son 5/11/1954 25: Rosemary Clooney: This Ole House 26/11/1954 Dec 26: Winifred Atwell: Let's Have Another Party 3/12/1954 1955 27: Dickie Valentine: Finger Of Suspicion 7/1/1955. 28: Rosemary Clooney: Mambo Italiano 14/1/1955 Feb 29: Ruby Murray: Softly, Softly 18/2/1955 March 30: Tennessee Ernie Ford: Give Me Your Word, 11/3/1955 April 31: Perez Prez Prado & His Orchestra: Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White 29/4/1955 May 32: Tony Bennett: Stranger In Paradise 13/5/1955 33: Eddie Calvert: Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White 27/5/1955 June 34: Jimmy Young: Unchained Melody 24/6/1955 July 35: Alma Cogan: Dreamboat 15/7/1955 36: Slim Whitman: Rose Marie 29/7/1955 Oct 37: Jimmy Young: The Man From Laramie 14/10/1955 Nov 38: Johnston Brothers: Hernando's Hideaway 11/11/1955 39: Bill Haley & His Comets: Rock Around The Clock 25/11/1955 Dec 40: Dickie Valentine: Christmas Alphabet 16/12/1955 1956 41: Tennessee Ernie Ford: Sixteen Tons 20/1/1956. Feb 42: Dean Martin: Memories Are Made Of This 17/2/1956 March 43: Dream Weavers: It's Almost Tomorrow 16/3/1956 44: Kay Starr: Rock And Roll Waltz 30/3/1956 April 45: Winifred Atwell: Poor People Of Paris 13/4/1956 May 46: Ronnie Hilton: No Other Love 4/5/1956 June 47: Pat Boone: I'll Be Home 15/6/1956 July 48: Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love 20/7/1956 Aug 49: Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) 10/8/1956 Sept 50: Anne Shelton - Lay Down Your Arms 21/9/1956 Oct 51: Frankie Laine - A Woman In Love 19/10/1956 Nov 52: Johnnie Ray - Just Walking In The Rain 16/11/1956 1957 53: Guy Mitchell.. Singing The Blues 4/1/1957 54: Tommy Steele.. Singing The Blues 11/1/1957 55: Frankie Vaughan.. The Garden Of Eden 25/1/1957 Feb 56: Tab Hunter.. Young Love 22/2/1957 April 57: Lonnie Donegan.. Cumberland Gap 12/4/1957 May 58: Guy Mitchell.. Rock-A-Billy 17/5/1957 59: Andy Williams.. Butterfly 24/5/1957 June 60: Johnnie Ray.. Yes Tonight Josephine 7/6/1957 61. Lonnie Donegan.. Puttin' On The Style / Gamblin' Man 28/6/1957 July 62. Elvis Presley.. All Shook Up 12/7/1957 Aug 63. Paul Anka.. Diana 30/8/1957 Nov 64. The Crickets.. That'll Be The Day 1/11/1957 65. Harry Belafonte.. Mary's Boy Child 22/11/1957 1958 66. Jerry Lee Lewis.. Great Balls Of Fire 10/1/1958 67. Elvis Presley.. Jailhouse Rock 24/1/1958 Feb 68. Michael Holliday.. The Story Of My Life 14/2/1958 69. Perry Como.. Magic Moments 28/2/1958 April 70. Marvin Rainwater.. Whole Lotta Woman 25/4/1958 May 71. Connie Francis.. Who's Sorry Now 16/5/1958 June 72. Vic Damone.. On The Street Where You Live 27/6/1958 July 73. Everly Brothers.. All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 4/7/1958 Aug 74. Kalin Twins.. When 22/8/1958 Sept 75. Connie Francis.. Carolina Moon / Stupid Cupid 26/9/1958 Nov 76. Tommy Edwards.. All In The Game 7/11/1958 77. Lord Rockingham's XI.. Hoots Mon 28/11/195
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In Italian cuisine-what type of meat is prosciutto?
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What is Prosciutto and How Is It Made? Share By Bethany Moncel Prosciutto is the Italian word for ham. In the United States, the word prosciutto is used to describe an uncooked, dry cured ham, which is called prosciutto crudo in Italian. This article will explore dry cured prosciutto. Prosciutto is a fatty cut of meat that, when sliced thinly, has a buttery texture and will melt in the mouth. Prosciutto has a mild, sweet flavor that can vary depending on the pig’s diet and the techniques used to cure the meat. For this reason, there are many regional varieties of prosciutto. How is Prosciutto Made? Prosciutto is made from the hind leg or thigh of a pig or wild boar . Once the leg is cleaned, it is heavily salted and left for two months in a cool, controlled environment. The salting process removes leftover blood and moisture and makes an unfit environment for bacteria. After the salting process, the salt is washed from the meat, and then left to dry age for up to 18 months. The entire prosciutto making process can take anywhere from nine months to two years. continue reading below our video BBQ Side Dishes: The 411 How is Prosciutto Used? Prosciutto is most often sliced thin and served as an appetizer, either alone or wrapped around another food item. Prosciutto is often paired with sweet foods like melon or dates but is also served wrapped around fresh or lightly cooked vegetables, like asparagus. Thinly sliced prosciutto is often served as a part of a meat board or tapas spread. With the popularization of gourmet pizzas, prosciutto has become a trendy topping for pizzas. The rind or unsliceable ends of prosciutto can be diced and cooked into soups and stews for added flavor. These ends are usually sold for a much lower price than the thinly sliced flesh. Prosciutto is extremely delicate and can be quite sticky so slicing must be done with either an extremely sharp knife or a professional grade meat slicer. Presliced prosciutto is often packaged with deli paper between the slices to facilitate handling the slices without tearing. Protected Designation Origin The European Union created the Protected Designation of Origin policy (PDO) to protect the name of regions and their agricultural products. Under this policy, only products produced in said regions are allowed to carry that name. The two most popular varieties of prosciutto protected by the PDO are Prosciutto di Parma and Prosciutto di San Daniele . Prosciutto di Parma is made in Parma Italy , the same region well known for Parmesan cheese. The pigs raised in this region are often fed whey left over from the cheese making process, which gives the meat a slightly nutty flavor. Prosciutto di San Daniele comes from San Daniele del Friuli in Italy and is known for it’s slightly sweeter flavor and darker color. Where to Buy Prosciutto Prosciutto can now be found in most well stocked delis and charcuteries in the United States. It is usually available sliced to order and priced by the pound. The price of prosciutto varies greatly depending on the manufacturer and where it is made. Some American made prosciuttos can be found for as low as $13 per pound whereas Prosciutto de Parma can fetch up to $30 per pound. Pre-sliced and packaged prosciutto is also sometimes sold with the prepackaged deli meats. These slices are usually more uniform in size and the pieces tend to be larger than sliced to order prosciutto. When purchasing prosciutto, the color should be rosy and the texture should be soft. Prosciutto that has a grey hue or is dry or crispy around the edges should be avoided. Prosciutto ends or rinds are not often advertised, so check with your deli for availability.
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Tiramisu: Italy’s Most Popular Dessert Tiramisu, Italy’s “Pick Me Up” Dessert Your Favorite Espresso-Kissed Italian Trifle Dessert POSTED August 23, 2016 Tiramisu quite literally means, “a pick me up.” One of Italy’s most popular, Tiramisu is a rich treat blending the bold flavors of cocoa and espresso with savory mascarpone cheese and wine, layered with ladyfinger biscuits. After-Dinner Indulgence At many Italian tables, a meal is often finished with fresh fruit rather than dessert. Dessert is reserved for special occasions. It stands to reason that this may be why Italian desserts are notable for presenting lavish arrangements of indulgent ingredients and truly unforgettable flavor combinations. Italian dessert making is like all of Italian cuisine with one distinct rule: to create dishes that provide pleasure above all else. Among the most popular Italian desserts, tiramisu is undoubtedly number one. Rich, Dark Flavors Tiramisu is an elegant and rich layered Italian dessert made with delicate ladyfinger cookies, espresso or instant espresso , mascarpone cheese, eggs, sugar, Marsala wine, rum and cocoa powder. Through the grouping of these diverse ingredients, an intense yet refined dish emerges. The delicate flavor of layers of mascarpone and Italian custard are contrasted with the darkly robust presence of espresso and sharpness of cocoa powder. The name itself, tiramisu, means “pick me up” in Italian most likely referring to the two caffeinated ingredients that are present in the dish, espresso and cocoa. Traditional tiramisu begins with Savoiardi Ladyfingers , light and delicately sweet sponge cake biscuits. These cookies have a long standing heritage in Italian Cuisine developed at the court of the Duchy of Savoy during the 15th century to welcome a visit from the King of France. Savoiardi Ladyfingers were given their name when they were granted the designation of “official court biscuit.” It’s All in the Making When making tiramisu , the Savoiardi ladyfingers are soaked in a mixture of espresso (or instant espresso ) rum and sugar. The crunchy biscuits become soft once the espresso mixture is added. Next, a layer of mascarpone cheese and a layer of zabaglione are added. Zabaglione is traditional Italian custard made from egg yolks, Marsala wine, and sugar. Ladyfingers are important to tiramisu, giving it a texture that contrasts well with the silky layers of mascarpone and custard. Tiramisu is finished with a dusting of rich cocoa powder—a key component of its appearance and taste! Today a number of tiramisu variations are available. One popular alternative includes chocolate tiramisu, in which chocolate takes the place of the coffee. Another version is fruit tiramisu, where complementary fruit such as berries , peaches or apricots are added. Frozen tiramisu recipes are also available. They include the addition of gelato, frozen yogurt or ice cream in place of the custard. Tiramisu’s popularity over the last three decades have prompted cooks to adapt the essential ingredients used in the dish for a number of recipes such as cakes, ice creams, cheesecakes and puddings. Much in the same way that the English trifle is often served during holidays, tiramisu is a wonderful Italian delicacy to add to holiday festivities. Although after trying it once, food lovers may not be able to wait for a special occasion before they decide to serve it again.
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In botany, what is the decay-resistant outer coating of a pollen grain or spore called?
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Pollen Grain: Definition, Structure & Function - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com Pollen Grain: Definition, Structure & Function Watch short & fun videos Start Your Free Trial Today An error occurred trying to load this video. Try refreshing the page, or contact customer support. You must create an account to continue watching Register for a free trial Are you a student or a teacher? I am a student Start Your Free Trial To Continue Watching As a member, you'll also get unlimited access to over lessons in math, English, science, history, and more. Plus, get practice tests, quizzes, and personalized coaching to help you succeed. Coming up next: Flowering Plants: Reproduction & Fertilization You're on a roll. Keep up the good work! Your next lesson will play in 10 seconds 0:35 What Are Pollen Grains? 0:57 Structure of Pollen Grains 2:53 Pollination in Angiosperms Add to Add to Add to Want to watch this again later? Log in or sign up to add this lesson to a Custom Course. Custom Courses are courses that you create from Study.com lessons. Use them just like other courses to track progress, access quizzes and exams, and share content. Teachers Organize and share selected lessons with your class. Make planning easier by creating your own custom course. Students Create a new course from any lesson page or your dashboard. From any lesson page: Click "Add to" located below the video player and follow the prompts to name your course and save your lesson. From your dashboard: Click on the "Custom Courses" tab, then click "Create course". Next, go to any lesson page and begin adding lessons. Edit your Custom Course directly from your dashboard. Personalize: Name your Custom Course and add an optional description or learning objective. Organize: Create chapters to group lesson within your course. Remove and reorder chapters and lessons at any time. Share your Custom Course or assign lessons and chapters. Teacher Edition: Share or assign lessons and chapters by clicking the "Teacher" tab on the lesson or chapter page you want to assign. Students' quiz scores and video views will be trackable in your "Teacher" tab. Premium Edition: You can share your Custom Course by copying and pasting the course URL. Only Study.com members will be able to access the entire course. Create an account to start this course today Try it free for 5 days! Instructor: Wendy McDougal Wendy has taught high school Biology and has a master's degree in education. A pollen grain is a microscopic body that contains the male reproductive cell of a plant. It is crucial in a plant's fertilization process. Learn more about this tiny structure and take a short quiz at the end. What are Pollen Grains? Spring is a time of new growth and fresh beginnings. Days get longer, the sun gets warmer, and flowers bloom in a magnificent show of color. And as a result of these lovely blossoms everywhere, many of us find ourselves in sneezing fits. In order for flowers to propagate every year, they must be pollinated. And pollination sends millions of tiny pollen grains through the air, many of which end up in our nose. But pollen does not exist simply to make us miserable. Pollen grains represent the male portion of the reproductive process in plants and trees. These tiny bodies are swirling in the air and on the legs of insects so that they can join the female part of the plant to create a new seed. This important process is known as fertilization. As we will discover, pollen plays a crucial role in the plant world. Structure of Pollen Grains Pollen grains are microscopic structures that vary in size and shape. Some are tiny orbs, while others are egg-shaped. Although too small to see individually, they can be seen by the naked eye in large quantities. You have probably noticed a bright orange-yellow coating on your car during springtime that closely resembles cheese powder from the macaroni and cheese box. Assorted Pollen Grains (Sunflower, Morning Glory, Hollyhock, Primrose, Castor Bean) Viewed through a micros
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"Masterminds" - Manchester Evening News, November 7, 2015 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt 1. Playboy Russia covergirl Maria Kozhevnikova, boxer Nikolai Valuyev, and tennis player Marat Safin shared which honour in December 2011? 2. What William S Burroughs 1961 book popularised the rock music term 'heavy metal', and provided the names for at least two rock bands of the 1970s? 3. What main religion celebrates festivals including Nuakhai, Yatra (or Zatra/Jatra), Pongal, Holi and Shigmo? 4. Which country experienced the Velvet Revolution in Nov-Dec 1989? 5. According to the UK General Teaching Council how many of the 28,000 newly qualified teachers in 2010 had a computerrelated degree: 3; 30; 300 or 3,000? 6. Spell the word: Remanisence; Reminissense; Remeniscence; or Reminiscence? 7. What ancient Sanskrit word loosely meaning 'region' commonly now refers to people (and culture, products, etc) of Indian sub-continent origins? 8. Whom did Forbes Magazine list as the most powerful woman in the Southern Hemisphere in 2011? 9. Unrelated, what is a set of slats and a museum? 10. What ship, whose name means thunderbolt, was Nelson's flagship 1799-1801, and later a training ship for boys? 26 11. The Showa period of Japan coincided with what Emperor's reign? 12. Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's book War Horse, on In state Luther which the 2012 Spielberg film (of the same name) is based, held what UK position from 2003-5? 13. What fashionable Mediterranean resort hosted the G20 international economics conference at the height of the Greek Euro membership crisis? 27 14. How many cubic metres is the space in a room four metres square and three metres high? 15. Which politician bowled faster than Dennis Lillee and Andy Roberts? 16. What element is also known as hydrargyrum? David shows around 17. Whose father wrote and sang the popular Secret Lemonade Drinker song in the award-winning British 1970s-80s R Whites Lemonade TV advert ? … Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Newspapers Encyclopedia Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details
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What is the name of the victim in 'Cluedo'?
