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House of Commons - Voter engagement in the UK - Political and Constitutional Reform · Electoral reform. Automatic registration 143. We have previously recommended that "it would be desirable to identify a system whereby those eligible to vote could be automatically registered",[ 320 ] and we have heard some further arguments that this would be desirable. Dr Maria Sobolewska told us: "Automatic enrolment would be the ideal-world scenario in my mind, but that would be a very costly and very big step in terms of reform."[ 321 ] Sheffield for Democracy's written evidence also called for automatic registration, stating that this could be linked to "something like the National Insurance number".[ 322 ] The Government's response to our suggestion that automatic registration would be desirable was: The Committee's proposal for automatic registration would represent a significant shift away from the present system of elector-led application and voluntary registration, to a system of automaticity with an opt out. Such a system would present a number of issues for the electors. As well as the cultural change this would entail, it would also present potential challenges in terms of ensuring the accuracy of the electoral register and its security against fraud, which would require very careful further consideration.[ 323 ] 144. We reaffirm our view that voters should ideally be registered to vote automatically. The fact that the latest parliamentary electoral registers were only 85.9% complete and 86% accurate makes a strong case for a system of automatic registration, which could include the use of the National Insurance number. We recommend that in its response to this Report the Government clearly set out its view on moving to a system of automatic registration. Such a system could operate alongside Individual Electoral Registration. Modernising electoral administration 145. There are several ways in which current electoral practices could be modernised to make voting more accessible to the electorate, and we have been told that "the more opportunities provided for individuals to vote, the more likely they are to do so".[ 324 ] Phil Thompson, Research and Evaluation Manager at the Electoral Commission, told us of some views the Electoral Commission had received from the public in a recent opinion survey. The results included: · 70% of people said they would support weekend voting; · 65% would support advance voting in some other way so voting would be stretched over a number of days, and · About 63% of people said they would support the introduction of online voting.[ 325 ] Between 2000 and 2007 several electoral modernisation pilot schemes were run across the UK, but none have been run since.[ 326 ] WEEKEND OR EXTENDED VOTING 146. Traditionally, elections in the UK are held on Thursdays; the last general election not to be held on a Thursday was on Tuesday 27 October 1931. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 provided for future parliamentary general elections to be held on first Thursday in May in the fifth calendar year following the previous general election. Elsewhere in Europe it is common for elections to be held on the weekendfor the recent elections to the European Parliament, the UK was one of only three countries, the others being the Netherlands and Ireland, out of the 28 involved to hold elections on a weekday. Other countries, including the United States of America, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and Ireland hold elections on various weekdays. Several witnesses and written submissions stated that moving elections to the weekend could have a positive impact on voter engagement.[ 327 ] Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Co-director of Democratic Audit, told us: I think if you look across Europe the general pattern is that elections that are held on the weekend have a 10% higher turnout than elections that are held on working days. We think that is a pretty easy win. It has costs in terms of higher overtime pay or something like that, but if you were interested in increasing turnout, that would be a useful thing.[ 328 ]
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Labour leadership election: which candidates have what it takes to head the party | Politics | The Guardian The Observer Labour leadership election: which candidates have what it takes to head the party In the post-Miliband era, the new Labour leader will have to ‘speak human’ appeal to ‘John Lewis voters’, be a ‘friend of the north’, be trusted with the economy – and have some charisma. So how do they measure up? From left: Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Mary Creagh, Tristam Hunt and Liz Kendall speak at the Progress annual conference in London on Saturday. Photograph: Laura Lean/PA Toby Helm Saturday 16 May 2015 19.04 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 19 July 2016 09.39 EDT Close SPEAKING HUMAN Ed Miliband was taunted by political opponents, often unfairly, for always speaking like a policy wonk. So can the new leader relate better to voters? Andy Burnham, MP for Leigh He likes to talk about football (he’s an Everton fan) to anyone who'll listen, before getting on to politics. Can explain complex issues like the future of the Health Service or education without resorting to jargon. He’s a charmer. Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Serious often but feisty, and impressive on TV; has often fielded by Labour on Question Time to take hard questions. A Harvard-educated economist and former journalist, she is good at the communications game, though some say she can be wooden. Liz Kendall, MP for Leicester West Good at soundbites and personable, if sometimes over-intense. Cuts through jargon well. Prepared to be blunt. Said of the use private sector in the NHS that “what matters is what works” with a Blairite zeal that endeared her to that wing of the party. Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield Speaks well, with good one-liners. “We’ve got to have a much bolder vision for our future, much bigger ambitions for people in this country.” Good company and humour. Tristram Hunt, MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central Strong in front of a camera. A TV historian who can talk a good game, although sometimes seen as being too relaxed he talked good human on Question Time last when he was outed for being more than a bit interested in the leadership. Does he sound too posh? JOHN LEWIS APPEAL? Tristram Hunt launched the concept of a John Lewis voter, saying Labour would only win if it championed aspirational middle class voters who shop there, and at Waitrose. Andy Burnham A Liverpool boy, a lad at heart, but he was a member of Tony Blair’s and Gordon Brown’s governments. He doesn’t like the mansion tax, and says the public sees it aspart of a “politics of envy” which no one likes. Did his assault on NHS privatisation position him too close to Old Labour for middle-class southern voters’ taste? Yvette Cooper Cooper will have no problem with appealing to middle-class aspirational voters, although in tandem with addressing working-class concerns like those of her constituents. Liz Kendall Espouses the causes of John Lewis voters in spades. Talks lots about aspiration and believes Labour failed to identify sufficiently with them under Ed Miliband’s leadership. Very New Labour. Mary Creagh Aspiration is a favourite word, would want to fold John Lewis shoppers into her Labour big tent. Once accused her fellow Labour MPs of shunning her because she spoke with a middle-class, southern accent. Tristram Hunt Will be known, if not careful, as the John Lewis candidate. Privately educated and Oxbridge, he is passionate, though, about regeneration of urban communities and has done an impressive job in selling his Stoke constituency as a place to invest. FRIENDS IN THE NORTH? Labour failed to win key marginals in the north and lost working-class voters to Ukip in droves. Miliband was seen as too southern so how does the party reconnect in northern heartlands? Andy Burnham Retains a strong Liverpool accent and is a local hero in the city of his birth, having campaigned relentlessly for the families of victims of the Hillsborough disaster. Cambridge educated but very much clings on to his northern roots. Yvette Cooper Born in Scotland, she has been the
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Who is the subject of the poem The Widow at Windsor, part of the Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling published in 1892?
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Barrack Room Ballads by Kipling, Rudyard Reviews (1) feeney (Black Mountain): Rudyard Kipling's two-part (1892, 1896) BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is holding up as a good read more than a century after its 38 poems first appeared in book form. *** These are soldier stories, Tommy stories, British GI in India Thomas Adkins stories. The points of view expressed usually come from rankers and non-coms in barracks in cantonments, from little people who put in their six years soldiering abroad for Queen Victoria and then go home to England, Ireland, Wales or Scotland. ***A half dozen of the ballads are still recited or sung today. -- (1) "Tommy": "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,/ But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you"; -- (2) "Gunga Din": "'E'll be squattin' on the coals/Givin' drink to poor damned souls,/An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!"; -- (3) "The Widow at Windsor"; -- (4) "Mandalay": "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,/Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"; -- (5) "Gentlemen-Rankers": "We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,/Baa! Baa! Baa!/We're little black sheep who've gone astray,/ Baa--aa--aa!/Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,/Damned from here to Eternity,/God ha' mercy on such as we,/Baa! Yah! Bah!"; -- (6) "Cholera Camp": "We've got to die somewhere -- some way -- some'ow --/We might as well begin to do it now!.; *** Other things being equal, buy a scholarly edition of BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. You will profit from some historical context on the 19th Century British Raj in India, also from a glossary of Hindustani or Anglo-Indian phrases as mauled by common soldiers and from a map or two as well. But even as stand-alone verses, BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is a strong keeper. -OOO- Review this book (Want a chance to win $50 ? Log-in or create an account first!) (You'll be automatically entered for a chance to win $50!)
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Frequently Asked Questions | Britroyals Frequently Asked Questions When did the last British King fight in a battle? George II was the last British King to lead his army in person, during the War of the Austrian Succession, at the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria, 27th June, 1743. The last English King to die in battle was Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in Leicestershire on 22 August 1485 defeated by Henry Tudor who became Henry VII ending the Wars of the Roses between the Houses of York and Lancaster and starting the Tudor dynasty. The last British King to die in battle was James IV of Scotland killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in Northumberland on 9 September 1513 when the Scots invaded England hoping to take advantage of Henry VIII's absence in France, but were defeated by English forces under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. How far back can the British Royal Family trace their roots? Is Queen Elizabeth II really directly descended from Alfred the Great? She is the 32nd great granddaughter of King Alfred who 1,140 years ago was the first effective King of England. He ruled from 871 to 899. I thought that American Independence was in 1776. Why is it quoted as 1783? The Continental Congress of the 13 American colonies declared independence in 1776. However, the war continued and independence from Britain was not achieved until the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Was George III really mad? For most of his reign King George III was an astute king and politician with a strong sense of duty. Later in his reign he suffered from recurrent and eventually permanent mental illness. This baffled medical science at the time, although it is now generally thought that he suffered from the inherited blood disease porphyria. He suffered his first attack in 1788 and by 1810 was unfit to rule. In 1811 his son George, Prince of Wales, became Regent for 9 years until his father died in 1820. Who would now be King or Queen if Edward VIII had not abdicated? Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 less than a year after becoming King to marry Wallis Simpson. His younger brother Bertie became King George VI and was the father of the present Queen Elizabeth II . He died in 1952, and Edward who had no children died in 1972. So even if Edward had not abdicated Elizabeth would now be Queen. She would have come to the throne in 1972 instead of 1952. Why did Edward VIII have to give up the throne to marry a divorcee but Prince Charles is still in line to the throne? Royals who are divorced or marry divorcees do not lose their position in the line of succession. Edward VIII had a number of affairs with married women including Wallis Simpson who was already divorced and still married to her second husband. His parents King George V and Queen Mary did not approve and refused to meet her. When George V died Prime Minister Baldwin made it clear that the Government, popular opinion in the country and the oversees Dominions (now the Commonwealth nations) did not approve of his plans to marry Wallis. Social attitudes towards divorce and a women looking for a third marriage were considered scandalous at the time, and if Edward married against the advice of his Ministers it would have caused the Government to resign and a constitutional crisis. Edward chose to
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What Is Tiger Woods' Real First Name? By Brent Kelley Question: Tiger Woods First Name: What is Tiger's Real First Name? Answer: What is Tiger Woods' first name? Everyone knows him as "Tiger," but everyone also knows that isn't his given first name, his birth name. Tiger Woods ' real first name is "Eldrick." I can find no source that explains why his parents gave him the name "Eldrick." There doesn't necessarily have to be a reason (such as Woods being named after a relative), of course, beyond it being a name his parents liked and selected. According to those baby name suggestion Web sites, "Eldrick" is of German or English origin, and is a variation of "Eldridge" or "Aldric." The original meaning of the name was "righteous ruler" or "sage ruler."
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Adam Faith Biography Adam Faith Biography Adam Faith (June 23, 1940 - March 8, 2003) was a British singer and actor. He was born Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright in Acton in West London. He was unaware that his real surname was Nelhams-Wright until he applied for a passport and obtained his birth certificate. He was known as Terry Nelhams in his early life. Adam Faith was one of Britain's early pop stars. His first hit, "What Do You Want", came in 1959, and with subsequent songs like "Poor Me" "Don't that Beat All" and "Someone Else's Baby" he established himself as a serious rival to Cliff Richard in British pop music. His style and looks were in complete contrast to Cliff's, offering a real alternative for the teenage market. Like most contemporary pop singers, he did not write his own material, and much of his early success was attributable to his partnership with John Barry. Faith's brand of sometimes rather twee pop ("Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop)") became less popular through the 1960s in the face of competition from groups like the Beatles, and he began an alternative career as an actor. While still a musician he had appeared in films such as Beat Girl (1961), but now he concentrated on acting in the theatre. In the 1970s he went into music management, managing Leo Sayer among others. He appeared in the 1970s television series Budgie, about an ex-convict, but after a car accident as a result of which he almost lost a leg, his career suffered something of a decline. It restarted in 1975 when he landed a major role as the manipulative manager of rock star David Essex in the film Stardust. In the early 1990s, Faith had another hit TV series in Love Hurts with Zoe Wanamaker. In the 1980s Adam Faith's interests moved from show business to finance and he became a financial investments advisor. In 1986 he was hired as a financial journalist, by the Daily Mail and its sister paper the Mail on Sunday. He also had an involvement with the television Money Channel. But the channel proved to be an unsuccessful venture and closed down in 2001. Adam Faith was declared bankrupt owing a reported �32m. He had had heart problems since 1986 when he underwent open heart surgery. He became ill after his stage performance in Stoke on Trent on the Friday evening and died in hospital of a heart attack early on Saturday morning, March 8, 2003. Michael Caine, (born Maurice Micklewhite) said that his mother worked with Adam's mother in their early days, but because each, of course, referred to her son by his real name, they never made the connection to each other's already well-known offspring.
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In which hemisphere does the majority of the land area of Africa lie?
