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What is a kick, a cut, a horse, and uninspiring journalist?
Hack - definition of hack by The Free Dictionary Hack - definition of hack by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hack Related to hack: Life hack hack 1 v. hacked, hack·ing, hacks v.tr. 1. To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows: hacked down the saplings. 2. To make or shape by hitting or chopping with a sharp implement: hacked a trail through the forest. 3. To break up the surface of (soil). 4. a. To alter (a computer program): hacked her text editor to read HTML. b. To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization: hacked the firm's personnel database. 5. Slang To cut or mutilate as if by hacking: hacked millions off the budget. 6. Slang To cope with successfully; manage: couldn't hack a second job. v.intr. 1. To chop or cut something by hacking. 2. a. To write or refine computer programs skillfully. b. To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network: hacked into the company's intranet. 3. To cough roughly or harshly. n. 1. A rough, irregular cut made by hacking. 2. A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking. 3. A blow made by hacking. 4. An attempt to hit a baseball; a swing of the bat. 5. a. An instance of gaining unauthorized access to a computer file or network. b. A program that makes use of existing often proprietary software, adding new features to it. c. A clever modification or improvement. 6. A rough, dry cough. [Middle English hakken, from Old English -haccian; see keg- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots. V., intr., sense 2, back-formation from hacker .] hack′a·ble adj. 1. A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney. 2. A worn-out horse for hire; a jade. 3. a. One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling. b. A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing. 4. A carriage or hackney for hire. 5. Informal v. hacked, hack·ing, hacks v.tr. 1. To let out (a horse) for hire. 2. To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use. v.intr. 1. To drive a taxicab for a living. 2. To work for hire as a writer. 3. To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace. adj. 1. By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing: hack prose. 2. Hackneyed; banal. (hæk) vb 1. (when: intr, usually foll by at or away) to cut or chop (at) irregularly, roughly, or violently 2. to cut and clear (a way, path, etc), as through undergrowth 3. (Rugby) (in sport, esp rugby) to foul (an opposing player) by kicking or striking his shins 4. (Basketball) basketball to commit the foul of striking (an opposing player) on the arm 5. (Pathology) (intr) to cough in short dry spasmodic bursts 6. (Journalism & Publishing) (tr) to reduce or cut (a story, article, etc) in a damaging way 7. (Computer Science) to manipulate a computer program skilfully, esp, to gain unauthorized access to another computer system 8. (tr) slang to tolerate; cope with: I joined the army but I couldn't hack it. 9. hack to bits to damage severely: his reputation was hacked to bits. n 10. a cut, chop, notch, or gash, esp as made by a knife or axe 11. (Agriculture) any tool used for shallow digging, such as a mattock or pick 12. a chopping blow 13. (Pathology) a dry spasmodic cough 14. (Rugby) a kick on the shins, as in rugby 15. a wound from a sharp kick [Old English haccian; related to Old Frisian hackia, Middle High German hacken] hack 1. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) a horse kept for riding or (more rarely) for driving 2. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) an old, ill-bred, or overworked horse 3. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) a horse kept for hire 4. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) Brit a country ride on horseback 5. a drudge 6. (Journalism & Publishing) a person who produces mediocre literary or journalistic work 7. (Automotive Engineering) Also called: hackney US a coach or carriage that is for hire 8. (Automotive Engineering) informal 9. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) Brit to ride (a horse) cross-country for pleasure 10. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) (tr) to let (a horse) out for hire 11.
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Who was the beautiful girl loved by Eros in Greek mythology? Her name means 'spirit' or 'life' in Greek.
Myth of Eros and Psyche - Greeka.com Discover the myth of Eros and Psyche The legendary beauty of Psyche Once upon a time, there was a king who had three wonderful daughters. The youngest, Psyche, was much more beautiful than her two sisters and looked like a goddess among mere mortals. The fame of its beauty had been spread throughout the whole kingdom and men kept coming to her palace to admire and worship her. When people would see her, they used to say that not even Aphrodite herself could compete Psyche. The more people were getting to know Psyche, the less would remember the goddess of love and beauty. The temples of Aphrodite were abandoned, her altars covered with cold ashes and the sculptors would no more make statues for her. All the honors reserved to her were then attributed to a simple, mortal girl. The goddess could not accept such a situation and required help from his son, Eros. He told him in distress, Use your power and make this little shameless girl to fall in love with the vilest and the most despicable creature who has ever walked on Earth. Eros agreed to do so but the moment he saw her, he himself felt his heart pierced by one of his own arrows. He couldn't make that charming maiden fall in love with a horrible creature but also decided not to tell his mother. The horrible prophesy Psyche, however, was felling bad because not only she could not fall in love with someone but, even more surprising, nobody seemed to really fall in love with her. Men were happy just to admire her. Then they passed by and married another girl. Her two sisters, though definitely less seductive, had held two lavish weddings, each with a king. Psyche was the most beautiful girl on Earth, but she was sad and lonely, always admired but never really loved. It seemed that no man would want her as his wife and this caused great anxiety and distress to her parents. That is when her father went to visit the oracle of Delphi to ask Apollo for an advice on what to do to find a husband for Psyche. The prophecy of the god was terrible. Apollo decreed that Psyche, dressed in black dress, should be brought to the summit of a mountain and stay there alone. The husband that was assigned to her, a winged serpent, terrible and more powerful than the gods themselves, would come up and take her for his wife. No one can imagine the despair of the family and friends of Psyche. She was prepared for the hill as if she were to face her death and with more cries than if they were to drive her to the tomb, they led the young lady to the hill. Desperately, they all departed, leaving Psyche to her fate, radiant and helpless, and they locked themselves in the palace to mourn her for the rest of their days. The beginning of a fairy tale On the hill and in the dark, Psyche remained seated and waited. While she was shaking and crying in the quiet night, a slight breeze reached her. It was the fresh wind of Zephyr, the mildest of the winds. He felt that she was being raised. She was being taken into the air, over the rocky hill, to a soft meadow full of flowers. He did his best to make her forget her pain and put her to sleep. She then woke up by the sound of clear stream and when she opened her eyes she faced an imposing and magnificent castle. It seemed destined to a god, with gold columns, silver walls and floors of inlaid precious stones. Absolute silence ruled. It seemed uninhabited and Psyche approached cautiously to admire its splendors. She remained suspicious at the threshold, where she heard a noise but could not see anyone. However, she could clearly hear the words: The house is for you. Come in and do not be afraid. Take a bath and we will immediately honor you with a great dinner. Never had she taken such a refreshing bath nor tasted such delicious dishes. While eating, she heard a soft music around her, like a harp accompanying a numerous choir. She heard it but she could not see it. The whole day she was alone, only accompanied by the voices. But somehow she knew her husband would come at night. And so it was. When she felt he was close to
Monsters in Greek Mythology Monsters in Greek Mythology Argus Argus may have had as many as one hundred eyes, which were located all over his body. Hera employed him as a guard. He was killed by Hermes . Afterward, Hera put Argus's eyes in the tail of the peacock, her favorite bird. Cerberus Cerberus was a huge and powerful three-headed dog. He was owned by Hades , god of the dead, who used the fearsome hound to guard the entrance to the underworld. In his final labor, Hercules went to the underworld and kidnapped Cerberus . Cyclopes Each of the Cyclopes was gigantic and had a single eye in the middle of its forehead. The Cyclopes made lightning and thunderbolts for Zeus to use. The brutal Polyphemus , a Cyclops and a son of Poseidon , lived on an island, where he was blinded by Odysseus . Gorgons The Gorgons were horrifyingly ugly monsters who lived at the edge of the world. Their hair was made of serpents, and one look from a Gorgon's eyes would turn a man to stone. Perseus killed the Gorgon Medusa by beheading her while looking only at her reflection. The Hydra Hydra The Hydra was a massive and poisonous serpent with nine heads. Every time one head was injured, another two grew in its place. Hercules sought out the monster in its dark marsh and succeeded in destroying it. Minotaur The Minotaur was a man-eating monster with the head of a bull. King Minos kept it hidden in a labyrinth (a maze) in Knossos, on the island of Crete, where he used it to frighten his enemies. Theseus killed the Minotaur. The Minotaur Scylla and Charybdis The powerful monsters Scylla and Charybdis lived together in a sea cave. Scylla had many fierce dog heads and ate sailors alive; Charybdis created whirlpools by sucking in and spitting out seawater. Both Jason and Odysseus safely traveled by these monsters. Sirens The Sirens were giant, winged creatures with the heads of women. They lived on rocks on the sea, where their beautiful singing lured sailors to shipwreck. Odysseus filled his sailors' ears with wax so that they might sail safely past the Sirens.
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Which English county is known as ‘The Red Rose County’?
Lancashire Flag | British County Flags British County Flags Posted on June 23, 2013 by vexilo Lancashire’s warm and sunny flag was registered in 2008. It features the county’s traditional red rose with which it has long been associated. A rose had first been used as a royal badge by Henry III (reigned 1216 – 1272) , who adopted his golden rose from his wife, Eleanor of Provence. This royal badge was then used by the four subsequent monarchs but Henry’s son Edmund (Crouchback) (1245-1296) the first Duke of Lancaster, distinguished his own badge by making the rose red. His descendants, the Dukes of Lancaster, used the badge as an emblem of the house of Lancaster. The specific variety or species of rose depicted is generally held to be the “Rosa Gallica Officinalis”, possibly the first cultivated rose. There are conflicting opinions regarding the prominence of the red rose during the period of the civil war, subsequently named “The Wars of The Roses”. Although a badge of the House of Lancaster it is conceivable that it came to prominence only with the victory of Henry VII (Tudor) at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 in response to the white rose badge used by the rival House of York. The promulgation of this Lancastrian badge allowed Henry Tudor to symbolise the restoration of peace and unity by creating the combined red and white, Tudor rose, that came to symbolise England as a whole and to bask in the reflected glories of both York and Lancaster – each a cadet branch of the royal Plantagenet House. The floral union also reflected his personal union in marriage, with Elizabeth of York and the cessation of hostilities between these rival branches of the royal dynasty. Whether this deft, political use of emblems was of Henry VII’s own devising or that of some insightful herald is unknown. The association of the red rose of the House of Lancaster with the county of Lancashire seems to have developed retrospectively, thereafter, in consequence of its use as an element in the much featured Tudor symbol. In the nineteenth century the red rose appeared as the badge, or on the military banners, of some county militia regiments including the Royal Lancashire Militia A red rose also reportedly featured on the regimental colours of: Blackburn Hundred Higher Division Local Militia, and Trafford House and Hulme Local Militia. Notably however in this era of the early nineteenth century other militia units from Blackburn, Leyland and Oldham for example bore no rose on their insignia. Similarly the red rose makes no appearance on the arms of the county’s older or larger towns and cities, for example; By contrast the arms of urban areas awarded in later years, regularly include roses, e.g. indicating a developing association between the County of Lancaster and the red rose emblem of the House of Lancaster. Architectural features incorporating the red rose also appeared at this time. A cobblestone mosaic depicts the red rose of the county in Williamson Park, Lancaster. The building and grounds date from the early twentieth century  Another cobbled mosaic of the red rose can be seen outside Manchester Town Hall, completed in 1877  Towards the end of the nineteenth century the red rose was also adopted by Lancashire County Cricket Club as the club’s badge demonstrating that the symbol had become firmly established as the county emblem.  This was followed at the start of the twentieth century with the award to the local county council, which had been established in 1889, of an official coat arms. The firm association of the county and the red rose by this time is evident in the pattern adopted which boldly displays three red roses, of the House of Lancaster. The main arms were officially granted on August 31, 1903, the supporters were granted on October 26, 1903. The various other elements that make up the arms, for example the colours, are derived from the arms of the Ferrers family, earls of Derby who held the land between the rivers Ribble and Mersey in the thirteenth century before the Earldom (later Duchy) of Lancaster was created. However,
Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: CUP AND PLATE QUESTIONS FOR TUESDAY 28TH JANUARY CUP AND PLATE QUESTIONS FOR TUESDAY 28TH JANUARY      Questions set by the Waters Green Lemmings and the Bate Horntails. ROUND ONE: Q1: The characters Vladimir and Estragon appear? A: Waiting for Godot. Q2: What relation was Pliny the Younger to Pliny the Elder? A: Nephew. Q3: Which member of the Royal Family is nicknamed “Princess Pushy”?  A: Princess Michael of Kent. Q4: What was the name of Perry Mason’s secretary? A: Della Street. Q5: What famous French film production/newsreel brand, established in 1896, was the first major movie corporation?                                                                                                                     A: Pathé (Pathé Frères - Pathé Brothers) Q6: Which King conferred the title “Royal and Ancient” on the Golf Club at St. Andrews? A: William IV. Q7: In which U.S. state is the vast majority of Yellowstone National Park? A: Wyoming. Q8: Which was the last British group to win the Eurovision Song Contest? A: Katrina and the Waves (in 1997 with Love Shine A Light). Q9: In October 2013, Sebastian Vettel won the F1 Driver’s Championship for the 4th consecutive time, but how many other people have achieved this feat? A: Three: (Juan Manuel Fangio; Alain Prost; Michael Schumacher). Q10: Which country finished third in the 1966 World Cup?                                                                                                                                 A: Portugal.                                                       Q11: What was the surname of Art Historian and nun, Sister Wendy?                                                                                                                                 A: Becket. Q12: What is the capital of Tajikistan?                                                                                                                                 A: Dushanbe. Q13: Which Beatles album followed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? A: Magical Mystery Tour. Q14: Which detective was created by W J Burley?  A: Wycliffe. Q15: Which of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five owned Timmy the Dog?                                                                                                                                 A: George. Q16: In which prison was the television series “Porridge” set?                                                                                                                        Slade.   Q17: Where in the human body is the radius?                                                                                                                                 A: The forearm (accept arm). Q18: To which country do the islands of Spitzbergen belong?                                                                                                                        A: Norway.   Q19: In which year was the Festival of Britain?                                                                                                                                 A: 1951. Q20: In whose shop window did Bagpuss sit? A: Emily’s.   Q1: At which English racecourse would you find Devil’s Dyke?                                                                                                                                                                                      A: Newmarket. Q2: Which is the largest moon in the Solar System?                                                                                                                                                                                      A: Ganymede. Q3: How many Nobel Prizes are usually awarded each year?                                                                                                                                                                                      A: Six: (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics). Q4: Who was the last King of Italy?
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Sligo, Galway and Limerick are all cities in which European country?
Sligo Travel Information from SligoTour.com Travelling to Sligo Airports Ireland has seven regional airport and four international airports. Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Belfast are the main international hubs. However the growth of the regional airports and their expansion has made the west and northwest much more easily accessible for many. Ireland West Airport , Knock, County Mayo Website: www.knockairport.com 38miles/62 km from Sligo Town. Approximately 1hour driving time to Sligo Town, and 30 minutes to the south of the county. The airport is located south of Sligo just off the N17 to Galway. It has been one of the biggest success stories of the regional airports. Scheduled flights are operated year round by a number of operators. Charters are operated in the winter and summer to various European destinations by a number of mainly Irish tour operators. The airport - although small - has good basic facilities, such as on the spot parking, car rental, airport shop, bars and food. There is a cashpoint but no exchange facilities are available. Traffic around the airport is unproblematic and both check-in and luggage collection times are very fast compared to the larger airports. Many people visiting the west or northwest prefer using the airport due to its speed and convenience. A shuttle bus service, BusAer is available between the airport and Charlestown, where further bus connections are available to Sligo and various destinations in Ireland. NB A development fee is payable locally on departure from Knock ( € 10, under 12s do not pay). This is a compulsory local tax to raise money to improve the airport area. Sligo Airport, Strandhill, County Sligo Website: www.sligoairport.com Sligo has its own local airport at Strandhill some 5 miles from Sligo Town. The airport has daily services to Dublin and four times a week to Manchester. Local bus services to and from Sligo are available as are taxis. Car parking and car rental available. Galway Airport, Galway, County Galway Website: www.galwayairport.com Around 2hrs from Sligo Connections are available to Dublin with AerArann and to the UK and Belfast through Flybe. Bus connections are through city express and most will connect with buses at the city bus depot. Dublin Airport Website: www.dublinairport.com Dublin is the major international airport in Ireland with flight connections all over the world. Good bus connections exist between the airport and the city centre by Airlink. Busáras (central bus station in Dublin) is where all expressway services start to all destinations throughout the country. Belfast and Derry Airports Website: www.cityofderryairport.com Belfast is another international hub to the UK, European destinations and transatlantic routes. Derry offers services to Bristol, Dublin, Liverpool, East Midlands, Glasgow and Stanstead. Derry is approx 84 mile/135km from Sligo. Bus services exist between both Belfast and Derry. Public Transport Website: www.buseireann.ie Tel: Sligo 071 9160066 The national bus company, Bus Éireann, runs most of the public buses in the Republic of Ireland. Sligo is well connected to other main towns and routes throughout Ireland. There are three basic sets of service provided : Expressway - covering the long distance services  Local services - covering many of the rural small towns.                                                 City services - eg Sligo Town shuttles. Expressway long distance service connects Sligo with Dublin, Longford, Mullingar, Galway, Letterkenny, Derry, Enniskillen , Westport, Ballina, Belfast, Cork limerick and Roscrea. The Eurolines service also connects to UK. Local and rural commuter services covers more local short di
General Knowledge Quiz - By Zarbo84 The fictional character John Clayton is better known by what name? La Paz is the administrative capital of which South American country? Actor Charles Buchinsky was better known by what name? The medical condition ‘aphonia’ is the inability to do what? In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the king of which Island? Who played the title role in the 1953 film ‘The Glenn Miller Story’? A third wedding anniversary is traditionally represented by which material? In the Bible, what sign did God give Noah that the earth would not be flooded again? In August 2011 NASA announced that photographic evidence had been captured of possible liquid water of which planet in our solar system? The restored tomb of which dramatist was unveiled in Paris in November 2011, after being ruined by lipstick smears left by thousands of kisses? What was the name of the hurricane which hit the East Coast of America in August 2011? On 11th March 2011 a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of which country? Convict George Joseph Smith was known as the ‘Brides in the ‘what’ murderer’? In the human body, Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis is commonly known by what name? A peregrine is what type of bird? What is the name of the highly toxic protein obtained from the pressed seeds of the castor oil plant? Which British pop musician/actor was actress Sadie Frost’s first husband? British singer Gaynor Hopkins is better known by what name? Who played Ron Kovic in the 1989 film ‘Born on the Fourth of July’? Ben Gurion International Airport is in which country? Which basketball star is kidnapped by cartoon characters in the 1996 film ‘Space Jam’? In the tv series The A Team, what does B.A. stand for in the name B.A. Baracus? In medicine, metritis is the inflammation of which part of the body? In which year was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in the USA? In the human body, where is the atrium? The OK Corral is in which US town? In Greek mythology, Amphitrite, queen of the sea, was the wife of which god? Which British boxer bought one of the original ‘Only Fools and Horses’ Reliant Robins in 2004? Actor Roy Harold Scherer was better known by what name? Anna Gordy was the first wife of which late soul singer? Who played Heinrich Himmler in the 1976 film ‘The Eagle Has Landed’? Which is the fastest rotating planet in our solar system? Which country was invaded by Iraq in 1990? Cobalt, Cyan and Cerulean are shades of which colour? In 1936, Joseph Bowers was the first inmate to attempt an escape from which prison? In the 18th Century, the British Royal Navy ordered limes and lemons to be carried on board ships as a remedy for which disease? In which US state were the 1692 Witch Trials held? Question Who was the father of English monarch Edward VI? Vermicide is a substance used for killing which creatures? Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs were two elderly residents in which UK tv sitcom? Who was US actor Mickey Rooney’s first wife? The resort town of Sliema is on which Mediterranean island? In the Bible, what is the Decalogue more commonly known as? In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the god of what? Which real-life couple starred in the 1994 remake of the film ‘The Getaway’? American 1940′s murder victim Elizabeth Short was known by what posthumous nickname? British monarch Henry VIII married which of his wives in 1540? In February 1983 which US writer choked to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops? Which US gangster was released from Alcatraz prison in November 1939? Who built the Roman wall which divided England and Scotland? In the human body, the hallux is more commonly known by what name? The liqueur Maraschino is flavoured with which fruit? Which famous US outlaw shot the cashier of a savings bank in Gallatin Missouri in 1869? Kathmandu is the capital of which country? TAP is the chief airline of which European country? In November 2002, which member of the British royal family was convicted and fined for violating the Dangerous Dogs Act? Tommy Lee plays which instrument in the band Motley Crue? The Wang River i
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During WWI, manufacturers of what product relabeled themselves as Liberty Cabbage to avoid anti-German sentiments?
PPT - APUSH REVIEW PowerPoint Presentation - ID:1513598 APUSH REVIEW APUSH Which of the following statements about  the settlers that arrived at Plymouth in 1620 is not true? their original goal was a landfall farther south, at the northern edge of Virginia Company territory while English, they had lived for a time in the Netherlands they had experienced persecution in England for their religious beliefs and sought to separate from the Church of England they probably would have starved to death without the assistance of local Indians they became the dominant political and religious force in New England in the 1630s and 1640s (E) they became the dominant political and religious force in New England in the 1630s and 1640s Explanation:Often referred to as Pilgrims or Separatists, the 102 passengers on the Mayflower sought religious freedom first in the Netherlands and then in the New World. While originally intending to land farther south near the Hudson River, the ship was buffeted by storms and landed first on Cape Cod and then Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts. Despite early hostile encounters, local Indians assisted the 53 who had survived the first winter. Another group of settlers, mainly composed of Puritans, established Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and became the dominant force in New England. The biggest surrender in American military history, involving almost 12,000 U.S. soldiers, occurred where during World War 2? Kasserine Pass in North Africa on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippine Islands at the Battle of the Bulge in northern Europe on Guadacanal Island in the South Pacific at Anzio Beach in Italy   (B) on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippine Islands Along with the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands. After resistance proved futile, American General Ned King surrendered his troops to the Japanese. The captured American and Filipinos were then forced to participate in a brutal 75-mile march to prison camps which resulted in thousands dying of thirst, beatings, and executions. The Japanese commanding general, Masaharu Homma, was tried and executed for war crimes following Japan's surrender in 1945. Henry Ford did which of the following in mass-producing automobiles in the 1920s? he hired more Jews in management positions he utilized a style of management that delegated corporate decisions to professionals in specialized divisions he paid his workers higher wages than they could receive with comparable jobs he paid his workers lower wages than they could receive with comparable jobs he instituted worker-management teams to share decision-making about Answer:(C)    he paid his workers higher wages than they could receive with comparable jobs Explanation: Ford began paying his workers $5 per an eight-hour work day in 1914, almost double the rate for comparable work with longer hours. His action reduced employee turnover and increased worker efficiency. Ford also used assembly lines for the mass production of inexpensive automobiles. Vice-president George H.W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan as president following the 1988 election. Before him, the last incumbent vice-president who was directly elected president rather than succeeding a president who died in office was Martin Van Buren Harry Truman Answer:     (A)    Martin Van Buren Explanation: . George H.W. Bush followed Reagan's two terms as president and built a solid reputation for decisive action with the Operation Desert Storm success against Iraq. Economic stagnation at home and Bush's decision to break his "Read My Lips. No New Taxes" pledge caused his popularity to fall and he was defeated by Bill Clinton in 1992. Andrew Jackson's second vice-president, Martin Van Buren, was elected president in 1836. Johnson, Coolidge, Roosevelt and Truman all succeeded presidents who died in office. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 finally removed the British presence from the Ohio River Valley reduced the authority of the federal government in the western territories provided a procedure for admitting new sta
Level 3 - General Knowledge 1000, - Memrise General Knowledge 1000 Ready to learn       Ready to review Ignore words Check the boxes below to ignore/unignore words, then click save at the bottom. Ignored words will never appear in any learning session. Who wrote the Opera Madam Butterfly India What links - Goa - Kerula - Assam - Bihar George Orwell Eric Arthur Blaire was the real name of which author Shoemaker Names - Baker Cook obvious what did Cordwainer do China Which country do Sinologists study Barbara Stanwyck Rudy Stevens became famous under which name Grenadine Which non alcoholic cordial is made from pomegranates Dancing What is Orchesis - either professional or amateur Art of Horses Taken literally what should you see in a Hippodrome Alexander Dumas Who wrote the Man in the Iron Mask Hocus Pocus Which 1993 Disney film starred Bet Middler as a witch Louis Bleriot Who piloted the first flight across the English channel Dr No What was the first James Bond film Silence of the Lambs What 1991 film won best film Addis Ababa What was the capital of Ethiopia Medicine Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek Roman god of what Motorcycle Racing Giacomo Agostini - 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport Alaska What is the largest state in the USA Berlin Mexico London Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals Woody Allen Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as who Amnesty International Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977 Nelson Mandela Whose autobiography was The long walk to Freedom Tutankamen tomb What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter Pluto Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930 Jackie Joyner-Kersey Who won the women's heptathlon at Seoul in 1988 Jayne Austin Who ran through the streets naked crying Eureka Johan Sebastian Bach Who composed the Brandeberg concertos .Full name Minnesota twins Who won the World Series in 1987 Your Holiness What is the correct term of address to the Pope Edinburgh In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847 Tchaikovsky Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker The Deaf AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of what Jack Benny Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what comedian Jonah In the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah - Micah Mrs Doubtfire Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 film Bishop Which chess piece could be a member of the church Blitzkrieg Which German word means lightning war used in WW2 Cabbage Broccoli belongs to what family of plants I. Kingdom Brunel Who designed the first Iron ship the Great Britain in 1845 Donald Campbell Whose boat Bluebird was recently raised from Coniston water Buick - Chrysler in 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steering Joseph Heller Who wrote Catch 22 (both names) Netherlands Which country set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650 Chess World Champs What links the names Botvinik Chrysanthemum What is the national flower of Japan Hit Gong Bombardier Billy Wells was seen on many Rank films - why Bordeaux Where in France do claret wines come from Logarithms What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614 IBM FORTRAN
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What is the name of the fictional road on the council estate to which the Queen and her family have to move in the 1992 novel ‘The Queen and I’ by Sue Townsend?
The Queen and I by Sue Townsend — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Shelves: fiction , humour , reviewed This is a solid four-star comic book of that particular kind of dry British humour but more bouncy, because Sue Townsend of the The Adrian Mole Diaries series fame is bouncy. She has also been a noted and outspoken socialist (for Americans: this is a perfectly acceptable and mainstream thing to be in the UK, Europe in general, unlike in the US) and here she carries all that to the extreme. Essentially the book is about what would happen if a Marxist government took over and tossed the Queen and h This is a solid four-star comic book of that particular kind of dry British humour but more bouncy, because Sue Townsend of the The Adrian Mole Diaries series fame is bouncy. She has also been a noted and outspoken socialist (for Americans: this is a perfectly acceptable and mainstream thing to be in the UK, Europe in general, unlike in the US) and here she carries all that to the extreme. Essentially the book is about what would happen if a Marxist government took over and tossed the Queen and her fam out of Buckingham Palace and sent her to a sink estate to live on benefits. It's quite cleverly worked out and all the royal family stay in the characters we "know" them to be from the media. Then she effing ruins it with an ending so crap that even Jodi Picoult, mistress of the cop-out ending, would be all agasp at such a cheap shot. If you aren't going to read the book, then this is the ending, (view spoiler) [ it's all a dream (hide spoiler) ]. Four stars demoted to three stars for that! ...more http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07qsljj Moving Day: 1992: Evicted by a new government, can the Royal family cope with life outside their palaces? Sue Townsend's novel is read in eight parts by Miriam Margolyes - a performance which won her the award for Best Radio Actress of 1992. Hell Close: Now just Mrs Windsor, can the former monarch navigate a world with social workers and rowdy neighbours? Affray: Now plain Mrs Windsor, can the former Queen deal with a council estate crisis? And money is sho http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07qsljj Moving Day: 1992: Evicted by a new government, can the Royal family cope with life outside their palaces? Sue Townsend's novel is read in eight parts by Miriam Margolyes - a performance which won her the award for Best Radio Actress of 1992. Hell Close: Now just Mrs Windsor, can the former monarch navigate a world with social workers and rowdy neighbours? Affray: Now plain Mrs Windsor, can the former Queen deal with a council estate crisis? And money is short. Shelves: contemporary , 2013-reads , lisa-s-low-octane-alphabet , humour Imagine if the UK became a Republic and the Royal Family were sent to live on a housing estate and told to live like ordinary Britons. How would they cope? How would they adapt? This very scenario is explored in this rather funny little story by Sue Townsend. This was the first book that I have read by this author and it came highly recommended by a friend. On the whole I found it a really enjoyable read. This was a very quick and easy book to read. The story unfolds at a good pace and the humor, Imagine if the UK became a Republic and the Royal Family were sent to live on a housing estate and told to live like ordinary Britons. How would they cope? How would they adapt? This very scenario is explored in this rather funny little story by Sue Townsend. This was the first book that I have read by this author and it came highly recommended by a friend. On the whole I found it a really enjoyable read. This was a very quick and easy book to read. The story unfolds at a good pace and the humor, which is undeniably British, really kept me wanting to turn the pages in order to see what would happen next and to which unsuspecting member of the Royal Family. The depictions of each member of the Royal Family stay very true to how they are often portrayed in the press and on tv comedy shows and the results are pretty amusing. My two personal favourites were Prince Phillip and Prin
Movie History at Stoke Park | Luxury 5 Star Hotel, Spa & Golf in Buckinghamshire Movie History Movie History "From Bond to Bridget Jones, Stoke Park is amongst Hollywood’s hottest – and its right on our doorstep" - Wedding Ideas Stoke Park has always had a close relationship to Pinewood Studios (four miles away) and the British film industry. Two James Bond movies, Goldfinger (1964) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) were filmed at Stoke Park. The epic duel between James Bond (Sean Connery) and Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) is still considered to be the most famous game of golf in cinematic history. The famous ‘mini break’ and rowing scenes from Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) were filmed in the Great Hall, Lakes and The Pennsylvania Suite with Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth. In 2004, three movies were released all featuring Stoke Park: Wimbledon, Bride & Prejudice and Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake. In Wimbledon, Paul Bettany is featured on the grass tennis courts. Layer Cake featured Stoke Park in many scenes including the dramatic ending with Daniel Craig and Sienna Miller, filmed on The Mansion’s front steps. Bride & Prejudice, a Bollywood reworking of Jane Austen's classic novel, featured shots throughout the grounds. Guy Ritchie’s 2008 movie RockNRolla also featured the grass tennis courts and the 21st green. The Stoke Park estate once again featured in W.E., Madonna's 2011 film about the romance between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and its effect of a modern day New Yorker.. Dead of Night - 1945 Two golfers, having fallen for the same woman battle it out in style on the golf course. They decide to play 18 holes who ever loses would leave the area for good. The location, none other than Stoke Park. James Bond - 007 The third and eighteenth movies in the James Bond series of feature films, Goldfinger (1964) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), were filmed in and around the mansion and on our championship golf course. Goldfinger - 1964 It would be only a matter of time before James Bond's creator Ian Fleming would inject his passion for golf into a 007 adventure, and in his seventh Bond novel, published in 1959, he had his hero face-off against a villain with the Midas touch. In the novel Goldfinger, Bond finds himself very much in the rough when playing against Auric Goldfinger, international jeweller, gold smuggler and golf cheat. Set at the fictional Royal St Mark's at Sandwich in Kent (although a rather transparent use of Fleming's own club, Royal St George's), 007 narrowly escapes defeat by bringing a little gamesmanship of his own into play. The golf match for the film version Goldfinger (1964) was shot at Stoke Park, and remains cinema's most famous golfing scene. Sean Connery's agent 007 is pitted against Auric Goldfinger, in the monumental form of the late Gert Frobe - complete with Plus Fours! After catching Goldfinger cheating, Bond switches balls on his opponent during the match. Realising that Bond is attempting to interfere in his affairs, Goldfinger motions to Oddjob, his deadly Korean manservant and caddie, to sever the head of a nearby statue with his steel-rimmed bowler. Bond is suitably impressed, but wonders what the club secretary will have to say. Goldfinger explains smugly, "Oh nothing Mister Bond - I own the club!" Tomorrow Never Dies - 1997 Stoke Park was proud to welcome back Bond in 1997 when scenes filmed at Stoke Park. The film crew and technicians converted our Ballroom into Bond's hotel room in Hamburg. James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver is manipulating world events via an exclusive flow of information through his satellite system reaching all corners of the planet. With a stealth battleship sinking a British naval vessel, Carver sees that the Chinese are blamed. Crashing Carver's party in Hamburg, Bond meets "journalist" Wai Lin, later revealed as a Chinese agent. In a brief tryst, filmed at the club, Bond renews his past relationship with Carver's wife Paris (Teri Hatcher). Carver dispatches Stamper (Gotz Otto) cancel Bond, a struggle between them was f
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Manchuria is a historical name for a large region of which continent?
Manchuria | Mannaismaya Adventure's Blog Mannaismaya Adventure's Blog EXperience The Beauty of Indonesia ! Menu Manchuria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and others Manchuria is a historical name given to a large geographic region in northeast  Asia . This region is the traditional homeland of the  Xianbei  (鮮卑/鲜卑,  Cyrillic : сяньби),  Khitan (契丹,  Cyrillic : кидани), and  Jurchen  (女真,  Cyrillic :чжурчжэни), who built several dynasties in northern China. The region is also the home of the  Manchus , after whom Manchuria is named. The historical region is contemporarily divided between the  People’s Republic of China (part of  Northeast China ) and the  Russian Federation  (part of the  Russian Far East ). The exact boundaries of the region aren’t well-defined. To avoid ambiguities, Inner Manchuria is sometimes distinguished from Outer Manchuria. Inner Manchuria corresponds roughly to the Chinese part, including  Heilongjiang ,  Jilin and  Liaoning ) and part of northeastern  Inner Mongolia . Also sometimes included into Chinese Manchuria is the  Jehol  region of  Hebei  province. Outer Manchuria  or “Russian Manchuria” is the territory from the  Amur  and  Ussuri rivers to the  Stanovoy Mountains  and the  Sea of Japan , including  Primorsky Krai , southern  Khabarovsk Krai , the  Jewish Autonomous Oblast  and  Amur Oblast . These were ceded to Russia by Qing China in the  Treaty of Aigun  (1858).  Sakhalin Oblast  is also generally included on Chinese maps as part of Outer Manchuria, even though it is not explicitly mentioned in the Treaty of Nerchinsk. Manchuria Extent of Manchuria according to:Definition 1 (dark red) Definition 2 (dark red + medium red) Definition 3 (dark red + medium red + light red)   Dark Red  (Manju) Mongolian name Mongolian Манж Russian name Russian Маньчжурия Origin of the name Manchuria is a translation of the  Manchu  word Manju ( Chinese language : Mǎnzhōu). According to the Manchu Veritable Records, the name Manju was originally given by the legendary dynastic founder Bukūri Yongšon to the country he established when he united the three warring clans of Odoli, at the location of the modern city of Dunhua  in  Jilin  province. This name was used in Chinese documents until the early 20th century, when Manchuria was converted into three  provinces  by the late  Qing government. Since then, the “Three Northeast Provinces” (東三省) was officially used by the Qing government in  China  to refer to this region, and the post of  Viceroy of Three Northeast Provinces  (東三省總督) was established to take charge of these provinces. After the  1911 revolution , which resulted in the collapse of the Manchu-established Qing Dynasty, the name of the region where the Manchus originated was known as the Northeast in official documents in the newly-founded  Republic of China , in addition to the “Three Northeast Provinces”. Extent of  Northeast China In current Chinese  parlance , an inhabitant of “the Northeast”, or Northeast China, is a “Northeasterner” (Dōng-běi-rén). “The Northeast” is a term that expresses the entire region, encompassing its history, culture, traditions, dialects, cuisines and so forth, as well as the “Three Northeast Provinces” (東三省 or 東北三省), which replaced the concept of “Manchuria” in the early 20th century. Though geographically also located in the northeastern part of China, other provinces such as  Hebei  are not considered to be a part of “the Northeast”. After the  Second Sino-Japanese War , the  People’s Republic of China  has refused recognition of the name Mǎnzhōu (“Manchuria”), only using “the Northeast” for the region to avoid acknowledging the Japanese imperial legacy in the area; the title of Manchuria is still often associated in China with the Japanese puppet state of  Manchukuo One of the earliest European maps using the term “Manchuria” (Mandchouria) ( John Tallis , 1851). Previously, the term “Chinese  Tartary ” had been commonly applied in the West to Manchuria and Mongolia. People Manchuria is populated by over 100 million people, 90 percent of which are descendant
Index-a What does the workplace flexi-hours acronym TOIL stand for? Waterloo, the location of Napoleon's 1815 defeat, is in modern-day: France; Belgium; Spain; or Russia? G-BOAG, G-BOAC, and F-BVFC and the tragic F-BTSC designated what iconic 20thC invention? Name the core specialism of notable Anglo-Danish industrialist Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895-1988) and the global (Arup Group) corporation he created: Pharmacy; Structural engineering; Shipbuilding; or Food canning? The famous guitar maker founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1902 is: Gibson; Fender; Rickenbacker; or Gretsch? Calabria, flanked by the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, is the southern peninsular of which country? In the 1920s Japanese and Austrian physicians Kyusaku Ogino and Hermann Knaus devised the contraceptive method called popularly: Coil; Rhythm; Pill; or Condom? What boom caused gross exploitation of native people of Brazil and adjacent nations by European industrialists c.1879-1912: Rubber; Cotton; Gold; or Silk? What popular Spanish word has various meanings including go, hurry up, come on, let's go, up, upstairs, and above? If a fifth of the charges in a $60 bill are discounted by 25%, what is the total cost? What punning word is an animal's mother, a barrier, and a biblical expletive? The artists Monet, Manet, Degas and Cezanne are mainly noted for what style of art? Comprising 100 centavos, what is the currency of Brazil? What word, derived from Latin meaning to 'pay against the evil of something' refers to expressing disapproval? Ogilvy & Mather, WWP and James Walter Thompson famously operate in: Law; Advertising; Auditing; or Architectural design? What mathematical term originated from Arabic 'awar', meaning 'damage to goods', evolving through French terminology for an apportionment of shipping liabilities between owners of vessel and cargo? What herb is traditionally associated, besides garlic, with the pickling of a gherkin (US pickle)? Avian refers to: Birds; Bees; Apes; or Vikings? Derived from Latin for 'place', what anglicized French word commonly means 'instead' in formal communications? Which inspirational genius created the landmark film 'Modern Times' and its theme song, 'Smile', released in 1936? Brazil's first ever football match as a national team was in 1914 at Laranjeiras stadium, Rio de Janeiro state, against: Argentina; USA; Prussia; or Exeter City? What is/are 'pince-nez': Cream and wine sauce; Ferry tug-boats; Armless spectacles; or Four-legged trousers for dogs? The Arabic term 'Al-jebr' (reunion of broken parts) is famously associated with: Disaster relief; TV news; Twin skyscrapers; or Algebra? The UHF wireless technology developed by Eriksson in 1994 for data transfer between devices in close proximity is: Silverlip; Bluetooth; Rednose; or Goldeye? What is the '1c Magenta', which (at $20m) became the most expensive man-made object ever in terms of weight to value? A circular partner-swapping ballroom dance, named after a 1700s maritime leader, is the: William Bligh; Paul Jones; Horatio Nelson; or James Hook? The Stone Age was roughly how many years ago: 4-5,000; 50-100,000; 500,000-1million; or 1-2m? Originally a French portmanteau word combining a shoe and boot, what means 'wilfully destroy'? What is the recurring number when two-thirds is expressed as a decimal? A lodestone (or loadstone, from old English meaning 'leading-stone' or 'way-stone') is a naturally occurring what? Which controversial Swiss sports head, accused of racism, sexism and corruption 1990s-2000s, was once president of the World Society of Friends of Suspenders, which advocated women should not replace stockings and suspenders with pantyhose? Bambino is the family trust of which controversial business mogul, subject to criminal proceedings in Germany 2014? Boundary-pushing Dutch media corporation Endemol sought participants in 2014 for a reality show requiring the group to: Marry each other; Marry animals; Have face transplants; or Live indefinitely on Mars? The volcano Olympic Mons, three times taller than Mount Everest, and the highes
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Which British pre-decimal coin was worth two shillings?
History of pre-decimal British coins The farthing Diameter : 20.0 mm ; Weight : 2.8 grams One needed forty-eight parts of a farthing to make one shilling. The farthing existed from 1672 to 1956, but it is in 1860 that it will be struck out of bronze with the format it will keep until its disappearance in 1956, i.e. with the diameter of 20 millimetres for a weight of 2.83 grams. The origins of the denomination : in first it was fourthing, because a quarter of... The half-penny Diameter : 25.0 mm ; Weight : 5.7 grams The half-penny was equivalent to one 24th of shilling. The half-penny existed from 1672 to 1967, but like the farthing, it is only in 1860 that it adopts the proportions it will keep until 1967. It will be replaced by the new half-penny in 1971. The penny Diameter : 31.0 mm ; Weight : 9.4 grams The penny was the twelfth part from one shilling. It always carried on the reverse the famous sitted Britannia. The penny is the continuation of a roman coin, Denarius or continental denier, its origin is thus very old, but it is only under George III that this coin is struck out of bronze and its format gradually reduced until the standard which will remain invariable from 1860 to 1967. Silver coins The three pence Diameter : 16.0 mm ; Weight : 1,4 grams One needed four coins of three pence to make one shilling. The coin of three pence existed since 1551. This silver coin of small diameter, weighting 1.4138 grams, was struck until 1944. Another coin of three pence out of brass , larger, of dodecagonal form, appeared in 1937 and lasted until 1967. The four pence or Groat Diameter : 16.0 mm ; Weight : 1,9 grams There were four pennies in a groat. Groats circulated between the 14th and 17th centuries. For the 19th and 20th, the coin of four pence was not a current coin, i.e. it did not circulate and was only in sets of new coins, just as the silver coins of 3, 2 and 1 pence. The six pence Diameter : 19.0 mm ; Weight : 2,8 grams The coin of six pence was worth one six pence. It existed since 1549. It kept the same proportions for a long time, its weight was 3.0100 grams. This coin was struck out of silver before Victoria until under the reign of George VI, in 1946. From 1947, it was struck out of copper-nickel until 1967. After the decimalization of the English coins, the six pence were accepted with the value of 2.5 new pence. The shilling Diameter : 24.0 mm ; Weight : 5,7 grams To make one shilling, twelve pence were needed. This coin existed since 1548. The shilling was already out of silver under the reign of George III and remained so until 1946. The silver shilling weighed 5.6552 grams. From 1947, the shilling was struck out of copper-nickel, until 1967, date of its disappearance. The florin Diameter : 28.5 mm ; Weight : 11,3 grams The silver coin of a florin was worth two shillings. There is an interisting fact to know concerning the English florin : this coin in the first attempt to introduce the decimal system into British coinage. The first florin appears in 1848 or 1849 and does not obtain a great success. It is in 1893, its diameter and its weight are definitively fixed. The silver florin weighed 11.3104 grams. The half-crown Diameter : 32.0 mm ; Weight : 14,1 grams The silver coin of an half-crown was worth two shillings and a half. The half-crown existed since 1551. This coin did not vary in proportions nor in diameter nor in weight from 1818 to 1946, its silver weight was 14.1380 grams. From 1947 to 1967, it was struck out of copper-nickel and disappeared from circulation when the decimalization was adopted. The crown Diameter : 39.0 mm ; Weight : 28,3 grams The silver coin of a crown was worth five shillings. The first English coin carrying this denomination appears in 1526, but it is a gold coin. It is in 1818, under George III, that a heavy silver coin is struck : it is called crown and is worth five shillings. The English silver crown will exist from the reign of George III to the one of George VI : the last English silver crown will be struck in 1937. Thereafter, in 1951 (festival of Great Britain), 195
How Britain converted to decimal currency - BBC News BBC News How Britain converted to decimal currency By Len Freeman BBC News 5 February 2011 Image caption Shoppers had to learn how to use decimalised currency from 15 February 1971 Do you remember the tanner, shilling, florin and half crown? If you do, you must be at least in your 40s, because it was back in February 1971, 40 years ago, that Britain "went decimal" and hundreds of years of everyday currency was turned into history overnight. On 14 February that year, there were 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. The following day all that was history and the pound was made up of 100 new pence. Decimalisation - having a currency based on simple multiples of 10 and 100 - had been a long time coming to Britain. France and the United States had gone decimal in the 1790s. Britain first thought about doing the same in the 1820s but the idea did not gather momentum. Prior to 1971, the closest Britain came to decimalisation was in 1849 with the introduction of the florin - a coin worth two shillings (24 old pence or 10 new pence) which was one-tenth of a pound. See all the old coins From the farthing to the florin and half crown. Images from the Royal Mint. In pictures: Pre-decimal currency During the 1960s a number of Commonwealth countries had gone decimal - Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. "There was a sense in which there was a momentum behind this," said Dr Kevin Clancy, head of historical services at the Royal Mint. "It would have been a huge disruption, which was one of the reasons governments shied away from it." "The old money in fact linked right the way back to ancient times," said Catherine Eagleton, curator of modern money at the British Museum. "So it's the pound of silver divided into 240 pence. It was the historic way the Romans used their money and divided up the [librum, solidus and] denarius which was where the d in L.s.d. (or £sd) for pounds, shillings and pence comes from." Quick decision But remarkably it took the government only seconds to decide to get rid of the currency that had served Britain for thousands of years. It happened one day when the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Jim Callaghan popped next door to see Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Find out more Archive on 4: Decimal day - What's that in old money is on Radio 4 at 2000 GMT on Saturday 5 February Or listen again on the iPlayer The economist Peter Jay, who was also Mr Callaghan's son-in-law, recalled: "They talked for about 20 seconds and Wilson said 'well why not' and that is how the decision was made... in a few seconds a century and half of argument about decimalisation came to an end." The decision was announced to Parliament in 1966. In reality, the change-over between currencies was a gradual process. The Decimal Currency Board (DCB) was created to manage the transition. Some three years before "D-Day" or Decimal Day, new 5p and 10p coins were introduced. They were of the same size and value as the existing one and two shilling coins. Then in 1969, a 50p coin was introduced to replace the 10-shilling note. The 50p coin was referred to as a 10-shilling coin at the time. On Monday 15 February 1971, the process was completed when the 0.5p, 1p and 2p coins were introduced. The banks were closed for four days from the previous Thursday to prepare for the change-over. Save the sixpence One old coin that survived longer than expected was the sixpence. Worth 2.5p, it remained in circulation until 1980, after a public campaign to keep it. Old money speak Many sayings and phrases in the English language relate to our old money. Here are just a few: "Spend a penny" "You look like you have lost half a crown and found sixpence." "A penny for your thoughts" "It can turn on a sixpence" "Bob-a-job week" "Take the King's shilling" Dick Taverne, who was chief secretary to the Treasury a year before decimalisation said: "There was a passionate public campaign 'save our sixpence'. "People were very fond of the coin. They said it was part of our heritage. It was thought a ter
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Which large domesticated bird has the Latin name meleagris gallopavo?
Meleagris gallopavo - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus Meleagris gallopavo a large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food Class: (* Meleagris gallopavo may be used in a singular or plural context) Type of: Wild Turkey | Meleagris gallopavo  [species] native to North America and is the heaviest member of the diverse Galliformes. It's the same species as the domestic turkey, which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of Wild Turkey. Although native to North America, the Wild... [synonym, sense-specific] | ... (plural also "turkey") a large North American gallinaceous bird that is domesticated in most parts of the world | "failure", "flop" ; especially, a ... (23 of 233 words, 4 definitions, 1 usage example, pronunciation, 1 image ) | Agriocharis ocellata  [species, sense-specific] A large North American bird "(Meleagris gallopavo") that has brownish plumage and a bare wattled head and neck and is widely domesticated for food. | ... (24 of 221 words, 6 definitions, pronunciations, 1 image ) | Agriocharis ocellata  [species, sense-specific] [United States] ; any of a family (Meleagrididae) of large, gallinaceous ... | [United States, slang] a failure: said especially of a theatrical ... (22 of 124 words, 5 definitions, pronunciations, 1 image ) | dud  [synonym, sense-specific] a large gallinaceous birdof North America, having a bare wattled head and ... | the flesh of the turkey used as food | a similar and related bird, ... (26 of 635 words, 11 definitions, 9 usage examples, pronunciations) | like turkeys voting for Christmas | talk turkey | Meleagris gallopavo  [species, sense-specific] a large mainly domesticated game bird native to North America, having a ... | the flesh of the turkey as food. | [informal, North American] : ... (24 of 199 words, 6 definitions, 4 usage examples, pronunciation) A taxonomic species within the genus Meleagris -- the wild turkey. (10 of 12 words) | Meleagris gallopavo  [species] either of two species of birds classified as members of either the family Phasianidae or Meleagrididae. The best known is the common turkey, a native ... Columbia Encyclopedia: turkey common name for a large game and poultry bird related to the grouse and the pheasant. Its name derives from its "turk-turk" call. Turkeys are ... (25 of 194 words) | ocellated turkey  [sense-specific] a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially ... | the flesh of this bird, used as food. | "ocellated turkey" | [slang] ; a ... (23 of 144 words, 7 definitions, pronunciations) [plural] | talk turkey [countable] a large bird similar to a chicken that has no feathers on its ... | [countable, informal] a film or play that is very unsuccessful ; ... (26 of 89 words, 3 definitions, 1 usage example, pronunciation) turkey [entry 1] a large bird grown for its meat on farms | the flesh of this bird used as food (17 of 30 words, 2 definitions, 2 usage examples, pronunciations) [United States, informal] something that fails badly | [United States, informal] a stupid or silly person (15 of 37 words, 2 definitions, 2 usage examples, pronunciations) turkey | turkeys  [plural] a large bird with a bare wattled head and neck and brownish feathers.meat. Native to: North America. Latin name Meleagris gallopavo. | the meat of the ... (25 of 144 words, 6 definitions, pronunciation) encarta​.msn​.com​/dictionary 1861722557​/definition​.html  [offline] Page last updated: 2013-06-26
Rare & Extinct Creatures - Moa & Elephant Bird ELEPHANT BIRD AND MOA ELEPHANT BIRD The Elephant Bird (Aepyornis maximus) inhabited the island of Madagascar, off the eastern coast of Africa. Madagascar was settled around 2000 years ago by African and Indonesian peoples. Legends of the giant roc (rukh) in Arab folklore were probably based on the elephant bird. During the 9th century, Saracen and Indian traders visited Madagascar and other parts of the African coast and would have encountered these birds. In 1298, while imprisoned in Genoa, Marco Polo wrote his memoirs, covering 26 years of travel. In chapter 33, "Concerning the Island of Madagascar" he wrote that the Great Khan had sent him to investigate curious reports of giant birds.   The Malagasy people had had contact with Arab traders over several centuries, but had fiercely resisted colonisation. The first Europeans to visit the island were the Portuguese in 1500. Dutch and French expeditions established coastal settlements after 1509, penetrating the interior 150 years later. In the 16th century, Dutch, Portuguese and French sailors returned from the Indian Ocean with huge eggs taken as curios. The French established a settlement in 1642, by which time the Elephant Bird had become very rare. The last one probably died in 1649. The first French Governor of Madagascar and Director of the French East India Company, Étienne de Flacourt, wrote, in 1658, "vouropatra - a large bird which haunts the Ampatres and lays eggs like the ostriches; so that the people of these places may not take it, it seeks the most lonely places". In the face of human hunters, the elephant bird was retreating to remoter regions. By 1700, it was gone forever. The elephant bird was the largest bird ever to have lived. It was a ratite, related to ostriches and emus, though it was unlikely to have been a swift runner. It had massive legs and taloned claws, vestigial wings and a long, powerful neck. Its body was covered in bristling, hair-like feathers, like those of the emu, and its beak resembled a broad-headed spear. It had evolved at a time when birds ruled the earth and had probably existed on Madagascar for 60 million years. In spite of its fearsome appearance (the legendary roc was fierce and ate elephants), it was a herbivore. It had little to fear from other native creatures on Madagascar; it was protected by its huge size and if needs be, could use its feet and heavy beak to protect itself in conflicts with others of its own kind. The birds resembled heavily built ostriches, with small heads, vestigial wings, and long, powerful legs. They stood 10 ft (3 metres) tall and weighed approximately 1000 lbs (455 kg); although some moas were taller, the elephant bird was more robustly built. Their eggs had a circumference of about 3 ft (91 cm), were about 13 inches (33 cm) long and a capacity of 2 imperial gallons (9 litres). This is the equivalent of 200 hen's eggs and three times the size of the eggs of the largest dinosaurs. Fossilised eggs are still found buried on the island. The photo here is of a replica exhibited at Ipswich Museum, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. The island would have supported only a small, slow-breeding population and the birds were probably driven into extinction by hunting and the theft of their eggs by humans. The fact that it had existed for 60 million years (much longer than humans) and adapted to a changing world, shows it to have been a very successful species. However, it was also specialised to an island environment with no large predators and was, therefore, not adapted to survive contact with aggressive European humans. In 1867, Ferdinand von Hochstetter's book "New Zealand" also mentioned the Elephant Bird in Chapter IX "Kiwi and Moa, the wingless Birds of New Zealand" and suggested it still survived: The number of species living is very small. In all there are only about 12 species known; two, perhaps three species of ostrich in Africa, three cassuary [cassowary] species 1 in southern Asia, two Emu's (Dromaeus) in Australia, an East and a West Australian, three speci
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Which scientist was granted 1093 US patents for his inventions?
The Father of Invention - The New York Times The New York Times N.Y. / Region |The Father of Invention Search Continue reading the main story THE simple version of the story of Thomas Alva Edison, the one most schoolchildren learn, is that he invented the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and the motion picture camera. These three innovations were wonders in their time. But they do not begin to explain how this man -- who spent most of his adulthood living and working in New Jersey and whose 150th birthday is being celebrated this year -- changed the world. Virtually every Edison scholar now agrees that Edison's most important accomplishment was not the inventions themselves, but the invention of the invention industry. Edison is nothing less than the father of modern research and development. Part businessman, part scientist, part publicity man, Edison took his essential curiosity about the way things worked and -- using a large posse of laboratory assistants, the patent system and lawyers to enforce the patents -- leveraged it into an industrial empire that, at its peak in the mid-1910's, supported a 10,000-worker factory here. ''Edison does probably more than any individual in 19th-century industry to establish the idea that you can have a steady stream of innovations, and that technology can be deployed for strategic purposes,'' says W. Bernard Carlson, associate professor of technology, culture and communication at the University of Virginia. Continue reading the main story All the great R & D labs of the pharmaceutical industry, which dot Route 1 and other New Jersey highways, owe their existence to Edison's idea that great discoveries are best made not by solitary geniuses but in large, well-organized, well-financed groups. Advertisement Continue reading the main story But the limits of Edison's genius are as interesting as his accomplishments. One of the Edison's most important legacies is his part in creating the modern consumer market. Edison literally wired us, turning us into a nation of workaholics and insomniacs. It was his sound recording system and his movie camera that would lay the foundation for Motown and Hollywood. For all Edison's genius in creating the world of mass media, it was a world he never quite comprehended; although he delivered us into the 20th century he was still, at heart, a 19th-century man. ''Edison gets killed in the phonograph business and, more importantly, in motion pictures,'' Prof. Carlson says. ''What he never really understands is that a big piece of the business is going to be in what we would call the 'software' side.'' Although historians of technology will endlessly debate whether Edison's story can best be understood by looking at the modern-day figures of Steven Jobs, who largely invented the personal computer, or Bill Gates, who has profited most by that invention, Professor Carlson prefers to compare Edison to Moses. ''He invents the technology that undergirds the consumer culture of the 20th century,'' Professor Carlson says. ''He brings Americans there. But he's unable to participate. Like Moses, Edison was unable to enter promised land.'' Patents: Bell 30, Edison 1,093 To get a sense of why Edison will always be remembered, one only has to compare him with his competitor Alexander Graham Bell. Bell and Edison had a great deal in common. Both famous inventors were born in 1847, and both were concerned with the problems of the deaf. Edison himself was partly deaf, a fact that Neil Baldwin, author of the 1995 biography ''Edison: Inventing the Century,'' says explains much of his personality and his life -- his inability to fit into a regular school, his reputation for being antisocial and his failure in the record industry. And Bell taught the deaf. And so it is no coincidence that both Edison and Bell would be instrumental in the two great inventions concerning sound. Although Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was Edison's modification of the transmitter two years later that made the telephone a practical device. And while Edison invented the phonograph i
Spirograph,Spirograph inventors | edubilla.com : Denys Fisher About Invention Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965. Bruno Abakanowicz is widely credited as inventor of Spirograph which is kind of very important instrument in mathematics. It can be considered as toy that is used in geometry in mathematics but its functions are very important. It is used for producing roulette curves in mathematical format. These curves are termed as epitrochoids and hypotrochoids. It is also used in many software and that to describe those, which work on the same principal of these mathematical curves. It is also termed as a synonym of epitrochoid because of its work which is much similar to this unique instrument. Bruno invented the Spirograph in any time between the decades of 1880s and 1890s but the actual time is not known. The spirograph design by him was used for variety of tasks at that time. If there was any area which was delimited by curves then the spirograph was used to use to measure that area at that time.
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Which musical, that opened in 2003 and based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, is set in the fictional land of 'Oz'?
Upcoming Wicked Film to Feature New Songs by Stephen Schwartz - TheaterMania.com Upcoming Wicked Film to Feature New Songs by Stephen Schwartz Schwartz has revealed details about the movie version of his iconic musical. The long-running musical Wicked will finally hit the big screen. (© Joan Marcus) While a release date is still not officially set, new details about the upcoming film version of the international hit musical Wicked have been released by composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Based on the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is set in the land of Oz and tells the story of young girls Glinda and Elphaba, who grow up to become Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West, respectively. At San Diego Comic-Con, Schwartz revealed that he will pen new songs for the film, as well as a cut tune from the Broadway production. He and original book writer Winnie Holzman are collaborating on the screenplay. Stephen Daldry is set to direct. Featuring music and lyrics by Schwartz and a book by Holzman, the stage production is directed by Joe Mantello. The show has amassed over $4 billion (in May) and been seen by over 50 million people (in March). The show opened October 30, 2003, making it currently the 10th-longest-running production in Broadway history. Additional details will be released in the future.
Renée Zellweger | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie twitter Biography by Sandra Brennan Until she headlined Jerry Maguire opposite Tom Cruise in late 1996, Renée Zellweger claimed extremely limited public recognition. Though Zellweger essayed several key roles before Maguire, the vulnerability and versatility that the actress exhibited as Cruise's (long undeclared) love interest in Cameron Crowe's seriocomedy netted much-deserved praise from critics and audiences alike. Though the Academy passed her over when that year's Oscar nominations rolled around, she received several other laurels for her work in Maguire, including the title of Best Breakthrough Performer by the National Board of Review. Born April 25th, 1969, the willowy, strawberry blonde Zellweger began life in Katy, TX, a small town on the outskirts of Houston. The town was so small that it possessed neither cable television nor a movie theater. As a result, Zellweger reportedly did not see her first art film until she was a student at the University of Texas in Austin. Her career at U.T. was an exceptional one; a regular on the Dean's List, she graduated a year early with a B.A. in Radio, Film, and Television. While in college, Zellweger took an acting class and discovered a knack for performing; following graduation, she made her feature-film debut with a bit part in Richard Linklater 's Dazed and Confused (1993). She then landed a role playing a whacked-out waitress in Love and a .45 (1994), for which she won her first Independent Spirit Award nomination; she won a second nomination for The Whole Wide World (1996), earning additional acclaim at various film festivals. Following the tremendous success of Jerry Maguire , Zellweger went on to prove herself as a versatile actress able to play roles ranging from an ambitious journalist (who temporarily shelves her career to care for her mother) in One True Thing (1998) to a rebellious Hassidic Jew in Boaz Yakin 's A Price Above Rubies (1998). She then exhibited a capacity for romantic comedy in The Bachelor (1999), starring as the long-suffering girlfriend of a commitment-phobic Chris O'Donnell . Zellweger's second role as a deeply confused soap opera fanatic in Neil LaBute's offbeat crime comedy Nurse Betty won her the Best Actress in a Comedy Award at the 2000 Golden Globes. Nominated for yet another Golden Globe the following year for her memorable performance in Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), that same role also earned Zellweger her maiden Oscar nod. The following few years found Zellweger's leading lady status growing and numerous lucrative film offers flowing in, and the release of White Oleander (2002) the starlet received numerous positive reviews despite the film's lackluster performance. Later that same year, Zellweger was on top of the world when she received rave reviews for her role in Chicago. Based on the popular Broadway musical of the same name, director Rob Marshall's flashy cinematic extravaganza received nearly unanimous praise accompanied by multiple Academy Award nominations, including a second Best Actress in a Leading Role nod to Ms. Zellweger for her lively performance. Zellweger lost the award bid to Nicole Kidman, and then teamed up with that actress for Anthony Minghella's epic Cold Mountain. The performance netted Zellweger her third Oscar nomination, and on February 29, 2004, her losing streak ended as she took home the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Attempting to keep up the momentum, Zellweger then returned to the character that earned her her first Oscar nod, starring in the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Unfortunately, that outing (directed by To Wong Foo helmer Beeban Kidron) failed to draw the critical acclaim of its predecessor and was widely greeted with public apathy in the States, but in the final analysis, it grossed nearly as much as the premier outing (with a massive overseas take). After the second Bridget Jones installment, Zellweger's screen activity decrescendoed som
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"In which film does Sean Connery sing ""A Pretty Irish Girl""?"