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Clue (board game) | Clue Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Genre Murder-Mystery Clue (Cluedo outside the U.S.) is a popular murder-mystery board game. It was originally published in Leeds, England in 1949. It was devised by Anthony E. Pratt, a so ly move around the game board (a mansion), as of one of the game's six suspects (or, collecting clues from which to deduce which suspect murdered the game's perpetual victim: Mr. Boddy ( Dr. Black , outside of U.S.), and with which weapon and in what room. Several games, books, and a film have been released as part of the Cluedo franchise. The board game forms a chronology. Overall, several spinoffs have been released, some featuring extra characters, and for some, different game play. More recent editions have restored the name Boddy Mansion to the mansion, and say the mansion is located in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1954 (located in Hampshire, England outside of the U.S.). Contents Edit In 1944, Anthony E. Pratt, an English solicitor's clerk, filed for a patent of his invention of a murder/mystery-themed game, originally named "Murder!" The game was originally invented as a new game to play during sometimes lengthy air raid drills in underground bunkers. Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife presented the game to Waddingtons' executive, Norman Watson, who immediately purchased the game and provided its trademark name of "Cluedo" (a play on "clue" and "Ludo", which is Latin for "I play"). Though the patent was granted in 1947, due to post-war shortages, the game was not officially launched until 1949, at which time the game was simultaneously licensed to Parker Brothers in the United States for publication, where it was re-named "Clue" along with other minor changes. However, there were several differences between the original game concept and that initially published in 1949, In particular, Pratt's original design calls for ten characters, one of whom was to be designated the victim by random drawing prior to the start of the game. These ten included the eliminated Mr. Brown, Mr. Gold, Miss Grey, and Mrs. Silver, with Nurse White, and Colonel Yellow. The game allowed for play of up to eight remaining characters, providing for nine suspects in total. Originally there were eleven rooms, including the eliminated "gun room" and cellar. In addition there were nine weapons including the unused axe, bomb, syringe, poison, shillelagh (walking stick/cudgel), and fireplace poker. Some of these unused weapons and characters would appear in later spinoff versions of the game. Some gameplay aspects were different as well. Notably, the remaining playing cards were distributed into the rooms to be retrieved, rather than dealt directly to the players. Players also had to land on another player in order to make suggestions about that player's character through the use of special counter-tokens, and once exhausted, a player could no longer make suggestions. There were other minor differences, all of which would be updated by the game's initial release and remain essentially unchanged in the standard classic editions of the game. Equipment Edit The game's current equipment consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Boddy Mansion, although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall, and in some editions Tudor Manor or Tudor Mansion). The game box also includes several colored playing pieces to represent characters, miniature murder weapon props, one or two six-sided dice, three sets of cards, each set describing the aforementioned rooms, characters and weapons, Solution Cards envelope to contain one card from each set of cards, and a Detective's Notes pad on which are printed lists of rooms, weapons and characters, so players can keep detailed notes during the game. Suspects Edit Depending on edition, the playing pieces are typically made of colored plastic, shaped like chess pawns, or character figurines. Occasionally they are made from wood or pewter. The standard edition of Cluedo comes with six basic tokens rep
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CLUEDO - The Game The Game The following text has been reproduced from a booklet distributed with the Cluedo Master Detective Edition, which provides a great deal of background to the game. For other information, please see the FAQ and explore the rest of Cluedofan.com A brief history of the world's favourite mystery game In 1946, a solicitors' clerk from Birmingham, England, paid a visit to the firm of Waddingtons Games Ltd., in Leeds. Anthony E. Pratt and his wife had come, with a couple of game-inventing friends, to present their idea and prototype of a mystery detection game to the game manufacturers. They met and played the game with some Waddingtons employees while the firm's managing director looked on. Fortunately for all of us, the people at Waddingtons liked what they saw and agreed to produce the game. Only three years later, Parker Brothers brought the game to Australian mystery lovers - and it's been a family favourite ever since! Why "Cluedo"? That's elementary, my dear Watson! Because the object of the game is to collect enough clues to solve the mystery. But when this classic game was created in England, it was called "Cluedo", taking off what the Britons called LUDO (pronounced "lew-doh"), which simply means "I play" in Latin. So when Waddingtons Games Ltd., agreed to produce Anthony Pratt's new board game, they made a play on words: "LUDO" became "CLUEDO". And in more than 40 countries around the world, it's known either as CLUEDO or by the American CLUE name. Who's Who? Speaking of names, how do you suppose Mrs. Peacock and Colonel Mustard fare in other nations? You'd be surprised - because she is a he, and he is a she! In Norway, Mrs. Peacock is called Baronesse von Blauw, but in Spain she's Capitano Azurro, a man. And Colonel Mustard is known to the Swiss as Madam Curry. In Germany, the exotic Miss Scarlet is called Fraulein Ming. In Switzerland she's got a more ordinary name, Evelyne Rose, but she does have the distinction of being the only Cluedo suspect in the world whose suspect card bears a first name! Spanish players call Professor Plum, our absent-but-murderously-minded professor, Dr. Mandarino. Meanwhile, the Swiss have more insight into his character: They call him Docteur Dunkel! And what of our resident corpse, whom we Australians aptly call Mr. Boddy? The Britons who invented him call him Dr. Black. In Spain, he's Dr. Lemon. In Switzerland, either Herr Kludo or Monsieur Cluedo, depending on which part of the country you're from. But the U.S.'s special set of Spanish rules have hit the nail on the head: They call him Sr. Caddaver! What would the rest of the world make of our four new suspects - Sergeant Gray, Madame Rose, Monsieur Brunette and the lovely Miss Peach? The Manor of Murders Ever since the Cluedo game was introduced in Australia, the unfortunate Mr. Boddy has been murdered daily at Boddy Mansion. In the Cluedo Master Detective version, he'll meet his end at his little country place, Boddy Manor. In this new game, there are three additional possible murder locations and some other new rooms as well, as befits a man of Mr. Boddy's stature. But, despite concern expressed by fans over the years, there are still some amenities we have not added to his house - but other countries have. Specifically, for years Parker Brothers has been asked where everyone sleeps, since there are no bedrooms. Concerned players also wonder why such an elegant house has never had a bathroom. Well, the compassionate Spanish and the efficient Swiss have taken care of both. Dr. Lemon - alias Herr Kludo or Monsieur Cluedo - as they call him, has both a bedroom and a bathroom in their versions of the game. Since for years he's had a garage in Spain, at his Cluedo Master Detective estate we've added a Carriage House, complete with a couple of horses - always handy for a cross-country get-away! What's behind the Cluedo popularity? Ask many people their favourite type of book, they might allude to the latest Nobel prize winner's tome on their bedside table. But interrogate them further, and
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Whereabouts in the human body is the calcaneus bone situated?
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Calcaneus Bone Anatomy, Definition & Function | Body Maps Your message has been sent. OK We're sorry, an error occurred. We are unable to collect your feedback at this time. However, your feedback is important to us. Please try again later. Close Calcaneus Located within the foot, the calcaneus is also known as the heel bone. It is situated in the back of the foot, just below the talus, tibia, and fibula bones of the lower leg. Of all of the bones in the foot, the heel bone is the largest. The calcaneus has a unique design and structure. At the front, the heel bone features many curves to accommodate the talus and the many different tarsal bones, which lead to the metatarsals and phalanges that make up the front of the foot and toes. The back of the heel bone is not as complex, featuring a tuberosity and a medial process — landmark areas of the bone where muscles attach. The calcaneus provides insertion points for the abductor hallucis and the abductor digiti minimi muscles. At the back of the heel, the Achilles tendon inserts into the rough area located on the superior (upper) side. This fibrous connective tissue, as well as other ligaments and muscles, is necessary for standing, walking, and running. As such, a broken or fractured calcaneus will make these movements difficult.
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1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? 3. If Alpha is 1, and Beta is 2, what is 6? 4. If Tony Blackburn won in 2002, Phil Tuffnell won in 2003, and Kerry Katona won in 2004, who won in 2007? 5. If David Lloyd George is 1, Andrew Bonal Law is 2, and Stanley Baldwin is 3, who is 4? 6. If Liverpool won in 2006, and Chelsea won in 2007, who won in 2008? 7. How many pints does a 10- gallon hat hold? 8. Who was murdered by Fitzurse, de Tracy, de Morville and Le Breton? 9. Who presents Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer? 10. From what ancient activity does the word ‘crestfallen’ come? 11. What non-mechanical sport achieves the highest speeds? 12. What major city is on an island in the St Lawrence river? 13. Who succeeded Alf Ramsey to become caretaker manger for the English national football team in 1974? 14. What did Britain’s roads first acquire in 1914? 15. Which former Liverpool player held the record for the fastest hat-trick, scoring 3 goals in less than 5 minutes? 16. Myleen Klass (pictured) now presents 10 Years Younger on Channel 4, but what was the name of the pop band that gave her success in 2001? 17. Who was the presenter of Out Of Town in the 1960s who went on to appear on the children’s TV programme How? 18. Whose autobiography is called Dear Fatty? 19. Who were Tom and Barbara’s neighbours in The Good Life? 20. In Cockney rhyming slang what are your ‘Daisy Roots’? 21. What is the surname of the twin brothers who compiled the Guinness Book of Records together between 1955 and 1975? 22. Which actor played Columbo? 23. Does the Bactrian camel have one hump, or two? 24. Where is the world's largest four-faced chiming clock? 25. Concerned about the impact of uncontrolled development and industrialisation, what National Charity was founded in 1895 by three Victorian philanthropists, Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley? 26. What famous make of motorcycle was Lawrence of Arabia riding when he was tragically killed in Dorset in 1936? 27. What colour of flag should a ship fly to show it is in quarantine? 28. Purple Brittlegill, Velvet Shank and Orange Milkcap are three types of what? 29. What is the name of the flats where the Trotters lived in Only Fools And Horses? 30. In computing, what does the abbreviation USB stand for? ANSWERS: 1. Saturn; 2. Tom Baker (Doctor Who actors); 3. Zeta; 4. Christopher Biggins. (I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Joe Pasquale 04, Carol Thatcher 05, Matt Willis 06, and Joe Swash 08); 5. Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Ministers post WW1); 6. Portsmouth (FA Cup); 7. 6; 8. Thomas Becket; 9. Kirstie Allsopp; 10. Cockfighting; 11. Sky-diving; 12. Montreal; 13. Joe Mercer; 14. White Lines; 15. Robbie Fowler; 16. Hearsay; 17. Jack Hargreaves; 18. Dawn French; 19. Margo and Jerry Leadbetter; 20. Boots; 21. McWhirter (Ross and Norris); 22. Peter Falk; 23. Two; 24. The Clock Tower on the Palace of Westminster in London (Big Ben is the nickname for the bell); 25. The National Trust; 26. Brough Superior; 27. Yellow; 28. Fungi; 29. Nelson Mandela House; 30. Universal Serial Bus Like us on Facebook
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What are Fenders and Gibsons?
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Fender Vs. Gibson | Music News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com + Submit article Fender Vs. Gibson The ever-raging question, Fender or Gibson? Who is the king of guitars? Which company (or their design) is better? Posted Oct 06, 2007 09:34 AM 0 The ever-raging question, Fender or Gibson? Who is the king of guitars? Which company (or their design) is better? Whose cuisine reigns supreme? (Wait a minute, that last one's from Iron Chef... sorry). But all FoodTV shows aside, a very significant portion of guitars out there today are based off of one of Fender's or Gibson's designs. So, as we delve into the deeper aspects of this matter, keep an open mind if you are set on one company or another. One point worth noting before I continue is that Fender and Gibson are not the only companies out there. There are plenty of good guitar makers in existence, like Ernie Ball/Music Man, Paul Reed Smith, Ibanez, ESP, and Gretsch, among the others. The reason why I'm comparing Fender and Gibson here is that they are the two most popular companies, and they vary so much. Also, this is a long-standing debate between the two. I'm not going to go into the histories of each company (as my history on Gibson is a little foggy at the moment, hope that'll change soon), but basically, to understand and compare the companies, I will take note of all the prominent instruments made by each company, as well as their tonal characteristics. Let's start with Fender, as they are first alphabetically. Today, the two most prominent guitars are the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, with the bass line consisting mainly of the Precision and Jazz basses. Fender also has classics of older models, like the Jaguar and Jazzmaster. Gibson, on the other hand, offers it's famous Les Paul, SG, Flying V, Explorer, Firebird, Electric Spanish (ES), and the Melody Maker. Both have a custom shop, as well as derivatives and classics of each model. Fender's tone has that famous, treble-y bell tone that is commonly associated with the Stratocaster as well as single coil pickups. Gibson, on the other hand, has a mellower tone highly related to humbucker tone, clearly exemplified in the Les Paul. Various elements go into the differences in timbre, such as the pickups, tone woods, body shape, and other various design differences. Gibsons are known for their warmer, crunchier (especially when distorted) tone whereas Fender has the bright, famous bell-like tone (the now famous Fender tone) achieved by single-coil pickups. Fender's tonal qualities are mainly dictated by their body woods and the single coil pickup. Fender most commonly uses ash and alder, both of which give a medium, slightly bright tone as it is. Both woods are fairly light, producing Stratocaster bodies of about four to five pounds, adding to its appeal to Fender. Plus, both woods are commonly found in America and fairly inexpensive, making them ideal for production. The single coil pickup has the infamous 60-cycle hum (which oddly enough I've come to love as part of a vintage tone; I don't know why, it's just so cool) yet emphasizes brightness on Fender's guitars. The tone is best described as, once again, bell-like, and is the sound Fender is famous for. Stratocaster bodies were originally designed to compete with the Bigsby vibrato system, as well as add comfort with the body contours. Telecasters were derived from Leo Fender's original Esquire model, which had a single-coil in the bridge slot. On the other hand, Gibsons are quite different. Gibson uses mainly mahogany for their bodies. Mahogany is a denser wood, offering darker tone and thick, warm, crunchy sound often loved by many guitar players. The Les Paul is quite possibly the epitome of the electric guitar, being the longest-made production model; Gibson began producing the guitar in the '40s. The SG came along in '61, as a custom version of the Les Paul. Because of it's small body, Gibson named it the Spanish Guitar (hence, SG). Gibson at first used the P90 design, which is basically a single-coil pickup, though it's not as bright as a standard single coil. P90s of
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Beginning BASSics: The Electric Bass The Electric Bass Intro to the Electric Bass × Anatomy of the Electric Bass Close The electric bass was invented by none other than Leo Fender, the same guy that invented the Stratocaster, in the early 1950's. It was developed to be able to compete with more and more amplification for guitars and other instruments. The traditional acoustic bass was not loud enough to be heard above the other instruments. Using many of the techniques and electronics from building electric guitars, he built the electric bass. The bass Leo built is what all electric basses from then on are based upon. Things like having four strings, 34" between the bridge and nut, the types of pickups, and even the bridge design are standards still in use today. The more popular basses out there are the Fender Precision and Jazz, Gibson, Alembic, Rickenbacker, Spector, and Carvin just to name but a few. They come in many shapes, sizes, sounds, control knobs, number of strings, electronics and pickups. Selecting a Bass Hipshot Bass Xtender Your choice of a bass is going to depend on three main things; sound, feel and budget. And the formula usually works like this, if the budget goes up, the sound and feel go up. If the budget goes down, the sound and feel goes down. Just be realistic and if you are just getting started, there is no reason to invest in an expensive bass. I would suggest starting with a fretted four string bass and working your way up to the five and six string basses and even fretless basses. Fretless basses are difficult to learn to play. If you go with the five or six strings, they have the low "B" string and they will require a real good amplifier and speakers with a good low end response. That "B" string is very low and many amplifiers can't handle it without distorting or just not producing a good volume. If you need to get lower than "E" try tuning down to "C" or "D". Check out a " Hipshot Bass Xtender ". It is a device that attaches to your "E" string tuning head and allows you to tune down and back up at the flick of a lever. Electronics The electronics on the bass include the pickups, volume controls, tone controls, bass boost or cut, switches and so forth. There are two basic types of electronics on basses. Active electronics or passive electronices. Passive Electronics Passive electronics refers to the type of circuitry used to produce a signal from the strings through the pickups and to the output jack. Most basses made before about the early to mid '70s had passive electroncs. Most low-cost basses today use passive electronics. The way the signal is created is when the strings vibrate above the magnetic field of the pickups, they distrupt that magnetic field. As the strings vibrate at a certain frequency (note), the magnetic field of the pickups start to change at the same frequency of the strings. This is in essence the "signal" that is then sent to your tone and volume controls and finnaly to your output jack. Passive electronics don't use batteries and they don't amplify the signal. The tone controls don't boost as well, they only cut. For instance, the treble knob will not increase the treble but allows the full treble at one end and some amount of reduction in treble at the other end of the turn of the knob. With passive electronics, you don't get as much versatility at the bass in controlling your sound. Typically, you set your bass to one setting and leave it there. The range of tones isn't very large. You don't get as good of a signal when running it direct into the mixing board for recording and such. You will typically need at least a pre-amp to run direct into a mixing-board or recorder. Active Electronics Active electronics require a battery inside the bass to power the electronics. This can be a drag because you usually have to take an access cover off or the pick guard off to get at it. Usually they are activated when you plug the cord into the bass. So, if you leave your cord plugged in overnight, you will probably find that you have a dead battery the
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Urban Dictionary: texas tea Texas tea West texas light crude oil, esp. if discovered by a hillbilly named Jed. Listen to a story about a man named jed a poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed then one day he was shooting at some food and up from the ground came a bubbling crude. Oil that is. Black gold. Texas tea. by Jethro July 06, 2004
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Lowest Point By Continent (Below Sea Level) - InfopediaPk - All facts in one site Lowest Point By Continent (Below Sea Level) Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan Elevation Below Sea Level A view from the Israeli side looking across to Jordan Dead Sea Lowest Point In Asia The Dead Sea (Arabic: البحر الميت Al-Bahr al-Mayyit or less commonly bahr lut,بحر لوط, "the Sea of Lot", Hebrew: Yam Ha-Melah, "Sea of Salt",Urdu بحیرہ مردار), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level,the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is 8.6 or 9 times more salty than the ocean.This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres (42 mi) long and 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River. The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash (Potassium,K) for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets. In 2009, 1.2 million foreign tourists visited on the Israeli side. The sea has a density of 1.24 kg/L, making swimming difficult but providing a relaxing floating experience for tourists. Climate The Dead Sea's climate offers year-round sunny skies and dry air. It has less than 100 millimetres (3.94 in) mean annual rainfall and a summer average temperature between 32 and 39 °C (90 and 102 °F). Winter average temperatures range between 20 and 23 °C (68 and 73 °F). Religious View According to the tradition of Islam, the Dead Sea was near the land in which the Prophet Lut lived. The people in this area were considered wicked for their acts of homosexuality, robbery and murder, and therefore Allah had ordained punishment to the people of Lut for these deeds. The punishment arrived when three angels in the form of handsome men were sent down by Allah as guests for Lut to host. When Lut's people heard of the men, they rushed to Lut's house and said that those men were very handsome and they wanted to marry them. This was the final test for the people of Lut in which they failed, so the angel Jibrail raised the land where the prophet's people lived, tipped it upside down and threw it back on earth, causing the ground near the impact to cave in. Thus, the lowest land on Earth was formed because of this punishment. The non-believers (in the monotheism doctrine) were destroyed and the followers were saved. Modern times Explorers and scientists arrived in the area to analyze the minerals and research the unique climate. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea (presently in the West Bank). They became known and famous as the Dead Sea Scrolls. A golf course named for Sodom and Gomorrah was built by the British at Kalia on the northern shore. The world's lowest road, Highway 90, runs along the Israeli and West Bank shores of the Dead Sea at 393 m (1,289 ft) below sea level. The first major hotels were built in nearby Arad, and since the 1960s at the Neve Zohar resort complex. On Jordanian side, three international franchises have opened seaside resort hotels near the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center along the eastern coast of the Dead Sea. Lake Assal Lake Assal Lowest Point In Africa Lake Assal (French: Lac Assal) is a crater lake (A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar, or in an impact crater caused by a meteorite) in central Djibouti, located at th