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Geography of the Southern Hemisphere and Facts Share By Amanda Briney The Southern Hemisphere is the southern portion or half of the Earth ( map ). It begins at the equator at 0° and continues south into higher latitudes until it reaches 90°S or the South Pole in the middle of Antarctica. The word hemisphere itself specifically means half of a sphere, and because the earth is spherical (although it is considered an oblate sphere ) a hemisphere is half. Geography and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere In comparison to the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere has fewer land masses and more water. The South Pacific, South Atlantic, Indian Oceans and various seas such as the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand and the Weddell Sea near Antarctica make up around 80.9% of the Southern Hemisphere. Land comprises only 19.1%. In the Northern Hemisphere, the majority of area is composed of land masses instead of water. The continents making up the Southern Hemisphere include all of Antarctica, around 1/3 of Africa, most of South America and nearly all of Australia. continue reading below our video Overview of the Four Seasons Because of the large presence of water in the Southern Hemisphere, climate in the Earth's southern half is more mild overall than the Northern Hemisphere. In general, water heats and cools more slowly than land so water near any land area usually has a moderating effect on the land's climate. Since water surrounds land in much of the Southern Hemisphere, more of it is moderated than in the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere, like the Northern Hemisphere is also divided into several different regions based on climate. The most prevalent is the southern temperate zone , which runs from the Tropic of Capricorn to the beginning of the Arctic Circle at 66.5°S. This area features a temperate climate which generally has large amounts of precipitation, cold winters and warm summers. Some countries included in the southern temperate zone include most of Chile , all of New Zealand and Uruguay. The area directly north of the southern temperate zone and lying between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn is known as the tropics- an area which has warm temperatures and precipitation year round. South of the southern temperate zone is the Antarctic Circle and the Antarctic continent. Antarctica, unlike the rest of the Southern Hemisphere is not moderated by the large presence of water because it is a very large land mass. In addition, it is considerably colder than the Arctic in the Northern Hemisphere for the same reason. Summer in the Southern Hemisphere lasts from around December 21 to the vernal equinox around March 20 . Winter lasts from around June 21 to the autumnal equinox around September 21. These dates are due to the Earth's axial tilt and from the period of December 21 to March 20, the southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, while during the June 21 to September 21 interval, it is tilted away from the sun. The Coriolis Effect and the Southern Hemisphere An important component of physical geography in the Southern Hemisphere is the Coriolis Effect and the specific direction that objects are deflected in Earth's southern half. In the southern hemisphere any object moving over the Earth's surface deflects to the left. Because of this, any large patterns in air or water turn counterclockwise south of the equator. For example, there are many large oceanic gyres in the North Atlantic and North Pacific- all of which turn counterclockwise. In the Northern Hemisphere these directions are reversed because objects are deflected to the right. In addition, the left deflection of objects impacts the flows of air over the Earth. A high pressure system for example is an area where the atmospheric pressure is greater than that of the surrounding area. In the Southern Hemisphere, these move counterclockwise because of the Coriolis Effect. By contrast, low pressure systems or areas where atmospheric pressure is less than that of the surrounding area move clockwise because of the Coriolis Effect i
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The New International Encyclopædia/Africa - Wikisource, the free online library The New International Encyclopædia/Africa 1500566 The New International Encyclopædia — Africa AF′RICA (Lat. Africa, from Afer, inhabitant of Africa; of uncertain derivation, possibly of Phœnician origin. It seems to have been originally the designation of Carthage, as the colony of Tyre, and later extended to the whole continent. It is certain that the name Africa was first applied to the neighborhood of Carthage—the part first known to the Romans—and Afrygah, or Afrikiyah, is still applied by the Arabs to the land of Tunis). A continent of the eastern hemisphere, and in point of size the second of the great land divisions of the globe, with an area of about 11,230,000 square miles, exclusive of islands. The continent ranks third in size only by virtue of an unwarranted composite naming of the American continents. Africa is an independent continent in even less degree than is either of the two Americas, for it forms the southwesterly extension of the Old World land-mass, and it lies in close proximity to Asia and Europe, with both of which continents it has, during long periods of past geological time, been intimately united by broad isthmuses. In form Africa consists of two parts, a northern ellipsoid, with an east and west longitudinal axis, comprising the Sahara-Sudan region, and a southern triangular limb attached to the southern side of the eastern half of the northern portion, and consisting of the Congo region and the South African highlands. Somewhat north of the middle point of the eastern side of the continent, a massive triangular projection, the Somali Peninsula, extends almost 1000 miles toward the Indian Peninsula of Asia. The extreme length of Africa from Cape Blanco in Tunis (lat. 37° 20′ N. ), its most northerly point, to its southern termination. Cape Agulhas (lat. 34° 51′ S.), is about 5000 miles in an almost north and south direction; and its greatest width from its western outpost, Cape Verde (long. 17° 30′ W.), to its eastern apex, Ras Hafun, on Cape Guardafui (long. 51° 28′ E.), is about 4500 miles in an almost west and east direction. The northern and southern points of the continent are almost equidistant from the equator; so that Africa, compared with South America, has a greater proportion of its area situated in the torrid zone. At its northeast corner, by the Isthmus of Suez, Africa has a geographic union ninety miles wide with Asia. Until a comparatively recent period it had a much closer union, for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now occupy the deep, narrow basin of a rift valley that has been formed since Pliocene time. On the north, the Mediterranean Sea separates Africa from Europe by a wide and deep basin that is restricted at its western end, so that the shores of Spain and Morocco approach to within about nine miles of each other. This northern Mediterranean coast is broken only by the broad and shallow embayment that holds the gulfs of Cabes and Sidra. The western extension, from Gibraltar to Cape Palmas, projects into the Atlantic Ocean with a regularly rounded coast line that is almost unbroken by bays or peninsulas, capes Blanco and Verde being inconspicuous projections. From Cape Palmas the coast runs eastward along the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea for about 1200 miles to Kamerun and thence in an undulating line, slightly east of south, for nearly 3000 miles to Cape Agulhas at the southern extremity of the continent, where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet. The eastern coast of the southern limb, washed by the Indian Ocean, extends from Cape Agulhas with gentle curves for 3600 miles to Cape Guardafui at the apex of the Somali Peninsula. The coast line of Africa is peculiar in that it presents a remarkably even front, almost unbroken by bays and peninsulas, contrasting strongly in this respect with the coast lines of Europe, Asia, and North America, but resembling that of South America. The length of the coast line of Africa, 18,400 miles, bears a smaller proportion to the shortest possible per
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Britain's only poisonous snake, the Adder, in danger of dying out | Daily Mail Online comments Adders are now an endangered species because their hibernation sites are being destroyed, snake experts have warned. Scientists say Britain's only poisonous snake is in more urgent need of help than any other reptile or amphibian species in the UK. A conference of conservationists met at the Greenwich University campus in Chatham, Kent, at the weekend to discuss ways of saving the once common snake. Endangered: A black adder, Vipera berus, in Sussex. Snakes like this are now extinct in a number of British counties It backed a plan to create a website for a survey project in which volunteers monitor snake numbers at their local sites. Adders are rapidly declining in numbers and the species is already extinct in some counties, including Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share One of the biggest threats is damage to hibernation sites, such as rabbit holes and tree roots. Herpetologist Dr Chris Gleed-Owen told the Daily Telegraph: 'The adder is an enigmatic snake, steeped in history and folklore, from the druids to Shakespeare and Arthurian legend. An adder being tested as government conservation agency Natural England, the Zoological Society of London and Oxford University carry out health checks on wild snakes earlier this year TREAD CAREFULLY: ADDER FACTS The adder can be recognised by the distinctive 'V' or 'X' marking on its head and zig-zag stripe across its back. The snakes are often found in open heathland and dense woods. They are not aggressive animals and will only resort to using venom as a last means of defence if captured - or trodden on. Within hours of a bite, symptoms can include dizziness, nausea, vomiting and painful swelling. The venom is rarely fatal but any bite should be taken seriously. 'It would be tragic to see it disappear.' Despite the drop in numbers, there is anecdotal evidence among vets of an increase in people and pets being bitten by adders this year. In July, two dogs died in Essex after being bitten by poisonous adders that were out in unusually large numbers because of the hot weather. There have been 14 known fatalities among humans in Britain since 1876. The last was a five-year-old child who died in 1975. Several anti-venoms are now available which limit the effects to nausea and drowsiness, followed by severe bruising and swelling around the bite. Dogs and other pets are more susceptible to the venom because they are smaller than humans. And treatment is often delayed because owners often don't realise what is wrong at first.
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1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? 3. If Alpha is 1, and Beta is 2, what is 6? 4. If Tony Blackburn won in 2002, Phil Tuffnell won in 2003, and Kerry Katona won in 2004, who won in 2007? 5. If David Lloyd George is 1, Andrew Bonal Law is 2, and Stanley Baldwin is 3, who is 4? 6. If Liverpool won in 2006, and Chelsea won in 2007, who won in 2008? 7. How many pints does a 10- gallon hat hold? 8. Who was murdered by Fitzurse, de Tracy, de Morville and Le Breton? 9. Who presents Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer? 10. From what ancient activity does the word ‘crestfallen’ come? 11. What non-mechanical sport achieves the highest speeds? 12. What major city is on an island in the St Lawrence river? 13. Who succeeded Alf Ramsey to become caretaker manger for the English national football team in 1974? 14. What did Britain’s roads first acquire in 1914? 15. Which former Liverpool player held the record for the fastest hat-trick, scoring 3 goals in less than 5 minutes? 16. Myleen Klass (pictured) now presents 10 Years Younger on Channel 4, but what was the name of the pop band that gave her success in 2001? 17. Who was the presenter of Out Of Town in the 1960s who went on to appear on the children’s TV programme How? 18. Whose autobiography is called Dear Fatty? 19. Who were Tom and Barbara’s neighbours in The Good Life? 20. In Cockney rhyming slang what are your ‘Daisy Roots’? 21. What is the surname of the twin brothers who compiled the Guinness Book of Records together between 1955 and 1975? 22. Which actor played Columbo? 23. Does the Bactrian camel have one hump, or two? 24. Where is the world's largest four-faced chiming clock? 25. Concerned about the impact of uncontrolled development and industrialisation, what National Charity was founded in 1895 by three Victorian philanthropists, Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley? 26. What famous make of motorcycle was Lawrence of Arabia riding when he was tragically killed in Dorset in 1936? 27. What colour of flag should a ship fly to show it is in quarantine? 28. Purple Brittlegill, Velvet Shank and Orange Milkcap are three types of what? 29. What is the name of the flats where the Trotters lived in Only Fools And Horses? 30. In computing, what does the abbreviation USB stand for? ANSWERS: 1. Saturn; 2. Tom Baker (Doctor Who actors); 3. Zeta; 4. Christopher Biggins. (I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Joe Pasquale 04, Carol Thatcher 05, Matt Willis 06, and Joe Swash 08); 5. Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Ministers post WW1); 6. Portsmouth (FA Cup); 7. 6; 8. Thomas Becket; 9. Kirstie Allsopp; 10. Cockfighting; 11. Sky-diving; 12. Montreal; 13. Joe Mercer; 14. White Lines; 15. Robbie Fowler; 16. Hearsay; 17. Jack Hargreaves; 18. Dawn French; 19. Margo and Jerry Leadbetter; 20. Boots; 21. McWhirter (Ross and Norris); 22. Peter Falk; 23. Two; 24. The Clock Tower on the Palace of Westminster in London (Big Ben is the nickname for the bell); 25. The National Trust; 26. Brough Superior; 27. Yellow; 28. Fungi; 29. Nelson Mandela House; 30. Universal Serial Bus Like us on Facebook
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The Atacama area on the Pacific coast of South America is best characterised as what?
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Atacama Desert, South America - Travelx.com Travelx.com You are here: Home / Photos / Atacama Desert, South America Atacama Desert, South America The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometer (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world. According to estimates the Atacama Desert proper occupies 105,000 square kilometers (41,000 sq mi), or 128,000 square kilometers (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes. The World Wide Fund for Nature defines the Atacama Desert ecoregion as extending from a few kilometers south of the Peru–Chile border to about 30° south latitude. The National Geographic Society considers the coastal area of southern Peru to be part of the Atacama Desert and also includes the deserts south of the Ica Region in Peru. Peru borders it on the north and the Chilean Matorral ecoregion borders it on the south. To the east lies the less arid Central Andean dry puna ecoregion. The drier portion of this ecoregion is located south of the Loa River between the parallel Sierra Vicuña Mackenna and Cordillera Domeyko. To the north of the Loa lies the Pampa del Tamarugal. The Atacama Desert is commonly known as the driest place in the world, especially the surroundings of the abandoned Yungay town (in Antofagasta Region, Chile). The average rainfall is about 15 millimeters (0.59 in) per year, although some locations, such as Arica and Iquique, receive 1 millimeter (0.04 in) to 3 millimeters (0.12 in) in a year. Moreover, some weather stations in the Atacama have never received rain. Periods of up to four years have been registered with no rainfall in the central sector, delimited by the cities of Antofagasta, Calama and Copiapó, in Chile. Evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall from 1570 to 1971. The Atacama Desert may be the oldest desert on earth, and has experienced extreme hyperaridity for at least 3 million years, making it the oldest continuously arid region on earth. The long history of aridity raises the possibility that supergene mineralisation, under the appropriate conditions can form in arid environments, instead of requiring humid conditions. Geological research suggests that in some sections of the Atacama Desert, such as in today’s Chile, hyperaridity has persisted for the last 200 million years (since the Triassic). This desert is so arid that many mountains higher than 6,000 meters (20,000 ft) are completely free of glaciers. Only the highest peaks (such as Ojos del Salado, Monte Pissis, and Llullaillaco) have some permanent snow coverage. Geographically, the aridity of the Atacama is explained by it being situated between two mountain chains (the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range) of sufficient height to prevent moisture advection from either the Pacific or the Atlantic oceans. Although the almost total lack of precipitation is the most prominent characteristic of the Atacama Desert, exceptions may occur. In July 2011, an extreme Antarctic cold front broke through the rain shadow, bringing 80 centimeters (31 in) of snow to the plateau, stranding residents across the region, particularly in Bolivia, where many drivers became stuck in snow drifts and emergency crews became overtaxed with a large number of rescue calls. This phenomenon is called the altiplano winter, which can produce a little rain and abundant electrical storms, and occurs in January and February. In 2012, the altiplano winter brought floods to San Pedro de Atacama. The Valle de la Luna in English, the Valley of the Moon, is another area of the Atacama Desert which is said to look like the surface of the moon. It lies 13 kilometers (8 mi) to the west of the town, San Pedro de Atacama. In spite of the geographic and climatic conditions of the desert, a rich variety of flora has evolved here. Over 500 species have been
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Food in Peru - Peruvian Food, Peruvian Cuisine - traditional, popular, dishes, diet, history, common, meals, rice, main Food in Peru - Peruvian Food, Peruvian Cuisine Peru Recipes 1 GEOGRAPHIC SETTING AND ENVIRONMENT Peru is South America's third-largest country, with an area of 496,226 square miles (1,285,220 square kilometers), slightly smaller than the state of Alaska. Peru is divided into three contrasting topographical regions: the coast, the Andean highlands, and the Amazon rainforest to the east, with 18 rivers and 200 tributaries. The Peruvian Andes are divided into three chains. The western mountain chain runs parallel to the coast and forms the Peruvian continental divide. Less regular are the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental. Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca), the highest navigable lake in the world (about 12,500 feet/3,800 meters high), lies partly in Peru and partly in Bolivia. 2 HISTORY AND FOOD The first inhabitants of Peru are believed to have migrated from Asia around 6000 B.C. These early nomadic (roaming) tribesmen relied on the hunting of animals and the gathering of fruits and plants to survive. By 5000 B.C. , small communities were established and the early cultivation of cotton, chili peppers, beans, squash, and maize (similar to corn) began. Most of the early settlers lived near the coast, where the wet climate allowed for planted seeds to grow. One of the world's most popular vegetables, papas (potatoes), were first grown in Peru. The earliest remains of potatoes have been discovered at archeological sites in southern and eastern Peru, dating as far back as 400 B.C. However, it was not until the 1400s that Europeans first came in contact with the potato. They took the vegetable back to Europe, where it was slow to gain acceptance. Europe now cultivates the largest number of potatoes, but Peru continues to produce the largest potato varieties and has been referred to as the "Potato Capital of the World." Potatoes were not the only vegetable in ancient Peru, however. Avocado pits have been discovered buried with mummies dating as far back as 750 B.C. The Incas came to power in the 1400s. They survived mostly on maize and potatoes that they planted on terraces that they carved out of steep hillsides (which can still be seen today). Their empire was short-lived, however. In 1528, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro discovered Peru and was intrigued by the riches of the Inca Empire. The Spanish helped to introduce chicken, pork, and lamb to the Incas. In return, the Incas introduced the Spanish to a wide variety of potatoes and aji (chili peppers). As the Spanish gained control, they demanded that the natives grow such European crops as wheat, barley, beans, and carrots. As European disease struck the Incas and a shortage of labor arose, slaves from Africa were brought over to work on the new plantations. Africans contributed such foods as picarones (anise-sweetened, deep-fried pastries made from a pumpkin dough), to the Peruvian cuisine, as did Polynesians from the Pacific Islands, the Chinese, and the Japanese. Baked Papas (Potato) Skins In a large bowl, sprinkle the yeast over the lukewarm water and stir to dissolve. Add the sugar, egg, pumpkin, and salt; combine thoroughly. Add the flour, ½ cup at a time, until the dough becomes too stiff to beat with a wooden spoon. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured board and knead in enough of the remaining flour to prevent the dough from sticking to your fingers. Continue kneading until the dough is smooth and elastic (about 8 minutes). Shape it into a ball and place in a greased bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour, or until doubled in size. Punch down the dough and tear off pieces, shaping into doughnut-like rings, about 3 inches in diameter. Heat about 1-inch of oil in a deep skill
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What is the name of Southampton FC's home ground?