Sean Connery Singing “My Pretty Irish Girl” Tweet Sean Connery Singing “My Pretty Irish Girl” In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I present Sean Connery singing “My Pretty Irish Girl” in Darby O’Gill and the Little People. { 10 comments… read them below or add one } I’ve actually seen this movie (saw it with my girlfriend) and it was tolerable. Some funny moments. Apparently this was the role that set him up to play Bond. Huh. Thanks for sharing.I hope it will be helpful for a lot of people are looking for themes nay.ban can visit the following link to see the specific instructions the.toi think it’s very useful. Leave a Comment Next post: The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On [VIDEO] The internet is a big place. A man can waste a lot of time searching for the manliest stuff the web has to offer. Let us do the searching for you. The AoM Trunk is a collection of cool stuff that we find while wandering the vast deserts of the world wide web. Like your grandpa's old trunk, the AoM Trunk is full of manly photos, films, and accouterments. Check back daily for new, manly finds. Keep up with the latest acquisitions of The Trunk by following it through the following channels:
10 The actors who have played James Bond 10 The actors who have played James Bond Description This article is from the James Bond FAQ , by Michael Reed reed55@core.com with numerous contributions by others. 10 The actors who have played James Bond A few talented men have gotten to portray James Bond. We start with the EON five, and then the others as well. Note that Roger Moore is older than Sean Connery. A - Sean Connery, born August 25, 1930. Played Bond from 1962-1967, 1971, 1983. A Scot with minimal credits to his name in 1962, he was handpicked by Broccoli and Saltzman to star in the first Bond motion picture. There is less dialogue for Connery than in future turns, and his name was not marketed particularly heavily in the release of either of the first two films. But Connery proved to be the perfect person to assimilate Fleming's cold warrior on screen. He was tough yet suave, strong yet smooth, and able to appeal to both ticket buying genders. By the time of his fifth outing, "You Only Live Twice", the marketing machine said he "IS James Bond". While true in the public's mind, Connery tired of the constant pressure of the role and the potential to suffocate any other projects he wanted to be involved in. He left after 1967 and declined to appear in the sixth release. After a lackluster box office performance, EON prodded and finally got their star back for the seventh outing, "Diamonds Are Forever". Then Connery left once more, stating he would "never again" portray the superspy that he had made a phenomenon. But he did come back for a reprise, in 1983's "Never Say Never Again". For the story on that film, see Brief #1, Section #10, E "Thunderball / Never Say Never Again". Connery has said in interviews that he is proudest of "From Russia With Love". However, he made a severe and nasty break from the Broccoli clan and any thought of him returning to the EON series in any capacity is a pipe dream. Connery won an Academy Award for his supporting role in 1987's "The Untouchables". He is still an A-list box office draw to date and is also staunch in his support of his native Scotland. While he did not look like Ian Fleming's written character on the surface, he was impressive enough to earn the ultimate praise. Fleming himself had his character assume some of Connery's roots in "You Only Live Twice". He told IMBD.com in 2002 that there is no chance of him returning to EON's series, particularly not as a villain. "Absolutely no way - I could never be an enemy of James Bond." B - George Lazenby, born September 5, 1939. Played Bond in 1969. The only Bond star to make a solitary film appearance, George Lazenby won the role after a worldwide search. He was actually an Australian wrestler, car salesman and model who excelled in physical presence and impressed the producers. But he was not prepared for the glimmer of fame and fortune that came with the part. He was cast in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", one of Fleming's most detailed and harrowing novels. It required more characterization than the typical Bond fare and Lazenby faced an uphill battle to achieve it. Director Peter Hunt ignored him at one point, though it was an unwitting mistake. During filming of some emotional scenes, Hunt wanted his star to relate to the isolation Bond would be feeling so he left him alone. Lazenby did not take this as direction or method of acting, but rather a lack of respect by the director. He complained publicly and friction grew between the men, which was duly noted by the press. He also had trouble with female lead Diana Rigg. The most famous example of tension between them, however, is actually a myth. Before a kissing scene, Rigg was heard telling Lazenby at lunch that she was having "garlic with [her] pate." She meant it to be humorous but it was easily taken out-of-context given Lazenby's tenuous relationship with Hunt and EON. While in later years he did complain about Rigg's ego, the Bond actor never validated this story. What did him in, in the end, was as much box-office failure as his own immaturity. The fans were
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An enemy group within and threatening a larger entity is called a '(What?) Column'?
Unit - definition of unit by The Free Dictionary Unit - definition of unit by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unit  (yo͞o′nĭt) n. 1. An individual, group, structure, or other entity regarded as an elementary structural or functional constituent of a whole. 2. A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group. 3. a. A mechanical part or module. b. An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function. 4. A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated. 5. Medicine The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect. 6. a. A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work. b. A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme: a unit on Native Americans. 7. The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system. 8. Mathematics a. The lowest positive whole number; one. b. An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse. n 1. a single undivided entity or whole 2. any group or individual, esp when regarded as a basic element of a larger whole 3. (Mechanical Engineering) a mechanical part or integrated assembly of parts that performs a subsidiary function: a filter unit. 4. (Mechanical Engineering) a complete system, apparatus, or establishment that performs a specific function: a production unit. 5. (Military) a subdivision of a larger military formation 6. Also called: unit of measurement a standard amount of a physical quantity, such as length, mass, energy, etc, specified multiples of which are used to express magnitudes of that physical quantity: the second is a unit of time. 7. (Pharmacology) the amount of a drug, vaccine, etc, needed to produce a particular effect 8. (Brewing) a standard measure used in calculating alcohol intake and its effect 9. (Mathematics) maths a. (usually plural) the first position in a place-value counting system, representing a single-digit number: in the decimal system the number 27 has 7 units and 2 tens. b. (modifier) having a value defined as one for the system: unit vector. 10. (Mathematics) maths logic Also called: unit set a set having a single member 11. (Logic) maths logic Also called: unit set a set having a single member 13. (Agriculture) short for stock unit 14. (Railways) NZ a self-propelled railcar [C16: back formation from unity, perhaps on the model of digit] u•nit n. 1. a single entity; one person or thing. 2. any group of things or persons regarded as an entity: They formed a cohesive unit. 3. one of the individuals, parts, or elements into which a whole may be divided or analyzed. 4. one of a number of things, organizations, etc., identical or equivalent in function or form: a rental unit. 5. any specified amount of a quantity, as of length, volume, or time, by comparison with which any other quantity of the same kind is measured. 6. the least positive integer; one. 7. Also called unit's place. (in a mixed or whole number) the position of the first digit to the left of the decimal point. 8. a machine, part, or system of machines having a specified purpose; apparatus: a heating unit. 9. a quantity of educational instruction, usu. determined by the number of hours of classroom or laboratory work. 10. Mil. a subdivision of an organized body of soldiers. [1570; coined by John Dee as a translation of Greek mónas] Unit. Unitarian. unit 1. Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization. 2. An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force. 3. A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue. 4. With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment o
Reviews of political films "Z" "Advice And Consent" (1962) Otto Preminger directed this insight into Congressional affairs, examining how the Senate has to give 'advice and consent' in relation to the nomination by President (FRanchot Tone) of a new liberal Secretary of State (Henry Fonda) against the determined opposition of a southern senator (Charles Laughton). Based on a novel based Allen Drury, this is an unpleasant portrayal of American politics in which Laughton takes the acting honours. "All The President's Men" (1976) It was "Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein who uncovered the connections between the Watergate 'plumbers' and the White House and Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman respectively are excellent as the two young men who unravel the complex truth. Alan J Pakula was the director of this absorbing work, but it is not always easy to follow the dialogue or the plot and it is more about investigative journalism than politics as such. It was only 31 years after Nixon's resignation that the informant 'Deep Throat' was revealed to be former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt. "The American President" (1995) This was produced and directed by Rob Reiner who struck gold with "When Harry Met Sally". Michael Douglas plays a widowed Democratic President romancing environmental lobbyist Annette Bening. It is light and amusing and politically liberal. The real significance of the film is its authorship - scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin was motivated by his work for this movie to go on and write one of the most brilliant television series ever, "The West Wing". Several of the actors in the film in fact turn up in the series, notably Martin Sheen who is Chief of Staff in the former and President in the latter. "The Baader-Meinhof Complex" (2008) Formally named the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion in German), this German urban terrorist group - at its height in the late 1960s and 1970s but only formally dissolved in 1998 - was more commonly referred to by the names of two of its leaders, Andreas Baader (played here by Moritz Bleibtreu) and Ulrike Meinhof (portrayed by Martina Gedeck). This is not an easy movement to represent, still less explain, partly because the events are so numerous, partly because the timescales are so long, and above all because the politics behind it and the state reaction to it are morally complex, but this German film makes a very commendable attempt, showing the narrative mainly from the perspective of the group without ever glamorising their actions which resulted in 34 deaths and many injuries. The script is based on a best-selling book by Stefan Aust, Chief Editor of the German weekly news magazine "Der Spiegel", but considerable credit must go to Uli Edel who both co-wrote and directed this compelling work that tries to face up honestly to a terribly painful period of post-war German history. It is a long film (two and a half hours) and sometimes confusing, with plenty of graphic violence, hard language and some nudity, but it raises sharp questions that still resonate today about the idealism of the young, the expression of political protest, and the role of the media and the police in confronting such anger and disillusionment. Link: Wikipedia page on the RAF click here "The Bang Bang Club" (2010) The 'club' - a real life group of four white photographers - operated in South Africa during the difficult last years of the apartheid era in 1990-1994 when the white regime encouraged the Inkatha Freedom Party to attack the supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and appalling atrocities of black-on-black violence were committed. Two of the photographers won Pulitzer Prizes for their shots but all suffered psychologically and physically. The film is an adaptation of a book by the two surviving members of the 'club' written and directed by South African documentary film-maker Steven Silver and it was shot on location in Thokoza township south of Johannesburg. So there can be little doubt about the authenticity of the principal even
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What species did Jane Goodall observe?
Jane Goodall: 50 years working with chimps | Discover interview | Science | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close Fifty years ago, a slender young Englishwoman was walking through a rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she came across a dark figure hunched over a termite nest. A large male chimpanzee was foraging for food. So she stopped and watched the animal through her binoculars as he carefully took a twig, bent it, stripped it of its leaves, and finally stuck it into the nest. Then he began to spoon termites into his mouth. Thus Jane Goodall made one of the most important scientific observations of modern times in that remote African rainforest. She witnessed a creature, other than a human, in the act not just of using a tool but of making one. "It was hard for me to believe," she recalls. "At that time, it was thought that humans, and only humans, used and made tools. I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday." Goodall telegraphed her boss, the fossil-hunter Louis Leakey (father of Richard), with the news. His response has since become the stuff of scientific legend: "Now we must redefine man, redefine tools, or accept chimpanzees as humans." Leakey was exaggerating but not by much. Certainly, there is little doubt about the importance of Goodall's discovery five decades ago. As the distinguished Harvard palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould put it, this was "one of the great achievements of 20th-century scholarship". Goodall's subsequent observations found that not only did Pan troglodytes – the chimpanzee – make and use tools but that our nearest evolutionary cousins embraced, hugged, and kissed each other. They experienced adolescence, developed powerful mother-and-child bonds, and used political chicanery to get what they wanted. They also made war, wiping out members of their own species with almost genocidal brutality on one occasion that was observed by Goodall. This work has held up a mirror, albeit a blurred one, to our own species, suggesting that a great many of our behaviours, once thought to be uniquely human, may have been inherited from the common ancestors that Homo sapiens shared with chimpanzees six million years ago. We therefore have much to commemorate 50 years after Goodall began her strolls through Gombe. These celebrations began yesterday at the Berlin film festival with the premiere of Lorenz Knauer's documentary about Goodall, Jane's Journey – which includes a walk-on part for Angelina Jolie – and will continue throughout the year. Today, Goodall is a gracefully aged replica of the young woman who first set foot at Gombe five decades ago. Her long blond hair, tied back as usual, has turned silvery grey. Now aged 76, she exudes a calm confidence as she travels the world, promoting green causes established by the Jane Goodall Institute, which she set up in 1977 in order to promote research at Gombe and to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. But in 1960, she looked an unlikely scientific pioneer. Goodall had no academic training, having grown up in the middle-class gentility of Bournemouth in the postwar years, a time when women were expected to be wives and little else. However, she burned with two passions: a love of animals and a love of Africa. "I got my love of animals from the Dr Dolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels," she says. "I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all." A friend took a job in Kenya, and Goodall decided to join her, working as a waitress to raise funds for her trip. In Nairobi, Goodall was introduced to Louis Leakey, the scientist whose fossil discoveries had finally proved mankind's roots were African, not Asian, as had previously been supposed. At this time, Leakey was looking for someone to study chimpanzees in the wild and to find evidence of shared ancestry bet
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Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of which country in 1877?
Internet History Sourcebooks Project Field Marshal Lord Roberts: When Queen Victoria Became Empress of India, 1877 [Tappan Introduction] THE PRINCE OF WALES, afterwards King Edward VII, paid a visit to India as a mark of honor to the native princes who had aided the English in their efforts to govern the land. This visit was followed by Queen Victoria's assumption of the title of Empress of India. IN the autumn of 1876 preparations were commenced for the "Imperial Assemblage," which it was announced by the Viceroy would be held at Delhi on the first day of January, 1877, for the purpose of proclaiming to the Queen's subjects throughout India the assumption by Her Majesty of the title of "Empress of India." To this assemblage Lord Lytton further announced that he proposed "to invite the governors, lieutenant-governors, and heads of administration from all parts of the Queen's Indian dominions, as well as the princes, chiefs, and nobles in whose persons the antiquity of the past is associated with the prosperity of the present, and who so worthily contribute to the splendor and stability of this great empire." Delhi was selected as the place where the meeting between the Queen's representative and the great nobles of India could most appropriately be held, and a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. As a member of the committee I was deputed to proceed to Delhi, settle about the sites for the camps, and carry out all details in communication with the local authorities. The Viceroy impressed upon me that the assemblage was intended to emphasize the Proclamation Lord Canning issued eighteen years before, by which the Queen assumed the direct sovereignty of her Eastern possessions, and that he wished no trouble or expense to be spared in making the ceremony altogether worthy of such a great historical event. I returned to Simla in October, when my wife and I accompanied the commander-in-chief on a very delightful march over the Jalauri Pass through the Kulu Valley to Chamba and Dalhousie. Our party consisted of the chief, his doctor (Bradshaw), Persian interpreter (Moore), General and Mrs. Lumsden, and ourselves. The first slight shower of snow had just fallen on the Jalauri Pass, and as we crossed over we disturbed a number of beautiful snow-pheasants and minals busily engaged in scratching it away to get at their food. The scenery on this march is very fine and varied; for the most part the timber and foliage are superb, and the valleys are very fertile and pretty, lying close under the snow-capped mountains. Having inspected the "Hill stations," we proceeded to Peshawar, where the Viceroy had arranged to hold a conference with the lieutenant-governor of the Punjab and the commissioner of Peshawar about frontier affairs. Early in December I was back again at Delhi, where I found the arrangements for the several camps progressing most satisfactorily, and canvas cities rising up in every direction. I had previously chosen the site of the old cantonment for the camps of the Viceroy, the commander-in-chief, and the principal officials, while for the assemblage itself I had selected ground about three miles off. The chiefs and princes were all settled in their several camps ready to meet the Viceroy, who, on his arrival, in a few graceful words welcomed them to Delhi, and thanked them for responding to his invitation. He then mounted with Lady Lytton, on a state elephant, and a procession was formed, which, I fancy, was about the most gorgeous and picturesque which has ever been seen, even in the East. The magnificence of the native princes' retinues can hardly be described; their elephant-housings were of cloth of gold, or scarlet-and-blue cloths embroidered in gold and silver. The howdahs were veritable thrones of the precious metals, shaded by the most brilliant canopies, and the war-elephants belonging to some of the Central India and R
Victorian History Victorian History An idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history. Tuesday, December 06, 2016 The First Royal Visit to Australia HRH Prince Alfred, KG, Duke of Edinburgh In general, I have tried to limit these blogs to England and particularly London.  But, of course, during the reign of Queen Victoria, England, and therefore London, was the centre of one of the largest empires the world had ever known.  Events that took place in the far-flung reaches of the Empire reverberated around the world and what could have had as profound an effect as a first Royal visit to Australia.  Considering that it was barely more than a decade since a degree of self-government had been granted to the individual colonies (with the exception of Western Australia) and that the last convict ship had not yet arrived in Australia, a visit from a Royal Prince, one of Queen Victoria’s children, was a momentous event.  This was to be even more the case when, much to the embarrassment of the colony of New South Wales, an attempt was made on the life of a Royal Prince. The story is too interesting to be told in only one blog.  This is the first of a series of three that will discuss the 1867-68 visit of Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, the second son and the fourth child of Queen Victoria and second in line to the British throne.  Born on 6 August 1844, at the time of his visit to Australia, he was intituled Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Alfred indicated, from an early age, that he wanted to enter the navy and in 1858, at the age of fourteen, having passed the midshipman’s examination he was appointed in that rank to HMS Euryalis. Over the next decade he rose through the ranks, being appointed Captain in 1866 and being given command of the newly refitted 26-gun wooden screw frigate HMS Galatea in 1867 for a world cruise. In February, after some time in the Mediterranean he departed for Brazil and a state visit with the Emperor of that country.  This was followed by two months at the Cape, and on 31 October HMS Galatea, under the command of the 32-year-old Prince, arrived in Adelaide, South Australia. His six-month stay in Australia was to be both a triumph and a disaster frequently overlaid with elements of farce. Typical of the latter was the controversy which started even before the Prince’s arrival in the country.  Where was he to land?  Much to the annoyance of those who supported Port Adelaide, by then the principal port in South Australia, the reception committee decided on Glenelg.  It was selected because it had been the site of the first landing of colonists in South Australia. Then, too, despite uncertainty as to the date of the Prince’s arrival, there was the question of the decorations; they were mean and tawdry, so it was said—unworthy of the city—unfit for the reception of a Prince; King William Street was likened to a rag fair, and every epithet exhaustive of condemnation was heaped upon them. [1] Eventually the date of the departure from South Africa was confirmed and plans were made for the arrival of the Prince.  Days passed but the ship did not arrive.  Finally, on 27 October the signal guns rang out: bang, bang, fizz.  The third of the three shots meant to herald the sighting of the ship provided a flash without a bang! Even so, the excitement was intense. Almost every one turned out into the streets, which wore a more lively and busier appearance than they had done for many a day previous. After wandering about for more than an hour in a most purposeless manner, irritated and excited by all kinds of contradictory rumours, they gradually dispersed with the unpleasant conviction that they had been hoaxed. [2] Indeed, they had been hoaxed. But a few days later, when HMS Galatea actually did arrive, it was barely noticed as it slipped into Holdfast Bay.  It was not until five excursionists from Adelaide rowed out the to ship that Glenelg, Adelaide and the newspapers were able to confirm that the Prince had arrived. [3]   A long and arduous schedule was planned for the Prince as everyone sought
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Which country has borders with Brazil, Paraguay and Peru?
Which countries border Brazil? | Reference.com Which countries border Brazil? A: Quick Answer Ten countries border Brazil, including Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. The only countries in South America that do not border Brazil are Ecuador and Chile. Full Answer Brazil is the largest country on the continent of South America. It has the third-longest distance of international land borders, totaling 16,885 kilometers, which is equivalent to 10,492 miles. The only countries that have longer international land borders are China and Russia. China borders 14 sovereign states along a border of 22,117 kilometers, while Russia borders 16 sovereign states, with a land border length of 20,241 kilometers. The longest land border that Brazil shares is with Bolivia at 3,400 kilometers. The second-longest border it shares is with Venezuela, measuring to 2,200 kilometers. The border between Colombia and Brazil is a shared 1,643 kilometers. Peru comes in fourth with a 1,560-kilometer border. Paraguay shares 1,290 kilometers. Brazil's border with Argentina is 1,224 kilometers, and the border between Brazil and Guyana is 1,119 kilometers. Uruguay's border runs 1,068 kilometers along Brazil, and French Guiana shares 730 kilometers with Brazil. The shortest shared border is with Suriname, measuring out to 597 kilometers. Brazil's longest border is its coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, covering 7,491 kilometers.
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Which composee was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in Venice in 1883?
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History of Vocal art in quotes part 7 Rosati Gigli Lanza (To cover or not to cover?) - YouTube Close History of Vocal art in quotes part 7 Rosati Gigli Lanza (To cover or not to cover?) 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 Mar 6, 2011 History of Vocal art in quotes and ideas by Franco Tenelli. Beniamino Gigli (March 20, 1890 - November 30, 1957)[1] was an Italian opera singer. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism of his interpretations. Nevertheless, such was Gigli's talent, he is considered to be one of the very finest tenors in the recorded history of music. Biography Gigli was born in Recanati, in the Marche, the son of a shoe-maker who loved opera. His brother Lorenzo became a famous Italian painter. In 1914, he won first prize in an international singing competition in Parma. His operatic debut came on October 15, 1914 when he played Enzo in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda in Rovigo, following which he was in great demand. Gigli made many important debuts in quick succession, and always in Mefistofele: Teatro Massimo di Palermo (March 31, 1915), Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (December 26, 1915), Teatro Costanzi di Roma (December 26, 1916), La Scala (November 19, 1918), and finally the Metropolitan (November 26, 1920). Two other great Italian tenors present on the roster of Met singers during the 1920s also happened to be Gigli's chief contemporary rivals for tenor supremacy in the Italian repertory—namely, Giovanni Martinelli and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi. Some of the roles with which Gigli became particularly associated during this period included Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème and the title role in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, both of which he would later record in full. Gigli rose to true international prominence after the death of the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso in 1921. Such was his popularity with audiences he was often called "Caruso Secondo", though he much preferred to be known as "Gigli Primo." In fact, the comparison was not valid as Caruso had a bigger, darker, more heroic voice than Gigli's honey-toned lyric instrument. Gigli left the Met in 1932, ostensibly after refusing to take a pay cut. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Met's then general manager, was furious at his company's most popular male singer; he told the press that Gigli was the only singer not to accept the pay cut. There were in fact several others, Lily Pons and Rosa Ponselle among them; and it is well-documented that Gatti-Casazza gave himself a large pay increase in 1931, so that after the pay cut in 1932 his salary remained the same as it had been originally. Furthermore, Gatti was careful to hide Gigli's counter offer to the press, in which the singer offered to sing five or six concerts gratis, which in dollars saved was worth more than Gatti's imposed pay cut. After leaving the Met, Gigli returned again to Italy, and sang in houses there, elsewhere in Europe, and in South America. He was criticized for being a favorite singer of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and toward the end of World War II was able to give few performances. However he immediately returned to the stage when the war ended in 1945, and the audience acclaim was greater and more clamorous than ever. In the last few years of his life, Gigli gave concert performances more often than he appeared on stage. Before his retirement in 1955, Gigli undertook an exhausting world tour of Farewell Concerts. This impaired his health in the two years that remained to him, during which time he helped prepare his Memoirs (based primarily on an earlier Memoir, fleshed out by a series of in
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Which musical features the son's 'I'd Do Anything' and 'Be Back Soon'?
Oliver! (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Do Anything Oliver! (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Do... The Dodger (Jack Wild), title character (Mark Lester), Nancy... Oliver! (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Do Anything The Dodger (Jack Wild), title character (Mark Lester), Nancy (Shani Wallis)and Fagin (Ron Moody) perform Lionel Bart's hit "I'd Do Anything" in Carol Reed's musical version of the Dickens tale, Oliver!, 1968.> Six Academy Awards, including Best... Oliver! -- (Re-issue Trailer) Six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, went to Oliver! (1968), the musical version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.> Original theatrical trailer for "Oliver Twist," (1948) Original theatrical trailer for... Oliver Twist - (Original Trailer) Charles Dickens' classic tale Oliver Twist (1948) brought to the screen by director David Lean. Starring Alec Guinness as Fagin.> Sons of the Desert - (Movie Clip) Oliver pleads... Sons of the Desert (Oliver pleads with his wife to attend a... Sons of the Desert - (Movie Clip) Oliver pleads with his wife to attend a convention Oliver (Oliver Hardy) tries to convince his wife to let him attend a men-only convention with his pal Stan (Stan Laurel) in this scene from Sons of the Desert (1933).> Oliver! (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Consider Yourself Just the front-end of the mammoth production number from... Oliver! (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Consider Yourself Just the front-end of the mammoth production number from Lionel Bart's "Consider Yourself," featuring Jack Wild (The Artful Dodger) and Mark Lester (title character), from Carol Reed's Dickens-based musical Oliver!, 1968.> Tiffany Vazquez Intro -- Oliver! (1968) TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces... Tiffany Vazquez Intro -- Oliver!...
Composers, Lyricists & Writers - Broadway: The American Musical Ben Vereen Robin Wagner “The Phantom of the Opera” (1986) is perhaps Lloyd Webber’s best-known work. Based on Gaston Leroux’s novel, the musical included the songs “Music of the Night,” “All I Ask of You,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” and “Think of Me.” Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, then Lloyd Webber’s wife, starred in the original production. “Phantom” is indicative of a trend in the late 1980s toward a “sung-through” musical — one in which spoken dialogue is limited and often replaced by operatic recitative (speech-singing). The lavish sets, impressive special effects, and hauntingly beautiful musical score have made the show one of the most popular musicals worldwide. His first musical was “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. “Aspects of Love” (1989) launched the career of its male lead, Michael Ball. The sung-through musical was an adaptation of David Garnett’s tale of intergenerational love and included the ballad “Love Changes Everything.” The show played for over three years in London, but its 1990 Broadway run lasted only 377 performances. “Sunset Boulevard” (1993), based on the film of the same name, included some spectacularly romantic music. Two songs, “With One Look” and “As if We Never Said Goodbye,” both of which are sung by the lead character Norma Desmond, have entered the repertories of singers as diverse as Kiri TeKenawa and Barbra Streisand. As with “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Sunset Boulevard” includes elaborate and impressive sets. John Napier’s grandiose staircase is as much a character in the musical as are any of the humans. The London production starred Patti LuPone, while the Los Angeles and New York productions featured Glenn Close. Betty Buckley succeeded both LuPone and Close in their respective runs. “Whistle Down the Wind” (1998), inspired by the film of the same name, is set in Louisiana in 1959. A collaboration with Jim Steinman, the score includes typically romantic love songs and explosive rock music. In addition to his musical theater works, Lloyd Webber has also written concert works. “Variations” also exists in a version for cello and orchestra. “Requiem” (1985), written for Lloyd Webber’s father, included the memorable duet “Pie Jesu.” With his impressive array of commercially and artistically successful shows, Lloyd Webber is one of the most important composers for the musical theater in the last decades of the 20th century. Both his innate gift for melody and his ability to create music, which live up to the dazzling special effects characteristic of so many of his shows, have contributed immensely to his worldwide success. Source: Excerpted from ST. JAMES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE. 5 VOLS., St. James Press, © 2000 St. James Press. Reprinted by permission of The Gale Group. Photo credits: Photofest Mary Martin Weill and his wife, singer Lotte Lenya, emigrated to the USA in 1935. Weill was working on “Huckleberry Finn,” an adaptation of Mark Twain’s celebrated novel, when he died in 1950. In 1995, a new production of “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” was presented by the English National Opera at the Coliseum in London. In the following year Weill and Lerner’s 1948 “Love Life” received its “first production outside the USA for 48 years.” The show’s European premiere took place at the Grand Theatre Leeds. In 1999, Weill’s “Der Silbersee” (The Silverlake) was presented by the Broomhill Opera at the new refurbished Wilton’s Music Hall in London in a translation by the popular UK impressionist Rory Bremner. Also in 1999, the opera “He Who Says Yes/He Who Says No,” by Weill and Brecht, was presented Off-Off Broadway. FURTHER READING: Elaine Stritch He first took a crack at writing a full Broadway score with “High Button Shoes.” Styne would collaborate with Robin on the bright score for the Betty Grable film MEET ME AFTER THE SHOW (1951) and the less successful feature remake MY SISTER EILEEN (1955) and would create tunes with Cahn for THE WEST POINT STORY (1950), but around mid-decade he f
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"If someone is referred to as ""feline"", what animal are they being compared to?"
Do Cats Have Intelligence/How Intelligent Are Cats?   The Truth About Cats and Dogs Dogs have been trained to guard/protect, herd, hunt, search/rescue, assist (e.g. guide dogs for the blind) and perform circus tricks, obedience or agility classes. To many, this is a clear sign of their intelligence and the superiority of the canine intellect over feline intelligence. Cats have been trained to perform tricks as seen on films or TV advertisements, but do not have the same repertoire as dogs. This leads to the obvious conclusions that cats are neither intelligent enough nor co-operative enough to be trained. For example, in experiments where cats and dogs were expected to navigate mazes, most cats performed badly. Dogs soon learned to navigate the maze and reach the reward. Cats sat down and washed. They investigated blind alleys. They did not complete the maze in the allocated time and were therefore judged as "failing the test" or "lackadaisical". Eager-to-please dogs learned that they got a reward for learning the. Cats are not motivated in this way. Being opportunists, investigating every blind alley made sense to the cat - after all, who knows where prey might be hiding in the real world? Sitting down and washing is a displacement activity when a cat is uncertain. Most of the canine activities cited earlier rely upon manipulating canine social instincts. Dogs live, hunt and play in hierarchical social packs headed by an alpha male and alpha female. They frequently co-operate in raising/guarding the alpha pair's young and co-operate to hunt large prey. Juveniles beg submissively for food from adults. They are eager to please/appease pack-mates in order to remain part of their pack and they demonstrate submissiveness to higher ranking animals. Domestic dogs view humans as dominant pack members so they are eager to please us. In addition, dogs have been selectively bred over hundreds of years to enhance some traits and reduce or eliminate others. Cats, meanwhile, have a different social structure. Where food is plentiful they are largely solitary although females, usually related ones, may form social groups. Males tend to roam in search of females rather than remain as part of a group. Where food sources are localised (e.g. a rubbish dump) they form colonies but the social structure is more akin to that of lions - groups of females who may co-operatively raise young. Unlike lions, cats do not generally hunt prey larger than themselves and rarely hunt in pairs or groups. Cats are, therefore, independent rather than truly social and have little or no need to co-operate with other cats. Feline co-operation with humans is limited unless it serves the individual cat's interests to perform a task. Whereas dogs have been bred for utility, cats have been bred solely for appearance. Dogs are largely motivated by the pack-living instinct i.e. they will perform purely for praise and acceptance dished out by the dominant pack member (i.e. the owner or trainer). They will also perform because, in the wild, they risk being driven out of a pack or being demoted to pariah position. Cats are not motivated by social status factors. To train a cat you must find out what motivates it. Usually this means food, or at least conditioning it that there is the promise of food at the end of the session. Even then, cats are not motivated by food in the same way as dogs - if achieving the food reward is too much hard work, cats frequently cut their losses and go in search of easier "prey". In the wild, it makes no sense for a solo hunter to expend more energy on finding or killing prey than it gets from eating that prey. While dogs will track and pursue prey over long distances and wear down their quarry, cats hunt by waiting in ambush and pursuing prey for short distances only. Starving a cat does not make it easier to train either, cats are better than dogs at ignoring hunger pangs. For young cats, although food is a powerful reward, activities such as manipulation of simple objects such as a ball or scrunched up paper, or the chance to explore an
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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The Amalfi Coast is in which Italian region?
VisitsItaly.com - Welcome to the Amalfi Coast and the region of Campania Map: Campania The region of Campania on the south-west coast of Italy is home to one of the world's most famous and most beautiful coastlines - the Amalfi Coast . This spectacular area draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to enjoy the mildness of the climate, the exotic vegetation of palms, lemon and orange trees and the remarkable sandstone cliffs which plunge dramatically into the turquoise Mediterranean sea.   It is on these cliffs, where man has constructed one of the most magnificent road systems in the world, driving over which will have you bracing yourself for the next fabulous view at every corner.  Campania is not only famous for what is probably the most romantic coastline in the world, but also for the remarkable garden-covered islands of Ischia and Capri and the fabled city of Pompeii where lava from Mt. Vesuvius almost instantly covered one of the ancient world's most advanced city centres and quite literally froze the every-day of humanity 400 years before the birth of Jesus Christ.  VisitsItaly offers fabulous tours of the Amalfi Coast, tours of the islands of Capri and Ischia and the famous archaeological ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum .  Contact us today, or visit our Amalfi Coast Tour centre, to find out more.  Click here . Although not as many tourists travel south of Salerno which is at the southern most-point of the Amalfi coast and is an enormous city, we recommend you take the time to visit  Paestum , Palinuro, the grotta of Pertosa and Padulla , which you can read about on the subsequent pages.  The important thing to remember about Campania is that it is a very large region and in the countryside,  while it is still very beautiful it is also still very poor and not many people speak English in these parts.  The point is, that it is important to know where to go and what to do when you get there in regions south of the Amalfi Coast.  Whil this region south of Amalfi is improving in many instances there is still much to be desired. With a population of almost 6 million, the Campania Region is one of the most densely populated in Europe, even though, because of widespread poverty, millions of Campanians left the country and emigrated abroad, particularly to the United States, Canada.  As a result of this widespread dispersion, the Napalese dialect is the most recognized of all Italian dialects. Towns and Cities in
SOUTHERN EUROPE Southern Europe Demographic Analysis based on Population Data Sheet Population Growth Review Questions Regional Characteristics The region of Southern Europe, also called Mediterranean Europe, extends along the Mediterranean Sea on the Southern edge of Europe. It encompasses the major countries of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece, as well as the lesser nations of Andorra, Monaco, Vatican City, San Marino, and Malta (Bradshaw, 2002, p. 333). The region of Southern Europe, because of its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, enjoys a Mediterranean climate. The area is fairly mild and wet in the winter and can be very hot and dry in the summer (Fisher, 1992, p.203). The coastal areas are at or near sea level elevations, but within the countries there are several highlands and mountain chains. In Italy, the Apennine Mountains run the span of the country from north to south. The Alps run east and west, along the northern Italian border with Switzerland. In Spain, the Pyrenees Mountains run north and south along the Spanish-French border. In Greece, we find the famous Mount Olympus and the Pindus Mountains. Resources in this region are fairly limited. The main resource in this area is hydroelectricity, but even the availability of this resource can be restricted. The mountainous terrain, particularly in Italy around the Alps, provides ample land for use of hydro-energy, but lack of water inhibits the dependence of the region upon use of hydroelectricity. As a result, coal and fuels must be imported. Timber is another prominent resource in the region, but deforestation has impacted the available timber reserves. Italy is the most populous country in the region, with about 59.3 million people, according to the 2007 Population Data Sheet. Spain has the next highest population with approximately 45.3 million people. Greece and Portugal have 11.2 million and 10.7 million people, respectively. The lesser nations of Malta and Andorra have substantially smaller populations, with the former having 0.4 million residents and the latter having 0.1 million residents (PRB, 2007). The cultures in the region have some similar and some unique traits. All of these nations have their own official languages, but most of them also use English as a business language. Countries may additionally have multiple dialects of their official languages in a certain area and possibly even different popular languages throughout an area or the country. Andorra is the only nation that does not have a native language, as it shares the Catalan language with portions of Spain. As for the other nations, officially: Italians speak Italian, Greeks speak Greek, Portuguese speak Portuguese, and Maltese speak Maltese. Malta actually has two official languages, one being Maltese and the other being English (CIA, 2003). The primary religion in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Andorra, and Malta is Roman Catholic. In Greece, the official religion is Greek Orthodox (CIA, 2003). Agriculture is the primary source of revenue in most of the nations of Southern Europe. Olives, citrus fruits, grapes, wheat, figs, and water-storing plants and cacti all grow very well in the Mediterranean climate (de Blij, 2002, p. 93). Southern Italy, Southern and Northwestern Spain and most of Greece and Portugal, especially the coastal lowlands, are all agriculturally based areas. These farmers do provide much of the countries’ food supplies and even provide some goods, particularly wine and olives, for exportation. The region of Southern Europe has been very slow to develop economically. The areas around the major cities are usually highly industrialized, but the majority of remaining land in all of these countries in still agricultural. The two major exceptions to this are the areas of Northern Italy, near Milan, and Northeast Spain, in the Catalan region that surrounds Barcelona. Italy has the most industrialized economy in Southern Europe. Milan is
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Torvill and Dean are famous in which winter activity?
Video: Torvill and Dean return to Sarajevo ice for emotional Bolero performance - Telegraph Winter Olympics Torvill and Dean return to Sarajevo ice for emotional Bolero performance British pair 'honoured and humbled' to be invited back to Sarajevo to perform their gold medal-winning routine from the 1984 Winter Olympics Follow Three decades after receiving the only perfect score in Olympic skating history, Torvill and Dean have returned to the ice to perform their Bolero routine - and meet the girl who presented their flowers aged six. The British pair said they were "honoured and humbled" to be invited back to Sarajevo to perform their gold medal-winning routine from 1984. The pair, now aged 54 and 55 respectively, had received a perfect six from all judges in a routine they now say "changed their lives". They have now returned to the country, to a sports hall that was destroyed during the Bosnian war and rebuilt, to perform their famous routine. Related Content Winter Olympics: Figure skating guide Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, perform during a show in Sarajevo (REUTERS) Christopher Dean told reporters he had gone through an "emotional moment" after meeting a woman who had picked up the flowers thrown to them as tributes as a schoolgirl. "To personally hear her story from the six-year-old girl who picked the flowers up and the subsequent life afterward and then today being here with her daughter, a generation that had gone through some difficult tragic times and yet now they are so hopeful and joyful ... that really brought it home for us today," he said. Jane Torvill said she often wondered whether the little girl they had met at the Olympics was still skating. She is now a mother in her own right, with a young daughter who performed at a gala event on the ice on Thursday. With the Olympics underway in Sochi, the pair said they were honored to be invited back to skate in an arena they consider "hallowed ground." "We are so honored and humbled to be invited back to Sarajevo and come back to the place where our lives changed," said Dean. Their original performance was watched by 24 million people in Britain. Last week, they admitted the original Bolero may not make the grade in today's Olympics, telling the Radio Times: “Nowadays, with the rules of the competition, it’s quite a technical thing rather than a creative thing. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, perform during a show in Sarajevo (REUTERS) "The skaters have to include certain types of lifts, certain types of steps – none of which are contained in Boléro. “So I don’t know how it would go down – we’d probably be breaking the rules.” The pair were invited back by the Major of Sarajevo, ahead of the Youth Olympics in 2017, to mark the anniversary and help raise funds for a permanent ice rink.
Round 3 Jeopardy Template What is the Ford Mustang? This still-popular muscle car was launched late in 1964, what is it? 100 What is the Syndy Opera House? In 1973, which famous building with a roof resembling sails opened after 16 years of construction? 100 What are young urban professionals? The word “yuppie” was popularized in the 80s; what does it represent? 100 Which figure skater was accused of breaking a competitor’s kneecaps before the 1994 Olympics? 100 What is Denver, Co? What city did Barack Obama formally accept the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election in 2008? 200 What is Mister Ed? Picked up by CBS in 1961, what famous TV show had a vocal equine as its star? 200 Who was Jimi Hendrix? What American singer-songwriter, who is considered by many to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, died in 1970? 200 What Soviet leader replaced Chernenko in 1985? 200 What food chain uses this slogan: “Think outside the bun”? 200 What is Katrina? In 2005, what hurricane devastated the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastal regions, and flooded approximately 80% of the city of New Orleans? 300 Name the Organization created to fight for important women’s issues? 300 What was the name of NASA's first space shuttle that was unveiled in 1976? 300 Who is Sally Ride? The Space Shuttle Challenger took the first woman into space in 1983, what was her name? 300 What is the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame? What famous museum opened in 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio? 300 Who is Charles Manson? Wedding plans were announced in 2014 for a 26 year-old Illinois woman and which 80 year-old incarcerated mass murderer? 400 What famous property, purchased in 1965, was once a swamp land in Osceola County, California? 400 What is Three Mile Island? In 1979, a nuclear accident happened at what Pennsylvania power plant? 400 In 1984, which restaurant chain featured this line in their commercial, “Where’s the beef?” 400 Who was the youngest singer to win a Grammy in 1997? 400 What is ALS (Lou Gerhig's Disease)? In 2014, the Ice Water Bucket challenge was established for what charity? 500 Who is Sirhan Sirhan? The 1960s were a decade of high-profile assassinations (President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) Name the assassin who is still alive. 500 What is In Vitro Fertilization? In 1978, the first test tube baby was born following what procedure? 500 Who was Jim Thorpe? Which Olympic athlete had his gold medals reinstated in the decathlon and the pentathlon, 30 years after his death? 500 What is Yellow Pages? In the 90s, which company used this phrase for their slogan "Let your fingers do the walking"? 500 Who is Psy?
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The Order of the British Empire was founded by which monarch?
English Kings and Queens Timeline | Britroyals 757 - Offa seizes the Kingdom Mercia after the murder of his cousin Aethelbald. 776 - Defeats the men of Kent at Otford 779 - Offa defeats Cynewulf of Wessex at Bensington in Oxfordshire. 784 - Offa defeats the Welsh. Around this time work on Offa's Dyke is started marking the border with Wales. 785 - Egbert son of Eahmund of Kent flees to Wessex and then to exile in the Frankish court of Charlemagne 787 - 1st recorded Viking raids on England 789 - Beorhtric of Wessex marries Offa's daughter Eadburgh 792 - Aethelred king of Northumbria marries Offa's daughter Aelfflaed 793 - St Albans Abbey founded. Offa annexes East Anglia and joins it to the kingdom of Mercia 793 - Vikings raid the Christian monastery on Lindisfarne 795 - Vikings raid the monastery on Iona in Scotland 796 - Offa's dyke is completed. The death of Offa marks the end of Mercian supremacy in England. His son Ecgfrith reigns for less than 6 months 800 - Around this time the Book of Kells is written in Ireland 802 - Death of King Beorthric of Wessex 802 - Egbert returns from exile in Charlemagne and becomes King of Wessex 825 - King Egbert of Wessex wins a decisive victory over King Beornwulf of Mercia at Ellendun. Wessex becomes the dominant kingdom. 827 - Following his conquest of Mercia, Egbert controls all of England south of the Humber 829 - Egbert defeats the Northumbrian king at Dore near Sheffield 830 - Wiglif of Mercia revolts against Wessex rule 830 - Egbert subdues North Wales. He is recognized as overlord of other English kings 836 - Egbert is defeated by the Danes at Carhampton in Somerset 838 - Defeats Vikings and Cornish at Hingston Down in Cornwall 839 - Death of Egbert. He is succeeded by his son Aethelwulf 839 - Aethelwulf succeeds his father Egbert as King of Wessex 841 - Vikings raid Kent and East Anglia, and establish a settlement at Dublin 842 - Many die in London and Rochester during Viking raids 844 - Kenneth MacAlpine, King of the Scots, conquers the Picts; founds a unified Scotland 845 - Vikings are defeated by a Saxon force at the River Parrett 851 - Vikings forces enter Thames estuary and march on Canterbury 855 - Aethelwulf goes on a pilgrimage to Rome accompanied by his son Alfred 858 - Aethelwulf returns but finds his son Aethelbald has taken control of Wessex 858 - Aethelwulf dies at Steyning in Sussex. His son Aelthelbald becomes king. 858 - Aethelbald marries his father's widow Judith 860 - Vikings land on Iceland 860 - Aehelbald dies and his brother Aethelbert become king. 860 - Aethelbert becomes King of Wessex following the death of his brother Aethelbald 860 - Winchester sacked by the Danes 865 - The Viking 'Great Heathen Army' commanded by Halfdan and Ivar the Boneless lands in East Anglia and sweeps across England 866 - Vikings take York (Jorvik) and establish a North British Kingdom 866 - Aethelred becomes king on the death of his brother Aethelbert 869 - Edmund King of East Anglia resists the Vikings and is killed 870 - Aethelred defeated by the Danes (Vikings) at Reading 871 - Aethelred and his brother Alfred defeat the Danes at Ashdown 871 - Battle of Meretun, Hampshire. Aethelred is mortally wounded and dies. 871 - Alfred becomes King of Wessex following the death of his brother Aethelred 872 - London falls to Viking raiders 875 - After persistent attacks by Vikings the monks of Lindesfarne travel through Northumbria and Galloway with the Lindesfarne Gospels. 878 - Guthrum's Danish army invades Wessex, and Alfred takes refuge on the isle of Athelney. Alfred defeats Guthrum at the battle of Ethandune (Edington) in Wiltshire. 878 - Treaty of Wedmore divides England into two. Guthrum accepts baptism as a Christian and agrees to leave Wessex and settle in East Anglia. 884 - Alfred defeats the Danes at Rochester 885 - Alfred imposes rules on South Wales 886 - Alfred takes London from the Danes. Danelaw - the territory occupied by the Danes in East Anglia is recognised by Alfred 890 - Guthrum dies. Alfred establishes a permanent army and navy 891 - Anglo Saxon Chronicle,
L�gion d'honneur worth anything today? [Archive] - a French Foreign Legion Forum : cervens.net The L�gion d'honneur , How much is it worth really? Or the question is has it really be worth anything at all? L�gion d'honneur or Ordre national de la L�gion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honor) is a French order established by Napol�on Bonaparte, First Consul of the First Republic, on May 19, 1802.[1] This world-renowned Order is the highest decoration in France and is divided into five various degrees: Chevalier (Knight), Officier (Officer), Commandeur (Commander), Grand Officier (Grand Officer) and Grand-Croix (Grand Cross). Have a look at who recived it and you be the judge . I find it typical at one time it was worth something now it apears to be worth well nothing. In the United States, Generals of the Army Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur are among the 10,000 Americans who have received the decoration. In 1949, the Academies of West Point and Annapolis were also decorated. Although it is rare for an ambassador in Paris to be awarded the L�gion d'honneur, a posthumous exception was made for the United States ambassador Pamela Harriman in 1997. The last surviving American World War I veteran, Frank Buckles, also received this honour. Additionally, in the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and the late Lord Mountbatten have been decorated with the Grand Cross. English actor Sir Laurence Olivier became an Officer of the L�gion d'Honneur. Australian General Sir John Monash was decorated with the Grand Officer during the First World War. A fictitious recipient of the Legion of Honour was Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez). King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has been decorated with the Grand Cross. Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter Akira Kurosawa received the award in 1984. Rand Araskog, an American executive, received the award in 1987.[8] Indian film director Satyajit Ray also received the award in 1987. President Fran�ois Mitterrand went to Calcutta to give the award to Ray. His compatriot Sivaji Ganesan, one of the best actors in India, received the title of Chevalier on April 22, 1995. Richard Jenrette, an American investment banker, received the award in 1996.[9] Ross Steele, an Australian author and academic, received the title of Chevalier in 1996[10][11] Quincy Jones, the American record producer and musician, received the award in March 2001.[12] Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia, became a Commander of the L�gion d'Honneur also in 2001. Joseph Walsh, former Irish Minister for Agriculture, received the Grand Cross in September 2002. Indian film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan received the award in 2003. Guadalupe Loaeza, a Mexican writer, also received the award in 2003.[13] Robert Parker, the American pre-eminent wine critic, received the title of Officier in 2005. Valentino, the Italian fashion designer, received the award in July 2006. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia at the time, received the award in September 2006.[14] Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, Chief of the Australian Defence Force, received the degree of Commander in 2007. Amitabh Bachchan, the Bollywood star of India, received the award in January 2007.[15] Clint Eastwood, the American film actor and director, received the award in February 2007.[16] David Lynch, the American film director, received the award in October 2007.[17] Professors Lap-Chee Tsui and Malik Peiris from Hong Kong and Sri Lanka respectively were decorated as Knights also in October 2007. Leo Apotheker, co-CEO of German software company SAP received the award in December 2007. South Korean film director Im Kwon-taek also received the award in December 2007.[18] HRH Galyani Vadhana, Her Royal Highness of Thailand, was decorated with the Grand Officer on 25 December 2007 while she was ill and stayed at Sirirat Hospital (one week later she passed away).[19][20] Shimon Peres, the President of Israel, received the award in March 2008.[21] Festus Mogae, the President of Botswana, also rec
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What was the title of cult film hero James Dean’s last film?
James Dean - IMDb IMDb Actor | Miscellaneous Crew James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to New York to pursue his dream of acting. He received... See full bio » Born: a list of 43 people created 27 Dec 2010 a list of 31 people created 11 Oct 2011 a list of 30 people created 26 Feb 2013 a list of 37 people created 04 May 2013 a list of 37 people created 2 weeks ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of James Dean's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 2 nominations. See more awards  » Known For General Electric Theater Bud / The Boy (1954)  1952-1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) Kyle McCallum  1954 General Electric Theater (TV Series) Bud / The Boy - I'm a Fool (1954) ... The Boy  1953-1954 Danger (TV Series)  1953 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) Paul Zalinka  1953 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) Joey Frasier  1953 Campbell Summer Soundstage (TV Series) Hank Bradon / Joe  1953 The Big Story (TV Series) Rex Newman  1953 Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series) Ralph  1952 Forgotten Children (TV Movie) Bradford  1952 CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) G.I.  1951 The Bigelow Theatre (TV Series) Hank  1950 Beat the Clock (TV Series) (stunt tester - 1950) Hide   2002 Biography (TV Series documentary) Himself  1952 The Web (TV Series) Himself  2014 CNN Newsroom (TV Series) Himself  2009 20 to 1 (TV Series documentary) Himself  2008 Tracks (TV Series documentary) Himself  2006 September 30, 1955 (Documentary short) Himself  2005 Crash Science (TV Series documentary) Himself  2005 The World's Most Photographed (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself  2005 Miradas 2 (TV Series documentary) Himself  2005 American Masters (TV Series documentary) Himself  2004 Queer as Folk (TV Series) Himself  2004 Larry King Live (TV Series) Himself  2003 James Dean and Marlon Brando (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2003 Return to 'Giant' (Video documentary) Himself (uncredited)  2003 Living Famously (TV Series documentary) Himself  2002 Shirtless: Hollywood's Sexiest Men (TV Movie documentary) Himself (uncredited)  2000 The Final Day (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself  2000 Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration (TV Movie) (uncredited)  2000 Omnibus (TV Series documentary)  1998 Memories of 'Giant' (Video documentary) Himself (uncredited)  1997 Biography (TV Series documentary) Himself, Columbus Raid victim  1996 James Dean: A Portrait (TV Movie documentary) Himself (1955 public service film)  1996 Rediscovering a Rebel (TV Short documentary) Himself - 'Jim Stark'  1995 James Dean and Me (TV Movie documentary) Himself  1993 Fame in the Twentieth Century (TV Series documentary) Himself (uncredited)  1992 Death Scenes 2 (Video documentary) Himself (uncredited)  1992 Gesichter Des Todes VII (Video documentary short)  1991 Idols (TV Movie documentary) Himself  1991 Naked Hollywood (TV Mini-Series) Himself  1991 Arena (TV Series documentary) Himself  1974 ABC Late Night (TV Series) Himself  1974 James Dean Remembered (TV Special documentary) Himself / various roles  1957 The Big Story (TV Series) Todd Print ads for sexy Hair's "No So Hard Up" medium holding gel. See more » Publicity Listings: 14 Biographical Movies | 23 Print Biographies | 6 Portrayals | 20 Articles | 2 Pictorials | 14 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Official Sites: Did You Know? Personal Quote: [to Hedda Hopper ] Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, "Wait. Let me see". And above all, you must be honest with yourself. See more » Trivia: Many of Dean's friends at the time thought the silver Porsche 550 Spyder was too high-powered for him and, indeed, days before he died, Alec Guinness , who was in Hollywood filming The Swan (1956), had a premonition that he would die behind its whe
James Bond James Bond 2007 Schools Wikipedia Selection . Related subjects: Films James Bond 007 is a fictional British agent (the Bond character is usually referred to as a spy, but was actually a counter-agent and a professional assassin) created by writer Ian Fleming in 1952. Fleming wrote numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in 1964, further literary adventures were written by Kingsley Amis (pseudonym Robert Markham), John Pearson, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and Charlie Higson. In addition, Christopher Wood wrote two screenplay novelisations and other authors have also written various unofficial permutations of the character. Although initially made famous through the novels and books, James Bond is now best known from the EON Productions film series. Twenty-one films have been made (as of 2006) as well as two that were independently produced and one American television adaptation of Fleming's first novel under legal licence. The EON films are generally referred to as the 'official' films (although its origin is unclear, this terminology is used throughout this article). Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produced most of these up until 1975, when Broccoli became the sole producer. From 1995, his daughter, Barbara Broccoli, and his stepson, Michael G. Wilson, jointly continued production duties. To date, six actors have portrayed James Bond in the official series. They are: Pierce Brosnan (1995–2002), Daniel Craig (2006–present). In addition and generally considered "unofficial", Barry Nelson portrayed Bond in an Americanised television episode adaptation of Casino Royale in 1954. Bob Holness portrayed James Bond in a South African radio adaptation of Moonraker in 1956. Roger Moore acted the role in an episode of a TV comedy show called Mainly Millicent (starring Millicent Martin and guest stars) in summer 1964. This episode is included as a special feature (named Roger Moore as James Bond, Circa 1964) in the newly published Live and Let Die Ultimate Edition DVD. David Niven played the role of James Bond in a non-EON production of Casino Royale in 1967, and Connery reprised the character in another non-EON film, Never Say Never Again in 1983, an update of 1965's Thunderball, in which he also starred. The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing Bond in selected scenes from the original novels. The twenty-first official film, Casino Royale, with Daniel Craig as James Bond, premiered on 14 November 2006, with the film going on general release in Asia and the Middle East the following day. Broccoli and Saltzman's family company, Danjaq, LLC, has owned the James Bond film series, through EON, since the start. It became co-owner with United Artists Corporation since the mid-1970s, when Saltzman sold UA his share of Danjaq. Currently, Columbia Pictures and MGM (United Artists' parent) co-distribute the franchise. In addition to novels and films, Bond is a prominent character in many computer and video games, comic strips and comic books, and has been the subject of many parodies. Overview Ian Fleming's creation and inspiration Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR is an agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) (more commonly known as MI6). He was created in February 1952 by Ian Fleming while on holiday at his Jamaican estate called Goldeneye. The hero of Fleming's tale, James Bond, was named after an American ornithologist of the same name who was an expert on Caribbean birds and had written a definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher, owned a copy of Bond's field guide at Goldeneye. Of the name, Fleming once said, "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting like 'Peregrine Maltravers.' Exotic things would happen to and around him but he would be a neutral figure – an anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a Government Department." Bond's parents are named as Andrew Bond, a Scotsman, and Mon
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On the US flag, are the more red stripes? Or white stripes?
Why 7 Red and 6 White Stripes | American Flags Forum Why 7 Red and 6 White Stripes Why 7 red and 6 white stripes... lovemygrandkids said: I thought I read somewhere the reason for 7 red and 6 white stripes. I know that the total number stands for the 13 original colonies. However, my question is why not 6 red and 7 white? I hope you understand my question. I remember reading that there was a reason for choosing 7 red stripes...not 6; and vice versa. It had something to do with symbolism and what the red represented. Thanks for pondering my question. Bianca sarahw Guest Bianca, I don't think there really was a reason for seven red stripes and six white stripes. Many people have tried to attach symbolism to the colors that simply wasn't there when the flag was designed. Some say George Washington remarked that the red represented the mother country and the white was separating the red, a symbol of liberty. The theory, then, is that the white is intersecting the red so that's why red is on the top and bottom. Other symbolism attached to the flag includes that red is blood or courage and white is purity or innocence. Maybe you need more courage than you need purity when you're building a nation? OK, that was a joke, but I think the number of stripes of each color maybe can't be called a coincidence, there's no historic record of what the designers were thinking. Sarah I would like to know what each color represents on the flag. Can anyone tell me?   Peter Ansoff USA Flag Site Admin I would like to know what each color represents on the flag. Can anyone tell me? The colors of the US flag came from the colors of the British flag. The resolution that created the flag in 1777 did not say anything about the symbolism of the colors. When the Great Seal of the United States was adopted in 1782, the explanation of the seal said: "The colours of the pales are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valor, and Blue, the colour of the Chief signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice." However, this was an after-the-fact explanation, because the flag had already existed for 5 years before it was written. Peter Ansoff ulv93@verizon.net New Member Thank you peter. I also heard that the red stood for the blood lost gaining our freedom. Is that true?   Peter Ansoff USA Flag Site Admin Hi, I also heard that the red stood for the blood lost gaining our freedom. Is that true? Again, the colors don't officially stand for anything -- they're the result of our flag's descent from the British flag. Indivdual writers and poets have come up with lots of different ideas of what the colors mean to them, but those are just artistic license. Not all of their ideas are necessarily patriotic, either. A British poet in the early 19th century compared the red and white stripes to the scars on the backs of American slaves who were whipped by their masters. Thanks for joining -- hope you enjoy the forum! Peter Ansoff Captgio New Member Greetings Peter, Do you know where the stripes originated? Dutch Masters and the church. Go research the 7 pillars. Go read about Flag Author Richardson and his wifes flags that were debunked. 13 Stars and 7 stripes flag, merchants of CT and MA. The great seal and all flag documents where kept in Stratford CT for a time before Washington was built. The stripes are origin to the church going back to Holland and Calvinism! The Stripes are not origin to the Sons of Liberty, 13 Stripes symbolic to States united by the church. 13 white Stars representing states in a blue canton seperated from the Stripes or church control!   Peter Ansoff USA Flag Site Admin Hello, Captgio, Do you have any evidence for any of this? Stripes on flags have historically been used by many entities. Peter Ansoff www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861583,00.html - Similar I have studied Towers work and he is dead on! Read about the section Mass colonies and CT colonies, the 4 joined! This is when new England was called the United Colonies and then the United States! The Sal
Flags of Every Country Follow us... Flags of Every Country Tweet This map shows Flags of every country in the world. Flag description produced from actual flags or the best information available at the time the entry was written. The flags of independent states are used by their dependencies unless there is an officially recognized local flag. Some disputed and other areas do not have flags. Note: Flag description from CIA Factbook and Flag image from Wikipedia. Last updated: Abkhazia Afghanistan three equal vertical bands of black (hoist side), red, and green, with the national emblem in white centered on the red band and slightly overlapping the other two bands; the center of the emblem features a mosque with pulpit and flags on either side, below the mosque are numerals for the solar year 1298 (1919 in the Gregorian calendar, the year of Afghan independence from the UK); this central image is circled by a border consisting of sheaves of wheat on the left and right, in the upper-center is an Arabic inscription of the Shahada (Muslim creed) below which are rays of the rising sun over the Takbir (Arabic expression meaning "God is great"), and at bottom center is a scroll bearing the name Afghanistan; black signifies the past, red is for the blood shed for independence, and green can represent either hope for the future, agricultural prosperity, or Islam note: Afghanistan had more changes to its national flag in the 20th century than any other country; the colors black, red, and green appeared on most of them Akrotiri the flag of the UK is used Albania red with a black two-headed eagle in the center; the design is claimed to be that of 15th-century hero George Castriota SKANDERBERG, who led a successful uprising against the Turks that resulted in a short-lived independence for some Albanian regions (1443-1478); an unsubstantiated explanation for the eagle symbol is the tradition that Albanians see themselves as descendants of the eagle; they refer to themselves as "Shkypetars," which translates as "sons of the eagle" Algeria two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and white; a red, five-pointed star within a red crescent centered over the two-color boundary; the colors represent Islam (green), purity and peace (white), and liberty (red); the crescent and star are also Islamic symbols, but the crescent is more closed than those of other Muslim countries because the Algerians believe the long crescent horns bring happiness American Samoa blue, with a white triangle edged in red that is based on the fly side and extends to the hoist side; a brown and white American bald eagle flying toward the hoist side is carrying two traditional Samoan symbols of authority, a war club known as a "Fa'alaufa'i" (upper; left talon), and a coconut fiber fly whisk known as a "Fue" (lower; right talon); the combination of symbols broadly mimics that seen on the US Great Seal and reflects the relationship between the United States and American Samoa Andorra three vertical bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red, with the national coat of arms centered in the yellow band; the latter band is slightly wider than the other two so that the ratio of band widths is 8:9:8; the coat of arms features a quartered shield with the emblems of (starting in the upper left and proceeding clockwise): Urgell, Foix, Bearn, and Catalonia; the motto reads VIRTUS UNITA FORTIOR (Strength United is Stronger); the flag combines the blue and red French colors with the red and yellow of Spain to show Franco-Spanish protection note: similar to the flags of Chad and Romania, which do not have a national coat of arms in the center, and the flag of Moldova, which does bear a national emblem Angola two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle); red represents liberty, black the African continent, the symbols characterize workers and peasants Anguilla blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the
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Which leader died in St Helena?