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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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La Traviata, opera | Details | AllMusic La Traviata, opera google+ Description by Richard LeSueur The last of the three great operas of Giuseppe Verdi 's middle period, La Traviata is now one of his most popular works. Written for the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, it was first heard on March 6, 1853. The libretto, by Francesco Maria Piave , details the ill-fated love affair between a young gentleman named Alfredo Germont and a terminally ill courtesan named Violetta. It is based on the play La dame aux camélias by Alexander Dumas, Jr., which premiered the previous year. Perhaps surprisingly, La Traviata's opening night was a fiasco. Legend gives two reasons for the failure: the generous size of the soprano (supposedly dying of consumption!) and the use of a contemporary stage setting, which was considered distasteful at the time (subsequent performances were re-set in the 1700s; the reinstatement of Verdi 's original conception did not occur until the 1880s). Verdi withdrew the opera and, after making significant changes in the second and third acts, premiered the new version at the Teatro Gallo di San Benedetto in 1854. It is in this version that the opera has enjoyed its continued success. In many ways, La Traviata follows the established operatic traditions of the 1850s. Each act is composed of smaller dramatic units made up of traditional set pieces in clearly identifiable forms (a structure known as la solita forma), and each of the three major characters is given a two-part aria (slow-fast) which displays a change of the character's mood. (For many years the cabalettas for Alfredo and Giorgio Germont were omitted not only in the theater but also on recording. By the 1980s, one verse of the cabaletta for Alfredo began to be heard in the theater on a more regular basis but Giorgio Germont's cabaletta has not made its way to most stages.) Also, like its predecessor, Rigoletto, La Traviata has a full overture -- a device that would make only rare appearances in Verdi 's later works. However, in other ways La Traviata begins to stretch, and expand upon, the mid- nineteenth century Italian norms. This is especially evident in the depth of characterization written into the role of Violetta. Formal musical concerns, while still evident, begin to take a backseat to more immediate dramatic issues. In the first act alone, Verdi takes the character of Violetta from the gregarious hostess of the opening drinking song to the intimate lover of "Un di felice" and "Ah, fors' e lui" to the wild abandon of the courtesan in "Sempre libera." In the final act -- as she succumbs to her disease and dies -- she sings only a few gasped lines, rather than the full double aria which would be found in most operas of Verdi 's predecessors. The other roles are not as well defined, but Alfredo and Giorgio Germont far outstrip the one-dimensional characters encountered in most operas of this period. Although there are opportunities for pure vocal display in their arias, even these displays are tied to the character. For example, Alfredo's "O mio rimorso" shows the impetuosity of youth as he runs off to save the good name of his beloved. Verdi 's use of the traditional forms in combination with a new dramatic conviction would lead to the more dramatic style of his later operas. This delicate blend of old and new styles is perhaps what has kept La Traviata ever fresh and appealing in modern opera houses. Parts/Movements No. 2, Dell'invito trascorsa è già l'ora No. 3, Libiamo, ne'lieti calici [Brindisi] No. 4a, Che è cio? No. 4b, Un dì, felice, eterea No. 5, Si ridesta in ciel No. 6a, È strano! È strano! No. 6b, Ah fors'è lui quest'anima No. 6c, Follie! Sempre libera No. 7a, Lunge da Lei No. 7b, Dei miei bollenti spiriti No. 7c, [Annina, donde vieni...] O mio rimorso! No. 8a, Madamigella Valéry? No. 8b, Pura siccome un angelo No. 8c, Bella voi siete No. 8d, Dite alla giovine No. 9a, Morrò! La mia memoria No. 9b, Dammi tu forza o Cielo No. 10a, Al vive sol quel core No. 10b, Di Provenza il mar No. 10c, Ne rispondi No. 11, Av
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Ludwig van Beethoven facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Ludwig van Beethoven COPYRIGHT 2004 The Gale Group Inc. Ludwig van Beethoven The instrumental music of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) forms a peak in the development of tonal music and is one of the crucial evolutionary developments in the history of music as a whole. The early compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven marked the culmination of the 18th-century traditions for which Haydn and Mozart had established the great classical models, and his middle-period and late works developed so far beyond these traditions that they anticipated some of the major musical trends of the late 19th century. This is especially evident in his symphonies, string quartets, and piano sonatas. In each of these three genres Beethoven began by mastering the existing formal and esthetic conventions of the late 18th century while joining to these conventions signs of unusual originality and power. In his middle period (from about 1803, the year of the Eroica Symphony, to about 1814, the year of his opera Fidelio in its revised form) he proceeded to develop methods of elaboration of musical ideas that required such enlargement and alteration in perception of formal design as to render it clear that the conventions associated with the genres inherited from the 18th century were for him the merest scaffolding for works of the highest individuality and cogency. If Beethoven's contemporaries were able to follow him with admiration in his middle-period works, they were left far behind by the major compositions of his last years, especially the last three Piano Sonatas, Op. 109, 110, and 111; the Missa solemnis; the Ninth Symphony; and the last six String Quartets, Op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, and 135. These works required more than a generation after Beethoven's death to be received at all by concert audiences and were at first the preserve of a few perceptive musicians. Composers as different in viewpoint from one another as Brahms and Wagner took Beethoven equally as their major predecessor; Wagner indeed regarded his own music dramas as the legitimate continuation of the Beethoven tradition, which in his view had exhausted the possibilities of purely instrumental music. Beethoven's last works continue in the 20th century to pose the deepest challenges to musical perception. Years in Bonn Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, the Rhineland seat of an electoral court. His ancestors were Flemish (the "van" was no indication of any claim to nobility but merely part of the name). His father, a tenor in the electoral musical establishment, harbored ambitions to create in his second son a prodigy like Mozart. As Beethoven developed, it became increasingly clear that to reach artistic maturity he would have to leave provincial Bonn for a major musical center. At the age of 12 he was a promising keyboard virtuoso and a talented pupil in composition of the court musician C. G. Neefe. In 1783 Beethoven's first published work, a set of keyboard variations, appeared, and in the 1780s he produced the seeds of a number of later works. But he was already looking toward Vienna: in 1787 he traveled there, apparently to seek out Mozart as a teacher, but was forced to return owing to his mother's illness. In 1790, when the eminent composer Joseph Haydn passed through Bonn, Beethoven was probably introduced to him as a potential pupil. Years in Vienna In 1792 Beethoven went to Vienna to study with Haydn, helped on his way by his friend Count Ferdinand von Waldstein, who wrote prophetically in the 22-year-old Beethoven's album that he was going to Vienna "to receive the spirit of Mozart from the hands of Haydn." What he actually received from Haydn in lessons was little enough, and Beethoven turned to others of lesser talent in Vienna for help with counterpoint, including the contrapuntal theorist J. G. Albrechtsberger. Beethoven rapidly proceeded to make his mark as a brilliant keyboard performer and improviser and as a gifted young composer with a number of work
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Wine Regions of New Zealand | New Zealand Wine Regions of New Zealand Wine Regions of New Zealand By Hayley Tebbitts Following are the major wine regions of New Zealand known for their exclusive wineries and the wines that rank alongside some of the best in the world. Add to Wishlist Wine Regions in New Zealand By http://www.nzwine.com When Reverend Samuel Marsden was first planting grapes in New Zealand in 1819 to make sacramental wine, he would have no idea of the immense fame that the country would get in the field of wine making. It was Sauvignon Blanc that drew attention of the wine lovers towards New Zealand and put the country on the world’s wine map. Today, the wine industry of New Zealand has not only established itself as a major contributor to economy of the nation but also helped the nation achieve international acclaim by producing some of the best wines in the world. There is heavy demand for New Zealand wines globally, especially in Australia, United States, Asia and European markets. Pleasant, maritime climate and unmatched enthusiasm of the wine makers are some of the reasons for rising reputation of New Zealand in world’s leading wine markets. Best wines of New Zealand are mainly produced in eight wine regions which extend from latitudes 36°S in the north to 45°S in the south. All these regions differ from one another in terms of climate, soil quality, varieties of grapes grown, and the wines produced. Following are the major wine regions of New Zealand known for their exclusive wineries and the wines that rank alongside some of the best in the world. Auckland Auckland, the largest city of New Zealand, is also the place where country’s viticulture started. Famous for Bordeaux style wines, this large, diverse wine region has over 100 wineries and vineyards. Wine production in Auckland mainly centers around Henderson Valley, Kumeu and Huapai, all boasting an array of world famous and boutique wineries. Vineyards have now also spread beyond, in the areas of Matakana, Waiheke Island and Clevedon. Popular varieties grown include Merlot, Chardonnay, and Cabernet Sauvignon. Matakana is now also being noted for producing tasteful wines, including Pinot Gris, Syrah, and Cabernet Sauvignon. A number of wineries in Kumeu offer free tasting, most noted being Coopers Creeks, Kumeu River, Nobilo and Matua Valley. You can find many tour operators offering specialist small group wine tours in West Auckland region. Waikato and Bay of Plenty Located south of Auckland, this small yet expanding wine region has a moderately warm climate which helps it produce some finest-quality grapes. The vineyards here are scattered amidst rolling farmland. This wine region focuses mainly on Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc varieties. Central Otago Region Dubbed as “world’s most southerly wine-producing region,” Central Otago is probably the most amazing vineyard setting of the country. Surrounded by picturesque mountains, Central Otago boasts of deep river gorges and lovely lakes. The distinctive climate of Central Otago, along with productive soils rich in mica and schist, creates perfect conditions for growing Pinot Noir. It was French miner Jean Desire Feraud who first recognized the slopes near Kawarau River as potential vineyards in 1864. In 1976, Rippon Vineyard was planted outside Wanaka. Later Kawarau Gorge was recognized as an ideal site for cultivation of Pinot Gris, Riesling, and Pinot Noir grapes. Wanaka, Queenstown and the Clutha Valley are the main areas of Central Otago District where grapes are grown commercially. You can find here over twenty wineries open to visitors for tasting. Some of the best vineyards are located near the 45th Parallel. A small number of wineries are located on the southern slopes above Kawarau Gorge. The appealing Chard Farm Winery, located on the road off SH6 offers free tasting of current vintage. Gibbston Valley Winery offers a Wine Cave Tour which also includes a tasting session of Riesling and Pinot Noir. Peregrine Winery offers free tasting of excellent “Sav” Blanc and Pi
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Gooseberry & Currant and Barberry Grape Family (Vitaceae) Grapes are one of the oldest cultivated plants. They are classified as true berries because the fruit wall or pericarp is fleshy all the way through. The cultivation of grapes dates back more than 5,000 years in Egypt, and they were highly developed by the Greeks and Romans. Today there are nearly 200 cultivated varieties. Modern cultivars have all been derived from two main species, the European (Mediterranean) Vitis vinifera (a tight-skin grape with wine-like flavor) and the North American V. labrusca (a slip-skin grape with Concord-type flavor). In the European tight-skins, which are used for wines, the skin does not separate readily from the pulp. North American slip-skin grapes are generally more hardy than the European. The fruit is round with a more watery flesh and a thin skin that slips off very easily. The North American V. labrusca is also called the fox grape and is the source of the famous cultivar discovered in Concord, Massachusetts. Concord grapes are the most important American grape for juices, jellies and preserves. They are also used for certain wines. Some of the best wines and popular eating grapes, such as 'Thompson Seedless' and 'Red Seedless' are cultivars of V. vinifera. Sterile, triploid cultivars have been developed that do not produce seeds because of synaptic failure during Meiosis I resulting in non-viable gametes. Several varieties of grapes are dried and used for raisins. The best raisin grapes are selected for flavor, reduced stickiness and soft texture. In the United States, most raisins are produced in California's Central Valley. Concord grapes are used for jellies, jams and juices. Jellies are made from fruit juice, pectin and sugar. Jams contain the actual crushed fruit. The fermentation of grapes is brought about through the action of wild yeasts which are present on the skins of the fruit (whitish powder). The maximum alcoholic content of natural wines is about 12 to 16% (24 to 32 proof). Higher alcoholic content will kill the yeast cells. Brandy is made from distilled wines and has a much higher alcoholic content (up to 140 proof). Red wines are made from grapes with colored skins (with anthocyanin), while white wines are made from white grapes (or red grapes with skins removed). In dry wines the sugar is almost completely fermented. In sweet wines fermentation is stopped before all the sugar is converted. Viticulture (the cultivation of grapes) and enology (the study of wine making) are enormous topics beyond the scope of this section of WAYNE'S WORD. They are discussed in more detail in the required textbook for Plants and People ( Botany 115 ). Two popular varieties of seedless grapes in California: 'Thompson Seedless' (left) and delicious 'Red Flame' (right). Grapes are considered a true berry because the entire pericarp (fruit wall) is fleshy. Grape Vineyard in California's Wine Country of Napa Valley A native California wild grape (Vitis girdiana) that grows in canyon bottoms and along streams in southern California. This species often forms massive vines that drape over large trees such as coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia). It intergrades with the very similar V. californica of central and northern California. Unlike the tight-skin V. vinifera of Europe, this is a slip-skin grape in which the skin readily slips off of the juicy, seed-bearing pulp (see arrow). For years it has been known that people in France who consume red wines on a regular basis have a reduced risk of coronary heart disease compared with the United States. This data is paradoxical considering that the French also consume a lot of fatty foods, such as pastries. A phenolic compound in the grape skins called resveratrol was discovered that seems to inhibit the plaque build-up or clogging of arteries (atherosclerosis) by increasing the level of high density lipoproteins (HDLs) in the blood. Beneficial HDLs carry cholesterol away from the arteries so that it doesn't form plaque deposits in the arterial walls. Resver
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Manias dictionary definition | Manias defined See also fads ; insanity ; -phile, -philia, -phily ; phobias . N.B.: Noun forms end in -mania and adjective forms end in -maniac or -maniacal. acromania a violent form of mania; incurable insanity. agoramania a mania for open spaces. agyiomania a mania for streets. ailuromania an abnormal love of cats. alcoholomania an obsession with alcohol. amaxomania a mania for being in vehicles. amenomania a mania for pleasing delusions. Americamania an obsession with America and things American. andromania an obsession with men; nymphomania. aphrodisiomania a mania for sexual pleasure. apimania an abnormal love of bees. automania an excessive liking for solitude. autophonomania an obsession with suicide. ballistomania an extreme interest in bullets. bibliomania an excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books. cheromania an extreme love for gaiety. Chinamania an obsession with China and things Chinese. chionomania a mania for snow. choreomania a mania for dancing. chrematomania a mania for money. clinomania an obsession with bed rest. coprolalomania a mania for foul speech. cremnomania an abnormal interest in cliffs. cresomania a mania for great wealth. cynomania an abnormal love of dogs. Dantomania an obsession with Dante and his works. demomania ochlomania. doramania a mania for fur. drapetomania a mania for running away. dromomania a mania for travel. ecdemiomania a mania for wandering. edeomania an obsession with genitals. empleomania an obsession with public employment. enomania a mania for wine. Also called oinomania. entheomania a mania for religion. entomomania an abnormal love of insects. eremiomania a mania for stillness. ergasiomania a mania for activity. ergomania a mania for work. eroticomania an abnormal interest in erotica. erotographomania an abnormal interest in erotic literature. erotomania an excessive propensity for sexual desire. erythromania a mania for blushing. etheromania a mania for ether. florimania a mania for plants and flowers. Francomania an obsession with France and things French. gamomania 1. Obsolete, a form of mania characterized by strange and extravagant proposals of marriage. 2. an excessive longing for the married state. gephyromania a mania for crossing bridges. Germanomania an obsession with Germany and things German. Also called Teutonomania. graphomania an obsession with writing. Grecomania an obsession with Ancient Greece and Greeks. gymnomania a mania for nakedness. gynecomania abnormal sexual desire for women. hamartomania an obsession with sin. hedonomania a mania for pleasure. heliomania an abnormal love of the sun. hieromania a mania for priests. hippomania a mania for horses. hodomania an abnormal love of travel. homicidomania a mania for murder. hydrodipsomania an abnormal love of drinking water. hydromania an excessive love of water. hylomania a mania for wood. hypermania an acute mania. hypnomania a mania for sleep. hypomania a mild mania; submania. hysteromania nymphomania. ichthyomania an abnormal love of fish. iconomania a mania for icons. idolomania a mania for idols. Italomania an obsession with Italy and things Italian. kainomania a mania for novelty. kathisomania a mania for sitting. kinesomania a mania for movement. lalomania an abnormal love of speech or talking. lethomania a mania for narcotics. logomania a mania for words or talking. lycomania lycanthropy, a form of insanity in which a person imagines himself to be a wolf. lypemania an abnormal tendency toward deep melancholy. macromania a mania for becoming larger. mania 1. a type of manie-depressive psychosis, exemplified by rapidly chang-ing ideas, extremes of emotion, and physical overactivity. 2. any violent or abnormal behavior. —maniac, n. —maniacal, adj. mentulomania an obsession with the penis. mesmeromania an obsession with hypnosis. micromania a mania for becoming smaller. monomania 1. a partial insanity in which psychotic thinking is confined to one subject or group of subjects. 2. an excessive interest in or enthusiasm for a single thing, idea, or the l
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Harriet Harman's MP husband Jack Dromey adds gay porn Tweet to his 'favourites' | Daily Mail Online comments Back in September, Mr Dromey also favourited a link to a Tweet on a similar theme Labour frontbencher Jack Dromey was left red-faced after it emerged he added a Twitter link to a gay porn website to his list of ‘favourites’. The shadow policing minister - who is married to Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman - linked to a tweet about well-endowed black men. The link showed a picture of two men engaged in a sex act. This was the second occasion on which Mr Dromey’s finger had strayed on Twitter. Back in September, Mr Dromey also favourited a link to a Tweet on a similar theme. At the time, the then shadow housing minister dismissed it as a mistake as he and Mrs Harman had been exploring romantic breaks in Paris. According to the Guido Fawkes political gossip website, Mr Dromey said he had accidentally stumbled on the gay porn website - which featured a character called ‘Paris’. Inside Housing covered the story in a diary item, saying: ‘Shadow housing minister Jack Dromey is the latest victim of this murky world after favouriting a tweet that featured a very different type of outstanding member to that normally found in the parliament.’ RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share It is surprisingly easy for Twitter users to publicise embarrassing searches to all their followers by typing key words into the ‘Tweet’ box rather than the search engine. The shadow policing minister - who is married to Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman - linked to a tweet about well-endowed black men But the revelation could cause tension with his staunchly feminist wife, Mrs Harman, who has called for the Sun newspaper to stop its ‘sexist’ pictures of topless women on page three. The story was retweeted numerous times after being posted by Guido Fawkes yesterday. A Labour source said: ‘This is a technological mix-up and we’re sure Jack will be taking Twitter lessons to work out the difference between block and favourite as soon as possible.’ The Mail understands that no one else has access to Mr Dromey’s account so the tweet cannot be blamed on a junior staff member. ‘It’s all very embarrassing. He is aware of it. It’s more mix up than conspiracy,’ one insider said. Mr Dromey, a 65 year-old former trade union boss, was elected as the MP for Birmingham Erdington in 2010. His selection was controversial as the usual all-woman shortlist championed by his wife, was bypassed. Meanwhile it also emerged that David Cameron’s official twitter account followed an escort agency. The @Number10gov account was following the @carltonslondon, which described itself as an ‘elite London escort agency’. Downing Street blamed the gaffe on the ‘auto-follow’ facility which has been on the account since Gordon Brown was prime minister. A spokesman said: ‘We have stopped following this particular account. Prior to 2010, an auto-follow process was used, meaning that @Number10gov automatically followed anyone who followed the account. ‘This was common practice at the time for many corporate accounts, but was discontinued in 2009. ‘As a result of this legacy, the @Number10gov account follows almost 370,000 accounts and we have taken steps to un-follow as many as possible that are inactive, spam or inappropriate. ‘This work is ongoing.’ Originally, Twitter users had pointed out that perhaps Mr Cameron had mistaken the escort agency for the Carlton Club, an exclusive private members’ club in London. Official records showed that more than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic website in the Houses of Parliament last year. About 5,000 people work on the parliamentary estate.