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St Mary's Stadium | Southampton FC | Football Ground Guide Football Ground Guide Address: Britannia Rd, Southampton, SO14 5FP Telephone: 0845 688 9448 Ticket Office: 0845 688 9288 Pitch Size: 112 x 74 yards Pitch Type: Grass Home Kit: Red & White Stripes Away Kit: Black and Grey External View WHAT IS THE ST MARY'S STADIUM LIKE? The Club moved from The Dell to the new St Mary's Stadium in 2001. In some ways this saw the Club returning to its roots as it was originally founded as 'Southampton St Marys', hence the club nickname 'The Saints'. To be truthful the stadium looks, quite simply, superb. The stadium is completely enclosed, with all corners being filled with seating. There are also two great looking screens sitting on the roofs at each end. Running around three sides of the stadium, just below the roof, is a transparent perspex strip allows more light and facilitates pitch growth. On the remaining side there is a row of executive boxes. The crowd are set well back from the playing action, as firstly there is a cinder track surrounding the playing surface and secondly the pitch itself must be the largest in the League (although the playing area does not use all of it). Outside the stadium behind the Itchen Stand is a statue of former Southampton legend Ted Bates. WHAT IS IT LIKE FOR VISITING SUPPORTERS? Away fans are located in the Northam Stand at one end of the stadium, where normally up to 3,300 fans can sit. For cup games this allocation can be increased to 4,750. The view of the playing action and the facilities within this stand are excellent. Leg room is good, although the width of the seating seemed to be a bit narrower than other grounds (either that, or I am putting on weight!). The sizeable concourse behind the stand features a Ladbrokes, has TV's which show the game as it is played and a number of eating and drinking outlets. There are plenty of staff and the queues never seemed to get particularly long, which was a pleasant surprise. There is also a 'Pie & Pint' outlet, that as the name suggests, only serves beer and pies. Perhaps they should rename it as 'Heaven'! I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to St Mary's and would happily return. The stadium has (contrary to other reports) a great atmosphere and the facilities are first class. I particularly commend the Club for the friendliness of their staff, from the stewards to the catering staff. Even as I left the stadium, a steward wished me an enjoyable journey home! Considering that away supporters are almost treated with contempt at some other clubs, this was a refreshing change. Coupled with the relaxed attitude of the home supporters and the excellent facilities, then this to to me makes a visit to St Mary's one of the better days out in the League. Only one minor gripe though, is that away fans are searched before entering the stadium which obviously slows the entrance process down somewhat. Phil Jones adds; 'There was an excellent view from all around the ground and the atmosphere was good. I was impressed by their having toilet facilities around the perimeter of the ground which are accessible prior to the turnstiles opening. Well done Southampton, it's the little touches like these, for the fans comfort and enjoyment of the day, which make all the difference'. PUBS FOR AWAY FANS There are not many pubs located close to the stadium, so the choice for away fans is limited. There is the Waterfront Bar in William Street, which is an area called Shamrock Quay. You can visit the Waterfront Bar website for more details. Nic Hallam a visiting Wolverhampton Wanderers fan adds; 'In the Ocean Village we found "The Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis" public house. This large establishment had an an excellent choice of beers, friendly bar staff and a convivial mix of both home and away fans'. Most fans seem to end up in the city centre before the game, where there are plenty of pubs to choose from. Paul Hunt a visiting Bristol City fan adds; 'On our last visit the Standing Order Wetherspoons outlet was for home fans only, with bouncers on the door. We ended up in Yates W
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On This Day 1926: The first greyhound meeting with a mechanical hare took place at Belle Vue, Manchester. 2000: Portugal midfielder Luis Figo, star of Euro 2000, became the world's most expensive footballer when he joined Real Madrid for £37million from Barcelona. 2005: Australia won the first Ashes Test at Lord's by 239 runs. England recovered to win a memorable series 2-1. 2005: Lance Armstrong won a record seventh successive Tour de France - his final Tour before his temporary retirement. He was later stripped of all his titles after evidence of his doping emerged. 2009: England midfielder Steven Gerrard was found not guilty of affray by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court. 2010: Down thrashed Sligo in round four of the SFC qualifiers, winning by 3-20 to 0-10. 2010: Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins died at the age of 61. 2014: Brothers Alastair and Jonny Brownlee finished first and second for England in the Commonwealth Games men's triathlon in Glasgow. Birthdays Zaheer Abbas (cricket) - former Pakistan and Gloucestershire batsman, born 1947. Jim Leighton (soccer) - former Manchester United, Aberdeen and Scotland goalkeeper, born 1958. Barry Bonds (baseball) - controversial former San Francisco Giants star, holder of the all-time record for home runs in Major League, born 1964. Martin Keown (soccer) - former Arsenal and England defender, born 1966. Steven Richardson (golf) - played in 1991 Ryder Cup, born 1966. Dino Baggio (soccer) - former Italy midfielder who had a brief spell on loan at Blackburn in 2003, born 1971. Daniele De Rossi (soccer) - Roma and Italy midfielder, born 1983. Lukas Rosol (tennis) - Czech world number 54, famous for defeating Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2012, born 1985. Quick Quiz Blitz 1 Which three football clubs have won all four English divisional titles? 2 Australia fast bowler Shaun Tait is playing for which county in this summer's NatWest T20 Blast? 3 British number one women's tennis player Johanna Konta was born in which city? 4 Who has been the top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival for eight of the last nine years? 5 Who scored the goal for Tipperary in All-Ireland SFC success over Derry? Sport on TV Today (Sunday, July 24) GAA: The Sunday Game Live - RTE 1 (1.30pm) - Waterford v Wexford (Throw-in 2.00pm) and Galway v Clare (Throw-in 4.00pm); The Sunday Game - RTE 2 - 21.30 SOCCER: International Champions Cup, Inter Milan v Paris St Germain - Sky Sports 1 2200; Euro Under-19s final - Eurosport 1 1905; MLS, New York Red Bulls v New York City FC - Sky Sports 3 1755, Sporting Kansas City v Seattle Sounders - Sky Sports 3 2000; Women's Super League, Notts County v Man City - BT Sport 1 1530. CRICKET: Second Test, England v Pakistan - Sky Sports 2 1030; First Test, West Indies v India - Sky Sports 5 1455. GOLF: PGA Tour, Canadian Open - Sky Sports 4 1800; Senior Open, Carnoustie - Sky Sports 4 1330; LPGA Tour, Scottish Open - Sky Sports 4 1030. CYCLING: Tour de France stage 21 - ITV4 1300, Eurosport 1 1530, ITV4 1200, S4C 1600; Tour de France women's 90km race - Eurosport 1 1330. TENNIS: ATP Tour, Citi Open - Sky Sports 2 2000; WTA Tour - Stanford Classic, BT Sport 1 2200. MOTOR RACING: Formula One, Hungarian Grand Prix race - Channel 4 1200, Sky Sports F1 1230. ATHLETICS: World Junior Championships, Bydgoszcz - Eurosport 2 2115. MOTORCYCLE RACING: British Superbikes - Eurosport 2 1230. DARTS: World Matchplay - Sky Sports 1 1900. SAILING: America's Cup World Series - BT Sport 1 1245. BASEBALL: MLB - BT Sport/ESPN 1800, BT Sport 2 1900, Los Angeles Dodgers v St Louis Cardinals BT Sport/ESPN 0100 (Mon). Tomorrow (Monday, July 25) CRICKET: Fourth day of the second Investec Test from Old Trafford, England v Pakistan - Sky Sports 2 1030; final day of the first Test from North Sound, West Indies v India - Sky Sports 1 1455. SOCCER: Betfred Cup first round, Rangers v Stranraer - BT Sport 1 1915. TENNIS: ATP Tour, Rogers Cup from Toronto - Sky Sports 3 1600; WTA Tour, Rogers Cup from Montreal - BT Sport 2 1730, BT Sport 1 0000 (Tue). CYCLING: Tour de Wallonie stage three - Eurosport 2 1415.
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‘Life Thru a Lens’ was the first No. 1 album by which singer in 1997?
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BBC - Music - Review of Robbie Williams - Life Thru a Lens Mike Diver 2009 Robbie Williams had a 1995 to never forget, assuming he was ever in a state capable of recording the events that passed and, ultimately, defined the artist he soon became. After drifting away from the other four members of all-conquering boyband Take That – his ideas were apparently overlooked by creative spearhead Gary Barlow, and his drug consumption threatened to see him excluded from the group before a mutual decision was finally made and he left relatively amicably – Williams wound up at Glastonbury, and was pap-snapped partying with members of the equally massive Oasis . Gossip columns flew into overdrive, and assumptions that a solo career beckoned were verified quickly enough when, the very next summer, Williams’ take on George Michael’s Freedom charted just a place shy of the top spot – that’s 26 places higher than the 1990 original. That track didn’t make it onto Williams’ debut album of 1997, a collection of co-writes with Guy Chambers that, while mostly unremarkable when assessed as standalone arrangements, comprise the solid foundations for all that followed: seven further solo albums (2009’s Reality Killed the Video Star marks his return after three years out of the spotlight), several number one singles, more BRIT awards than any other artist, and total sales worldwide of over 55 million. No single from Life Thru a Lens topped the singles chart in the UK, but the album certainly trumped all comers in its category, buoyed by both the celebrity status of its (co) maker and the catchy nature of whistle-along tunes like Lazy Days, Old Before I Die and the here-I-am-world-stop-me-if-you-can excessiveness of Let Me Entertain You, a song that’s less about collaborative enjoyment of music between artist and audience, and more about Williams puffing out his chest and adopting a swagger that would see him through until the comparatively melancholic overtones of second album, I’ve Been Expecting You. And, of course, there’s Angels. It’s hard to believe, given its prominence at weddings and funerals, on mainstream radio and in supermarket aisles, that it only charted at four. But that’s the surprising fact of the matter. Less surprising is that Life Thru a Lens was just the beginning of a career that would eventually eclipse, commercially, that of even his former employers. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. If you choose to use this review on your site please link back to this page. Tracks 2 Life Thru a Lens 3 Ego a Go Go 4 Angels 5 South of the Border 6 Old Before I Die 7 One of God’s Better People 8 Let Me Entertain You 9 Killing Me 11 Baby Girl Window / Hello Sir Clips taken from original discs may contain strong language.