Napoleon dies in exile - May 05, 1821 - HISTORY.com Napoleon dies in exile Publisher A+E Networks Napoleon Bonaparte , the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The Corsica-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe, and Napoleon returned home from his Egyptian campaign to take over the reigns of the French government and save his nation from collapse. After becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and defeated Austria. In 1802, he established the Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 was crowned emperor of France in Notre Dame Cathedral. By 1807, Napoleon controlled an empire that stretched from the River Elbe in the north, down through Italy in the south, and from the Pyrenees to the Dalmatian coast. Beginning in 1812, Napoleon began to encounter the first significant defeats of his military career, suffering through a disastrous invasion of Russia, losing Spain to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War, and enduring total defeat against an allied force by 1814. Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. Six years later, he died, most likely of stomach cancer, and in 1840 his body was returned to Paris, where it was interred in the Hotel des Invalides. Related Videos
The American Revolution The American Revolution Clinton, Henry Sir Henry Clinton (1730-1795) Sir Henry Clinton succeeded Major General Sir William Howe as commander-in-chief of the British army in America in May 1778 after serving three years under Howe and, before him, under Major General Thomas Gage. A temperamental commander, Clinton understood the full strategic and tactical scope of the War for Independence as few other Britons did — though he was unable to turn that insight into victory. Born on April 16, 1730, to Royal Navy officer George Clinton and his wife, Anne Carle, Henry Clinton moved with his family from England to New York in 1743 when his father was appointed governor of New York. At age 15 Clinton was given a commission in a New York infantry company and sent to the French fortress at Louisbourg in Nova Scotia, which had recently fallen to a British force. Thereafter he studied military science in France and saw considerable action in Europe during the Seven Years War. He returned to England after being wounded in 1762. Clinton then married and entered Parliament, while continuing to advance in the army. He had achieved the rank of Major General by May 1775 when he arrived in Boston as third in command of British forces in America, under Thomas Gage and Sir William Howe. Clinton languished behind Gage and Howe. He was rarely consulted, and his proposals were often ignored. He submitted his resignation after Howe stripped him of troops that Clinton was using in October 1777 to press up the Hudson Valley to connect with John Burgoyne's forces. But in a major turn of events, Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga led to Howe's resignation and Clinton's promotion to Lieutenant General and commander-in-chief. Clinton's attempts to enact a southern strategy to end the war were delayed by news that France entered the war on behalf of the Americans. In the summer of 1778, he was ordered to send a major part of his army to the Caribbean to secure the British West Indies. Clinton evacuated Philadelphia, won a tactical victory over Charles Lee and George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778), and assisted the Royal Navy in fending off a French fleet threatening the Atlantic coast. Not until 1780 could Clinton turn his attention to a southern campaign, where he initially fared quite well. Charleston and its garrison of more than 3300 American soldiers and 300 cannon fell on May 12, 1780. Clinton then returned to New York and left the southern strategy in the hands of Major General Charles Cornwallis. The arrival of a French fleet in Narragansett Bay and trouble cooperating with his own naval colleagues kept Clinton from making any headway in the northern theater, while Cornwallis increasingly acted independently in moving his army of regulars and loyalists through the Carolinas and, without orders, into Virginia. Once Cornwallis settled in Yorktown, Clinton attempted to reinforce him and use the Royal Navy to prevent French and American forces from concentrating in the Chesapeake. Clinton failed on both counts. Much of the blame for Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, in October 1781, was placed on Clinton, and it effectively ended his military career, though he retained his commission and continued to advance in rank. After the war he engaged in a pamphlet war to rehabilitate his reputation against that of Cornwallis, and he wrote his own history of the Revolution. He died in London on December 23, 1795. Related Pages
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The 'Greene King brewery' is based in which English town or city?
Greene King | Home Suffolk IP33 1QT Time Well Spent Greene King is the country’s leading pub retailer and brewer, running over 3,100 pubs, restaurants and hotels in towns, villages and city-centre high streets across England, Wales and Scotland. With a rich heritage of over 200 years, we brew award-winning beers and operate managed, tenanted, leased and franchised pubs from our headquarters in Bury St. Edmunds.
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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In the Royal Navy what is the equivalent rank to a Field Marshal in the Army?
Field marshal | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia For other uses, see Field marshal (disambiguation) . Field marshal is a very senior military rank , ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks. Usually it is the highest rank in an army, and when it is, few (if any) persons are appointed to it. The origin of the rank dates to the early Middle Ages , originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses (from Old German Marh-scalc = "horse-servant"), from the time of the early Frankish kings. Promotion to the rank of field marshal in many countries historically required extraordinary military achievement by a general (a wartime victory). However, the rank has also been used as a divisional command rank and also as a brigade command rank. Examples of the different uses of the rank include Austria-Hungary, Prussia and Germany for an extraordinary achievement; Spain and Mexico for a divisional command (Spanish, mariscal de campo); and France, Portugal and Brazil for a brigade command (French: maréchal de camp, Portuguese marechal de campo). The traditional attribute distinguishing a field marshal is a baton . The baton nowadays is purely ornamental, and as such may be richly decorated. That said, it is not necessary for the insignia to be a baton. (Such is the case in Russia post-1991 and the former Soviet Union, which use a jewelled star referred to as a marshal's star .) The exact wording of the titles used by field marshals varies: examples include " marshal " and " field marshal general ". The air force equivalent in the Commonwealth and many Middle Eastern air forces is marshal of the air force (not to be confused with air marshal ). (Navies, which usually do not use the nomenclature employed by armies or air forces, use titles such as " fleet admiral ," " grand admiral " or " admiral of the fleet " for the equivalent rank.) Contents Edit During Imperial rule in China, different dynasty gave different titles to generals. A very similar title is “司馬” ( sima ) in Eastern Han dynasty, which literally means "master of horse", and later became a two-character surname too. “司馬” is one of the Three Excellencies in Eastern Han, who is in charge of the country's military affairs. Later, a more common title for a field marshal or a commandant was (元帅 Yuan Shuai ) or grand field marshal (大元帅 da yuan shuai). One of the most famous of these generals was Yue Fei from the Song Dynasty After the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, it has promoted 10 military commanders to the rank of marshal. Egypt Edit Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi was President Hosni Mubarak 's Defence Minister and, after Mubarak was forced from power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution , Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (thus de facto head of state). The current Minister of Defence is General Abdul Fattah Al Sisi France Main article: Maréchal de camp In the French army of the Ancien Régime, the normal brigade command rank was field marshal (maréchal de camp). In 1793, during the French Revolution , the rank of field marshal was replaced by the rank of brigade general. The rank insignia of field marshal was two stars (one-star being used for a senior colonel rank). The French field marshal rank was below lieutenant-general , which in 1793 became divisional-general . In the title maréchal de camp and the English "field marshal", there is an etymological confusion in the French camp between the English words "camp" and "field". The French rank of field marshal should not be confused with the rank of Marshal of France , which has been the highest rank of the French Army since the higher dignity of Marshal General of France was abolished in 1848 (although in theory it is not an actual rank but a "state dignity") India Until the end of World War II , Japan also bestowed the honorary title of field marshal (元帥 gensui) on successful generals and admirals; they would however retain their ranks of general and admiral . Pakistan army Edit Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan has remained the only field marshal in the Pakistan army to d
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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Which planet is usually the furthest form the Sun, but sometimes is not?
ASP: Pluto: The Farthest Planet (Usually) © 1988, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112 Pluto: The Farthest Planet (Usually) Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system, was not discovered until 1930 and remains a very difficult world to observe because it's so far away. At an average distance of 2.7 billion miles from the Earth, Pluto is a dim speck of light in even the largest of our telescopes. It takes almost 249 years to make one swing around the Sun, in a long looping orbit that takes it above and below the path of the other planets. (See the accompanying box for more on its unusual path.) What Would It Be Like on Pluto? While astronomers don't yet know many details about the landscape on Pluto, we do know that it's cold and dark out there. On average, Pluto is nearly 40 times as far from the Sun as we are. From that great distance, the Sun would look like a single, brilliant point of light (it would be only about 1/40th as big as the full Moon is in our sky — too small to appear as a disk.) During the day, that tiny point illuminates the ground on Pluto with only 1/1500th the intensity of sunlight we receive on Earth. (That's still far from being "dark,'' though: the Sun's light output as seen from Pluto is about 250 times the light we receive from the Moon when it's full.) As you might expect, Pluto isn't warmed much by the Sun; astronomers estimate its surface temperature to be more than 200 degrees below zero, Celsius. This is a temperature so cold that skin would be as brittle as glass — and that some materials we're familiar with as gas or Earth (such as methane) would freeze solid. New Discoveries in the Last Decade Despite its great distance, Pluto has given up some of its secrets to careful study recently. Even though no spacecraft has investigated Pluto (and none is scheduled to), a happy circumstance is in part responsible for the accelerating pace of discoveries: Pluto is closer to us in the last two decades of the 20th century than it has been for the last 200 years (or will be for the next 200). Along with the great sensitivity and sophistication of today's astronomical instruments, this makes investigating Pluto from Earth less difficult now. In 1978, for example, a relatively large satellite was discovered around Pluto and named Charon — and during the last half of the 1 980's, a rare alignment has made it possible to study Pluto and Charon much more effectively than ever before. For a brief period once every 124 years, observers on Earth are in a position to see Charon pass directly in front of and behind Pluto in its 6.4-day orbit around the planet. This "eclipse season'' began in 1985 and will end in 1990; there won't be another one until the 22nd century — and not until the 23rd century will one happen when Pluto is this close. By making careful measurements of the eclipses, astronomers have made great progress in understanding the sometimes strange and puzzling properties of Pluto and its satellite. Pluto is Not the Ninth Planet Ever since 1930, school children have memorized the nine planets in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and PIuto. But between January, 1979 and March, 1999 that order is not correct. Pluto's eccentric (ellipse-shaped) orbit has brought it inside the orbit of Neptune, making it the eighth planet for two decades. Pluto's unusual position makes "What is the ninth planet?'' a great trivia question for a while. Just in case students begin to worry that someday Pluto might collide with Neptune as the smaller planet crosses the orbit of the larger, you can reassure them. The two orbits are tilted relative to one another by 17 degrees) in such a way that they never actually "touch.'' (Imagine two enormous, slightly elongated hula hoops, one larger than the other. If the larger one is tilted relative to the smaller one, you can imagine that the two points where the larger hoop crosse
Discovery: A new planet The changing shape of the solar system He stopped on something unexpected: not a point of light, but a fuzzy disk. He initially thought it was a comet, but observations over the next several days showed something amazing. A comet that bright would be quite close to the Sun, and thus move rather quickly against the background stars. This object was moving, but too slowly to be a comet. It was moving so slowly that its motion suggested it would have to be far from the Sun’s gravity, even farther away than Saturn – the farthest known planet. To be that bright and that far away, it had to be a planet. “And I will name him George...” Herschel had discovered the first new planet. Up until this point, astronomers had known of only five other planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which are visible to the naked eye. Herschel tried to name the new planet after his benefactor, King George III of England. It was eventually named Uranus, after the father of Saturn, to fit with the mythological naming scheme of the other planets. What we can see today: The Hubble Space Telescope looks at Uranus Astronomers had actually seen Uranus many times before. It had been noted as early as 1690, when it was recorded as a star in the constellation Taurus. But only Herschel had made a telescope powerful enough to see Uranus was not a star. When the amateur astronomer tried to compare his observations with two professional astronomers, neither had telescopes powerful enough to confirm his find. Herschel’s discovery shook the astronomical world and thrilled the public. It earned him international fame and a paid astronomy job. People had imagined that other planets could exist in the solar system, but this was proof that more planets did exist. The solar system had just gotten bigger, and astronomy’s possibilities had expanded with it. The search for new planets was on.
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The only stadium to host two soccer World Cup Finals is in which city?
Tournaments - Classic Stadiums - Estadio Azteca - FIFA.com Classic Stadiums CityMexico City Estadio Azteca - A little closer to the gods Mexico City's fabled Estadio Azteca has been the backdrop for some of history's most unforgettable FIFA World Cup ™ moments. Pele's last sparks of invention on the world stage, a final glimpse of the old Jules Rimet Cup and Maradona's famous goals against England in 1986 all took place on the lush grass of the vintage North American gem. Known simply as the Azteca, it is one of the beautiful game's truly great gathering places - and the only one to host two FIFA World Cup Final matches. Teetering 7,200 feet above sea level, the stadium has earned a reputation for Mexico's national team as a fortress of results. In fact, Mexico only saw their FIFA World Cup ™ qualifying unbeaten streak in the stadium end in 2001 when they lost 2-1 to Costa Rica. The bowl's signature roof traps and amplifies noise from the massive upper level, filling the air with high pitch shrieks and a deafening, cacophonous din to make the Mexico City landmark, and home to domestic giants Club America, one of the loudest stadiums anywhere. Add to that its more notorious conditions, namely altitude and smog, and you have the most inhospitable of venues for visiting teams. The perfect football stadium lines up the legends Built in 1966 ahead of the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1970 FIFA World Cup, the cavernous, three-tiered bowl was designed to hold almost 115,000 fans. An over-the-top undertaking for the time, the Azteca is a vivid demonstration of Mexico's mad devotion to the people's game. The full construction took nearly four years to complete. Architects Pedro Ramirez Vasquez and Rafael Mijares travelled the globe before breaking ground to catch glimpses of the finest football stadiums of the time. Trips to Buenos Aires, Madrid, Rome, Florence, Paris, London, Moscow and Warsaw provided the duo with the inspiration they needed to design what many consider to be a faultless football stadium. In addition to being an impregnable fortress for the Mexican national team, the Azteca has witnessed some of the most electrifying and immortal FIFA World Cup moments of the last 40 years. Pele said his goodbye to the international game with a peerless performance in the 1970 Final against Italy, inspiring what many call the greatest team of all time to a masterful 4-1 victory over an Italian side infamous for their cohesive defence. The man many consider the greatest footballer in history scored a perfect low-and-hard header in the 18th minute from Rivelino's swerving cross. Leaving Albertosi with no chance, the celebration that followed involved Pele leaping into Jairzinho's arms and has since become one of the most recognisable snapshots in football history. After a 4-1 result, the Seleção, playing a languid, sultry brand of football never to be seen again, passed the Jules Rimet Cup around the brilliant Azteca grass for what would turn out to be the last time in 24 years. Italy had a magic moment of their own en route to the ill-fated final. After finishing 90 minutes against West Germany even at one apiece, the semi-final's extra time period will go down in the annals of history as one of the most magnificent half hours of football ever played for a mass audience. A double from 'der Bomber' Gerd Muller and goals from Tarcisio Burgnich, Luigi Riva and Gianni Rivera saw a desperate attacking session fuelled by fatigue and the Azteca's extreme altitude. Maradona's Mundial Of all the moments of drama played out on the Azteca's manicured stage down through the years, Maradona's magic act of Mexico 86 stares down all comers. After surviving a massive earthquake one year earlier, the stadium barely withstood the earth-shattering orchestrations of El Diego. Soon after the Azteca witnessed Manuel Negrete slam a scintillating side-bicycle against Bulgaria home to put El Tri in the quarter-finals, the towering ground got its first glimpse of Argentine genius Diego Armando Maradona at the quarter-final stage. When the Albiceleste locked
Facts about European Football Championships Facts about European Football Championships Updated on September 25, 2014 When it comes to football championships, there is always room for statistics and interesting facts, famous players and positive or negative impressions by certain teams. Poland and Ukraine host the latest - 14thEuropean Football Championship and we will go down in history and see some interesting details and facts. For four years in France at Euro 2016 in the battle for the title will include 24 national teams. Here are some interesting facts that will forever go down in the history of European championships. Di Stefano goal - 1960 European Championship Different name in the past and top goal scorer 1. The first two tournaments in 1960 and 1964 were known as the European Nations Cup and this name was retained until 1968. 2. The current president of UEFA, Michel Platini, who as a player wore the soccer kit of the national team of France, has record for number of scored goals in one tournament. In 1984, he added nine goals behind his name. Otto Rehhagel as a coach of Greece. Otto Rehhagel - first foreign coach that won the title 3. National team of Germany has played the most matches of the European Championships, 38; second is the Netherlands with 32 while the third is the current champion, Spain with 30 matches. 4. Since all previous winners of the trophy, only the representation of Greece failed to reach the first place with a foreign coach. In 2004, the head of the national team was a German, Otto Rehhagel. Michael Platini won the European Championship and scored two hat-tricks Michael Platini with two hat tricks in one championship 5. Portugal is the only host that failed to triumph in the final match. In 2004, Portugal lost to Greece. 6. Michel Platini is the only player who achieved two hat tricks in one championship. 7. So far, only six players have had a chance to perform at four European championships. Player
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Which human-rights organization campaigns for the release of political prisoners worldwide?|
Myanmar’s Release of Political Prisoners a Step in Right Direction for Human Rights | Amnesty International USA Myanmar’s Release of Political Prisoners a Step in Right Direction for Human Rights Press Release Myanmar’s Release of Political Prisoners a Step in Right Direction for Human Rights Calls for Independent Monitoring of Detention Facilities and Investigation into Torture Reports Contact: Carol Gregory, cgregory@aiusa.org , 202-675-8759 (Washington, D.C.) – Amnesty International USA welcomed news today that Myanmar released 50 political prisoners, including Amnesty International prisoners of conscience, U Myint Aye and Saw Kyaw Kywa Min, but said the authorities have "miles to go" to fulfill the promise of human rights protections in the country. In addition to the release of all political prisoners, the human rights organization is calling for independent monitoring of all detention facilities in Myanmar and an independent investigation into reports of torture and other ill treatment. The prisoners were released today following President Obama's trip to Rangoon, Myanmar -- the first time a sitting U.S. President has visited the country. "The Myanmar government cannot release a few political prisoners while the world is watching, and call it human rights reform," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA. "When President Obama returns on Washington, D.C. he must exert more pressure on Burma to release all prisoners of conscience immediately and without condition." The prisoners released today include co-founder of the Human Rights Defender and Promoters Network, U Myint Aye, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for his peaceful political activities, and Saw Kyaw Kyaw Min, a lawyer and human rights offender who was sentenced to six months imprisonment in August 2012. "The release of these prisoners of conscience is a baby step in the right direction, but Burma has miles to go to right the wrongs of a repressive regime that has attempted to silence peaceful defenders of human rights," said Suzanne Nossel. The Myanmar government announced on November 18 that it will hold inter-governmental consultations by December of this year to reconsider charges and punishment of prisoners still in jail. Amnesty has called on authorities for a comprehensive review mechanism to determine who remains in prison and why. Additionally, the human rights organization wants the United Nations and civil society representatives to be involved in the process to guarantee impartiality and credibility. Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 3 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. Sign Up Get updates on Amnesty's work to protect human rights worldwide. Act Now Urgent Action: LGBTI Activist Held In Pre-Trial Detention (Turkey: UA 2/17) Fashion designer and LGBTI activist Barbaros Şansal is being held in pre-trial detention, accused of ‘inciting the public to hatred or hostility’ for a video message and tweet he shared on social media on New Year’s Eve. He was detained on the territory of northern Cyprus and extradited to Turkey the next day. He was assaulted on arrival in Istanbul on the airport apron.
Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: CUP AND PLATE QUESTIONS FOR TUESDAY 28TH JANUARY CUP AND PLATE QUESTIONS FOR TUESDAY 28TH JANUARY      Questions set by the Waters Green Lemmings and the Bate Horntails. ROUND ONE: Q1: The characters Vladimir and Estragon appear? A: Waiting for Godot. Q2: What relation was Pliny the Younger to Pliny the Elder? A: Nephew. Q3: Which member of the Royal Family is nicknamed “Princess Pushy”?  A: Princess Michael of Kent. Q4: What was the name of Perry Mason’s secretary? A: Della Street. Q5: What famous French film production/newsreel brand, established in 1896, was the first major movie corporation?                                                                                                                     A: Pathé (Pathé Frères - Pathé Brothers) Q6: Which King conferred the title “Royal and Ancient” on the Golf Club at St. Andrews? A: William IV. Q7: In which U.S. state is the vast majority of Yellowstone National Park? A: Wyoming. Q8: Which was the last British group to win the Eurovision Song Contest? A: Katrina and the Waves (in 1997 with Love Shine A Light). Q9: In October 2013, Sebastian Vettel won the F1 Driver’s Championship for the 4th consecutive time, but how many other people have achieved this feat? A: Three: (Juan Manuel Fangio; Alain Prost; Michael Schumacher). Q10: Which country finished third in the 1966 World Cup?                                                                                                                                 A: Portugal.                                                       Q11: What was the surname of Art Historian and nun, Sister Wendy?                                                                                                                                 A: Becket. Q12: What is the capital of Tajikistan?                                                                                                                                 A: Dushanbe. Q13: Which Beatles album followed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? A: Magical Mystery Tour. Q14: Which detective was created by W J Burley?  A: Wycliffe. Q15: Which of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five owned Timmy the Dog?                                                                                                                                 A: George. Q16: In which prison was the television series “Porridge” set?                                                                                                                        Slade.   Q17: Where in the human body is the radius?                                                                                                                                 A: The forearm (accept arm). Q18: To which country do the islands of Spitzbergen belong?                                                                                                                        A: Norway.   Q19: In which year was the Festival of Britain?                                                                                                                                 A: 1951. Q20: In whose shop window did Bagpuss sit? A: Emily’s.   Q1: At which English racecourse would you find Devil’s Dyke?                                                                                                                                                                                      A: Newmarket. Q2: Which is the largest moon in the Solar System?                                                                                                                                                                                      A: Ganymede. Q3: How many Nobel Prizes are usually awarded each year?                                                                                                                                                                                      A: Six: (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics). Q4: Who was the last King of Italy?
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Since December 1999, complete the name of this South American country: Bolivarian Republic of .......?
Venezuela - Country Profile - Nations Online Project Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | República Bolivariana de Venezuela Country Profile Background: Venezuela was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Ecuador). For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who promoted the oil industry and allowed for some social reforms. Democratically elected governments have held sway since 1959. Under Hugo CHAVEZ, president from 1999 to 2013, and his hand-picked successor, President Nicolas MADURO, the executive branch has exercised increasingly authoritarian control over other branches of government. At the same time, democratic institutions have deteriorated, threats to freedom of expression have increased, and political polarization has grown. Current concerns include: an increasingly politicized military, rampant violent crime, high inflation, and widespread shortages of basic consumer goods, medicine, and medical supplies, overdependence on the petroleum industry with its price fluctuations, and irresponsible mining operations that are endangering the rain forest and indigenous peoples. Venezuela assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2015-16 term. (Source: CIA - The World Factbook)
List of all South American countries (the continent South america) in alphabetical order Sorted by square kilometers South america South America, the southern hemisphere neighbor attached to North America is comprised of twelve countries, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In addition, French Guiana is also located in South America, though it is a region of France and is thus not considered to be technically a part of South America. Some of the most intriguing aspects of South America include the climate and location of the content. Surrounded by three distinct bodies of water, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea allow for a diverse coastline surrounding the entire continent. Depending on which ocean a country borders, the tourism in the country centers around highlighting the benefits of being along the waters edge. The interior portion of South America boasts an assortment of terrains, ranging from lush mountains which boast magnificent peaks to rolling hills and valleys to support crops and farming found throughout the continent. One of the most breathtaking wonders, and one which winds through various countries in South America, is the famed Amazon River. The Amazon is the second largest river in the world, and the width of the river ranges between one to six miles depending on which section of the river is being explored, in fact the varying width of the river is notable from satellite images as no bridge has even been constructed to cross the Amazon. From deadly fish such as piranha to docile pink dolphins, the Amazon River symbolizes South America through the sheer magnitude and diversity the river boasts. The draw to South America is due in part to notable areas and sites located in the various countries. Peru offers the Andes Mountains for those seeking adventure and a return to nature. Chile lies at the farthest southern section of South America, and besides Antarctica and the manned scientific stations located there, Chile is the southern most inhabited country in the world. The coastal regions of South America have sandy beaches and rocky cliffs, which allow for a range of seaside experiences to be had. This type of diversity is present throughout all of South America. From urban, highly dense major cities to indigent tribal colonies living along the banks of the Amazon River; South America has an assortment of unique cultures, landscapes, climates and sites to be seen, experiences and revered. List of all South American countries (the continent South america) in alphabetical order 1
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What are the sculptures at the foot of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London?
and NELSON'S COLUMN Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square is at the centre of London next to Charing Cross from where all modern-day distances are measured. Built during mid-19th Century on the former stables and courtyard of the Palace of Whitehall, Trafalgar Square is home to Nelson’s Column, two 24m fountains, four sculpture plinths and statues of historically important world figures. At the top of the square are the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and St Martin in the Fields church. Trafalgar Square was designed by Sir Charles Barry as a ceremonial and cultural space. Opened to the public in 1844, the square is one of London's main tourist attractions. As a popular meeting and social place it is often used festivals, political demonstrations and national celebrations, such as for Royal Weddings and on each New Year’s Eve when thousands of people party in the square. The plinths in each corner of the Trafalgar Square were designed for sculptures, but the plinth in the north-west corner, (intended for a statue of William IV whom the square was originally going to be named), remained empty until 1998. Now known as the ‘Fourth Plinth’ the Royal Society of Arts initiated a scheme to show a series of specially commissioned, and sometimes controversial, contemporary works of art. Trafalgar Square is a popular meeting place to walk or relax. The pedestrianised North Terrace has a cafe and public facilities. Nelson's Column Nelson’s column was built in 1843 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The 5.5m sandstone statue of Nelson stands on top of a 46m solid Dartmoor granite column. Nelson faces south looking towards the Admiralty, with the Mall on his right flank, where Nelson's ships are represented on the top of each flagpole. The square pedestal at the foot of the column is decorated with four bronze panels cast from captured French guns. They depict Nelson's victories at the Battles of Cape St Vincent, Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar. The four lions guarding the base of the column were added in 1867, 25 years after the statue was erected.
TED Case Study Template -- Elgin Marbles The British Museum, located in London, England , purchased the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, from Lord Elgin on July 11, 1816 through an Act of Parliament (1). The Parthenon marbles consist of 115 panels of frieze and 92 mesotopes of which the British Museum owns 56 panels of the frieze and 15 mesotopes. The museum also owns 17 pedimental figures, and thus houses about half of surviving sculptures of the Parthenon while the other half is in Athens (2). The legal circumstances surrounding Lord Elgin�s removal of the marbles is questionable as he never obtained permission from Greece , but rather the temporary occupational government at the time- the Ottoman Empire (3). Therefore, the Greek government would like the British Museum to return the marbles so they can be placed in the new Acropolis Museum near the Parthenon, a vital part of Greek heritage. The British Museum does not want to comply as the marbles have now become a key component of their collection, and they believe themselves to be rightful and legal owner of the marbles. Furthermore, the marbles� removal would cause the questioning of museums worldwide, and their ownership of foreign antiquities. 2. Description The Parthenon was built after the Athenian government voted to use its surplus revenue to rebuild the temple of the warrior goddess Athena on highest point in the city, the Acropolis. It took fifteen years to build, from 447 B.C. to 432 B.C. Athens was at the height of its political power and having an artistic and intellectual renaissance, thus it is understandable that a structure like the Parthenon would have been created as a testament to the accomplishments of the Greeks. Not much is known about the arrangements for the construction, but the principle architect was a man named Iktinos, who had also designed the temple of Apollo at Bassae in Arcadia (4). ����������� The temple has a row of Doric columns on each side and a double row of porches at each end. It was made out of white Pentelic marble from Attica. There were sculptures in the triangular pediments at either end, with the statues representing the birth of Athena and her conquest of Poseidon for Attica. The 92 metopes (32 on each side and 14 at each end) are in high relief and show scenes from Greek mythology, while a 160 meter frieze in low relief show a procession to the temple at a Panathenaic festival (5). This monument was the culmination of Greek sculpture, and far surpasses the quality and quantity in decoration of any other building in the classical age. ����������� The Parthenon, while preserved by the arid climate of Athens, has had a series of damaging occupations. Beginning in the fifth century AD, the Parthenon was closed and turned into a Christian church by order of the government in Constantinople. It later passed into the hands of the French (1204AD) and the Ottoman Turks (1458AD). When the Venetians tried to overtake Athens from the Turks in 1687, a mortar bomb penetrated the roof of the Parthenon and hit the Turk�s storage of gunpowder inside (6). Extensive damage was done to the temple. ����������� In 1799 Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin, was appointed British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. It is unclear as to his intentions regarding the Parthenon when he first went to Athens. Since the Sultan was looking for Britain to protect the Ottoman Empire against the French, Elgin was able to obtain a �firman� or authorization to make casts and drawings, excavate around the building, and remove some pieces of the Parthenon (7). It is because of this vague document that Elgin removed 50 slabs, two half slabs of the frieze and 15 metopes, and sent them back to England , causing extensive damage in
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In which country did student protest leader Steve Biko die while in police custody in 1977?
BBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1977: Steve Biko dies in custody 1977: Steve Biko dies in custody The leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, Steve Biko, has died in police custody. The 30-year-old's death was confirmed by the commissioner of police, General Gert Prinsloo, today. It is understood Mr Biko died in hospital in Pretoria. The government minister of Justice and Police, James Kruger, stated that Mr Biko had been transferred 740 miles (1,191 km) from Port Elizabeth to Pretoria for medical attention following a seven-day hunger strike. Mr Biko had been in custody since 18 August when he was arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act. He is the 20th person to die in custody during the past 18 months. Medical student Steve Biko was born in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1946. He became active in the anti-apartheid movement in 1960s when he was studying medicine at the University of Natal. He initially joined the National Union of South African Students' (NUSAS) but resigned in 1969 because he felt it did not represent the needs of black students. He set up the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) in 1968 and was elected its first president the following year. In 1972 Biko was expelled from medical school and began working full-time for the Black Community Programmes (BCP). He also started writing regularly for the SASO newsletter under the pen-name of Frank Talk. By 1973 his work had come to the attention of the government who, in an attempt to curtail his activities, imposed a banning order on him restricting him to his home town. But he continued his work with the BCP which succeeded in building a clinic and a cr�che in King William's Town. He was also instrumental in setting up several community groups including the Zimele Trust Fund in 1975, which helped political prisoners and their families, and the Ginsberg Educational Trust, to assist black students. In January of this year he was made honorary president of the BCP. An inquest into his death is not to be held for several months, according to the authorities. Mr Biko leaves a wife and two children.
TRIVIA - HISTORICAL TRIVIA - HISTORICAL ` History Trivia What was a ship called the Ancon the first to travel through, on August 15, 1914? The Panama Canal. What fighter pilot flew World War I missions with his Great Dane "Moritz" next to him in the cockpit? Monfred von Richthofen, or " The Red Baron". What country lost 17.2 percent of its population in World War II? Poland. What deranged Roman emperor had a name that meant "little boot"? Caligula. What Pakistani was the first head of state in the 20th century to give birth in office? Benazir Bhutto. What two-word term describes the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning f the Renaissance? Middle Ages. What newspaper won a Pulitzer for its Watergate coverage? The Washington Post. Who described the impending Persian Gulf ground war as "the mother of all battles"? Saddam Hussein. What ship's lookout was miffed when his request for binoculars was denied in 1912? The Titanic's. What big-league baseball prospect was jailed in Cuba from 1953 to 1955 before going on to bigger things? Fidel Castro. Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia fetch $5,000 at auction? Jimmy Carter. What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a defeat of the English at the Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297? William Wallace. What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham Lincoln's pocket when he was shot? The Confederate States of America. What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the pseudonym Maria Maggi? Eva Peron. What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John Paul II in the 1980s? Solidarity. What war lasted from June 5, 1967 to June 10, 1967? The Six-Day War. Who was the longest-reigning Arab ruler, through 1995? King Hussein of Jordan. What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had known, I would have become a watchmaker"? Albert Einstein. What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States in 1962? Cuba. What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as to Palestinians? Hamas. Who was the first president of the National Organization for Women, in 1966? Betty Freidan. Who tooled around Chicago during Prohibition in a car bearing the license plate "EN-1"? Eliot Ness. Who cross-examined the victims in the trial against Long Island Railroad shooter Colin Ferguson? Colin Ferguson. What beating victim's 23-lawyer defense team handed the city of Los Angeles a bill for $4.4 million? Rodney King's. What can Germans publicly deny the existence of to earn five years in prison? The Holocaust. What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent two years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi? Robert La Salle. Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a tombstone marked with the letter "P"? St. Patrick. What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call "the greatest living American"? J. Edgar Hoover. What cavalryman's bonehead moves included leaving four Gatling guns behind, in 1876? George Armstrong Custer's. Who wrote in 1774 that "no thinking man" in America wanted independence from England?                                                          George Washington. What country was Adolf Hitler born in? Austria. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in? Dayton. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of combat operations "Jedi Knights"? Norman Schwarzkopf. What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s? Ronald Reagan. What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out"? Richard Nixon. What name has been shared by the most popes? John. What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to central Italy at the onset of the ninth century? Charlemagne. What did Hirohito refer to as a "tragic interlude," during a 1975 U.S. visit? World War II. What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand? Serbian. What 17th century English Lord Protector's severed head was finally buried
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"Which knighted British composer wrote the musical score for the 1957 film, ""Bridge on the River Kwai""?"
Malcolm Arnold: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Classic FM Classic FM Become a VIP Malcolm Arnold: The Bridge on the River Kwai The epic World War II film won 7 Oscars including Best Actor for Alec Guinness and Best Director for David Lean. Released: 1957 Directed by: David Lean Cast: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa The Film: After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. Composer: British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold . (1921-2006) won an Academy Award and a Grammy for his score for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Other notable film works include The Sound Barrier (1952), The Roots of Heaven (1958), The Key (1958) and Whistle down the Wind (1961).
Sir Edward Elgar’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm Listeners Biography Edward William Elgar , 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim. He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies and instrumental concertos. He was knighted at Buckingham Palace on 5 July 1904 and appointed Master of the King's Music in 1924. Edward Elgar was born in the small village of Lower Broadheath outside Worcester to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Anne (née Greening). He was the fourth of seven children. His mother, Anne, had converted to Catholicism shortly before Edward's birth, so Edward was baptised and brought up as a Roman Catholic. Elgar was an early riser, and would often turn to reading Voltaire, Drayton, historical classics, Longfellow and other works encouraged by his mother. By the age of eight, he was taking piano and violin lessons, and would often listen to his father playing organ at St. George's church, and soon took it up also. His prime interest, however, was the violin, and his first written music was for that instrument. Surrounded by sheet music, instruments, and music textbooks in his father's shop in Worcester's High Street, the young Elgar became self-taught in music theory. On warm summer days, he would take manuscripts into the countryside to study them (he was a passionate and adventurous early cyclist from the age of 5). Thus there began for him a strong association between music and nature. As he was later to say, "There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require." At the age of 15, Elgar had hoped to go to Leipzig, Germany to study music, but lacking the funds, he instead left school and began working for a local solicitor. Around this time he made his first public appearances as a violinist and organist. After a few months, he left the solicitor and embarked on a musical career, giving piano and violin lessons, and working occasionally in his father's shop. Elgar was an active member of the Worcester Glee Club, along with his father, and he accompanied singers, played violin, composed and arranged works, and even conducted for the first time. At 22 he took up the post of bandmaster at the Worcester and County Lunatic Asylum in Powick, three miles south-west of Worcester, a progressive institution which believed in the recuperative powers of music. He composed here too; some of the pieces for the asylum orchestra (music in dance forms) were rediscovered and performed locally in 1996. In many ways, his years as a young Worcestershire violinist were his happiest. He played in the first violins at the Worcester and Birmingham Festivals, and one great experience was to play Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 6 and Stabat Mater under the composer's baton. As part of a wind quintet and for his musical friends, he arranged dozens of pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and other masters, honing his arranging and compositional skills, and applying them to his earliest pieces. Although somewhat solitary and introspective by nature, Elgar thrived in Worcester's musical circles. In his first trips abroad in 1880-2, Elgar visited Paris and Leipzig, attended concerts by first rate orchestras, and was exposed to Wagnerism, then the rage. Returning to his more provincial milieu increased his desire for a wider fame. He often went to London in an attempt to get his works published, but this period in his life found him frequently despondent and low on money. He wrote to a friend in April 1884, "My prospects are about as hopeless as ever…I am not wanting in energy I think, so sometimes I conclude that 'tis want of ability…I have no money–not a cent." At 29, through his teaching, he met (Caroline) Alice Roberts, daughter of the late Major-General Sir Henry Roberts and a published author of verse and pros
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The name of which mammal comes from the Afrikaans for 'earth pig'?
Aardvark | National Geographic An aardvark photographed at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Nebraska Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark About the Aardvark Aardvarks live throughout Africa, south of the Sahara. Their name comes from South Africa's Afrikaans language and means “earth pig.” A glimpse of the aardvark's body and long snout brings the pig to mind. On closer inspection, the aardvark appears to include other animal features as well. It boasts rabbitlike ears and a kangaroo tail—yet the aardvark is related to none of these animals. Burrow Digging and Diet Aardvarks are nocturnal. They spend the hot African afternoon holed up in cool underground burrows dug with their powerful feet and claws that resemble small spades. After sunset, aardvarks put those claws to good use in acquiring their favorite food—termites. While foraging in grasslands and forests aardvarks, also called “antbears,” may travel several miles a night in search of large, earthen termite mounds. A hungry aardvark digs through the hard shell of a promising mound with its front claws and uses its long, sticky, wormlike tongue to feast on the insects within. It can close its nostrils to keep dust and insects from invading its snout, and its thick skin protects it from bites. It uses a similar technique to raid underground ant nests. Female aardvarks typically give birth to one newborn each year. The young remain with their mother for about six months before moving out and digging their own burrows, which can be extensive dwellings with many different openings. © 1996-2017 National Geographic Society.
Desmond Morris : Naked Ape Human Zoo Desmond Morris Naked Ape : Human Zoo Desmond Morris (Desmond John Morris) author of The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo was born in the village of Purton, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England on January 24th, 1928 as the son of an author of children's fiction and as the great-grandson of William Morris, the pioneering founder of the Swindon Advertiser - Britain's first penny paper - who was also a keen amateur naturalist. During his younger childhood Desmond Morris developed a strong interests in writing and in natural history. As a teenager his interest in natural history developed towards being an interest in Zoology whilst he also became more interested in art. In 1946 he was obliged to put in two years National Service as a military trainee but also functioned as a lecturer in Fine Arts at the Chisledon Army College. He developed sufficient expertise as an artist to warrant his holding a one-man exhibition in Swindon Library. In the autumn of 1948 he enrolled as an undergraduate at the Zoology Department of Birmingham University following his release from National Service. During his undergraduate course he continued to be involved in painting and became involved in film-making as a writer and director. His paintings were exhibited in London and in Belgium. In 1951 he graduated from Birmingham with first class honours and moved to Oxford to persue doctoral studies in animal behavior. Here he was placed under the tutorship of Dr. Niko Tinbergen. In 1952 he married Ramona Baulch. His studies on the Reproductive Behaviour of the Ten-spined Stickleback (a small freshwater fish) led to his being awarded a doctorate in 1954 and then to post-doctoral research at Oxford Oxford on the reproductive behaviour of birds. From 1956 he became seriously involved in the making of films and television programmes about animal behaviour and began studying the artistic abilities of apes. This was followed by the authorship of a number of natural history books and by the hosting of a popular TV program "Zootime" over several years. In 1959 he was appointed Curator of Mammals at London Zoo. Between 1959 and 1967 he was responsible for the authorship of quite a few natural history books sometimes in co-authorship with his wife. In 1967 he became a rather more controversial figure in that his authorship strayed into rather more sensitive areas. He was editor of "Primate Ethology" a work which considered recent advances in the study of the behaviours of monkeys and apes, and was author of the international best-seller The Naked Ape which set out to be a frank study of human behavior from a Zoologist's perspective. The early and distinct signs of the financial success of this work which, at the last count, had been translated into 23 languages, selling upwards of 10 million copies, caused him to veer away from continuing in a recent appointment as executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and towards relocating to the island of Malta in order to continue to write and to paint. Amongst the many significant works that he wrote in these years are The Human Zoo (1969) and Intimate Behaviour (1971). In 1973 Desmond Morris returned to Oxford as a research fellow at Wolfson College. In this role it was anticipated that he would work in association with Niko Tinbergen's research group in the Department of Zoology and would continue to research human action-patterns. Over the ensuing years he has maintained his many interests in animal behaviour research, the arts, and in making television programmes and films. The more significant publications in these more recent years include Manwatching, a Field-Guide to Human Behaviour (1977), an Illustrated Naked Ape (1986), Catwatching (1986), Dogwatching (1986), Babywatching (1991), The Human Animal (1994) and Peoplewatching (2002). Notably significant television and film productions in these years include The Human Race (1982), and The Animals Roadshow - a series which he co-presented with Sarah Kennedy and which proved
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"The home of the drink called ""bourbon"" is Bourbon County. What state of the USA is it in?"
Jazz, Bourbon whiskey and Kentucky on Pinterest Forward Kentucky Vintage- Bourbon 101- Bourbon whiskey is a type of American whiskey: a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. The name is ultimately derived from the French Bourbon dynasty, although it is disputed whether the namesake Kentucky county or New Orleans street inspired the whiskey's name.[1] Bourbon has been distilled since the 18th century.[2] See More
Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 12th October – The Questions 12th October – The Questions Specialist questions set by Waters Green Rams. General knowledge questions set by Church House, Bollington. All vetted by Harrington Academicals. SPECIALIST ROUNDS- 1. SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE 2. SCIENCE 5. TIME FOR THE KIDS 6. POLITICS ROUND ONE - SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE – News stories of the summer 1. Which actor, born Bernard Schwartz in 1925, died in September 2010? TONY CURTIS 2. In June, Princess Victoria married her former personal trainer Daniel Westling. Of which country is she a princess? SWEDEN 3. Which 74 year-old singing Dame received poor reviews when she appeared on a UK stage for the first time in 30 years at the London O2 in May? JULIE ANDREWS 4. What name was given to the tent city that was set up at the top of the San Jose pit shaft in Chile, where 33 miners were trapped? CAMP ESPERANZA (original Spanish name) or CAMP HOPE 5. Goodluck Jonathan became President of which country in May? NIGERIA 6. The Savile Enquiry finally delivered its findings on which event of 38 years ago? BLOODY SUNDAY (January 1972 in Derry) 7. Why was Mary Bale in the news in August? She was filmed on CCTV putting a CAT into a WHEELIE BIN in Coventry. 8. Which major New Zealand city was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale? CHRISTCHURCH Supp 1 Which company, with its head-quarters in Windermere, was declared the UK’s best retailer by Which? Magazine? LAKELAND Supp 2 Why was Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida in the news in September? He planned to BURN copies of the KORAN outside his church. ROUND TWO – SCIENCE 1. Which scientist was born in Shrewsbury in 1809 and died at Down House in Kent in 1882? CHARLES DARWIN 2. Which acid was traditionally known as Oil Of Vitriol or Spirit Of Vitriol? SULPHURIC ACID 3. Which heavenly body has moons called Charon, Nix and Hydra? PLUTO 4. William was in prison in 1770, when he invented the toothbrush. What was his surname, still famous in that field today? ADDIS 5. Besides the elephant, which other African mammal is a source of ivory? HIPPOPOTAMUS 6. An amalgam is a compound containing which metal? MERCURY 7. What name is given to a triangle with sides of unequal length? SCALENE 8. What does a Campbell-Stokes Recorder Record? SUNSHINE (not temperature) Supp 1 Scientist William Harvey (born 1578) is famous for his research into what? THE BLOOD (circulation etc.) Supp 2 What is the more common name for triatomic oxygen? OZONE ROUND THREE – SPORT 1. Tony McCoy finally won his first Grand National in 2010 on his 15th ride in the race. Which horse did he ride? DON’T PUSH IT 2. Name either of the 2008 Ryder Cup captains. PAUL AZINGER or NICK FALDO 3. Which sport would you be taking part in if you used a monkey climber, waggler and a plumb? ANGLING / COARSE FISHING 4. Which county won the 2010 County Cricket Championship? NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 5. Which team won the 2010 Rugby League Challenge Cup? WARRINGTON WOLVES ( bt. Leeds Rhinos 30-6 in the final). Accept WARRINGTON. 6. Where will the final race in the 2010 Formula One Series be held? YAS MARINA circuit in ABU DHABI (accept either) 7. According to Wikipedia, which English football ground has the widest pitch and boasts the tallest floodlights? EASTLANDS (home of Manchester City) 8. Which football club holds the record for the fewest wins in a season in the Premier League? DERBY COUNTY – in 2007/8, their record was Played 38, Won 1, Drawn 8, Lost 29. Supp 1 How many times did Alex Higgins win the World Snooker Championship? TWO Supp 2 Which Rugby Union club has made their Premiership debut in the 2010/11 season? EXETER (Chiefs) ROUND FOUR – GEOGRAPHY 1. Which Irish port was known as Kingstown from 1821, after a visit by George IV, until 1921? DUN LAOGHAIRE (pronounced DUNLEARY) 2. Between 1947 and gaining independence in 1971, by what name was the present-day country of Bangladesh known? EAST PAKISTAN 3. Name an African country that, in its normal English spelling, contains the letter Q. MOZAMBIQUE or EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 4. The islands of Hokkaido a
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Which comedy figure opened a London nightclub called The Establishment' in 1961?
Peter Cook’s The Establishment Club | Darkest London Peter Cook’s The Establishment Club March 11, 2013 Between 1961 and 1964, 18 Greek Street, Soho was the home of the Establishment Club. The club was open for a little over three years, and for nearly half that time, the man most associated with it, Peter Cook, wasn’t even in the country. Very few photographs of its interior exist and not many recordings were made of the acts who took to its stage. And yet, nearly fifty years after it shut, it remains one of the most iconic comedy venues in the world. Opening a satirical nightclub had been a dream of Cook’s ever since he started performing at university. With the satire boom catapulting him into sudden stardom (he was starring nightly in Beyond The Fringe at the Fortune Theatre from May 1961), he wasted no time in setting up a joint venture with Cambridge colleague Nick Luard. His plan was to open a theatre/dinner club with a jazz club in the basement, which would feature a nightly satirical show on stage. “I didn’t think it was a risk at all,’ he later told Clive James. “My dread in my last year in Cambridge was that somebody else would have this very obvious idea to do political cabaret uncensored by the Lord Chamberlain. I thought it was a certainty.” The flagrantly ironic name (‘the only good title that I ever thought of’, Cook famously said) came first; locating the premises second. Cook himself wanted the seediness of Soho. At the time, Soho was the only place in England where sex was visibly on sale – in blue cinemas, strip joints, peep shows and stag clubs. An ongoing gangland turf war had been inflamed by the results of the Wolfenden Report, which had forced prostitutes off the streets and into the network of tiny rooms in the surrounding buildings. On their first viewing of 18 Greek Street (then Club Tropicana, a club boasting an “all girl strip revue”), Cook’s wife Wendy recalled it was “the seediest of beer-sodden atmospheres. The windows were swagged in oceans of red velvet curtains…there were discarded G-strings, used condoms, plastic chandeliers – all the tawdry remnants of a former strip club.” It was perfect. Cook and Luard at their new premises in Soho, 1961 The Establishment Club opened in October 1961. The décor was chosen by Sean Kenny, who had designed the sets for Lionel Bart’s Oliver and Roger Law (who, as one half of Fluck and Law, would go on to create the long running ITV satire puppet show Spitting Image) had a space for a nightly cartoon on one of the walls near the entrance. The size of the place – “it was a tiny little room” recalled resident singer Jean Hart – meant it always seemed busy and intimate. Manager Bruce Copp recalled the layout: “There was a long approach as you went into the club; it was a long building, in fact, as most are on Greek Street. A good half of it was given over to the theatre and restaurant and the stage was at the far end of that. The first half was a long bar. As you came in the door, the bar used to be very crowded and yet you would recognise every face.” Advance subscriptions had ensured there was a profit before the doors ever opened, and within weeks, membership applications quickly rose to 7000. Lifetime members received a portrait of Harold Macmillan. Early visitors included EM Forster, the writer James Baldwin, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Paul McCartney (on the cusp of fame) and George Melly, who visited almost nightly and had his own table kept permanently aside for him and wife Diana. The Club’s success in attracting members quickly became a double-edged sword:  it was full most nights, but that meant many members couldn’t get in. Cook on stage at the club, 1961 Some less welcome visitors also came through the doors early on – a group of local thugs turned up to innocently ask if the club had “fire insurance.” “Once, Peter brought them all in and threatened to put them all on stage. I thought that was absolutely brilliant,” recalled Christopher Logue, whose lyrics were sung at the club by Jean Hart. “Of course, they became terribly embarrassed and lef
John Cleese | Monty Python Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England to Reginald Francis Cleese and Muriel (Cross). His family's surname was previously "Cheese", but his father, an insurance salesman, changed his surname to "Cleese" upon joining the army in 1915. [1] As a boy, Cleese was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, from which he was expelled for a humorous defacing of school grounds: he used painted footsteps to suggest that the school's statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet. [2] His talent for comedy progressed with his membership of the Cambridge Footlights Revue while he was studying for a law degree at Downing College at Cambridge University. Here he met his future writing partner Graham Chapman . Cleese wrote extra material for the 1961 Footlights Revue I Thought I Saw It Move, [3] [4] and was Registrar for the Footlights Club during 1962, as well as being one of the cast members for the 1962 Footlights Revue Double Take! [3] [4] Cleese was one of the script writers, as well as being a member of cast for the 1963 Footlights Revue A Clump of Plinths, [3] [4] which was so successful during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that its name was changed to Cambridge Circus, was taken to West End in London, and then on a tour of New Zealand and Broadway, (with the cast also appearing in some of the revue sketches on the Ed Sullivan Show in September 1964). [4] After Cambridge Circus, Cleese decided to stay on in America performing on and off-Broadway, including in the musical Half a Sixpence, [4] and it was during this time he met future Python Terry Gilliam and his future wife, American actress Connie Booth, whom he married on 20 February 1968. [4] As Cleese's comic reputation grew, he was soon offered a position as a writer with BBC Radio, where he worked on several programs, most notably as a sketch writer for The Dick Emery Show. The success of the Footlights Revue led to the recording of a short series of half-hour radio programmes, called I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which was so popular that the BBC commissioned a regular series with the same title. [4] Cleese is also a vegetarian. [1] Career Cleese portrayed the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail From 1970 to 1973 Cleese served as rector of the University of St Andrews. [5] While his election by the students might have seemed a prank, it proved a milestone for the University, revolutionising and modernising the post. For instance, the Rector was traditionally entitled to appoint an "Assessor", in short a deputy to sit in his place at important meetings in his absence. Cleese changed this into a position for a student, elected across campus by the student body, resulting in direct access and representation for the student body for the first time in over 500 years. This was but one of a whole host of improvements that Cleese swept in as a true wind of change. Having left Monty Python, Cleese went on to achieve possibly greater success in the United Kingdom as the neurotic hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he co-wrote with Connie Booth. The series won widespread critical acclaim and is still considered one of the finest examples of British comedy, having won three BAFTA awards when produced and recently topping the British Film Institute list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. The series also featured Andrew Sachs as the much abused Spanish waiter Manuel ("...he's from Barcelona"), Prunella Scales as Basil's fire-breathing dragon of a wife Sybil, and Booth as waitress Polly. Cleese based Basil Fawlty on a real person, Donald Sinclair, whom he encountered in 1971, when he and the rest of the Monty Python team were staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay while filming Monty Python's Flying Circus. Cleese was reportedly inspired by Sinclair's mantra of "I could run this hotel just fine, if it weren't for the guests." He later described Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met", although Mr Sinclair
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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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Which composer was born in Italy in 1792, but is buried in Paris. He had the nickname 'Monsieur Crescendo'?
Gioachino Rossini | Italian composer | Britannica.com Gioachino Rossini Alternative Title: Gioachino Antonio Rossini Gioachino Rossini Claudio Monteverdi Gioachino Rossini, in full Gioachino Antonio Rossini (born February 29, 1792, Pesaro , Papal States [Italy]—died November 13, 1868, Passy, near Paris, France ), Italian composer noted for his operas , particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, larger-scale dramatic operas, the most widely heard is William Tell (1829). Gioachino Rossini. © Photos.com/Thinkstock Early years Gioachino Rossini was the son of Giuseppe Rossini, an impoverished trumpeter who played in miscellaneous bands and orchestras, and Anna Guidarini, a singer of secondary roles. Thus, Rossini spent his entire childhood in the theatre. Though a lazy student, the young Rossini found it easy to learn to sing and play. At age 14 he entered Bologna’s Philharmonic School (now the G.B. Martini State Conservatory of Music) and composed his first opera seria — Demetrio e Polibio (1806; staged in 1812)—for the Mombelli, a family of singers. At 15 he had learned the violin , horn , and harpsichord and had often sung in public, even in the theatre, to earn some money. When his voice broke and he was unable to continue singing , Rossini became an accompanist and then a conductor. He had already realized the importance of the German school of composition , perceiving the new elements by which Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had enriched music . These influences can be found in the early cantata he wrote for the Philharmonic School, performed there in 1808. During the next 20 years (from 1808) this genial lazybones was to compose more than 40 operas. Italian period By taste, and soon by obligation, Rossini threw himself into the genre then fashionable: opera buffa ( comic opera ). His first opera buffa, La cambiale di matrimonio (1810; The Bill of Marriage), was performed in Venice and had a certain success, although his unusual orchestration made the singers indignant. Back in Bologna again, he gave the cantata La morte di Didone (1811; The Death of Dido) in homage to the Mombelli family, who had helped him so much, and he scored a triumph with the two-act opera buffa L’equivoca stravagante (1811; The Extravagant Misunderstanding). The following year, two more of his comic operas were produced in Venice. Gioachino Rossini featured on a cigarette trading card. © Hemera/Thinkstock Listen: Rossini, Gioacchino: La scala di seta (“The Silken Ladder”) Overture from Gioacchino Rossini’s La scala di seta (… Rossini had already broken the traditional form of opera buffa: he embellished his melodies (he was the true creator of bel canto , a florid style of singing), animated his ensembles and finales, used unusual rhythms, restored to the orchestra its rightful place, and put the singer at the service of the music. In 1812 Rossini wrote the oratorio Ciro in Babilonia (Cyrus in Babylon) and La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder), another comic opera. Britannica Stories Scientists Ponder Menopause in Killer Whales The same year, Marietta Marcolini, who had already sung in Rossini’s operas and who was interested in the young composer, recommended Rossini to the committee of La Scala opera house in Milan . It was under contract to them that he wrote La pietra del paragone (1812; The Touchstone), a touchstone of his budding genius. In its finale, Rossini—for the first time—made use of the crescendo effect that he was later to use and abuse indiscriminately. Listen: Rossini, Il Signor Bruschino Overture from Gioacchino Rossini’s Il signor Bruschino; from a 1951 recording by the NBC … Listen: Rossini, L’Italiana in Algeri (“The Italian Girl in Algiers”) Overture from Gioacchino Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri (The Italian … By this time Rossini’s experience in writing seven operas and several cantatas and his intimate contact with the theatre had given him a profound knowledge of his profession. Singers no longer held terr
George Gershwin Biography, Tracks and Songs George Gershwin Biography: George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. Among his best known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), as well as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935). Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark and Henry Cowell. He began his career as a song plugger, but soon started composing Broadway theatre works with his brother Ira Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, where he began to compose An American in Paris. After returning to New York City, he wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and the author DuBose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure, Porgy and Bess is now considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century. Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores until his death in 1937 from a brain tumor. Gershwin's compositions have been adapted for use in many films and for television, and several became jazz standards recorded in many variations. Countless celebrated singers and musicians have covered his songs. He was born Jacob Gershowitz in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, the second of four children. George wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works together with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. Among the many songs the two composed which are now considered jazz standards (widely performed and recorded by jazz musicians) are "But Not for Me," and "Embraceable You," as well as "The Man I Love," and "Someone to Watch Over Me." Undoubtedly, their song most recorded by other musicians is "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess. (Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, and Willie Nelson are among the hundreds of artists who have recorded the song.) Gershwin composed successfully both for Broadway and for the classical concert hall. Perhaps most notably his epic works An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue have been featured on many classical music compilations, in Disney's animated film Fantasia 2000, and are roundly regarded as great music of the 20th century. On leaving school at the age of 15, Gershwin found his first job as a "song plugger" for Jerome H. Remick and Company, a publishing firm on New York City's Tin Pan Alley, where he earned $15 a week. His first published song was "When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em". It was published in 1916 when Gershwin was only 17 years old and earned him $5. His 1917 novelty rag, "Rialto Ripples", was a commercial success, and in 1919 he scored his first big national hit with his song, "Swanee", with words by Irving Caesar. Al Jolson, a famous Broadway singer of the day, heard Gershwin perform "Swanee" at a party and decided to sing it in one of his shows. In 1916, Gershwin started working for Aeolian Company and Standard Music Rolls in New York, recording and arranging. He produced dozens, if not hundreds, of rolls under his own and assumed names. (Pseudonyms attributed to Gershwin include Fred Murtha and Bert Wynn.) He also recorded rolls of his own compositions for the Duo-Art and Welte-Mignon reproducing pianos. As well as recording piano rolls, Gershwin made a brief foray into vaudeville, accompanying both Nora Bayes and Louise Dresser on the piano. In the late 1910s, Gershwin met songwriter and music director William Daly. The two collaborated on the Broadway musicals Piccadilly to Broadway (1920) and For Goodness' Sake (1922), and jointly composed the score for Our Nell (1923). This was the beginning of a long friendship; Daly was a frequent arranger, orchestrator and conductor of Gershwin's music, and Gershwin perio
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What part of the body would a cardiologist specialise in
Doctor, Specialist - Biology Encyclopedia - body, examples, human, system, different, organs, life, hormone, used, specific Doctor, Specialist - Biology Encyclopedia Doctor, Specialist Photo by: CandyBox Images A medical specialist focuses on diagnosis and treatment of a particular organ or body system, a specific patient population, or a particular procedure. Medical care of humans is a complicated task due to the many different organ systems that comprise the human body. Each stage of life presents a variety of health issues that need to be addressed as well. Moreover, males and females also have very different medical needs through puberty and adulthood. This complexity of life necessitates a high degree of specialization in the physicians that care for people's medical needs. There are many types of medical specialties. General Educational Requirements for Medical Specialists All physicians, regardless of their ultimate specialization, must obtain a bachelor's degree from an undergraduate college and graduate from medical school (four years). During the last two years of medical school, students perform clinical rotations in which they are exposed to a wide variety of medical specialties. This provides broad training for all medical professionals, as well as gives the students an opportunity to choose a specialty. After medical school, all physicians are required to do a residency. The purpose of the residency is to provide specific, detailed training in the chosen specialty. The length of the residency is determined by the specialty. The tables on page 231 include the average residency length for each of the specialties listed. Oftentimes, physicians will have a particular expertise within their specialized area. For example, most surgeons are subspecialized in the organ system on which they operate (neurosurgeons, cardiac surgeons, and orthopedic surgeons are examples). These subspecialties are obtained during a fellowship period that lasts one to two years after the residency is completed. It is not uncommon for a highly specialized doctor (such as a pediatric neurosurgeon) to invest ten years or more in his or her medical education after graduating from college. Job Duties and Educational Requirements for Sample Specialties Cardiologist. A cardiologist is a physician who cares for people with heart disease. Cardiologists treat conditions such as myocardial infarction (heart attack) and angina (chest pain). They use diagnostic tools such as an electrocardiogram (EKG) and ultrasound to visualize the electrical and structural functioning of the heart. Cardiologists are employed by hospitals but also work in private practice. Since cardiology is considered a subspecialty of internal medicine, cardiologists must first complete a residency in internal medicine that lasts about three years after medical school. Cardiologists then complete a subspecialty residency in cardiology (another three years). Neurologist. A neurologist is a physician who treats patients with neurological disorders (involving the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system). Conditions that would necessitate treatment by a neurologist include, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, Alzheimer's A surgeon reviewing CAT scans. disease, traumatic brain or spinal cord injury, epilepsy, or stroke. Diagnostic techniques used by neurologists to detect these disorders include (but are not limited to) sensory and motor skills assessments, memory tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and positron emission tomography (PET). To treat these types of disorders, neurologists may prescribe medication, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or surgery. There are several new and very effective surgical treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's disease. Neurologis
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In which English county are the towns of Wiveliscombe and Watchet?