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Brombeere translation English | German dictionary | Reverso "Brombeere": examples and translations in context Kaugummi nach Anspruch 13, wobei die Samen von einer Frucht ausgewählt sind aus der Gruppe bestehend aus Erdbeere, Brombeere und Himbeere. A chewing gum according to claim 13 wherein said seeds are from a fruit selected from the group consisting of strawberry, blackberry and raspberry. Verfahren nach Anspruch 34, wobei die Samen von einer Frucht ausgewählt sind aus der Gruppe bestehend aus Erdbeere, Brombeere und Himbeere. A method according to claim 34 wherein said seeds are from a fruit selected from the group consisting of strawberry, blackberry and raspberry. Er unterscheidet sich durch eine sehr, sehr dunkle, fast schwarze purpurrote Farbe sowie feine und intensive Aromen von Brombeere, Blüten, Kreide und Zeder. The wine distinguishes itself by a crimson, almost black colour, and refined and intense aromas of blackberries, flowers, chalk and cedar. Gleich wie die Nacht ist seine Struktur lebendig, mineralisch, voller tiefer Träume und verschmilzt unterm Gaumen im Reigen seiner reinen Aromen von Brombeere, Rose, Menthol und Lakritz. Like the night, its body is lively, mineral, full of dreams and melts under the palate in a chorus of pure aromas of blackberries, roses, menthol and liquorice. Verfahren nach Anspruch 2, wobei der Fleck aus Tee, Kaffee, Rotwein, Brombeere, schwarze Johannisbeere, Blaubeere, Banane und dergleichen ausgewählt ist. A method according to claim 2, wherein the stain is selected from tea, coffee, red wine, blackberry, blackcurrant, blueberry, banana and the like. Die faszinierende Tiefe der Aromen von Brombeere, Lakritz und Mokka hallt mit tausendundein Nuancen unter dem Gaumen wider. The fascinating depth of the blackberry, liquorice and mocha aromas and their thousand and one nuances resonate under the palate. See how “Brombeere” is translated from German to English with more examples in context Add your entry in the Collaborative Dictionary.
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS French branded aperitif, dry with a hint of orange and quinine. Cacao (creme de) - Very sweet chocolate and vanilla flavoured liqueur, either colourless or dark brown. Calvados - Apple brandy from Normandy, France which is known locally as le trou Norm and because, taken between courses, the drink burns a hole in the stomach, making room for the next course! (no not literally) Campari - Branded Italian aperitif, brilliant pink-red in colour, with a bittersweet flavour. Cassis (creme de) - Blackcurrant liqueur from the Burgundy region of France. Cassis (sirop de) - Non-alcoholic blackcurrant syrup. Champagne - A sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France. The sparkle is achieved by a procedure called the method champenoise, a time consuming and expensive business which Influences the price of champagne. Champagne Cognac - French grape brandy from the cognac region of France. Chartreuse - Aromatic liqueur available in yellow or green. Green Chartreuse is said to contain 130 herbs and. spices and the formula is a closely guarded secret. The drink was invented by the Carthusian brotherhood of monks in the 16th century, and production is still presided over by monks. Cheri Suisse - Swiss chocolate and cherry liqueur. Cherry Brandy - White rum flavoured with coconut essences eg. Cocoribe and Malibu. Cognac - French grape brandy from the Cognac region. To qualify as a Cognac, the liquor must be distilled twice and then aged in oak for a minimum of two years. Cointreau - Brand of triple-see curacao. A colourless orange-flavoured liqueur which comes in a distinctive dark brown, square-shaped bottle. Curacao - General term covering all orange-flavoured liqueurs. Triple-sec curacao is a colourless liquor flavoured with the peel of green oranges which grow on the West Indies island of Curao7ao. The liquor is sweetened and can be coloured orange, green and blue. The colour does not affect the flavour. Digestif - An after-dinner drink taken with a view to aiding the digestion. Drambuie - A distinguished whisky liqueur made from Highland malt whisky and heather honey. Dubonnet - French branded aperitif of the vermouth-type available in red or white varieties. Falernum - A whisky based Scottish liqueur flavoured with herbs, spices and honey. Gin - Juniper-flavoured spirit. See London Dry gin. Golden rum - Spirit distilled from sugar cane and matured for three years in charred oak casks, with additional caramel. The liquor is a warm golden colour and it has a fuller flavour than white rum. Gomme - A sugar syrup used to sweeten many mixed drinks. Grand Mairnier - A French orange curacao available in two strengths, the yellow ribbon being less alcoholic than the red. Grappa - A fiery spirit distilled from the pips, stalks and skins of grapes. Grenadine - Pomegranate syrup with a distinctive orange-red colour. Irish Mist - Irish whiskey based liqueur flavoured with Irish heather honey and herbs. Irish whiskey - A distinctive spirit whose flavour is achieved by using subtle combinations of grain, and a triple distillation process. Jamaican Rum - A dark, full-bodied spirit distilled from sugar, aged in oak casks for five or more years and darkened with added caramel. Kahlua - A sweet coffee liqueur which originated in Mexico. Sin-War to the Jamaican Tia Maria. Kirsch - A French brandy distilled from cherries with a strong, dry flavour. German and Swiss versions are called Kirschwasser Kummel - A colourless distillate of grain or potato, sweetened and flavoured with caraway seeds. Light rum - A light-bodied white or golden rum. Lillet - French branded aperitif of the vermouth type, with a dry, delicate taste. London Dry gin - A neutral spirit which has been re distilled with juniper berries, coriander and a combination of ingredients collectively known as 'botanicals: Madeira - Fortified wine with a caramel flavour. Malt whisky - Scottish distillate of malted barley. Mandarine Hazelnut liqueur. Noyau (creme de) - Almond-flavoured pink or colourless liqueur made, not with almonds, but with peach and apricot kern
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Robert Browning: Poems E-Text | Notes | GradeSaver The poem tells in detail an actual incident, and was written as a protest against vivisection. 3. =Sir Olaf=. A conventional name in romances of mediaeval chivalry. 6. A satire upon Byronism. Manfred and Childe Harold are heroes of this type. Note the abruptness and vigor of the style. Where does it seem effective? Where unduly harsh? Why does the poet welcome the third bard? What things does the poem satirize? INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP. (PAGE 17.) The incident is real, except that the actual hero was a man, not a boy. 1. =Ratisbon= (German Regensburg). A city in Austria, stormed by Napoleon in 1809. 11. =Lannes=. Duke of Montebello, a general in Napoleon's army. 20. This sentence is incomplete. The idea is begun anew in line 23. What two ideals are contrasted in Napoleon and the boy? By what means is sympathy turned from one to the other? Show how rapidity and vividness are given to the story. HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX. (PAGE 19.) Browning thus explains the origin of the poem: "There is no sort of historical foundation about Good News from Ghent. I wrote it under the bulwark of a vessel off the African coast, after I had been at sea long enough to appreciate even the fancy of a gallop on the back of a certain good horse 'York,' then in my stable, at home." It would require a skilful imagination to create a set of circumstances which could give any other plausible reason for the ride to "save Aix from her fate." 14. =Lokeren=. Twelve miles from Ghent. 15. =Boom=. Sixteen miles from Lokeren. 16. =Dueffeld=. Twelve miles from Boom. 17. 19, 31, etc. =Mecheln= (Fr. Malines), =Aershot=, =Hasselt=, etc. The reader may trace the direction and length of the ride in any large atlas. Minute examinations of the route are, however, of no special value. Note the rapidity of narration and the galloping movement of the verse; the time of starting, and the anxious attention to the time as the journey proceeds. How are we given a sense of the effort and distress of the horses? How do we see Roland gradually emerging as the hero? Where is the climax of the story? Note, especially, the power or beauty of lines 2, 5, 7, 15, 23, 25, 39, 40, 47, 51-53, 54-56. HERVE RIEL. (PAGE 22.) (Published in the Cornhill Magazine, 1871. Browning gave the L100 received for the poem to the fund for the relief of the people of Paris, who were starving after the siege of 1870.) The cause of James II., who had been removed from the English throne in 1688, and succeeded by William and Mary, was taken up by the French. The story is strictly historical, except that Herve Riel asked a holiday for the rest of his life. 5. =St. Malo on the Rance=. On the northern coast of France, in Brittany. See any large atlas. 43. =pressed=. Forced to enter service in the navy. 44. =Croisickese=. A native of Croisic, in Brittany. Browning has used the legends of Croisic for poetic material in his Gold Hair of Pornic and in The Two Poets of Croisic. 46. =Malouins=. Inhabitants of St. Malo. 135. =The Louvre=. The great palace and art gallery of Paris. Note the suggestion of the sea, and of eager hurry, in the movement of the verse. Compare the directness of the opening with that of the preceding poem: What is the advantage of such a beginning? How much is told of the hero? By what means is his heroism emphasized? How is Browning's departure from the legend a gain? Observe the abrupt energy of lines 39-40; the repetition, in 79-80; the picture of Herve Riel in stanzas viii and x. PHEIDIPPIDES. (PAGE 30.) The story is from Herodotus, told there in the third person. See Herodotus, VI., 105-106. The final incident and the reward asked by the runner are Browning's addition. [Greek: =Chairete, nikomen=]. Rejoice, we conquer. 4. =Zeus=. The chief of the Greek gods (Roman Jupiter). =Her of the aegis and spear=. These were the emblems of Athena (Roman Minerva), the goddess of wisdom and of warfare. 5. =Ye of the bow and the buskin=. Apollo and Diana. 8. =Pan=. The god of nature, of the fields and their fruits. 9. =A
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The Wondering Minstrels: Petra -- John William Burgon The Wondering Minstrels -- John William Burgon "This must be the most quoted couplet from any of the poems to have won the coveted Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford University. Burgon wrote it in 1845, before becoming a clergyman and disappearing into obscurity. None the less, this is a fine piece of verse to be remembered by." -- Kenneth Baker, 'Unauthorized Versions', Faber 1990. Regular readers of the Minstrels will know the word I'm dying to use to describe this snatch of verse (Hint: adjective, 9 letters, starts with an e, falls between 'evince' and 'evolve' in the dictionary)... thomas. [On the Newdigate Prize] Other winners include Matthew Arnold, for 'Cromwell', in 1843; Oscar Wilde, for 'Ravenna' in 1878, and Laurence Binyon, for 'Perse. [On Petra] Here's what the Encyclopaedia Britannica has to say: "Petra: ancient city, centre of an Arab kingdom in Hellenistic and Roman times; its ruins are in southwest Jordan. The city was built on a terrace, pierced from east to west by the Wadi Musa (the Valley of Moses)--one of the places where, according to tradition, the Israelite leader Moses struck a rock and water gushed forth. The valley is enclosed by sandstone cliffs veined with shades of red and purple varying to pale yellow, and for this reason Petra was called by the 19th-century English biblical scholar John William Burgon a 'rose-red city half as old as Time'. The Greek name Petra ('Rock') probably replaced the biblical name Sela. Remains from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods have been discovered at Petra, and Edomites are known to have occupied the area about 1200 BC. Centuries later the Nabataeans, an Arab tribe, occupied it and made it the capital of their kingdom. In 312 BC the region was attacked by Seleucid forces, who failed to seize the city. Under Nabataean rule, Petra prospered as a centre of the spice trade that involved such disparate realms as China, Egypt, Greece, and India, and the city's population swelled to between 10,000 and 30,000. When the Nabataeans were defeated by the Romans in AD 106, Petra became part of the Roman province of Arabia but continued to flourish until changing trade routes caused its gradual commercial decline. After an earthquake (not the first) damaged the city in 551, significant habitation seems to have ceased. The Islamic invasion occurred in the 7th century, and a Crusader outpost is evidence of activity there in the 12th century. After the Crusades, the city was unknown to the Western world until it was rediscovered by the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812." -- EB A more romantic account of Burckhardt's expedition is this: "The Swiss explorer who rediscovered Petra in 1812, Burckhardt was a classic nineteenth-century adventurer, the kind of man who would spend years polishing his disguise as an Arab so he could pass unnoticed through the Middle East, a land not always hospitable to curious Europeans. Under contract to the African Association, a private group of wealthy men in Britain who sponsored exploration, Burckhardt planned to cross the Sahara and seek the source of the River Niger. He first perfected his traveling persona as an Arab trader named Sheikh Ibrahim Ibn Abd Allah, then set off from Damascus toward Cairo. On the way he decided to take a look inside the Wadi Mousa (the Valley of Moses) in hilly region north of the Red Sea, rumored to contain the ancient ruins of a lost city. Burckhardt told his reluctant guide that he had promised to sacrifice a goat at the tomb of the prophet Aaron, which lay on a mountaintop inside the valley. Although his guide grew increasingly suspicious of his charge's interest in the archeological wonders, Burckhardt's ruse allowed him to become the first European to see Petra in a millennium." -- Tom Huntington, thehistorynet.com [Moreover] A couplet as famous as today's is, naturally, not without its fair share of parodies. For instance: 'Match me such marvel' Match me such marvel save in college port, The rose-red liquor, half as old as Short. -
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Arab League - The League of Arab States - Nations Online Project ___ Arab League (جامعة الدول العربية) keywords: Arab League information, League of Arab States League of Arab States Arab League (Arabic: الجامعة العربية al-Jāmiʻa al-ʻArabiyya), formally the League of Arab States (Arabic: جامعة الدول العربية Jāmiʻat ad-Duwal al-ʻArabiyya) The Arab League is an intergovernmental organization (IGO), a voluntary association of independent African and Middle East countries whose peoples are mainly Arabic speaking. The stated purposes of the Arab League are to strengthen ties among the member states, coordinate their policies, and promote their common interests. The league was founded in Cairo in 1945 by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan (originally Transjordan, Jordan, as of 1950), and Yemen. Countries that later joined are: Algeria (1962), Bahrain (1971), Comoros (1993), Djibouti (1977), Kuwait (1961), Libya (1953), Mauritania (1973), Morocco (1958), Oman (1971), Qatar (1971), Somalia (1974), Southern Yemen (1967), Sudan (1956), Tunisia (1958), and the United Arab Emirates (1971). The Palestine Liberation Organization was admitted in 1976. In January 2003 Eritrea joined the Arab League as an observer. Egypt's membership was suspended in 1979 after it signed a peace treaty with Israel; the league's headquarters was moved from Cairo, Egypt, to Tunis, Tunisia. In 1987 Arab leaders decided to renew diplomatic ties with Egypt. Egypt was readmitted to the league in 1989 and the league's headquarters was moved back to Cairo. Libya was suspended from the Arab League on 22 February 2011. On 27 August 2011, the Arab League voted to restore Libya's membership by accrediting a representative of the National Transitional Council, which was partially recognized as the interim government of the country in the wake of Gaddafi's ouster from the capital of Tripoli. On 12 November 2011, the League passed a decree that would suspend Syria's membership if the government failed to stop violence against civilian protestors by 16 November amidst the uprising. Despite this, the government did not yield to the League's demands. 29 March 2015, the League agrees to create joint military force. The League has been meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh amid a crisis in Yemen and the threat of jihadists who have made major gains in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The Arab League will work with military representatives of its members to organise what has been described as a voluntary force. Analysts say that it is unlikely all 22 members will join the proposed force. The 22 Member States of the Arab League *
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"Masterminds" - Manchester Evening News, November 7, 2015 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt 1. Playboy Russia covergirl Maria Kozhevnikova, boxer Nikolai Valuyev, and tennis player Marat Safin shared which honour in December 2011? 2. What William S Burroughs 1961 book popularised the rock music term 'heavy metal', and provided the names for at least two rock bands of the 1970s? 3. What main religion celebrates festivals including Nuakhai, Yatra (or Zatra/Jatra), Pongal, Holi and Shigmo? 4. Which country experienced the Velvet Revolution in Nov-Dec 1989? 5. According to the UK General Teaching Council how many of the 28,000 newly qualified teachers in 2010 had a computerrelated degree: 3; 30; 300 or 3,000? 6. Spell the word: Remanisence; Reminissense; Remeniscence; or Reminiscence? 7. What ancient Sanskrit word loosely meaning 'region' commonly now refers to people (and culture, products, etc) of Indian sub-continent origins? 8. Whom did Forbes Magazine list as the most powerful woman in the Southern Hemisphere in 2011? 9. Unrelated, what is a set of slats and a museum? 10. What ship, whose name means thunderbolt, was Nelson's flagship 1799-1801, and later a training ship for boys? 26 11. The Showa period of Japan coincided with what Emperor's reign? 12. Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's book War Horse, on In state Luther which the 2012 Spielberg film (of the same name) is based, held what UK position from 2003-5? 13. What fashionable Mediterranean resort hosted the G20 international economics conference at the height of the Greek Euro membership crisis? 27 14. How many cubic metres is the space in a room four metres square and three metres high? 15. Which politician bowled faster than Dennis Lillee and Andy Roberts? 16. What element is also known as hydrargyrum? David shows around 17. Whose father wrote and sang the popular Secret Lemonade Drinker song in the award-winning British 1970s-80s R Whites Lemonade TV advert ? … Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Newspapers Encyclopedia Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details