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Record-Breakers and Trivia - Albums - everyHit.com Back To The 'Records & Trivia' Index Best-Selling Albums of All Time Accurate historical sales data is almost impossible to come by for the album market. We are indebted to Hanboo for his tireless work in the computation of this list. The all-time best-selling albums in the UK are: 1. "Greatest Hits (Volume One)" - Queen (1981) (5.4 million copies) Tracks: Bohemian Rhapsody / Another One Bites The Dust / Killer Queen / Fat Bottomed Girls / Bicycle Race / You're My Best Friend / Don't Stop Me Now / Save Me / Crazy Little Thing Called Love / Now I'm Here / Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy / Play The Game / Flash / Seven Seas Of Rhye / We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions / Somebody To Love 2. "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - The Beatles (1967) (4.8 million) Tracks: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With a Little Help from My Friends / Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds / Getting Better / Fixing a Hole / She's Leaving Home / Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! / Within You, Without You / When I'm Sixty-Four / Lovely Rita / Good Morning, Good Morning / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) / A Day in the Life 3. "(What's The Story) Morning Glory" - Oasis (1995) (4.3 million) Tracks: Hello / Roll With It / Wonderwall / Don't Look Back In Anger / Hey Now / untitled / Some Might Say / Cast No Shadow / She's Electric / Morning Glory / untitled / Champagne Supernova 4. "Brothers In Arms" - Dire Straits (1985) (4.0 million) Tracks: So Far Away / Money For Nothing / Walk Of Life / Your Latest Trick / Why Worry / Ride Across The River / Man's Too Strong / One World / Brothers In Arms 5. "Abba Gold Greatest Hits" - Abba (1992) (3.9 million) Tracks: Dancing Queen / Knowing Me, Knowing You / Take A Chance On Me / Mamma Mia / Lay All Your Love On Me / Super Trouper / I Have A Dream / The Winner Takes It All / Money, Money, Money / S.O.S. / Chiquitita / Fernando / Voulez Vous / Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) / Does Your Mother Know / One Of Us / The Name Of The Game / Thank You For The Music / Waterloo 6. "The Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd (1973) (3.8 million) Tracks: Speak To Me / Breathe / On The Run / Time / Great Gig In The Sky / Money / Us And Them / Any Colour You Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse 7. "Greatest Hits Volume II" - Queen (1991) (3.6 million) Tracks: Kind Of Magic / Under Pressure / I Want It All / I Want To Break Free / Innuendo / Breakthru' / Who Wants To Live Forever / Headlong / Miracle / I'm Going Slightly Mad / Invisible Man / Hammer To Fall / Friends Will Be Friends / Show Must Go On / Friends Will Be Friends / Show Must Go On / One Vision 8. "Thriller" - Michael Jackson (1982) (3.6 million) Tracks: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' / Baby Be Mine / Girl Is Mine / Thriller / Beat It / Billie Jean / Human Nature / P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) / Lady In My Life 9. "Bad" - Michael Jackson (1987) (3.6 million) Tracks: Bad / Way You Make Me Feel / Speed Demon / Liberian Girl / Just Good Friends / Another Part Of Me / Man In The Mirror / I Just Can't Stop Loving You / Dirty Diana / Smooth Criminal / Leave Me Alone 10. "The Immaculate Collection" - Madonna (1990) (3.4 million) Tracks: Holiday / Lucky Star / Borderline / Like A Virgin / Material Girl / Crazy For You / Into The Groove / Live To Tell / Papa Don't Preach / Open Your Heart / La Isla Bonita / Like A Prayer / Express Yourself / Cherish / Vogue / Justify My Love / Rescue Me 11. "Stars" - Simply Red (1991) (3.4 million) Tracks: Something Got Me Started / Stars / Thrill Me / Your Mirror / She's Got It Bad / For Your Babies / Model / How Could I Fall / Freedom / Wonderland 12. "Come On Over" - Shania Twain (1998) (3.3 million) Tracks: You're Still The One / When / From This Moment On / Black Eyes Blue Tears / I Won't Leave You Lonely / I'm Holdin' On To Love (To Save My Life) / Come On Over / You've Got A Way / Whatever You Do Don't / Man I Feel Like A Woman / Love Gets Me Every Time / Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) / That Don't Impress Me Much / Honey I'm Home / If You Wanna T
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What does GEQ stand for in IOC country code? All Acronyms. GEQ. http://www.allacronyms.com/GEQ/IOC_country_code. Published January 19, 2017. Accessed January 19, 2017. CSE All Acronyms. GEQ [Internet]; Jan 19, 2017 [cited 2017 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.allacronyms.com/GEQ/IOC_country_code. MHRA 'GEQ', All Acronyms, 19 January 2017, <http://www.allacronyms.com/GEQ/IOC_country_code> [accessed 19 January 2017] Bluebook All Acronyms, GEQ (Jan. 19, 2017, 11:01 PM), available at http://www.allacronyms.com/GEQ/IOC_country_code. CSE
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Sochi 2014: Britain used to be good at ice skating – what went wrong? | Richard Williams | Sport | The Guardian Sochi 2014: Britain used to be good at ice skating – what went wrong? Richard Williams The days of Curry, Cousins and Torvill and Dean seem a lifetime away – now we lead the medals table for good commentary Adelina Sotnikova won gold in the women's figure skating final at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Photograph: The World of Sports SC/REX The days of Curry, Cousins and Torvill and Dean seem a lifetime away – now we lead the medals table for good commentary Friday 21 February 2014 10.13 EST First published on Friday 21 February 2014 10.13 EST Share on Messenger Close You think 15 is young to be skating at the Winter Olympics? After all, that's the age of Yulia Lipnitskaya, the Russian prodigy who satisfied the minimum-age requirement only by a matter of weeks in order to compete in Sochi this week. But in 1932 an 11-year-old named Cecilia Colledge represented Britain in the Winter Games at Lake Placid; she finished eighth. Four years later she was back to win a silver, close behind her idol, the immortal Sonja Henie. She went on to win the world championship in 1937, became the first woman to perform a double jump, and invented the layback and camel spin, both still a part of every competitor's repertoire. Britain used to be good at figure skating. Amazingly, we are still ranked fifth in the discipline's all-time Olympic medal table, or fourth if you count Russia and the Soviet Union as a single entity. Only they, the United States and Austria stand ahead of us. It started with Madge Syers, one of the 15 children of a London builder, who won the gold medal in the first Olympic women's singles event, held during the Summer Games in London in 1908. Jeannette Altwegg – already a junior Wimbledon finalist – took gold in Oslo in 1952. Then came John Curry and Robin Cousins, winners in the men's singles events at Innsbruck in 1976 and Lake Placid in 1980 respectively, and Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who last week celebrated the 30th anniversary of their triumph in Sarajevo . Their bronze in Lillehammer in 1994, the reward for their brief return to Olympic competition, is Britain's last medal on the rink. Nowadays we're good at commentating on ice skating. That came as a relief this week after the barrage of uncontrolled enthusiasm from the people paid to report on the events at other Olympic venues, for whom "Stonking!" seemed to represent the ultimate term of approbation. However fevered the atmosphere down in the Iceberg skating palace, Sue Barker and Robin Cousins blended decorum with expertise. Crucially, they knew when to keep quiet. When Lipnitskaya fell, there was not even an "Aaah!" Later Cousins told us exactly how it had happened. Barker did remark, apropos of the wonderfully graceful Carolina Kostner, that "she knows how to sell a programme", immediately evoking 50s images of young women in cinema aisles with torches and trays of ice creams. But there was nothing remotely as stupid as this remark from one of the halfpipe commentators, about a competitor in the women's event on Thursday: "She's skiing the equivalent of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours – a seminal album!" Cousins and Barker had a series of wonderful events through which to guide us. In the pairs, a Russian couple performed a complete routine to the sound of wire brushes on a snare drum, interrupted only momentarily by a few semi-abstract phrases from an acoustic guitar. After this startling break from the traditional pattern of selecting music from the era of the mighty Wurlitzer, they were immediately beaten into second place by a couple of their compatriots skating to 42nd Street. In the ice dance, behind the superb USA and Canadian teams, two more Russians won a bronze with a spectacularly moody routine inspired by the film Black Swan. Later it would be suggested in the overseas press that the surprise victory of the 17-year-old Adelina Sotnikova in the women's singles , the first for a Russian skater, had come about through bias among t
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Destinations | Flights to and from Liverpool John Lennon Airport View Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam originated in the 12th Century as a small fishing village. The city’s rich history and status as the cultural capital of the Netherlands has seen the iconic 17th Century canals, as well as the Defence Lines of Amsterdam, added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. When you’ve finished sightseeing, you can take advantage of Amsterdam’s vibrant nightlife. View Barcelona, Spain On the Mediterranean coast and with the Serra de Collserola mountain range to the west, Barcelona was originally established as a Roman military camp in 15 BC and has grown to become Spain’s second largest city, as well as the capital of the country’s Catalan community. View Bacau, Romania Bacau sits on the Btriţa River at the foothills of the stunning Carpathian Mountains, connected to historic Transylvania by the Ghimeş Pass. One of Romania’s cultural centres, there is a puppet theatre sure to delight big and little kids alike, while music lovers will flock to the Mihail Jora Athenaeum and the Philharmonic Orchestra to take in the sounds of Romania. View Bari, Italy Sitting pretty on the Adriatic coast, Bari is an alternative holiday destination which is full to the brim with culture. Offering endless sightseeing scenes and all the fresh seafood you can wish for, plan your trip to Bari. View Belfast City, United Kingdom When choosing to fly to Belfast City (BHD) from Liverpool John Lennon airport, make sure you plan ahead as there are many great sights to see, activities to enjoy and nightclubs, restaurants and pubs to visit. View Belfast International, United Kingdom For those looking to take in Belfast’s rich history, few places in the world have better stories to tell, not to mention a myriad of beautiful views, breath taking landscapes and a nightlife scene that is world renowned. View Bergerac, France Lovers of wine, let Liverpool John Lennon Airport help you realise your dreams and whisk you away to the gorgeous city of Bergerac. If you’re looking to explore the wine country, or simply want a weekend escape with a loved one, we offer regular flights leaving from Liverpool to Bergerac. View Berlin, Germany Berlin is home to 138 museums and more than 400 art galleries. It even has an area dedicated solely to museums – Museum Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After a day of sightseeing, visitors can sit down at a wide variety of restaurants (12 feature in the Michelin Guide). Then it’s time to take in the vibrant nightlife with the city’s many nightclubs.
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Airline Information - Kelling Airport Airline Information Kelling Airport Airline Information Laker Airways was a wholly private, British independent airline founded by Sir Freddie Laker in 1966. It originally was a charter airlineflying passengers and cargo worldwide. Its head office was located at London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, England.[1] It became the first long-haul, low-cost, "no frills" airline in 1977, operating low-fare scheduled services between London Gatwick Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. The company did not survive the recession of the early 1980s and operated its last flight on February 5, 1982, the day it went bankrupt. The formative yearsBAC One-Eleven in 1977Freddie Laker unveiled his airline — Laker Airways — to the press in February 1966.[2] The airline commenced commercial operations from its London Gatwick Airport base on 29 July 1966 with two former British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Bristol Britannia 102 seriesturboprops, initially operating under contract to Air France.[3][4][5][6] The aircraft's livery was a combination of black, red and white — an adaptation of Laker's racing colours.[7] The Britannias were supplemented and eventually replaced by five BAC One-Eleven 300 short-haul jet aircraft from December 1967. This included an initial order for three aircraft valued at £4 million.[2] Laker had placed this order directly with the manufacturer in 1966. He provided more than £200,000 of his own money for the newly ordered aircraft's deposits and arranged for the remainder to be borrowed from a consortium of City banks led by Clydesdale Bank.[2][8] He placed a follow-on order for a fourth aircraft to be delivered in 1968 and acquired another relatively new aircraft that was originally delivered to the failed British Eagle airline from Bahamas Airways in 1971.[9][10][11] These were the mainstay of the fleet for its short to medium-haul charter operations to holiday resorts in theMediterranean and the Canary Islands for many years. New commercial developmentsThe introduction of several new, short-haul jetliners into a small airline's fleet over a short time necessitated more efficient marketing. Laker Airways came up with a 30% discount offer to encourage tour operators to charter the airline's aircraft during the winter trough and a "time charter". The former helped create winter traffic to popular Mediterranean resorts while the latter gave tour operators financial incentives to charter an aircraft's capacity for an entire season.[12][13][14] This ensured the fleet was fully utilised throughout the year, smoothing out the peaks and troughs that characterise charter airlines. It also enabled the airline to sell its One-Eleven capacity two years ahead of delivery, thereby helping make Laker Airways the most profitable charter airline of its era in Britain.[15] An overseas baseAugust 1968 saw the establishment of its first overseas base at Tegel Airport in what used to be West Berlin. The company had up to three BAC One-Elevens stationed there[16] until 1981 when these aircraft were replaced with one of its three newly acquired Airbus A300 B4 series widebodies, at the time the largest aircraft operated out of any Berlin airport.[17] Its Berlin operation was staffed by 90, mainly local workers. Throughout this period, it carried thousands of holidaymakers from the Western parts of the formerly divided German capital to resorts in the Mediterranean and Canary Islands. Branching out into the ground handling businessIn 1972, Laker Airways co-founded Gatwick Handling, a Gatwick handling agent that has become part of the Aviance group, with Dan-Air. Each airline owned 50% of Gatwick Handling at its inception.[18] Cost savingLaker Airways pioneered cost-saving to reduce its engines' wear and tear, reduce fuel consumption, and achieve greater range than indicated by the manufacturers' range specifications. Reduced thrust take-off techniqueLaker Airways was first to use the reduced thrust take-off technique it had developed for the BAC One-Eleven. Reducing the BAC One-Eleven's t
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What was the name of the chimp that was sent into space in Project Mercury mission MR-2 in January 1961?
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Ham the astrochimp: hero or victim? | Science | The Guardian Ham the astrochimp: hero or victim? Spare a thought for Ham the Chimp, an object and victim in the human race for space. A terrified Ham reaches out for an apple after his space flight in 1961. Photograph: National Archives Monday 16 December 2013 07.28 EST Last modified on Friday 16 October 2015 10.08 EDT Go visit: National Museum of Health and Medicine , Washington D.C. Last week, I had the great privilege of meeting primatologist Dr Jane Goodall . (I am writing a profile of her for the Wellcome Trust ’s exciting new online life science magazine Mosaic , due to launch in the new year). In our conversation we briefly touched on the life of Ham, a chimpanzee who has interested me for several years. Goodall’s dismay at Ham’s treatment has caused me to reconsider how his story should be told. If you’ve never heard of Ham, he was one of hundreds of experimental animals unwittingly enrolled into NASA’s Project Mercury , a programme that sought to put a (hu)man into space. Shortly after he was born in 1957, in what was then French Cameroons , the US Air Force engaged collectors to source some chimps from the native forest. Three years later, more than a dozen animals flew from Africa to the US, entering into what was referred to as the “School for Space Chimps” at the Holloman Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New Mexico. One of them – subject 65, aka Ham (Holloman Aerospace Medical Center) –was head of the class. He was fit, was comfortable being strapped into his “couch” and quickly learned the lever-pushing tasks required of him. “He was wonderful,” recalled his handler Edward Dittmer for a book entitled Animals in Space . “He performed so well and was a remarkably easy chimp to handle. I’d hold him and he was just like a little kid.” Pinterest Ham in his capsule, with his handler Edward Dittmer (left). Photograph: NASA In early 1961, Ham and the next five most promising primates were flown to Cape Canaveral in Florida to prepare for an experimental flight. The purpose of this mission, according to a NASA press release issued on 28 January 1961, was to provide “a check of the craft’s environmental control and recovery systems” and “a first test of the functioning of the life support system during an appreciable period – nearly five minutes – of zero gravity.” With just days to go, Ham got the nod. Dressed in a nappy, waterproof pants and spacesuit, fitted with sensors to monitor his heart rate, breathing and body temperature during flight, his handlers strapped him into a capsule that would sit inside the nosecone of the Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket. When MR-2 took off on 31 January 1961, Goodall was in Africa, where she had recently started her research project on chimpanzees in what was to become Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. When, later on, she saw the footage of Ham recorded during his sixteen-minute ordeal and photographs taken upon recovering his capsule, she was horrified. “I have never seen such terror on a chimp's face,” she told me. When I first met Ham in 2007, he’d been dead for a quarter of a century. After his space flight, he spent almost 20 years alone at the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. before being moved to North Carolina Zoo where there was a small colony of captive chimps. When he died in 1983 at the relatively young chimp age of 25, there was disquiet at the idea that his skin might be stuffed and put on display at the Air and Space Museum . “Talk about death without dignity,” ran a leader in the Washington Post. “Talk about dreadful precedents – it should be enough to make any space veteran more than a little nervous about how he is going to be treated in the posthumous by and by.” A letter filed away in the Smithsonian Archives (in a folder of Ham-based correspondence), summed up the public mood: “By treating his body like that of a stupid beast, people will continue thinking of apes as stupid beasts, and not the intelligent, almost human animals they really are,” wrote a sophomore at West High School in Painted Post, New