Watchet : definition of Watchet and synonyms of Watchet (English) 6 External links   History Watchet is believed to be the place where Saint Decuman was killed and the 15th century, Grade I listed , Church of St Decuman is dedicated to him. [2] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the early port at Watchet being plundered by Danes led by Ohtor and Rhoald [3] in 987 and 997. The parish of Watchet was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred . [4] It is known that it was in frequent use by small boats in 1564 possibly for the import of salt and wine from France . [5] During the English Civil War Royalist reinforcements for the siege of Dunster Castle was sent by sea, but the tide was on the ebb and a troop of Roundheads rode into the shallows and forced the ship to surrender, so a ship at sea was taken by a troop of horse. [6] The primitive jetty was damaged in a storm of 1659 and a larger, stronger pier was built in the early 18th century supported by local wool merchants, although by 1797 the largest export was kelp made by burning seaweed for use in glass making. In the 19th century trade increased with the export of iron ore from the Brendon Hills , paper, flour and gypsum. [5] Harbour trade was aided by the coming of the railway. In the mid-1860s two independent railways terminated at Watchet. The West Somerset Mineral Railway ran down from the iron mines on the Brendon Hills, and the West Somerset Railway came up from the Bristol & Exeter Railway at Norton Fitzwarren . Both lines made extensive use of the harbour at Watchet from where iron ore was shipped across the Bristol Channel for smelting at Ebbw Vale in South Wales . [5] The mines and West Somerset Mineral Railway closed in 1898. The West Somerset Railway, extended from Watchet to Minehead in 1874, survived as part of British Rail until 1971. Reopened as a heritage railway, it still operates today. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution stationed a lifeboat at Watchet in 1875. The station was closed in 1944 by which time the nearby station at Minehead had been equipped with a motor lifeboat that could cover the area around Watchet. [7] The boat was launched from the slipway at the western corner of the harbour, but the boat house was at the southern corner near the railway station and the boat was taken along the quay on a carriage. Since closure the boat house has been converted into a library. In 1900 and 1903 a series of gales breached the breakwater and East Pier with the loss of several vessels each time and subsequent repairs. [5] Before World War II at a site between Watchet and Doniford a gunnery range was established for various army units to practice anti-aircraft gunnery. Unmanned target aircraft were towed by planes from RAF Weston Zoyland and later were fired from catapults over the sea. [8] Little of the camp buildings survive and it is now the site of a holiday park. [9]   Governance   The medieval parish church of Watchet is dedicated to St Decuman. The civil parish of Watchet is governed by a town council , having previously been Watchet Urban District . [10] Administratively, the civil parish falls within the West Somerset local government district and the Somerset shire county . Administrative tasks are shared between county, district and town councils. In 2002, the parish was estimated to have a population of 4,401. [1] [11] Watchet forms part of the Bridgwater and West Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The current MP is Ian Liddell-Grainger , a member of the Conservatives . [12] Residents of Watchet also form part of the electorate for the South West England constituency for elections to the European Parliament . [13]   Landmarks   A statue of the Ancient Mariner at Watchet Harbour, unveiled in September 2003 as a tribute to Samuel Taylor Coleridge The principal landmark in Watchet is the town's harbour and the surrounding quaysides and narrow streets. In commercial use until 2000
The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset eBook by Anthony Trollope - 9788026808374 | Kobo Show more Show less This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset” contains 6 novels in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or, in more recent UK usage, the Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them. The novels in the series are: The Warden (1855)
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Released posthumously in 2004, '2666' was the bestselling final novel by which Chilean author?
Novel 13 Follow Novel 13 Genre:  Novel Level:  Intermediate    Description: It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Genre:  Novel Level:  Intermediate    Description: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. Genre: Novel   Level:  Intermediate    Description: A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles and genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventures, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. Genre: Novel Level: Upper - Intermediate    Description: After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. Genre: Novel Level: Upper - Intermediate    Description: On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie—working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt—is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion this richly imagined, uproariously funny novel.  Genre: Novel Level: Upper - Intermediate    Description:The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Genre: Novel  Level: Upper - Intermediate    Description: Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers’ stops across England and Europe, W.G. Sebald’s unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz’s ongoing efforts to understand who he is. An orphan who came to England alone in the summer of 1939 and was raised by a Welsh Methodist minister and his wife as their own, Austerlitz grew up with no conscious memory of where he came from.  Genre:  Novel   Level: Advanced  Description: 2666 is the final novel written by Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. It was released posthumously in 2004 after Bolaño presented the first draft to his publisher shortly before the author's early death from liver disease. It depicts, among other themes, the unsolved and ongoing serial female homicides of Ciudad Juárez (called Santa Teresa in the novel), the Eastern Front in World War II, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. The apocalyptic 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration th
2006 Academy Awards® Winners and History Monster House (2006) Actor: FOREST WHITAKER in "The Last King of Scotland," Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond," Ryan Gosling in "Half Nelson," Peter O'Toole in "Venus," Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness" Actress: HELEN MIRREN in "The Queen," Penelope Cruz in "Volver," Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal," Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada," Kate Winslet in "Little Children" Supporting Actor: ALAN ARKIN in "Little Miss Sunshine," Jackie Earle Haley in "Little Children," Djimon Honsou in "Blood Diamond," Eddie Murphy in "Dreamgirls," Mark Wahlberg in "The Departed" Supporting Actress: JENNIFER HUDSON in "Dreamgirls," Adriana Barraza in "Babel," Cate Blanchett in "Notes on a Scandal," Abigail Breslin in "Little Miss Sunshine," Rinko Kikuchi in "Babel" Director: MARTIN SCORSESE for "The Departed," Clint Eastwood for "Letters From Iwo Jima," Stephen Frears for "The Queen," Paul Greengrass for "United 93," Alejandro González Iñárritu for "Babel" The 2006 nominees continued Hollywood's trend of nominating relatively low-to-modestly budgeted films with ensemble casts and personal subjects, again eschewing big budgeted Hollywood studio epics, though in this year, three of the Best Picture-nominated films were at least partially bankrolled by a major studio. Three of the five films were released by specialty divisions, while director Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima was able to be made by a studio, using his reputation to get financing for its narrowly-appealing content. It was one of the most diverse and international rosters of nominees and winners in recent Academy history. The five films that were nominated for Best Picture had a total of only 26 nominations -- the fewest since 1932/1933 (when 10 films were nominated for the top prize but there were fewer awards categories). No single film received nominations in more than six categories. And the Oscar wins were spread out over numerous films - many received either one or two awards. As with last year, there was a perceived backlash against flashy, "popcorn" Best Picture nominees and winners. Mega-budget, special effects-heavy box-office blockbusters that received minimal nominations included: Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (4 technical nominations, with a sole Oscar win for Best Visual Effects), one of the fastest grossing films in history, reaching $100M and $200M box office dollars in record time, and grossing over $1B worldwide, as the second part of a planned trilogy Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand (no nominations), the third film in the series, grossing box-office of about $460 worldwide Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code (no nominations), which grossed over $750M worldwide despite savage reviews Superman Returns (one nomination for Best Visual Effects), the fifth in the series, directed by former X-Men director Bryan Singer and a total worldwide box-office of almost $400M Martin Campbell's Casino Royale (no nominations), the exciting 007 "reboot" starring Daniel Craig as the new James Bond, which grossed about $550M worldwide J.J. Abrams' Mission Impossible III (no nominations), starring and
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What is the chemical symbol for hydrogen?
What is the chemical symbol for hydrogen peroxide? - Quora Quora Written Sep 3, 2015 Hydrogen Peroxide: In its pure form it is a colourless liquid, slightly more viscous than water; however, for safety reasons it is normally used as an aqueous solution. It contains oxygen in -1 oxidation state. Details: Written Sep 16, 2015 The chemical formula for Hydrogen Peroxide is H2O2 i.e. one Hydrogen atom per every Oxygen atom. Consider an oxygen molecule freely existing in the environment, the chemical formula for it would be, O2. if we take this oxygen in -1 oxidation state, each oxygen atom can make one additional bond with one hydrogen atom each. Thus, we get aqueous solution of H2O2, Hydrogen Peroxide. What is this? An amateur hour? We should refrain from putting questions that have straightforward undisputed answers. 144 Views Written Mar 3, 2016 I hate Mathematics . I hate Mathematics  not because it has numbers, I hate Mathematics  because I had a teacher called Ms. Maria all through my secondary school.  It's said that when someone passes away, you shouldn't say bad stuff about them. Ms. Maria is no more, but whenever I think about her, I wish I could tell her she was a bad person. Probably the only person I've hated for this long. ... Long story short: I invited a guy to a social event and now have the best boyfriend ever Okay, the long story. A few friends and I were planning a Christmas meal. We agreed to go out to dinner at a well known chain Portuguese - style chicken restaurant, just before Christmas. We all agreed it was just the few of us. The girls. I got talking to this lovely boy in two of my classes, and it transpi... Over the years, there’s been a few times when I eye-modeled for myself. These are my favorites: I could make up a big sob story about why I was crying in the next photo, but the truth is… I had something in my eye that I just couldn’t get out (or locate), and I’d been rubbing my eye so much that it started watering. So I thought that I could at least get a photo out of it. :)) This one was fun, an...
chemical element | Britannica.com Chemical element rare-earth element Chemical element, also called element , any substance that cannot be decomposed into simpler substances by ordinary chemical processes. Elements are the fundamental materials of which all matter is composed. This article considers the origin of the elements and their abundances throughout the universe. The geochemical distribution of these elementary substances in the Earth’s crust and interior is treated in some detail, as is their occurrence in the hydrosphere and atmosphere. The article also discusses the periodic law and the tabular arrangement of the elements based on it. For detailed information about the compounds of the elements, see chemical compound . The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica General observations At present there are 118 known chemical elements. About 20 percent of them do not exist in nature (or are present only in trace amounts) and are known only because they have been synthetically prepared in the laboratory. Of the known elements, 11 (hydrogen, nitrogen , oxygen, fluorine , chlorine , and the six noble gases) are gases under ordinary conditions, two (bromine and mercury) are liquids (two more, cesium and gallium , melt at about or just above room temperature), and the rest are solids. Elements can combine with one another to form a wide variety of more complex substances called compounds . The number of possible compounds is almost infinite; perhaps a million are known, and more are being discovered every day. When two or more elements combine to form a compound , they lose their separate identities, and the product has characteristics quite different from those of the constituent elements. The gaseous elements hydrogen and oxygen, for example, with quite different properties, can combine to form the compound water , which has altogether different properties from either oxygen or hydrogen. Water clearly is not an element because it consists of, and actually can be decomposed chemically into, the two substances hydrogen and oxygen; these two substances, however, are elements because they cannot be decomposed into simpler substances by any known chemical process. Most samples of naturally occurring matter are physical mixtures of compounds. Seawater, for example, is a mixture of water and a large number of other compounds, the most common of which is sodium chloride , or table salt. Mixtures differ from compounds in that they can be separated into their component parts by physical processes; for example, the simple process of evaporation separates water from the other compounds in seawater. Historical development of the concept of element Similar Topics principles of physical science The modern concept of an element is unambiguous, depending as it does on the use of chemical and physical processes as a means of discriminating elements from compounds and mixtures. The existence of fundamental substances from which all matter is made, however, has been the basis of much theoretical speculation since the dawn of history. The ancient Greek philosophers Thales, Anaximenes, and Heracleitus each suggested that all matter is composed of one essential principle—or element. Thales believed this element to be water; Anaximenes suggested air; and Heracleitus, fire. Another Greek philosopher, Empedocles , expressed a different belief—that all substances are composed of four elements: air , earth, fire, and water. Aristotle agreed and emphasized that these four elements are bearers of fundamental properties, dryness and heat being associated with fire, heat and moisture with air, moisture and cold with water, and cold and dryness with earth. In the thinking of these philosophers all other substances were supposed to be combinations of the four elements, and the properties of substances were thought to reflect their elemental compositions . Thus, Greek thought encompassed the idea that all matter could be understood in terms of elemental qualities; in this sense, the elements themselves were thought of as nonmaterial. The Greek concept of
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What was the occupation of Vaslav Nijinsky from 1908?
Vaslaw Nijinsky | Article about Vaslaw Nijinsky by The Free Dictionary Vaslaw Nijinsky | Article about Vaslaw Nijinsky by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Vaslaw+Nijinsky ballet dancer, choreographer Nijinsky, Vaslav (vəsläf` nyĭzhēn`skē), 1890–1950, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; brother of Bronislava Nijinska Nijinska, Bronislava , 1891–1972, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. She studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg and then joined the Maryinsky Theatre. ..... Click the link for more information. . Nijinsky is widely considered the greatest dancer of the 20th cent. and was ballet's first modernist choreographer. He entered the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, in 1900 and made his debut in 1907. He traveled to Paris (1909) and, as premier danseur in Diaghilev Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich , 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad. St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, 1892. In 1898 he founded an influential journal, Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. ..... Click the link for more information. 's Ballets Russes, was the first to dance the leading roles in Petrouchka, Les Sylphides, Scheherazade, and The Spectre of the Rose, all choreographed by Fokine Fokine, Michel , 1880–1942, Russian-American choreographer and ballet dancer, b. Russia. He studied at the Imperial Ballet School (1889–98) and danced at the Maryinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. ..... Click the link for more information. , and in ballets he himself choreographed—The Afternoon of a Faun (1912), The Rite of Spring (1913, for which Stravinsky Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich , 1882–1971, Russian-American composer. Considered by many the greatest and most versatile composer of the 20th cent., Stravinsky helped to revolutionize modern music. Stravinsky's father, an actor and singer in St. ..... Click the link for more information.  composed the famous score), Jeux (1913), and Till Eulenspiegel (1916). Nijinsky developed a system of dance notation that was not deciphered until 1984; since then a number of his reconstructed ballets have been performed. Often considered the greatest male dancer of the 20th cent., Nijinsky was noted for his intensity and eroticism as well as for his superb technique, particularly his jeté and elevation. His relationship with Diaghilev was stormy, ending bitterly when the dancer married. In 1919, Nijinsky's career was abruptly terminated by disabling schizophrenia. He lived in retirement in England and Switzerland until his death. Bibliography See his 1919 diary, ed. by his wife, R. Nijinska (1936, rev. ed. 1963, unexpurgated tr. ed. by J. Acocella, 1998); biographies by R. Nijinska (1933 and 1952, repr. 1968) and R. Buckle (1971); studies by L. Kirstein (1975), B. Van Norman (1986), and M. Hodson (1996); catalog for the exhibition "Nijinsky: Legend and Modernist" (2000). Nijinsky, Vaslav   (full Russian name, Vatslav Fomich Nizhinskii). Born Feb. 28 (Mar. 12), 1889, in Kiev; died Apr. 11, 1950, in London. Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. Nijinsky attended the St. Petersburg Theatrical School until 1907, at which time he was accepted as a soloist at the Mariinskii Theater. He was dismissed by the theater in 1911. From 1909 to 1913 and again in 1916 and 1917, Nijinsky was a principal dancer and choreographer with the Russian Seasons and the ballet company organized by S. P. Diaghilev. Nijinsky danced the lead roles in M. M. Fokine’s productions of Stravinsky’s Petrouchka, N. Cherepnin’s Le Pavilion d’Armide and Narcissus, Arenskii’s Egyptian Nights, Schumann’s Chopinana (Les Sylphides) and Le Carnaval, and Weber’s Le Spectre de la rose. In Paris he staged Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun in 1912 and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps and Debussy’s Jeux in 1913. Nijinsky staged R. Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel in New York in 1916. As a dancer, Nijinsky revived the art of the male dancer, combining extraordinary jumps and pirouettes with expressive plasticity and pantomime. An innovative choreographer, he expanded the vocabulary
Royal Russia - 300th Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty 1913 ||| VISIT OUR ROMANOV BOOKSHOP ||| RETURN TO WELCOME TO ROYAL RUSSIA ||| Tercentenary of the Accession of the House of Romanov (1913). This film was released to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Romanov rule in Russia, and is said to have had the blessing of Tsar Nicholas II himself. Note: The last part of the film offers vintage film footage of Emperor Nicholas II and his family The House of Romanov was the second and last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia, reigning from 1613 until the February Revolution abolished the crown in 1917 On 11 December, 1912, on the first page of his lined exercise-book, the eight-year-old boy, who was the heir to the Russian throne, started his records, his hand unsteadily forming letters: "The Romanova House, Mikhail Feodorovitch. 32 years." Tsar Mikhail Feodorovitch became the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, and his ascendancy to power in 1613 would put an end to the Time of Troubles, one of the most distressful periods in Russian history. The death of the cruel and powerful Tsar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) resulted in the Russian crown being fought over by numerous claimants, all implacable rivals. The ascendant boyar (aristocracy in old Russia) parties of the Godunovs, Shuiskiys, Vorotynskiys and Trubetskoys exhausted one another in political and military tussles, and they eventually abandoned the battlefield, leaving it to countless rogues who vied to be successors to the Russian throne. They were all replaced and superseded by the Poles. On 27 August, 1610, Moscow swore allegiance to Wladislaw, son of Sigsmund III of Poland. There seemed to be no power able to rescue this vast country from devastating internal dissension, popular disorder, plunder and violence. The Russian Imperial family in Moscow during the tercentenary celebrations. From the abyss of chaos there emerged a great hope for the unity of the Russian people. It was given a tremendous impetus by the necessity of safeguarding the Orthodox faith from encroachement by the Roman Catholic Poles. Prince Dimitri Pozharskiy and a citizen of Nizhni Novgorod, Kozma Minin, stood at the head of the anti-Polish movement. It was not only a struggle against religious oppression that inspired the uprising--Pozharskiy dreamed of a Russian tsar who would rule out all discord and soothe internal dissension. That was the most cherished aspiration of the long suffering Russian people who had to bear the ravages of the Tumult. "Without a sovereign we will not survive for long, for there is no one to care for the realm and no one to provide for God's servants," the people of Rus (name of ancient Russia) used to say. Hetman Gonsevski, having been defeated in the battle of Moscow, soon afterwards the Poles were driven away from Russia. Now the main problem had to be faced. In January 1613, the Zemsky Sobor, the Russia's national assembly, convened to elect the tsar. First and foremost, it was resolved not to elect any bogus foreigners. Then the contenders were to be nominated. The claims by Princes Shuiskiys, Trubetskoys and Vorotynskiys, the surviving descendants of the Rurik dynasty, which had been ruling Russia hitherto, were rejected in the fear that their candidates may have led to a recurrence of the dreaded Time of Troubles. In 1913, the first postage stamps depicting Russian tsars were issued. After endless disputes suddenly the name of Mikhail Romanov came up. He was a sixteen year-old youngster who had lived together with his mother in the village of Domnino not far from Kostroma. The Romanovs had been separated and exiled by Tsar Boris Godunov. The baby Mikhail had lived with aunts for several years before the mother and son were allowed to live together. The nomination of the young boyar whose family had not been involved in the disreputable turmoil that had wracked Russia, won the sympathies of the entire assembly. The eight year-old Tsarevich Alexei recorded this event in his history exercises: "Before he was elected to reign Mikhail Feodorovich had lived with his
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14 | April | 2016 | Ed B on Sports Ed B on Sports William Fichtner – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Fichtner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Fichtner Fichtner at the 2011 USA Film Festival Born Children 2 William Edward “Bill” Fichtner, Jr. (born November 27, 1956) [1] is an American actor. He has appeared in a number of notable films and TV series. He is known for his roles as Sheriff Tom Underlay in the cult favorite television series Invasion , Alexander Mahone on Prison Break , and numerous film roles, including: Quiz Show , Armageddon , The Perfect Storm , Crash , Blades of Glory , Black Hawk Down , Nine Lives , The Longest Yard , Mr. & Mrs. Smith , The Dark Knight , Date Night , The Lone Ranger , Phantom , Elysium , Independence Day: Resurgence , and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel . Contents Fichtner was born on Mitchel Air Force Base [2] on Long Island , and was raised in Cheektowaga, New York , a suburb of Buffalo . He is the son of Patricia A. (née Steitz) and William E. Fichtner. [3] [4] He has German ancestry. [5] Fichtner graduated from Maryvale High School (Cheektowaga) in 1974. After graduating from Farmingdale State College in 1976 with an associate degree in criminal justice, he attended SUNY Brockport and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice in 1978. Fichtner then studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Fichtner credits his Farmingdale State College admissions counselor, Don Harvey, with his decision to study acting. Harvey, who became a lifelong friend, took Fichtner to his first Broadway show . On 18 May 2008, Fichtner was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Farmingdale State College. [6] Fichtner began his acting career as Josh Snyder in As the World Turns in 1987. Fichtner’s film credits include Contact , Heat , Armageddon , Go , Equilibrium , Black Hawk Down , The Perfect Storm , The Longest Yard , Crash , Ultraviolet , and The Dark Knight . Mainly a character actor , one of Fichtner’s few leading roles is in Passion of Mind , also starring Demi Moore and Stellan Skarsgård . For his role in Crash, he won a Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance Award and a “Best Acting Ensemble” Award from Broadcast Film Critics Choice. Fichtner, 2003 Credited as Bill Fichtner, he voiced the character Ken Rosenberg in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . Between 2005 and 2006, Fichtner also starred in the science-fiction TV series Invasion as Sheriff Tom Underlay. After Invasion was cancelled, Fichtner played FBI Agent Alexander Mahone in the second through fourth seasons (2006–2009) of Prison Break . [7] Later that year, he presented an award at the National Hockey League award show.[ citation needed ] He also appears in The West Wing episode, “ The Supremes ” as Christopher Mulready, a conservative judge nominated to the Supreme Court. Fichtner also had a role as the Gotham National Bank manager in the feature film The Dark Knight , and as Jurgen in Equilibrium . In June 2009, Fichtner signed on to guest star on Entourage playing TV producer Phil Yagoda, who is trying to remake his hit 1990s teen series. [8] He also voices Master Sergeant Sandman in the 2011 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 . [9] Personal life[ edit ] As of June 2014, Fichtner lives in Prague , Czech Republic , where he filmed the television series Crossing Lines . Fichtner is a Buffalo Bills fan, appearing in a commercial for the team before the 2014 season . [12] More recently, Fichtner narrated the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary titled “Four Falls of Buffalo”, chronicling the Buffalo Bills’ four consecutive Super Bowl appearances from 1990 – 93 . High Lonesome: A Father For Charlie [13] Sheriff Here is a typical Nathan Eovaldi game: 1ST INNING: SAD ALEX RODRIGUEZ – Google Search   is hitting .120.  He has a an idea gifs – Google Search     steroids GIFS – Google Search The past two games at The Rodgers Center in Toronto, The Yankees   bats have looked like   old men.  Evovaldi was his typical inconsisten
Sterling Holloway - IMDb IMDb Actor | Soundtrack | Miscellaneous Crew Popular American character actor of amusing appearance and voice whose long career led from dozens of highly enjoyable onscreen performances to world-wide familiarity as the voice of numerous Walt Disney animated films. Born in the American Deep South to grocer Sterling P. Holloway Sr. and Rebecca Boothby Holloway, he had a younger brother, ... See full bio » Born: a list of 25 people created 14 Dec 2010 a list of 38 people created 14 May 2011 a list of 46 people created 01 Aug 2013 a list of 22 people created 01 Oct 2014 a list of 47 people created 21 Oct 2014 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Sterling Holloway's work have you seen? User Polls 2 wins & 3 nominations. See more awards  » Known For The Jungle Book 'Kaa' the Snake (1967)  1976 Tony the Pony (TV Series) GG, the Wizard  1973 NBC Children's Theatre (TV Series) Colonel Corpuscle  1973 Love, American Style (TV Series) Dr. Edwin Muller (segment "Love and the Face Bow")  1967 Gilligan's Island (TV Series) Burt  1967 Family Affair (TV Series) Frack  1966 That Girl (TV Series) Everett Valentine  1966 F Troop (TV Series) Sheriff Pat Lawton  1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) Fisk  1964 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) TV Repairman  1961 Miami Undercover (TV Series) Henry  1961 Pete and Gladys (TV Series) Lester Smith  1961 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) Luther Adams  1960 The Brothers Brannagan (TV Series) Shopkeeper  1960 The Real McCoys (TV Series) Orval McCoy  1960 Peter Gunn (TV Series) Felony  1960 The Untouchables (TV Series) Horace De Vilbill  1959 Five Fingers (TV Series) Hayden  1957 Circus Boy (TV Series) Elmer Purdy  1957 Hemo the Magnificent (TV Movie) Lab assistant (uncredited)  1956 Our Mr. Sun (TV Movie) Chloro Phyll (voice, uncredited) - Babs's Wedding (1956) ... Waldo Binney - Waldo's Mother (1955) ... Waldo Binney / Mrs. Binney Soundtrack (13 credits)  2009 The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (Documentary) (performer: "Little Black Rain Cloud", "Up Down Touch The Ground", "Trust In Me")  1977 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (performer: "Up, Down, Touch the Ground", "Rumbly in My Tumbly", "(I'm Just A) Little Black Raincloud", "Mind Over Matter", "Like a Rather Blustery Day", "Hip-Hip Pooh-ray!")  1968 Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (Short) (performer: "A Rather Blustery Day")  1967 The Jungle Book (performer: "Trust in Me (The Python's Song)" (1967) - uncredited)  1966 Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Short) (performer: "Up, Down, and Touch the Ground", "Rumbly in My Tumbly", "Little Black Rain Cloud", "Mind Over Matter")  1946 Make Mine Music ("Peter and the Wolf" (1936))  1942 Star Spangled Rhythm (performer: "A Sweater, a Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo Bang")  1941 Dumbo (performer: "Rock-a-Bye Baby" (1886), "Happy Birthday" (1893) - uncredited)  1940 Remember the Night (performer: "A Perfect Day" (1910) - uncredited)
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Foinavon won the Grand National in 1967 at odds of 100-1. What was the next horse to win it at odds of 100-1?
The five 100-1 outsiders who won the Grand National : Features : Grand National The five 100-1 outsiders who won the Grand National Free Bet Mon Mome was the last 100-1 Grand National winner. Dan Fitch takes a look back at the five 100-1 outsiders, who defied the odds to win the Grand National. The Grand National course at Aintree has a reputation of being the toughest event in racing. Run over a distance of four miles and 876 yards and punctuated by 30 challenging fences, it's little wonder that sometimes the form book can go out of the window and a rank outsider can win the race. Since the race was first ran in 1839, there have been a handful of occasions when a real no-hoper shocked the nation by winning at Aintree. Here are the five 100-1 outsiders to have won the Grand National. 1928 - Tipperary Tim The first 100-1 horse to win the Grand National was Tipperary Tim. As the race was about to start, Tipperary Tim's jockey William Dutton heard a friend call out "Billy boy, you'll only win if all the others fall down." As fate would have it, 41 of the 42 riders did fall down, leaving Tipperary Tim to win the race ahead of the re-mounted Billy Barton. The two horses were the only finishers, after a melee at the Canal Turn in treacherous weather conditions. 1929 - Gregalach One year after Tipperary Tim made history, Gregalach became the second successive 100-1 shot to win the Grand National. The horse was given such lengthy odds having fallen at Sandown, just eight days prior to the race at Aintree. Gregalach's jockey Robert Everett rode a clever race in which he gradually gained ground on the leaders and overtook the legendary Easter Hero on the second to last fence, before winning the race by six lengths. 1947 - Caughoo As if the fact that the 100-1 outsider Caughoo won the 1947 Grand National isn't exciting enough, legend has it that his victory wasn't exactly legit. With the Aintree course covered in a thick fog, it has long been rumoured that Caughoo hid behind a fence in the early stages of the race, only to emerge towards the end of the race and win by 20 lengths. Caughoo's jockey Eddie Dempsey was beaten up by another rider after the race, but it seems that this was unwarranted, as photographic evidence emerged years later, clearly showing Caughoo jumping Becher's Brook on two separate occasions. 1967 - Foinavon The most famous 100-1 winner of them all was Foinavon, who entered into Grand National folklore by winning the race amidst a mass pile-up and ended up having a fence named after him. Foinavon was lagging behind the other 27 remaining runners, as they approached the 23rd fence. Popham Down veered wildly to the right as it came to the fence, which resulted in a melee. The only horse to jump the fence first time was Foinavon, who was lagging so far behind that his jockey John Buckingham could steer away from trouble. Although 17 re-mounted horses gave chase, no one could catch Foinavon. 2009 - Mon Mome A total of 42 years passed after Foinavon's victory, before Mon Mome became the next 100-1 winner of the Grand National. Venitia Williams became only the second woman to train a Grand National winner, while Mon Mome's jockey Liam Treadwell rode the horse to victory on his Grand National debut.
Epsom Derby Meeting 2014 | Sporting Post April 17, 2015 On Thursday, 5 June 2014, Epsom clerk of the course Andrew Cooper pronounced the going for the Investec Derby meeting as good and good to soft in places following 2mm of rain overnight. He tweeted: “2mm rain overnight @EpsomRacecourse, making 8mm in the last 24 hours. Will leave going as good, good to soft in places. Thurs & Fri dry.” While the forecast for Thursday and Friday is dry, heavy rain could fall on Saturday with the Met Office issuing a yellow weather warning for the Epsom area. Any additional rain and subsequent ease in conditions would boost the chances of Roger Varian’s Racing Post Trophy winner Kingston Hill, who was made second favourite for Saturday’s Derby following Wednesday’s rain. Connections of market leader Australia, however, would prefer better ground for the son of 2001 Derby winner Galileo. Gr1 Investec Oaks run in memory of Sir Henry Cecil The 2014 renewal of the Epsom Oaks is being run in memory of the legendary trainer Sir Henry Cecil who died in June 2013. Cecil saddled the winner of the Oaks eight times – in 1985, 1988, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2007. Seventeen horses, headed by Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Marvellous, have been declared for this year’s Oaks and will face the starter at Epsom Downs at 16:00 BST or 17:00 local time on Saturday, 7 June 2014. Joseph O’Brien will take the ride for his father, trainer Aidan O’Brien, as they bid for a fillies’ Classic double. The Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum-owned pair of Taghrooda and Tarfasha are also among the contenders, with both in good form. Taghrooda won by six lengths at the Pretty Polly Stakes in Newmarket in May and Tarfasha was an impressive winner of the recent Blue Wind Stakes at Naas in Ireland. David Simcock is one of a number of trainers with more than one chance in the one-and-a-half mile contest. He runs the Musidora winner Madame Chiang and Momentus, third in the Lingfield Oaks Trial behind Ralph Beckett’s Honor Bound, the choice of Jim Crowley over stablemate Regardez. There would be few more popular winning jockeys than Jimmy Fortune, whose wife Jan died recently. He partners Marsh Daisy for Hughie Morrison. Runners and riders: 1. Amazing Maria (IRE) – Ed Dunlop, Frankie Dettori (Dr12) 2. Anipa – Roger Varian, Andrea Atzeni (Dr16) 3. Dazzling (IRE) – Aidan O’Brien, Seamie Heffernan (Dr4) 4. Honor Bound – Ralph Beckett, Jim Crowley (Dr15) 5. Ihtimal (IRE) – Saeed bin Suroor, Kieren Fallon (Dr7) 6. Inchila – Peter Chapple-Hyam, Jamie Spencer (Dr6) 7. Island Remede – Ed Dunlop, James Doyle (Dr14) 8. Lily Rules (IRE) – Tony Coyle, Barry McHugh (Dr11) 9. Madame Chiang – David Simcock, William Buick (Dr1) 10. Marsh Daisy – Hughie Morrison, Jimmy Fortune (Dr5) 11. Marvellous (IRE) – Aidan O’Brien, Joseph Brien (Dr2) 12. Momentus (IRE) – David Simcock, Harry Bentley  (Dr8) 13. Palace (IRE) – Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore (Dr3) 14. Regardez – Richard Kingscote, Ralph Beckett (Dr13) 15. Taghrooda – John Gosden, Paul Hanagan (Dr9) 16. Tarfasha (IRE) – Dermot Weld, Pat Smullen (Dr10) 17. Volume – Luca Cumani, Richard Hughes (Dr17) Recent Oaks winners 2013: Talent – Richard Hughes, Ralph Beckett 2012: Was – Seamie Heffernan, Aidan O’Brien 2011: Dancing Rain – Johnny Murtagh, William Haggas 2010: Snow Fairy – Ryan Moore, Ed Dunlop 2009: Sariska – Jamie Spencer, Michael Bell 2008: Look Here – Seb Sanders, Ralph Beckett Gr1 Investec Derby The field for the keenly awaited Investec Derby will face the starter at Epsom Downs at 16:00 BST or 17:00 local time on Saturday, 7 June 2014. Aidan O’Brien has 4 Derby successes to his credit, having saddled Galileo in 2001, High Chaparral in 2002, Camelot in 2012 and Ruler Of The World in 2013. When Joseph O’Brien rode Camelot across the line to victory, they made history as the first father-son team to win the Derby and aim to make it a double this year with strong favourite, Australia. If successful, it will give Aidan O’Brien the distinction of having three wins in a row. The O’Brien yard saddles four Derby contenders, including 2000 Guineas third
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The novels 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich' are two of the best known works of which Russian author?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich) edit data Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.
The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov - The 30th Greatest Fiction Book of All Time Sign In The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
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In 1984, which Cosmonaut became the first woman to perform a spacewalk?
July 25, 1984: Savitskaya is first woman to walk in space July 25, 1984: Savitskaya is first woman to walk in space Teresa Mathew Pin it Share On this date—July 25, 1984—Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman and the 53rd cosmonaut to perform a spacewalk. Savitskaya was the second woman to enter space, the first being Valentina Tereshkova 19 years before her. Savitskaya and Tereshkova were both Russian cosmonauts, a term used to refer to an astronaut trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While there were 57 Russian and Soviet spacewalkers through 2010, Savistkaya was the only female. During her spacewalk, Savistkaya was outside the space station for over three hours. In 1993, when she retired from working as a cosmonaut, she had spent a total of 19.71 days in space. The first woman to enter space twice, Savistkaya had this to say about how space travel made her regard Earth: “One has a natural psychological wish to return to Earth, to their home. When in orbit, one thinks of the whole of the Earth, rather than of one's country, as one's home." Reblog
Free Flashcards about GK 5 Question Answer Tinian Island, from which Enola Gay took off en route to bomb Hiroshima, is part of which US territory? Northern Mariana Islands What is 'The Sky At Night''s theme tune? At The Castle Gate by Sibelius Who played the title character in 'Veronica Mars'? Kristen Bell What are the start and end points of the Severn Valley Railway? Kidderminster, Bridgnorth Which national trail runs between Ivinghoe Beacon and Overton Hill? The Ridgeway Former PM Gordon Brown and Kenny Dalglish were both born in which city? Glasgow Which London museum was founded by a tea magnate in 1901 in Forest Hill, and was designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Charles Harrison Townsend? Horniman Museum On which horse did Lester Piggott first win the Derby, in 1954? Never Say Die Which suffragette famously died at the 1913 Derby by running in the path of the horses? Emily Davison In McManus's cartoon "Bringing Up Father", what was "father's" name? Jiggs In McManus's cartoon "Bringing Up Father", to whom was father married? Maggie Who painted "The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888)"? Alma-Tadema Who wrote the novel "Angel Pavement"? JB Priestley Which pig was the leader in "Animal Farm"? Napoleon Who wrote "Anna Of The Five Towns"? Arnold Bennett In criminology, what is an "inchoate offence"? An offence (such as incitement or conspiracy) anticipating or preparatory to a further criminal act What is the alternative name for a wolverine? Glutton Which disease causes the roots of brassicas (eg cabbage) to swell? Club Root Which Indian-made car was unveiled in January 2008 as "the least expensive car in the world"? Tata Nano Which white frothy liquid is produced on plants by the frog hopper insect? Cuckoo spit How did Barnes Wallis assist the 'Dambusters' raid? Designed the 'bouncing bomb' Which constellation bears the popular name 'Charioteer'? Auriga Which is the biggest 'centaur' in the Solar System? Chiron How is hydroxybenzene better known? Phenol, or carbolic acid Who died on Loch Ness in 1952, trying to set a water speed record? John Cobb What type of stamps first went on sale in the UK in 1966, and have been sold every year since? Christmas stamps Which Mars canyon is over 4000km long? Valles Marineris The TATA OneCAT is a car that runs on what? Compressed air What is the legal term for someone authorised to stand in another's place? Proxy What type of hat is traditionally worn by a town crier? Tricorn What was the name of the dog sent into space in 1957? Laika Which company used the slogan "more experienced than our name suggests"? Virgin Atlantic Which spectacular comet was the brightest of the 20th century, best seen and passing perihelion in 1997? Hale-Bopp What make of washers were used by Britain's first launderette, that opened in 1949? Bendix Which shipyard built the QE2? John Brown's Which fine-grained metamorphic rock can be split into thin layers and used for roofing etc? Slate What do Americans call a flick knife? Switchblade Which disease is also called lockjaw? Tetanus Who set the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by an individual in human history by spending 437 days on 'Mir'? Valeri Polyakov The spectacled bear is native to which continent? South America Which is the last period of the Paleozoic Era? Permian A member of CARD (1964-67) campaigned against what? Racial Discrimination What is the inverse Tan of 1 in degrees? 45 degrees What is the log base 10 of 100? Two Which common metallic element has the atomic number 12? Magnesium Who manufactured the 'Lincoln' aircraft? Avro What is a 'wildcat well'? Exploratory well for oil or gas In 2014, the Kurdish minority Yazidi group were surrounded by ISIS on which mountain in Iraq? Sinjar Religious group the Yazidis generally refuse to wear which colour? Blue Dabiq is the online magazine of who? ISIL/ISIS (Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant) Of what are PANAS and SWANE measuring devices? Well-being/happiness Almedalen Week is an important political forum in which country? Sweden What is the capital of the Faroe Islands? Torshavn
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How many groats were there in £1?
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? Carl Haub Print "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" is one of PRB's most popular articles. First published in 1995 and updated in 2002, this latest 2011 article includes data through mid-2011 and a short video explaining the estimate. (October 2011) The question of how many people have ever lived on Earth is a perennial one among information calls to PRB. One reason the question keeps coming up is that somewhere, at some time back in the 1970s, a writer made the statement that 75 percent of the people who had ever been born were alive at that moment. This factoid has had a long shelf life, even though a bit of reflection would show how unlikely it is. For this "estimate" to be true would mean either that births in the 20th century far, far outnumbered those in the past or that there were an extraordinary number of extremely old people living in the 1970s. If this estimate were true, it would indeed make an impressive case for the rapid pace of population growth in this century. But if we judge the idea that three-fourths of people who ever lived are alive today to be a ridiculous statement, have demographers come up with a better estimate? Any such exercise can be only a highly speculative enterprise, to be undertaken with far less seriousness than most demographic inquiries. Nonetheless, it is a somewhat intriguing idea that can be approached on at least a semi-scientific basis. And semi-scientific it must be, because there are, of course, absolutely no demographic data available for 99 percent of the span of the human stay on Earth. Still, with some speculation concerning prehistoric populations, we can at least approach a guesstimate of this elusive number. How Many People Have Ever Lived On Earth? 108 Billion Year Source: Population Reference Bureau estimates. Prehistory and History Any estimate of the total number of people who have ever been born will depend basically on two factors: the length of time humans are thought to have been on Earth and the average size of the human population at different periods. Fixing a time when the human race actually came into existence is not a straightforward matter. Various ancestors of Homo sapiens seem to have appeared at least as early as 700,000 B.C. Hominids walked the Earth as early as several million years ago. According to the United Nations Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends, modern Homo sapiens may have appeared about 50,000 B.C. This long period of 50,000 years holds the key to the question of how many people have ever been born. At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was somewhere on the order of 5 million. (Very rough figures are given in the table; these are averages of an estimate of ranges given by the United Nations and other sources.) The slow growth of population over the 8,000-year period, from an estimated 5 million to 300 million in 1 A.D., results in a very low growth rate—only 0.0512 percent per year. It is difficult to come up with an average world population size over this period. In all likelihood, human populations in different regions grew or declined in response to famines, the vagaries of animal herds, hostilities, and changing weather and climatic conditions. In any case, life was short. Life expectancy at birth probably averaged only about 10 years for most of human history. Estimates of average life expectancy in Iron Age France have been put at only 10 or 12 years. Under these conditions, the birth rate would have to be about 80 per 1,000 people just for the species to survive. Today, a high birth rate would be about 45 to 50 per 1,000 population, observed in only a few countries of Africa and in several Middle Eastern countries that have young populations. Our birth rate assumption will greatly affect the estimate of the number of people ever born. Infant mortality in the human race's earliest days is thought to have been very high—perhaps 500 infant deaths per 1,000 births, or even higher. Children were
Desmond Morris : Naked Ape Human Zoo Desmond Morris Naked Ape : Human Zoo Desmond Morris (Desmond John Morris) author of The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo was born in the village of Purton, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England on January 24th, 1928 as the son of an author of children's fiction and as the great-grandson of William Morris, the pioneering founder of the Swindon Advertiser - Britain's first penny paper - who was also a keen amateur naturalist. During his younger childhood Desmond Morris developed a strong interests in writing and in natural history. As a teenager his interest in natural history developed towards being an interest in Zoology whilst he also became more interested in art. In 1946 he was obliged to put in two years National Service as a military trainee but also functioned as a lecturer in Fine Arts at the Chisledon Army College. He developed sufficient expertise as an artist to warrant his holding a one-man exhibition in Swindon Library. In the autumn of 1948 he enrolled as an undergraduate at the Zoology Department of Birmingham University following his release from National Service. During his undergraduate course he continued to be involved in painting and became involved in film-making as a writer and director. His paintings were exhibited in London and in Belgium. In 1951 he graduated from Birmingham with first class honours and moved to Oxford to persue doctoral studies in animal behavior. Here he was placed under the tutorship of Dr. Niko Tinbergen. In 1952 he married Ramona Baulch. His studies on the Reproductive Behaviour of the Ten-spined Stickleback (a small freshwater fish) led to his being awarded a doctorate in 1954 and then to post-doctoral research at Oxford Oxford on the reproductive behaviour of birds. From 1956 he became seriously involved in the making of films and television programmes about animal behaviour and began studying the artistic abilities of apes. This was followed by the authorship of a number of natural history books and by the hosting of a popular TV program "Zootime" over several years. In 1959 he was appointed Curator of Mammals at London Zoo. Between 1959 and 1967 he was responsible for the authorship of quite a few natural history books sometimes in co-authorship with his wife. In 1967 he became a rather more controversial figure in that his authorship strayed into rather more sensitive areas. He was editor of "Primate Ethology" a work which considered recent advances in the study of the behaviours of monkeys and apes, and was author of the international best-seller The Naked Ape which set out to be a frank study of human behavior from a Zoologist's perspective. The early and distinct signs of the financial success of this work which, at the last count, had been translated into 23 languages, selling upwards of 10 million copies, caused him to veer away from continuing in a recent appointment as executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and towards relocating to the island of Malta in order to continue to write and to paint. Amongst the many significant works that he wrote in these years are The Human Zoo (1969) and Intimate Behaviour (1971). In 1973 Desmond Morris returned to Oxford as a research fellow at Wolfson College. In this role it was anticipated that he would work in association with Niko Tinbergen's research group in the Department of Zoology and would continue to research human action-patterns. Over the ensuing years he has maintained his many interests in animal behaviour research, the arts, and in making television programmes and films. The more significant publications in these more recent years include Manwatching, a Field-Guide to Human Behaviour (1977), an Illustrated Naked Ape (1986), Catwatching (1986), Dogwatching (1986), Babywatching (1991), The Human Animal (1994) and Peoplewatching (2002). Notably significant television and film productions in these years include The Human Race (1982), and The Animals Roadshow - a series which he co-presented with Sarah Kennedy and which proved
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What is the chemical name for the substance known as heavy water?
Chemical Molecule Library - Glossary Glossary Absorption In chemistry absorption can mean two things: Firstly it can imply that powerful forces exist holding two substances together, and that seperation of the two is not easily accomplished. Secondly it can mean absorption of heat, light etc.. . The absorption of ultraviolet, visible and infrared radiation is the basis of some forms of spectrometry which can be used to identify different chemical compounds. See also infrared radiation . Acid A substance that when dissolved in water dissociates and can donate a hydrogen ( proton ) to another molecule. Examples include sulphuric acid and nitric acid . Under these conditions nitric acid dissociates according to the following equation: In water the protons attach themselves to the water molecules, giving the following equation: Actinides This is a group of elements within the periodic table and are also known as the transuranics. The name refers to those elements with increasing atomic no. from actinium, which all have similar chemical properties, like the lanthanides . The first few members of the group are the naturally occuring elements actinium, thorium, proactinium and uranium. Beyond this elements have been made artificially by radioactive bombardment. These artificial elements are unstable, some have very short lifeimes and undergo spontaneous radioactive decay. Adhesive Any compound that can stick two surfaces together is classified as an adhesive. Simple adhesives are of cellulose , starch and rubbers. Modern adhesives are based upon complex polymeric materials. The adhesive is spread in an unpolymerised form, and the adhesive properties increase as polymerisation occurs between the two surfaces. Adiabatic A chemical or mechanical process which takes place without heat entering or leaving the system. The term is only applicable to enclosed and isolated systems - so in essence is idealistic and purely theoretical and is important in the study of thermodynamics. Adrenaline This was the first naturally produced hormone to be isolated it a pure state. It is known as epinephrine, but its chemical name is 1-[3,4-dihydroxyphenol]-2-methylaminoethanol. Its main action is to raise blood pressure, producing a faster pulse rate. Adsorption If any compound, solid, liquid or gas, is loosely held by weak attraction to the surface of a solid it is said to have undergone adsorption. This process is much weaker and less permanent than absorption . Air The air that we breathe is a mixture of gases. The composition of dry-air at sea level is shown below: Alchemy Several of the great Greek philosophers considered all matter to be composed of four basic "elements", fire, air, earth and water, and that all materials were had these components mixed in different proportions. If this theory was true, then it was believed that all substances could be converted (transmuted) into each other by varying the proportions of the mixture. This tansmutation theory was the basis of Alchemy from approx. 300 B.C. to 1500 A.D., after which it slowly gave way to the more scientific concepts of chemistry from the 17th century onwards. The alchemists represented their "element" by a variety of symbols (see below), some of which were based on astrological signs They were mainly concerned with trying to turn base metals into gold and looking for the elixir of life although they also developed medicinal drugs, developed couterfeiting techniques and the debasement of precious metals. Alcohol An organic compound which has the general formula CnH2n+1OH, they consist of hydrocarbon chains terminated by hydroxyl groups, O-H. Smaller members are water soluble, flammable and are useful as organic solvents and fuels. As with hydrocarbons, each member differs from the previous by an additional -CH2- group. Alcohols with branced chains are also possible. Some of the simpler alcohols are listed below: Aldehyde An organic compound containing the -CHO group (see below). An example of these distinct aromatic compounds is formaldehyde . Alicyclic com
Carbon, Chemical Element - structure, reaction, water, uses, elements, proteins, metal, gas PRONUNCIATION CAR-bun Carbon is such an important element that an entirely separate field of chemistry is devoted to this element and its compounds. Organic chemistry is the study of carbon compounds. Discovery and naming Humans have been aware of carbon since the earliest of times. When cave people made a fire, they saw smoke form. The black color of smoke is caused by unburned specks of carbon. The smoke may have collected on the ceiling of their caves as soot. Later, when lamps were invented, people used oil as a fuel. When oil burns, carbon is released in the reaction, forming a sooty covering on the inside of the lamp. That form of carbon became known as lampblack. Lampblack was also often mixed with olive oil or balsam gum to make ink. And ancient Egyptians sometimes used lampblack as eyeliner. One of the most common forms of carbon is charcoal. Charcoal is made by heating wood in the absence of air so it does not catch fire. Instead, it gives off water vapor, leaving pure carbon. This method for producing charcoal was known as early as the Roman civilization (509 B.C.-A.D. 476). French physicist René Antoine Ferchault Reaumur (1683-1757) believed carbon might be an element. He studied the differences between wrought iron, cast iron, and steel. The main difference among these materials, he said, was the presence of a "black combustible material" that he knew was present in charcoal. Carbon was officially classified as an element near the end of the eighteenth century. In 1787, four French chemists wrote a book outlining a method for naming chemical substances. The name they used, carbone, is based on the earlier Latin term for charcoal, charbon. Coal, soot (nearly pure carbon), and diamonds are all nearly pure forms of carbon. Physical properties Carbon exists in a number of allotropic forms. Allotropes are forms of an element with different physical and chemical properties. Two allotropes of carbon have crystalline structures: diamond and graphite. In a crystalline material, atoms are arranged in a neat orderly pattern. Graphite is found in pencil "lead" and ball-bearing lubricants. Among the non-crystalline allotropes of carbon are coal, lampblack, charcoal, carbon black, and coke. Carbon black is similar to soot. Coke is nearly pure carbon formed when coal is heated in the absence of air. Carbon allotropes that lack crystalline structure are amorphous, or without crystalline shape. The allotropes of carbon have very different chemical and physical properties. For example, diamond is the hardest natural substance known. It has a rating of 10 on the Mohs scale. The Mohs scale is a way of expressing the hardness of a material. It runs from 0 (for talc) to 10 (for diamond). The melting point of diamond is about 3,700°C (6,700°F) and its boiling point is about 4,200°C (7,600°F). Its density is 3.50 grams per cubic centimeter. On the other hand, graphite is a very soft material. It is often used as the "lead" in lead pencils. It has a hardness of 2.0 to 2.5 on the Mohs scale. Graphite does not melt when heated, but sublimes at about 3,650°C (6.600°F). Sublimination is the process by which a solid changes directly to a gas when heated, without first changing to a liquid. Its density is about 1.5 to 1.8 grams per cubic centimeter. The numerical value for these properties varies depending on where the graphite originates. The amorphous forms of carbon, like other non-crystalline materials, do not have clear-cut melting and boiling points. Their densities vary depending on where they originate. Chemical properties Carbon does not dissolve in or react with water, acids, or most other materials. It does, however, react with oxygen. It burns in air to produce carbon dioxide (CO
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Which publisher of children’s books is named after an insect?
Insects and Spiders in Children's Literature Insects and Spiders: A Literature-Based Classroom Unit Fiction, Nonfiction and Activities for Preschool through Ninth Grade. Insects may be repulsive or creepy to many adults, but kids are usually fascinated by them. There are wonderful classic books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Charlotte's Web as well as delightful new books such as Elise Broach's Masterpiece and Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin. The wide variety of books let us get deeply into the language arts and other curriculum areas through the science topic of insects and spiders. There are also mesmerizing nonfiction titles such as Amazing Insects and Simon & Schuster Children's Guide to Insects and Spiders which lead us into biology, entomology, life sciences, chemistry, physics, math, the environment, and geography. With some of the classroom activities below we can also bring in art and dance. By researching insects from different parts of the world we can expand into geography or the role of insects in people's lives in cultures around the world. As always, scientific research can include lots of opportunities for real world mathematics. The fascinating shapes and colors of insects are great for art projects. For a more sinister direction let's take insects into forensics by studying the human body in decay and then lice and ticks bring us around to the health curriculum. Does that cover everything? How about imitating the stride or flight of different insects for physical education and dance? But enough daydreaming. Let's get to the books and specific activities. For all ages try starting with a picture book. The finest of them have a depth that rings true for children, teens and adults. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is a classic from 1969. Older students often remember it fondly. You can read it aloud to the class to introduce the unit and then have some light discussion about it. This book is also available in many different languages so it's great for a multilingual classroom. Read more about this book. Insect and Spider Picture Books The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. (1981, Philomel. ISBN 9780399208539. Order Info .) Picture Book. 32 pages. Gr PreK-1. In this classic picture book, a caterpillar hatches, eats, spins a cocoon, and emerges as a butterfly. Although the food he eats is not part of a real caterpillar's diet and the butterfly that emerges is not identifiable, the concept of metamorphosis the book portrays is a nice introduction to that life cycle and to metamorphosis as metaphor. Read More about this book including a few activities. The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle. (1990, Philomel. ISBN 9780399218859. Order Info .) Picture Book. 32 pages. Gr K-2. A very small cricket tries again and again to make the cricket chirp by rubbing his wings together as other insects pass him, making their unique sounds. Each page has an insect and a verb describing his behavior. Each page also ends with "The little cricket wanted to answer so he rubbed his wings together, but nothing happened. Not a sound." Read More in our Featured Book Teachers Guide with activities, related books and links. Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle. (1999, Philomel. ISBN 9780399232015. Order Info .) Picture Book. 32 pages. Gr PreK-2. In this addition to the "Very" series, Carle has given us a click beetle. An advisory at the beginning of the book tells us that the protective device of the click beetle when on its back is to stretch, click and flip. This the beetle does but lands again and again on its back. Coached by various insect & animal friends, the young beetle tries in vain to right itself. It's the approach of a young boy and the further wisdom of an older click beetle that spur our beetle to victory. Alien Invaders by Lynn Huggins-Cooper. Illustrated by Bonnie Leick. (2010, Raven Tree. ISBN 9781934960837. Order Info .) Picture Book. 32 pages. Gr PreK-4. The little boy in this book sees the space aliens all around him, their robot legs, their shiny suits and helmets, their camera-
Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 8th December The Questions Macclesfield Pub Quiz League Set by the Harrington Academicals vetted by the Dolphin Art and Entertainment – All Creatures Great and Small Dumb Britain History – A Hard Act To Follow Sport Vetted by: The Dolphin Arts and Entertainment – All Creatures Great and Small All of the answers contain the name of an animal – we just need to know that animal.     1 What is the alternative title of Wimoweh, a hit for the Karl Denver Trio in 1961 and Tight Fit in 1982. The song has been recorded (too) many times before and since The Lion sleeps tonight       2 This piece of music by Ralph Vaughn Williams was inspired by a poem by George Meredith The Lark Ascending This Janáček opera, based on a folk tale, was first performed in 1924 Cunning little vixen This rather nasty Ian Banks novel was his first to be published, in 1984 The Wasp factory An appalling song by Tom Jones, taken from the 1965 film of the same name What’s new pussycat This 1969 Hollywood film about dance marathons starred Jane Fonda They shoot horses, don’t they       This Henry Williamson novel was made into a film in 1979 Tarka the Otter       8 This Mark Haddon novel was adapted for stage and is currently playing at the National Theatre The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time       This Puccini opera was set in Japan Madame Butterfly This scatological track by the Macc Lads referred to a journey up the A537 No sheep ‘til Buxton             Dumb Britain These questions have all been answered in UK quiz shows, and reported in Private Eye. Give either the correct answer to the question or the actual answer given by the contestant, shown in brackets. 1 At the battle of Trafalgar, what was Nelson‘s flagship? Victory Which company, founded in 1841 operated the first ever package tours? Thomas Cook What is the only Commonwealth country whose official language is Portuguese? Mozambique What was the reigning royal house at the start of the 20th century? Saxe Coburg Gotha Artist Ben Nicholson married which sculptress in 1938? Barbara Hepworth       6 What was the surname of the French revolutionary with Christian names Jean Paul who was assassinated in his bath? Marat Who composed Aida and La Traviata? Verdi Which ballroom dance represents the letter F in the Nato phonetic alphabet? Foxtrot What is the name of the herb that means wise or clever? Sage       S2 Which American folk hero rode from Boston to Lexington in April 1775 to warn of British troop movements? Paul Revere Soda, lime and which other ingredient make glass? Silica (accept sand) Common, water and pygmy are which kinds of British mammal? Shrew       3 Which subatomic particle has a name first used by James Joyce in the novel Finnegans Wake? Quark       4 The existence of which particle, also known as the God Particle, was recently confirmed in a Large Hadron Collider experiment? Higgs boson For which kind of activity is a bathyscaphe used? Underwater exploration In cell biology, for what does the R in RNA stand? Ribo( nucleic Acid)       7 What is the molecule, used in AirWick as a deodorant, that is at the heart of plant photosynthesis? What is the branch of mathematics that deals with angles and lengths of a triangle? Trigonometry How many walking legs has a lobster? 10 What is the tallest grass? Bamboo History : A Hard Act To Follow. Who directly preceded the following in office?   Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1812 (Name required, not just “The 1st Earl” !) Spencer Percival   1 Sam Burgess has recently returned to Rugby League with which club?(subject to resolving a salary cap issue) South Sydney Rabbitohs       2 Four British boxers held versions of the World Heavyweight Title in the 90’s. Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno were two, name either of the others. Herbie Hide and Henry Akinwande       3 In which sport has Brit Jonathan Marray been a champion? Tennis. He won the Wimbledon Men’s Doubles in 2012 together with the Dane Frederik Nielsen       4 13 years after originally closing due to financial problems, which Manchester sport
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What was the first novel by Scottish author Irvin Welsh, published in 1993?
Biography :: Irvine Welsh Official Website Irvine Welsh :: Home :: Biography Biography Irvine Welsh was born in the great city of Edinburgh, Scotland. He can't quite recall if it was Simpson's or Elsie Inglis maternity pavilions. In fact he remembers little of the birth, though his mother assured him later that it was fairly routine. This selective memory at key points in his life would continue. What he seems quite certain of is that his family moved from their tenement home in Leith, to the prefabs in West Pilton, and then onto Muirhouse's maisonette flats. Welsh left Ainslie Park Secondary School when he was sixteen and had various jobs, but didn't really like work any more than he did school. However, he was very fortunate to meet some exceptionally decent people at both, most of whom tolerated him. London called in the late seventies and he tried to catch up on some of education he'd missed on while daydreaming about more interesting things, as enjoyed the London punk scene. The jobs got better and he got on the property ladder and made some money, but in the good Scots tradition, he managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Cleaning up his act, and, in keeping with another great tradition, 'finding a nice lassie and settling doon', Welsh eventually returned to Edinburgh where he worked for the city council in the housing department. He went on to study for an MBA at Heriot Watt University. Welsh regards himself as very fortunate to be back in his home town when Kevin Williamson, Duncan McLean, Barry Graham, Alan Warner, Paul Reekie and Rodney Relax were all doing their thing. Energised by the rave scene, he started to write and his paths crossed with the above. Digging out some old diaries, Welsh did a draft of what would become Trainspotting. Welsh published parts this from 1991 onwards in DOG, the West Coast Magazine, and New Writing Scotland. Duncan McLean published parts of the novel in two Clocktower pamphlets, A Parcel of Rogues and Past Tense: Four Stories from a Novel. Meanwhile Kevin Williamson, a member of Duncan McLean’s Muirhouse writers’ group, published sections of Trainspotting in the literary magazine Rebel Inc. Duncan McLean recommended Welsh to Robin Robertson, then editorial director of Secker & Warburg, who decided to publish Trainspotting, despite believing that it was unlikely to sell. When Trainspotting was published in 1993 Irvine Welsh shot to fame. According to Lord Gowrie, the chairman of the panel, the novel was rejected for the Booker Prize shortlist after offending the sensibilities of two female judges. Despite this unease from the critical establishment, Welsh’s novel received as many good reviews as ones swathed in disgust and outrage - establishing a tradition that continues to this day. Harry Gibson’s stage adaptation of the novel was premiered at the Glasgow Mayfest in April 1994 and went on to be staged at the Edinburgh Festival and in London before touring the UK. In August 1995, Irvine Welsh gave up his day job. Since Danny Boyle’s film adaptation of Trainspotting was released in February 1996 Irvine Welsh has remained a controversial figure, whose novels, stage and screen plays, novellas and short stories have proved difficult for literary critics to assimilate, a difficulty made only more noticeable by Welsh’s continued commercial success. More books have followed, Ecstasy becoming the first paperback original to go straight in at No1 on the Sunday Times best-sellers list, a feat emulated by Filth, which became Welsh's highest selling book after Trainspotting. His first novel has now sold almost 1 million copies in the UK alone and is a worldwide phenomenon. Books such as Glue, Porno and recent The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs have seen him increase his profile in America and Canada. He has recently branched into film and is a partner in two film production companies. He joined Four Ways films, which was founded by Antonia Bird,
Rampant Scotland Directory - Colour Supplement Index Rampant Scotland Directory! Newsletter Colour Supplements The Rampant Scotland Newsletter is published every second Saturday and provides an insight into what has been happening in Scotland, snipped from the Scottish media, for Scots in Scotland and abroad, bringing you news, events and photographs plus a Scottish magazine section. Every week there is also a colour supplement containing large illustrations of flowers, birds, animals, butterflies and scenery which have been seen around Scotland in the preceding week. It thus forms a record of the changing seasons throughout the year. The editions currently available on-line are: 2009 28 February 2009 Leucojum, also known as Summer Snowflake or Loddon Lily with their extra green and yellow markings distinguish them from snowdrops; a tram car in the Transport Museum in Glasgow (known locally as "Shooglies" from the way they swayed along the tracks); a horse-drawn Glasgow to London stagecoach; a "Coronation Tram" from the 1930s, which had the luxury of an enclosed cab for the driver who also had a seat for the first time; the first production Hillman Imp motor car, producedin the 1960s at a manufacturing plant in Linwood near Paisley, west of Glasgow; a mass of snowdrops photographed in the grounds of Braco Castle in Perthshire. 21 February 2009 A Canada Goose, with its distinctive white "chinstrap" looking quite at home standing in the recent snow fall; Waterbirds flying in all directions, panicked at the approach of an out of control dog; a rather disconsolate pigeon trudging through the snow, unable to find anything to eat; Polyanthus, part of the primula family, in a vibrant yellow and orange; A statue to James Clerk Maxell, who established the original theories of electromagnetism (Einstein put on record that Maxwell's work had resulted in the most profound change in the conception of reality in physics, since the time of Isaac Newton; Eranthis, more often known by its common name of winter flowering aconite, with its deeply dissected leaves forming an attractive ruff round the bright yellow cup-shaped flowers 14 February 2009 Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street Gardens in the snow; Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, beside Waverley Station, one of the most attractive buildings in the Capital; the crinkly strap-shaped petals of Hamamelis (also known as Witch Hazel) with the clusters appearing on leafless branches creating a vivid show; a snow scene in the woods beside Kilmardinny Loch, East Dunbartonshire, earlier this week; the 19th century, Tudor Gothic styled mansion house formerly known as Schaw Hospital, blanketed in snow; a St Valentine's Day display in a baker's window in central Glasgow. 7 February 2009 The "most bizarre building in Scotland" - a summer house built in 1761 in the shape of a realistic, prickly pineapple; the parish church, Airth, with the River Forth and the Ochill Hills beyond; the market cross at Airth, erected in 1697; with sun dials on two sides; the fine Town House or "Tolbooth" in Culross, Fife, dating from 1626; the Palace" in Culross built for Sir George Bruce, a wealthy merchant and industrialist, in the 17th century; 13th century Culross Abbey and east choir taken over in 1633 as a parish church; amusing models of a stylised owl and robin, with a fierce-looking blackbird behind. 31 January 2009 Special Royal Mail set of stamps to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns on 25 January; the City Chambers in Glasgow being used as the backdrop for a 15-minute "slide-show" illustrating the life of Burns; the City Chambers covered in musical notation as part of the presentation; "Auld Lang Syne" across the building at the end of the slide show; a substantial clump of snowdrops in bloom at the side of a country road, just north of Glasgow. 24 January 2009 Blackness Castle, surrounded on three sides by water and often referred to as "the ship which never sailed"; a large party of Oystercatcher birds, looking incongruous with their large orange-red bills; Torwood Castle, thought to
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Who was the architect of the new Wembley stadium?
Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium   Wembley Stadium Designed by Foster + Partners and Populous, Wembley Stadium is arguably the most important sports and entertainment venue in Britain. Work began in October 2002 to build a new world-class 90,000 seat stadium to replace Wembley Stadium, arguably the most important sports and entertainment venue in Britain. The challenge in reinventing it for a new century was to build on its heritage and yet create a venue that would be memorable and magical in its own right. A key feature of the new stadium is its partly retractable roof, supported structurally by a 133 metre high arch, with a span of 315 metres. Dramatically illuminated at night, the arch is visible from across London. Lord Foster said 'We approached the design of the new Wembley Stadium with the ambition to offer every fan and visitor an experience that would be unique and memorable.' Awards RIBA Award 2008 - Sports and Leisure Project of the Year 2007 World Architecture Festival High Commendation 2007
The Prince of Wales on architecture: his 10 'monstrous carbuncles' - Telegraph The Royal Family The Prince of Wales on architecture: his 10 'monstrous carbuncles' The Prince of Wales has defended his views on modern buildings 25 years after his 'monstrous carbuncle' speech but architects remained divided on whether his comments have made any difference.   Image 1 of 5 Prince Charles insists he had not intended to "kick-start some kind of 'style war' between Classicists and Modernists" Photo: REUTERS   Image 1 of 5 Plans for a skyscraper to replace the Mappin & Webb building were scrapped, only to be replaced by a design Charles said "looks rather like an old 1930s wireless" Photo: TELEGRAPH   Poundbury, modelled on traditional linear village development  Photo: JOHN ROBERTSON   Richard Rogers' plan for a housing scheme at the former Chelsea Barracks    Prince Charles backs Quinlan Terry's plan for Chelsea Barracks  By Alastair Jamieson 1:33PM BST 13 May 2009 He insisted he had not intended to "kick-start some kind of 'style war' between Classicists and Modernists" despite making outspoken comments on several major public projects since his first speech in 1984. Leading architects have accused the Prince of threatening the "democratic process" with his latest "destructive" intervention in plans for a £1bn housing scheme on the former Chelsea Barracks site in London. He apologised at a dinner to mark the 175th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) - the same audience where he made his infamous 'carbuncle' speech at the organisation's 150th celebrations. So what has the Prince actually said about the buildings about which he has campaigned, and has he made any difference? The Telegraph spoke to his supporters and critics about his top 10 clashes with the architectural elite. 1. National Gallery Extension, Trafalgar Square, London Related Articles Prince Charles suffers setback in Chelsea Barracks planning fight with Qatar royal family 12 Jun 2009 WHAT THE PRINCE SAID: On 30 May 1984 Prince Charles sent shock waves through architecture when he used a speech to the 150th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to lambast modern design, describing a scheme by Peter Ahrends for the a towering extension to the National Gallery as a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend". WHAT HAPPENED: The Ahrends scheme was scrapped, marking an early victory for Charles. The eventual design, built in 1991 following a donation from Lord Sainsbury was created by the postmodernist architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. "The result is not as exciting but looking at it now we can see it does work well," said Amanda Baillieu, editor of Building Design. The RIBA website now refers to the speech as "a discourtesy to architectural history." 2. One Poultry, London WHAT THE PRINCE SAID: In the same 'carbuncle' speech the Prince burned his friendship with polo pal Peter (now Lord) Palumbo by criticising his plans, devised by German-born modernist Mies van der Rohe, for a skyscraper to replace the Victorian Mappin & Webb building. "It would be a tragedy if the character and skyline of our capital city were to be further ruined and St Paul's dwarfed by yet another giant glass stump, better suited to downtown Chicago than the City of London," said the Prince. WHAT HAPPENED: A hollow victory for HRH. The plans were abandoned, only to be replaced by a design by Sir James Stirling that Charles later said "looks rather like an old 1930s wireless". Lord Palumbo, who became chairman of the Arts Council, responded: "I can only say God bless the Prince of Wales, and God save us from his architectural judgment." 3. Redevelopment of Paternoster Square, London WHAT THE PRINCE SAID: He criticised a 1987 scheme by Richard (now Lord) Rogers. "You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe," he told the Corporation of London Planning and Communication Committee's annual dinner at Mansion House. "When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive tha
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Sabena Airlines was the national airline of which European country 1923 – 2001?
✈ Sabena - Belgian World Airlines - Historic 1923-2001 | Flickr ✈ Sabena - Belgian World Airlines - Historic 1923-2001 SABENA Base: Brussels (Haren, Melsbroek, Zaventem) IATA: SN ICAO: SAB Fleet pre 1945: 4x Airco de Havilland DH9, 1x Airco de Havilland DH4, 3x Rumpler C-IV, 3x Farman F-60 Goliath, 1x Ansaldo A 300-C, 4x Blériot Spad 33, 1x Handley Page W.8b, 4x SABCA-Handley Page W.8b, 10x SABCA-Handley Page W.8f, 1x SABCA-De Havilland DH .50A, 1x SABCA SD.2 Sport, 2x Fokker F II, 1x Fokker F VIIa/3m, 1x Fokker F-VIIb/3m, 28x SABCA Fokker VIIb/3m, 4x Westland P-1 Wessex, 1x Savoia Marchetti S.73P, 4x Savoia Marchetti S.73, 4x Savoia Marchetti S.83, 2x SABCA-Savoia Marchetti S.73, 5x SABCA-Savoia Marchetti S.73P, 1x Junkers F-13L, 9x Junkers Ju-52/3mge, 7x Lockheed Lodestar, 2x Lockheed Super Electra, 2x DC3. Fleet post 1945 helicopters: 9x Sikorsky S-55, 10x Sikorsky S-58, 4x Bell 47, 1x SE Alouette II, 3x Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 + 1x WS-52 leased from Westland, 2x Vertol 44A leased from Vertol, 1x Sikorsky S-62 leased from Sikorsky. Fleet post 1945 piston and props: 47x DC3/C-47 (of which four leased from Sobelair + four from Belgian Air Force), 14x DC4/C-54 (of which one leased from T.A.I. and one from Sobelair), 19x DC6 (of which one leased from Belgian Air Force + three from T.A.I.), 10x DC7, 7x CV240, 12x CV440, 3x L-1049 Constellation leased from Seaboard & Western, 1x Avro 652 Anson, 6x DH 104 Dove, 1x DH 114 Heron, 3x Caudron C.449 Goeland (presumable never operational), 3x Bristol 170 Freighter leased from Air Charter/Channel Air Bridge, 2x Fokker F27 of which one leased from BIAS via Sobelair, 3x ATR72 of which two leased from Schreiner Airways and one from Gill Airways, 12x Dash 8 of which nine leased from Schreiner Airways + one from Hamburg Airlines + two from Tyrolean Airways. Fleet post 1945 jets: 11x Caravelle (of which one leased from Air France), 20x B707 (of which one leased from Sobelair + one from Trans Air + one from Zaïre Express + one from Occidental Airlines), 5x B727-100, 16x B737-200, 6x B737-300, 3x B737-400, 6x B737-500, 6x BAC 1-11 of which two leased from British World and four from European Aircharter, 1x BAe146-300 leased from British World, 4x B747-100 (of which two leased from Air France), 3x B747-200 leased from Air France, 3x B747-300 of which one leased from Corsair, 13x DC10 (of which four leased from Lufthansa + one from Air Zaïre + two from Alitalia + one from World Airways), 7x A310 (of which two leased from Airbus and two from Lufthansa), 15x A319, 6x A320, 3x A321, 10x A330, 5x A340 (of which one leased from Airbus), 2x MD11 leased from City Bird. History: Société Anonyme Belge d' Exploitation de la Navigation (SABENA) was formed by the Belgian government on May 23 1923 to succeed SNETA and act as the national flag carrier. They inherited part of their fleet: 4x Airco DH9, 1x Airco DH4, 3x Rumpler C-IV, 1x Farman Goliath, 4x Blériot Spad and 1x Ansaldo. On the day of its foundation the inaugural flight with a load of freight & mail went from Haren via Ostend to Lympne in the U.K. A couple of days later the first passengers flew with these ex bombers, but soon it was found that the airplanes were not suited for commercial pax transport and new equipment was found with the purchase of an Handley Page W8, later on more airframes were build in license by SABCA. With these machines the first scheduled pax service was established on April 1 1924 linking Brussels with Strasbourg, followed by Rotterdam (June 1), Basle (June 10) and Amsterdam (September 1). More license build aircraft followed, like the Fokker VII and Savoie Marchetti. With these airplanes and other new equipment an intra European and intra Belgian Congolese network was established. On February 23 1935 a once weekly scheduled link was established between Belgium and Belgian Congo. During the War European services were halted, but continued within the Belgian Congo. The postwar network expanded with war surplus DC3 and new DC3, DC4, de Havilland Dove and Convair 240 equipment, covering most of Europe, later extended to
TRIVIA - HISTORICAL TRIVIA - HISTORICAL ` History Trivia What was a ship called the Ancon the first to travel through, on August 15, 1914? The Panama Canal. What fighter pilot flew World War I missions with his Great Dane "Moritz" next to him in the cockpit? Monfred von Richthofen, or " The Red Baron". What country lost 17.2 percent of its population in World War II? Poland. What deranged Roman emperor had a name that meant "little boot"? Caligula. What Pakistani was the first head of state in the 20th century to give birth in office? Benazir Bhutto. What two-word term describes the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning f the Renaissance? Middle Ages. What newspaper won a Pulitzer for its Watergate coverage? The Washington Post. Who described the impending Persian Gulf ground war as "the mother of all battles"? Saddam Hussein. What ship's lookout was miffed when his request for binoculars was denied in 1912? The Titanic's. What big-league baseball prospect was jailed in Cuba from 1953 to 1955 before going on to bigger things? Fidel Castro. Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia fetch $5,000 at auction? Jimmy Carter. What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a defeat of the English at the Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297? William Wallace. What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham Lincoln's pocket when he was shot? The Confederate States of America. What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the pseudonym Maria Maggi? Eva Peron. What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John Paul II in the 1980s? Solidarity. What war lasted from June 5, 1967 to June 10, 1967? The Six-Day War. Who was the longest-reigning Arab ruler, through 1995? King Hussein of Jordan. What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had known, I would have become a watchmaker"? Albert Einstein. What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States in 1962? Cuba. What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as to Palestinians? Hamas. Who was the first president of the National Organization for Women, in 1966? Betty Freidan. Who tooled around Chicago during Prohibition in a car bearing the license plate "EN-1"? Eliot Ness. Who cross-examined the victims in the trial against Long Island Railroad shooter Colin Ferguson? Colin Ferguson. What beating victim's 23-lawyer defense team handed the city of Los Angeles a bill for $4.4 million? Rodney King's. What can Germans publicly deny the existence of to earn five years in prison? The Holocaust. What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent two years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi? Robert La Salle. Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a tombstone marked with the letter "P"? St. Patrick. What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call "the greatest living American"? J. Edgar Hoover. What cavalryman's bonehead moves included leaving four Gatling guns behind, in 1876? George Armstrong Custer's. Who wrote in 1774 that "no thinking man" in America wanted independence from England?                                                          George Washington. What country was Adolf Hitler born in? Austria. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in? Dayton. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of combat operations "Jedi Knights"? Norman Schwarzkopf. What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s? Ronald Reagan. What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out"? Richard Nixon. What name has been shared by the most popes? John. What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to central Italy at the onset of the ninth century? Charlemagne. What did Hirohito refer to as a "tragic interlude," during a 1975 U.S. visit? World War II. What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand? Serbian. What 17th century English Lord Protector's severed head was finally buried
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In what year did the airship Graf Zeppelin complete the first round-the-world flight in September, and inaugurate the first commercial transatlantic service in October?
Airshipsonline: Airships: LZ127 Graf Zeppelin Great Britain trips flight log *NEW* The Graf Zeppelin was the designated registration of D-LZ127 (Deutsche Luftschiff Zeppelin number 127) the 127th designed Zeppelin, was originally planned to exploit the latest technology in airships, building on the advances of the earlier commercial operational ships. After the First World War, Germany was limited by the treaty of Versailles to the size and capacity of ships which they could build. The Zeppelin Company had created two ships within this limited size parameter, the Bodensee and Nordstern, for small inter city passenger services. It was with a contract with the United States Government that enabled the company to exceed the regulation laid down on the size limitation, and thus designated and constructed the D-LZ126, later re-christened on delivery as the "Los Angeles". Much of the lessons learnt in the design of this ship, was carried forward and improved in to the design of the LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin". Dr. Hugo Eckener, whose experience and work with Count Zeppelin had lead the company for the years following the death of the Count, had to campaign to the German Government for its construction and assisting funding, and only after two years of lobbying did that proceed at the Zeppelin works, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, at Friedrichshafen in Germany. Construction of the ship began on the enhanced design of the LZ126, and when finally complete, the ship flew for the first time on 18 September 1928. With a total length of 236.6 metres (776 ft) and volume of 105,000 cubic metres (3,700,000 cu ft), was the largest airship up to that time. The D-LZ127 was powered by five Maybach 550 horsepower (410 kW) engines that could burn either Blau gas or gasoline. The ship achieved a maximum speed of 128 kilometres per hour (80 mph, 70 knots) operating at total maximum thrust of 2,650 horsepower which reduced to the normal cruising speed of 117 km/h (73 mph). The D-LZ127 had a usable payload capacity of 15,000 kilograms for a 10,000 kilometres cruise. Initially it was to be used for experimental and demonstration purposes to prepare the way for regular airship travelling, but also carried passengers and mail to cover the costs. Cabin and general passenger gondola layout Behind the front command cabin through a door lay the map room, with two large open access hatches to allow the command crew to communicate with the navigators. From the map room ascending a ladder allowed access to a keel corridor inside the hull. The map room had two large windows, one on each side. A rear door led from the map room to a central corridor with the three-man radio room to the left and the electric kitchen to the right, and a short passage to the main entrance-exit door on the right. The corridor ended at a door that opened into the main dining and sitting room, with four large windows. At the rear of this room a door opened into the long corridor to access the passenger's cabins and washrooms and toilet facilities. Each passenger cabin was designed in the "Pullman" style as enjoyed on luxury train travel. By day was set with a sofa which by night the crew would convert to two beds, one above the other. The crew's quarters
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Wagner, Verdi, Bellini and Rossini are famous composers of particularly what type of music?
Giuseppe Verdi and Italian Opera - A Night at the Opera | Exhibitions - Library of Congress A Night at the Opera Giuseppe Verdi and Italian Opera Sections: Richard Wagner and German Opera | Giuseppe Verdi and Italian Opera | Beyond Verdi and Wagner Noted Italian baritone Giuseppe de Luca (1876 –1950), as Verdi's Rigoletto. Herman Mishkin, photographer, ca 1915. Charles Jahant Collection, Music Division , Library of Congress (031.00.00) The central figure in Italian opera for much of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) wrote twenty-eight operas, nearly half of which have been staples of the international operatic repertoire since their first productions. When he died after a nearly sixty-year career, he was mourned in Italy as a national hero. Verdi was born into the musical world of Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868), the leading Italian opera composer of the first half of the nineteenth century in terms of popular success and artistic influence. Rossini and his immediate successors Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835) and Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1847) are the masters of the Italian bel canto (beautiful singing) style, characterized by elaborate melodic lines, smooth delivery, and purity of tone. By the end of the 1840s, Verdi had fundamentally altered the established form and structure of the bel canto style, revolutionizing Italian opera in the process. Hailed as Verdi’s successor in the 1890s, Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), brought Italian opera into the twentieth century with his thirteen operas incorporating new elements of the style known as verismo (realism), as well as the exoticism of long-ago-and-far-away settings. Bel Canto Opera after Rossini When Gioachino Rossini retired from operatic composition in 1829 at age thirty-seven, he was widely recognized as the greatest Italian composer of his time. His slightly younger contemporaries Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti soon became much-admired masters of the florid melodies that characterize the bel canto style. Their most enduring scores date from the 1830s and early 1840s. This period coincides with developments in the production of lithographic sheet music cover art, and by mid-century depictions of operatic action, such as these examples, were for the first time readily available to the music-loving public. 1 of 2
Stravinsky: The Genius Who Wrote The Rite of Spring Stravinsky: The Genius Who Wrote The Rite of Spring by DavidPaulWagner Igor Stravinsky's brilliant music scores stir up a lot of excitement. In fact, there was a riot at the premiere of his ballet "The Rite of Spring" and the police were called! In one of the most sensational events in music history, there was a riot when Stravinsky's ballet, "The RIte of Spring", was first staged and the police were called in! The music and choreography of the ballet were viewed as just too rhythmically powerful and "primitive". Today his works no longer cause riots but they still stir up passion and excitement! Let us look at the life, music and legacy of this leading 20th century composer. Life of Igor Stravinsky Stravinksy was born in St Petersburg, Russia in 1882. He started studying law but then, from 1902, began to learn music composition and instrumentation under the composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.  In 1909 two of Stravinsky's orchestral compositions were heard by Sergei Diaghilev, the Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets). Diaghilev was impressed and commissioned him to compose a ballet score, The Firebird (French title, L'oiseau de feu). In 1910 Stravinsky moved from Russia to Paris and then to Switzerland. Over the next few years he composed more works for the Ballets Russes -- the ballet Petrushka, the ballet The Rite of Spring (French title, Le sacre du printemps), and the neo-classical ballet Pulcinella.  In 1913 the audience at the Paris premiere of his ballet, The Rite of Spring, was so scandalized by the orchestral music and by the representation of a blood sacrifice and primitive fertility dances on stage, that a riot broke out and the police had to be called. The riot was actually great for publicity and overnight Stravinsky became the world's most famous composer. From 1920 until 1939 Stravinsky lived in France. The works of this period included the opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex (1927), the Symphony of Psalms (1930), and the ballet The Card Party (1936). Stravinsky moved residence again in 1939 when he traveled to the United States, where he was to reside until his death. In America he composed ballets such as Orpheus (1947) and The Rake's Progress (1951) and serial music influenced by Schoenberg and Berg, the latter works including his Canticum Sacrum (1955), the ballet Agon (1953-57) and the Requiem Canticles (1966). He toured the world conducting his works, with trips to Australia, Africa and to Soviet Russia (where his work had been banned for almost 30 years until Premier Krushchev invited him for a state visit in 1962). Stravinsky died in New York in 1971. The Rite of Spring (by Igor Stravinsky) With the Joffrey Ballet (1987) Stravinsky's Musical Works Stravinsky's works can be divided into three periods: (1) The Russian Period (1908-19) His earliest music shows a truly original style (e.g. polyrhythms and dissonances) but with some influences from Russian folk music and from Rimsky-Korsakov and Debussy. He first burst onto the world scene with his three celebrated ballets: The Firebird (1910) The Rite of Spring (1913) After these came works with a new, more austere style. For example: Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) (1918) the ballet Les Noces (The Wedding) (1914; 1919) (2) The Neoclassical Period (1920-54) His neoclassical works included: the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927) Symphonie des Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms) (1930) the ballet Orpheus (1947) the opera The Rake's Progress (1951) In this period Stravinsky became eclectic and was influence by everything from plainsong to Beethoven to jazz and swing. He also collaborated with great writers such as Jean Cocteau and W. H. Auden. (3) The Serial Period (1954-68) In this period Stravinsky used serial techniques such as we see in the composers Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. From the latter he adopted dodecaphony (or twelve-tone technique). Works in this period included: Canticum Sacrum (1955) Requiem Canticles (1966) Stravinksy Conducts The Firebird Rare vide
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With only one letter in its name. What is the name of the pub with the shortest name?
One-Letter Name - TV Tropes One-Letter Name You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share — Sebastian Stark, Shark When you take Only One Name to the extreme, this is the result. Most often a Code Name . For some reason letters from the second half of the alphabet are much more likely to be chosen. Even people who change their names to something starting with A to get to the top of an alphabetical list seem to never use just A. A fair number of older novels (from, say, the 19th and early 20th centuries) use this as a form of "discretion shot". (See Spell My Name with a Blank .) For example, a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories refer to "Mr. B——" as a way to imply that this is a real person and the story really happened in the real world, but that due to the potentially embarrassing nature of the events Watson is too much of a gentleman to reveal Mr. B's true identity.     open/close all folders      Anime and Manga  A serial killer in Hell Teacher Nube that patterns himself after Aka Manto (Red Mantle) is simply referred to by authorities as "A". It's clear this is an attributed alias, but we never learn his real name. I Wish has the male protagonist called K. It's stated early on that he goes by K, because his real name is cursed. Count D and his relatives in Pet Shop of Horrors . D, the alien spy from Project A-ko . It is, however, a code name. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX : In the English dub, Aster Phoenix's adoptive father is named The D . In the Japanese version, he was called DD, which is a two-letter name , but comes close. In the Japanese version, the Deck Destruction pro-duelist is named X. In the English dub, he was called Howard X. Miller. G, the Big Bad of Real Bout High School , who honestly doesn't remember his name after the years of psychological and physical conditioning he was subjected to since he was a boy in order to become the perfect bodyguard. As far as he's concerned, it's a placeholder; He'll find out what his name is if it's the last thing he does. Like many characters in the series , G is a Captain Ersatz of a King of Fighters character; in his case, K' (see below). G., the first Vongola Storm Guardian from Katekyo Hitman Reborn! . Phantom Thief G? from D.Gray-Man Soldat J, from GaoGaiGar J from Heat Guy J J from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo . You know, the one with the garlic/onion (the heroes can never decide this) for a head? In the Diamond/Pearl saga of the Pok�mon anime, a villain known as Pokemon Hunter J and a one-shot filler character known as O were introduced. In Pok�mon Adventures , the protagonists of each arc are named after their generation's games. So the protagonists for the XY arc are named... X and Y. Granted, when romanized their names become Ekkusu and Wai, but it still doesn't make their names any less weird. Averted with Y in the Viz version, as her actual name is Yvonne but has 'Y' as her nickname. Gravitation 's K. (Although his actual name is revealed later.) K in Puni Puni Poemi . L from Death Note . A handful of other characters use one-letter codenames at some point, as well, (most notably L's successor Near first introduces himself as N) but, as revealed in the "how to read" book , L actually is his first name. The full name being L Lawliet. L-sama from Slayers novel afterwords. Though this is an abbreviation of L.O.N. or Lord of Nightmares. In Valvrave the Liberator , soldiers trained at the Karlstein Institute have their real names taken, and they are replaced by combining this with You Are Number 6 . So we have L-Elf (Elf meaning 11), and several others. Y in Humanity Has Declined . Assuming that's her actual name, seeing as no one else has one... The main antagonist of the third Tenchi Muyo! OVA goes by Z, remarking that his real name, Z-0001332536893, is too long. Mazinger universe: Fanon often refers to the eponymous Humongous Mecha Mazinger Z as simply "Z". Z, the Big Bad from the eponymous One Piece movie One Piece Film: Z . The Alphabets, Major Eberbach's subordinates in From Eroica with Love , are each known by one single letter as a codename. The Majo
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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Which species of bird can be Reed, Corn or Cirl?
The RSPB: Browse bird families: Buntings Browse bird families Image: Paco Gómez The buntings of Europe, Asia and Africa are related to American sparrows. They are rather finch-like but have differently-structured bills, slightly flatter heads and longer bodies, and many have longer tails with white sides. Some are short-legged and heavy-bodied and strictly terrestrial, others are lighter and live more in trees and bushes. Most have simple, unmusical but distinctive songs. Some are long-distance migrants and several European and Asian species have appeared in the UK as rare vagrants.
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Who composed the opera Tristan and Isolde?
The opera novice: Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner - Telegraph Opera The opera novice: Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner Richard Wagner's works produce extreme reactions and none more so than his romantic tragedy Tristan and Isolde, finds Sameer Rahim. Ship of fools: Tristan and Isolde meet each other's gaze after drinking the love potion. Photo: Herbert James Draper By Sameer Rahim , Assistant Books Editor 11:44AM GMT 09 Mar 2012 Follow I wrote in my first column how Wagner first drew me to opera. Though many opera lovers adore the German composer others almost physically recoil when I mention his name. The anti-Wagner crowd can’t stomach his appalling anti-Semitic writings or the cult around his opera house in Bayreuth that Hitler embraced. His operas are accused of being too long, too loud and, well, just too much. (Actually he didn’t call them operas but “total works of arts”: so for this week, at least, I am the Gesamkunstwerk novice.) Wagner fans counter that he is more self-aware than his opponents imagine. Of all his works none produces such extreme reactions as Tristan and Isolde. Based on a medieval love story and premiered in 1865, Tristan tells the story of a Cornish knight bringing home a captured Irish princess to his king. The only problem is that Sir Tristan and Princess Isolde have fallen in love – an urge they resist until they both accidentally drink a magic potion. While composing Tristan, Wagner wrote the following to Mathilde Wesendonck, the married singer who may also have been his mistress: “This Tristan is turning into something terrible! This final Act!!!! – I fear the opera will be banned…only mediocre performances can save me! Perfectly good ones will be bound to drive people mad”. It was with some trepidation, therefore, that I travelled to the Midlands on Saturday to hear a semi-staged production by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons. Fortunately I was not alone: Hannah Ivison, an opera fan from near Coventry, took up my offer of a press ticket. Tristan starts with one of the most famous chords in music, which slides onto another pregnant chord via a yearning upward phrase. Musicologists have written reams on the subject and I have no intention of butting in on their turf. All I will say is that to the ordinary listener it has a melancholy unresolved quality that grows increasingly hypnotic. Isolde relates the backstory to her servant Brangäne. She found a dying Tristan and healed him with her magic potion. While doing so she spied a notch in his sword that matched the splinter she found in the severed head of her fiancé. Tristan, she realised, was the man who killed him. Not the most promising start to a relationship you might think, but she cannot help catching his eye: “Into my eyes he gazed,” Isolde sings. Related Articles Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss 10 Feb 2012 Most of the first act is taken up with Isolde and Tristan trying to avoid each other’s dangerous gaze. Only when they accidentally drink a love potion do all their moral inhibitions – Tristan’s loyalty to King Marke; Isolde’s guilt over her dead fiancé – magically dissolve. This is why the mesmerising Tristan chord is so important: it symbolises the lovers’ desire, while also acting as a kind of love potion on the audience, liberating their feelings as well. The most sublime part of Tristan is the love duet from the second act. “Extinguish the light’s last glimmer,” says Isolde as she puts out a flaming torch. The day world with its duty to society, morality and chivalry – “Spiteful day/the most bitter foe” sings Tristan – gives way to the night world in which desire is free of all constraint – “Descend O night of love,” they sing together. For two people so desperately in love they don’t seem keen to go to bed. Sex for them, though, would be an inadequate imitation of the spiritual union their selves crave. Together they sing: “namelessly/enveloped in love,/ given up to ourselves/to live only for death”; their souls will be fused in “world redeeming” love. The music builds fi
Der Rosenkavalier - San Diego Opera Der Rosenkavalier In the Classroom Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal and Der Rosenkavalier Strauss was the son of an important German musician, the horn-player Franz Strauss, and Josepha Pschorr, a fine amateur musician and member of the Munich Pschorrbräu brewing family whose establishment originally opened in 1416 and closed in 1998 (the beer is now brewed by Paulaner and is still available). He was not related to the family of Waltz Kings, even though the brilliant waltzes and waltz-like moments in Der Rosenkavalier would lead one to think so. Richard’s interest in music was greatly encouraged in his family environment, especially by the father who spent 42 years in the Munich court orchestra and played regularly at the behest of Richard Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival every summer. Although the father was not at all taken with the music of Wagner (nor of his philosophical beliefs), the younger Strauss fell under the spell of Tristan und Isolde at the age of 17 and was influenced for life. He began composing very early on and studied piano as well as the violin. Frequent visits to the Munich court orchestra rehearsals and studies in music theory, harmony and orchestration with their conductor furthered his musical education. At this time he began writing works for orchestra as well as chamber music and lieder. By the 1890s he was already a well-known composer. With conducting and artistic director posts at Meiningen, the Munich Hofoper, the Vienna State Opera and the Berlin Staatsoper he was also considered a leading figure on the concert stage and in the opera house, leading performances of other young German speaking composers like Korngold, Schreker and Zemlinsky. Strauss’s opera career began with Guntram (1894), a work heavily influenced by Wagner, and continued with Feuersnot (1901) a comic work with erotic overtones that so scandalized the Kaiser that he ordered the Berlin production shut down. Strauss had a penchant for scandal, as is reflected in his choice of libretti for the next two operas, Oscar Wilde’s play Salome (1905) and a setting of Sophocles’ Elektra (1909) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The teaming with the younger Hofmannsthal proved more than satisfactory to the composer and it resulted in six operas including: Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Ariadne auf Naxos (1912), Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919), Die ägyptische Helena (1928) and Arabella (1933). Not entirely comfortable with each other face to face, Hofmannsthal and Strauss corresponded with each other on aesthetic, musical and dramatic issues constantly during their active years together. It is possible, therefore, to see in minute detail the transformation of these great works from seminal idea to completion. It was during the composition of Elektra that Strauss began to search for an idea for further collaboration with the poet, wanting to back off of the intense tragedy and lurid subject matter of the previous two operas and present something comic and sentimental, a kind of Der Fledermaus II. Hofmannsthal presented the idea of a sentimental sex comedy based on the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Couvray as well as some concepts from Molière’s Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. It was this idea, with some modifications, that Strauss embraced. The essence of the scenario was the outwitting of the lecherous Baron Ochs (literally, ‘ox’) by the 17-year-old Octavian who moves from being the much younger lover of the Field Marshal’s wife (Feldmarschallin) Marie Thérèse to the fiancée of the young Sophie, originally intended for Ochs. Through the fleshing out of the characters in collaboration with Strauss the Marschallin gained dramatic ground, eventually becoming not only the principal role in the opera but one of the most thoroughly drawn characters in all opera. Strauss immediately realized the genius of Hofmannsthal’s text, layered with psychological meaning and human detail, and met the challenge of the libretto by providing brilliant music for a large orchestra and 26 singers. The opera, under the stage dir
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What Paris prison was stormed by the mob in 1789?
French revolutionaries storm Bastille - Jul 14, 1789 - HISTORY.com French revolutionaries storm Bastille Publisher A+E Networks Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution , a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed. The Bastille was originally constructed in 1370 as a bastide, or “fortification,” to protect the walled city of Paris from English attack. It was later made into an independent stronghold, and its name–bastide–was corrupted to Bastille. The Bastille was first used as a state prison in the 17th century, and its cells were reserved for upper-class felons, political troublemakers, and spies. Most prisoners there were imprisoned without a trial under direct orders of the king. Standing 100 feet tall and surrounded by a moat more than 80 feet wide, the Bastille was an imposing structure in the Parisian landscape. By the summer of 1789, France was moving quickly toward revolution. There were severe food shortages in France that year, and popular resentment against the rule of King Louis XVI was turning to fury. In June, the Third Estate, which represented commoners and the lower clergy, declared itself the National Assembly and called for the drafting of a constitution. Initially seeming to yield, Louis legalized the National Assembly but then surrounded Paris with troops and dismissed Jacques Necker, a popular minister of state who had supported reforms. In response, mobs began rioting in Paris at the instigation of revolutionary leaders. Bernard-René Jordan de Launay, the military governor of the Bastille, feared that his fortress would be a target for the revolutionaries and so requested reinforcements. A company of Swiss mercenary soldiers arrived on July 7 to bolster his garrison of 82 soldiers. The Marquis de Sade, one of the few prisoners in the Bastille at the time, was transferred to an insane asylum after he attempted to incite a crowd outside his window by yelling: “They are massacring the prisoners; you must come and free them.” On July 12, royal authorities transferred 250 barrels of gunpowder to the Bastille from the Paris Arsenal, which was more vulnerable to attack. Launay brought his men into the Bastille and raised its two drawbridges. On July 13, revolutionaries with muskets began firing at soldiers standing guard on the Bastille’s towers and then took cover in the Bastille’s courtyard when Launay’s men fired back. That evening, mobs stormed the Paris Arsenal and another armory and acquired thousands of muskets. At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets, swords, and various makeshift weapons began to gather around the Bastille. Launay received a delegation of revolutionary leaders but refused to surrender the fortress and its munitions as they requested. He later received a second delegation and promised he would not open fire on the crowd. To convince the revolutionaries, he showed them that his cannons were not loaded. Instead of calming the agitated crowd, news of the unloaded cannons emboldened a group of men to climb over the outer wall of the courtyard and lower a drawbridge. Three hundred revolutionaries rushed in, and Launay’s men took up a defensive position. When the mob outside began trying to lower the second drawbridge, Launay ordered his men to open fire. One hundred rioters were killed or wounded. Launay’s men were able to hold the mob back, but more and more Parisians were converging on the Bastille. Around 3 p.m., a company of deserters from the French army arrived. The soldiers, hidden by smoke from fires set by the mob, dragged five cannons into the courtyard and aimed them at the Bastille. Launay raised a white flag of surrender over the fortress. Launay and his men were taken into custody, the gunpowder and cannons were seized, and the seven prisoner
Moulin Rouge, Paris Moulin Rouge Ever since it opened its doors nearly 120 years ago, Moulin Rouge has set the standard for the world's most famous cabarets. History of the Moulin Rouge In October 1889, Paris was all abuzz concerning the opening of a new music hall. The owners of this new establishment, Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler, who had chosen the name Moulin Rouge (Red Mill) for their theatre, gave it the nickname "Le Premier Palais des Femmes" (The First Palace of Women) and claimed that Moulin Rouge would soon become "a temple of music and dance". Moulin Rouge quickly gained a reputation for being the place where men could view young Parisian girls whose unique and amazing dance moves were as flexible as their morals. And though the famous Can-Can dance had been present in working class ballrooms since the 1830s, the early days of the Moulin Rouge cemented its popularity, though during the first few decades that the establishment was open, it was little more than a bawdy dance performed by courtesans to entertain their male clientele. At times Moulin Rouge Poster from 1891 by Toulouse-Lautrec it was downright vulgar and what went on inside the Moulin Rouge caused much public outrage. During this time period, one of the music hall's most notable patrons was artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who painted a number of famous Moulin Rouge scenes. In later years, the establishment cleaned up its act (so to speak), eventually lost its reputation as a brothel, and became a fashionable music hall known for its extravagant cabaret shows, attracting a high-class clientele. The Can-Can itself was toned down as well, though even modern patrons will tell you that this signature dance is still a bit naughty. Still, it's the main reason patrons come to Moulin Rouge and they always go away entertained by the dancers' high-kicking moves, cartwheels, splits, and other Contemporary poster amazing acrobatic tricks. Visiting Moulin Rouge Today, a visit to the Moulin Rouge is still very popular with adult visitors to Paris. You'll find myriad tourists snapping photos of the huge red windmill that sits on top of the theatre and many visitors make reservations here for a nightly show. The show features more than one hundred performers decked out in the most extravagant costumes, which include lots of feathers, rhinestones, and sequins. The sets are equally as spectacular. But remember, this is adult entertainment, so those with kids should choose a different activity or find a reliable baby-sitter and enjoy a night out sans children.
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Which American actress, perhaps best known for her role in the 1970's TV show 'Charlie's Angels', died in 2009?
Actress Farrah Fawcett Dead at 62 | Fox News Actress Farrah Fawcett Dead at 62 Published June 25, 2009 Farrah Fawcett , the multiple Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her role as the vivacious Jill Munroe in the 1970s television series “Charlie’s Angels,” died in a Santa Monica hospital. She was 62. Her spokesman, Paul Bloch, confirmed that the iconic actress died Thursday morning at 9:28 a.m. PDT. Her long-time partner Ryan O'Neal told People magazine Thursday, "She's gone. She now belongs to the ages ... She's now with her mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much. She was in and out of consciousness. I talked to her all through the night. I told her how very much I loved her. She's in a better place now." Other "Charlie's Angels" stars paid tribute to her. "Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels," Jaclyn Smith said. Said Cheryl Ladd: "She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms." Her former producer Craig Nevius told FOXNews.com, "She will be remembered as the modern Mona Lisa and so much more. I will remember her as my friend." Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in September 2006 and, despite going into remission and enduring extensive chemotherapy and surgery both in the U.S. and Germany, it was revealed earlier this year that the cancer had spread to her liver. She stopped receiving treatment in May. Fawcett documented the trials and tribulations of her battle with cancer in the NBC documentary "Farrah’s Story." VIDEO: The life and death of an icon. FAST FACTS: Farrah Fawcett Biography Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1947 to a homemaker and an oil field contractor, Fawcett was encouraged to pursue a career in Hollywood while attending the University of Texas at Austin after her photo as one of the “Ten Most Beautiful Coeds” landed on the lap of a Los Angeles publicist. After scoring a string of commercials for consumer products and a few small television roles she finally hit the big-time with “Charlie’s Angels.” But Fawcett, eager to pursue greater acting challenges, left the show after just one season. PHOTOS: Click for pictures of Farrah Fawcett. FAST FACTS: Highlights of Farrah Fawcett's Career The blond beauty soon became the all-American face of her generation when she posed in a red one-piece bathing suit for a poster that became an item of pop culture history and has reportedly sold over 12 million copies. Blessed with a flawless figure and stunning smile, Farrah also had a full head of thick blond wavy hair that took on a star-status of its own; the “Farrah Do” became the most requested style by women across the world. RELATED: Click here to read about Farrah's influence on a generation. "In the beginning her hair certainly captured the world and just about every man. She took that position and reinforced it with talent and did some really chancy rolls and became a good actress, and I think a lot of people were surprised," actress Jacqueline Bissett told FOXNews.com. "But just seeing her moving around at parties and seeing her sitting on a barstool with a kind of pizzazz and just her charm and her light was what I’ll always remember. She always just had this fresh quality and a very clean quality."
'Angels In America,' 20 Years Later : NPR 'Angels In America,' 20 Years Later Embed Embed 'Angels In America,' 20 Years Later 'Angels In America,' 20 Years Later Embed Embed Emma Thompson starred in HBO's adaptation of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America. Stephen Goldblatt/AP/HBO hide caption toggle caption Emma Thompson starred in HBO's adaptation of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America. Stephen Goldblatt/AP/HBO Two decades ago, in 1991, the first part of an ambitious work of theater by playwright Tony Kushner took the stage in San Francisco. It was called Angels in America, and its two parts — Millennium Approaches and Perestroika — clocked in at an epic seven hours. The work, about AIDS in the age of Ronald Reagan, shocked many for its obscenities, and blunt portrayal of sex and homosexuality. But the play was also a story, told with drama and humor, of how humans change and how society responds to those changes. Angels in America debuted on Broadway in 1993. Since then, it has been transformed into an opera and an HBO miniseries. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Tony Kushner joins NPR's Neal Conan to reflect on the era in which he wrote Angels in America. He discusses how American society has changed over the past two decades, as well as his play's appeal to young people. Interview Highlights On the mood in America when he wrote the play "The sense of the world in the late '80s when I started thinking about the play, and in the early '90s when I wrote it — it was a lot more of a millennial consciousness than an apocalyptic consciousness. There was a strong anticipation. I was a medieval studies major when I was at Columbia, and I was sort of trained to think a lot about millennia. And everyone on the planet, of course, in the late '80s and early '90s, [was] waiting for the year 2000 to arrive. You know, the Y2K virus and all that. There was a certain amount of postmodern versions of old medieval tropes regarding millennia, and a sense that when this sort of auspicious or forbidding date arrived, there would be some sort of transformation — something big was about to happen ... Article continues after sponsorship "During ... the Reagan years, there was a sort of sea change taking place in American politics — and then, as it turned out, in European politics as well, and ultimately in global politics, that we were entering a new period where old reliables were going to be overthrown, and a new way of looking at the world was at hand. And it wasn't necessarily an appealing way of looking at the world, at least for me. ... There was a sense that something was coming and it might be something great, and might be something terrible ... "I feel, going back now, that the early '90s, the late '80s, for all the horrors of the AIDS epidemic, were comparatively innocent and carefree times compared to where we are now. In the mid-'80s when I wrote the play, it included things about 'eco-cide,' about the collapse of the ozone layer. I really didn't believe in my heart of hearts that the human race was now threatening the survival of life on the planet. There's now absolutely no doubt that that's the case. ... It's completely clear that what we were beginning to get worried about in the '80s was very serious and very real things ... so the play, and the times, both feel darker to me now than they did back then." On high schools and colleges performing the play "It's great that it's taught and performed in colleges. I still have to admit ... it's a little shocking — I grew up in Lake Charles, La., and went to public high school, where ... Shakespeare was considered OK, but not Romeo and Juliet because that was kind of naughty. ... But we were certainly protected from anything that was too overtly sexual. And the play is fairly blunt about how it deals with issues of sexuality. "So every once in a while I express concern when I hear from a high school teacher who says that they're teaching it. But the high school teacher usually rolls his or her eyes. ... You know, I don't have kids myself, so I clearly have not been spending enoug
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What name is given to chicken that is split open down the back, flattened and then grilled?
Where Did The Word Spatchcock Come From? Usage Of The Word On The Internet Numerous Sources There are numerous references on the web that use the word as a noun meaning a young chicken, no more than 6 weeks old. Interestingly, we have been unable to find any dictionary definitions which give this meaning. (See below for dictionary references.) The Boston Globe A split, flattened chicken roasts in considerably less time -- much as a butterflied leg of lamb cooks more quickly than the whole leg. "Spatchcock" is the term used in a professional kitchen. The Boston Globe Cutting a chicken in half for broiling is almost as routine as chopping an onion. But keep the halves together in that same flattened position, and it looks as if you've done something complicated to the little bird. Think of it as butterflying the chicken. The real term is to "spatchcock." Alan Davidson explains in The Oxford Companion to Food: "The theory is that the word is an abbreviation of 'dispatch the cock,' a phrase used to indicate a summary way of grilling a bird after splitting it open down the back and spreading the two halves out flat." Davidson speculates that spatchcocked birds originated in Ireland. He has noticed them in Irish cookbooks that date to the 18th century. Besides making an intriguing presentation and being simple to carve, a spatchcocked bird requires less time in the oven. That means that the breast meat won't be dry. It's also easy to make a pocket between the skin and breast meat to stuff the bird with a protective layer of vegetables and seasonings. In Simple French Food, the late Richard Olney wrote about stuffing a flattened chicken with grated zucchini mixed with ricotta and Parmesan cheeses. Olney prepared the recipe on his book-promotion tour in the early 1970s, and for a while it became popular among cooks. We still see spatchcocked chicken on menus around town, sometimes just asimple flattened bird with a mixture of herbs tucked underneath the skin. It always feels new. www.word-detective.com According to the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a "spatchcock" is simply "a chicken or especially a game-bird split open and grilled after a simple and speedy method of preparation." In other words, lunch. The origin of "spatchcock" seems to be under debate. The folks at Oxford think it's Irish, and a combination of "dispatch" (as in "quick") and "cock," but the Random House Webster's College Dictionary dismisses that theory and ties the word to "spitchcock," a dish made with fried eels. Even if one likes fried eels (which I do not), this isn't very useful because no one seems to know where "spitchcock" came from, either. Helen's British Cooking Site http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/cookbook/recipes/starters/spatchcock.htm 'Indian mode and sea fashion' adds the Victorian colonel's wife from whose cookbook this particular recipe comes. The word spatchcock comes from the dish - a happy rooster one minute and a rather flat-looking grilled chicken the next - all done with great despatch. This simple recipe was a favourite with army officers sent to India by sea, which used to entail several weeks' long voyage. Coops of chickens were kept on board and were a great treat for the bored passengers when despatched and cooked in this way.' Rotisol Asia Rotisseries http://www.rotisol.com.hk/index.html 'New alternative "SPATCHCOCK" chicken rotisseries allow "open"-style cooking. Rotisol rotisseries are equipped with rotary/alternating motors, allowing a choice of cooking styles. In the normal ROTARY setting, the rotisserie will cook spitted chickens perfectly. In the ALTERNATING setting, the machine allows users to cook chicken open "SPATCHCOCK" style.' Usage Of The Word In The United Kingdom Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson, 1999 Oxford University Press Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book Award, Gourmet Magazine calls this book "A food book for all time. A must-have for any serious food follower." "Spatchcock, a culinary term, met in cookery books of the 18th and 19th centuries, and revived towards the end of the 20th
2001 KO Final February, which ex-PM was awarded an earldom on his 90th birthday ? Harold Macmillan B1 A member of the House of Lords and an ex-MP, who celebrated his 100th  birthday in November 1984 ? Mannie Shinwell Which government department banned trades unions causing a national outcry ? GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) Outside which foreign government building was policewoman Yvonne Fletcher shot and fatally wounded ? Libyan People's Bureau or Libyan Embassy A3 In the course of a violent argument in April, which recording artist was shot and killed by his father ? Marvin Gaye In October, who was killed by members of her own bodyguard ? Indira Ghandi A4 In March the British government announced its approval of the sale of which shipyard on the lower Clyde to Trafalgar House ? Scott Lithgow B4 In October which bank, a bullion dealer, was rescued from debts of around �250 million by a Bank of England buy-out ? Johnson Matthey Subject: �One Word Cinema� Answers A1 A 1992 Oscar winning Clint Eastwood film in which a former hired killer turned unsuccessful farmer returns to his old ways in pursuit of a $1,000 reward ? Unforgiven B1 A 1972 John Boorman film in which a leading character, played by Ned Beatty, is raped by a �Hillbilly� ? Deliverance A2 A 1929 film, Hitchcock�s first talkie, in which a Scotland Yard Inspector is placed in a difficult position when he discovers his girlfriend has committed a murder ? Blackmail B2 Set in Rio, a 1946 Hitchcock film with Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman in which a woman marries a Nazi renegade to help the US Government ? Notorious A3 A 1916 film by D.W. Griffith starring Lillian Gish in one of four intercut stories including Balshazzar�s Feast and the St Bartholomew�s Day Massacre ? Intolerance B3 A 1967 camped-up version of Faust in which a short order cook is saved from suicide by Mr Spiggott - who offers him 7 wishes in exchange for his soul ? Bedazzled A4 A 1924 Erich von Stroheim film in which an ex-miner turned dentist kills his avaricious wife and her lover ? Greed B4 Set in the mid 19th century, a 1999 film starring Guy Pearce & Robert Carlyle in which a cannibalistic officer commands an isolated army outpost ? Ravenous Answers A1 The liqueur Cura�ao (say �Koor-a-sow�) is traditionally flavoured with sugar & which fruit ? Orange B1 Which spirit takes its name from a place near Guadalajara (say �Gwadlahara�) where the conquistadors first developed it from a variety of Aztec drink ? Tequila A2 With a peculiar but agreeable taste, which coarse & potent liquor is made in the East Indies from a variety of sources, including fermented rice & coconut juice ? Arrack B2 Used to season food & fruit as well as alcoholic drinks, which flavouring is prepared with oil distilled from the aromatic bark of two S. American trees blended with herbs, and bears the former name of a port in Venezuela ? Angostura (now called Cuidad Bolivar) A3 Derived from a town in north east Hungary, what name is shared by a grape variety and a golden-yellow coloured, sweet, aromatic wine ? Tokay (from Tokaj) Subject: Wordgame �No� as in �Note� Answers � a spout on a hose etc. from which a jet issues ? Nozzel � a small round piece of meat or a chocolate made with hazelnuts ? Noisette � something or someone absolutely un
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In Shakespeare's 'Two Gentlemen Of Verona', which character hasa servant called 'Speed'?
Shakespeare's Fools - Launce and Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona Shakespeare's Fools: Launce and Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona From The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde. London: McBride, Nast & company. There seems to be little doubt but that the comedy of "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" was one of the earliest of the poet's dramatic works. There is no authentic record of its first presentation, but it is the general impression among the commentators that it occurred in 1591 or 1592. Sidney Lee, probably the most accurate and reliable authority on Shakespeareana, places it second in order of production. It was not printed in the author's lifetime, nor was it published till it was included in the First Folio edition of collected plays that appeared in 1623, seven years after the poet's death. There is a crude conventionality in the construction of the plot, inexperience in the development of the characters, and immaturity in its deductive philosophy. These conditions confirm the view-point taken above, and are entirely consistent with the known facts. Shakespeare was at this time but twenty-seven years of age, had been in London but six or seven years, and though study and observation had given him some idea of dramatic composition, it was on conventional lines only; experience had not yet developed his powers or given him any marked individuality. Mrs. Cowden Clarke goes so far as to suggest that the comedy was probably one of the MSS. that Shakespeare took with him to London. This is disproved, I think, by his references in the play to historical and mythological characters, with which he would hardly be familiar before his advent into the metropolis. I doubt if Shakespeare did any literary work of a dramatic character before he went to London. It was his association with a company of professional actors, in a varied repertory of plays, with the environment of a regularly equipped theater, that revealed to him the possibilities of the drama, inspired his ambition, and developed his genius. There is no originality in the story of "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," nor in any of the incidents of the comedy. The characters are but prototypes of those which appear, elaborated and completed, in his later plays, after experience had matured his powers and given him a deeper insight into human nature. This is particularly true of Launce and Speed, the two clownish servants in the comedy, who are reproduced as the two Dromios, in "The Comedy of Errors"; as Peter, in "Romeo and Juliet," and as Launcelot Gobbo, in "The Merchant of Venice"; but with far more consistency of purpose and detail of character. Launce and Speed are servants: born to serve, contented to serve, with little or no ambition beyond it. They are personal attendants on Valentine and Proteus, two young noblemen, and accompany their respective masters on their travels, obeying their orders without question, accepting their wages with satisfaction, and submitting upon occasion to personal chastisement without resentment. They are young, full of humor, and fond of mischief. Their humor they exercise upon their masters, when they can do so with safety, and indulge in their mischief between themselves. Both are shrewd and keenly observant, particularly of the foibles and weaknesses of their masters. Speed is at times exuberant; Launce, who is apparently the elder, is more thoughtful and sententious, and with the egotism of a little learning patronizes and reproves the youth and ignorance of his comrade. Launce has some sentimentality in his nature which is shown in his affection for his dog. Crab, and his grief (not wholly unaffected) at the parting from his family. Launce does not, however, permit that sentimentality to affect his material interests at any time, or even influence his considerations in the selection of a wife. Both have the punning habit to an abnormal degree, and vie with each other in amphibolous repartee. Of the two, Launce has the keener wit and deeper philosophy. He is also more resourcefu
Shakespeare's Fools - Touchstone in As You Like It Shakespeare's Fools: Touchstone in As You Like It From The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde. London: McBride, Nast & company. "A Worthy Fool" To term Touchstone a clown, as he is called in the cast of characters of "As You Like It," seems to me both a misnomer and an injustice. His knowledge, his wisdom, his wit and his faculty - of observation, raise him far above the condition that such a term would imply. Fool to the court of The Duke, whose dukedom is not named, the character of Touchstone is a most positive and complete conception of the mediaeval jester, and he more fully realizes the accomplishments essential to that office, as described by Viola in the "Twelfth Night," than any other of the motley-minded gentlemen that the poet has created. He is a man of considerable learning, his wit is never lacking in wisdom, he chooses the object of his jests with prudence, the time with discretion, the matter with judgment, and he is never at a loss for a reply that is apt and to the point. Touchstone scorns mere persiflage, is happily free from the punning habit, and is seldom a corrupter of words; he makes his jests by logical deductions, with a good premise, a sound argument, and a positive conclusion. This same happy quality may be found in his encounters with the gentlemen of the court, the ladies in their disguises, the simple shepherds in the forest, and with the grave philosopher Jaques; indeed, it is the latter gentleman who most accurately summarizes the accomplishments, and gives the keynote to the jester's character, when he presents him to the Duke: "Is not this a rare fellow, good my lord? he is as good at anything, and yet a fool." The wit of Touchstone does not scintillate, but burns with a steady flame; it is not like the sparks that fly from the contact of tempered steel, but the bright and ruddy glow that radiates from molten metal in the crucible. It is sententious rather than brilliant, more philosophic than frivolous, and invariably epigrammatic. His hutpor is never malicious, nor his satire bitter; he shoots his wit at every mark that presents itself, but his shafts are harmless; they have no barb and leave no sting. Touchstone is not a buffoon, he does not play practical jests nor indulge in such pranks as did that "mad rogue" Yorick. Had it been. Touchstone in the churchyard at Elsinore when the sexton was digging a grave, he would not have poured a flagon of wine over the old grave-digger's head; he would probably have leaned against one of the old yew trees, watched the proceedings with quiet reflection, and if the old sexton had advanced any of his socialistic theories, the jester would have argued the matter to the end, and no doubt have beaten him on his own proposition. There are no demonstrations or expressions of affection by Touchstone, as by the fool in "King Lear," yet he is not lacking in loyalty; he leaves the court of Duke Frederick to follow the fortunes of Celia, the Duke's daughter, out of sincere regard, running the risk of the Duke's displeasure and probably of punishment if discovered; he accepts the fatigues of the journey and the discomforts of life in the forest of Arden without hesitation or complaint; he readily adapts himself to his new environment, keeps his own counsel, as well as that of his mistress, and holds the secret of the disguises of Celia and Rosalind inviolate. My first acquaintance with Touchstone was made many years ago, at Manchester, in England. A very elaborate production of "As You Like It" was presented at the Prince's Theater there. I played the part of Orlando to the Rosalind of that beautiful and incomparable actress, Miss Adelaide Neilson. Mr. Compton was the fool. I cannot imagine a more adequate and effective performance of the part than Mr. Compton gave; his quaint personality, his unctuous humor, his artistic instinct, added to his ripe experience, combined to present a complete embodiment of the poet's design. The mobility of his features
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Which biennial sporting fixture was cancelled due to 9/11?
Sports Events Cancelled or Postponed After Attacks in US   Sports Events Cancelled or Postponed After Attacks in US Following are the sports events which have been cancelled or postponed in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington: September 11: Baseball: American Major League matches cancelled Football: American Major League Soccer programme cancelled Tennis: Hawaii womens tournament cancelled before second day's play. September 12: Football: European Champions League and UEFA Cup matches scheduled for September 12 and 13 were all postponed. Handball: German championship matches cancelled Skiing: German championships cancelled Cycling: American riders in the Tour d'Avenir, France , withdraw from the tour. Golf: Pro circuit tournaments at St Louis and Tampa Bay, United States cancelled. Boxing: World middleweight unification fight between Puerto Rico's Felix Trinidad and America's Bernard Hopkins, scheduled for September 15 in New York City, postponed. September 13: American football: NFL cancelled its weekend programme of 15 matches Cricket: New Zealand made a last minute withdrawal from a tour of Pakistan and also withdrew an "A" team from India . Canoe-kayak: World championships due to start September 13 on the Ocoee River, Tennessee, cancelled. September 14: Ice hockey: Warm-up matches for the 2001/2002 North American League season cancelled. Basketball: NBA exhibition matches in Shanghai and Taiwan cancelled. Tennis: United States versus India Davis Cup match scheduled for September 21 at Winston Salem North Carolina, cancelled. Golf: Tiger Woods dropped out of the Lancome Trophy scheduled for September 20 at Saint-Nom-La-Breteche, France. Squash: Boston's US Open cancelled September 15: Wrestling: World championships scheduled for New York September 26-29 cancelled. September 16: Golf: The Ryder Cup, pitting Europe against America event scheduled to start September 28 at The Belfry, Birmingham, England, postponed until next year. Field hockey: Men's Champions Trophy scheduled for November 3-11 in Pakistan relocated to an as yet undecided country. United States pulled out of Women's World Cup qualifying tournament September 18-30 at Amiens and Abbeville, France. Tennis: Jennifer Capriati and Serena Williams pulled out of Tokyo WTA tournament due to start September 17. September 17:
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts everyone celebrates my birthday with a bang! july 4th 1984 July 4, 2004 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick July 4, 2004 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Julian Knowles and Nenad Zimonjic July 4, 2004 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs beat Ai Sugiyama and Liezel Huber July 4, 2004 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Cara Black and her brother Wayne Black beat Todd Woodbridge and Alicia Molik July 4, 2001 Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145 July 4, 1999 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi July 4, 1999 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Lindsay Davenport beat Steffi Graf July 4, 1999 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes beat July 4, 1999 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu beat Mariaan de Swardt and Elena Tatarkova July 4, 1999 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Leander Paes and Lisa Raymond beat July 4, 1998 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Jana Novotna beat Nathalie Tauziat July 4, 1998 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis beat Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde July 4, 1997 U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars July 4, 1996 HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins July 4, 1995 Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg) July 4, 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands July 4, 1994 Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali July 4, 1994 U.S. loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals July 4, 1993 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63) July 4, 1993 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic July 4, 1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place July 4, 1993 Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America July 4, 1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City July 4, 1992 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61) July 4, 1992 John Phillips, rocker (Mamas and Papas), undergoes a liver transplant July 4, 1992 U.S. actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone July 4, 1990 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn July 4, 1990 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island July 4, 1990 Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing July 4, 1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address July 4, 1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide July 4, 1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies) July 4, 1989 Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles July 4, 1988 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62) July 4, 1988 KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most July 4, 1988 U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 July 4, 1987 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63) July 4, 1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission July 4, 1987 Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so July 4, 1987 **** Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France July 4, 1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins July 4, 1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki July 4, 1984 Kallicharran gets 206 and 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game July 4, 1984 New York Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000 July 4, 1984 Yuri Sedykh of U.S.S.R. throws hammer a record 86.33 m July 4, 1983 New York Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox July 4, 1982 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie July 4, 1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB July 4, 1982 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64) July 4, 1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico July 4, 1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R
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Which opera by Puccini was completed posthumously by Franco Alfano?