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LOT Polish Airlines LOT Polish Airlines ACT AeroFreight LOT Polish Airlines LOT Polish Airlines is the flag carrier of Poland. LOT was established in 1929 and is based in Warsaw, making it one of the world's oldest airlines still in operation. Using a fleet of 55 aircraft, LOT operates a complex network to 60 destinations in Europe, North America, and Asia. As Poland made the transition to democracy from 1989, the airline began a transformation from a Soviet-controlled carrier to a European flag carrier. LOT started a process of fleet renewal with the purchase of Western aircraft to replace old Soviet models. With the arrival of the first , LOT started inter-continental services to Chicago, Newark, Toronto, and New York City. These four main routes have been some of the most popular flights that LOT operates, especially during the summer season when many seek to come back to their homeland for vacation. The airline has a large short-haul service, with recently added destinations operating with E -170/175, and a recent order conversion to the E-195, will enable LOT to serve more destinations. LOT found itself undergoing constant management change in the late 2000s due to worsening financials and reductions in market share. source: www.lot.com
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Explore our past | History & Heritage Explore 1910-1919 1920 to 1929 In 1924 Imperial Airways was created as the government’s “chosen instrument of air travel” by the amalgamation of The Instone Air Line Ltd., Handley Page Air Transport Ltd., The Daimler Airway and British Marine Air Navigation Co. Ltd. Imperial began services from London (Croydon) to European destinations as well as pioneering routes to Africa, the Middle East and India. Explore 1920 to 1929 1930 to 1939 The introduction of luxurious aircraft including the HP42 offered customers new levels of luxury aloft. Imperial Airways opened services from Southampton to Empire destinations using the Short S23 flying boat; the Empire Air Mail Scheme was inaugurated. In 1935 four private airlines were merged to form the independent British Airways Limited; in 1939 the government announced its decision to merge the two airlines. Explore 1930 to 1939 1940 to 1949 British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), the new state airline, was formed in April 1940 and operated wartime services under the control of the Air Ministry. In 1946, London Airport was opened officially. British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA) were created to operate commercial services to Europe and South America respectively. Explore 1940 to 1949 1950 to 1959 The delivery in 1952 of the De Havilland Comet enabled BOAC to operate the world’s first pure jet services and in October 1958, with the Comet 4, to operate the first transatlantic pure jet service. BEA successfully introduced the world-beating Vickers Viscount propeller-turbined aircraft into service on its UK domestic and European routes. The central area of London Airport opened in April 1955. Explore 1950 to 1959 1960 to 1969 Deliveries of Boeing 707s and Vickers VC-10s to BOAC, and De Havilland Tridents to BEA, provided new commercial opportunities for both airlines. In 1965, at Heathrow, a BEA Trident made the world’s first fully automatic landing carrying commercial passengers. Explore 1960 to 1969 1970 to 1979 The arrival in 1971 of the Boeing 747, the first wide-bodied jet, and the advent in 1976 of supersonic flight with Concorde presented contrasting new commercial opportunities and challenges. In 1974 British Airways was created by the merger of BOAC and BEA. Explore 1970 to 1979 1980 to 1989 A new corporate identity, designed by Landor Associates, was unveiled in December 1984 and in 1986 the airline’s longhaul services moved into the newly-built Terminal 4 at Heathrow. The privatisation of British Airways was completed in 1987 under the leadership of Chairman Lord King. In 1988 BA was merged with Gatwick-based British Caledonian Airways. Explore 1980 to 1989 1990 to 1999 The airline unveiled in June 1997 its new corporate identity incorporating on its aircraft designs from around the world. A new fleet of Airbus aircraft was ordered for short haul services. The formation was announced in 1999 of a new global alliance – oneworld – which also included Qantas and American. Explore 1990 to 1999 2000 to 2009 With much acclaim Concorde retired from service in 2003. Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was opened by the Queen in March 2008 and orders for new Airbus A380s and Boeing 787 Dreamliners were announced. Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge retired as Chairman of British Airways and was succeeded by Martin Broughton. The airline inaugurated the first longhaul route from London City Airport – to New York. Explore 2000 to 2009 2010 to Present Day Subsidiary Open Skies commences services between Paris Orly and Washington Dulles. Newly-created International Airlines Group (IAG) is formed and takes over British Airways and Iberia. Willie Walsh becomes Chief Executive of IAG and Keith Williams takes over as Chief Executive of British Airways. Joint Business Venture with American Airlines is approved. BA takes delivery of B777-300ER aircraft and retires the last B757s. Terminal 5C opens for business, and London City Airport celebrates 25 years. BA and Iberia cargo are integrated into IAG Cargo Limited. Sir Ross Stainton and Lor
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How many legs does a lobster have? | Reference.com How many legs does a lobster have? A: Quick Answer Lobsters have 10 legs, with five pairs of jointed legs attached to their thorax region. Lobsters are crustaceans that are closely related to crabs and shrimp, and they can be found all over the world in oceans, freshwater and brackish environments. They can grow as long as 3 feet, and they have an average lifespan of 50 years. Full Answer The body of a lobster has 21 segments, and most species of lobsters have large claws. The species with the claws usually has one claw that is larger than the other one, with sharp and thick teeth used for cutting and crushing objects. Lobsters have a blackish-green or brown body, and they only turn red after being boiled. With an omnivorous diet, lobsters mostly eat algae, plants, fish and even other lobsters. They have three stomachs in their digestive system: the forgut, midgut and the hindgut. The first stomach is used for grinding food, the second stomach is used for digesting food particles and the third stomach is used to pass all of the non-absorbed particles to the anus. Lobsters are solitary creatures that rarely interact with other lobsters. They spend their days hiding among rocks to protect themselves from their known predators, including cod. They mainly leave their rocks at night to find their food. Lobsters have the ability to recognize other lobsters by excreted chemicals.
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1100-1199 - StudyBlue Good to have you back! If you've signed in to StudyBlue with Facebook in the past, please do that again. 1100-1199 Which city does the statue of Jesus Christ, better known as Christ the Redeemer, overlook? Rio de Janeiro In an all-black cast, who played the role of Brick in the 2008 revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"? Terrence Howard Advertisement ) What term describes the purchase of securities with borrowed money using the shares themselves as collateral? Buying on Margin In the sequence of presidential succession, who is next in line after the vice president? Speaker of the House Created by Ruth Handler, which 12-inch follower of fashion has been every girl's best friend since 1959? Barbie For which film did Kathy Bates win an Oscar in 1991? Misery Which country is home of port wine? Portugal The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is geographically part of which continent? Asia Which city was hit by the second American atomic bomb in 1945? Nagasaki What does a person with mythomania tend to? Tell lies What is the latin term for the science of languages? Linguistics Which Agatha Christie's fictional characters is the only one to have been given an obituary in the N.Y. Times? Hercule Poriot Guns N' Roses guitarist Saul Hudson is better known by what name? Slash Which land animal species lives the longest? Turtle Which militant Lebanese political group sparked a 2007 attack after capturing two Israeli soldiers? Hezbollah How many calories equal 42 Joules: about 1, 10 or 42? Ten Jumping and dressage are events in which Olympic competition? Equestrian What message delivery system did U.S. computer technician Raymond Tomlinson invent at the beginning of the 1970's? E-mail What is the gesture of submission, originating in imperial China, in which you kneel and touch the ground with your forehead? Kowtow On what sitcom did John Larroquette win three straight Best Supporting Actor Emmy Awards? Night Court What is the most distinctive exterior feature on a Russian Orthodox church? The Onion Dome Which 1957 Broadway musical is loosely based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"? West Side Story What is the name for the valuation ratio of a company's current share price compared to its per-share earnings? Price Earning Ratio What country issues gold coins called Krugerrands? South Africa In the 1960s, IBM designed a new typing head to reduce jams in typewriters. What shape was it? A ball Who directed "The Color Purple" in 1985? Steven Speilberg What does an oenologist specialize in? Wine What dam created Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the U.S.? Hoover Dam Named after the city where they signed the pact in 1955, where did eight eastern European states agree to form a political alliance? Warsaw What part of the body is affected by a swelling known as a periodontal disease? Gums Which Polynesian word means "forbidden"? Taboo Which novel by J.D. Salinger that is still controversial today features Holden Caulfield as the protagonist? The Catcher in the Rye According to the classic Van Morrison song, who "comes around here bout mid-night?" Gloria What is a tapaculo: a fish, a rodent or a bird? A bird Who did Hugo Chavez refer to as "the devil" in a 2006 speech to the UN General Assembly? George W. Bush Which temperature scale has its absolute zero at minus 273.15 degrees Celsius? Kelvin In which chess move are the rook and the king used at the same time? Castling Which frequency band uses the abbreviation "U.H.F." Ultra High Frequency In which country did T'ai Chi originate? China What character on NCIS is commonly referred to as "Ducky"? Dr. Mallard By what name is the collection of Egyptian tombs across the Nile from Luxor better known? Valley of the Kings "Les Miserables" is a musical based on a novel by which writer? Victor Hugo What term describes the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset in order to profit from a difference in price? Arbitrage (riskless profit) What president extended a "Good Neighbor Policy" to countries in South America, Central America and the Carribean? Franklin Delano Roose
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Which Greek letter usually denotes the brightest star in a constellation?
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Beta Mon BETA MON (Beta Monocerotis). Dim constellations commonly hold remarkable sights. The luminary of Monoceros , the Unicorn, a modern constellation, is among them. None of the stars within the constellation carry proper names; the brighter ones are called out only by their Greek letters. While "Alpha" usually denotes the brightest star of a constellation, in the Unicorn -- as in neighboring Orion -- the brightest is fourth magnitude (3.92) Beta, which just barely nudges out Alpha Monocerotis (magnitude 3.93). Beta offers a bit of a subterfuge, however, as the telescope shows it to be a glorious triple star. If we take Beta's stars singly, then Alpha quite wins the brightness prize. At a distance of 690 light years, the three are lettered from west to east A, B, and C. B and C make a double 2.8 seconds of arc apart, while A stands off from them by 7.4 seconds of arc. B and C mostly likely orbit each other, while A orbits the pair. And most likely the distances are foreshortened, so A is really farther away in the background or foreground. The wonder of the trio is that they are close to identical. B and C span the border of sixth magnitude (5.4 and 5.6), while A tops them a bit at bright fifth (4.6). All are hot, blue-white B (class B3) stars with temperatures near 18,500 Kelvin. Star A, the most luminous, shines with 3200 solar luminosities, while B and C come in at 1600 and 1300 Sun s. The masses of the three (in order A, B, C) are 7, 6.2, and 6 solar. All are hydrogen-fusing dwarfs. Born only 34 million years ago, A (the most massive) is a bit farther along in its evolution, and has another 9 million years left before it gives up core-hydrogen- fusion and starts to become a giant. Given the minimum distances of 590 Astronomical Units that separate B and C, and 1570 that separate A from B-C, the B-C pair takes at least 4200 years to orbit each other, while A takes at least 14,000 to circuit the closer pair. Viewed from A, the B-C pair could be up to 20 degrees apart. The identity of the three continues with their rotations. A, B, and C rotate with respective minimum equatorial speeds of 346, 123, and 331 kilometers per second (compared with the Sun's 2 km/s). As a result, all three are "B-emission" stars that are outfitted with circulating circumstellar disks. A 12th magnitude star lurks within the system, though it is most likely a line-of- sight interloper.
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Deneb: Tail of the Swan Deneb: Tail of the Swan By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | September 23, 2013 08:24pm ET MORE Lie back on a warm summer night and look straight up. You’ll see three bright stars: Vega, Deneb, and Altair. These mark the corners of the “Summer Triangle” and are your guides to the three constellations of Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila. Credit: Starry Night Software Deneb is the most distant bright star in Earth's sky, lying thousands of light-years away from Earth. (Its exact distance is uncertain.) The star is in the "tail" of the constellation Cygnus (the Swan), and from Earth's perspective is in the same area of sky as gas clouds that fill the constellation's area . Deneb is also one of the three stars considered part of the "Summer Triangle," which also includes Altair and Vega . Described in at least one scientific paper as the " brightest and best-studied A type supergiant ," this main sequence star is losing mass at a terrific rate every year. Deneb, some sources say, will eventually evolve into a red giant, and then end its life with a supernova explosion. [ The Brightest Stars in the Sky: A Starry Countdown ] Among its many science fiction references, Deneb was mentioned in several episodes of the original series of "Star Trek" — perhaps most notably, when a Klingon called Captain James T. Kirk a " Denebian slime devil ." The star also features in the Isaac Asimov 1950s-era story, "The Feeling of Power." Deneb before modern astronomy Deneb's name comes from an Arabic word meaning "tail". It was originally part of the Arabic phrase "Al Dhanab al Dajājah," meaning "the hen's tail," according to "Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning," by Richard Hinckley Allen. The name "Deneb" has been used for other stars in the past, all "tails" of their respective constellations. Examples include Deneb Algedi (now best known as Delta Capricorni, in Capricorn), Deneb Kaitos (Beta Ceti, in Cetus) and Denebola (which is in the constellation Leo). Several sources cite Deneb as the marker of a bridge in the Chinese Qixi legend. The story says that every July 7, the cowherd Altair and weaving girl Vega get to enjoy a night together after crossing the bridge, the Milky Way. German astronomer Johann Bayer referred to the star as "Galina" in his oft-cited seventeenth-century star atlas, Uranometria, Allen said. Locating Deneb One of the difficulties of observing Deneb is the uncertainty about its distance. Because astronomers aren't quite sure how far away it is, that makes it hard to make definitive judgments about its brightness and other features. Deneb's location is: Right ascension: 20 hours 41 minutes 25.9 seconds Declination: +45 degrees 16 minutes 49 seconds Estimates for its distance range anywhere from between 2,100 to 7,400 light-years, according to astronomer David Darling , although the figure 3,200 light-years is often quoted. The variation comes due to uncertainties in parallax, a method used to measure close star distance by examining the apparent shift among background stars. Astronomers classify Deneb as a blue supergiant, a class of star that is hundreds of times larger than the sun. Energy bursts known as gamma rays may originate in part from the death throes of this class of star , according to research published in 2013.
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What did Chuck Yeager do with 'Glamorous Glennis' in October 1947?