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After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten : NPR After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten Embed Embed After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten Embed Embed Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, is tucked inside her capsule and ready to launch into space aboard a Jupiter missile. She traveled into space on May 28, 1959, along with Able, an American-born rhesus monkey. NASA hide caption toggle caption NASA Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, is tucked inside her capsule and ready to launch into space aboard a Jupiter missile. She traveled into space on May 28, 1959, along with Able, an American-born rhesus monkey. NASA Able is extricated from the nose cone after it was recovered from the ocean. NASA hide caption toggle caption Able is extricated from the nose cone after it was recovered from the ocean. NASA In Huntsville, Ala., there is an unusual grave site where, instead of flowers, people sometimes leave bananas. The gravestone reads: "Miss Baker, squirrel monkey, first U.S. animal to fly in space and return alive. May 28, 1959." Fifty years ago, when Baker made her famous flight, she had some company in the nose cone of the Jupiter ballistic missile: a rhesus monkey named Able. Able and Baker were shot about 360 miles up into space and experienced about nine minutes of weightlessness. Their safe return occurred two years before any humans flew into space, and it made them huge celebrities. The monkeys appeared on the cover of Life magazine, and at a press conference, news correspondents "pushed each other and clambered over chairs to get closer," reported The New York Times. Meanwhile, the newspaper noted, "the monkeys were far less excited than the humans. They munched peanuts and crackers." Early Space Travelers Able and Baker were not the first living creatures to return to Earth alive from space, although that myth seems to be out there, says Chris Dubbs, co-author of the book Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle. Article continues after sponsorship In 1947, the United States sent up fruit flies, which were the first living things to travel into space, Dubbs says. "And then they started sending monkeys." America's first attempt to send up a monkey was in 1948. For over a decade, all monkey flights failed for one reason or another, Dubbs says. In one case, the rocket exploded. Another monkey died on impact when its parachute failed. After another parachute failure, a monkey plummeted into the sea and was never recovered. One monkey mission saw the animals return home safely, but their vehicle hadn't traveled high enough for them to actually reach space. Meanwhile, the Soviets were sending up dogs and having success bringing them back alive from suborbital flights, Dubbs says. At least 30 of those animals returned alive. The first animal who actually orbited the planet was a dog named Laika, though she did not survive the entire flight. She was launched in 1957 in Sputnik 2. "Americans were aware of this," Dubbs says, "and the space race was clearly on by the time that Able and Baker came on the scene." Two Tiny Astronauts Able was a rhesus monkey, and Baker was a much smaller squirrel monkey. Because the rhesus monkey is revered by some in India, U.S. officials stressed that Able had been born not in India, but in Independence, Kan. The monkeys' missile blasted off in the early morning hours from Cape Canaveral and traveled 1,700 miles in 16 minutes, reaching an altitude of about 360 miles. The bright missile lit up the dark sky, says Joseph Guion, who commanded the Navy vessel USS Kiowa that retrieved the monkeys. "You could read a newspaper on the bridge of the ship, it was so bright," he says. "The nose cone arced down, almost like a shooting star, down toward the water. It just came down very rapidly and — boom — it was gone." He and his crew at first thought it had sunk. But then a lookout spotted the nose cone bobbing in the water, and they struggled to get it on board. Military personnel on the ship checked on the monkeys and then sent out a m
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#12 - Magnesium - Mg Magnesium 2.62 grams per cubic centimeter Normal Phase From the Greek word Magnesia, a district of Thessaly Date of Discovery Magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) Interesting facts It is the eighth most common element in the earth's crust, but is the most commercially used element. It is obtained from seawater. It is a very flammable metal. The center of chlorophyll contains magnesium. Pouring water on burning magnesium will increase the fire and can cause explosions. Magnesium oxide is the byproduct of burning magnesium and can cause respiratory problems like asthma or emphysema. Common Uses
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What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was th - Pastebin.com In what country can one find 40 species of lemurs? A: Madagascar. RAW Paste Data What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was the first motor race held that was classed as Formula 1? 1950 In the wild west, how was Henry McCarty better known? Billy The Kid How many stories did each of the World Trade Towers have? 110 What is the name of the cafe in Coronation Street? Roy's Rolls According to the BBC how many rooms are there in Buckingham Palace? 775 What is the busiest single-runway airport in the world? London Gatwick By number of films made, which country has the largest film industry? India Who lit the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? Muhammad Ali On what day of the year is St George's day held? 23rd of April The scientific unit lumen is used in the measurement of what? Light Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover vehicle? Apollo 15 Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? Stephenie Meyer What is the capital of India? New Delhi Who wrote the poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat'? Edward Lear Which country had a secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute? Haiti In which city is the European Parliament based? Strasbourg Gala, Jonagold and Pink Lady are varieties of which fruit? Apple Which organ of the body is affected by Bright's Disease? Kidney What is the boiling point of water in Kelvin? 373 K What was the 1st human invention that broke the sound barrier? The whip What name was given to the Samurai code of honour? Bushido What colour is the bullseye on a standard dartboard? Red What song does the main character wake up to every morning in Groundhog Day? I Got You Babe What is the only Central American country in which baseball, not soccer, is the people's favourite sport? Nicaragua What is the largest fresh water lake in North America? Lake Superior Which South American country was named after the Italian city of Venice? Venezuela How many rounds are there in an olympic boxing match? 4 The highest temperature ever recorded outside in the shade was recorded in Azizah, in Africa. In which country is this city located? Libya Which Hasbro `action figure` got its name from a Robert Mitchum film? G.I. Joe In which country is the highest mountain in South America? Argentina How many emirates make up the United Arab Emirates? 7 If you were putting numbers on new changing room lockers to be numbered from 1 to 100, how many times would you use the number 9? 20 Which famous group performed the first ever song on Top Of The Pops in 1964? The Rolling Stones Who wrote the novel Revolutionary Road, which was made into a successful feature film? Richard Yates Which supermodel is seen pole dancing in the White Stripes video for the song `I Just Don`t Know What To Do With Myself`? Kate Moss Which band has released albums titled `Word Gets Around`, `Just Enough Education To Perform` and `Pull The Pin`? Stereophonics In the Adrian Mole Diaries, what is the surname of his girlfriend? Braiwaithe Charlotte Edwards led England`s women to World Cup glory in which sport in March 2009? Cricket What is sake made from? Rice Affenpinscher, Keeshond and Leonberger are all types of what? Dog Who won the 2009 Rugby World Sevens Cup? Wales Who is the only player to win a Champion`s League medal, the Premiership and the FA Cup, and to be relegated from the Premiership without going on to play in the Championship? Kanu With which club did David Beckham make his football league debut? Preston North End Who is the host of the TV show Q.I.? Stephen Fry Anyone Can Fall In Love was a chart hit set to the theme tune of which TV show? EastEnders Who is the only character to appear in the first ever Coronation Street who is still in the show at 2009? Ken Barlow The film `Black Hawk Down` was loosely based on a true incident that took place in 1993 in which country? Somalia What word does the bird constantly repeat in Edgar Allan Poe`s classic poem `The Raven`? Nevermore In the board game `Risk`, what c
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Bridgeport, CT - Bridgeport, Connecticut Map & Directions - MapQuest {{::location.tagLine.value.text}} Sponsored Topics Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area. The city is part of the Greater New York City Combined Statistical Area and is the fifth largest city in New England. Bridgeport is also the center of the 41st largest urban area in the United States, just behind Austin, Texas (40th). The city is marked by its attachment to its famous resident, the circus-promoter and once mayor P.T. Barnum. Barnum built three houses in the city, and housed his circus in town during winters.
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What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was th - Pastebin.com In what country can one find 40 species of lemurs? A: Madagascar. RAW Paste Data What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was the first motor race held that was classed as Formula 1? 1950 In the wild west, how was Henry McCarty better known? Billy The Kid How many stories did each of the World Trade Towers have? 110 What is the name of the cafe in Coronation Street? Roy's Rolls According to the BBC how many rooms are there in Buckingham Palace? 775 What is the busiest single-runway airport in the world? London Gatwick By number of films made, which country has the largest film industry? India Who lit the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? Muhammad Ali On what day of the year is St George's day held? 23rd of April The scientific unit lumen is used in the measurement of what? Light Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover vehicle? Apollo 15 Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? Stephenie Meyer What is the capital of India? New Delhi Who wrote the poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat'? Edward Lear Which country had a secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute? Haiti In which city is the European Parliament based? Strasbourg Gala, Jonagold and Pink Lady are varieties of which fruit? Apple Which organ of the body is affected by Bright's Disease? Kidney What is the boiling point of water in Kelvin? 373 K What was the 1st human invention that broke the sound barrier? The whip What name was given to the Samurai code of honour? Bushido What colour is the bullseye on a standard dartboard? Red What song does the main character wake up to every morning in Groundhog Day? I Got You Babe What is the only Central American country in which baseball, not soccer, is the people's favourite sport? Nicaragua What is the largest fresh water lake in North America? Lake Superior Which South American country was named after the Italian city of Venice? Venezuela How many rounds are there in an olympic boxing match? 4 The highest temperature ever recorded outside in the shade was recorded in Azizah, in Africa. In which country is this city located? Libya Which Hasbro `action figure` got its name from a Robert Mitchum film? G.I. Joe In which country is the highest mountain in South America? Argentina How many emirates make up the United Arab Emirates? 7 If you were putting numbers on new changing room lockers to be numbered from 1 to 100, how many times would you use the number 9? 20 Which famous group performed the first ever song on Top Of The Pops in 1964? The Rolling Stones Who wrote the novel Revolutionary Road, which was made into a successful feature film? Richard Yates Which supermodel is seen pole dancing in the White Stripes video for the song `I Just Don`t Know What To Do With Myself`? Kate Moss Which band has released albums titled `Word Gets Around`, `Just Enough Education To Perform` and `Pull The Pin`? Stereophonics In the Adrian Mole Diaries, what is the surname of his girlfriend? Braiwaithe Charlotte Edwards led England`s women to World Cup glory in which sport in March 2009? Cricket What is sake made from? Rice Affenpinscher, Keeshond and Leonberger are all types of what? Dog Who won the 2009 Rugby World Sevens Cup? Wales Who is the only player to win a Champion`s League medal, the Premiership and the FA Cup, and to be relegated from the Premiership without going on to play in the Championship? Kanu With which club did David Beckham make his football league debut? Preston North End Who is the host of the TV show Q.I.? Stephen Fry Anyone Can Fall In Love was a chart hit set to the theme tune of which TV show? EastEnders Who is the only character to appear in the first ever Coronation Street who is still in the show at 2009? Ken Barlow The film `Black Hawk Down` was loosely based on a true incident that took place in 1993 in which country? Somalia What word does the bird constantly repeat in Edgar Allan Poe`s classic poem `The Raven`? Nevermore In the board game `Risk`, what c
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What name is now given to the area of Paris where the guillotine used to execute Louis 16th was situated?
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Paris | Forever Knight Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The earliest archaeological signs of permanent habitation in the Paris area date from around 4200 B.C. From around 250 B.C. the area around the Seine was occupied by a Celtic tribe, the Parisii. The Romans conquered the Paris basin in 52 B.C.; and planted a permanent settlement on the Île de la Cité and the southern bank of the river. This town was originally called Lutetia (or, more fully, Lutetia Parisiorum, "Lutetia of the Parisii"), later Gallicised to Lutèce. It expanded greatly over the following centuries, becoming a prosperous city with a forum, palaces, baths, temples, theatres, and an amphitheatre. In 212 A.D., the city was renamed Paris after the local tribe. The collapse of the Roman empire sent the city into a period of decline. By 400 A.D., it had largely been abandoned by its inhabitants, and was little more than a garrison town on the hastily fortified central island. In 451 A.D., the region was invaded by Attila the Hun, prompting fears that Paris would be attacked. According to legend, the city was saved by the piety of Sainte Geneviève and her followers, whose prayers for relief were answered when Attila's march turned away from Paris to the south. However, Paris was attacked and overrun in 464 A.D. by Childeric I (Childeric the Frank). His son, Clovis I, made the city his capital in 506 A.D. By this time, Paris was a crowded early medieval city with timber buildings alongside surviving Roman remains. Charlemagne. Part of the treasure in the cathedral in Aachen. The final king of this line of Merovingian kings was essentially no more than a puppet monarch for powerful governors. He was finally deposed in 751 A.D., and Pépin (Pippin) was proclaimed king of the Franks. He was succeeded by his son Charles, dubbed Charles le Magne or "Charlemagne" (Charles the Great). After Charlemagne moved the capital of his Holy Roman Empire from Paris to Aachen, the city was relatively neglected by the Empire. It suffered grievously from Viking raiders who repeatedly sailed upriver to attack it. Eventually, the weakness of the late Carolingian kings led to the rise in power of the Counts of Paris. In 987 A.D., Hugh Capet—related to the Counts of Paris—was elected King of the Franks. The French Crown initially controlled little more than Paris and the surrounding region, the Île-de-France, but over the centuries steadily expanded its territory and power. Paris itself developed an increasing degree of importance as a royal capital, a centre of learning and an ecclesiastical centre. Medieval Paris Edit The cathedral of Nôtre Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité, on the River Seine. As early as the twelfth century, the distinctive character of the city's districts was emerging. The Île de la Cité, on which the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris was begun in 1163, was the centre of government and religious life; the Left Bank (south of the Seine) was the centre of learning, focusing on the various Church-run schools established there; and the Right Bank (north of the Seine) was the centre of commerce and finance. A league of merchants, the so-called Hanse Parisienne, was established and quickly became a powerful force in the city's affairs. Under the rule of Philippe Auguste (ruled 1180-1223), a new city wall was built, and construction began on the Palais du Louvre. Streets were paved, and a covered market established at Les Halles. The Louvre fortress from the early 15th century illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, month of October. His grandson Louis IX, renowned for his extreme piety (and later canonised as St Louis) established the city as a major centre of pilgrimage in the thirteenth century with the construction of the Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité, and the completion of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and the Saint Denis Basilica. The Hundred Years' War began in 1328 on the death of the direct line of Capetian kings, when the crown was claimed by rival houses. Over the next century, the city change
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Field of Cloth of Gold For two and a half weeks in June 1520, a meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France occurred near Calais that was to become known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold. Although the political purpose of the meeting didn’t amount to much in the over-all scheme of things in early 16th century Europe, the glamour and extravagance of the meeting give us a picture of two Renaissance princes and their times. In 1518, through the work of Cardinal Wolsey , the Treaty of London was signed as a non-aggression pact between the major European powers of the time. But less than a year later, the pact was already in danger of falling apart. To preserve the peace, Wolsey arranged a meeting between Henry VIII and Charles V , the new Holy Roman Emperor, and a meeting of Henry VIII and Francis I of France. This second meeting was to be in France, near the English-held town of Calais . Francis I and Henry VIII were close in age, with Henry being just three years older than his French counterpart. Henry had been king of England for 11 years at the time of the meeting while Francis had been on the French throne for five-and-a-half years. Both Kings had been hailed as great Renaissance princes, which no doubt raised curiosity for each man about the other. This meeting was also a chance for each to display the grandeur and wealth of their courts. Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and their large retinue left from Dover on about the first of June and stayed in Calais for six days before riding out to meet the French King. One of the more spectacular parts of the meeting was a temporary palace of timber and canvas brought by the English court to go with the pavilions and tents. Excerpts from Hall’s Chronicle describing the meeting: “Thursday 8 June being Corpus Christi day, Henry and the French king Francis I, met in a valley called the Golden Dale which lay midway between Guisnes and Arde where the French king had been staying. In this valley Henry pitched his marquee made of cloth of gold near where a banquet had been prepared. His Grace was accompanied by 500 horsemen and 3,000 foot soldiers, and the French King had a similar number of each. When the two great princes met proclamations were made by the heralds and officers-of-arms of both parties, to the effect that everyone should stand absolutely still the king of England and his company on one side of the valley and the king of France with his retinue on the other. They were commanded to stand thus, completely still, on pain of death whilst the two kings rode down the valley. At the bottom of the valley they embraced each other in great friendship and then, dismounting, embraced each other again, taking off their hats. Henry’s sword was held, unsheathed, by the marquess of Dorset whilst the duc de Bourbon bore the French king’s sword similarly all the while. On Friday 9 June the two kings met up at the camp where a tiltyard had been set up with a pretty green tree with damask leaves nearby. On Saturday two shields bearing the arms of the two kings were hung upon this tree and a proclamation made to the effect that anyone who intended to attend the royal jousts and compete in feats of arms such as the running at the tilt, fighting tourneys on horseback and fighting on foot at the barriers with swords should bring their shields of arms and have their names entered into the records kept by Clarencieux and Lancaster, officers-at-arms. On Sunday 11 June the French king came to Guisnes to dine with the Queen of England and was graciously received by the Lord Cardinal, the Duke of Buckingham , the Duke of Suffolk , the Earl of Northumberland and various other noblemen, together with a large number of ladies and gentlemen all richly dressed in cloth of gold, velvet and silks. That day too the French king was himself magnificently dressed in tissue-cloth set with precious stones and pearls. When dinner was over, some time was spent dancing in the banqueting hall. Before he started to dance, the French king went from one end of the room to the other, carryin
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Making possible the understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs, what was discovered outside an Egyptian village by a French soldier on July 15, 1799?