Turandot - Performances - Opera & Ballet | Slovene National Theatre Maribor Slovene National Theatre Maribor Director: Filippo Tonon Premiere: 5 February 2016, Grand Hall The opera Turandot (1924), which was unfinished at the time of Puccini’s and posthumously completed by Franco Alfano, is a thrilling fairy tale intensifying into myth. It is the story of the legendary ice-cold princess, Turandot, beautiful beyond compare, who puts her suitors to the test of three riddles and then has them beheaded when they cannot answer them. Finally (after murder and mayhem), she is bested by an unknown Prince (Calaf) and the power of love. Puccini, who knew that he was dying, wrote some of his most rapturous and urgent music for this opera of love, mystery and deceit. The battery of gongs, xylophones and chimes that he uses to portray a fabled China’s Imperial City, gives the orchestration an ominousness and a sumptuousness unlike anything else. The writing for chorus and small vocal ensembles is Puccini at his most accomplished and atmospheric. Among arias one can find the beloved Nessun dorma, one of the most famous tenor arias ever composed. Photo gallery SNG Maribor: online tickets sale SNG Maribor: online subscriptions sale Our sponsors Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Next Cookies on our web page Legal basis The legal basis for the cookie policy notice is the EU E-Privacy Directive (Directive 2009/136) and the amended Electronic Communications Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 109/2012) that entered into force in the beginning of 2013 and brought about new regulations governing the use of cookies and similar technologies for the storage of information and access to information, stored on users’ computers or mobile devices. About cookies Cookies are short text files that are sent from a website and stored on user’s computer, smartphone or any other device accessing websites through the Internet. They can be used to collect information on how users browse a website, and can thus adapt the contents of the website to users’ interests when they browse the same website in the future, ensuring the best user experience. A cookie usually contains a string of letters and numbers that is stored on user’s computer when they visit a certain website. Each time the user visits the website, the latter is notified of the stored cookie, thereby enabling recognition of the user. The use of cookies on the Internet has been commonplace for quite some time. More information on cookies can be found at www.aboutcookies.org , including instructions on how to delete them. Types of cookies Strictly necessary cookies These cookies let you move around the website and use its essential features. Without these cookies, services you’ve asked for (e.g. registration, shopping activities, safety, etc.) will not function. Performance cookies These cookies collect information on how visitors use a website with the purpose of improving their user experience (for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, etc.). These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. Functionality cookies These cookies allow the website to remember your settings and choices you make (user name, language, region, etc.) and provide enhanced, personalised features. These cookies may track your actions on the website. Targeting cookies Tracking cookies are related to third-party services (e.g. advertising and social networks), such as the ‘Like’ and ‘Share’ buttons. These cookies may track your actions on the website. They are managed and hosted by third parties. Cookies on this website
Hoffmanns Erzählungen (The Tales of Hoffman) | Offenbach, Jacques | Opera & Operetta | Josef Weinberger Hoffmanns Erzählungen (The Tales of Hoffman) Licensing Composer: Offenbach, Jacques 1819 - 1880 Version: Unter Benutzung des gleichnamigen Schauspiels von Jules Barbier und Michel Carre (1851) neubearbeitet von Walter Felsenstein, musikalische Einrichtung von Karl-Fritz Voigtmann Although Jacques Offenbach wrote almost one hundred stage works in his lifetime, only two of these were operas. The second of these, The Tales of Hoffman, was unfinished at the time of the composer’s death in 1880. Before his death, Offenbach had completed the piano score and orchestrated the prologue and the first act. Since he did not entirely finish the writing, many different versions of this opera subsequently emerged. The version performed at the opera’s premiere – four months after Offenbach’s death -  was that by Ernest Guiraud, who completed Offenbach’s scoring and wrote the recitatives. SYNOPSIS: Nuremburg, Luther’s Tavern, adjoining the Opera House. Prima Donna Stella, currently performing Mozart’s Don Giovanni, sends a letter to the poet Hoffmann, requesting a meeting in her dressing room after the performance. The letter, and the key to the room, are intercepted by the evil Councillor Lindorf. Lindorf intends to replace Hoffmann at the rendezvous. In the tavern students are waiting for Hoffmann. He arrives and entertains them with the legend of Kleinzach the dwarf, before being coaxed by Lindorf into telling the audience about his life’s three great loves. Hoffman tells tales of these past loves; Olympia, a mechanical performing doll; Giulietta, a Venetian courtesan, and Antonia, the consumptive daughter of a famous composer - all of whom break his heart in different ways. At the end of the opera, Hoffmann, drunk, swears he will never love again, and explains that Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta are actually three facets of the same person - Stella. Stella, who is tired of waiting for Hoffmann to come to her rendezvous, enters the tavern and finds him drunk. The poet tells her to leave, and Stella and Lindorf leave together. Instrumentation
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What was the surname of the wartime British agent known as 'Odette'?
War heroine Odette was deemed 'too temperamental' for spying - Telegraph War heroine Odette was deemed 'too temperamental' for spying By Chris Hastings 12:01AM BST 11 May 2003 Odette Hallowes, the British spy awarded the George Cross for her work behind enemy lines in the Second World War, was considered too temperamental and stubborn for espionage duties, according to newly declassified government papers. Personnel files from the wartime Special Operations Executive show that trainers regarded the French-born Hallowes - whose activities helped inspire the novel Charlotte Gray - as not possessing the "clarity of mind" required for spying. The documents also show that she was almost deprived of her George Cross because she could not prove she had been tortured by the Nazis or that she had refused to betray fellow agents. She was given the medal, the highest honour for acts of courage outside military combat, only after her superiors produced medical records and witness statements in support of her case. Hallowes, who died eight years ago, was born Odette Brailly in Picardy in 1912. She came to Britain in 1932 after marrying an Englishman, Roy Sansom (She later married a wine importer, Geoffrey Hallowes). She joined SOE in 1942 after responding to a War Office request for photographs of the French coast. Her later exploits, which were also recorded in the 1950 film Odette, seem far removed from SOE's sceptical early assessment of her. One training report, compiled shortly before she was sent to her Nazi-occupied homeland in 1942, accepts that she has "enthusiasm" but points out: "She is impulsive and hasty in her judgments and has not quite the clarity of mind which is desirable in subversive activity. She seems to have little experience of the outside world. She is excitable and temperamental, although she has a certain determination." The report adds: "Her main asset is her patriotism and keenness to do something for France; her main weakness is a complete unwillingness to admit that she could ever be wrong." Hallowes was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 after she and her unit commander, Capt Peter Churchill, were betrayed by locals. During 14 interrogations over two years, Hallowes refused to crack. As part of her torture, her toenails were pulled out and she was branded with a hot iron. The Gestapo eventually gave up and sent her to Ravensbruck concentration camp. The newly released files provide chilling details of the conditions she endured. At one stage, she was held in solitary confinement a few yards from the camp's crematoria. From her cell, she could hear "the screaming of the victims", says a report. "Ashes, smoke and odour all percolated into the cell and the mental torment of these things nearly drove her mad." Hallowes was handed over to the Americans in 1945 by a German officer seeking favour from the Allies. Even then, however, her superiors had to fight for her to be awarded the George Cross in recognition of her valour. A 1946 letter from a War Office official, known only as HBP, to Sir Colin Gubbins, the head of SOE, responds sharply to suggestions that the medal could be awarded only if there were "concrete evidence" that she had refused to speak under torture. The author writes that such evidence is "impossible to obtain" given that she was interrogated in solitary confinement. "The only witnesses would be the torturers themselves or the Gestapo interrogators," writes HBP. "I hope and pray that these men have long since been shot." He adds, however, that medical evidence shows she was tortured, while the fact that her colleagues were not arrested proves she did not betray them. HBP ends by asking Sir Colin to sign the George Cross citation so that it can be forwarded to the relevant committee with an explanation of the lack of evidence. Hallowes was awarded the medal later that year. Sebastian Faulks, whose novel Charlotte Gray was inspired by the experiences of Hallowes and other SOE women, said the papers provided a fascinating insight into the workings of the executive which, he argued, was responsi
Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) - Find A Grave Memorial Westminster Greater London, England British Actor. He is best remembered for his role of inept French police Inspector 'Jacques Clouseau' in the "Pink Panther" series of films (1964 to 1982). The last of that series, "Trail of the Pink Panther" (1982) was made after his death, using film clips and unseen footage from his earlier "Pink Panther" movies. Born Richard Henry Sellers in Southsea, Hampshire, England, his parents worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. During World War II, he enlisted in the British Army, where he met future actors Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Michael Bentine. Following the war, he set up a review in London, which was a combination of music and impressions (he played the drums), which led to his doing impressions on BBC television's "The Goon Show." Moving rapidly into a series of British comedy films during the mid-1950s, he quickly caught widespread audience appeal, and each successful role led to more and better films. Following British comic tradition of doing multiple roles in the same play, he was adept at performing multiple roles in his movies, including his hilarious "The Mouse that Roared" (1959) (playing three different parts), the black comedy, "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), (playing an pragmatic RAF officer, a wimpy United States President and a weird German scientist), and "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1979) (playing the roles of Rudolf IV, Rudolf V, and Syd Frewin). In 1959, he won the British equivalent of an Oscar for his role of 'Fred Kite', a labor leader in "I'm All Right, Now," (1959), and in 1979 he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role of 'Chance Gardiner' in his film, "Being There" (1979). He was married four times, to Ann Howe (1951 to 1961), to actress Britt Ekland (1964 to 1968), to Miranda Quarry (1970 to 1974) and to actress Lynn Frederick (1977 to his death in 1980). (bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
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What is the corolla of a flower commonly known as?
Flower Structure Flower Structure A Wild Strawberry Flower Flowers are the reproductive structures produced by plants which belong to the group known as Angiosperms, or 'Flowering Plants'.  This group includes an enormous variety of different plants ranging from buttercups and orchids to oak trees and grasses. There are about 250,000 known species. A flower is basically made up of four concentric rings of structures. There is an outer ring of modified leaves called sepals. These provide protection to the flower before it opens and are usually green. This outer ring is known as the calyx. Inside the sepals is another ring of modified leaves called petals which are often brightly coloured. This layer is known as the corolla. Within the corolla are one or more stamens containing pollen, which are the male reproductive structures. In the very centre of the flower are the female reproductive organs.   Female Reproductive Organ The female parts of a flower consist of an ovary, which contains one or more ovules, a style and the stigma. The ovary is at the base of the flower. From the ovary, extends a tubular structure called the style and on the top of the style is a surface receptive to pollen called the stigma. The stigma can take many different forms, most of them designed to help trap pollen. There are many variations on this basic structural theme. Male Reproductive Organ The male parts of a flower consist of one or more stamens. Each stamen is made up of paired anthers (sacs containing pollen) on a filament or stalk. The anthers are the orange/yellow structures often seen in the centre of a flower. Pollen from the anthers of one flower is transferred to the stigma of another usually either by wind, or by animals, especially insects. Flowers do not always have the two outer layers of calyx and corolla. These two layers are most noticeable in plants which are pollinated by insects. The corolla, or petals are often brightly coloured with markings attractive to insects. The flowers may also be scented. For instance, Honeysuckle has showy, attractive flowers which attract insects by day. However, in the dark, their colourful show is not much use, and their heady scent then helps to attract night-flying moths. In insect-pollinated plants, there are also usually nectaries which secrete sugary nectar, located within the flower. These provide an incentive to insects to visit the flowers. In the search for nectar, the insects will often get pollen grains caught on their bodies. This may then brush off onto the stigma of the next flower visited and in this way the flowers are pollinated. Many flowers have evolved very specific associations with a particular insect species or group of species. In these cases flower structure may be very specialized (e.g. orchids). Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) and Primroses (Primula vulgaris) show a range of adaptations to insect pollination.  Wind pollination is also common in flowering plants. In this case, because there is no necessity to attract insects, the calyx and corolla of the flowers may be absent.   This is  a cross-section of a Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flower. It has been cut across the centre of the flower from top to bottom. The purple structures are the petals. The white circular markings on the petals act as guide lines, directing insects towards the nectaries hidden in the base of the flower. The green outer structures are the sepals. The female reproductive structures are hidden, but the stamens with their yellow anthers are clearly visible at the top of the flower.   Fertilization Once a pollen grain reaches the stigma of another flower of the same species, it will produce a pollen tube. This grows down through the style until it reaches an ovule. Fertilization then takes place, resulting in a seed. When pollen from one flower fertilizes the ovule of another flower, it is called cro
National, Native and other Popular Flowers of Iran - The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia National, Native and Popular Flower of Iran National Flower of Iran Being the most popular flower world-wide, both because of its beauty and exceptional fragrances, Red Rose (Rosa) is the National Flower of Iran. Popularly Rose is known as the flower of love, if you rearrange the letters of the word rose you get Eros, the God of Love. However The Queen of Flowers, Tulip also serves as the flower emblem for Iran. Other native and popular Flowers of Iran Being a vast land with very varied climatic conditions, Iran is one of the largest producers of ornamental flowers in the world. Estimates suggest that Iran ranks 17th worldwide in terms of total area under cultivation of decorative flowers. Roses, Tulips, Fritillaria, Poppy, Pittosporum flowers, are the natives of the country while some of the flowers grown here are Bird Of Paradise, Cactus, Calendula, Carnation, Forsythia, Hyacinth, Iris, Zinnia , Daisies, Maryam, Orchids, Sunflowers, and Inverted Tulip which grows abundantly on the slopes of Zardkooh (Yellow Mountain).This flower is unique to Iran. Iran is probably the most intense flower giving nation, since ancient times they have had a custom of giving flowers for various occasions. While choosing the flowers they give utmost important to the meaning conveyed by that particular flower. Roses, Gerberas, tulips, Alsteromeria , Iris, Chrysanthemum and orchids are very popular among Iranians. from our stores - Pickupflowers - the flower expert Online Florists Iran A few of the major online florists who cater to Iran are PickupFlowers and Otlobward, Otlobward Florist offers a wide range of thoughtful gift products including flowers, balloons, cards, candles, candies, gift baskets and other unique items. For a list of Iran florists who do business online, please visit our page on Online Florists in Iran . Send Flowers to Iran The Flower Expert has arrived at a few parameters on which florists can be compared so that the customers can select a good florist who suits their needs. You can go through the comparative analysis of the top florists presented in this table. This comprehensive table will help you decide which florist gives the best service when you want to send flowers to Iran. Facts about Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, formerly known internationally as Persia, is a Southwest Asian country located in the geographical territories of the Middle East and Southern Asia. Iran is the 18th largest country in the world, slightly larger than the United Kingdom and Germany combined. It has a population of over seventy million people. Iran is the second-largest oil producer among the member nations of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, with oil as a leading export. Most of the Iranians are Muslims; 95% belong to the Shia branch of Islam, the official state religion, and about 4% belong to the Sunni branch, which predominates in neighboring Muslim countries. Non-Muslim minorities include Zoroastrians, Jews, Bahais, and Christians. Subscribe Get 10% off on pickupflowers.com explore
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At which football league ground can you sit in the Geoffrey Watling Stand
Carrow Road | Norwich City FC | Football Ground Guide Football Ground Guide Address: Carrow Road, Norwich, NR1 1JE Telephone: 01603 760 760 Ticket Office: 0844 826 1902 Pitch Size: 114 x 74 yards Club Nickname: The Canaries Shirt Sponsors: Aviva Community Fund Kit Manufacturer: Errea Home Kit: Yellow and Green Away Kit: Black With Yellow & Green Stripe Third Kit: Green, Yellow and Black Jarrold Stand and Barclay End Geoffrey Watling Stand WHAT IS CARROW ROAD LIKE? Carrow Road has been steadily redeveloped since the late 1970's, with all four sides of the ground having new stands. The newest of these is the Jarrold South Stand at one side of the pitch which was opened in 2004. It is an impressive looking cantilever, single tier, all seated stand, that can house up to 8,000 supporters. It is has a large television gantry suspended beneath its largely perspex roof. This stand was further extended in 2005 and now surrounds the corner of the ground where it joins the Norwich & Peterborough Stand, 'filling in' that area. The rest of the ground is also all seated and all stands are covered. Both ends look particularly smart, being large two tiered affairs, complete with a row of executive boxes and distinctive pairs of large floodlight pylons protruding from their roofs. The first of these to be built was the River End in 1979 (it was later renamed the Norwich & Peterborough Stand), with the Barclay End opposite opening in 1992. On the remaining side is the Geoffrey Watling City Stand. Named after a former club president and opened in 1986, this single tiered stand is smaller than both ends and houses amongst other things the Directors Box and Press Area. This stand extends around to meet the ends at both corners, giving the ground an enclosed look on that side. In one corner in-between the Barclay End and Jarrold South Stand, the stadium is overlooked by a sizeable Holiday Inn Hotel. Also at this corner the Club have installed the World's first (for a football ground) revolving LED big screen. That should make your eyes boggle! David Westgate adds; 'The corner in-fill between the Barclay Stand and the Geoffrey Watling City Stand is affectionately known to Norwich fans as the "Snake Pit!" FUTURE STADIUM DEVELOPMENTS Craig Johnson informs me; 'The Club have announced that at some point they would look at possibly replacing the Geoffrey Watling City Stand, with a new 12,000 seatstand, raising the overall capacity of Carrow Road to 35,000.  There is also still the option to add an additional tier to the Jarrold (South) Stand (the foundations are already in place) which would further raise the capacity of the ground to around 39,000.' WHAT IS IT LIKE FOR AWAY FANS? Away fans are housed on one side of the South Stand, on one side of the ground. As you would expect from a modern stand the facilities and view of the playing action are good. The normal allocation in this area is 2,500 fans although this can be increased further for cup games. If you are located at the very back of this stand then you can enjoy some fine views across the city, including Norwich Cathedral. The Club I found to be particularly friendly and relaxed. I certainly would rate it as one of the better away days, even though it seems an eternity to get there. Alas the days of the Club producing its own range of pies have long since gone instead you can enjoy the standard range of Pukka Pies (£3), Sausage Rolls (£2) and Rollover Hot Dogs (£3.50).  Tom Jameson a visiting Sheffield United fan informs me; 'I recently visited Carrow Road and found it to be a pleasant, relaxing atmosphere which made for a very enjoyable day out. The stand is very modern, and offers a decent view of the action with plenty of leg room. One problem I did encounter was the tendency of the stewards to order away supporters to keep seated throughout the game. This led to our fans singing 'Sit down, if you hate Wednesday' instead of the usual 'Stand up, if you hate Wednesday' and 'Sit down, stand up, which did not go down too well with the stewards who in my mind very harshly ejected one suppo
Football: Liverpool's Heskey bid | The Independent Football: Liverpool's Heskey bid Thursday 22 May 1997 23:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Liverpool's long pursuit of Emile Heskey was rumoured to be nearing fruition last night as the Midlands football grapevine hummed with reports that a pounds 6m deal for the Leicester City forward was under negotiation, writes Glenn Moore. Liverpool have courted Heskey since he captured attention during Leicester's 1995-96 promotion campaign. With pounds 7m from the sale of Stan Collymore added to their bank balance, they have the funds they need to seal a deal. The only doubt is over whether Heskey, who went to the same school as Gary Lineker and still lives at home, feels ready to leave Leicester. He only signed a new contract last season and Leicester would be loath to lose him, but money, as ever, talks. Yesterday's rumours coincide with the return from holiday of the Liverpool manager, Roy Evans, and come just before Heskey is due to go to Poland with England Under-21. Collymore scored a goal on his debut for Aston Villa, a 1-1 draw with the Los Angeles Galaxy in a friendly match on Wednesday. Sheffield United will be missing Chris Short from their defence for the First Division play-off final against Crystal Palace at Wembley on Monday. He sprained his ankle badly yesterday and has had it heavily strapped. Alan Kelly, the Blades' Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper, also faces a struggle to overcome a knee injury in time. Sunderland have completed the signing of the Volendam goalkeeper Edwin Zoetebier for a fee of pounds 300,000. The former Dutch Under-21 international has agreed personal terms with the club's manager, Peter Reid, but has returned home to play in his club's last two games of the season. The Nottingham Forest manager, Dave Bassett, has placed the club's second- choice goalkeeper, Alan Fettis, on the transfer list after holding talks with Kevin Miller, of Watford. Miller, a 27-year-old valued at pounds 1.5m by Watford but out of contract, travelled to the City Ground yesterday to open transfer negotiations. Everton are expected to announce on Tuesday whether they are to leave Goodison Park after 105 years. A ballot of supporters on plans to move the club to a new 60,000 all-seater stadium in Kirkby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, closed on Wednesday. Derby have announced that their new home will be called the The Pride Park Stadium. Steve Bruce has denied reports linking him with the vacant manager's job at Stoke. Bruce, who joined Birmingham from Manchester United last summer, is content to see out his contract with Birmingham. "I have a year left on my contract and I would hope that by the end of it I will have helped the club to get into the Premiership," he said. More about:
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"Created by John Lawson Johnston ""Johnston's Fluid Beef' was renamed what?"
What Is Bovril? | eHow What Is Bovril?  Email Save Bovril is a popular British beef extract that can be used for flavoring or to make a beef-flavored drink. It has been around since the 1870s and rose in popularity, because of strong advertising and a general love for the product, which was found during a brief period when Bovril went vegetarian to the disdain of many fans. Origin In 1871, Napoleon III ordered canned beef for his troops, who needed the protein during marches against the Prussians. This led to the invention of John Lawson Johnston's "Johnston's Fluid Beef," which was renamed Bovril in 1886. Identification Bovril is a thick and salty meat extract, dark in color, sold in a distinctive, rounded jar. It comes in various flavors, such as beef and chicken. Function Bovril is often used to flavor soups and stews. It can also be spread on bread as a flavoring or mixed with hot water to make a drink. Protein Original beef Bovril is a great source of protein, which is why it was originally used by soldiers and explorers who needed the energy quickly. Football Bovril is most closely connected to British football culture, because many athletes would consume it for energy purposes beginning in 1909.
World’s First Test Tube Baby Born - Jul 25, 1978 - HISTORY.com This Day in History: 07/25/1978 - "Test tube baby" born In a This Day in History video, learn that on July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan forever changed the tune of folk music and went electric. Dylan debuted his new sound at the Newport Folk Festival, shaking the house with his first note of Maggie's Farm. The audience responded to Dylan with a sea of applause and booing; he wouldn't return to the festival for another thirty-seven years. Lead Story World’s First Test Tube Baby Born Share this: World’s First Test Tube Baby Born Author World’s First Test Tube Baby Born URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown. The healthy baby was delivered shortly before midnight by caesarean section and weighed in at five pounds, 12 ounces. Before giving birth to Louise, Lesley Brown had suffered years of infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes. In November 1977, she underwent the then-experimental IVF procedure. A mature egg was removed from one of her ovaries and combined in a laboratory dish with her husband’s sperm to form an embryo. The embryo then was implanted into her uterus a few days later. Her IVF doctors, British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and scientist Robert Edwards, had begun their pioneering collaboration a decade earlier. Once the media learned of the pregnancy, the Browns faced intense public scrutiny. Louise’s birth made headlines around the world and raised various legal and ethical questions. The Browns had a second daughter, Natalie, several years later, also through IVF. In May 1999, Natalie became the first IVF baby to give birth to a child of her own. The child’s conception was natural, easing some concerns that female IVF babies would be unable to get pregnant naturally. In December 2006, Louise Brown, the original “test tube baby,” gave birth to a boy, Cameron John Mullinder, who also was conceived naturally. Today, IVF is considered a mainstream medical treatment for infertility. Hundreds of thousands of children around the world have been conceived through the procedure, in some cases with donor eggs and sperm. Related Videos
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In 1956 which scientific concept was demonstrated in Magdeburg by Otto von Guericke?
Magdeburg Hemispheres - Stock Image C004/7347 - Science Photo Library Credit: GIPHOTOSTOCK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Caption: The Magdeburg hemispheres were invented in 1650 by Otto von Guericke, a scientist and the mayor of Magdeburg. He used them to demonstrate the concept of air pressure. When two hemispheres were placed together and the air was pumped out from the space between them, 16-30 horses could not separate them. This spectacular experiment was demonstrated to the astonished audiences on several occasions. Photographed here is a replica of the Magdeburg hemispheres on display at the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany. Release details: Model release not required. Property release not required.
Full text of "Primer of scientific knowledge / by Paul Bert ; translated and adapted for American schools" See other formats This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at |http : //books . google . com/ TX 519.2 B536p Ben. Paul Primer of scientific krTowled(|e / Stanford UnJyff^ity^Mbrprii niiiiiii!! I 3 6105 04932 889S (f Presented by the Publishers -TO THE — EXT-BOOK COLLECTION na Tntt ■■'^^^j, ?^^^r.'is> iiiu ii^i|||||ji4vijjj 11 J. iillE<'r ^■L'li'UoL OF EDUCATION LIBRARY TEXTBOOK COLLECTION GIFT OF THE PUBLISHERS STANFORD LIBRARIES f 1 PRIMER OF Scientific Knowledge. MAN. -^ANIMALS. — PLANTS. — STONES. — THE THREE STATES OF BODIES. READINO-LESSONS,— SUMMARIES.— QUESTIONS,— SUBJECTS FOR COMPOSITION. BY PAUL BERT, MSMBBB or THE INSTITirrK AND BX-MINISTBB or PUBLIC IHBTBUOTION Or FBANOB. TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED FOR AMERICAN SCHOOLS. BY T. W. GILSOK V ^ LT17-A:^^ C^TAlilCI 7>"^^ A T?^"* '*'?"" '*■""' r^ T^-sT^r' « " PHILADELPHIA : J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. 621305 Copyright, 1887, by J. B. Lippincott Oompany. Copyright, 1888, by J.
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This Just In: Holy Water Can Kill! This Just In: Holy Water Can Kill! Gail Finke In a piece that showed blissful, if not invincible, ignorance of Catholic practices in the United States and around the world, Good Morning America reported Saturday that drinking holy water from containers or water from miraculous springs can kill. “We need to warn people against drinking from these sources,” Dr. Alexander Kirschner of the Medical University of Vienna, told ABC News. Kirschner is the author of “Holy Springs and Holy Water: Underestimated Sources of Illness?” a report in the Journal of Water and Health, which makes the odd claim that holy water is “used extensively for personal drinking water.” The report finds that common bacteria that cause illness are often found in holy water, as are nitrates (chemicals used in fertilizers and commonly found in runoff from farms). ABC News says that “if ingested, water containing nitrates over the maximum contaminant level could cause serious illness, especially in infants younger than six  months, which could lead to death if untreated, according to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency.” ABC’s reporter, Liz Fields, did not say why she thought infants might be drinking holy water in the first place, much less why it might contain nitrates over the maximum contaminant level. The report also found, unsurprisingly, that holy water stoups in hospitals have more bacteria than those in churches, and is thus more unsafe to drink. “This may represent a problem that has hitherto been underestimated, especially in hospitals, since there a lot of people with weakened immune systems there,” Kirschner told ABC. Although Kirschner’s report suggested that sprinkling people with holy water or touching holy water to one’s lips might lead to an increase in infections, and that holy springs should be tested to see if they meet drinking water standards, it did not warn of the danger of death (even for infants). That was a health tip from ABC. For the record: Holy water is water that has been blessed by a priest. The blessing includes adding salt, but neither the blessing nor the salt purify the water chemically. Water from holy or miraculous springs is not itself holy, and is no different from water from any other springs in terms of bacterial or mineral content.   Gail D. Finke is an author and mother living in Cincinnati, where she writes for The Catholic Beat at Sacred Heart Radio. Subscribe to CE I will immediately stop drinking holy water. Thanks ABC. Deacon Don Bourgeois Correction: For the record: Holy water is water that has been blessed by a priest or deacon. JimmyChonga Holy water need NOT include “salt”. I also don’t think that springs emanating from a divine source are in the exact same class as “holy” water which has been blessed by a Catholic clergy member. Yes, the water from Lourdes is holy and there have been and will continue to be many miraculous healings from such springs but those have been “revealed” by divine gift through the intercession and loving care of the BVM. Sebastian My understanding about holy water is that it is used for baptism and blessing of houses and individuals. It is not meant for drinking. However, the holy water from a divine source such as the spring in Lourdes is safe for drinking. I was in Lourdes last month. Three family members and myself together with thousands of pilgrims from all over the world drank literally gallons of the Lourdes holy water. I can testify that my family members and I are well and suffer not a hint of any ill-effects. I am certain that thousands of other pilgrims will also testify to the same. Mooknino Let’s bash the Catholic Church again. What about the millions who drink from the River Ganges? Contaminated, caustic, poisonous yet no one seems to care. Most Catholics do not drink holy water. We use it to remind ourselves of our baptism. We did not see how much we can drink at baptism. If the water used for the holy water is contaminated we can be prudent in our use of it. Yet again what is not contaminated today? Beef? Vegetables?
St Mary Redcliffe (1) St Mary Redcliffe (1) Help Wanted The area around St. Mary Redcliffe This is a wonderful church in the district of Redcliffe near Bedminster. I may be biased as I was christened here, but it really is a beautiful church. Queen Elizabeth I is said to have referred to it as "The fairest, goodliest and most famous Parish church in England". There was a church on this spot as early as the reign of Henry I (1100 - 1135), we know this as in 1115 he gave it to Salisbury Cathedral, but even before this there is a record of a priest in the Royal Manor of Bedminster. In 1190 Lord Robert of Berkeley gave it a water supply, a very valuable gift in the 12th Century. The water was piped from the Rugewell in Knowle. Ruge is an old name for ridge. The picture below is a plaque made to commemorate the event. Every year the vicar and churchwarden do the "Pipe Walk" from the church to the spring the water rises from, this entitles the church to various endowments. You can see Lord Robert's tomb in the church. Plaque to commemorate the giving of the water supply The wording translates as :- "For the health of the soul of Robert of Berkeley, who gave to God and the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe and its ministers the Rugewell and conduit. AD 1190. Erected 1932." This is not the original site of the conduit. It was originally located on the other side of the church in Pump Lane. The site it now occupies was where the old stocks were situated. The last use of these stocks, or any other, was in 1826, when two men were put in the stocks on Redcliff Hill for two hours for holding a drunken party in a nearby churchyard. There were stocks at St James as late as 1837, although no evidence survives of when they were last used. The church was rebuilt between 1232 and 1246, this church was a lot larger than the earlier one, possibly not a lot smaller than the present one. A little later the church fell into disrepair and rebuilding was started by Simon de Burton, who went on to become mayor of Bristol three times. Progress was slow and by 1337 the work was being supervised by John Bohler, Thomas de Uphill and Geoffrey Fuller. In 1376 William Canynges more or less rebuilt it as the great church that stands today. The tomb of this great benefactor and his wife can be seen in the church. The church was very important in these days as the Merchant Venturers began and ended their voyages by praying at the shrine of Our Lady of Redcliffe, which was in the North Porch. William Canynges went on to become Mayor six times. As the entry for 1376 in Adams's Chronicles of Bristol tells us "This year William Canings builded the body of Redcliff Church from the cross ends downwards." Tomb of Thomas Canynges In the 15th Century the church contained six bells, which ranged in weight from 1300 lbs to 7,024 lbs. The church today boasts 14 bells, the largest now being 5,800 lbs. William Canynges' grandson also named William became Mayor in 1441 and repaired the church. In 1446 there was a great storm and, after being hit by lightning, the spire collapsed onto the nave. The damage was repaired, with no expense spared and with great attention to detail. The spire is a late addition not reaching its present height of 292 feet until 1872. Before then the church was topped by a short turret like affair. This William Canynges became Mayor five times. He was a busy overseas trader with interests in Prussia, Iceland and Finland, when relations between England and Denmark became strained he was granted special dispensation by King Christian I to continue trading in Scandanavia and Iceland. In 1461 he entertained the young King Edward IV at his house in Redcliffe Street. After the last time he was Mayor he took Holy Orders and died as Dean of Westbury in 1474. Detail from Redcliffe Street with St Mary Redcliffe The illustration above is taken from a picture called Redcliffe Street with St Mary Redcliffe that can be seen in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It was painted in watercolours around 1810. There are around 1,200 roof bosses all of which are differen
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The StarWars.com 10: Best Yoda Quotes | StarWars.com StarWars.com Team Welcome to The StarWars.com 10, a feature where StarWars.com’s editorial staff huddles to discuss — in a committee — various topics relating to a galaxy far, far away. Today we’re looking at the most memorable quotes from the Emperor’s “little green friend.” Yoda has become one of the biggest icons of Star Wars since his introduction in The Empire Strikes Back — in fact, he won this year’s This Is Madness tournament . While he’s popular for various reasons — his design, his power — it’s his personality and words of wisdom (often in his backwards speak) that resonate the most. For this list, we looked at Yoda’s lines from the Star Wars films, ranking them on quotability, relevance to Yoda as a character, and overall significance to the saga. 10. “When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.” Return of the Jedi Yoda could be stern and strict, but he was also playful. When Luke returns to complete his training in Return of the Jedi, he finds that Yoda’s health has deteriorated. This classic line shows Yoda’s sense of humor, but also adds a layer to his ability as a teacher: he doesn’t want his student to feel burdened with the fact he’s dying. 9. “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” Attack of the Clones In Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan is trying to locate the planet Kamino, which has been erased from all records in the Jedi Archives. When he approaches Yoda — in the middle of a lightsaber class with younglings — for help, Yoda turns to the students. And one of them nails it, saying that it’s missing because someone erased it. Yoda’s response, “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is,” shows that despite all he’s seen, he doesn’t exclude the thoughts and opinions of others, no matter their size or age, and that teachers can still learn from their students. 8. “That is why you fail.” The Empire Strikes Back This is Yoda being brutally honest with Luke, who breathlessly says, “I don’t believe it,” after his Master raises an X-wing from the Dagobah swamp. It’s a definitive statement that comes from Yoda’s years and years of experience as a Jedi and a teacher, and it cuts through both to Luke and the audience. 7. “A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.” The Empire Strikes Back One of Yoda’s key teachings to Luke on Dagobah, “A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack,” is core to the Jedi way and to the Star Wars saga. It’s hard to understand on its own — after all, Jedi have weapons and they use them frequently. But in Return of the Jedi, when Luke throws his lightsaber away instead of making the killing blow to his father, we see what Yoda meant. In that moment, Luke becomes a true Jedi, and it all goes back to this line. 6. “Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.” The Empire Strikes Back After Luke comes to Dagobah, Yoda initially withholds his true identity. He’s trying to get a sense of who Luke is as a person; Yoda understands that there’s a lot at risk in training Luke to be a Jedi, especially considering what happened with his father. And Yoda is not impressed — Luke is impatient and selfish. With “Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things,” the Jedi Master makes clear that Luke must understand the significance and meaning of the journey he thinks he wants to make. It’s an important lesson for Luke and for audiences, because when Luke faces Vader at the film’s climax, we see the stakes involved in the life of a Jedi. 5. “Judge me by my size, do you?” The Empire Strikes Back One of Yoda’s instructions to Luke is to “unlearn what you have learned” (another great line!). When Luke is tasked with raising his X-wing from the swamp, he complains that it’s too big, which frustrates Yoda — size matters not when it comes to the Force and to life. What’s amazing about this quote is that when Yoda says it, it’s not funny. It rings true, you believe him, and you see that he makes no excuses for himself — and does not want to hear any from his students. 4. “Fe
My Questions - Documents Documents Share My Questions Embed <iframe src="http://docslide.us/embed/my-questions.html" width="750" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://docslide.us/documents/my-questions.html" title="My Questions" target="_blank">My Questions</a></div> size(px) Download My Questions Transcript Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? What is the tallest and thickest type of grass? What was the surname of the family who employed Julie Andrews' character in 'The Sound Of Music'? Which nation has won the Eurovision Song Contest more than any other? What is the most common gas in the air we breathe? Which three different actors played Batman in the movies between 1989 and 1997? What colour is Bart's skateboard in the introduction? The theme tune to which TV show starts with the line "Stick a pony in me pocket"? Which soap opera is set in the fictional county of Borsetshire? Who did Sue Barker replace as host of the BBC quiz show "A Question Of Sport"? Which "Generation Game" presenter was famous for his catchphrase "Shut That Door"? "No Mean City" by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running Scottish TV detective show? Anthony, Barbara, Dave, Denise, Jim and Norma make up which famous family on British TV? Which part did Deforest Kelley play in the TV series Star Trek? True or False In space it is impossible to cry? Famous sitcom actor Kelsey Grammar provides the voice for for a character in which famous cartoon TV Series The largest ever picnic for a childs toy was held in Dublin in 1995 where 33,573 of the toys were there . What was the toy ? Which American state comes first alphabetically? In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull? Which country has the airline KLM? The sinking of which famous German battleship was portrayed in the title of a 1960 film? What organisation is also known as "La Cosa Nostra"? What was the Titanic’s first port of call after it left Southampton? Which mountain overshadows Fort William in scotland ? What was the name of the 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose identity is erased? A penguin called Wheezy was a character in which film ? Who played Vince in the 1980s TV series "Just Good Friends"? In which 1994 film did Whoopi Goldberg provide the voice of a hyena called Shenzi? What is the only venomous snake in Britain? How many pieces are there in a standard set of dominoes? James Earl Ray was responsible for who's death in 1968? In which city in England is the National Railway Museum? In the music world, which group sacked Simon Fuller in 1997? Which Roman God is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? What was the challanging method of catching a fly asked of Daniel in the film "The Karate Kid"? Actor Richard Kiel is best known for playing which character in two bond films ? Which is the odd one out, Comet, Dixon, Cupid, Vixen? Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? What product did Coke invented in 1982? Which Japanese word, also used in the English language, means "empty orchestra"? On which date does Halloween fall? Oscar is the first name of which of the famous songwriting duo Rogers and Hammerstein? 24 Bamboo Von Trappe Ireland Nitrogen Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney Green Only Fools And Horses The Archers David Coleman Larry Grayson Taggart The Royle Family Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy True (there is no gravity, so tears cannot flow) The Simpsons Teddy Bear Alabama Minotaur The Netherlands The Bismark The Mafia Cherbourg Ben Nevis The Net Toy Story 2 Paul Nicholas "The Lion King" The Adder 28 Martin Luther King's York Manager of the Spice Girls Cupid Using chopsticks to do it Jaws (in two James Bond films) Dixon - the others are Santa's reindeer Mercury Diet Coke Karaoke October 31st Hammerstein On 11th February 1990, which fam
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Hangover Cures | This Is Hell! Hangover Cures Welcome to the largest source of hangover cures found on the web. The last Hangover Cure mentioned on This is Hell! was … Take a wasabi or mustard bath. Wasabi and mustard have a noted ability to draw toxins out of your body. Simply add two tablespoons of dry mustard or wasabi to a hot bath and soak. Every Saturday morning, This is Hell! offers our listeners a Hangover Cure to help the poor saps exorcise the evil spirits they poured into their drink hole the previous evening. All of these cures are cited somewhere as actual hangover cures. None of these cures are fictional creations of the staff of This is Hell. However, we do not take any responsibility for your use of these remedies. For those of you who are curious, no, the appropriate consumption of National Beer © does not regularly cause hangovers. However, what exactly is the appropriate consumption? That’s for you to figure out. In Ecuador, they love ceviche de camaron as a cure. The favorite local cure in Adelaide, South Australia: a Pie Floater. It’s a meat pie turned upside-down in a bowl of thick green pea soup, topped with ketchup. Eat amino acids. Amino acids can be depleted by alcohol. Get the amino acids back and your hangover is gone. Amino acids are available in capsule form. As irregular correspondent Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD, pointed out that they are also available in something called ‘food’. The Russian drink known as a Royal Peter. A Royal Peter is cayenne pepper liberally mixed into a snifter of brandy. The traditional Korean cure of alder-and-licorice tea. The alder tree produces reddish green flowers and greenish-gray to reddish-brown bark that is thin and smooth. Apparently, the flowers and bark are both used in making alder tea. So, our guess is that the Alder bark and leaves are mixed with licorice and from that you make a tea. But, we were unable to find any description of just how this tea is made. Mix two raw eggs, lime jello and twoounces of flat Guiness in a blender. Mix and drink. Ten percent of Iraqis are disabled by war. A Red-Eye: whiskey, coffee, Tabasco, a raw egg, pepper and orange juice all blended together. A Black Mary: Coffee brewed with tonic water, rather than tap water. Then, add orange juice instead of milk and honey instead of sugar. Drink half a can of Hershey’s chocolate syrup. The B vitamins supposedly cure your hangover. Someone going by the name “Coolbreeze” posted this hangover cure online: “two milky bong loads followed by a swim session in the ocean, getting pounded by the shorebreak.” A Van Diemen. Combine two cups Ovaltine, some sugar, chocolate topping, a half cup of milk, two cups hot water and three tablespoons golden syrup. Microwave on high for two minutes, adding another quarter cup of milk and stirring after one minute. Add half a packet of pinapple jelly crystals and microwave on high for another thirty seconds. Add the other half packet of pineapple jelly crystals and a bit more hot water. Microwave for another minute. Pour into cups. Refigerate. Serve with custard. Engov is an over-the-counter tablet in Brazil, but not sold in the United States. It’s got stuff like aluminum hydroxide, caffeine, acetylsalicylic acid and pyrilamine maleate which are individually in American products like antacids, coffee, aspirin and antihistamines. Vietnamese beef noodle soup known as Pho. Pho is made with rice noodles, and served with basil, lime, bean sprouts and peppers. Ramen noodles, a cure we suggested just a few months ago. But this time, wash it down with orange juice. Slap some bacon between a couple of pieces of bread and eat. While the bacon gives you the amino acids necessary to repair the neurotransmitters in your brain that have been damaged by alcohol, the bread gives your body the carbohydrates you need to get your lazy ass out of bed. Tsar Nicholas II’s favorite, eat a lemon wedge, coated with sugar and ground coffee. Drink a 12 ounce glass of milk immediately before going out drinking. The traditional Russian cure of having a sauna followed by whipping yours
State Nicknames Hawaii - Maryland Hawaii became officially known as the “Aloha State” by a 1959 legislative act. Haw. Rev. Stat. 5-7 source: State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer Idaho In 1863, Congress designated the Idaho Territory with the erroneous understanding that Idaho was a Shoshone word meaning Gem of the Mountains. In spite of the misunderstanding concerning the origin of the name the state continues to be known as the “Gem State” and the “Gem of the Mountains”. source: State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer Known unofficially as the “Prairie State”, a fitting nickname for a state that sets aside the third full week in September each year as Illinois Prairie Week to demonstrate the value of preserving and reestablishing native Illinois prairies. source: State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer Indiana “Hoosier State” came into general usage in the 1830s. John Finley of Richmond wrote a poem, "The Hoosier's Nest," which was used as the "Carrier's Address" of the Indianapolis Journal, Jan. 1, 1833. It was widely copied throughout the country and even abroad. A few days later, on January 8, 1833, at the Jackson Day dinner at Indianapolis, John W. Davis offered "The Hoosier State of Indiana" as a toast. And in August, former Indiana governor James B. Ray announced that he intended to publish a newspaper, The Hoosier, at Greencastle, Indiana. The “Hawkeye State” was first suggested by James G. Edwars as a tribute to indian leader Chief Black Hawk. source: State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer The nickname “Sunflower State” calls to mind the wild flowers of the plains of Kansas and the officially recognized state flower. source: State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer Kentucky Bluegrass is not really blue--it's green--but in the spring, bluegrass produces bluish-purple buds that when seen in large fields give a rich blue cast to the grass. Early pioneers found bluegrass growing on Kentucky's rich limestone soil, and traders began asking for the seed of the "blue grass from Kentucky." The name stuck and today Kentucky is known as the “Bluegrass State”.
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Cash from TV deals drives record European soccer transfer spree Cash from TV deals drives record European soccer transfer spree * Premier League leads way as soccer clubs splash TV cash * Real Madrid and Barcelona defy Spain's economic downturn * Clubs seen complying with UEFA rules despite investment By Keith Weir LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - European soccer clubs have reinvested cash from television deals to go on a record-breaking summer spending spree led by teams from the English Premier League and Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona. Clubs in the English top flight had spent 630 million pounds ($980.5 million) by the player transfer deadline on Monday night. Teams in the big European leagues must now wait until January before they can hire new players. The spending by English clubs broke the 2008 record of 500 million pounds, according to figures compiled by business services group Deloitte, and underlined the Premier League's status as the world's richest national competition. "As the financial rewards for participation and success in the Premier League increase, so it follows that clubs are investing on the pitch to ensure they continue to benefit from the remarkable Premier League growth story," Deloitte's Dan Jones said. Champions Manchester United and the other 19 Premier League teams are expected to share revenues of about 1.6 billion pounds this season thanks to enhanced television deals with BSkyB and BT in Britain, and broadcasters around the globe that began last month. It was not all one-way traffic as the Premier League lost one of its biggest names when Real Madrid bought Welshman Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur for a world record 100 million euros ($132 million). Not to be outdone, Real's perennial rivals Barcelona spent $75 million to buy Brazil forward Neymar from Brazilian top division club Santos. PLAYING FAIR? Spending such sums might appear to defy logic given Spain's economic problems but Real and Barcelona enjoy the luxury of doing their own TV deals rather than pooling revenues as happens in England and other major leagues. That has made the two clubs the world's richest in terms of revenues and allowed them to remain buyers when many of their Spanish rivals are forced to sell their best players. Real and Barcelona have TV deals with Spanish production and distribution company Mediapro. They both also have lucrative new main sponsorship deals this season - Barcelona with Qatar Airways and Real with the Emirates airline names on their kit. Overall spending levels may also raise eyebrows when loss-making clubs are supposed to be complying with new Financial Fair Play rules introduced by UEFA, European soccer's governing body, to put soccer on a more stable footing. "A lot of English clubs have gone on a spending spree but they haven't breached the Financial Fair Play rules as they are only spending what they have earned," said Simon Chadwick, a professor of sports business at England's Coventry University. Clubs also have the advantage of spreading the cost of a player's transfer over the duration of his contract in their accounts, lessening the impact on the bottom line. Many clubs also offload players to help fund spending. Real Madrid are a case in point - recouping half of what they paid for Bale by selling German international Mesut Ozil to Premier League Arsenal. Indeed, the total invested by Premier League clubs comes down to 400 million pounds when proceeds from sales such as that of Bale are factored in. Spanish clubs actually generated a surplus of 95 million pounds from player trading this summer, according to Deloitte, while clubs from Italy's cash-strapped Serie A also posted a small profit. Reblog
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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In a standard deck of playing cards, which is normally the only king without a moustache?
Get the Full Story of Playing Cards King of Spades – King David of Israel King of Diamonds – Julius Caesar King of Clubs – Alexander the Great King of Hearts - King Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor born around 742 and only King in the deck without a moustache and with a sword through his head, otherwise known as the "Suicide King". Did You Know? The King of Hearts represents the only King in the deck without a moustache and with a sword through his head, thus coined the Suicide King. Earlier images of the same card show the King of Hearts wielding an ax. Over time, poor copying by card makers caused the ax to lose its head and eventually turned into a sword which seems to stick right through the King’s head. The Queens Queen of Spades – Athena, the Greek Goddess of War Queen of Diamonds – Rachel, Biblical Matriarch, Wife of Jacob Queen of Clubs - Argea, a Queen in Greek mythology or Argine an anagram derived from regina, the Latin word for queen. Queen of Hearts – Judith, Biblical heroine who saved Israel from Assyrian invasion The Jacks Jack of Spades – Ogier the Dane, a knight of Charlemagne Jack of Diamonds – Hector, a Trojan Prince Jack of Clubs - Judas Maccabeus, a Hebrew warrior or Lancelot, an Arthurian knight Jack of Hearts - La Hire, comrade-in-arms to Joan of Arc and member of Charles VII's court What’s in the Cards? When churches banned gambling, many Europeans disguised their decks with extra cards, which later evolved into tarot cards used for fortune telling. Notice how the tarot kept a few familiar features. Mention tarot cards and images of a gypsy fortune teller peering over a crystal ball might come to mind. Actually, the earliest tarot cards in Europe started out as an ordinary deck of playing cards. When churches began denouncing and prohibiting gambling, many Europeans disguised standard decks used for betting by adding extra cards. Notice how the suits used in tarot cards closely match those used in the Middle East - swords, staves (or a wand), cups, and coins (disks or pentacles). Tarot cards also use face cards like Kings and Queens as well as number cards from ace to ten. The tarot decks with 78 cards started out as a game called triumph, similar to bridge. Early forms first appeared between 1430 and 1450 in Northern Italy, where it became tarocchi, Italian for tarot. Followers of the occult saw the symbolic symbols in the tarocchi decks as a divination and used them for cartomancy . Some of the early associations of the occult may have also traveled from the Mamluk deck used in Egypt where fortune tellers thought a pack of cards contained hieroglyphic secrets to life. The Leader of the Pack “Duty Three Pence” - The Ace of Spades stands out because it would traditionally indicate that the tax had been paid on a deck of cards. Ever notice how the Ace of Spades always stands out in a deck of cards? This didn’t happen by chance. After cards became popular, European rulers saw the opportunity to make more money by taxing each deck. Initially, a stamp was placed on the wrappings of playing cards. Later, one card in each deck received a stamp to indicate the duty had been paid even after the wrapper was torn off.  In the 1700s, the Ace of Spades commonly received the stamp probably because it lay on the top of every deck. Today the Ace of Spades still carries the tradition of standing out as the leader of the pack. You Don’t Know Jack! Can you tell the difference between the King and the Knave? Ever wonder why the third rank face card goes by Jack and not Prince or Knight? Actually, the court cards originally featured a King, Queen, and Knave, meaning a male royal servant. The word Jack came along for a few reasons. First of all, it has a similar meaning to Knave referring to a “common man” as in the expression, Jack of all trades, master of none. The term Jack may also come from the game cricket in which the worst batter would go last. Teammates often teased the final batter, calling him “Last Man Jack”. 11 people bat in cricket, similar to the number 11 represented by the Jack in a deck of c
Card Games | Britannica.com Card Games game played for pleasure or gambling (or both) with one or more decks of playing cards. Displaying Featured Card Games Articles Pokémon 20th- and 21st-century Japanese fantasy-based cartoon creatures that spawned a video- and card-game franchise. In the Pokémon —or “Pocket Monsters”—video-game series, players were able to explore the game’s fictional world by looking for wild Pokémon creatures to capture and tame. As Pokémon trainers, they readied the small monsters to compete in battle... blackjack gambling card game popular in casinos throughout the world. Its origin is disputed, but it is certainly related to several French and Italian gambling games. In Britain since World War I, the informal game has been called pontoon. Players hope to get a total card value of 21 or to come closer to it, without going over, than the dealer, against whom... tarot any of a set of cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling. Tarot decks were invented in Italy in the 1430s by adding to the existing four-suited pack a fifth suit of 21 specially illustrated cards called trionfi (“triumphs”) and an odd card called il matto (“the fool”). (The fool is not the origin of the modern joker, which was invented in the... euchre card game popular in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain, especially in Cornwall and the West Country of England. It derives from a 19th-century Alsatian game called juckerspiel from the fact that its two top trumps are Jucker, meaning “ jack.” This word may also have influenced the choice of the term joker for the extra card... solitaire family of card games played by one person. Solitaire was originally called (in various spellings) either patience, as it still is in England, Poland, and Germany, or cabale, as it still is in Scandinavian countries. The terms patience and solitaire have been applied to indicate any one-player card-related activity, including building card houses, flipping... cribbage card game in which the object is to form counting combinations that traditionally are scored by moving pegs on a special cribbage board. The appeal of the game, usually played by two but with a popular variant played by four or occasionally by three, is evident from two facts: few changes have been made in the original rules, and it remains one of... hanafuda (Japanese: “flower cards”), deck of 48 cards divided into 12 suits of four cards. Each suit is named for a month of the year and pictures a flower identified with that month. The cards are tiny, only 2 1 8 by 1 1 4 inches (5.4 by 3.2 cm), but about three times thicker than Western cards. Hanafuda evolved after the Portuguese took Western cards to Japan... whist trick-taking card game developed in England. The English national card game has passed through many phases of development, being first recorded as trump (1529), then ruff, ruff and honours, whisk and swabbers, whisk, and finally whist in the 18th century. In the 19th century whist became the premier intellectual card game of the Western world, but... piquet card game, known since the 15th century in France. For centuries piquet has been regarded as one of the greatest two-player card games. In 1534 François Rabelais listed it as a favorite pastime of his fictional hero Gargantua, and in 1892 the delegates to a card congress in Vienna voted it the most “classic” of all card games. Perhaps because it was... Yu-Gi-Oh! Japanese manga (comic book) of the late 20th and early 21st centuries that features an ordinary high-school student, Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto), who assumes mystical powers when playing a mysterious card game. When blond, spiky-haired Yugi, a weak and unassuming teenager, solves the mysterious Millennium Puzzle, he is granted special powers that are activated... poker card game played in various forms throughout the world. Its popularity is greatest in North America, where it originated. It is played in private homes, in poker clubs, in casinos, and over the Internet. Poker has been called the national card game of the United States, and its
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"What is the next in this series: ""Lucky Town"", ""The Ghost of Tom Joad"", ""The Rising"", ""Devils & Dust"", ""We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions"", ""Magic"" ... ?"
Bruce Springsteen (Music) - TV Tropes Bruce Springsteen You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share WMG "Cuz tramps like us, baby, we were born to run." Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is one of the most notable singer-songwriters to come out of the 1970s . Perhaps his most well-known albums are Born to Run (1975) and Born in the USA (1984). Alongside his backing group the E Street Band, the membership of which has remained mostly constant throughout the years, Springsteen is best known for a "heartland rock" style that features themes of Americana, working-class desperation in an age of cynicism, and hope for a better life. Despite his associations with liberal politics and John Kerry in particular, his songs have sometimes been appropriated by conservative politicians, oftentimes without his permission. The most glaring example is the song "Born in the USA", which despite its title is not an unequivocal celebration of that country, but rather a condemnation of its treatment of Vietnam veterans. When Ronald Reagan tried to use the song for his reelection campaign in 1984, Springsteen famously told the President that he couldn't use it. Despite his most well-known work being produced in the '70s and '80s , he is still recording today. His latest album, High Hopes, was released in 2014. He also campaigned for Barack Obama during the 2008 American presidential campaign and performed at the inauguration. Springsteen is also notable for helping to launch Courteney Cox 's career when she appeared in his video for "Dancing in the Dark." , after reading the books to his son, and tried to get it into the movie. Studio discography Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1972)^ The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)^ Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)^ The River (1980)^ Born in the U.S.A. (1984)^ Tunnel of Love (1987)^ The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) The Rising (2002)^ We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006) Magic (2007)^ Working on a Dream (2009)^ Wrecking Ball (2012)^ ^=with the E Street Band "Tropes like us, baby we were born to run!": Academy Award : Won one for his 1993 song Streets of Philadelphia , the title tune of the film Philadelphia . Aesop Amnesia : In 1984, President Reagan famously wanted to use "Born in the USA" his campaign song, prompting Springsteen to note that the song's lyrics weren't quite as upbeat many people believed the chorus to be and that it was actually a mournful song about veterans (including some of Bruce's friends) who went through the Vietnam War. In a similar vein, Independence Day celebrations have often used the song. And Bruce will publicly have to explain once again how the song is about how poorly Vietnam veterans (and the working class in general) were treated. Age Progression Song : Arguably "Outlaw Pete", albeit slightly nastier than most of these usually are. All Drummers Are Animals : Averted with the chilled-out Max Weinberg, but the original E Street drummer, Vini Lopez, was nicknamed "Mad Dog". All Just a Dream : A verse in "Downbound Train" And Now For Something Completely Different : Nebraska was a departure: Three Chords and the Truth by Springsteen on his own instead of the earlier full band backing and dark, political songs. Not quite a New Sound Album , though, as it was followed by Born in the USA... We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Bruce put together an entirely new band and recorded a selection of traditional folk songs like "Old Man Tucker", "Eyes on the Prize", "John Henry" and "Mary Don't You Weep". The end product is one of his most rocking albums in recent years. Wrecking Ball proved to be quite a surprise for early listeners. Traces of gospel, Celtic folk, hip-hop beats and big horns collide in a messy combination, featuring some of his angriest lyrics in years. It just works. And Starring : When he introduces the members of the E Street Band in concert, he always saved saxophone player Clarence Clemons ("The Big Man") for last, usually shouting, "And last but not le
Parodies & Imitations | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] Novels and Comic Books The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007, sanctioned by Glidrose Productions , official Bond novel publishers, is a tongue-in-cheek guide to being a superspy. It was credited to "Lt.-Col. William 'Bill' Tanner" (a literary Fleming character), but was actually written by Kingsley Amis , who would later go on to write the Bond novel, Colonel Sun under another pseudonym, Robert Markham . The book's first hardcover edition had a false slipcover giving the title as The Bible to be Read as Literature (in the novel From Russia with Love , a fake book with this title hides a gun). Michael K. Frith and Christopher B. Cerf of the Harvard Lampoon wrote Alligator, by "I*n Fl*m*ng" in 1962. Another "J*mes B*nd" story titled "Toadstool" appeared in a Playboy magazine parody published by the Lampoon. Rumour has it this has not been reprinted because of plagiarism issues (some sections are very close to Fleming.) The cover of Alligator parodies the Signet Books paperback covers used for the Fleming novels in the 1960s, including a short Fl*m*ng biography, and a bibliography of nonexistent B*nd novels: Lightningrod, For Tomorrow We Live, The Chigro of the Narcissus, Toadstool, Doctor Popocatapetl, From Berlin, Your Obedient Servant, Monsieur Butterfly, and Scuba Do - Or Die. There exists a very short book titled Pussy L'amour and the Three Bears, starring James Bear. Although the book James Bond: The Legacy mentions it, one known copy exists, and belongs to the owner of Bondian.com. Sol Weinstein wrote four novels about Israel Bond, Agent Oy-Oy-Seven, beginning in 1965: (i) Loxfinger, (ii) Matzohball, (iii) In the Secret Service of His Majesty – the Queen, and (iv) You Only Live Until You Die. As with the Harvard Lampoon volumes mentioned above, the covers of the American editions of the first three Israel Bond books were also based upon the cover designs Signet Books used for Fleming's Bond novels. Cyril Connolly wrote the short story "Bond Strikes Camp", satirizing a homosexual relationship between M and Bond. William Henley Knoles, under the pseudonym "Clyde Allison", wrote a 20-novel series between 1965 and 1968, about Agent 0008, a thinly disguised version of Bond. The books were more stories of action and softcore S&M, than legitimate satire, but their scarcity makes them sought-after Bond collectibles. The series included: (i)Our Man From Sadisto, (ii) Our Girl From Mephisto, (iii) Nautipuss, (iv) Go-Go Sadisto, (v) The Desdamona Affair, (vi) Gamefinger, (vii) Sadisto Royale, (viii) 0008 Meets Gnatman, (ix) For Your Sighs Only, (x) The Lust Bomb, (xi) The Merciless Mermaids, (xii) Mondo Sadisto, (xiii) 0008 Meets Modesta Blaze (also parodying comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise), (xiv) The Sex-Ray, (xv) Roburta The Conqueress, (xvi) From Rapture With Love, (xvii) The Ice Maiden, (xviii) The Sin Funnel, (xix) Platypussy, and (xx) The Desert Damsels. An Agent 00004 appeared in the science fiction epic The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, published in the early 1970s. This character, named Fission Chips, is a somewhat dim-witted Englishman working for British Intelligence, taking orders from a superior named "W." He is obsessed with an organization known as " B.U.G.G.E.R. " which he might have completely fabricated. Bridge experts Philip and Robert King wrote a collection of bridge game-related short stories titled Your Deal, Mr. Bond; the title story features 007. (This shouldn't be confused with the official Bond novel, No Deals, Mr. Bond by John Gardner . Kim Newman's Anno Dracula novel Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha features a vampire agent of the Diogenes Club named "Hamish Bond". The segments of the novel featuring this character are filled with references to the James Bond novels and films, including chapters titled "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "From Bavaria with Love", "Live and Let Die" and "The Living Daylights". Bond's archenemy is a vampiric Blofeld , (although there's a twist), and an alteration in h
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The President of which African country resigned in February 2011 after widespread protests calling for his departure?
Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa -- country by country - CNN.com Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa -- country by country By the CNN Wire Staff STORY HIGHLIGHTS Protesters in Bahrain return to Pearl Roundabout Libyans continue protests despite violent crackdown, witnesses say The demonstrations started in Tunisia in December and have swept across region The leaders of Tunisia and Egypt have resigned amid mass protests RELATED TOPICS Iran (CNN) -- Two months ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor struck a match that started a fire that has spread throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East. Muhammad Bouazizi's self-immolation prompted anti-government protests that toppled regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. Here are the latest developments, including the roots of the unrest, as well as a look at previous events in affected countries. Saturday developments: LIBYA Protests continued to turn violent Saturday, however the death and injury toll is unclear. The government has not responded to repeated requests by news media outlets, including CNN, to allow reporters into the country. In Benghazi, witnesses reported bloody clashes with soldiers firing tear gas and bullets. A doctor treating the injured at Al Jala hospital said at least 30 people were killed, most of them from gunshot wounds to the head. Witnesses said protests had erupted in cities across the country, including al-Baida, Ajdabiya and Misratah, where anti-government protesters leaving noon prayers at a local mosque were confronted by demonstrators supportive of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Witnesses also said anti-Gadhafi protesters used a bulldozer to break through a wall at Alfadeel Abu-Omar military camp only to be fired upon as they retreated. A report aired on state-run Libyan television characterized demonstrators as saboteurs. Human Rights Watch reports that 84 people have been killed in Libyan demonstrations since Tuesday. The organization bases that estimate on telephone calls made to medical providers across the country. Roots of unrest: Protests in Libya, ruled by Gadhafi since a 1969 coup, began in January when demonstrators, fed up with delays, broke into a housing project the government was building and occupied it. Gadhafi's government responded with a $24 billion fund for housing and development. A month later, more demonstrations were sparked when police detained relatives of those killed in an alleged 1996 massacre at the Abu Salim prison, according to Human Rights Watch. High unemployment has also fueled the protests, as have anti-Gadhafi groups. BAHRAIN Thousands of Bahraini protesters returned to Pearl Roundabout on Saturday, two days after a deadly attack by security forces that left four dead and scores wounded. Crown Prince Salman ordered the military out of the center of the nation's capital and announced that protesters could remain there without fear of being attacked, a key demand demonstrators had made. The crown prince indicated he is deeply sorry for the deaths of protesters and said an investigation will be launched and that those responsible will be held accountable. Salman also said the government is willing to enter into talks with demonstrators. Roots of unrest: Protesters initially took to the streets of Manama on Monday to demand reform and the introduction of a constitutional monarchy. But some are now calling for the removal of the royal family, which has led the Persian Gulf island state since the 18th century. Young members of the country's Shiite Muslim majority have staged violent protests in recent years to complain about discrimination, unemployment and corruption, issues they say the country's Sunni rulers have done little to address. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights says authorities launched a clampdown on dissent in late 2010. It accused the government of torturing some human rights activists. YEMEN As Saturday's protests left six people wounded, President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the unrest on foreign agendas and a plot against Yemen's stability, according to the state-run Saba news agency. Hundred
Articles about Abidjan - latimes At least 60 dead in Ivory Coast stampede January 1, 2013 | By Robyn Dixon JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - At least 60 people died and about 200 were injured Tuesday in a stampede that followed a fireworks display at a football stadium in the Ivory Coast capital, Abidjan, according to emergency officials. Most of the dead and injured were children and teenagers. The stampede happened in the early hours of the morning as crowds were leaving the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium after a New Year's Eve fireworks display ended about 2 a.m. It is not known what triggered the stampede, officials said. Advertisement New Ivory Coast president faces divided country; fighting continues in Abidjan April 12, 2011 | By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times Ivory Coast's new leader took charge of a divided country Tuesday, facing continued fighting in some neighborhoods of its commercial capital and a growing humanitarian crisis. President Alassane Ouattara confronts the challenge of convincing skeptical opponents, including the 46% of the electorate who voted last fall for his rival, that he's not a stooge of France or the West and is strong enough to unite his African nation's disparate political forces. Nearly 2 million people were displaced by weeks of fighting when his rival, former President Laurent Gbagbo, refused to step down. WORLD New Ivory Coast president faces divided country; fighting continues in Abidjan April 12, 2011 | By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times Ivory Coast's new leader took charge of a divided country Tuesday, facing continued fighting in some neighborhoods of its commercial capital and a growing humanitarian crisis. President Alassane Ouattara confronts the challenge of convincing skeptical opponents, including the 46% of the electorate who voted last fall for his rival, that he's not a stooge of France or the West and is strong enough to unite his African nation's disparate political forces. Nearly 2 million people were displaced by weeks of fighting when his rival, former President Laurent Gbagbo, refused to step down. WORLD U.N., French troops strike military bases in Ivory Coast April 5, 2011 | By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times United Nations and French military helicopters in Ivory Coast attacked two military bases in Abidjan, along with the presidential palace and residence, undercutting Laurent Gbagbo's desperate fight to retain power after an election the international community says he lost. The attacks came as forces loyal to Gbagbo's rival, Alassane Ouattara, announced a big "final push" to drive him from office, with fighters gathering at the edge of Abidjan, the nation's sprawling commercial capital. NEWS 2 Zaire Officials Fired February 13, 1987 | Associated Press Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko has fired two high-ranking officials for what was described by Radio Zaire as a breach of party discipline. Kinshasa Gov. Mbuji Wa Mbombo and Vunduame To Pemako, the state commissioner for territorial administration, were relieved of their posts, the broadcast monitored in Abidjan said. It did not give details of their dismissal. WORLD At least 60 dead in Ivory Coast stampede January 1, 2013 | By Robyn Dixon JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - At least 60 people died and about 200 were injured Tuesday in a stampede that followed a fireworks display at a football stadium in the Ivory Coast capital, Abidjan, according to emergency officials. Most of the dead and injured were children and teenagers. The stampede happened in the early hours of the morning as crowds were leaving the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium after a New Year's Eve fireworks display ended about 2 a.m. It is not known what triggered the stampede, officials said. TRAVEL Success Story Sent From Ivory Coast June 8, 1986 | GENA REISNER, Reisner is a New York City free-lance writer. We entered the West African village of round thatched huts just before dusk and went first to greet the chief, an old, toothless man in a long robe, gracious and dignified. Then the panther dance began. Stran
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In the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsborough, what is the man carrying?
Thomas Gainsborough: a modern genius | Global | The Guardian Picture gallery: have your own private view of the exhibition Perdita - "the lost one" - sits in a mossy bower, on an earth ledge, alone except for her loyal Pomeranian dog. In her hand she holds a locket, opened to reveal the blurred face of George, Prince of Wales, who commissioned Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of his lover in 1781. Mary Robinson - nicknamed Perdita after her performance in The Winter's Tale at Drury Lane Theatre - was one of those self-invented individuals who made 18th-century Britain such an effervescent, commercial, cynical, corrupt, celebrity-conscious, shallow, competitive, socially mobile, dangerous place - a mirror of ourselves. Raised in seedy circumstances, she married one Thomas Robinson when she was 15. Within months, Thomas was imprisoned for debt and Mary had to fend for herself with three talents - for poetry, acting and sex. Her first book of poems was published in 1775. Her performing skills were noticed by the actor and theatre manager David Garrick. But it was her beauty, her way of carrying herself - she always had "a sort of dignified air", she said - that got her a string of male friends eager to help, libertines such as the politician Charles James Fox and playwright and manager of the Drury Lane Theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. When the love affair between Perdita and the Prince of Wales became public in 1780, she was the talk of the town - satirised in prints, gossiped about in Vauxhall Gardens and St James's Park; she quit the stage, threw away a promising career for her new role as royal mistress. And yet by the time George commissioned Gainsborough to paint her portrait, the affair was over - he had a new fling, and Perdita had lost everything: her acting career was wrecked, she was massively in debt and soon to be bounced between a string of high-profile lovers. Thomas Gainsborough, the artist who loved women, was the man to paint Perdita. Uninhibited about the eroticism of his culture, and at the same time someone with a heart, he was her perfect myth-maker. Not that he didn't have competition; she posed for all three of the leading portrait artists of the day - the slightly cheaper George Romney, then Gainsborough, then the most prestigious of all, Sir Joshua Reynolds, president of the Royal Academy. All three portraits hang today in the Wallace Collection in London, but Gainsborough's is in a class of its own. He communicates what her story was about - desire, glamour and loss. It's a strange, heady painting. She looks drugged, ecstatic, disengaged from the real, transported into a realm of fantasy. You have to look for only a few seconds to realise that this is not a realistic painting of a woman in a landscape; the trees and grass do not even attempt to imitate appearances. They are dream images - the trees have a deliciously light blue, sketchy quality, as if painted on silk, and the canopy of foliage around Perdita forms itself, as if by magic, into a natural enclosure. Nature has moulded itself to the shape of her feeling. It enfolds and decorates her, amplifies her thoughts. This is a modern painting, if the definition of modern art is that it acknowledges the subjective emotions of the artist rather than claiming to present eternal facts. Gainsborough's rival, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was a champion of permanent, classical values. Gainsborough was the opposite. He painted contingent, ephemeral pleasures - the shimmering stuff of Perdita's skirts, the blue ribbon over her creamy chest. Gainsborough longs for Perdita and in doing so, does something chivalrous - he paints on behalf of Mary Robinson rather than fulfilling the requirements of her ex-lover. George wanted the picture as a souvenir of his grand amour; a trophy to hang on the wall. But instead of giving him Mrs Robinson stuffed and mounted, Gainsborough dramatises her beauty, sensitivity, sexuality, expressing his own feelings about her and offering the prince visual evidence that he has made a mistake in casting her off. You idiot, Your Highness
Fashioning The Past: Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham 1775-1777 National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh There is an almost instantaneous visual association upon hearing the name Thomas Gainsborough with this painting. It is one of his most recognisable works, and for good reason. Not only does it capture Gainsborough's play on lightness against rich textures but also gives an insight into his inspirations as an artist. The sitter Mary Graham is also of interest, due to her engrossing and heartbreaking story.  Thomas Gainsborough was a British landscape and portrait painter in the 18th Century. He was born in Sudbury in 1727, to a father who manufactured and sold clothes, and a mother who had an interest in painting flowers. Gainsborough travelled to London to work at a Silversmiths, then with Hubert Gravelot, a pictorial engraver and the painter Francis Hayman. He began his work with paintings of landscapes which he preferred, but he started to study the skills of  portraiture as the commissions were more lucrative. Some of his earlier pieces such as Mr. and Mrs. Andrews c. 1748 combined landscape and portraiture, and gave him the opportunity to paint his beloved Suffolk. His fame gradually grew when he moved to Bath and he painted his most well-known work The Blue Boy, 1770. Despite Gainsborough declaring that he was 'sick of portraits', he produced more than 700 of them. His portraits of 18th Century British society are renowned for the close likeness of his sitters that he managed to achieve. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews c.1748 The Honourable Mary Cathcart was raised in Russia, her father was the 9th Baron Cathcart who was Ambassador to Catherine The Great. Upon her return to England she married the wealthy Scottish landowner Thomas Graham. Mrs Graham posed for this portrait a year after her wedding. Her beauty and gentle demeanour caught the attention of Gainsborough, who decided to paint her. Mrs Graham had tuberculosis and after 18 years of marriage she died whilst the couple were travelling in the South of France. Further tragedy struck when her casket was broken into by French soldiers, and her body was exposed and tampered with. After this, her husband wasn't able to look at the painting and gave it to Mary Graham's sister.  Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs. Graham 1775-1777 The beautiful and poignant painting highlights Gainsborough's light brushwork, which creates a graceful movement to the costume. The juxtaposition of the lightness of the painting with the rich folds and textures of the fabric is also eye-catching. Some of the costumes in Thomas Gainsborough's portraits were sometimes imagined, but quite often real. Regardless of this, he used fashion as a means of expressing the sitter's place in society. In the case of this painting, Mrs Graham's opulent clothes express her wealth and her high social standing. Her slenderness and height are also indicative of nobility and elegance. The richness and excess of her clothing doesn't create a stiffness often seen in 18th Century portraiture. Her soft expression and the ease of which Gainsborough painted her give an impression of elegance as opposed to ostentatious pomp. Historical fashion was often included in Gainsborough's work, showing not only the fashionability of his sitters but he used this as a tool to convey their wealth also. This can be seen in this portrait with 17th Century details including the plumed hat, high heeled shoes, pearl detailing, relaxed collar and ribbon on the sleeves. The silver and pink tones also show a move away from the previous darkness in colour of the past fashions.  The ostrich feather that Mrs Graham is holding is often seen in paintings in the Van Dyck style. Anthony Van Dyck was one of the most influential portraitists, with his elegant style being held as shaping the style of European portraiture into the 18th Century. Gainsborough studied the work of Van Dyck and this influence can be seen in the painting,
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Official Horseshoe Pitching Rules by the NHPA - Official Horseshoe Court Layouts - How to Play Horseshoes Official Horseshoe Pitching Rules by the NHPA NHPA Official Rules of Horseshoe Pitching Published by The National Horseshoe Pitchers Association (NHPA) (January 1, 2010) RULE 1 � PITCHING DIVISIONS Section A � Juniors (See REQUIREMENT 6, for exceptions and additional information) 1. Junior Cadets (any pitcher nine (9) years old or younger for the entire calendar year) Junior Cadets may pitch from any place on the extended or full-distance platforms and shall observe the twenty-foot (20�) foul line. Note: Junior Cadets may choose to move into the Junior Boys or Junior Girls prior to the age guidelines, but cannot return to the Junior Cadets, once this declaration has been made. 2. Junior Boys (any male pitcher eighteen (18) years old or younger for the entire calendar year) Junior Boys may pitch from any place on the extended or full-distance platforms. They shall observe the twenty-seven-foot (27�) foul lines. Note: Junior Boys may choose to move into the Open Men Division prior to the age guidelines, but cannot return to the Junior Boys, once this declaration has been made. 3. Junior Girls (any female pitcher eighteen (18) years old or younger for the entire calendar year) Junior Girls may pitch from any place on the extended or full-distance platforms. They shall observe the twenty-seven-foot (27�) foul lines. Note: Junior Girls may choose to move into the Open Women Division prior to the age guidelines, but cannot return to the Junior Girls, once this declaration has been made. Section B � Open Men (no age restriction) Open Men contestants shall pitch from on or behind the full-distance platforms and shall observe the thirty-seven-foot (37�) foul line. Section C � Open Women (no age restriction) Open Women contestants may pitch from any place on the extended or full-distance platforms and shall observe the twenty-seven-foot (27�) foul line. Section D � Seniors (become eligible to pitch in the Senior Division at any time during the calendar year that they become sixty (60) years old) Note: Seniors may choose to remain in the Open Men or Open Women Divisions. Senior Men shall pitch from on or behind the full-distance platforms and shall observe the thirty-seven-foot (37�) foul line. Senior Women may pitch from any place on the extended or full-distance platforms and shall observe the twenty-seven-foot (27�) foul line. Section E � Elder Men (become eligible to pitch in the Elders Division upon purchase of an NHPA card dated for* the calendar year that they become seventy (70) years old). *subject to approval at the 2010 NHPA Convention Elder Men may pitch from any place on either the extended or full-distance platforms, and shall observe the twenty-seven-foot (27�) foul line. Elder Men must notify their Charter secretary, in advance, of the date that they intend to begin pitching from this shorter distance. Once a member declares himself a short distance pitcher, he must remain a short distance pitcher for that entire calendar year. Alternately, if a member starts the year as a short distance pitcher, he may change to the Open Men�s Division, but must remain in that division for that entire calendar year. Note: See RULE 11, Section D.1 for additional information about re-qualifying. Physically Challenged Men � Physically challenged, male pitchers less than seventy (70) years old may be given permission, by their governing Charter, to move onto the extended platforms in the Elders Division and observe the twenty-seven-foot (27�) foul lines. The prior completion and approval of a Medical Exemption Form (available from Charter Secretaries) is required. At the World Tournament and at State Championship Tournaments, they shall compete in the Elders Division. RULE 2 � GAME PREPARATION Section A � Court Assignment Each contestant shall find his or her court assignment and warm up on that court for their first ga
"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 can be skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot oat, cigarette bottom, narrow-bottom, low waist, anti-fit, flared or distressed?
Jeans & Pants - fashion4gals.com fashion4gals.com Tops & Tees Jeans & Pants A day of pants shopping leaves most women exhausted and frustrated, and that is on a good day. Each brand seems to cut their pants differently, causing not only in common size issues but specific body part fit issues. Collective pants problems include gapping at the back of the waist, tight thighs, tight calves (with skinny jeans), uncomfortable rises, and length issues. The fact is pants represent the long, hard fight for women’s rights, so it’s vital that women stick with them. Learning about pants for different events and what materials are used makes it easier to select the right pair. Pants are now worn by women on just about every occasion, the only exceptions being brides, pageant competitors, and formal dance attendees, although some pioneering women are breaking down those walls as well. The point is there is a pair of pants out there to suit every situation. Pants can be worn on casual, business, and formal occasions as far as the material and complete appearance is in keeping with the situation. Women can get a great fit from their pants by aiming not only on size but also on the rise and the inseam or length. All three of these factors together give pants the perfect fit. Facts such as pockets, waistbands, cuffs, and linings make each style of pants unique. The key to buying great women’s pants is to know one’s measurements and to try pants on diligently until the veracious items are found. It is difficult to buy a pair of pants off the rack and know whether or not they will fit and flatter. Unfortunately, there is no magic key to make pants shopping easier for women, but knowing this offers many women the willpower to keep trying different pants until they get a garment that works for them. Jeans Pants Normally Jeans are trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Generally the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of pants, called "blue jeans," In present era, jeans remain a popular fashion item, and they come in several fits, including skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot cut, cigarette bottom, narrow bottom, low waist, anti-fit, and flare. "Distressed" (visibly aged and worn, but still intact and functional) jean trousers have become gradually fashionable, making pre-sale "factory distressing" a common feature in commercially sold jeans. As well, although jeans are commonly known as a fashion garment in the present time, they are still worn as protective wears by some individuals, such as cattle ranch workers and motorcycle riders, due to their high durability as compared to other common fabrics. Skinny Jeans Skinny jeans generally have a snug fit all the way through the legs and end in a small leg opening. Skinny leg jeans are also called as Cigarette, Drain Pipes, Carrot Leg, Peg Legs, Pencil Legs. This style of jeans was in fashion in the 1950's when many Hollywood stars wore them. Lately they have become more popular and are very trendy when worn with a pair of boots or scrunched at the ankles. Straight Jeans As the names suggests, Straight-Leg jeans are exact same. They are traditional and have been around 30 years in. They have a straight narrow leg which does not flare at the ankles. They are usually the same circumference from the knees to the hem. The major differences among straight leg jeans normally have to do with the length of the inseam. There are few styles that are a bit shorter and others that are a bit longer. Boot Cut Jeans Boot Cut Jeans will usually taper to the knee and then slightly flare out to accommodate a boot. This style of jeans became popular in the 1990's. Men's boot-cut and women's boot-cuts tend to be cut in different way. Women's jeans are usually tight to the knee and then flare out slightly to the hem while men's styles are usually flared all the way from crotch to hem. Normally women's Boot cut jeans are no larger than 1 to 2 inches difference in circumference from the knee to the leg opening although some manufacturers refer to a 3 to 4 inch difference as a boot cut. Flare aka Bell Bo
March 2014 – The Fat Word Shiloh Marie Leave a comment I am writing an article trying to address both sides of the body acceptance issue without requiring any direct confrontation between those involved. My goal is to shape an academic discussion free of logical fallacies. I first need a list of questions from those supporting fat acceptance/body positivity that they would like to see answered by people who disagree with/oppose the body acceptance movement. Once I get the list of questions, I will pose them to people who disagree. I am doing the same procedure with anti-FA supporters, getting questions from them to have you answer. Once I have questions and answers from both sides, I will compile them in an article. I am looking for questions that are not loaded and as anti-inflammatory as possible so as to promote a clear and academic dialogue. Your questions, when posed to others, will be completely anonymous. Questions for those opposed to the BA/FA movement(required)   Shiloh Marie 2 Comments Believe it or not, dear readers, but I don’t hate everything. There are certain things I am quite fond of, and I want to share some of them with you to help break up the repetitive, indignant ranting that makes up the bulk of the content on TFW. I can be positive! The constant hating just means the things I don’t hate are EXTRA rad. 1. Goodwill’s glorious accessories case Behold the majesty of the accessory case at Goodwill Most of my friends and acquaintances can attest to the fact that I am proud that my wardrobe is primarily thrifted. A lot of people scoff, thinking that those who wear secondhand clothing have mostly boho or shabby chic aesthetics, but I assure you — my shit looks PULLED TOGETHER, even though I wear an 18W/1X. There is surprising variety if you know how to look and what to look for. The key, however, is having something to tie the outfit together. One can dress relatively conservatively and still look fashionable with the addition of a few accessories. This is an area where the Goodwill in my neighborhood excels. In a fit of ennui (Can one have a fit of ennui? Or would it be more of a shrug?) I headed over to Goodwill in search of nothing in particular. I had been feeling mopey about myself, but didn’t have the scratch for a proper power shopping binge. What costs $3, fits in your hand, and is as versatile as a black t-shirt? A Goodwill necklace. What costs $12 and is four times better than a Goodwill necklace? FOUR Goodwill necklaces. 2. Edible lab experiments I love kombucha . As a gift, my wonderful friend Marianne gave me a kombucha home brew kit . I’ve been trying variations on the recipe. The first batch was a tasty success, though I don’t think I waited long enough for the second ferment to thoroughly carbonate the bottles. The second batch came into contact with some mold spores and needed to be disposed of. The third batch is currently bottled and in the second ferment stage. I just started a fourth batch this evening, this time with green tea instead of the standard black tea. I wish I had cooler glassware and some goggles so I could get my Dr. Horrible on. Fermenting and bottled black tea kombucha. YES, the jar has a picture of a Victorian woman with tentacle feet, and YES, it says Shibucha. Thanks, Marianne! The Goldfinch Kombucha kit Steeping green tea and adding sugar 3. Well-fitting bras As most plus-sized ladies know, we come in a variety of proportions that vary more extremely than our straight-sized counterparts. That makes finding clothes that much harder — big butts, round tummies, big boobs — no wonder plus-sized clothing is so boxy! It needs to be cut in such a way as to accommodate everyone’s lumps, bumps, and curves, no matter where they are. I personally have a pretty big differential between my bra band size and my cup size. I recently gained some weight, and when from a 36 G (that’s four Ds, people) to a 38 H. Now, I could still technically wear my old bras, though structurally they are designed for smaller boobs and the added strain is spread out through the muscles of my neck, sho
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On which BBC TV show did the plasticine character Morph first appear?
'Bring back Morph' campaign reaches target - BBC News BBC News 'Bring back Morph' campaign reaches target 6 November 2013 Close share panel Image caption Morph previously appeared in children's art shows Take Hart and Hartbeat A crowd-funding campaign to bring back clay character Morph for an online series has reached its target after eight days. Aardman Animations set up the £75,000 campaign on Kickstarter to help fund 12 new one-minute episodes. Morph was one of the first characters created by the company that later brought us Wallace and Gromit. Aardman co-founder Peter Lord said he was "humbled" and "terribly grateful" to all of their new backers. The campaign reached its 22 days ahead of schedule after 1,690 fans pledged amounts ranging from £1 to £5,000 in support. Lord said he was "completely amazed" by the reaction to the campaign to bring Morph back, which reached its target . "I had no sense that it might run this fast. There's a lot of affection out there, from a lot of people over a lot of years, because he's been going a long time," Lord said about the strength of feeling towards the character - named after his "metamorphosing capabilities". "There are people kind of my age, that watched it with their kids a long time ago and then there are the children and grandchildren of them. A lot of people have come to like him." Aardman hope to start production on the new episodes, and "get the Plasticine warmed up" in January. More episodes Lord said he hoped the success of the campaign would mean they could extend the project. "I think we can afford to keep on funding our half, so I guess the obvious thing is to make more episodes," he said. "I have to work out all the maths, but if we can make 15, if we can make 20, that would suit me down to the ground because that's the fun part for me." The Kickstarter project will remain open for the full 30-day funding period until 28 November for further pledges. Those who contribute are eligible to receive various rewards, including a DVD of all the episodes made and a box of clay from Aardman's model making department. They can also contribute story ideas for Morph episodes, although Lord admits he "can't help" thinking of his own. "I do think new technology will be fun, and a smartphone will be a great prop for Morph," he suggested. "In the past he's done surreal stuff where he had a picture frame and you raise the question, is that a portal to another world? I think you can do the same thing with the smartphone, getting stuck inside, I can imagine that." Lord continued: "Because him and his brother, or arch enemy or alter ego Chas are always squabbling, there might be some comedy to be got from the fact that one of them has a really rather old mobile. A phone duel, that sort of thing."
film dr who Villains From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Baltazar, Scourge of the Galaxy, is a space pirate in the animated Tenth Doctor serial, The Infinite Quest, featured as part of the second series of Totally Doctor Who in 2007, voiced by Anthony Head. Using enhanced rust, the Doctor destroyed the ship Baltazar had built, Baltazar having destroyed the entire Earth defence. With his space piracy, cybernetics, robot parrot, and desire to crush planets into precious gems, Baltazar bears a striking resemblance to The Captain. Beast From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Beast was an ancient being that had been trapped for millions of years in a pit at the centre of the planet named in the Scriptures of the Faltino as Krop Tor, orbiting the black hole designated K37 Gem 5 by humans. The centre of the planet, ten miles down, had a powerful energy source which was keeping it in constant gravitational balance against the pull of the black hole. The gravitational force also extended out as a funnel into clear space. The Beast claimed that he was the basis of the Devil-figure in all religions and mythologies, and originated from before this universe's creation. He had been defeated and trapped beneath the planet by the "Disciples of Light", who had crafted his prison such that if he ever freed himself, the gravitational force would collapse and the planet would be pulled into the black hole, destroying them both. The Beast was awakened when a human expeditionary force flew their ship through the funnel to land on the planet, hoping to drill down and claim the power source for their Empire. The Beast exhibited the ability to telepathically possess and speak through other beings, in particular the empathic Ood, who became his "Legion of the Beast". He was also able to divine the hidden fears and secrets of those he spoke to, unnerving them greatly. He also took the opportunity to possess Toby Zed, a human member of the expedition, while leaving his own body, a gigantic creature resembling a horned demon, still chained in the Pit at the heart of Krop Tor. In this way, he hoped to escape his prison. However, the Tenth Doctor smashed the power source containing the Beast's prison, causing Krop Tor to be dragged into the black hole and the Beast's original body to burst into flames. At the same time, while fleeing the planet in a rocket with the survivors of the expedition, Toby's possession manifested itself, angrily proclaiming that as long as he was feared, he could never be destroyed. However, Rose Tyler shot out the cockpit window with a bolt gun, causing the possessed Toby to be sucked into space towards the black hole. The Beast claimed that he had many names, among them Abaddon and Satan. It is unknown whether they are the same. Gabriel Woolf, who provides the Beast's voice, played Sutekh the Destroyer in the 1975 serial Pyramids of Mars, an entity who was also said to have been named Satan. In Torchwood episode End Days a similar giant creature named Abaddon is released from the Cardiff spacetime Rift and is referred to as the "son of the great Beast". The Torchwood website alludes to the Beast by asking "Were there other beings like Abaddon? Are they also entombed underneath planets across the universe?". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beep the Meep is a fictional alien who appeared in the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The cute and cuddly appearance of Beep the Meep — a round, furry biped with large, expressive eyes and long ears — belies his true nature as a malevolent, homicidal would-be conqueror and dictator. The canonicity of the comic strips, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear. Beep first appeared in the comic strip Doctor Who and the Star Beast, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner and drawn by Dave Gibbons, which ran in issues #19-#26 of Doctor Who Weekl
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Which 'A-road' connects London to Holyhead?
Trains Holyhead to London Euston - Train Timetables & Cheap Tickets Fastest route: 4 h 12 m Slowest route: 6 h 51 m Average Journey Time: 4 h Changes: 0 to 1 Train per day: Around 24 Train operators: Virgin Trains How long does it take to travel from Holyhead to London Euston by train? The average journey time between Holyhead and London Euston is 4 hours. The fastest journey time is 4 hours 12 minutes. On an average weekday, there are 24 trains per day travelling from Holyhead to London Euston. The journey time may be longer on weekends and holidays. Avg. Duration 4 h Are there direct trains from Holyhead to London Euston? Yes, it is possible to travel from Holyhead to London Euston without having to change trains. Use our journey planner above to get direct train times from Holyhead to London Euston. Direct What time are the first and last train from Holyhead to London Euston? The first train from Holyhead to London Euston departs at 05:48 . The last train from Holyhead to London Euston departs at 21:32 . No sleeper services are available. There may also be less services on weekends and public holidays; use the Journey Planner above to search for a specific train on your chosen travel date. First train
A55/Route - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki A55/Route Jump to: navigation , search The A55 is a major national trunk route of some length which is a dual carriageway trunk route for its entire length (except for a short stretch of wide single carriageway over the Britannia Bridge, and a tiny bit in Holyhead ). Section 1: Chester – Colwyn Bay The A55 at Bodelwyddan, with the Marble Church in the background The modern A55 starts where the M53 finishes , to the east of Chester, forming its Southern bypass, which at first runs parallel to the original A41 bypass. As the road circumnavigates Chester, it interchanges with the A51 , A41 , A483 , A5104 and A550 . At Ewloe, the road TOTSOs to the left, the A494 having the mainline through this junction, from the M56 , bringing with it the bulk of traffic. The A494 multiplexes with us for half a mile, before it heads off to the south (eventually terminating in Dolgellau). Unfortunately the multiplex is short and through traffic on both roads is dumped into the wrong lane by the junctions, thus necessitating a lot of weaving. We pass the first Gwasanaethau (Services) on the left. Most of the A55 is grade separated, and the early sections have a general motorway feel — it is easy to forget that fairly recently the A55 was a dog of a road, one long drag through one depressing Welsh village after another (Holywell, Abergele, others, with plenty of Llan-whatsits in there). After Holywell, there is a fantastic sheer drop off the Clwyd range of hills (at Rhuallt, just before St Asaph), then we travel along the St Asaph bypass — one of the first bits to be upgraded, and very substandard — narrow, twisty, noisy, this continues round Abergele, where the sea becomes visible; we now follow the coast for some distance. Section 2: Colwyn Bay – Bangor Before long we join the Colwyn Bay bypass — referred to elsewhere as a secret motorway. This stretch has special road regulations, which are the same regulations as used on motorways. Because of this the speed limit on the special road is signed as 70mph (50mph through the town centre, because of noise). The road, opened in 1985, runs through cuttings and on embankments through Colwyn Bay, on the landward side of the railway, with extensive retaining walls, and through a cut-and-cover tunnel under the forecourt of the railway station. West of the station is a 3 km stretch where the road occupies the original railway alignment; the railway, reduced from four to two tracks, was diverted onto a new alignment alongside, Pictures The A55 approaching Colwyn Bay The NO Sign on the Colwyn Bay bypass Before long we hit the A470 (Wales's Great North Road), and then the Conwy Bypass, with its superb snaking tunnel under the Conwy Estuary. Conwy is a pleasant little town, so much more now that it is not choked with traffic. The Conwy bypass opened in October 1991. The tunnel was constructed using the immersed tube technique, sections of the tunnel are sunk into place on the riverbed before being joined together. It was the first road tunnel of this type in the UK. The special road section ends west of the tunnel. The next section is rather spectacular, snaking along the coast of North Wales, wedged between the cliffs and the sea. You must use two tunnels, passing through headland. Westbound traffic takes newer tunnels, while Eastbound takes the coastal route. The first of these tunnels is Penmaenbach, the Westbound tunnel opened in 1989, while the older tunnel on the Eastbound coastal route dates from 1932. Here the road is so twisty and narrow travelling on the old alignment, that a 30mph speed limit is applied. There is an even older route around the coast that is now just a footpath. The second tunnel is the Pen-y-Clip tunnel, the newer Westbound tunnel opened in 1993, while the coast route opened in 1935. The original Penmaenbach tunnel The original Pen-y-clip tunnel There are two roundabouts on this section, one between the two tunnels at Penmaenmawr (the Puffin Roundabout), and another to the west of the Pen-y-clip tunnel, on the Llanfairfechan bypass
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What is the word for bending at least one knee to the ground, a gesture of deep respect for a superior that was introduced in 328 BC by Alexander the Great into his court, a practice then already followed in Persia?
Genuflection G Genuflection Genuflection (or genuflexion), bending at least one knee to the ground, was from early times a gesture of deep respect for a superior. In 328 BC, Alexander the Great introduced into his court etiquette some form of genuflection already in use in Persia. In the Byzantine Empire even senators were required to genuflect to the emperor. In medieval Europe, one demonstrated respect for a king or noble by going down on one knee. The Latin word genuflectio, from which the English word is derived, originally meant kneeling rather than the rapid dropping to one knee and immediately rising that became customary in Western Europe in the Middle Ages . Genuflecting to a bishop From the custom of genuflecting to kings and other nobles arose the custom by which lay people or clergy of lesser rank genuflect to a prelate and kiss his episcopal ring, as a sign of acceptance of the bishop's apostolic authority as representing Christ in the local church. Genuflecting before the bishop of the diocese to which one belongs was treated as obligatory in editions of the Caeremoniale Episcoporum earlier than that of 1985. In the same period, the clergy genuflected when passing before the bishop of the diocese when he presides at a liturgical ceremony. But the officiating priest, as also all prelates, canons, etc., were dispensed, and substituted a bow of the head and shoulders for the genuflection. The present Catholic liturgical books exclude genuflecting to a bishop during the liturgy: "A genuflection, made by bending the right knee to the ground, signifies adoration, and therefore it is reserved for the Most Blessed Sacrament, as well as for the Holy Cross from the solemn adoration during the liturgical celebration on Good Friday until the beginning of the Easter Vigil." But outside of the liturgy some continue to genuflect or kneel to kiss a bishop's ring. Genuflection to the Blessed Sacrament The practice of genuflecting to the Blessed Sacrament', in particular when arriving or leaving its presence, has grown up only in the Latin Rite Catholic Church, and even there is a relatively modern replacement for the profound bowing down of head and body that is still maintained in the East as the supreme act of liturgical reverence. It was only during the later Middle Ages that the practice of genuflecting to the Blessed Sacrament was introduced and gradually spread, becoming viewed as obligatory only from the end of the fifteenth century. 1502 has been given as the date of its formal recognition. For a long time after it became usual to raise the consecrated Host and Chalice after the Consecration so as to show them to the people, no obligatory genuflections accompanied it. The rule whereby before the Blessed Sacrament unveiled as at Expositions (but not when lying on the corporal during Mass) one genuflected on both knees was altered in 1973, with the introduction of the rule: "Genuflection in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, whether reserved in the tabernacle or exposed for public adoration, is on one knee." The General Instruction of the Roman Missal lays down the following rules for genuflections during Mass: Three genuflections are made by the priest celebrant: namely, after the showing of the host, after the showing of the chalice, and before Communion. Certain specific features to be observed in a concelebrated Mass are noted in their proper place. If, however, the tabernacle with the Most Blessed Sacrament is present in the sanctuary, the priest, the deacon, and the other ministers genuflect when they approach the altar and when they depart from the sanctuary, but not during the celebration of Mass itself. Otherwise all who pass before the Most Blessed Sacrament genuflect, unless they are moving in procession. Ministers carrying the processional cross or candles bow their heads instead of genuflecting. The Tridentine Mass requires more numerous genuflections to the Blessed Sacrament during Mass. Other genuflections in the liturgy Genuflection or kneeling is prescribed at various points of the Roman Rite litu
Poll system, 2 new trivia lists · Twentysix26/Red-DiscordBot@9ce74b6 · GitHub 75 trivia/2015.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +In China in 2015 the record for the longest mating session between two giant pandas was broken at?`18 minutes`18 mins +Ford claimed to launch the first 'e-(What?)' at the 2015 Mobile World Congress Show?`Bike +A 2015 intensive listening study discovered that giraffes actually?`Hum +Name the last US president to meet the leader of Cuba before Barack Obama did in 2015?`Eisenhower +Jay Z and Beyonce launched a music streaming service in 2015 called? `Tidal +At auction in 2015, $1.2m was paid for Don McLean's original handrwitten lyrics for which 1971 big hit song? `American Pie +In 2015 what global contest ruled against the use of swimsuits for its 114 competitors, for the first time since 1951 inception? `Miss World +Which vast tech corporation opened its first 'Nest' branded intelligent home store in Palo Alto California in 2015?`Google +In 2015 Japan lowered its voting age to what?`18`eighteen +The abbreviation MERS, significantly impacting South Korea 2015, is otherwise known as?`Camel Flu +Christian is the lead character in the film 2015 adaptation of what extraordinarily successful book?`Fifty Shades of Grey`50 shades of grey +Who stepped down as chief of 21st Century Fox in 2015?`Rupert Murdoch`murdoch +In 2015 a new North Korean schools curriculum reportedly included that leader Kim Jong-un learnt to drive at age?`3`three +Which car company launched the Avensis model in 2015?`Toyota +In 2015 evidence of water was found on which planet?`Mars +Which 'BRIC' country launched the Astrosat space lab in 2015?`India +Who won the 2015 men's tennis French Open?`Stan Warwinka`warwinka +What company launched the S6 Edge smartphone?`Samsung +Which leading professional networking tech corporation, whose main revenue is selling user access/details to recruiters, bought the Lynda learning company for $1.5bn in 2015?`Linkedin`linked in +'Dismaland' was the temporary theme park/exhibition of which famous 'anonymous' artist?`Banksy +Matthais Muller was made chief of which troubled car company in 2015?`Volkswagen`vw +In 2015 the World Anti-Doping Agency suggested banning which nation from the 2016 Olympics?`Russia +The game of Monopoly celebrated what anniversary in 2015?`eighty`80`80th +Name the Princess born 4th in succession to the British throne in 2015, to Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?`Charlotte +The 2015 Mad Max movie is sub-titled?`Fury Road`mad max: fury road`mad max fury road +The Magna Carta, signed in London, and inspiring constitutional rights globally thereafter, was how many years old in 2015?`eight hundred`800 +In 2015 the Sinabug volcano erupted in what country?`Indonesia +Olav Bjortmont became 2015 world champion in?`Quizzing`quiz +Lars Lokke led his centre-right party to 2015 government election victory in what country?`Denmark +Blackberry's new phone for 2015 was called the...?`Priv +Facebook's new music sharing/streaming feature launched in 2015 was called "Music... "?`Stories +Eddie Jones was appointed head coach of which English sporting team in 2015?`Rugby Union`rugby +According to 2015 survey what fruit was most popular among USA children?`Apples`apple +Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey celebrated what birthday in 2015?`49`fourty-nine`fourty nine`49th +Jon Snow was killed off in what TV series in 2015, adapted from GRR Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?`Game of Thrones +Finance minister Yanis Yaroufakis caused comment for not wearing a tie in February 2015 when negotiating the debts for which nation?`Greece +What nation hosted the 2015 Women's World (soccer) Cup?`Canada +What iconic equine-alluding company, in countless books/films/cowboy holsters, filed for bankruptcy in 2015?`Colt +Due to a 2015 contamination scandal in India/Afica, which corporation destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi noodles?`Nestle +How many years old was the McDonalds fast food company in 2015?`60`sixty +It was announced in 2015 that Alexander Hamilton would be replaced on?`$10 bill`$10`tendollars`ten dollar bill`ten
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What is the name of the English law that prevents anyone building so as to completely cut out light from a window that had provided light for at least 20 years?
Easements Easements: What is an easement? An easement is a right benefiting one parcel of land (known as the dominant tenement) that permits the rightful users (not necessarily solely the owner) of that land to perform specified actions over a neighbouring parcel of land (known as the servient tenement). Probably the most commonly used easement is one that allows the underground services (water, drainage, gas, electricity, telephone and TV cables, etc) of one property to pass beneath the land of one or more neighbouring properties. Perhaps the most widely known easement is the private right of way. There are others, such as the right to light, right of support. Usually the "rightful user" referred to in the preceding paragraph is the owner of the dominant tenement. In the case of a private right of way it is anyone with a legitimate purpose for visiting the land (which could be the rightful owner, his immediate family who live there, any servants or staff who work there, anyone visiting the land for social or business or duty reasons). This explains why the postman (for example) may make use of the private right of way even though he does not own the dominant tenement. An easement may be created in a number of ways. One is by express grant . In this case there may be a Deed of Grant that states the terms of the easement, or the grant may take the form of a clause in a conveyance deed or a transfer deed. An easement may be created of necessity. Thus a parcel of land will have a right of way of necessity over a road, track or path leading to it if that route is the only means of access between the public highway and that parcel of land. An easement may also be created by prescription. This happens when someone carries out an act (that is capable of being an easement) repeatedly, openly and without the (potentially servient) landowner's permission for a period of at least twenty years. If a parcel of land is sold together with an expressly granted easement then that parcel becomes the dominant tenement that has rights over neighhbouring land. At the same time, if the vendor of that same parcel of land reserves a right over the land being sold then it is also a servient tenement burdened with the rights reserved for the vendor's retained land. If there is a doubt as to whether or not an easement exists then the law tends to favour the existence of the easement. As the Law of Property Act 1925 puts it: "62.(1) A conveyance of land shall be deemed to include and shall ... operate to convey, with the land, all ... liberties, privileges, easements, rights, and advantages whatsoever, appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land, or any part thereof, or, at the time of the conveyance ... enjoyed with or reputed or known as ... appurtenant to the land or any part thereof. " An easement cannot be created as a result of an illegal act. Thus the driving of motor vehicles across common land does not create a private right of way. An easement is very difficult to extinguish and should be thought of as existing forever. The land of the servient tenement is burdened with the easement. The owner of the dominant tenement should not forget that the owner of the servient tenement has a right to the peaceful enjoyment of his land and the legitimate development of his land, and the performance of the easement should not interfere with the servient owner's peace nor prevent him from exercising his right to develop his land (provided that the development caters for the easement). An easement is said to "run with the land", i.e. it cannot be sold separately from the land but must be passed on with the land whenever the land is transferred to a new owner.   A right to pass and re-pass along a privately owned road, or across privately owned land is one form of easement. It is discussed separately at Private Rights of Way   A right for a landowner to park a car anywhere in a defined area nearby is capable of existing as an easement. This is discussed separately at Other neighbour disputes   Right of Support
British Women's Emancipation since the Renaissance British Women's Emancipation since the Renaissance {See also Custody of children } Divorce According to one source, 'There is ground for supposing that in the early periods of English law a divorce might be had by mutual consent. When, however, A.D.1215, Pope Innocent III elevated the ceremony to the dignity of a sacrament, the Ecclesiastical Courts asserted and obtained exclusive jurisdiction over it.' Prior to 1670, people could only get a divorce if they could prove to the ecclesiastical courts that their marriage never happened legally in the first place. The courts followed canon (religious) law. The normal reasons for divorce were insanity, heresy, consanguinity and impotence. Some people believe that divorce could be granted to just one party without the spouse's knowledge, but that has never been the case. The spouse is always notified of the intent and can challenge the divorce or consent to it. The Pope was the ultimate authority on granting divorce. King Henry VIII, in 1533, is likely the most notorious divorce. This was granted by the head of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury. A man could get a divorce if his wife was unfaithful, even just once. No woman could get a divorce even if her husband had a different woman each night AND kept a string of mistresses. She had also to prove that he was guilty of incest, bigamy or 'unnatural vice'. Unsurprisingly, only four British women had ever obtained a divorce, compared with 318 men. In 1670, English law allowed a spouse to bring an action for "criminal conversation" to establish adultery, then obtain a divorce a mensa et thoro (from bed and board) from the church and then finally to petition the House of Lords to grant the divorce. Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753, set aside the old Common Law marriages and required a wedding in an approved church or chapel. Marriage was considered to be the very basis of society, something to be held together no matter what. Until 1923 the sole ground for divorce was adultery. A wedding ring such as tungsten wedding bands was used to symbolize the union. This meant that even if her husband beat her daily for fifty years, starved her, locked her in the house, gouged out both her eyes with a red hot poker or jumped on her belly until she miscarried, broke her bones time and again, no working class wife could get a divorce. {Read more about the Victorian wife beating epidemic here ) But if she had a single sexual liaison with another man, her husband had legal grounds to divorce her, keep any money she brought into the marriage, and prevent her from ever seeing her children again, for the rest of her life. Rich women who could prove their husbands' adultery and cruelty could obtain 'a divorce a mensa et thoro' (from bed and board) for £1,500. This was a legal separation with no right of remarriage. Lewis Dillwyn MP, in reply to a suggestion that there should be cheaper divorce, said 'that was a very large question, affecting the social and domestic relations of the whole people, and one which required very grave consideration.' He approved of it because separating persons who were ill matched might reduce wife beating. But making violence grounds for divorce was 'holding out a direct inducement to commit the assaults', and it would not help 'concubines' - women living with men outside of marriage, of whom there were many thousands among the working classes. Mr Muntz MP believed the cause of wife beating among the working classes 'was the impossibility there was, under any circumstances, of man and wife ever being separated from each other.'Source: Hansard From 1878 a wife could obtain a separation order on the grounds of her husband's persistent cruelty, if she was convicted of an aggravated assault upon her. This gave her an incentive to report his violence to the police, because it could be her means of escape. In 1902 the husband's habitual drunkenness was added to the grounds for legal separation. During the years 1895-99 there was an ann
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What salty lake is located at 1,388 ft below sea level?
10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Dead Sea «TwistedSifter     The Dead Sea , also known as the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. It’s a hypersaline lake that is truly one of Earth’s unique places. Below you will find ten interesting facts along with a gallery of picture of this fascinating place. All information below via Wikipedia , enjoy!   Photograph by Dieter Manske   1. The surface and shores of the Dead Sea are 423 metres (1,388 ft) below sea level, making it Earth’s lowest elevation on land.   Photograph by David Shankbone   2. The Dead Sea is 377 m (1,237 ft) deep, making it the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. A hypersaline lake is a landlocked body of water that contains significant concentrations of sodium chloride or other mineral salts, with saline levels surpassing that of ocean water.   Photograph by Indyblue on Flickr   3. With 33.7% salinity, the Dead Sea is one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water. Although Lake Assal (Djibouti), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond) have reported higher salinities.   Photograph by Pete   4. The Dead Sea’s unusually high salt concentration means that people can easily float in the Dead Sea due to natural buoyancy. In this respect the Dead Sea is similar to the Great Salt Lake in Utah in the United States.   Photograph by Wilson44691   5. The Dead Sea is roughly 8.6 times saltier than the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which animals cannot flourish (hence its name). The high salinity prevents macroscopic aquatic organisms such as fish and aquatic plants from living in it, though minuscule quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present.   Photograph by Mr. Kris on Flickr   6. 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.   Photograph by Ian Bothwell on Flickr   7. The Dead Sea area has become a major center for health research and treatment for several reasons. The mineral content of the water, the very low content of pollens and other allergens in the atmosphere, the reduced ultraviolet component of solar radiation, and the higher atmospheric pressure at this great depth each have specific health effects.   Photograph by NASA Earth Observatory   8. Biblically, the Dead Sea was a place of refuge for King David. 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 for fertilizers.   Photograph by MarkGuitarPhoto on Flickr   9. An unusual feature of the Dead Sea is its discharge of asphalt. From deep seeps, the Dead Sea constantly spits up small pebbles and blocks of the black substance. Asphalt coated figurines and bitumen coated Neolithic skulls from archaeological sites have been found. Egyptian mummification processes used asphalt imported from the Dead Sea region.   Photograph via New 7 Wonders of Nature   10. 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.
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Which series saw Ben Wishaw as a gay man whose new partner is murdered?
Thinking Telly | Some thoughts on thoughtful television Some thoughts on thoughtful television Menu Leave a reply Oh the delicious thrill of a handsome and classically-trained English actor working his way across a sprawling drama set in sumptuous locales. Never mind that the plot, like so many British adaptations of spy thrillers – think Worricker Trilogy and London Spy — makes little sense.  You can’t take your eyes off our hero and you lean closer to hear when he says “I hope the weather wasn’t too ghastly.”  That’s the power of Tom Hiddleston’s performance in the AMC-BBC collaboration The Night Manager a short series based on a LeCarre story. Hugh Laurie of House fame (and wealth) plays arms dealer Richard Roper who has for decades escaped British agent Angela Burr played by the excellent Olivia Colman.  Roper crosses paths with Jonathan Pine played by Hiddleston (Thor, The Avengers, Crimson Peak) an ex-soldier and night manager at a Cairo hotel.  At the hotel. a beautiful woman with whom Pine has connected is murdered as a result of an arms deal.  Enter Angela Burr, played by Olivia Colman, a shoved aside agent fighting at cross purposes within the British government to bring Roper down. Burr recruits Pine and we are off to the sunny climes of Roper’s world in Turkey, Switzerland, Morocco, Spain and again Egypt. Laurie is fine but not great. His acting is a bit self-conscious and he relies on facial tics and expressions during gaps in dialogue.  He is not quite good enough to overcome the silly plot holes. What man would lock Hiddleston in with his gorgeous blonde American girlfriend at a sun-drenched luxury villa and not come home expecting trouble? Burr’s whose work in Broadchurch, Run, and W1A, has rightly earned her a devoted following is wonderful as the pregnant and put upon British agent.  She carries her scenes even though thee are other excellent supporting actors in them. Alas, the plot is the real weakness. Ludicrously, there is literally a list of illegal arms Roper is buying hidden is a drawer which is copied for Burr and passed around a corrupted MI5 with whispers akin to “You can’t mention you saw this to any one in the British government working with the arms dealer Roper because it will definitely get my source killed . . .” You shouldn’t watch this for plot. You watch it for the mood, the acting, the scenery. The cinematography is breathtaking. It surely makes you question those Jersey shore vacation plans.   And Hiddleston makes you question every director’s casting decision when it doesn’t involve a dashing RADA graduate. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Leave a reply All the hip hop about Hamilton has drawn me into a torrent of books about the founding fathers. The eyestrain reminded me that there was an old and much ballyhooed HBO series eponymously named for its subject – our second President whose single term was rapped up in Hamilton by Jefferson as “Adams shat the bed… I love the guy, but he’s in traction.” Too bad the miniseries isn’t in much better shape. Paul Giamatti plays Adams with an unnervingly modern spirit. He is irascible, dour, foppishly petulant to the point of insult at the French court, cold and unforgiving to his disappointing children and befriended only by his wife Abigail – played by the predictably mannered Laura Linney — and at times, by Thomas Jefferson played wonderfully by Stephen Dillane. You don’t like Giamatti’s Adams. You are glad he is undone by Jefferson, secretly, and Hamilton, openly. His defeat in the election of 1800 is portrayed as a result of a peace treaty with Napoleon that came just a bit too late for the electors. In reality, Adams made many, many mistakes and had too few allies and too many powerful enemies. HBO wants you to believe Adams pulled off the Declaration of Independence almost alone and was undone by bad luck. Really he comes off as undeserving of the Presidential office to which he is elected. The writing piles on the unforgiveable character flaws making it hard to like him. It makes it appear that Adams abandoned his children pe
Inspector Morse Inspector Morse Last Bus to Woodstock (1975) Created by Edit Block Morse (left) as played by John Thaw in the television adaptation, with Lewis (right) as played by Kevin Whately. Inspector Morse is a fictional character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same name, in which the character was portrayed by John Thaw. Morse is a senior CID (Criminal Investigation Department) officer with the Thames Valley Police in Oxford, UK. With a Jaguar car (originally a Lancia), a thirst for British real ale and a penchant for music (especially opera and Wagner), poetry, art, classics, classic cars, and cryptic crossword puzzles, Morse presents a likeable persona, despite his sullen temperament. Name and family Edit Block Morse's first name, "Endeavour", was kept a secret until the end of Death is Now My Neighbour (traditionally Morse claimed that he should be called "Morse" or joked that his first name was "Inspector"). In the series it is noted that his reticence about his Christian name led to a public school (Stamford School, where Colin Dexter and his brother were both pupils) nickname of "Pagan". The origin of his name is the vessel HMS Endeavour, as Morse's mother was a Quaker (Quakers have a tradition of "virtue names") and his father was a fan of Captain James Cook. The author of the Morse novels, Colin Dexter, is a fan of cryptic crosswords, and Morse is named after champion solver Jeremy Morse, one of Dexter's arch-rivals as a clue-writer in the crossword world. During the episode "Cherubim and Seraphim", it is learned that Morse's parents divorced when he was 12. He remained with his mother until her death three years later, when he had to return to his father. He had a dreadful relationship with his stepmother, Gwen, and claimed he only read poetry to annoy her and that her petty bullying almost drove him to suicide. He has a half-sister, Joyce, with whom he is on better terms, and was devastated when Joyce's daughter, Marilyn, took her own life. Habits and personality Edit Block Morse is ostensibly the embodiment of white, male, upper-middle-class Britishness, with a set of prejudices and assumptions to match. He may thus be considered a late example of the gentleman detective, a staple of British detective fiction. This background is in sharp juxtaposition to the working class origins of his assistant, Lewis (named for another rival clue-writer, Mrs. B. Lewis); in the novels, Lewis is Welsh, but this was altered to a northern English (Geordie) background in the TV series. He is also middle-aged in the books. Morse's relationships with authority, the establishment, bastions of power and the status quo are markedly ambiguous, as sometimes are his relations with women. Morse is frequently portrayed in the act of patronising women characters, to the extent that some feminist critics have argued that Morse is a misogynist. Fundamentally, however, he is portrayed as a compassionate and egalitarian figure. Morse is an extremely intelligent individual. He dislikes spelling errors and grammatical mistakes, demonstrated by the fact that in every personal or private document written to him he manages to point out at least one spelling mistake. He claims his approach to crime-solving is deductive and one of his key tenets is that "there is a 50 per cent chance that the last person to see the victim alive was the murderer". In reality, it is the pathologists who deduce; Morse uses immense intuition and his fantastic memory to get to the killer. Career Edit Block Although details of Morse's career are deliberately kept vague, it is hinted that as a schoolboy he won a scholarship to study at St John's College, Oxford. He lost the scholarship as the result of poor academic performance, which in turn resulted from a failed love affair (mentioned in the series at the end of "The Last Enemy" and in the novel The Riddle of the Third Mile). Forced to leave the University, he entered the Army, and on leaving it, joined th
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What is the technical term for measles?
Measles - definition of measles by The Free Dictionary Measles - definition of measles by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/measles Related to measles: rash , measles vaccine mea·sles n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. a. An acute, contagious viral disease, usually occurring in childhood and characterized by eruption of red spots on the skin, fever, and catarrhal symptoms. Also called rubeola. b. Black measles. c. Any of several other diseases, especially German measles, that cause similar but milder symptoms. 2. A condition of pork or beef caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae. 3. A plant disease, usually caused by fungi, that produces small spots on leaves, stems, or fruit. [Middle English maseles, mesels, pl. of masel, measles-spot, of Middle Low German origin.] measles (ˈmiːzəlz) n (functioning as singular or plural) 1. (Pathology) a highly contagious viral disease common in children, characterized by fever, profuse nasal discharge of mucus, conjunctivitis, and a rash of small red spots spreading from the forehead down to the limbs. Technical names: morbilli or rubeola See also German measles 2. (Veterinary Science) a disease of cattle, sheep, and pigs, caused by infestation with tapeworm larvae [C14: from Middle Low German masele spot on the skin; influenced by Middle English mesel leper, from Latin misellus, diminutive of miser wretched] mea•sles n. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a. an acute infectious disease caused by a paramyxovirus, characterized by small red spots, fever, and coldlike symptoms, usu. occurring in childhood; rubeola. b. any of certain other eruptive diseases, esp. rubella. 2. a. a disease mostly of domestic swine caused by tapeworm larvae in the flesh. b. the larvae. [1275–1325; alter. of maseles (pl.), probably < Middle Dutch masel; akin to German Masern measles, pl. of Maser speck] mea·sles (mē′zəlz) A highly contagious disease that is caused by a virus and usually occurs in childhood. Symptoms include fever, coughing, and a rash that begins on the face and then spreads to other parts of the body. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Pertussis | Whooping Cough | Home | CDC ShareCompartir Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory disease. It is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Pertussis is known for uncontrollable, violent coughing which often makes it hard to breathe. After fits of many coughs, someone with pertussis often needs to take deep breaths which result in a "whooping" sound. Pertussis can affect people of all ages, but can be very serious, even deadly, for babies less than a year old. The best way to protect against pertussis is by getting vaccinated. English | en Español
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What style of architecture is distinguished by extravagant ornamentation, and applies particularly to the decadent style that flourished in Italy in the 16th to 18th centuries?
Realism | Article about realism by The Free Dictionary Realism | Article about realism by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/realism Also found in: Dictionary , Thesaurus , Medical , Legal , Financial , Wikipedia . realism, in art, the movement of the mid-19th cent. formed in reaction against the severely academic production of the French school. Realist painters sought to portray what they saw without idealizing it, choosing their subjects from the commonplaces of everyday life. Major realists included Gustave Courbet Courbet, Gustave , 1819–77, French painter, b. Ornans. He moved to Paris in 1839 and studied there, learning chiefly by copying masterpieces in the Louvre. An avowed realist, Courbet was always at odds with vested authority, aesthetic or political. ..... Click the link for more information. , J. F. Millet Millet, Jean François, 1814–75, French painter. He was born into a poor farming family. In 1837 an award enabled him to go to Paris, where he studied with Delaroche. ..... Click the link for more information. , and Honoré Daumier Daumier, Honoré , 1808–79, French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor. Daumier was the greatest social satirist of his day. Son of a Marseilles glazier, he accompanied his family to Paris in 1816. There he studied under Lenoir and learned lithography. ..... Click the link for more information. . In a broader sense the term is applied to an unembellished rendering of natural forms. In recent years realism has come to mean the presentation of forms and materials that are simply themselves, not primarily representations of things that already exist. realism, in literature, an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Although realism is not limited to any one century or group of writers, it is most often associated with the literary movement in 19th-century France, specifically with the French novelists Flaubert Flaubert, Gustave , 1821–80, French novelist, regarded as one of the supreme masters of the realistic novel. He was a scrupulous, slow writer, intent on the exact word (le mot juste) and complete objectivity. ..... Click the link for more information.  and Balzac Balzac, Honoré de , 1799–1850, French novelist, b. Tours. Balzac ranks among the great masters of the novel. Of a bourgeois family, he himself later added the "de" to his name. ..... Click the link for more information. . George Eliot Eliot, Charles William, 1834–1926, American educator and president of Harvard, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1853. In 1854 he was appointed tutor in mathematics at Harvard and in 1858 became assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry. ..... Click the link for more information.  introduced realism into England, and William Dean Howells Howells, William Dean, 1837–1920, American novelist, critic, and editor, b. Martins Ferry, Ohio. Both in his own novels and in his critical writing, Howells was a champion of realism in American literature. ..... Click the link for more information.  introduced it into the United States. Realism has been chiefly concerned with the commonplaces of everyday life among the middle and lower classes, where character is a product of social factors and environment is the integral element in the dramatic complications (see naturalism naturalism, in literature, an approach that proceeds from an analysis of reality in terms of natural forces, e.g., heredity, environment, physical drives. The chief literary theorist on naturalism was Émile Zola, who said in his essay Le Roman expérimental ..... Click the link for more information. ). In the drama, realism is most closely associated with Ibsen Ibsen, Henrik , 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet. His early years were lonely and miserable. Distressed by the consequences of his family's financial ruin and on his own at sixteen, he first was apprenticed to an apothecary. ..... Click the link for more information. 's social plays. Later writers felt that realism laid too much emphasis on external reality. Many, notably Henry James James, Henry,
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Who won the 2002 FA Cup?