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Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier? Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier? Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 with paper tape of the supersonic flight profile (Photo credit: NASA) We all know the story of how Captain Chuck Yeager opened the throttles of the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis in October, 1947. Breaking the sound barrier was to aviation what Neil Armstrong's first step was to the space program: No matter how many others went higher or faster later, it will always be that seminal, unassailable "first" that can never be topped. Yeager's name will always sit atop every list of record-breaking pilots, up there by himself in his own special stratosphere. But: Was he really the first pilot to fly faster than sound? Plenty of stories out there say Yeager wasn't the first. How do we know what to believe? Do we accept the popular official story, or do we give credibility to the other claimants with good evidence of their own? Today we're going to point our skeptical eye at some of these other claims, and see who really deserves the credit. There are certainly many pilots who approached the sound barrier but didn't live to tell about it. The years preceding Yeager's flight were among the most exciting in aviation history, as World War II drove aeronautic advancement like never before. Planes that had been shot down often entered the transonic realm as they plummeted, and were torn apart by the resulting shockwaves. Dive bombers had to have special air brakes developed to prevent them from breaking up, which sometimes happened anyway. Of the many pilots who toyed with the sound barrier in WWII — all unintentionally, of course — most never survived the adventure. During WWII, engineers didn't yet have any flight test experience that taught us how to design aircraft capable of supersonic speed. Even in 1947, Yeager's X-1 was designed after a 50 caliber bullet, known to be stable at supersonic speeds. WWII had seen widespread use of the German V-2 rockets, which were supersonic, so we knew such flight was possible. But the V-2 was ballistic, it didn't require a controllable airframe; and designing a supersonic controllable airframe was the problem for aeronautical engineers. The main issue is called shock stall, and it's what happens when a control surface approaches the speed of sound. A shockwave forms around the control surface, rendering it useless, and the pilot has no way to control the aircraft. Propeller aircraft can never reach the sound barrier, since the tips of propeller blades hit the sound barrier before the rest of the plane does. The propeller blades go into shock stall, and the plane can no longer accelerate. There are many claims of propeller driven dive bombers breaking the sound barrier during WWII, but these have to all be considered implausible. Approaching the sound barrier, an airplane is already well above its terminal velocity, the speed at which drag matches the acceleration imparted by gravity. Propellers are shock stalled, and there is neither thrust nor gravity available to accelerate a diving airplane past a certain point. As any aircraft approaches the speed of sound, airflow over some parts of the plane will exceed Mach 1 and create shockwaves. These shockwaves cause intense buffeting. Many propeller driven WWII fighter planes, including the Supermarine Spitfire, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, and the North American P-51 Mustang, experienced these effects at Mach 0.85. Similarly, jet engines of the day were not designed to work with supersonic airflow entering through the compressor vanes; such engines would flame out. However, one particular fighter plane of WWII was not driven by either propellers or jets: The German rocket powered Messerschmitt 163 Komet. The Komet was designed by the great Alexander Lippisch, a pioneer of delta wings and ramjets. By the end of WWII, Lippisch had a test glider of a supersonic ramjet powered aircraft actually undergoing flight tests. He understood the requirements of supersonic flight. The Komet was designed to fly as fast a
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Yeager breaks sound barrier - Oct 14, 1947 - HISTORY.com Yeager breaks sound barrier Publisher A+E Networks U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground. After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly the experimental X-1 rocket plane, built by the Bell Aircraft Company to explore the possibility of supersonic flight. For years, many aviators believed that man was not meant to fly faster than the speed of sound, theorizing that transonic drag rise would tear any aircraft apart. All that changed on October 14, 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude). The rocket plane, nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis,” was designed with thin, unswept wings and a streamlined fuselage modeled after a .50-caliber bullet. Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager’s achievement was not announced until June 1948. Yeager continued to serve as a test pilot, and in 1953 he flew 1,650 miles per hour in an X-1A rocket plane. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1975 with the rank of brigadier general. Related Videos
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Closing Time was a sequel to which famous novel of 1961?
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10 of the biggest sequels from famous authors | indy100 10 of the biggest sequels from famous authors Posted by Evan Bartlett in news Upvote Upvoted Harper Lee has just announced a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird after more than 50 years (Picture: Getty) Harper Lee announced on Tuesday she will be releasing her second book - a full 50 years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird was published. Go Set a Watchman, which was actually completed in the 1950s and re-found in the Autumn will be released in July. Here are 10 other famous authors who have released literary sequels: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien Popular trilogy which was published after Tolkien's wildly popular novel The Hobbit. Closing Time by Joseph Heller Sequel to Heller's 1961 novel Catch 22. Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Booker Prize-winning sequel to the author's Wolf Hall. Ulysses by James Joyce In part, follows the character of Stephen Dedalus - first seen in James Joyce's debut novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris A sequel featuring cannibalistic doctor Hannibal Lecter, first seen in Harris' Red Dragon. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll A sequel of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which follows another Alice who enters another fantasy world. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne Sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Paradise Regained by John Milton A follow up to the 17th century epic poem Paradise Lost. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The celebrated sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe Seen as the second novel in Achebe's "African trilogy" following Things Fall Apart. What are your favourite (or least favourite) literary sequels? Let us know in the comments below.
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Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot (Audiobook) » Vector, Photoshop PSDAfter Effects, Tutorials, Template, 3D, Categories: E-Books & Audio Books » Audio Books English - Mp3 - AudioBook - Unabridged - 620 MB 'Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror fiction novel written by the American author Stephen King. It was his second novel to be published. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town where he lived as a boy between the ages of 9 through 13 (Jerusalem's Lot, or 'Salem's Lot for short) in Maine, New England, to discover that the residents are all becoming vampires. The town would be a location that would be revisited in the short stories "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road", both from King's 1978 short story collection Night Shift. Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot (Audiobook) HI-SPEED DOWNLOAD Free 300 GB with Full DSL-Broadband Speed! The title King originally chose for his book was Second Coming, but he later decided on Jerusalem's Lot. King stated the reason being that his wife, novelist Tabitha King, thought the original title sounded too much like a "bad sex story". King's publishers then shortened it to the current title, thinking the author's choice sounded too religious. 'Salem's Lot has been adapted into a television mini-series twice, first in 1979 and then in 2004. It was also adapted by the BBC as a seven part radio play in 1995. The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1976. In two separate interviews, King conceded that ‘Salem’s Lot was his personal favorite book of those which he has written. In his 1983 Playboy Interview the interviewer mentioned that because it was his favorite, King was planning a sequel, but he has more recently stated on his website that since his Dark Tower series picked up the story already, in the novels “Wolves of The Calla” and "Song of Susanna," he felt there was no longer a need for one.[3] In 1987 he told Phil Konstantin in "The Highway Patrolman" magazine: "In a way it is my favorite story, mostly because of what it says about small towns. They are kind of a dying organism right now. The story seems sort of down home to me. I have a special cold spot in my heart for it!" [4] The book is dedicated to King's daughter Naomi: "For Naomi Rachel King . . . promises to keep." Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, has returned home after twenty-five years. Once in town he meets local high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate. Ben starts writing a book about the Marsten House, an abandoned mansion where he had a bad experience as a child. Mears learns that the Marsten House--the former home of Depression-era hitman Hubert "Hubie" Marsten--has been purchased by Kurt Barlow, an Austrian immigrant who has arrived in the Lot to ostensibly open an antique store. Barlow is an apparent recluse; only his familiar, Richard Straker, is seen in public. The duo's arrival coincides with the disappearance of a young boy, Ralphie Glick, and the death of his brother Danny, who becomes the town's first vampire, infecting such locals as Mike Ryerson, Randy McDougall, Jack Griffen, and Danny's own mother, Marjorie Glick. Danny fails, however, to infect Mark Petrie, who resists him successfully. Over the course of several weeks almost all of the townspeople are infected. Ben Mears and Susan are joined by Matt Burke and his doctor, Jimmy Cody, along with young Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, in an effort to fight the spread of the vampires, whose numbers increase as the new vampires infect their own families and others. Susan is captured by Barlow before Mark has a chance to rescue her. Susan becomes a vampire, but is eventually staked through the heart by Mears, the man who loved her. Father Callahan is caught by Barlow at the Petrie house after Barlow kills Mark's parents, but does not infect them, so they are later given a clean burial. Barlow holds Mark hostage, but Father Callahan has the up
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Manchester Trousers are made of Manchester cloth, which is another name for what?
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Cord - definition of cord by The Free Dictionary Cord - definition of cord by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cord (kôrd) n. 1. A slender length of flexible material usually made of twisted strands or fibers and used to bind, tie, connect, or support. See Usage Note at chord 1. 2. An insulated flexible electric wire fitted with a plug or plugs. 3. A hangman's rope. 4. An influence, feeling, or force that binds or restrains; a bond or tie. 5. also chord Anatomy A long ropelike structure, such as a nerve or tendon: a spinal cord. 6. a. A raised rib on the surface of cloth. b. A fabric or cloth with such ribs. 7. cords Pants made of corduroy. 8. A unit of quantity for cut fuel wood, equal to a stack measuring 4 × 4 × 8 feet or 128 cubic feet (3.62 cubic meters). tr.v. cord·ed, cord·ing, cords 1. To fasten or bind with a cord: corded the stack of old newspapers and placed them in the recycling bin. 2. To furnish with a cord. 3. To pile (wood) in cords. [Middle English, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Greek khordē; see gherə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] cord′er n. n 1. (Textiles) string or thin rope made of several twisted strands 2. (Textiles) a length of woven or twisted strands of silk, etc, sewn on clothing or used as a belt 3. (Textiles) a ribbed fabric, esp corduroy 4. any influence that binds or restrains 5. (Electrical Engineering) US and Canadian a flexible insulated electric cable, used esp to connect appliances to mains. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): flex 6. (Anatomy) anatomy any part resembling a string or rope: the spinal cord. 7. (Units) a unit of volume for measuring cut wood, equal to 128 cubic feet vb (tr) 8. to bind or furnish with a cord or cords 9. (Forestry) to stack (wood) in cords [C13: from Old French corde, from Latin chorda cord, from Greek khordē; see chord1] ˈcorder n 1. a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together. 2. a small, flexible, insulated electrical cable. 3. a ribbed fabric, esp. corduroy. 4. a cordlike rib on the surface of cloth. 5. cords, clothing, as trousers, of corded fabric, esp. corduroy. 6. any influence that binds or restrains. 7. a cordlike structure: the spinal cord. 8. a unit of volume used chiefly for fuel wood, now generally equal to 128 cubic feet (3.6 cubic meters), usu. specified as 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, and 4 ft. high (2.4 m x 1.2 m x 1.2 m). Abbr.: cd , cd. v.t. 9. to bind or fasten with a cord or cords. 10. to pile or stack up (wood) in cords. 11. to furnish with a cord. [1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French corde < Latin chorda < Greek chordḗ gut; confused in part of its history with chord 1] cord′er, n. cord - An amount of wood containing 128 cubic feet (4x4x8 feet); the name comes from the old practice of measuring a stack of firewood with a cord of a certain length. To cord is to stack or put up wood in cords. See also related terms for measuring . cord , chord - Cord comes from Greek khorde, "gut, string of a musical instrument," and chord is a refashioning of cord. See also related terms for musical instrument . Cord a string composed of strands which are woven or twisted together, a central idea or link that strings things together; a measure of cut wood, stone, or rock. Examples: cords of discipline, 1883; of friendship, 1535; of poorness, 1382; of rock, 1882; of stone, 1703; of wood, 1616. These words are both pronounced /kɔːd/. 1. 'chord' A chord is a number of musical notes played or sung together to produce a pleasant sound. He played some random chords. 2. 'cord' Cord is strong, thick string. A cord is a piece of this string. She tied a cord around her box. A cord is also a length of wire covered with plastic which connects a piece of electrical equipment to an electricity supply. cord I will have been cording you will have been cording he/she/it will have been cording we will have been cording you will have been cording they will have been cording Past Perfect Continuous they would have corded cord 1. A ceremonial cord made fr
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Michael Crawford Biography (1942-) Judy Cornwell to Howard Da Silva Michael Crawford Biography (1942-) Born Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith, January 19, 1942, in Salisbury, England; son of Arthur Dumble-Smith (a Royal Air Force pilot) and Doris Dumble-Smith (later O'Keefe; a homemaker); married Gabrielle Lewis (a deejay), 1965 (divorced, 1975); children: Emma, Lucy. Addresses: Agent: International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Nationality (London debut) Buddy, Come Blow Your Horn, Prince of Wales Theatre, 1962 Arnold Champion, Travelling Light, Prince of Wales Theatre, 1965 Tom, The Anniversary, Duke of York's Theatre, London, 1966 (Broadway debut) Tom, "White Lies," and Brindsley Miller, "Black Comedy,"in Black Comedy (double bill), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1967 Brian Runnicles, No Sex Please, We're British, Strand Theatre,London, 1971 Bill Fisher, Billy, Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1974 George, Same Time, Next Year, Prince of Wales Theatre, 1976 Charlie Gordon, Flowers for Algernon, Queen's Theatre, London,1979 Title role, Barnum, Palladium Theatre, London, 1981-83, then Manchester Opera House, 1984, later Victoria Palace Theatre, London, 1985 Title role, The Phantom of the Opera, Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1986-88, then Majestic Theatre, New York City, 1988-89, later Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 1989-90 EFX, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV, 1995 My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs, City Center, New York City,2000 Daryl Van Horne, The Witches of Eastwick, London, 2000 Also appeared as a child in a production of Noye's Fiddle. Major Tours The Little Sweep, Let's Make an Opera, c. 1954 The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, U.S., Australian, and U.K. cities, 1990-91 Film Appearances Peter Toms, Soapbox Derby, Children's Film Foundation, 1958 Jim Fenn, Blow Your Own Trumpet, Children's Film Foundation, 1958 Kent, A French Mistress, 1960 Nils Lindwall, Two Living, One Dead (also known as Tvaa levandeoch en doed), Emerson, 1961 Staff Sergeant Junior Sailen, The War Lover, Columbia, 1962 Alan Crabbe, Two Left Feet, British Lion, 1963 Colin, The Knack ... and How to Get It (also known as The Knack), Lopert, 1965 Hero, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, United Artists, 1966 Michael Tremayne, The Jokers, Universal, 1966 Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody, How I Won the War, United Artists, 1967 Cornelius Hackl, Hello, Dolly!, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969 Harry Hayes, The Games, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970 Harry England, Hello-Goodbye, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970 White Rabbit, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, American National, 1972 Woody Wilkins, Condorman, Buena Vista, 1981 Voice of Cornelius, the badger, Once Upon a Forest (animated), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993 Television Appearances Series John Drake, The Adventures of Sir Francis Drake (also known as Sir Francis Drake), NBC, 1962 Byron, Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, BBC-TV, 1964 Frank Spencer, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, BBC-TV, 1973-79 Dave Finn, Chalk and Cheese, 1979 Movies P. T. Barnum (title role), Barnum, 1986 Himself, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, Fox Family Channel, 1999 Specials America's Tribute to Bob Hope (also known as America at ItsFinest: A Tribute to the Bob Hope Cultural Center), NBC, 1988 Bob Hope Lampoons Show Business, NBC, 1990 The 44th Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 1990 The 45th Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 1991 The Andrew Lloyd Webber Story, Arts and Entertainment, 1992 My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs, PBS, 2001 Episodic Thief, "Easy Money," Police Surgeon, 1960 Tony Hudson, "The Villa," Alcoa Presents, 1961 Bar patron, Coronation Street, 1998 Himself, Parkinson, 1999 Other Vanek, Private View, BBC-TV, 1990 Also appeared in Still Life; Destiny; Byron; Moveafter Checkmate; Three Barreled Shotgun; Home Sweet Honeycomb; BBC Play for Today. RECORDINGS Billy (original cast recording), CBS, 1974 Flowers for Algernon (original cast recording), 1980 Barnum, 1981 The Phantom of the Opera, 1987 Michael Crawford: Songs from the Stage and Screen, Columbia, 1988 Michael Crawford: With Love, 1989