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Hieroglyphs photos on Flickr | Flickr 4 1099 - 1st Crusaders capture, plunder Jerusalem 1205 - Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus 1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton. 1240 - A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. 1307 - Duke Henrik van Karinthi chosen king of Bohemia 1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England. 1410 - Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland 1500 - Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion 1500 - "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre 1501 - Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon 1524 - Emperor Karel I bans German national synode 1538 - Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I 1662 - King Charles II charters Royal Society in London 1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska. 1755 - French ambassador recalled from London 1779 - US troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY 1783 - 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France 1787 - Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes 1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris. 1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem 1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. 1806 - Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest 1808 - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders at Rochefort & is later exiled on St Helena 1815 - 1st flat horse race held on Nottingham Hill at Cheltenham, England (day and month TBC) 1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. 1830 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri 1840 - England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance 1850 - John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's 1856 - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony 1862 - CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R 1863 - Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army 1864 - Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 & injuring 109 of 955 aboard 1867 - SF Merchant's Exchange opens 1869 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy 1870 - Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US 1870 - Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created 1870 - Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada 1876 - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford 1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years 1893 - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan 1900 - President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin 1901 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0 1902 - Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey 1904 - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles 1906 - Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam 1909 - Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs 1911 - 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines 1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect 1914 - Mexican president Hu
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What drink, named for a golfer, is half iced tea / half lemonade?
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Iced Tea and Lemonade Recipes : Food Network Iced Tea and Lemonade Recipes Email Iced Tea and Lemonade Recipes It wouldn't be summer without a refreshing sip of iced tea or lemonade. Drink them during the day or turn them into cocktails for a party. Categories: http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2014/5/20/0/FNK_Opener-Lemonade-And-Iced-Tea-Twists_s4x3.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Lemonade and Iced Tea Twists Skip store-bought mix and make these homemade twists on the summertime classics with freshly squeezed lemon juice or freshly brewed tea. http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2010/7/21/0/FNM_090110-Labor-Day-001-alt_s4x3.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Get the Recipe: Rosemary-Infused Lemonade http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2014/5/12/0/FNK_Moscow-Muleade_s4x3.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Mule-ade A traditional Moscow Mule mixes vodka with lime, sugar and ginger beer (the classic cocktail was devised in the 1940s by a producer of ginger beer). We give ours more depth and zip by infusing maple syrup with fresh ginger and adding club soda for bubbles. Get the Recipe: Mule-ade http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2010/4/26/0/FNM_060110-Centerfold-003_s3x4.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Blackberry Lemonade Muddle blackberries with homemade simple syrup then stir in fresh lemon juice and water for a fruity take on classic lemonade. Get the Recipe: Blackberry Lemonade http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2014/5/12/0/FNK_Ear-lGrey-Tea-and-Blueberry-Spritzer_s4x3.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Earl Grey Tea and Blueberry Spritzer Just five simple ingredients make this sophisticated and beautiful summer drink. The iced tea and simple syrup can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to a week. Keep them on hand, then just pop open a bottle of sparkling wine and mix the drinks when guests arrive. Get the Recipe: Mint Limeade http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2014/5/12/0/FNK_Boozy-Grilled-Arnold-Palmer_s4x3.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Grilled Arnold Palmer Cocktail The unboozy Arnold Palmer-named after the golfer-is a mix of half lemonade and half iced tea. We kept the tea and added grilled-lemon lemonade and a shot of bourbon for a sophisticated, not-too-sweet take on this favorite summer drink. http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2010/6/8/2/FNM_070110-Pool-Treats-015_s3x4.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Prickly Pear Iced Tea Why pick one when you can have both? This refreshing beverage combines iced tea and lemonade with prickly pear syrup. The syrup is available at most speciality food stores, but other fruit syrups work as substitutes. http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2014/5/12/0/FNK_Watermelon-Lemonade-Slushie_s4x3.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Watermelon Lemonade Slushie This slushie is as beautiful as it is refreshing. Fresh basil is the secret ingredient: We steep it in a simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water), then remove it before blending the slushie, so it adds a subtle herbaceous note. Get the Recipe: Watermelon Lemonade Slushie http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2011/5/3/2/CC_Ultimate-Margarita_s4x3.jpg.rend.snigalleryslide.jpeg Coming up Summer Margarita Recipes Pour your favorite tequila into these margarita recipes that go from the traditional to the completely unique.
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Teeing up ahead of amateur Ryder Cup - Blackpool Gazette Teeing up ahead of amateur Ryder Cup Europe's Rory McIlroy Have your say The eyes of the sporting world will be focused on the start of the Ryder Cup today – but on the Fylde coast, preparations are already underway for its amateur equivalent. As Europe tee off against the United States in the popular golf event at Gleneagles, Scotland, Royal Lytham and St Annes is making plans ahead of the Walker Cup, where Great Britain and Ireland will play their American counterparts. Club secretary Charles Grimley The event will be held in 12 months’ time at the Fylde coast course and in the past has featured the likes of Tiger Woods, Colin Montgomerie and two of this year’s Ryder Cup stars – world number one Rory McIlroy and US star Rickie Fowler. Club secretary Charles Grimley said next year’s event “meant a lot” to the club and would complete the list of golf competitions it has hosted. He added: “We have had the Ryder Cup, the Open, the Women’s Open and the Senior Open. “This is the last piece of the jigsaw. We are really ecstatic about having it here. “We are big supporters of amateur golf, in particular hosting the Lytham Trophy. “We are hoping to have 7,000 people a day for the two day competition.” The event starts on September 12, featuring four foursomes matches and eight singles matches, followed by four foursomes matches on September 13 and 10 singles matches. Mr Grimley said discussions have started about preparations with the organisers of the event, the Royal and Ancient (R & A), and felt the support of the Fylde coast golf community would be key to a successful event. He added: “I went to my first Walker Cup in 2011 at Royal Aberdeen. It is a really good spectator experience. “The beauty of it is the spectators who walk with the players can follow behind them, rather than being held back by roping alongside the hole. “If you look back through the history of the competition all the players are the next big thing. To watch these players so closely, who are super talented, is a great experience. “Hopefully we will get a good spectator presence.” David Hill, the R & A’s director of championships said: “As one of Great Britain and Ireland’s premier links courses, Royal Lytham will undoubtedly provide a stern test befitting a contest that has come to represent the pinnacle of amateur achievement. “The golfing public in the north-west of England are extremely knowledgeable and have always shown a keen interest in the amateur game. “We look forward to welcoming them to Lytham in 2015 for what will be a fantastic celebration of golf.” Tickets will be free on practice days before the competition starts, with prices to be confirmed on match days. For more information go to www.randa.org Sign in
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In which county can you walk the 35 mile Wherryman’s Way?
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Walking and cycling routes | South Norfolk Council Walking and cycling routes Walking and cycling routes For a great way to discover the beauty of South Norfolk, why not put on your walking boots and explore on foot or jump on your bike and follow one of our cycling routes. Walking routes South Norfolk has plenty of walks that you can enjoy with the family, if you’re looking to get fit or if you just want somewhere to take your dog for a walk. You can create your own fun walking routes in your area or download maps of suggested routes from the websites below:
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Scottish Highlands Explorer | Caithness Accommodation ~ Activity ~ Attraction ~ Shopping ~ Travel BIG skies, rugged cliffs, spectacular sea-stacks, mysterious moors, long summer nights... these are just some of the natural features that give Caithness its special appeal. These are the Lowlands beyond the Highlands, a county described by its most famous literary son, Neil Gunn, as “that land of exquisite lights”. As well as wide-open spaces you’ll find a warm welcome in this historic, geographically diverse triangle in the top right-hand corner of the British mainland, hemmed in on its northern and eastern coasts by the sea in all its moods. The vast interior of the far north contains the famous Flow Country, with its internationally important birds and plants, while there’s plenty to see and do in the bustling towns of Wick and Thurso and the pleasant villages scattered across the county. One of these villages, John O’Groats, is renowned far and wide as the starting or finishing point of “end to end” journeys to or from Land’s End – although the most northerly point on the British mainland is in fact a few miles further west, at Dunnet Head. Lovers of fresh air and exercise can enjoy any number of country outings – a highlight being the rough coastal path near John O’Groats that gives stunning views of the jagged Stacks of Duncansby. On the other hand, it doesn’t take very long to stroll the length of Ebenezer Place in Wick... at just 6ft 9in it is officially the shortest street in the world! Sites such as the Camster Cairns, the standing stones of Achavanich, Yarrows Archaeological Trail and the Hill o’ Many Stanes provide a fascinating insight into our ancient past. Ornithologists visiting Caithness will be in their element, while the mainly flat landscape makes it ideal for cycling holidays. Golf, horse-riding and world-class surfing add to the range of outdoor activities. To the north, across the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth, lie the Orkney islands; to the south and west is the more mountainous county of Sutherland. The distinctive nature of the physical environment is matched by the county’s cultural heritage. For centuries Caithness was ruled by Vikings, and the Norse influence can still be detected in many local place-names. The county itself was known as Katanes, or “headland of the Cats” – a reference to a Pictish tribe called the Kati, or Cat People. Until the early 19th century there was no proper road into Caithness; its trade links were all by sea. In the 1800s Wick established itself as Europe’s principal herring-fishing port as upwards of a thousand boats set sail in search of the “silver darlings” of the North Sea. That same century saw the rapid rise of quarrying as a major local industry, with hard-wearing flagstones being shipped out of Caithness to pave the streets of cities all around the globe. The area’s harbours are rather quieter these days but Caithness has a well-earned claim to fame for the other kind of fishing; salmon angling is available on several rivers, and there are countless lochs that attract dedicated trout fishers year after year. Meanwhile, some of the best sea-angling grounds off the British coastline are in Caithness waters. There are regular sailings to Orkney by passenger ferry from John O’Groats and by vehicle ferry from Scrabster and Gills Bay, while sightseeing cruises are available along the coast near Wick and also in the John O’Groats area. Although generally flat, the county does have some notable hills, such as Morven and Scaraben. The central area between Wick and Thurso contains some of the finest farming land in the north. The best of the area’s livestock is on display every summer at the various agricultural shows, the centrepiece being the County Show in July, alternating between venues in Wick and Scrabster. The summer months also see fun-filled galas in the towns and villages. Considering the relatively small population of the county – around 26,000 – there’s an impressive range of visitor attractions, some of which are listed here: The Castle and Garde
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Which film had the tag line ‘One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero’?
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Cool Runnings (1993) - Taglines - IMDb Cool Runnings (1993) Inspired by the true story of the first Jamaican Olympic bobsled team. Jamaican Bobsledders? One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero. See also a list of 27 titles created 23 Feb 2012 a list of 43 titles created 15 Aug 2012 a list of 32 titles created 09 Feb 2013 a list of 35 titles created 10 months ago a list of 38 titles created 5 months ago IMDb Everywhere Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet!
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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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In golf, how long may you look for a ball before it is declared lost?
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Time Limit On Searching for Lost Ball in Golf By Brent Kelley Updated November 15, 2016. Under the Rules of Golf , you have five minutes to search for a golf ball. If you don't find it within five minutes after beginning your search, the ball is deemed lost. As many people as you can gather can help look for it - yourself, your caddie , your mother-in-law, your hunting dog, your imaginary friend - but if your ball is not found within five minutes from the start of the search, you must apply the penalty for a lost ball (stroke and distance) and move on. The Search Limit in the Rules of Golf Where in the Official Rules of Golf is the 5-minute time limit on searching for a ball spelled out? In Rule 27 , which covers balls lost or out of bounds and provisional balls . Specifically, Rule 27-1(c) says this: "If a ball is lost as a result of not being found or identified as his by the player within five minutes after the player's side or his or their caddies have begun to search for it, the player must play a ball, under penalty of one stroke, as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played (see Rule 20-5)." continue reading below our video Greatest Quarterbacks of All Time? Note, however, that the 5-minute time limit applies to the search, not to identifying your ball. Say someone who is helping with the search finds a ball within the five minutes, but it takes you a minute to get over to them and make the positive ID. That's OK. The ball was found inside of five minutes even though the identification fell beyond the time limit. Also, the clock on the five minutes begins when your search begins, not when you played the stroke that might have resulted in a lost ball. And "when your search begins" refers to you, your partner, your caddie or your partner's caddie beginning the search. The USGA and R&A Decisions on Rule 27-1 are quite interesting and cover some scenarios you probably have never even thought of. See Decisions on Rule 27-1 . Just Because You Can Use 5 Minutes to Search Doesn't Mean You Should The 5-minute time limit for a possibly lost golf ball applies to all play conducted under the Rules of Golf, including rounds posted for handicap purposes. If you are playing in a tournament, playing a round that will be posted for handicap purposes, playing for money with a group of golfers who are sticklers about the rules, you can use the full five minutes for a search. But just because you can doesn't mean you should. Always be aware of groups behind yours that might be waiting on your search. If you insist on taking the full five minutes, be prepared to allow a group behind to play through , and be quick about waving them forward. But in recreational play - a group of buddies out on the course, having fun, playing loose with the rules (or ignoring them) - you should never, ever use the full five minutes. Please, for the love of Arnold Palmer , give up and move on so play isn't held up for everyone behind you.
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What creatures were first to live on land and fly?