KryssTal : Football (FA Cup) FA Cup founded as knockout tournament for amateur clubs 1883 First FA Cup win by professional club (Blackburn Olympic) 1884 First club from outside England to reach the final (Queen's Park) 1889 League began - First FA Cup / League double (Preston North End) 1897 Second FA Cup / League double (Aston Villa) 1901 Only FA Cup win by non-league club since League began (Tottenham Hotspur) 1923 FA Cup final moved to Wembley 1927 Only FA Cup win by a club from outside England (Cardiff City) 1946 Two-legged ties for one season after the end of World War 2 1961 Third FA Cup / League double (Tottenham Hotspur) 1971 Fourth FA Cup / League double (Arsenal) 1986 Fifth FA Cup / League double (Liverpool) 1993 First FA Cup / League Cup double (Arsenal) 1994 Sixth FA Cup / League double (Manchester United) 1996 7th FA Cup / League double (Manchester United) 1998 8th FA Cup / League double (Arsenal) 1999 Unique FA Cup / League / European Cup treble (Manchester United) 2001 FA Cup final moved to Cardiff while Wembley rebuilt Unique treble of FA Cup / League Cup / UEFA Cup (and Second FA Cup / League Cup double) (Liverpool) 2002 10th FA Cup / League double (Arsenal) 2005 First FA Cup final decided on penalties (Arsenal) 2006 Second consecutive FA Cup final decided on penalties (Liverpool) 2007 FA Cup final returned to Wembley The third FA Cup / League Cup double (Chelsea)
FA Cup final 2009: Everton dared to dream of beating Chelsea - Telegraph Chelsea FA Cup final 2009: Everton dared to dream of beating Chelsea For 20 minutes most of England dreamed. They dreamed that there was still magic in the FA Cup, they dreamed that the workers could overthrow the plutocrats. Not their day: the Everton fans were hoping of an upset after Louis Saha scored after 25 seconds Photo: PA By Mark Reason 11:27PM BST 30 May 2009 They dreamed that there was still a point to the world's oldest cup competition. Then Didier Drogba appeared like the dark lord in the middle of Everton's mortal defence and put an end to such fanciful nonsense. When Louis Saha had scored the fastest goal in FA Cup history after just 25 seconds it was like the hope diamond. The Everton fans surged up. All the way to Wembley they had sung their songs in vocal defiance of Chelsea's pitifully muted support. But now they really believed. They believed it was possible to beat a richer and better team. The Everton players ran around like wild men. When has Saha ever worked this hard. Steven Pienaar was heroic and Marouane Fellaini was giving Chelsea no end of bother. Then little by little, Everton started to come apart at the seam. It was the right hand seam of the team and it was starting to fray. Related Articles Terry denies Makelele claims 29 May 2009 You wouldn't wish it on anyone but Tony Hibbert, the Everton right back, was freezing in the sunshine. Slow to see the problem Phil Neville was not covering far enough across from his central position and Leon Osman was not working hard enough to get back. It proved Everton's downfall. Once again Chelsea found room down their left and Florent Malouda, the game's outstanding player, curled in a cross that Drogba headed in. That was it. Everton's manager David Moyes tried to plug the gap at half-time. He pulled Hibbert off, told Osman to sit deeper and moved Neville further across, filling in for his captain with Fellaini. Futile. It was like building the Thames barrier out of Lego. Even the switch contributed, in a mocking way, to Chelsea's winning goal. When Frank Lampard turned on the edge of the box Neville would have been there in the first half. But having to scramble across from his wider position, he was wrong footed and Lampard does what he does best. Shoot. The sight of Roman Abramovich smiling like the white witch will have done little to soften the misery of the Everton fans as Chelsea crushed their team and powered on to deserved victory. But at what cost to football. There was a posse of Everton fans heading towards the stadium before the start wearing blue T-shirts with the script: "Rage like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable number, shake your chains to earth like dew, which in sleep had fallen on you, ye are many, they are few." It's not often you walk down Wembley Way and get an eyeful of Percy Bysshe Shelley, but you could see where the northern lads were coming from. There was hardly a Chelsea fan in sight in the hours leading up to the kick-off. They were probably all still in the boozers off the King's Road. The Chelsea fans were the few. There seemed a feeling of "just another cup final" coming out of West London. The fans just about turned up in time for kick-off, sending a huge blue "Chelsea FC Thank You Guus" rippling across their outstretched hands, but they didn't have a lot to say for themselves. When the London Gospel Community Choir, decked out in the type of white suits that Liverpool players used to wear to Cup finals, gave a thrilling rendition of Abide with me it almost sounded like a personal plea from Abramovich. Unfortunately a lot of neutrals, who used to love the strollers from Stamford Bridge in the days of Charlie Cooke and Peter Osgood, can't abide Chelsea any more. They can't abide the fact that the FA Cup has been turned into the personal property of the big four. Once the glory of English football, the FA Cup is now a second rate, four team play-off that lags f behind the Champions League. OK, so occasionally miracles do happen. Last y
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What Roald Dahl story was about a genius girl with telekinesis?
Precociousness and Telekinesis: Matilda | Tor.com Precociousness and Telekinesis: Matilda Mari Ness Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:00pm 2 comments Matilda , published in 1988, is one of Roald Dahl’s longest and most intricate novels for children. The story of a highly precocious little girl who slowly develops powers of telekinesis, it focuses more on issues of destiny, education and employment than his usual subjects of wordplay, terror and disgusting things, though the book still has more than one incident that will delight kids who love disgusting things more than it will adults. Richer and more questioning than most of his other novels, it may not be entirely successful, but it offers kids, and possibly grown-ups, a lot to think about. Like many of Dahl’s protagonists, Matilda comes from a less-than-ideal home life. Although her parents are decently off, they mostly ignore Matilda, and to a lesser extent her brother. Even when they do notice their kids, they don’t understand them. Matilda’s father, a used car dealer, regularly cheats his customers and brags about it. Matilda’s mother, a housewife, plays bingo every afternoon, leaving Matilda and her brother completely alone in the house, emotionally and mostly physically neglected. When the parents are home, they focus their attention almost entirely on television (for Dahl, who continued to rail against television until his death, a sure sign of villainy), consuming only unappetizing television dinners. Perhaps not surprisingly, Matilda, desperate to find something to read, finds her way to the local library, where she begins reading in earnest—not just children’s books, but the adult books Dahl read and felt that children should be exposed to early on. Especially Charles Dickens, here praised again for Great Expectations. This incidentally gives Dahl an opportunity to comment somewhat unkindly on fellow fantasy authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, critiquing their books for lacking humor. (I think he probably has a point about the Narnia series, but The Hobbit lacking humor? No, no, no. You mix that up with The Lord of the Rings, Mr. Dahl. But I digress.) The reading further solidifies Matilda’s personality as a very sweet, but quiet and intense little girl. The books also raise her awareness of justice, so much so that she does not hesitate to point out that her father is cheating his customers. Her father, furious at getting this criticism from a five year old, yells at her. An equally infuriated Matilda decides to get back at him. It’s mostly revenge, but also, as Matilda thinks it through, justice, not only for his customers but also for the unfair way that he is treating her. Punishing him might correct his behavior.  In fact her first few tricks do manage to chasten him, temporarily ending his bullying ways for short periods. It’s all preparation for the real meat of the novel: Matilda’s arrival at school and her confrontation with the horrible Headmistress Miss Trunchbull.  Miss Trunchbull is every horrible nightmare of a teacher you can imagine in one huge, muscular and hammer throwing presence filled with hatred for children. I say hammer throwing because as it turns out, Miss Trunchbull previously competed in the Olympics in this event, and now uses small children to keep in shape, tossing them when she deems necessary, which is often. Exactly why she chose to become a school administrator is an open question, especially given her belief that the very best schools are those without any kids in them, though I suspect every teacher has had this thought at least once. But we’ll get to that. Fortunately, Matilda also encounters a gifted and sympathetic teacher, Miss Honey, as well as several friends at the school, who warn her about Miss Trunchbull. This is not enough to save Matilda from Miss Trunchbull’s wrath, especially since Matilda’s father has sold Miss Trunchbull a lemon of a car. But that wrath has an unexpected result: it helps trigger Matilda’s latent telekinetic powers. Throw in a rather Gothic tale of a possible murder in a great old house and a terror of
Bagpuss - The Characters The Characters Emily Although Emily doesn't appear in the stories, except for the introduction, she is a major character. After all, it is Emily that runs the shop, finds things to be repaired, and wakes Bagpuss up so that he can identify and repair the latest thing with his friends. Emily was played by Peter Firmin's daughter, Emily. Bagpuss Bagpuss is a magical cat.  When he wakes up, all his friends come to life.  He can also make his thoughts visible in bubbles above his head. Despite this, he doesn't play a major part in most of the stories, instead being content to lie on his rug and listen to the songs the others sing as they identify and repair the thing. All in all, he's just an old, saggy cloth cat.  Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams. But Emily loved him. Professor Yaffle Professor Yaffle, full name "Augustus Barclay Yaffle", the carved wooden book-end, is the brains of the outfit, or so he'd like to think.  He is very knowledgeable, but a bit proud, and the mice love to play tricks on him to bring him down a peg or two. Despite being a bit aloof, Yaffle can be touched by beauty, as he shows in "The Ballet Shoe", when he dances with the Marvellous Mechanical Prima Ballerina. Yaffle is the most complex of the characters, and moves around more than most, being nailed to the floor with tacks to prevent him falling over. Madeleine Remnant is a rag doll, who sits in a wicker chair.  She never moves anywhere, and is happy to be a mother to the mice, tell stories and sing songs with Gabriel. Madeleine only really exists to give a home to the voice of Sandra Kerr. Gabriel Gabriel Croaker (of the "Tea-Time toads") is a banjo-playing toad, who lives on   top of the round tin on the shelf. Like Madeleine, Gabriel exists to provide a home for the voice of John Faulkner, who, with Sandra Kerr, produced the music. The Mice The mice are really the major characters, and tend to get involved in everything that goes on. They like to play tricks on Yaffle, and always like to sing together while they are working.  Indeed, they go on strike when they are told to stop singing in "The Ballet Shoe". The pride and joy of the mice is the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ, which plays rolls of music, and projects a picture onto the screen, like a television. There are six mice in the TV series: Charliemouse, who wears a grey checked suit, and appears to be their leader. Eddiemouse, who wears a blue suit with a green jacket. Janiemouse, who wears a pink dress with a red waistcoat. Jenniemouse, who wears a blue dress. Lizziemouse, who wears a blue flowery dress with a blue waistcoat. Williemouse, who wears a flowery top and red trousers. In the books, there are another two mice (they must have been breeding) - Millymouse and Tillymouse, which might help to explain some of the photos where more than six mice are visible (like the Annual and the Cards ).
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Who has presented City Hospital, Departure Lounge and Last Choir Standing?
News Archive - UKGameshows News Archive Old news stories are archived here. See the main page for the latest news. Contents 2016 16 September You're Hired in the Firing Line Mr. Gilbert Rhod Gilbert has been announced as the new host of The Apprentice spin-off programme You're Fired! after Jack Dee fired himself from the BBC2 vehicle after only one series. Romesh Ranganathan, who was a regular panellist in the last series will not return due to scheduling conflicts. 13 September We've had the most amazing time on Bake Off Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins have announced that they will not follow The Great British Bake Off to Channel 4. They will step down as hosts after the current series on the BBC. Mel and Sue said in a statement: "We made no secret of our desire for the show to remain where it was... we're not going with the dough." 12 September Bake Off Off The BBC has lost the rights to show The Great British Bake Off after the current series and Christmas specials. The exceedingly popular show will move to Channel 4, after Love Productions turned down the BBC's final offer. It's not immediately clear if any of its stars will leave. 22 August BLANK Me One More Time More information about the Blankety Blank revival has been revealed as David Walliams will host a Christmas special of the cult game show. According to the Daily Mirror, the Christmas special will be a trial for a full series, which is quite similar to how the Lily Savage era went. 19 August Deal Me Out Channel 4 announced today that Deal or No Deal has been axed after being on the screens for 11 years and airing over 3,000 episodes. The final series will air in autumn 2016. 15 August ReBLANKED A piece in the Sunday People claimed that ITV wanted to make another series of Blankety Blank . We've not been able to confirm that ITV has commissioned a series, as the broadcaster has not commented on the speculation. 1 June Meet the new judges, same as the old judges Louis Walsh ! Sharon Osbourne! Simon Cowell ! Nicole Scherzinger! The judging panel for The X Factor has been announced, and the names have bags of experience. With Dermot O'Leary back as host, this year's show takes us back to the glory days of 2013, and with no Gary Barlow. 5 May CJ de Mooi on the move again CJ de Mooi will leave the Eggheads panel and move to South Africa. CJ, one of the original Eggheads, left the programme between 2012 and 2014. He will be replaced by two new Eggheads who will be found in a televised quiz. 6 April Coach Trip Rolls onto E4 Coach Trip is heading for a new destination by moving to E4. The series which sees tour guide Brendan Sheerin overseeing a couples tour of Europe, with the least popular couple voted off at the end of each day, has aired on and off for 11 years on Channel 4. The new series will consist of thirty half-hour episodes, and will air later in the year. 5 April Cheryl has The Exit Factor Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has quit The X Factor . The singer first appeared as a judge between 2008-10, before returning for the 2014-5 series. The former Popstars: The Rivals contestant has chosen to leave to focus on her music career. To date, no judges have been confirmed for the upcoming series, which begins airing this summer. 31 March It's goodbye from him. The other half of "The Two Ronnies" Ronnie Corbett died today at the age of 85. In the game show world, he is well known for hosting Small Talk . 30 March Vernon drives to success Next week, Vernon Kay will host Drive on ITV. He's now the second most prolific game show host in the UK with 16 main hosting roles. Vernon moves clear of the late Bob Monkhouse , who is now in third place with 15 shows. Davina McCall remains the current leader, she's fronted 17 programmes. 29 March Your Saturday Night Starts Right Here! Dermot O'Leary is returning to host The X Factor . The announcement was made almost a year after he left the programme. The 2015 series was helmed by Caroline Flack and Olly Murs and saw mixed reviews and falling ratings. The new series, which will also see the return of the room auditions, will begin in
ER - NBC.com NBC.com Live About the Show NBC's celebrated medical drama "ER" debuted in the fall of 1994 and aired its series finale 15 seasons later. Along the way, "ER" helped launch the careers of George Clooney, Julianna Margulies and Noah Wiley among many others. Combining the extraordinary talents of multiple award-winning producer John Wells ("The West Wing" "Third Watch"), best-selling author Michael Crichton ("Jurassic Park") and the creative team at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, the venerated series "ER" explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. The highly acclaimed drama series holds the distinction of being recognized as the most Emmy-nominated series in the history of television with 124 nominations. Crichton, Wells and Zabel served as executive producers, along with Christopher Chulack, Joe Sachs and Janine Sherman Barrois. A winner of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, the series also earned 22 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 1996, among many accolades. In addition, the cast was honored with four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Drama Series. In its final season, the staff at County General Hospital included Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney), a recovering alcoholic trying her best to juggle a demanding residency and motherhood while everything around her seems to be falling apart; Dr. Greg Pratt (Mekhi Phifer), an attending fighting for the chief spot on the floor as well as for a firm grasp on his love life; Neela Rasgotra (Parminder Nagra), a skilled surgical resident committed to growing in her craft as well as in her place on the surgical team; Sam Taggart (Linda Cardellini), a spirited ER nurse who is finally getting some time to explore life and love both in and outside the hospital; Dr. Archie Morris (Scott Grimes), the quirky-yet-talented attending dedicated to his work but constantly distracted by his own world; Tony Gates (John Stamos), a paramedic-turned-doctor who has overcome numerous obstacles to take on the rigorous challenges of life in the ER; Dr. Simon Brenner (David Lyons) the newest attending physician with a penchant for stirring things up, and Dr. Cate Banfield (Angela Bassett) as a tough-as-nails attending physician whose arrival shakes up the ER. "ER" is a production of Constant c Productions and Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Television. More
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In which country is 'Romansh' and official language?
Speaking Romansh in Switzerland - YouTube Speaking Romansh in Switzerland Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 15, 2012 Ever fascinated by rare languages, I visited the Engadin in Grisson, Switzerland where I met several native speakers of Romansch, one of the four official languages in the country. There are about 100,000 people who still speak Romansch and I was grateful for the chance to explore their native valleys in the southeast corner of Switzerland Category
RAGMAG Ohm Issue | Sept 2011 | Issue#16 by RAGMAG Magazine (page 138) - issuu issuu 1. What is the difference between a spiral and a helix? 1. Where can you find the Church of the Holy Sepulchre? 1. What is the S.I. standard of temperature? 2. What is it called when a liquid is cooled to below its freezing point but it does not freeze? 2. The port of Mocha is in which country? 2. Boats and planes can roll and what other two ways do they move? 3. What do the letters LI-ION mean on a battery? 4. What is the difference between KVA and KW? 5. Melanophobia is the fear of what? 3. what is the capital of Latvia? 4. Which of these is NOT a wine region of France? Rhone, Alsace, Rioja, Bordeaux or Jura? 5. The Island of Madeira is in which ocean? Atlantic, Pacific or Indian? 6. If something is described as being anular in shape, what does it 6. The Alpine Ski Resort of St. resemble? Moritz is in which country? 7. You have three identically shaped balls 1Kg, 2Kg and 3Kg and you drop them from 20 Meters, which one will land first? 8. In climatology, to what does the term “Pluvial” refer? 7. The world’s highest swing, called the Nevis Arc, is located in which country? 8. Ibiza is in which Mediterranean island group? 9. Tirana is the capital of which 9. The Pascal is the SI unit of country? pressure.The Bar is the ilder term. 1 Bar is equivalent to how many 10. What is China’s second KiloPascal? largest river? 10. What element, whose symbol derives from its Greek name hydrargyrum, meaning watering silver, melts at -38.83 °C and yet boils at 356.73 °C? 3. What is the chemical symbol for Ozone? 4. What is the name given to the bending of light as it passes from one substance to another? 1. What cheese is made backwards? 2. If you write all the numbers from 300 to 400, how many times would you write the number 3? 3. What kind of bees make milk? 4. Where on earth do the winds always blow from the south? 5. If you feed me I will live but if you give me water I will die. What am i? 5. What computer operating 6. If five thousand, five hundred fifty system has a penguin as its logo? five dollars is written as $5,555, how should twelve thousand, twelve 6. There are three types of nuclear hundred twelve dollars be written? radiation. Gamma is one. Name the other two. 7. What number is next in this sequence? 1, 3, 4, 7, 11... 7. When a liquid changes from liquid to gas it’s called evaporation. What 8. Can you name three consecutive is it called when a solid changes days without using the words to gas? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or 8. What is the name of the pigment Sunday? that gives leaves their green colour? 9. Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has 9. What is the cube root of 8000? one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family? 10. In an electrical circuit diagram, what is denoted by circle 10. A horse is tied to a 5 m. rope; 6 m. containing the capital letter A? away from it, is a bail of hay. Without breaking the rope, the horse is able to get to the bail of hay. How is this possible? dingbats LONDON PARIS Book 2 COST $100.00 EACH 12 COST $50.00 EACH Film COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN Song ROUND#1 1. A spiral is on a flat plane 2. Super Cooled 3. Lithium Ion 4. KW takes into account the power factor 5. Colour Black 6. Ring 7. At the same time 8. Rainfall 9.100 10. Mercury ROUND#2 1. Jerusalem 2. Yemen 3. Riga 4. Rioja 5. Atlantic 6. Switzerland 7. New Zealand 8. Balearic Islands 9. Albania 10. Yellow River ROUND#3 1. Kelvin 2. Pitch and Yaw 3. O3 4. Refraction 5. Linux 6. Alpha and Beta 7. Sublimation 8. Chlorophyl 9. 20 10. Ammetre ROUND#4 1. Edam 2. 120 3. Boobies 4. North Pole 5. Fire 6. 13,212 7. 18 8. Yesterday, today and tomorrow 9. Nine 10. The other end is not tied to anything A TALE (TAIL) OF TO CITIES - THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE - HOT CHOCOLATE THREE BLIND MICE - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST - LITTLE WOMEN DANGEROUS MINDS - CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN - FINAL COUNTDOWN 138 RAGMAG | SEPTEMBER 2011
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What is the name of the town that is host to It's a Wonderful Life?
New York Village Says It's The Model For 'It's A Wonderful Life' Town | WRVO Public Media New York Village Says It's The Model For 'It's A Wonderful Life' Town By editor • Dec 9, 2016 View Slideshow 1 of 3 Locals in Seneca Falls, N.Y., say this bridge in their small town was the model for the bridge in the fictional Bedford Falls in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, where George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) thinks about ending his life. Brian Mann / North Country Public Radio Many in Seneca Falls, N.Y. (shown here in 2006) have said the town served as the inspiration for Bedford Falls, the fictional mill town setting for the Christmas classic, It's a Wonderful Life. David Duprey / AP View Slideshow 3 of 3 Actresses Karolyn Grimes (left) and Carol Coombs were both in It's A Wonderful Life. Grimes played Zuzu, the youngest child of George and Mary Bailey, and Coombs played Janie, the couple's middle child. The two women are both in upstate New York this week celebrating the 70th anniversary of the movie. Brian Mann / North Country Public Radio Listen / Originally published on December 9, 2016 9:15 am Frank Capra's classic film It's A Wonderful Life — starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey — takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls, but some say it's a dead ringer for Seneca Falls in upstate New York. "I really believe this is what inspired Capra. It's got the canal, it's got names of the streets, it's got the Victorian houses — I mean, it's got it all," says Karolyn Grimes, who was six when Capra cast her to play Zuzu, George Bailey's young daughter. Grimes is celebrating the movie's 70th anniversary in Seneca Falls this weekend, during the town's annual holiday festival. The story of George Bailey, his life and his guardian angel was released on Dec. 25, 1946. You can see why people here think the town is the model for the movie's struggling mill town. In the film, Stewart runs down Bedford Falls' main street, which looks a lot like Seneca Falls' main street: the little shops, the brick facades, the snow. Local historian Chris Podzuweit says it's no accident. Capra visited Seneca Falls in the 1940s. "We even know he had his hair cut here," Podzuweit says. "It was the barber's 15 minutes of fame." The barber talked about Capra walking through town and checking out local landmarks, Podzuweit says. Capra's film also contains geographical references that fit Seneca Falls perfectly, including the nearby cities of Rochester and Buffalo. And there's the famous bridge from the movie, the one where a despondent George Bailey goes on Christmas Eve and contemplates taking his own life. Seneca Falls has a nearly identical steel bridge downtown, with big metal girders stretching across the canal. Standing here on a raw, blustery December day, it is the spitting image of the one George stands on. There's even an old abandoned mill, half caved-in, just across the canal. Fran Caraccilo is a local resident who got hooked on the idea that there's a real connection between his town and the town in the movie. "It's still nothing but a circumstantial case — but I think it's a very good circumstantial case," says Caraccilo, who opened a museum devoted to the film. Grimes, who played Zuzu Bailey in the film, says she thinks Capra had a reason for never naming Seneca Falls as his inspiration. "I don't think Capra wanted it mentioned," she says. "I think Capra wanted everyone to identify with their own community." But for this weekend, Seneca Falls is Bedford Falls. As part of an annual holiday festival started by Caraccilo, people here will recreate in loving detail the gala dinner held at the film's premiere in Los Angeles, 70 years ago. Copyright 2016 North Country Public Radio. To see more, visit North Country Public Radio . STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You know, movie lines have a way of rattling around in your head. Movies like "Caddyshack" or "Airplane!" "Stop Calling Me Shirley..." RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: INSKEEP: From the Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life," there are many such lines. MARTIN: Every time a bell rings, an ange
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993) - 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 Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life ( 1993 ) 23min While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka's constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike... See full summary  » Director: a list of 49 titles created 23 Oct 2011 a list of 36 titles created 15 Oct 2012 a list of 22 titles created 8 months ago a list of 29 titles created 4 months ago a list of 41 images created 4 days ago Title: Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993) 7.4/10 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. Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins. See more awards  » Photos Eight years ago, Gavin artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, ... See full summary  » Director: Stefan Schwartz Small-time crooner find himself on the receiving end of the threatening attentions of a gangster, whose wife has fallen for the singer's Sinatra-like aura. Director: Peter Capaldi Nikolai, a mortician, and Osip, an actor playing Christ in a play, are brothers in love with the same woman. Anna, a state scientist and said woman, is in love with both brothers and ... See full summary  » Director: Guy Maddin The Cricklewood Greats (TV Movie 2012) Comedy The presenter recalls his boyhood heroes from the Cricklewood film studios,assisted by Tim Dempsey,founder of the Cricklewood Appreciation Society. The studio was established by failed ... See full summary  » Director: Peter Capaldi Edit Storyline While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka's constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike visions. Written by Kathy Li 29 November 1995 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Mia yperohi zoi See more  » Company Credits Elaine Collins (Miss Cicely) is the wife of writer and director Peter Capaldi . See more » Quotes A fascinating and unique film from the BBC which received much critical buzz in England, though relatively little attention stateside. 'Tis a pity, as the colonists would get a kick out of it. 5 of 6 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you? Yes
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Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1. Daughter of a hotel dynasty, 2 Troy, 3 Plaster.
rec.puzzles FAQ, part 1 of 15 - Google Groups rec.puzzles FAQ, part 1 of 15 Showing 1-16 of 16 messages Instructions for Accessing rec.puzzles Frequently Asked Questions List INTRODUCTION Below is a list of puzzles, categorized by subject area.  Each puzzle includes a solution, compiled from various sources, which is supposed to be definitive. To request a puzzle, send a letter to uunet!questrel!faql-request containing one or more lines of the form: send <puzzle_name> For example, to request decision/allais.p, send the line: send decision/allais.p The puzzle will be mailed via return email to the address in your request's "From:" line.  If you are unsure of this address, and cannot edit this line, then include in your message BEFORE the first "send" line the line: The FAQL has been posted to news.answers.  News.answers is archived in the periodic posting archive on pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]. Postings are located in the anonymous ftp directory /pub/usenet/news.answers, and are archived by "Archive-name".  Other subdirectories of /pub/usenet contain periodic postings that may not appear in news.answers. Other news.answers/FAQ archives (which carry some or all of the FAQs in the pit-manager archive) are:          archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] in the anonymous ftp                 directory /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS (also accessible via mail                 server requests to mail-...@cs.ruu.nl )          cnam.cnam.fr [192.33.159.6] in the anonymous ftp directory /pub/FAQ          ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9 or 192.48.96.9] in the anonymous ftp                 directory /usenet          ftp.win.tue.nl [131.155.70.100] in the anonymous ftp directory                 /pub/usenet/news.answers          grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr [134.214.100.25] in the anonymous ftp                 directory /pub/faq (also accessible via mail server                 requests to list...@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr ), which is                 best used by EASInet sites and sites in France that do                 not have better connectivity to cnam.cnam.fr (e.g.                 Lyon, Grenoble) Note that the periodic posting archives on pit-manager.mit.edu are also accessible via Prospero and WAIS (the database name is "usenet" on port 210). The FAQL is NOT the original work of the editor (just in case you were wondering :^). In keeping with the general net practice on FAQL's, I do not as a rule assign credit for FAQL solutions.  There are many reasons for this: 1.  The FAQL is about the answers to the questions, not about assigning credit. 2.  Many people, in providing free answers to the net, do not have the time     to cite their sources. 3.  I cut and paste freely from several people's solutions in most     cases to come up with as complete an answer as possible. 4.  I use sources other than postings. 5.  I am neither qualified nor motivated to assign credit. However, I do whenever possible put bibliographies in FAQL entries, and I see the inclusion of the net addresses of interested parties as a logical extension of this practice.  In particular, if you wrote a program to solve a problem and posted the source code of the program, you are presumed to be interested in corresponding with others about the problem.  So, please let me know the entries you would like to be listed in and I will be happy to oblige. Address corrections or comments to uunet!questrel!faql-comment. INDEX Four bugs are placed at the corners of a square. Each bug walks directly toward the next bug in the clockwise direction. The bugs walk with constant speed always directly toward their clockwise neighbor. Assuming the bugs make at least one full circuit around the center of the square ==> analysis/c.infinity.p <== What function is zero at zero, strictly positive elsewhere, infinitely differentiable at zero and has all zero derivitives at zero? ==> analysis/cache.p <== Cache and Ferry (How far can a truck go in a desert?) A pick-up truck is in the desert beside N 50-gallon gas drums, all full. The truck's gas tank holds 10 gallons and is empty.  The truck can carry one drum, whether full or e
My Questions - Documents Documents Share My Questions Embed <iframe src="http://docslide.us/embed/my-questions.html" width="750" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://docslide.us/documents/my-questions.html" title="My Questions" target="_blank">My Questions</a></div> size(px) Download My Questions Transcript Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? What is the tallest and thickest type of grass? What was the surname of the family who employed Julie Andrews' character in 'The Sound Of Music'? Which nation has won the Eurovision Song Contest more than any other? What is the most common gas in the air we breathe? Which three different actors played Batman in the movies between 1989 and 1997? What colour is Bart's skateboard in the introduction? The theme tune to which TV show starts with the line "Stick a pony in me pocket"? Which soap opera is set in the fictional county of Borsetshire? Who did Sue Barker replace as host of the BBC quiz show "A Question Of Sport"? Which "Generation Game" presenter was famous for his catchphrase "Shut That Door"? "No Mean City" by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running Scottish TV detective show? Anthony, Barbara, Dave, Denise, Jim and Norma make up which famous family on British TV? Which part did Deforest Kelley play in the TV series Star Trek? True or False In space it is impossible to cry? Famous sitcom actor Kelsey Grammar provides the voice for for a character in which famous cartoon TV Series The largest ever picnic for a childs toy was held in Dublin in 1995 where 33,573 of the toys were there . What was the toy ? Which American state comes first alphabetically? In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull? Which country has the airline KLM? The sinking of which famous German battleship was portrayed in the title of a 1960 film? What organisation is also known as "La Cosa Nostra"? What was the Titanic’s first port of call after it left Southampton? Which mountain overshadows Fort William in scotland ? What was the name of the 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose identity is erased? A penguin called Wheezy was a character in which film ? Who played Vince in the 1980s TV series "Just Good Friends"? In which 1994 film did Whoopi Goldberg provide the voice of a hyena called Shenzi? What is the only venomous snake in Britain? How many pieces are there in a standard set of dominoes? James Earl Ray was responsible for who's death in 1968? In which city in England is the National Railway Museum? In the music world, which group sacked Simon Fuller in 1997? Which Roman God is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? What was the challanging method of catching a fly asked of Daniel in the film "The Karate Kid"? Actor Richard Kiel is best known for playing which character in two bond films ? Which is the odd one out, Comet, Dixon, Cupid, Vixen? Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? What product did Coke invented in 1982? Which Japanese word, also used in the English language, means "empty orchestra"? On which date does Halloween fall? Oscar is the first name of which of the famous songwriting duo Rogers and Hammerstein? 24 Bamboo Von Trappe Ireland Nitrogen Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney Green Only Fools And Horses The Archers David Coleman Larry Grayson Taggart The Royle Family Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy True (there is no gravity, so tears cannot flow) The Simpsons Teddy Bear Alabama Minotaur The Netherlands The Bismark The Mafia Cherbourg Ben Nevis The Net Toy Story 2 Paul Nicholas "The Lion King" The Adder 28 Martin Luther King's York Manager of the Spice Girls Cupid Using chopsticks to do it Jaws (in two James Bond films) Dixon - the others are Santa's reindeer Mercury Diet Coke Karaoke October 31st Hammerstein On 11th February 1990, which fam
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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 Sinclair Lewis The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 Sinclair Lewis Prize share: 1/1 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters". Photos: Copyright © The Nobel Foundation Share this: To cite this page MLA style: "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 18 Jan 2017. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/>
2000 Academy Awards® Winners and History Traffic (2000, Germ./US) Actor: RUSSELL CROWE in "Gladiator," Javier Bardem in "Before Night Falls," Tom Hanks in "Cast Away," Ed Harris in "Pollock," Geoffrey Rush in "Quills" Actress: JULIA ROBERTS in "Erin Brockovich," Joan Allen in "The Contender," Juliette Binoche in "Chocolat," Ellen Burstyn in "Requiem for a Dream," Laura Linney in "You Can Count On Me" Supporting Actor: BENICIO DEL TORO in "Traffic," Jeff Bridges in "The Contender," Willem Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire," Albert Finney in "Erin Brockovich," Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator" Supporting Actress: MARCIA GAY HARDEN in "Pollock," Judi Dench in "Chocolat," " Kate Hudson in "Almost Famous," Frances McDormand in "Almost Famous," Julie Walters in "Billy Elliot" Director: STEVEN SODERBERGH for "Traffic," Stephen Daldry for "Billy Elliot," Ang Lee for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Steven Soderbergh for "Erin Brockovich," Ridley Scott for "Gladiator" This year's Best Picture nominees were from an eclectic, diverse and varied group of films: two fighting epics (one foreign, one ancient), two dramas about battles (America's failed drug war and a legal struggle against a power company), and a simple, comic fable. Three of the five Best Picture nominees prominently featured women. The Oscar awards were spread somewhat evenly among the Best Picture nominees, except for Chocolat. The big winner in 2000 was director Ridley Scott's spectacular, big budget (over $200 million) sword-and-sandal Roman Empire epic set in 180 A.D., Gladiator - a basic tale of good vs. evil, betrayal, and revenge - about an outcast Roman general (and single-minded rebel-hero) seeking vengeance for betrayal and his family's death. The spectacle of the Roman Colosseum's gladiatorial battles and contests was balanced with royal intrigue involving the resentful heir to the Roman throne. (Although greatly enhanced with CGI-digital effects, it revived the memory of dramatic historic-epic films and 'sword-and-sandal' spectaculars of the 50s, such as Quo Vadis? (1951), Ben-Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960).) The film received twelve nominations and won five awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Costume Design. DreamWorks Studios boasted back-to-back wins for Best Picture - it also won the previous year with American Beauty (1999). Its nominations included the major and minor categories of Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, and Best Costumes. This marked the first time in 51 years -- since 1949 (the year that All the King's Men (1949) had seven nominations and three wins: Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress) that the Best Picture winner didn't also win an additional Oscar for Best Director or for Best Screenplay. The other Best Picture nominees included the following: Ang Lee's Mandarin-language martial-arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (or Wo hu zang long) (with ten nominations and four wins), was the biggest-earning foreign film of all time (at $130 million), and the most-nominated foreign language film ever. The film's four wins tied it
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Who played George The Third in the film The Madness of King George
The Madness of King George (1994) - 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 The Madness of King George ( 1994 ) PG-13 | A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. As he ... See full summary  » Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 30 titles created 08 Jul 2012 a list of 26 titles created 07 Feb 2013 a list of 33 titles created 01 Jul 2013 a list of 34 titles created 12 May 2015 a list of 33 titles created 28 Nov 2015 Title: The Madness of King George (1994) 7.2/10 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. Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 18 nominations. See more awards  » Photos Edit Storyline A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses, he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants, who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority, raising the question of who is really in charge. Written by Dan Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com> His Majesty was all powerful and all knowing. But he wasn't quite all there. Genres: Rated PG-13 for thematic elements | See all certifications  » Parents Guide: 28 December 1994 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: La folie du roi George See more  » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia There had been some question as to whether Nigel Hawthorne should be cast in the movie, since he was 65 at the time of filming and King George III was only fifty at the time of his first bout of insanity. See more » Goofs The servant Fortnum states that he is leaving royal service to open a provisioner's shop in Piccadilly ("a step up from emptying piss-pots"), a comical allusion to the Fortnum & Mason's establishment. The film takes place in 1788, 81 years after F&M was founded in 1707. In fact, the company's co-founder's grandson entered royal service in 1761, which led to an expansion of the company's business. See more » Quotes George III : By your dress, sir, and general demeanor, I'd say you were a minister of God. Dr. Willis : Oh, that's true, Your Majesty, I was once in the service of the Church. Now I practice medicine. George III : Well, I'm sorry for it. You've quitted a profession I've always loved and embraced one I most heartily DETEST. Dr. Willis : Our Savior went about healing the sick. George III : Yes... but He had not seven hundred pounds a year for it. [laughs] Referenced in Borderlands  (2009) See more » Soundtracks (USA) – See all my reviews THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III (called MADNESS OF KING GEORGE in the States because of reported studio concern, probably not apocryphal, that most Americans would wonder why they missed MADNESS I and II) begins with an act of lese majesty, a look behind the scenes as the family and ministers of George III prepare for the ceremony to open Parliament in 1788. We see the confusion of an equerry who has no idea of what his duties are, a royal attendant hurriedly spit on and cuff-polish a jewel on the kingly crown, the boredom of the king's eldest sons who would rather be just about anywhere else than waiting for their father in the chilly anteroom. ("Colder in here than a greyhound's nostril," mutters the Lord Chancellor.) It's a theme that will carry through the entire film. Kingship and royalty are shams, it seems magic acts that require faith on the part of the audience. A peek behind the curtain of noblesse oblige and it's all likely to fall to pieces. The story remains fairly true to the facts. Late in 1788, George III is taken by a mysterious illness (lately surmised to be porphyria) that
TV: MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE, GEORGE AND MILDRED, ROBIN’S NEST | Laughterlog.com TV: MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE, GEORGE AND MILDRED, ROBIN’S NEST by Peter Tatchell By the early 1970s, British television comedy was able to push back a few boundaries. A decade of Steptoe And Son, Till Death Us Do Part and Monty Python’s Flying Circus had resulted in a more liberal attitude to what was permissable on living room tv screens, with concepts now able to reflect some of the things that were actually happening out there in the real world. In 1973, writers Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke (the men responsible for Father Dear Father, and contributors to the latter days of Round The Horne) had an idea for a sitcom about three young people sharing a flat in suburbia. The twist was that two were girls and one was a guy, and though there would be lots of sexual repartee and the occasional weakening of resolve, nothing would actually happen. Thames Television liked the idea and commissioned a series of seven half hours. The pivotal role of Robin Tripp (the thorn among the roses) was taken by one-time child actor Richard O’Sullivan, recently seen as sycophantic medico Lawrence Bingham in Doctor At Large and Doctor In Charge. His flatmates Chrissy and Jo were played by Paula Wilcox (who had partnered Richard Beckinsale in The Lovers) and Sally Thomsett (one of the participants in The Railway Children). Rounding out the cast, and to represent the older generation, were the landlords George and Mildred Roper (Brian Murphy and sitcom perennial Yootha Joyce). The Ropers were an odd couple to be sure … she, an over-age refugee from the swinging sixties (in thought and fashion), and he, a self-centred layabout (or, to use Mildred’s description, a “nasty little toe-rag”) with the mind of an adolescent and the manners of a five-year-old. As the series begins, Jo and Chrissy are recovering from a wild sendoff party for the third girl in their flat (who is getting married). Amongst the flotsam littering the apartment they find cookery student Robin who has spent the night sleeping it off in the bathtub. In need of someone new to help share the rent, and enticed by his culinary skills, they suggest he move in … but on the proviso he’s only getting lodgings. Thus began six seasons of comic byplay highlighting the romantic pursuits of the tenants upstairs and the marital bickerings of the landlords below. Along the way, we meet a handful of periferal characters like Robin’s mate Larry (played by Doug Fisher), who arrives as an unwanted house guest before moving into the attic, and George’s handyman friend Jerry (one of Roy Kinnear’s many classic portrayals). In 1974 the series spawned a spinoff movie (which premiered at Christmas) with all the original cast taking part, along with comedy greats Spike Milligan and Arthur Lowe, plus a gallery of sitcom faces like Michael Robbins, Jack Smethurst, Bill Pertwee, Melvyn Hayes and Bill Maynard. In 1976, it was decided to allow Man About The House to evolve into two new series featuring the show’s most popular characters. Would Robin finally get Chrissy to fall for him (after thirty-nine episodes of lustful pursuit) and ride off into a sequel? The writers thought not, and a mere three stories before the finale, introduced Robin’s older brother, Norman, who makes his first visit to the flat and it’s love at first sight. He and Chrissy tie the knot in the show’s last edition (and are never heard of again). Five months later, we see the Ropers moving up in the world to their own house in a more genteel neighbourhood. In George And Mildred, the couple find themselves keeping up with the Joneses (or, in this case, the Fourmileses) the economically-correct family next door. Wife Anne (Sheila Fearn) hits it off with Mildred from day one, but husband Jeffrey (played by Norman Eshley, an actor who looks remarkably like the fellow who made off with Chrissy a mere sitcom ago) feels George is a waste of space, who’s now residing far too near his space. To further populate matters, the Fourmiles have a precocious youngster, Tristram
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Who, in 79AD, succeeded Vespasian as Emperor of Rome?
BBC - History - Historic Figures: Vespasian (9 AD - 79 AD) Historic Figures z Bust of Vespasian   © Vespasian was the ninth emperor of Rome and succeeded in restoring peace and stability after a period of civil war. He founded the Flavian dynasty of emperors. Titus Flavius Vespasianus, known as Vespasian, was born in 9 AD in Reate (Rieti), north west of Rome. He had a successful military career, commanding the second legion in the invasion of Britain in 43 AD and conquering the south west of England. He later rose in the senate to become consul in 51 AD and governor of Africa a decade later. He became a trusted aide of the emperor Nero and was put in charge of the suppression of the Jewish Revolt (66 AD - 70 AD). By 68 AD, most of Judaea was recovered, although Jerusalem remained to be taken. During the rapid turnover of emperors following the death of Nero in 68 AD, Vespasian prepared his own bid for power. The legions of Egypt, Judaea, Syria and then the Danube all declared for him, and he sent his commander Primus ahead to secure Italy on his behalf. A major, and bloody, victory was achieved at Cremona, and Primus took Rome in December 69 AD. The senate passed a law conferring the powers of emperor on Vespasian and he arrived in Rome in the late summer of 70 AD, having left his elder son Titus in charge in Judaea. Jerusalem was taken in August 70 AD and the Jewish temple was destroyed. Vespasian's major objectives during his reign were to restore Rome's finances after Nero's wasteful reign, to restore discipline in the army after the civil wars and to ensure the succession of his son Titus. He was successful in all three. The immunity from taxation that Nero had given to the Greeks was revoked, and the Colosseum was begun in Rome with spoils from the conquest of Jerusalem. Vespasian's relations with the senate were on the whole excellent and he set an example by living a relatively simple life. The Roman historian Tacitus observed that he was the first man to improve after becoming emperor. Vespasian died in 79 AD.
Mount Vesuvius & Pompeii: Facts & History Mount Vesuvius & Pompeii: Facts & History By Mary Bagley, Live Science Contributor | June 29, 2016 07:31pm ET MORE Credit: Klagyi | Shutterstock Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano on mainland Europe. It is best known because of the eruption in A.D. 79 that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Mount Vesuvius is considered to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world due to the large population of the city of Naples and the surrounding towns on the slopes nearby. The volcano is classed as a complex stratovolcano because its eruptions typically involve explosive eruptions as well as pyroclastic flows. Vesuvius and other Italian volcanoes, such as Campi Flegrei and Stromboli, are part of the Campanian volcanic arc. The Campanian arc sits on a tectonic boundary where the African plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate . Under Vesuvius, scientists have detected a tear in the African plate. This “slab window” allows heat from the Earth’s mantle layer to melt the rock of the African plate building up pressure that causes violent explosive eruptions. In the past, Mount Vesuvius has had a roughly 20-year eruption cycle, but the last serious eruption was in 1944 . Vesuvius and Pompeii Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii in A.D. 79. Because the city was buried so quickly by volcanic ash, the site is a well-preserved snapshot of life in a Roman city. We even have a detailed account of the disaster recorded by Pliny the Younger, who interviewed survivors and recorded events in a letter to his friend Tacitus. [ Related: Pompeii 'Wall Posts' Reveal Ancient Social Networks ] Ruins at Herculaneum Credit: deepblue-photographer Shutterstock Pompeii was slowly recovering from a major earthquake that rocked the city in February of A.D. 62. The shallow quake, originating beneath Mount Vesuvius, had caused major damage to the springs and piping that provided the city’s water. Reconstruction was being carried out on several temples and public buildings. Seneca, a historian, recorded that the quakes lasted for several days and also heavily damaged the town of Herculaneum and did minor damage to the city of Naples before subsiding. The major quake was followed by several minor shakes throughout the following years. [ Image Gallery: Pompeii's Toilets ] Because seismic activity was so common in the area, citizens paid little attention in early August of 79 when several quakes shook the earth beneath Herculaneum and Pompeii. People were unprepared for the explosion that took place shortly after noon on the 24th of August. Pliny, watching from the town of Misenum, approximately 13 miles (21 kilometers) from Pompeii, described the massive debris cloud. “It resembled a (Mediterranean) pine more than any other tree. Like a very high tree the cloud went high and expanded in different branches…. sometimes white, sometimes dark and stained by the sustained sand and ashes.” In Pompeii, ash blocked the sun by 1 p.m. and the people tried to clear heavy ash from rooftops as it fell at a rate of about 6 inches (15 centimeters) an hour. [ Image Gallery: Preserved Pompeii — Photos Reveal City in Ash ] Bodies preserved in ash at Pompeii. Credit: Alessandro Colle Shutterstock Shortly after midnight, a wall of volcanic mud engulfed the town of Herculaneum, obliterating the town as its citizens fled toward Pompeii. About 6:30 a.m. on the following morning, a glowing cloud of volcanic gases and debris rolled down Vesuvius’ slopes and enveloped the city of Pompeii. Most victims died instantly as the superheated air burned their lungs and contracted their muscles, leaving the bodies in a semi-curled position to be quickly buried in ash and thus preserved in detail for hundreds of years. Far away in Misenum, Pliny the Younger and his mother joined other refugees escaping the earthquakes rocking their city. They observed, “…the sea retreating as if pushed by the earthquakes.” This was probably caused by a tsunami at the climax of the eruption, which give
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Which band’s 2007 reunion concert attracted 20 million ticket applications?
Led Zeppelin refuse to comment on live reunion - Telegraph Music news Led Zeppelin refuse to comment on live reunion Members of the rock band Led Zeppelin refused to be drawn on whether they might tour again at a press conference for live film Celebration Day.   Robert Plant: igored questions about Led Zeppelin reunion. Photo: REX   Led Zeppelin: igored questions about Led Zeppelin reunion. Photo: Reuters   By Marc Lee 5:15PM BST 21 Sep 2012 When the surviving members of Seventies rock titans Led Zeppelin today made a rare public appearance together to promote Celebration Day, the film of their wildly successful reunion gig of 2007, there was only one question that everyone wanted the answer to: would they play together ever again? However, despite repeated probing, not only did they refuse to answer, they pretty much ignored the question every time it was put to them. Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones were united in their opinion of the gig at the O2 five years ago, which attracted 20 million applications for the 18,000 tickets available. "It was a spectacular experience to get back into the middle of that music," said Plant, while Page said they had wanted to prove themselves to people who had maybe heard of them but never seen them in action. The concert was a tribute to the late Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic records, who played a key role in the band's career, the initial phase of which came to an end with the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980. At the O2, Bonham's son Jason took his father's place. "No one else could have done it," said Page today, describing his playing as "monumental" and praising his spirit, enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge of the Zeppelin catalogue. He knows, for instance, how every song evolved over the dozen years of the band's first incarnation, said Page. Related Articles Led Zeppelin to issue unheard songs 13 Mar 2014 Bearing in mind the misfortune that dogged the band's members (Plant almost quit after his five-year-old son died of a viral infection in 1977), they were asked whether it had been a deliberate choice to open the gig with Good Times, Bad Times. Again, their replies were non-committal. "It's a concise piece of music," said Plant. "It was not what people would have guessed," said Page, while Jones thought it just seemed "fitting", though he had, he added ruefully, forgotten how complicated the first riff is. Pressed as to why it had taken so long for the film of the gig to arrive on the big screen, Jones said: "I'm surprised we got it out so quickly. Five years is five minutes in Zeppelin time." Ahead of the gig they hadn't considered the possibility of releasing a film of it because, said Page, "we didn't know if there would be half a dozen train wrecks in it". Eyes were on them for it all to go wrong, said Plant. So did they have to fix anything musically in the edit? "Not telling you that!" retorted Plant. "What a f------ cheek." However, he then acknowledged that his vocal at the end of the epic song Kashmir did require a little treatment. And how did the band with the most notorious reputation for hedonistic excess celebrate after the gig? No trashing of hotel rooms or adventurous sex with groupies any more, apparently. "We just hugged each other and went, 'Wow!'" said Plant. Celebration Day is in cinemas on October 17 and released on DVD, CD and digitally on November 19.
Index-a The live album Beauty and the Beat featured pianist George Shearring and which singer? Peggy Lee Whose band was the Tijuana Brass? Herb Alpert Who were Cliff Richard's backing group through the 60s? The Shadows Who were the famous backing singers on most of Elvis Presley's early hits? The Jordanaires The Stratocaster is a model of which guitar maker? Fender Which piano-playing singer's first hit was The Fat Man? Fats Domino Which American rock'n'roll star caused controversy when he married a young teenager? Jerry Lee Lewis Who made the highly rated 1959 jazz album Kind of Blue? Miles Davis Which iconic British female singer made the highly regarded album titled '(her first name) in Memphis' ? Dusty Springfield Whose band was the All Stars? Junior Walker (Jr Walker) Larry Adler played what instrument? Harmonica Whose childhood hit was Fingertips? Stevie Wonder Which guitar innovator and player has a range of Gibson Guitars named after him? Les Paul The founding brother members of the Kinks were Ray and Dave what? Davies What was Smokey Robinson's most famous band called? The Miracles Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen's 1962 hit was called March of the ... what? Siamese Children Who sang the hit theme song Rawhide? Frankie Laine John Mayall's band which helped launch Eric Clapton's career was called what? Bluesbreakers Rock Around the Clock was a hit for Bill Haley and his ... what? Comets Which comedy actor had a novelty hit with My Boomerang Won't Come Back? Charlie Drake Who sang with Serge Gainsbourg on the hit Je t'aime? Jane Birkin Colin Blunstone fronted which 1960s group? The Zombies What Eastenders star sang on the novelty hit Come Outside? Wendy Richard Jiles Perry (JP) Richardson Jr, who died in the same plane crash as Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly was better known by what name?Big Bopper Which later-to-be-famous solo singer and guitarist toured as a member of the Beach Boys in the mid 60s? Glen Campbell Who had sang the hit song Little Old Wine Drinker Me? Dean Martin What famous 'two-fingered' jazz guitarist died in 1953? Django Reinhardt (Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt) What song, released to promote the film The Millionairess, featured its stars Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren? Goodness Gracious Me Who managed the Beatles' prior to his early death in 1967? Brian Epstein Whose nickname was a derived from the term satchel-mouth? Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) What's the name of the motorbiker who dies in the Shangri-Las' hit The Leader of the Pack? Jimmy Which singing-songwriting founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers died age 26, after which his body was 'stolen' by a friend and burnt in the Joshua Tree National Park? Gram Parsons Which American singer and entertainer was nicknamed Schnozzola, because of his large nose? Jimmy Durante Who wrote and had a hit with the instrumental Classical Gas? Mason Williams Who wrote Patsy Cline's hit Crazy? Willie Nelson What city hosted the Beatles as the resident band at the Kaiserkeller and Top Ten Club? Hamburg The Isley Brothers' hit was called Behind a ... what? Painted Smile 1950-60s record turntables commonly offered four speeds: 33, 45, 78, and what other? 16 (technically the speeds were 33⅓ and 16⅔ but record decks tended to show only the whole numbers) American DJ Robert Weston Smith was better known by what stage name? Wolfman Jack What ridiculously titled song was a hit in 1954 for Max Bygraves in the UK and the Four Lads in the USA? Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea Who had the 1965 instrumental hit Spanish Flea? Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass What was Emile Ford and the Checkmates' 1959 hit, supposedly the longest ever question in a UK No1 song title? What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? Who singer-guitarist's backing band was The Bruvvers? Joe Brown Which Rolling Stones guitarist died in a swimming pool in 1969? Bri
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What is the US state capital of South Carolina?
South Carolina - U.S. States - HISTORY.com South Carolina A+E Networks Introduction Settled by the English in 1670, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. constitution in 1788.Itsearly economy was largely agricultural, benefitting from thearea’s fertile soil,andplantation farmersrelied on theslave trade for cheap labor to maximize their profits. By 1730,people of African descent made up two thirds of the colony’spopulation. South Carolinabecame the first state to secede from the union in 1861, and was the site of the first shots of the Civil War–the shellingof the federally heldFort Sumter by Confederate troops on April 12, 1861. Today, South Carolina coastline near Myrtle Beach has developed into one of the premiere resort destinations on the East Coast, and has over 100 golf courses. Famous South Carolinians include musicians James Brown, Chubby Checker and Dizzy Gillespie, novelist Pat Conroy, boxer Joe Frazier, tennis champion Althea Gibson, politician Jesse Jackson and long-serving U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond. Date of Statehood: May 23, 1788 Capital: Columbia Motto: Dum Spiro Spero (While I Breathe, I Hope) Tree: Palmetto Bird: Carolina Wren Interesting Facts Charleston welcomed a shipment of golf balls and clubs from Scotland as early as 1743. On September 29, 1786, the South Carolina Golf Club was formed and, within the same year, America’s first golf course was established on Harleston Green. In 2011, there were more than 350 golf courses within the state of South Carolina. After capturing Columbia on February 17, 1865, Union soldiers under General William Tecumseh Sherman burned and destroyed more than two-thirds of the city. Due to scarce funding following the war, the new State House was not rebuilt until 1903. On November 2, 1954, former governor Strom Thurmond became the first person to be elected to the U.S. Senate as a write-in candidate, winning 63 percent of the vote. Thurmond served the state of South Carolina as senator for 47 years, five months and eight days. In 2000, the Confederate flag was removed from the dome on top of the State House and placed on the grounds near the Confederate Soldier Monument in response to a NAACP boycott of the state and protests over its legacy. More than 10 years later, the flag’s location continues to be the subject of ongoing controversy. The only commercial tea plantation in the contiguous 48 states is on Wadmalaw Island, near Charleston, South Carolina. The palmetto tree has been an important icon of South Carolina since the American Revolutionary War. When the British attacked a fort on Sullivan’s Island, near Charleston, the cannonballs bounced off the spongy palmetto logs used to build the exterior wall. Tags
Australian Cities, States and Territories - Tourism Australia Add Share Mainland Australia is the world’s largest island but also the smallest continent. The country is divided into six states and two territories.   What are Australia's cities, states and territories? Mainland Australia is the world’s largest island but also the smallest continent. The country is divided into six states and two territories. Australian Capital Territory The  Australian Capital Territory  (ACT) bounds the national capital of  Canberra  and is the centre of government. The Australian Capital Territory is located approximately 290 kilometres (180 miles) south of Sydney, and is home to a number of important national institutions, including Parliament House, the Australian War Memorial and the National Gallery of Australia. New South Wales New South Wales  (NSW) is Australia’s oldest and most populous state. New South Wales was originally settled as a penal colony on the shores of Port Jackson where the bustling capital city of  Sydney  now stands. Sydney is the nation’s largest city and is renowned for its idyllic beaches, great walks and world-class dining. New South Wales is also home to popular attractions including the Blue Mountains and the Hunter Valley wine region.  Northern Territory At the top end of Australia lies the  Northern Territory  (NT).  Darwin , on the northern coast, is the capital, and  Alice Springs  is the principal inland town. Alice Springs is the physical heart of Australia, almost exactly at the nation's geographical centre. The Northern Territory is home to the famous  Uluru  (Ayers Rock),  Kata Tjuta  (the Olgas) and  Kakadu National Park .   Queensland Queensland  (QLD) is Australia’s second-largest state (in size) and is home to the world famous  Great Barrier Reef , the world’s most extensive subtropical rainforest and the beautiful Queensland Islands – including the World Heritage-listed  Fraser Island .  Brisbane  is the state’s capital; it enjoys more winter sunshine and warmth than most Australian cities and is perfect for outdoor activities and water sports. South Australia South Australia  (SA) sits in the southern central part of the country, and covers some of the most arid parts of the continent. The state’s capital is  Adelaide  and is a great base for exploring the  Barossa  wineries, the  Flinders Ranges  and  Kangaroo Island . South Australia has a thriving arts scene and is known as the ‘Festival State’, with more than 500 events and festivals taking place there each year.  Tasmania Tasmania  (TAS) is separated from mainland Australia by the Bass Strait and is the smallest state in Australia. The capital,  Hobart , was founded in 1804 as a penal colony, and is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. One-fifth of Tasmania is covered by national parks and wilderness – abundant in driving routes and walking trails – and it is one of the world’s most mountainous islands.  Victoria Victoria  (VIC) is the smallest of the mainland states in size but is home to the country’s second most populated city,  Melbourne . Often referred to as the nation’s cultural capital, Melbourne is famed for its graffiti laneways, fashion-forward boutiques and booming café scene. Victorians' enthusiasm for sport is also legendary and this is where  Australian Rules football  began. The only thing more sacred than  the footy  is Melbournians love of coffee, and here you’ll find some of Australia’s best flat whites, cappuccinos and piccolo lattes.  Western Australia Western Australia  (WA) is Australia’s largest state and is a place of true contrasts: from desert in the east to 13,000 kilometres of pristine coastline on the west. The state’s capital is  Perth ; the fourth most populous city in Australia and famed for its uncrowded beaches, parklands and fresh seafood. Off the coast of Esperance, in the state’s south, is Middle Island, which is home to the extraordinary pink-coloured  Lake Hillier . Australia also administers Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands, the Coral S
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For what product is the town of Honiton, Devon, famous?
BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Home town - Honiton tour The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. FACTS Wool and cloth were some of the first goods to be traded on a commercial basis in the town in the 13th Century. By the 19th Century, around the year 1881, Honiton's repute had spread beyond fabrics and wool, to pottery. It began to produce highly unusual and world renown pieces after the Second World War, when its art deco pieces established the town as a centre for expertise. PRINT THIS PAGE View print friendly version of this page.. Honiton, the 'gateway' to Devon and Cornwall, stands on the main road & rail route to London and Exeter. A pleasant residential and market town, Honiton is world famous both for its lace products and the unique hand painted pottery produced here. The visitor to this friendly town will be delighted at the number and variety of antique shops and could while away many hours browsing through them. Honiton's vibrant street market Each Tuesday and Saturday, Honiton has market stalls lining each side of the broad main street. You can buy such diverse items as clothing, electrical goods, books and paintings, as well as antiques and bric-a-brac. With the addition of local garden centre products, the end result is a colourful vibrant display. The local museum has a wealth of artefacts from Honiton's colourful past, situated on the high street next to St. Paul's church it's certainly worth a visit. Ian pictured outside Honiton Museum Honiton is said to be the first place in Devon in which wool was manufactured into cloth. The serges produced from the looms in the town enjoyed a great reputation for their quality. Sadly, with the advent of cotton, there was a decline in demand and eventually only one serge-maker survived. more on Honiton
Kendal – Visit Cumbria Kendal Kendal Town Hall. Situated to the South of the Lake District, six miles from junction 36 of the  M6 motorway , and only a few miles from the sea, Kendal is especially well placed to cater for everyone’s holiday needs.   The town boasts a population of some 28000 (2001) is home to a fine selection of shopping arcades, can boast two castles, two museums, a host of historical buildings and bridges, fine restaurants, a multitude of public houses, excellent local schools, low crime rates, quality hotels and views that would please the most demanding photographer.   The town is fed by the A65 from North Yorkshire to the South, the A591 from Barrow and Ulverston to the North, the A684 from Sedbergh to the East, the A685 from Appleby to the North East, and the M6 motorway some 6 miles away to the South providing easy access to Penrith and Carlisle and then onto Scotland. Railway passengers can alight in Kendal from the Kendal to Windermere service, and can travel to the town from further a field by the West Coast main line from London Euston to Glasgow, getting off at Oxenholme, about two miles outside of the town.   Kendal is often seen as the Southern gateway to the Lake District, being only around 9 miles from Windermere and around 30 miles from Keswick. The other lakes are all within an hour or two’s travelling by car from the town, as are locations for walks and rambles, both gentle and demanding.   Kendal has, at various times in the past, been an important centre for trade and commerce. The town’s traditional trade was in wool, from which the town’s motto “Pannus mihi panis”, literally meaning “wool is my bread” was taken.   There is also a strong link with the footwear industry, Kendal being home to the famous K-Shoes brand up until the factories ceased to operate around 2003. The warehouse on the edge of town now houses one of Kendal’s excellent shopping arcades.   The town’s most famous export must be Kendal Mint Cake. Joseph Wiper came up with the original recipe for the Everest conquering energy bars, and by the time the company was sold to rival mint cake makers Romneys, there were a number of local firms producing their own brands. Kendal’s manufacturing industries all but vanished after the demise of the canal in the 1940’s, with the first few miles of the canal from Kendal onwards being filled in and turned into building land, footpaths and cycle ways.   Today the town is home to a thriving retail sector, with no less than five shopping arcades; K Village, the Westmorland Shopping Centre, Blackhall Yard Shopping arcade, the Elephant Yard and Wainwright’s Yard. The Town Centre has recently mostly been pedestrianised and offers a safe connection point for all these shopping areas.   Kendal is home to a multitude of historically exciting buildings, including the parish church on the river side in Kirkland, a number of houses and office buildings designed and built by renowned local architects, the 14th century Castle Dairy, Kendal Castle and Castle Howe, Abbot Hall Museum, Kendal Museum, a host of churches and chapels and rows of houses built from the 1600’s right through to the present day.   In fact the radio broadcaster, historian and famous son of Kendal, David Starkey, once stated that Kendal could have been like York, if only they hadn’t knocked down so many of the historical buildings. Such was the zealous attitude of the town’s councils towards moving with the times, that, at various times in the last hundred years, great swathes of Kendal’s architectural gems have been demolished to make way for roads and housing developments.   From the Romans, who left us with the camp at Watercrook on the banks of the river Kent, to the Normans who left us with not one but two castles and a church that is only a few feet narrower than the mighty York Minster, to the Elizabethans and the Victorians, who left us with a wealth of architecture that can only usually be found in larger towns and cities, Kendal is a North Western gem that deserves a visit.   Walking around the town amongst the ‘mis
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