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Puzzles - Coffeetime Triv (Sat) 1: Who played Basil Fawlty in `Fawlty Towers`? 2: Who had a hit single with `Crocodile Rock` in 1972? 3: Who is the author of the `Harry Potter` books? 4: What is the name of the clockwork device used by musicians to measure time? 5: `Question or Nominate` was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show? 6: Which two colours are Dennis the Menace`s jumper? 7: In which film did Roy Scheider play a sheriff and Richard Dreyfus a marine biologist? 8: The name of which (non-UK) football club is an anagram of `Red Admiral`? 9: In 2004, Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch caused an embarrassing security breach at Buckingham Palace dressed as who? 10: The Colosseum is located in the capital city of which country? 1: Who played Basil Fawlty in `Fawlty Towers`? John Cleese 2: Who had a hit single with `Crocodile Rock` in 1972? Elton John 3: Who is the author of the `Harry Potter` books? J.K.Rowling 4: What is the name of the clockwork device used by musicians to measure time? A metronome 6: Which two colours are Dennis the Menace`s jumper? Red and black 8: The name of which (non-UK) football club is an anagram of `Red Admiral`? Real Madrid Wow! I got a footie and an anagram question. I'm going to need to lie down! 9: In 2004, Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch caused an embarrassing security breach at Buckingham Palace dressed as who? Batman? 10: The Colosseum is located in the capital city of which country? Italy 5: `Question or Nominate` was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show? 15 to 1 Patience, so you did. Well done all three of you only one missing is 7: and 'Marine Biologist' (the new wannabe career for Britain's 6th-formers) might have given it to you - the fiilm was Jaws
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Understanding Encephalitis -- the Basics Understanding Encephalitis Prevention What Is Encephalitis? Encephalitis , or inflammation of the brain tissue, is rare, affecting about one in 200,000 people each year in the U.S. When it strikes, it can be very serious, causing personality changes, seizures , weakness , and other symptoms depending on the part of the brain affected. Children, the elderly, and those with a weak immune system are most vulnerable. The disease is usually caused by one of several viral infections, so it's sometimes referred to as viral encephalitis. Many people who have encephalitis fully recover. The most appropriate treatment and the patient's chance of recovery depend on the virus involved and the severity of the inflammation. In acute encephalitis, the infection directly affects the brain cells. In para-infectious encephalitis, the brain and spinal cord become inflamed within one to two weeks of contracting a viral or bacterial infection . What Causes Encephalitis? Viral encephalitis may develop during or after infection with any of several viral illnesses including influenza , herpes simplex , measles , mumps , rubella , rabies, chickenpox, and arbovirus infection including West Nile virus . Herpes simplex type 1 virus is one of the more common and serious causes of viral encephalitis. Herpes -related encephalitis can erupt rapidly, and may cause seizures or mental changes and even lead to coma or death. It occurs when the herpes simplex type 1 virus travels to the brain rather than moving through the body to the surface of the skin and producing its more common symptom, a cold sore . Early recognition and treatment of herpes encephalitis can be life-saving. You are not more likely to get encephalitis if you have cold sores . Arbovirus encephalitis is another form of viral encephalitis. It is caused by various viruses that are carried by insects (such as mosquitoes and ticks). Unlike herpes , arboviral infections are seasonal, occurring primarily in summer and early fall, and are clustered in specific regions, such as in the case of St. Louis encephalitis. In rare instances, bacterial, fungal, parasitic, or rickettsial infections cause encephalitis. Cancer or even exposure to certain drugs or toxins may also cause encephalitis. WebMD Medical Reference Reviewed by Jennifer Robinson, MD on March 03, 2015 Sources
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General Knowledge Questions and Answers - Quiz General Knowledge Questions and Answers What was Mohammad Ali`s birth name? Cassius Clay Who is the presenter of the Weakest Link? Anne Robinson How many dots are there in total on a pair of dice? 42 Who played Basil Fawlty in `Fawlty Towers`? John Cleese In a game of chess, what is the only piece able to jump over other pieces? Knight At which racecourse is the Derby and the Oaks traditionally run? Epsom Who had a hit single with `Crocodile Rock` in 1972? Elton John A.A. Milne is most famous for creating which Bear? Winnie the Pooh `Question or Nominate` was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show? Fifteen-to-one Which two colours are Dennis the Menace`s jumper? Red and Black Who is the author of the `Harry Potter` books? J K Rowling The name of which football club is an anagram of `Red Admiral`? Real Madrid In the TV show `Fawlty Towers` from which city does the waiter Manuel hail? Barcelona What is the furthest planet from the sun? Pluto How many red balls are used in a game of snooker? 15 How many sides has an octagon? Eight What is the name of the coloured part of an eye? The iris In which famous film would first have come across the character of Dorothy Gale? The Wizard Of Oz Who played Jerry in the film `Jerry McGuire`? Tom Cruise How many strings are on a violin? 4 Who was the lead singer in The Police? Sting (Gordon Sumner) Which part of the body would be treated by a chiropodist? Feet What was the hunchback of Notre Dame`s name? Quasimodo Which animal is associated with the beginning of an MGM film? A lion In snooker, what colour is the ball that begins a game in the centre of the table? Blue In which month of 1929 did the St Valentines Day massacre take place? February Which actress played the title role in the 1990 film `Pretty Woman`? Julia Roberts How many legs does an insect have? Six What is the chemical symbol for Hydrogen? H In the Australian TV series, what type of animal was `Skippy`? Kangaroo Which famous person in history rode a horse called Black Bess? Dick Turpin What is the name of the city in which The Simpsons live? Springfield Who had a number one in 1960 called `Only The Lonely`? Roy Orbison What is the longest river in the world? The Nile What is the name of the poker hand containing three of a kind and a pair? Full house Which cartoon show included characters called Thelma and Shaggy? Scooby Doo What colour is the circle on the Japanese flag? Red Who played the title role in the 1960 film `Spartacus`? Kirk Douglas What is the normal colour of the gem sapphire? Red, Green or Blue? Blue Who had a number one hit in 1984 with `Hello`? Lionel Richie What was snow whites coffin made of ? Glass Which ear did vincent Van Gogh partially cut off ? Left Which animal provides the blood for black pudding ? Pig What was the last UK no1 for the super group Abba ? Super Trooper Which lagers name is translated as lions brew ? Lowenbrau What colour is the car on monopolys free parking space ? Red What combines with a tia maria to make a Tia Moo Moo ? Milk Was shirley temple 21 25 or 29 when she made her last film in 1949 ? 21 Which 2 of the 7 dwarfs names do not end witn the letter Y Doc and Bashful What was Mrs Fawltys Christian name in the TV series fawlty towers ? Sybil What is the name of Cluedos colonel ? Mustard What group had their first uk hit with three times a lady ? Commodores What in horse racing terms are a jockeys hat and shirt called? Silks Who did monica marry in the tv series friends ? Chandler Muriel Bing What colour is the center stripe on the german flag, Red, Black or Gold ? Red Who taught Eliza Dolittle to be a lady ? Professor Henry Higgins Which is the closet planet to the sun to have a moon ? Earth Who were the 2 British prime ministers of the 1970s ? Wilson and Heath Where sitting on his suitcase was Paddington bear found ? Paddington station What is the perdominant colour of a harrods carrier bag ? Green W
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Tour de France 2013 Froome: champion of the 100th Tour! He was the dominant force in the 100th Tour de France and even though Christopher Froome lost 53 seconds to the winner of the final stage and 43 seconds to his nearest rival in the general classification, the Sky team sealed its second successive victory in the Tour de France at the end of the evening spectacle on the streets of Paris. The finish was around 9.40pm in the city of lights and the stars came out to shine: the four at the top of the sprinters classification had a drag race to the line to determine the winner of the 21st stage and it was Marcel Kittel who began the Tour as he...
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Tour de France: Mark Cavendish wins historic green jersey - BBC Sport BBC Sport Tour de France: Mark Cavendish wins historic green jersey 24 Jul 2011 Read more about sharing. Cavendish (right) has now won 20 stages of the Tour de France Mark Cavendish won the final stage of the Tour de France in Paris, becoming Britain's first winner of the green jersey for the race's best sprinter. Manxman Cavendish, who has now won 20 stages of the race in his career, crossed the line first after a frenetic sprint finish on the Champs-Elysees. "I've been trying to get the green jersey for the last few years, it is a special day," said the 26-year-old. Cadel Evans took the yellow jersey to become Australia's first Tour winner. The polka-dot jersey for the Tour's best climber went to Spain's Samuel Sanchez, while Frenchman Pierre Rolland was confirmed as the best young rider with the white jersey. Welshman Geraint Thomas, who spent the first six days in white, finished 31st overall ensured him the honour of the top British rider in the general classification in his third Tour de France. Cavendish had amassed 15 stage wins over his previous three Tours, but his failure to take green before this year had been been one factor in the organisers' decision to increase the rewards on offer at the end of each stages. Tour facts: Mark Cavendish 2007 - Makes his Tour debut and after crashing in the first two stages retires during stage eight 2008 - Becomes the first British rider to win four stages in a single Tour but abandons after stage 14 to concentrate on the Olympics 2009 - After failing to win a medal in Beijing wins six stages of the Tour 2010 - Wins five more stages and finishes second in the points classification 2011 - Becomes first British winner of the green jersey and moves onto 20 stage wins with five more victories The Isle of Man cyclist finished with 334 points, while Spaniard Jose Joaquin Rojas was second with 272 and Belgian Philippe Gilbert had 236. However, despite the relatively comfortable final margin of victory Cavendish was not assured of securing the green jersey until he won the final sprint. If Rojas had won the stage then Cavendish would have needed to finish second or third to claim the jersey he so highly coveted. "I've been incredibly lucky to have a group of team-mates who have been committed to me winning races and it has paid off," said the HTC Highroad cyclist. "I can't stress how lucky I am, I couldn't do it alone. I'm super emotional, super happy." Evans had assumed the lead in the overall standings from Leopard-Trek's Andy Schleck in Saturday's time trial and a flat 95km stage into Paris did not offer any opportunities to attack his advantage of one minute 34 seconds. Cavendish had a less comfortable cushion in the green-jersey standings with 15 points separating him from Rojas at the start of the final day. Any hopes Rojas harboured of making early inroads on his rival were ruined however, as Slovenian Kristjan Koren led an unexpected six-man breakaway through the intermediate sprint to earn 20 points. Cavendish was the first of the peloton over the line while team-mate Matt Goss held off Rojas to extend the Manxman's lead to 17 points. With Team Sky's British rider Ben Swift playing a full role, the escapees pushed their lead up towards 45 seconds. But the leading group disintegrated as Lars Bak, an HTC team-mate of Cavendish, pushed the pace, having previously been content to trail along on the back of the group. Analysis Twenty Tour de France stage wins, five this year, three in a row in Paris and now, finally, one box-fresh green jersey: it's official, Mark Cavendish is the fastest sprinter on two wheels. He is also a massive star. In France. True fame has yet to come in the UK (with the honorable exception of his birthplace, the Isle of Man), but if he keeps pulling stunts like this one it will come eventually. With 30km to go on the Champs- Elysees, Cav was by the side of the road, changing his bike. As cool as a cucumber. Half an hour later, he was rolling through the line, arms outstretched, grinn
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In the Bible who was the husband of Jezebel?
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Jezebel - Women of the Bible | The Living Word Library The Living Word library Date: 14 July 2009 | Author: Dele Oke Jezebel - Women of the Bible 1 KingS 16 - 1 kingS 22; 2 KingS 9 - 10; Rev 2:20, Introduction Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, King of the Sidonians (1 Kings 16:31). Her name originally meant 'The Prince Baal exists'. Baal was a weather god worshipped in the Syro-Palestinian world. 1 In Biblical Hebrew Jezebel's name means 'there is no nobility'. Jezebel is an evil woman in the Bible (Revelation 2:20). Her Evil deeds The main characters in the life of Jezebel were all affected in one way or another by her evil deeds. Ahab, the king and her husband was a weak willed man whom she dominated and led to do much evil (1 kings 21:25). She encouraged him to worship idols while she personally made sure all the prophets of God (who she could catch) were killed (1 Kings 18:4). She personally took care of the prophets of Baal giving them direct access to the throne (1 Kings 18:19). Jezebel's domination of her husband was directly responsible for the whole of Israel falling into the sin of idolatry. The whole nation suffered a famine caused by the lack of rain. This was God's judgement on them 1 KingS 17. This was particularly humilating for Jezebel since Baal was supposed to be the god of weather. When Elijah killed all the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel Jezebel soon got on his case. She threatened to take his life. Elijah knew this was no empty threat and ran for his life. The mighty prophet of God who had raised the dead and called down fire soon became afraid and even depressed because of Jezebel's action 1 KingS 18. Jezebel not only worshipped idols but also practised witchcraft (2 Kings 9:22). Abuse of Power Naboth owned a vineyard. Ahab desired it but Naboth refused to sell the king the family property. Jezebel intervened and had Naboth killed simply to meet Ahab's selfish needs. At this point Jezebel herself was in charge of the nation of Israel. Ahab the king was simply her puppet 1 KingS 21. God's Judgement God eventually sent Elijah to declare judgement on Ahab and Jezebel. Ahab was to die and have dogs lick his blood and his descendants cut off (1 KingS 21:17-22, 1 KingS 22:29 - 40, 2 KingS 10). As for Jezebel she was to be eaten by dogs (1 kings 21: 23-28, 2 kings 9: 30 - 37). Jezebel lived for quite a while before God's judgement caught up with her. Apart from idol worship, witchcraft and sheer wickedness Jezebel also used the spirit of domination and seduction to get her ways (2 Kings 9:30). There is no record of Jezebel repenting. She did much evil. The main lesson from Jezebel's life is that the deeds of a few can adversely affect a whole nation. Evil people sometimes live long. Could God be giving them the chance to repent? Destruction waits for them if they do not. Pray against the spirit of Jezebel. Make sure you do not become one of them. Questions 2. Mention some of her attributes? 3. Was Elijah able to withstand her? 4. How should we deal with the spirit of Jezebel in the world today? 5. How does the spirit of Jezebel manifest itself? 6. How did Jezebel's life end? 7. How did Elijah's life end? 8. Why does it pay to serve God? 1. Harper Bible Dictionary, 1985 Dele Oke
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Moses | The Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible Mōšéh ISO 259-3 Moše; Greek: Mωϋσῆς Mōüsēs; Arabic: موسىٰ Mūsa) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur’an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew (מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ, Lit. “Moses our Teacher/Rabbi”), he is the most important prophet in Judaism,[1][2] and is also considered an important prophet in Christianity and Islam, as well as a number of other faiths. The existence of Moses as well as the veracity of the Exodus story is disputed amongst archaeologists and Egyptologists, with experts in the field of biblical criticism citing logical inconsistencies, new archaeological evidence, historical evidence, and related origin myths in Canaanite culture.[3][4][5] Other historians maintain that the biographical details, and Egyptian background, attributed to Moses imply the existence of a historical political and religious leader who was involved in the consolidation of the Hebrew tribes in Canaan towards the end of the Bronze Age. According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt’s enemies. Moses’ Hebrew mother, Jochebed, hides him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, and the child is adopted as a foundling by the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave-master, Moses flees across the Red Sea to Midian where he has his encounter with the God of Israel in the form of the “burning bush”. God sends Moses to request the release of the Israelites. After the Ten Plagues, Moses leads the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they base themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses receives the Ten Commandments. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, Moses dies aged 120, within sight of the Promised Land. Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE;[6] Christian tradition has tended to assume an earlier date.[7] Name Moses and the tablets of law The biblical text explains the name Mošeh משה as a derivation of the root mšh משה “to draw”, in Exodus 2:10: “[…] she called his name Moses (משה): and she said, Because I drew him (משיתהו) out of the water.” (KJV).[8] The name is thus suggested to relate to drawing out in a passive sense, “the one who was drawn out”. Those who depart from this tradition derive the name from the same root but in an active sense, “he who draws out”, in the sense of “saviour, deliverer”.[9] The form of the name as recorded in the Masoretic text is indeed the expected form of the Biblical Hebrew active participle.[10] Josephus argued for an Egyptian etymology, and some scholarly suggestions have followed this in deriving the name from Coptic terms mo “water” and `uses “save, deliver”, suggesting a meaning “saved from the water”.[11] Another suggestion has connected the name with the Egyptian ms, as found in Tuth-mose and Ra-messes, meaning “born” or “child”.[8][12] Biblical narrative In the Hebrew Bible, the narratives of Moses are in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.[13] Jochebed (also Yocheved) was kin to Amram’s father Kehath (Exodus 6:20). Moses had one older (by seven years) sister, Miriam, and one older (by three years) brother, Aaron.[13] According to Genesis 46:11, Amram’s father Kehath immigrated to Egypt with 70 of Jacob’s household, making Moses part of the second generation of Israelites born during their time in Egypt.[14] In the Exodus account, the birth of Moses occurred at a time when an unnamed Egyptian Pharaoh had commanded that all male Hebrew children born be killed by drowning in the river Nile. Jochebed, the wife of the Levite Amram, bore a son and kept him concealed for three months.[13][15][16] When she could keep him hidden no longer, rather than deli