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Fish, swim! Birds, fly! - Day 5 - creation.com Published in Creation 28(4):44–47 , 2006 ‘Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day’ Genesis 1:20–23. On the fifth day of Creation Week, the earth was ready to support animal life. God had made water, soil, air, and plants and fruits for food. He had also created the sun to give light and warmth. Now God created Earth’s first inhabitants—the animals that live in the sea and those that fly in the air. Once again He simply commanded them all to come into being, and they did! All the sea creatures When God spoke, the sea was suddenly teeming with every kind of creature that lives there—tiny ones called krill, small fish like sardines, medium-sized fish like salmon, bigger fish such as marlin and swordfish, and much larger creatures like whales and plesiosaurs. God also made jellyfish and eels, corals and crabs, octopuses and porpoises, and all the others too. Some people say that whales evolved from an animal like a cow or from some other land animal that decided it wanted to start living in the sea and eating seaweed or other sea creatures instead of grass. But why would it do that? There is no convincing evidence to support this idea. And God tells us that He did not make the land animals until Day 6. Did you know that the vast majority of fish don’t eat each other, but eat underwater plant material like seaweed, algae (like green rock slime), and drifting tiny plants called plankton (really phytoplankton). All the flying creatures Suddenly, too, at God’s command, there were all sorts of flying creatures—birds like parrots, pigeons and poultry; flying insects like butterflies, bees and bugs; as well as bats (which are mammals); and the flying reptiles we call pterosaurs. What a marvellous sight it must have been! What a marvellous sound there must have been when the birds began to sing! God made these creatures with four different types of wings. Birds’ wings are made of feathers; insects’ wings are made of membranes or thin scales; bats’ wings are made of skin stretched over long arm and hand bones; while for pterosaurs’ wings the skin was stretched over a long fourth finger bone. Flight feathers are remarkable features. When a bird raises its wing, the feathers move apart to let the air through and reduce resistance. But on the downstroke the feathers close completely, thus greatly improving lift. Also, a bird can vary the shape of its wings for more efficient take-off, flapping, gliding and landing. People who don’t believe in a Creator have no explanation for the remarkable design features of feathers. Most of them claim that a reptile’s scales changed into feathers. But no fossil showing a transition from scale to feather has ever been found. God designed bird and human bones for their special functions. Bird bones are much lighter. God cares for all God was pleased when he looked at what He had made on Day 5. Not only did He say it was good, He also blessed the fish and the birds, and commanded them to reproduce—each to make baby animals just like itself. Although God does not love animals in the same way that He loves people, He still notices when a sparrow falls to the ground (Matthew 10:29), and He cares for them. How much more God cares for you and me! ‘After its kind’ The Bible tells us that God made each one of these animals ‘after its kind’. Those people who do not believe that God created say instead that one kind of animal evolved into another kind all by itself. Dinosour did not evolve into birds. God created dinosaurs and bir
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Crane Flies of Kentucky - University of Kentucky Entomology WHAT IS A CRANE FLY? Crane Flies belong to the family Tipulidae. Common crane flies are long and thin with very long legs, and resemble giant mosquitoes. Unlike mosquitoes, though, crane flies do not bite humans or animals. Crane flies can be distinguished from other flies by the "V" shaped suture on the thorax (shown below). Like all true flies (order Diptera), crane flies have only 2 wings. Crane fly: suture (B. Newton, 2005) In many species, male and female crane flies can be easily distinguished: females have a pointy abdomen and males have a blunt abdomen. Female crane fly, Ctenophora sp. (B. Newton, 2005) Immature crane flies are legless and wormlike, and, like most fly larvae, are very difficult to identify, even for experts. Some crane fly larvae are very large, up to almost 2" long. Some larvae develope a tough outer cuticle and are called "leatherjackets." SIZE: Adult body length up to 1", larvae up to about 1 3/4 " LIFE CYCLE Like all flies, crane flies undergo complete metamorphosis with egg, larval, pupal, and adult stages. The larvae are legless and wormlike, and some are very large. Winged adults are active during warm months, especially fall and spring, with different species of adults active at different times during the year. Adults live only for a few days; just long enough to mate and lay eggs. Most species overwinter as larvae or pupae in moist soil, decaying vegetation, or underwater. Crane Fly Larva (B. Newton, 2004) Crane Fly Larva, detail (B. Newton, 2004) ECOLOGY Crane flies are associated with moist habitats. The larvae of many crane fly species live in moist soil where they feed on decaying vegetation or on plant roots. Other species live in streams. Many stream-living crane fly larvae feed on decaying vegetation, but some are predators of aquatic insects and other invertebrates. Adult crane flies live only a few days, and many species do not eat (some species are believed to feed on nectar). Adults are usually active at night or in shady areas during the day. Soil-dwelling crane fly larvae are fed upon by a variety of creatures, including spiders, centipedes, and predatory beetles. Aquatic crane fly larvae are fed upon by fish and aquatic insect predators, like dragonfly naiads. Adult crane flies are a common food source for spiders, praying mantids, and birds. PEST STATUS Most crane flies are beneficial decomposers. Rarely, large populations of crane flies can cause damage to turf in poorly-drained soils. Crane flies are sometimes a nuisance when large numbers of adults swarm in urban lawns, but adults are harmless and do not harm humans, animals, plants, food, or homes. COMMON KENTUCKY CRANE FLIES GENERA: Tipula, Ctenophora, Nephrotoma, others There are dozens of crane fly species in Kentucky, and most are similar in appearance and biology. The most commonly encountered species are in the Tipula genus, and these are typically 3/4" - 1" long and gray or brown in color. Crane flies in the Ctenophora genus are usually large (about 1" long) and shiny black, some with red or orange markings. Some of these resemble wasps. Members of the Nephrotoma genus are sometimes called "tiger crane flies", and these species often have banded color patterns. Tipula sp., female (R. Bessin, 2000) Tipula sp., male (R. Bessin, 2000) Ctenophora sp., female (B
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BBC News - Labour MP Nigel Griffiths to quit at election Labour MP Nigel Griffiths to quit at election Nigel Griffiths has been the Edinburgh South MP for 23 years Former Labour minister Nigel Griffiths has announced he will quit as MP for Edinburgh South at the next election. Mr Griffiths, who has held the marginal seat for 23 years, said he was leaving the Commons to take up a "once in a lifetime job offer". The politician was recently hit with allegations concerning his private life and the Westminster expenses scandal. The announcement brings the number of Scottish Labour MPs stepping down so far to nine. Meanwhile, former West Lothian Council leader Graeme Morrice has been selected as the Labour candidate in Livingston, after sitting MP Jim Devine was deselected by the party's special endorsement panel following a probe of his expenses claims. Brian Taylor Political editor There is always churn at election time, but it does look as if the turnover will be substantial this time around. Thus far, nine Scottish Labour MPs are retiring/departing before a vote is cast. One Lib Dem, John Barrett, has announced that he is to go. The SNP's cohort - with the exception of Alex Salmond - are all seeking re-election as is the solitary Tory. Read Brian Taylor's blog Labour MSP Cathy Jamieson, the former Scottish justice minister, will fight Kilmarnock and Loudoun after former defence and Scottish secretary Des Browne announced he was quitting the seat. And former civil servant and trade union official Michael McCann has been unveiled as the Labour candidate in East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, after former defence minister Adam Ingram also decided to quit as the sitting MP. Labour paid tribute to Mr Griffiths as one of Scotland's most experienced parliamentarians. And the party moved quickly to declare Labour support in Edinburgh South - which is being targeted by the other main parties in the forthcoming election - was "strong and growing". Mr Griffiths, whose new post as director of an international education institution based in London, the United States and India, starts in June, said he firmly believed Labour would hold the seat. The former councillor said: "After 30 years of continuously elected service in Edinburgh, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. "It would not be right to delay accepting this position, since I want to give the party time to select a new candidate to fight the forthcoming election." Trident protest Mr Griffiths, a long-time friend of Gordon Brown, last year escaped a standards investigation after the News of the World reported he cheated on his wife inside the House of Commons. In a statement following the newspaper's account of events on Remembrance Day in 2008 he said at the time: "I am, of course, ashamed that my conduct did fall below acceptable standards. I have little recollection of the evening but that does not make it right." Last summer it was reported Mr Griffiths tried to defend a £3,600 claim for a television, DVD player and digital radio in his London home by saying he had to listen to "Scottish radio" and watch "Scottish TV". He was said to have told the Commons fees office a flat-screen television was the "sensible option" in a cramped flat, but did not pursue the claim after being told that, while the explanation was understandable, the "level of purchases" remained under question. Mr Griffiths has served as a minister for construction, competition and enterprise. He became deputy Leader of the Commons in 2005, but quit two years later so he could vote against the government on Trident. Bookmark with:
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Change the Witney MP | arguments to remove David Cameron from the post of MP for Witney, Oxfordshire Change the Witney MP arguments to remove David Cameron from the post of MP for Witney, Oxfordshire Search Reply If the people of Witney had an MP who actually lived in the constituency – and let’s not kid ourselves, David Cameron didn’t live in the constituency even before he became Prime Minister – s/he would, by now, have fixed one very obvious problem. The smell of raw sewage at the southern end of Witney is worse than the stink of corruption from the House of Commons. Earlier today I walked to the town’s new B&Q store at Thorney Leys Park. A member of staff was on duty keeping the automatic doors shut – the stench was that bad. Of course, David Cameron has never experienced this on-going problem. He’s never here. Oh, I’m aware that Mr Cameron wrote a letter to Wessex Water in 2005, but is that it? Really? Is that the best of his efforts? This problem affects several hundred households. And still nothing is done. Reply The politicians, political pundits, television and radio commentators, press and magazines all use the words ‘safe seat’ in a cavalier manner. But when we explode the figures – when we take a detailed look about what really lies behind the notion of a ‘safe seat’ – it becomes apparent that no seat is really ‘safe’. When we examine the facts behind ‘a safe seat’ we see that It is possible for every constituency to change their MP. Even MPs in ‘safe’ seats. Even, for example, MPs like David Cameron. Of course, like every significant course of action – and let’s not fool ourselves, evicting an MP from a ‘safe seat’ is a very significant course of action – removing an MP from office needs a plan. And there must be several different workstreams supporting that plan. To explain just a little of the detail behind my meaning, I will demonstrate how feasible it is to remove an MP – such as David Cameron – from a ‘safe seat’. I shall explode and explain the numbers that make this removal plan so possible. I shall put forward the most appropriate course of action to enable this removal plan to succeed. How do I know this plan would succeed? I am a strategist and a high-level planner. This is what I do for a living. But first, the numbers. The results of the 2010 General Election for the constituency of Witney seem, at first glance, worse than daunting. Many people who want to change David Cameron, change him for an MP who would actually live in and work for the constituents, have looked at these numbers and have been put off, to the point of inaction. But do the numbers tell the full story? This is the published table of results of the 2010 General Election, that can be found from most sources: Cameron (Con) 33973 58.8% Barnes (Lib Dem) 11233 19.4% Goldberg (Lab) 7511 13% A majority of 22,740 seems unassailable; it is an impressive margin by any measure. Yet the truth is that this table conceals the full – and proper – picture. If we take the results from above and add to the picture the 27% of the electorate (20997) who did not turn out, the picture changes significantly. If we were to compile a new table and add the 20997, who did not turn out, to the number of voters who did turn out but who did not vote for Mr Cameron (23796), we have, effectively, 44793 people who chose not to support David Cameron for the position of MP for Witney. This comparison alone – 44793 who chose not to support Mr Cameron versus the smaller number of 33973 who did support him – shows that Mr Cameron won the seat of Witney, even though the majority of constituents did not vote for him. His position suddenly seems exposed, mathematically, at least. But how feasible would it be, in the real world, to overturn David Cameron’s majority? Very feasible, I would say, and not just from one angle. At the last election Witney’s ‘second’ party was the LibDems, with 11233 votes. The widely-recognised, lacklustre performance, of LibDem MPs in the coalition government (policy differences and performance issues), coupled wit
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August 2012 - Sports Car Market Search This Issue Page -1 '58 Alfa SVZ: No Two are Alike, and This One's Worth $537k Spor R K Alfa SVZ: No Two are Alike, and This One's Worth $537k Spor R K are are 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider B August 2012 eauty $6.5m Affordable Classic: 1966–73 Fiat 850 Spider — Slow, Rusty and Fun Legal Files: What You Need to Know Before Going to Auction DB4GT Zagato Sanction II: At $1.9m, One-Third the Value of an Original e Alike, and This One's Worth $537k Spor R K are 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider B August 2012 eauty $6.5m Affordable Classic: 1966–73 Fiat 850 Spider — Slow, Rusty and Fun Legal Files: What You Need to Know Before Going to Auction DB4GT Zagato Sanction II: At $1.9m, One-Third the Value of an Original www.sportscarmarket.com www.sportscarmarket.com Two Two Two Two Two Two Page 12 Sports Car Market Keith Martin’s JOIN US The Insider’s Guide to Collecting, Investing, Values, and Trends 54 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Zagato August 2012 . Volume 24 . Number 8 62 2007 Peugeot 908 V12 HDi FAP Le Mans racer IN-DEPTH PROFILES What You Need To Know FERRARI 48 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider — $6,526,800/RM How does one value a car that hasn’t seen the market in decades? The closest comparable, a 500 TRC, changed hands last year for just shy of $4m. The 625 TRC is far rarer than a 500, and with its original 625 engine, 0680 should be worth more than a 500 TRC Steve Ahlgrim ENGLISH 52 1991 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Sanction II Coupe — $1,898,184/Bonhams Is it a replica, a continuation or a lookalike? The market says it’s worth about a third of the original Paul Hardiman ETCETERINI 54 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Zagato — $536,648/RM There’s no doubt this SVZ cost a lot of money — nearly twice the price of the nicest Lightweight Sprint Veloce or SZ — but it was worth every penny Donald Osborne GERMAN 58 1968 Porsche 911S Targa “Big Tank” — $118,250/Worldwide Early 911s have been heating up for more than a year, so this strong sale was not a surprise to insiders Prescott Kelly AMERICAN 60 1952 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon— $44,280/Branson This car isn’t a concours lawn ornament or a rotten plank. It’s a middling 1950s cruiser wagon. The selling price reflects it being in the range of a cruiser/driver, rather than an investment piece B. Mitchell Carlson RACE 62 2007 Peugeot 908 V12 HDi FAP Le Mans racer — $2,175,600/RM There has to be a huge FOB (First On Block) factor in play in this sale. If you want the only one of something special, you have to be willing to step up when the opportunity presents Thor Thorson 14 GLOBAL AUCTION COVERAGE 196 Cars Examined and Rated at Nine Sales MECUM AUCTIONS 68 Indianapolis, IN: In one week, 1,335 cars sold for $50.2m, and a $636k 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 led the way B. Mitchell Carlson RM AUCTIONS 78 Monte Carlo, MCO: 23 Ferraris add up to $24m and more than 56% of RM’s impressive $43m total Jérôme Hardy COYS 94 Monte Carlo, MCO: Bidders race to pay $1.5m for a Rolls-Royce Phantom III as Coys sells 32 cars for $6.2m Jérôme Hardy DRAGONE AUCTIONS 102 Westport, CT: A $1.4m Duesey kick-starts this new sale to a total of $4.9m John Lyons AUCTIONS AMERICA BY RM 112 Carlisle, PA: Spring Carlisle kicks off the season with a $2.5m opener, and a 1957 Corvette is top sale at $99k John Lyons BONHAMS 122 Monte Carlo, MCO: $365k for a replica Ferrari? $107k for a Fiat Jolly? Monaco fever pushes Bonhams to $2.4m Jérôme Hardy SILVERSTONE 130 Northamptonshire, U.K.: Racers and road cars sell for $1.125m, with a big chunk of the tally coming from the $326,080 sale of a 1973 Porsche Carrera RS 2.7 Jonathan Humbert ROUNDUP 140 Highlights from Silver Auction’s Spokane, WA and Classic Motorcar Auctions Novi, MI sales Jack Tockston, Patrick Campion EBAY MOTORS 146 Values of the Rising Sun Chad Tyson Cover photo: © Ron Kimball/www.kimballstock.com, courtesy of RM Auctions Sports Car Market Page 14 42 California Mille COLUMNS 18 Shifting Gears With so many Cobras made, there will never be a shortage of them for sale. Unlike GTOs, where finding someone willing to
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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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travel, tourism, holiday, holidays, vacation, vacations, Greece, Scotland, Rome, United States, USA, Western Isles, Outer HebridAlamy Buy sto North Uist North Uist is the tenth largest Scottish island and the thirteenth largest island surrounding Great Britain.Slightly smaller than South Uist. North Uist is connected by causeways to Benbecula via Grimsay, to Berneray, and to Baleshare. Some of the lochs contain a mixture of fresh and tidal salt water, giving rise to some complex and unusual habitats. Eriskay A stone causeway from Ludag now links South Uist to the island of Eriskay. Bonnie Prince Charlie's Bay is a gorgeous sandy beach. The S.S. Politician sank in the Sound of Eriskay in 1941 and its cargo of whisky bottles was 'rescued' by the islanders This true story was later turned into a book by Compton MacKenzie 'Whisky Galore' and a film which was shot mainly on Barra. Isle of Skye Skye, or the Isle of Skye is the largest and most northerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate out from a mountainous centre dominated by the Cuillin hills. The island is now linked to the mainland by a road bridge although it is still possible to travel from the mainland by ferry. The island is renowned for its spectacular scenery, vibrant culture and heritage, and its abundant wildlife including the Golden Eagle, Red Deer and Salmon. Harris Harris (Gaelic: Na Hearadh) is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides. Although not an island itself, Harris is often referred to as the Isle of Harris. A person from Harris is known as a Hearach. Highland The Scottish Highlands (Scottish Gaelic: A' Ghàidhealtachd meaning Land of the Gaels) is a historic region of Scotland. The term is used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A' Ghàidhealtachd literally means 'the place of the Gaels' and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands.