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The Birth of Henry Tudor | History Today The Birth of Henry Tudor The man who founded the Tudor dynasty was born on January 28th, 1457. Henry Tudor The future Henry VII was born with a claim to the English crown which was extremely slight and intriguingly complicated. He was to spend his youth in the nightmare politics of the Wars of the Roses but he was a survivor. So was his mother, the thirteen-year-old Lady Margaret Beaufort, great-granddaughter on the wrong side of the blanket of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by Katherine Swynford. That the Beauforts were subsequently legitimized still left a question mark over their political position, but Lady Margaret was a rich enough heiress to make possession of her a profitable investment. Small, slight, shrewd and determined, Margaret was twelve when she was married to Edmund Tudor, son (ostensibly at least) of Owen Tudor, which brought a link with the French royal house into the equation. The Tudors were Anglesey landowners and Owen Tudor became a courtier of Henry V and met Henry Vs young wife, Catherine of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France. There were stories that he caught the Queen's eye when she saw him swimming, or that he tripped and fell into her lap when dancing. When Henry V died in 1422, Queen Catherine was left a widow at twenty and, according to one chronicler, 'was unable fully to curb her carnal passions'. She apparently had a love affair with Edmund Beaufort, future duke of Somerset, but it was Owen Tudor she married, on the quiet, the first widowed queen of England to remarry for 300 years. Her sons Edmund and Jasper Tudor stood high in the favour of their half-brother Henry VI, who created them earls of Richmond and Pembroke. Gossip made Edmund Tudor the son of Queen Catherine's affair with Edmund Beaufort, who was Lady Margaret's uncle. If so, Henry VII was not Welsh, and a Beaufort on both sides, but the gossip did not prevent Margaret Beaufort being married off to Edmund Tudor in 1455. Getting her with child despite her youth secured him a life interest in her substantial inherited estates, but he died the following year, when she was six months pregnant. Perhaps damaged by giving birth so young, she would have no more children. Meanwhile she went for protection to Jasper Tudor and it was in his stronghold of Pembroke Castle that she gave birth to the baby Henry. The following year she married Henry Stafford, a son of the Duke of Buckingham, to gain his protection and avoid having another husband forced on her. In 1462, when the young Henry Tudor was five years old, he was taken away from her and his wardship was given to William, Lord Herbert. Young Henry had never known a father and had now been parted from his mother as well. The Herberts seem to have treated him kindly and he was given a gentleman's education, but Lord Herbert was executed in 1469. Henry stayed on with Lady Herbert and in 1470, when he was thirteen, he had an audience with Henry VI. Later Tudor propaganda had it that the pious, half-mad king prophesied that the boy would one day rule England. Meanwhile, Henry returned to his Uncle Jasper and they were soon standing siege by a Yorkist army in Pembroke Castle. They managed to get away by ship to Brittany in 1471 and Duke François gave them shelter and protected Henry from England's Yorkist king, Edward IV, who wanted him in his own hands. Louis XI of France also tried to get Henry into his clutches. It was a desperately insecure situation and it is little wonder that the young Tudor came to manhood cautious, prudent and deeply reserved. Eventually, the death of Edward IV in 1483, the succession of Richard III, the disappearance of the princes in the Tower and the deaths of other Lancastrian claimants left Henry Tudor, however improbably, as a credible claimant to England's throne. He was encouraged by his mother, who was plotting against Richard III. Henry led an invasion from Brittany in 1485, defeated Richard III at Bosworth and became king of England at the age of twenty-eight. His mother, who burst into floods of te
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Discover Nelson in Norfolk Where to Stay Discover Nelson in Norfolk We’re very proud here in Norfolk that we gave our country its greatest naval. And here’s how you can discover Horatio Nelson in his home county. ‘I am a Norfolk man and glory in being so,’ said Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. Nelson Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson is Norfolk’s most famous son (you’ll see we call ourselves Nelson’s County on the signs coming in) and there is plenty to discover about him here. A good starting point is the Nelson Museum in Great Yarmouth, a museum dedicated to his life and times. Here you can find out about his early years in Norfolk as well as his naval career, personal life and death at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805 when he famously exclaimed: ‘Now I am satisfied – thank God I have done my duty’. The museum, with over 1000 objects, has something for everyone - children (and adults) particularly enjoy the Life Below Decks experience and Maritime Courtyard where they can indulge in a picnic and play sailors’ games. Nelson was no stranger to Great Yarmouth. While here in 1800 after belatedly returning from The Battle of the Nile, he famously declared, ‘I am myself a Norfolk man and glory in being so!’ After arriving on November 6 crowds unharnessed the horses from Nelson’s carriage and hauled it themselves to the Wrestlers Inn on Church Plain, where the widowed landlady Mrs Suckling begged permission to rename the hostelry The Nelson Arms. ‘That would be absurd,’ retorted Nelson, ‘seeing that I have but one’. During his stay, accompanied by Lady Emma Hamilton, he received the Freedom of the Borough. At the swearing-in ceremony he put his left hand on the Bible. The clerk said, ‘Your right hand, my lord,’ and Nelson famously replied: ‘That is in Tenerife’. Nelson found himself in Great Yarmouth again in 1801, preparing to sail to the Baltic for what would be the Battle of Copenhagen, during which under heavy bombardment he refused orders to withdraw. He raised his telescope to his dead eye and said: ‘I really do not see the signal’. Returning to the port he walked across the Denes to the Naval Hospital where he spent three hours with wounded seamen. Seeing a man with an empty sleeve like himself, he remarked: ‘There Jack, you and I are spoilt for fishermen’. Tucked away in the South Denes industrial area of the town is the Grade I listed monument erected by the people of Norfolk to Nelson’s memory. Completed in 1819 and standing at 144 feet, 24 years before the column in Trafalgar Square, it is well worth a look. On Sundays during the summer it is open for ascents to the top and once you have climbed the 217 steps there are stunning views over the town and surrounding countryside. Inscribed at the base of the monument are Nelson’s victories – St Vincent, Aboukir (The Nile), Copenhagen and Trafalgar – and an inscription in Latin: ‘This great man Norfolk boasts her own, not only as born there of a respectable family, and as there having received his early education, but her own also in talents, manners and mind’. The figure of Britannia tops the pedestal, facing inland, possibly towards Nelson’s birthplace in north Norfolk. Don’t believe anyone who tells you that it was a mistake that so embarrassed the architect he threw himself off the top, although it’s true that an acrobat named Marsh fell to his death after slipping while climbing down from Britannia’s shoulders in 1863. Oh yes, and the town surveyor did collapse and die while inspecting the monument in 1819. You can find a little more of Nelson in Norwich, where he attended Norwich Grammar School within the cathedral precinct in 1767. The city paid 800 guineas in 1847 for the Thomas Milnes statue of Nelson which resides in Cathedral Close, facing the school. Nelson was later educated at the Paston School in North Walsham. An enormous portrait of Nelson, painted by William Beechey in 1801, hangs in Blackfriars’ Hall in Norwich, while the dress naval hat and the sword of the defeated Spanish admiral from the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, as well as other ar
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Christmas 2015 Jeopardy Template In which state is Santa is called Kanakaloka? 100 How do many people spend Boxing Day? A) Working. B) Shopping C) Wrapping presents. 100 What colour are the berries of the mistletoe plant? 100 Just like the ones I used to know What's the second line of "I'm dreaming of a white christmas"? 100 True or false: Joseph married Mary immediately after the angel appeared to him? 200 Arizona and Florida Which two states in the US have towns called Christmas? A)Arizona and Florida B)Maine and South Dakota C)Washington and Utah D)Louisiana and Alabama 200 Norway London's Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is traditionally given by which country? A) Canada B) Norway C) Denmark D) Scotland 200 How many points does a snowflake have? 200 I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950's Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas? 200 Canada In which country does Santa have his own personal postcode: HOH OHO? A) The U.S. B) Canada C) New Zealand 300 Snowflake, Texas Which of the following places is NOT a real U.S. city or town? A) Snowflake, Texas B) Noel, Missouri C) St. Nicholas, Florida D) Santa Claus, Georgia 300 A six pence (a coin) What's lucky to find in your Christmas Pudding? 300 What country did Christmas Trees originate from? 300 White Christmas (by Bing Crosby) What is the title of biggest selling Christmas single, globally? 300 Charles Dickens One of the most loved Christmas books is A Christmas Carol. Who wrote it? A) Mark Twain B) Charles Dickens C) Hans Christian Andersen D) Thomas M. Sawyer 400 The French drink 'Lait de Poule' What drink was adapted to become the American Christmas drink 'Egg Nog'? A) The Scandinavian drink 'Gløgg' B) The Austrian drink 'Gluhwein' C) The German drink 'Biersuppe' B) The French drink 'Lait de Poule' 400 In the U.S., he's called "Santa Claus" - what's his British name? 400 Rudolph Which of the following names is NOT a name of one of Santa's original reindeers? A) Comet B) Cupid C) Dasher D) Dancer E) Prancer F) Vixen G) Donner H) Rudolph Blitzen 400 1984 (bonus points - Band Aid II was 1989, Band Aid 20 was 2004) In what year was Band-Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas the UK Christmas chart-topping record (bonus point each for the years of reissue success by Band Aid II and Band Aid 20)? Bonus points (100 each): years of band Aid II + Band Aid 20 400 B: A lump of coal Santa keeps close track of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice! Nice children often receive toys and candy in their stockings, but naughty children may receive: A) A book B) A lump of coal C) An old shoe D) An orange 500 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) What major U.S. facility provides up-to-date information every Christmas Eve on the flight path of Santa Claus? A) The U.S. National Weather Service B) North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) C) The U.S. Geological Survey D) International Arctic Research Center 500 Sandringham House Where does the British Queen traditionally spend Christmas? A) Windsor Castle B) Buckingham Palace C) Sandringham House D) Balmoral castle 500 Ten (Latin, decem - it was the tenth month of the early Roman calendar) From what does the month of December take its name? 500 Silent Night What is the English title of the carol written in 1818 by Austrian priest Josef Mohr originally called "Stille Nacht"? 500 Matheus Which of the following names does NOT belong one of the Three Kings? A) Caspar B) Balthazar C) Matheus D) Melchior
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Jay Gould Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Related Olympians: Brother-in-law of John Beresford . Medals: 1 Gold (1 Total) Biography As the grandson of the railroad multimillionaire and robber baron, Jay Gould, Jay Gould, II was able to add virtually unlimited financial resources to his considerable natural ability and he developed into the finest court tennis player in the world. In 1900 a private court was built at the family’s palatial residence at Lakewood, New Jersey and apart from retaining Frank Forester as his personal professional until 1915, Jay Gould also engaged many other professionals to provide both tutoring and competition. When only 17, Gould won the U.S. Amateur Championship and held the title until his retirement from singles play in 1926. He was also the first amateur ever to win the World Championship (in 1914) and in 1908 Jay Gould won the Olympic jeu de paume competition without the loss of a set. Gould was equally outstanding as a doubles player, winning eight U.S. titles with W. T. H. Huhn and a further six titles with Joseph Wear, the 1904 Olympic tennis bronze medalist. Throughout his career, Gould lost only once in both singles and doubles. Gould was also a very capable squash racquets player. Gould never had to work, but did manage the family fortune and real estate interests from offices in New York City – into which he had a court tennis dedans built. Results
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Stockholm 1912 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights Official Reports arrow On time The Stockholm Games were a model of efficiency. The Swedish hosts introduced the first Olympic use of automatic timing devices for the track events, the photo finish and a public address system. Last man standing If there was an unofficial theme of the 1912 Games, it was endurance. The course for the cycling road race was 320km (199 miles), the longest race of any kind in Olympic history. In Greco-Roman wrestling, the middleweight semi-final match between Russian Martin Klein and Finland’s Alfred Asikainen lasted 11 hours. Debuts and firsts For the first time, competitors in the Games came from all five continents. It was also the first time Japan participated. The modern pentathlon, women’s swimming and women’s diving all made their Olympic debuts. Mighty Jim Jim Thorpe, a Native American from Oklahoma, won the pentathlon and decathlon by huge margins. He was later disqualified when it was discovered that he had accepted a modest sum to play baseball before the Games. But in 1982, the IOC decided to reinstate him and gave his medals back to his daughter. NOCs: 28 Athletes: 2,407 (48 women, 2,359 men) Events: 102 Media: n/a New technology A well-organised edition of the Olympics, the Stockholm Games saw the first Olympic use of automatic timing equipment, the photo finish and a public address system. Swimming open to women Women's swimming events made their entrance. Japan took part Japan participated for the first time The first art and literature competition Under the nom de plume of Georges Hohrod and M. Eschbach, Baron de Coubertin was awarded first place for his "Ode to sport" which "praises sport in both a literary and sporting way". (Illustration: "Les sports d'hiver" of Carlo Pelligrini, winner of the painting competition of the Concours d'Art) The story of Jim Thorpe A native American from Oklahoma, Jim Thorpe, described by King Gustav V of Sweden as "the greatest athlete in the world", won the pentathlon and decathlon. However, he was disqualified in January 1913 when it was discovered that he had accepted a very modest sum of money to play baseball before the Games. In 1982, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee decided to reinstate Jim Thorpe and to give back to his daughter the medals that were rightfully his. His feat was immortalised in the film "The Bronze Man" by Michael Curtiz, with Burt Lancaster in the role of Thorpe. Representation of the five continents For the first time, competitors in the Games came from all five continents. Long live the Games! With the close of the 1912 Olympics, all eyes turned towards the city of Berlin where the next edition of the Games was scheduled to take place. Although World War I made it impossible for plans to proceed, the Games proved their resilience. The 1916 celebration remained in Olympic history as the Games of the VI Olympiad and in 1920 the Olympics were once again held, with the Belgian city of Antwerp acting as Olympic host. Ceremonies Stockholm 1912, Games of the V Olympiad: the Swedish team of women gymnasts parades in the stadium during the Opening Ceremony. Official opening of the Games by: His Majesty The King Gustav V Lighting the Olympic Flame by: A symbolic fire at an Olympic Summer Games was first lit in 1928 in Amsterdam. Olympic Oath by: The athletes’ oath was first sworn at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. Official Oath by: The officials' oath at an Olympic Summer Games was first sworn in 1972 in Munich. On the obverse, two female figures placing a laurel crown on the head of young victorious athlete. On the reverse, a herald proclaiming the opening of the Games with, on the left, the statue of Ling, the founder of the institutions and the Swedish gym system. All around, the inscription "OLYMPISKA SPELEN STOCKHOLM 1912". More info It represents the parade of nations, each athlete carrying a twirling flag and all going towards a common goal- the Olympic Games. The nudity of the athletes was a reference to the Games of Antiquity, altho
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Frances Bean Cobain Opens Up About Father Kurt Cobain's Death - ABC News ABC News Frances Bean Cobain Talks About Father Kurt's Death By Michael Rothman Jun 24, 2014, 1:03 PM ET 0 Shares Francis Bean Cobain posted this selfie to Twitter, June 10, 2014. 0 Shares Email After Lana Del Rey told The Guardian " I wish I was dead already ," she got a very strong response on Twitter from Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of the late Kurt Cobain. In the interview, Del Rey, 28, had mentioned heroes she and her boyfriend shared, which included Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain, both musicians who died young at just 27. Cobain's daughter Frances Bean took offense to her comments, considering she lost her father at such an early age. Read: Lana del Rey Reveals How Much She Was Paid to Sing at West-Kardashian Wedding "@LanaDelRey the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize ... I'll never know my father because he died young & it becomes a desirable feat because ppl like u think it's "cool" ... Well, it's f****** not. Embrace life, because u only get one life. The ppl u mentioned wasted that life.Don't be 1 of those ppl." She followed those tweets up with another telling her not to waste her life away and that "I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience." Kurt Cobain died in April 1994 when Frances Bean was less than two years old. It's believed the Nirvana frontman took his own life. On Monday, Del Rey responded to Frances Bean, saying the reporter from The Guardian "was asking me a lot a out your dad I said I liked him because he was talented not because he died young ... the other half of what I said wasn't really related to the people he mentioned/ I don't find that part of music glam either." @LanaDelRey I'll never know my father because he died young & it becomes a desirable feat because ppl like u think it's "cool"(cont)
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1. Which Newton-le- Willows singer has been nominated for an MTV award? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. Which Newton-le- Willows singer has been nominated for an MTV award? 2. Lenny Henry will star in which Shakespearean tragedy next year? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. Lenny Henry will star in which Shakespearean tragedy next year? 3. Will Young has been invited to take part in which panel show after saying he is a fan? 4. Nasty Nick Cotton is to return to which TV soap? 5. Which author earns £3m a week in royalties, it was revealed this week? 6. Which band release the album Dig Out Your Soul on Monday? 7. In which year was a World Cup final first decided on penalties? 8. What is the tallest and thickest kind of grass? 9. Which TV cast had a hit with Hi-Fidelity? 10. What nationality was the composer Handel? 11. What is most expensive property in the board game Monopoly? 12. Which Scandinavian group had a top 20 hit in 1993 called Dark Is The Night? 13. In which century was King Henry IV of England born? 14. Who directed the film Alien? 15. Who was the only person to win a medal for Ireland at the Sydney Olympics in 2000? 16. What did Nicholas Copernicus argue was at the centre of our universe, and what was the common belief before then? 17. Which three American states begin with the letter O? 18. In what year did Ruth Ellis become the last woman to be hanged in England? 19. Who was the first British monarch to choose Buckingham Palace as their home? 20. How many Jack’s eyes are visible in a standard pack of playing cards? 21. What is Britain’s largest lake? 22. Cameroon gained its independence from which European country in 1960? 23. Who had a number one in 1960 called Only The Lonely? 24. The 1964 film My Fair Lady was based on a play by whom? 25. Which of the Bronte sisters wrote the novels Agnes Gray and The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall? 26. Which American president once famously proclaimed: “Ich bin ein Berliner”? 27. Which element has the chemical symbol Pb? 28. What was the name of the murder victim at the beginning of the TV series Twin Peaks? 29. Who directed the 2001 film Mulholland Drive? 30. In horse racing, which three racecourses stage the five English classics? ANSWERS: 1. Rick Astley; 2. Othello; 3. Question Time; 4. Eastenders; 5. JK Rowling; 6. Oasis; 7. 1994; 8. Bamboo; 9. The Kids From Fame; 10. German; 11. Mayfair; 12. A-Ha; 13. 14th; 14. Ridley Scott; 15. Sonia O’Sullivan; 16. The Sun. Before then people believed it was the Earth; 17. Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon; 18. 1955; 19. Queen Victoria; 20. 12; 21. Loch Lomond; 22. France; 23. Roy Orbison; 24. George Bernard Shaw; 25. Anne; 26. John F. Kennedy; 27. Lead; 28. Laura Palmer; 29. David Lynch; 30. Doncaster, Epsom, Newmarket Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent
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1000+ images about Rio's 'Christ the Redeemer' on Pinterest | Christ the redeemer, Christ the redeemer statue and Rio de Janeiro Forward © Foto de Custódio Coimbra/Agência O Globo - This beautiful and unforgettable image was taken by photojournalist Custodio Coimbra from the balcony of his apartment on February 9, 2008, at the moment that lightning struck the head of Christ the Redeemer during a heavy rain that flooded many parts of Rio de Janeiro. See more
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