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Britain's 50 greatest islands - Telegraph Britain's 50 greatest islands Julia Hunt selects the best of more than a thousand islands around the United Kingdom. Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, lies a mile off the Northumbrian coast Photo: Getty The Cullins mountains dominate the skyline as you approach Skye Photo: Getty Iona has had an abbey since St Columba arrived in the sixth century Photo: Getty Lundy is ideal for bird-watching, nature walks and snorkelling safaris Photo: Getty Rathlin is Northern Ireland's only inhabited offshore island Photo: Getty By Julia Hunt 12:24PM BST 01 Sep 2008 1. St Mary’s The largest of the Scilly Isles, St Mary’s is nevertheless only three miles wide, though it has the best links with the mainland, thanks to an airport and ferry service. Travel along the quaint lanes by horse, bicycle or vintage car. Stay at the Star Castle Hotel (01720 422317; www.star-castle.co.uk ; from £240), which was built as a garrison for Queen Elizabeth I. 2. Tresco Palm trees and exotic plants from around the world flourish in the sheltered Abbey Garden, thanks to the mild Scilly climate. Beaches, one pretty village, and 20 minutes from Penzance by helicopter. Stay at The Island Hotel (01720 422883; www.tresco.co.uk ; from £270). 3. Lundy English seaside cafes: Coffee and coast 01 Aug 2008 In the mouth of the Bristol Channel, Lundy is just over three miles long and one mile wide. England’s only marine nature reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest, it is ideal for bird-watching, nature walks and snorkelling safaris. Self-catering is available in Landmark Trust properties ( www.lundyisland.co.uk ). 4. Anglesey The largest island off the Welsh coast, Anglesey has wide beaches, Victorian seaside towns and the village with the longest place name in Britain (shortened to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll). The island is regarded as the bread basket of Wales and culinary events include a beer festival next month and an oyster festival in October. www.visitanglesey.com . 5. Isle of Man The island has its own government, the Tynwald, and its own language, Manx, yet is just 60 miles off the Lancashire coast. Attractions include sandy beaches, medieval castles and the TT motorcycle races. www.isleofman.com . 6. Rathlin Island With its dramatic basalt cliffs, Northern Ireland’s only inhabited offshore island is home to thousands of seabirds, which you can view from a RSPB bird colony. Daily passenger ferries from Ballycastle, six miles across the Sea of Moyle, with Caledonian MacBrayne ( www.calmac.co.uk/rathlin ). 7. Inchmurrin The largest inland island in Britain, Inchmurrin is found towards the south of Loch Lomond, Scotland’s largest loch. Named after St Mirren, the island has traces of a seventh-century monastery. Activities include walking, swimming and watersports. Access by ferry or Balmaha Mail Boat. Restaurant and self-catering accommodation. Further information, www.inchmurrin-lochlomond.com . 8. Bute Located in the Firth of Clyde, Bute was a popular Victorian holiday destination. The jazz festival is a big draw now, along with Mount Stuart, the Gothic home of the Earls of Bute. Cruise back on the Waverley, Glasgow’s last paddle steamer. www.visitbute.com . 9. Arran Often referred to as “Scotland in miniature”, Arran has a diverse landscape of beaches, mountains, woodlands and villages, just an hour from the Ayrshire coast. Attractions include the Isle of Arran distillery, Brodick Castle, several golf courses and a wide range of accommodation. www.visitarran.net . 10. Sanda Popular with sailors and helicopter pilots, this tiny island south of the Mull of Kintyre, has one of Britain’s remotest pubs, the Byron Darnton Tavern. Visitors include the Princess Royal, who stocks up on the free-range beach eggs. Self-catering available. Boat trips from Campbeltown. www.sanda-island.co.uk . 11. Gigha Three miles off the Kintyre peninsula, Gigha was bought by the community in 2002. The island is small enough to walk around in a day, taking in the pretty bays and beautiful Achamore Gardens with magnificent rhododendr
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Indonesia Indonesia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Coordinates: National ideology: Pañcasīla Anthem: Indonesia Raya Great Indonesia in ASEAN (dark grey) – [Legend] Capital 6°10.5′S 106°49.7′E Official languages Indonesian Religion Officially recognised: Islam Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Demonym Indonesian Government Unitary presidential constitutional republic • President Joko Widodo • Vice-President Jusuf Kalla Legislature People's Consultative Assembly • Upper house Regional Representative Council • Lower house People's Representative Council Formation • Dutch East India Company 20 March 1602 • Netherlands Indies 1 January 1800 • Japanese occupation 9 March 1942 • Declared Independence 17 August 1945 • United States of Indonesia 27 December 1949 • Federation dissolved 17 August 1950 • New Order 12 March 1967 • Reformasi 21 May 1998 Area • Land 1,904,569 km 2 735,358 sq mi • Water (%) 4.85 Population • 2015 estimate 255,461,700 • 2010 census 237,424,363 (4th) • Density 124.66/km 2 (84th) 322.87/sq mi GDP (PPP) 2015 estimate • Total $2.840 trillion (8th) • Per capita $11,135 (102nd) GDP (nominal) 2015 estimate • Total $895.677 billion (16th) • Per capita $3,511 (117th) Gini (2010) 35.6 medium HDI (2014) 0.684 medium · 110th Currency Indonesian rupiah (Rp) (IDR) Time zone various (UTC+7 to +9) • Summer (DST) various (UTC+7 to +9) Date format DD/MM/YYYY Drives on the left Calling code +62 ISO 3166 code ID Internet TLD .id a. ^a The government officially recognises only six religions: Islam, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Indonesia (ɪndəˈniːʒə/ IN-də-NEE-zhə or /ˌɪndoʊˈniːziə/ IN-doh-NEE-zee-ə; Indonesian: [ɪndonesia]), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia [rɛpublik ɪndonesia]), is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. It is the largest island country in the world by the number of islands, with more than fourteen thousand islands. Indonesia has an estimated population of over 255 million people and is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. The world's most populous island of Java contains more than half of the country's population. Indonesia's republican form of government includes an elected legislature and president. Indonesia has 34 provinces, of which five have Special Administrative status. Its capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the Malaysian Borneo. Other neighbouring countries include Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies. The Indonesian economy is the world's 16th largest by nominal GDP and the 8th largest by GDP at PPP. The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders and Sufi scholars brought the now-dominant Islam, while European powers brought Christianity and fought one another to monopolise trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism starting from the East Indonesia of West Papua, Timor to eventually all of West Indonesia, at times interrupted by Portuguese, French and British rule, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, mass slaughter, corruption, separatism, a democratisation process, and periods of rapid economic change. Indonesia consists of hundreds of distinct native ethnic and linguistic groups. The largest – and politically dominant – ethnic gr
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RUSSIA AS I SEE HER. Yuri Abramochkin photoalbum 1960–2013 by RUSS PRESS PHOTO - issuu issuu photoalbum 1960–2013 SCANRUS PUBLISHING HOUSE Moscow, 2013 I have been collecting and preparing this photo album throughout the last 50 years of my life as a reporter. Initially, I did not quite know why I was doing it. Now that the book has seen the light of day, I would like to thank all my heroes who have enabled me to take these photographs. I am sorry that circumstances have prevented me from photographing everything I wanted to. I hope that, in time, my work will become a photo chronicle of our times, my generation and my country. Yuri Abramochkin Dmitry Stepanov, Ramil Sitdikov. 2011 My conscious life began at the time that would later come to be called the “thaw”. I lost my parents early. My grandmother was both mother and father to me. After finishing secondary school in 1953, I worked for a while as a geodetic specialist on construction sites, before getting a job as a photographer. I became genuinely interested in photography. An old FED camera my father had given me became an extension of myself. In 1957, I made my first photo report about the Moscow International Youth Festival. The photos were printed in the newspaper Nash Festival (Our Festival) and that sealed my choice of future profession. In 1961, I was hired by Novosti Press Agency (APN), a prestigious organisation that produced materials for foreign consumption and had a distinctive “Western” style. I was learning the ropes of my profession and the profession was teaching me to overcome adversity, value success while not getting big-headed, help my colleagues and rejoice in their success, too. I have always wanted to know how my photographs were perceived. When working on a portrait, I try to capture my subject’s inner state. If I succeed, the emotional impact of the picture can work miracles: all sorts of people start “speaking” with the photograph, as if immersing themselves in it. As a reporter, I gravitate towards situational “living” photographs. The main thing is to capture the moment. Reportage requires “a sense of the moment” from the photographer. One has to be able to foresee what is about to happen. A modern photo reporter is equipped with technology that enables him to upload pictures that have just been taken into information channels and reach the viewer/reader immediately. Communication becomes instant and authentic. Even if the photo correspondent approaches the subject with his own vision and attitude, time will sort out the material and put everything on the proper shelf. 4 Content Mikhail Gorbachev 6 Half a century of our life Andrei Nechayev 7 The man who captured light Genrikh Borovik 8 He comes from a tribe of masters Alexander Yurikov 9 “The Golden Eye” 10 The main square 48 The first to photograph the first man in space 64 The Thaw and other manifestations of fickle weather 98 From stability to stagnation 198 2600 days in power 226 A radical at the Kremlin 252 Waiting for a century that has already come 328 The roads that choose us 334 About the author Half a century of our life Reflecting on the past is part of human nature. Even when planning for the future, people always proceed from memories of the past. This is their experience, experience of work, of dealing with people, emotional experience. No wonder diaries and memoirs are such a popular genre. But there is one special type of memory – photographs. Each of them not only packs in a vast amount of information. It stirs emotions, brings back associations, conjures up vivid memories of events. Of course, this only happens when you see the work of a true master. Yuri Abramochkin’s album “A Flight Through Time” is just such a collection of highly professional photographs. I have known Yuri Abramochkin personally for a long time. Mikhail Gorbachev He is known in and outside Russia as one of the best in his profession. He is at once a zestful photo reporter and an artist with a deep insight into what he photographs. Yet I would like to single
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Alexander Garden. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier | izi.TRAVEL Alexander Garden. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Only in English Alexander Garden. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Listen to audio Play Pause Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin . Mobile App The ceremonial wrought-iron gates topped with the gilded double-headed eagles mark the main entrance of the Alexander Gardens – one of Moscow's principle memorial parks. The Gardens run the length of the North-West walls of the Moscow Kremlin. The massive wrought-iron gates of the Alexander Gardens are decorated with military insignia commemorating Russia's victory over Napoleon in 1812. They were made to drawings by the architect Pascale. In fact very many civic projects in Moscow in the early C19th are connected with the name of Tsar Alexander I, during whose rule the victory over France was won. It was Alexander's name, above all others, that people associated with ridding Europe of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1820 Tsar Alexander I gave royal approval to the building of ornamental gardens along the Kremlin's northern wall. It was a period when the rebuilding of the country after the ravages of war had become the nation's number one priority. The immense cylindrical tower which stands by the gates to the Alexander Gardens is the Arsenal Corner-Tower. Behind it is a slope leading into to Red Square. The tower is topped by a weathercock vane. The Arsenal Tower is the mightiest of the Kremlin's corner-towers. It had originally been called the Sobakina, or Kennel Tower, since the yard of Sobakin barons was behind it. It was renamed the Arsenal Tower when the Arsenal was built next door. The walls are a colossal 4m thick, and the tower is 60m (196feet) high. It was built in 1492 to afford a hidden defensive arrow-slit firing-place across the Neglinnaya River. The Neglinnaya once ran where the Alexander Gardens are now. The tower's foundations sink deep into the ground – there's a natural spring below it, providing the fortress with fresh water, which is documented in the archives as a hiding place in this mysterious tower. When Kremlin restorers were cleaning the old well under the Arsenal tower they found some two hundred stone cannonballs, along with unique items of military uniform – helmets, stirrups, and chain mail. In olden days there had been a river outlet to the Neglinnaya River from the Arsenal Tower. There's even speculation that there was secret access to the tower by boat from the river. Here, at the foot of the Kremlin Wall, is home to a gloomy architectural sculpture – the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. The sculpture displays a military helmet alongside the heavy folds of a flag - side-by-side with a bronze five-pointed star is the Eternal Flame. This monument to military valour marks the grave of the Unknown Soldier – a monument to all those who fell in WW2. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is always marked with flowers and wreaths. The inscription on the granite slab of the tomb reads ‘Your name may be unknown, but your deeds are immortal’. To the left on the wall there is a memorial tablet reading ‘1941 – To Those Who Fell For The Motherland – 1945’. The Eternal Flame lit here on May 9th 1967 was lit from a torch brought from the Eternal Flame on the Fields of Mars in Leningrad (today's St.Petersburg). Thirty years later, by Presidential Decree, the Honor Guard – Guard-Post No.1 - which formerly stood on duty at Lenin's Mausoleum was moved to guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Guard is kept by soldiers of the Presidential Regiment, and changed every hour. National Holidays are always marked by official visits to the Tomb, and VIP foreign guests traditionally lay wreaths here. The Memorial Grave of the Unknown Soldier was erected in honour of all those in the Armed Forces who fell in WW2. It was opened to mark the 25th Anniversary of the defeat of Nazi troops attacking Moscow. In 1966 the remains of unknown soldiers who had fallen in the Defence Of Moscow in 1941 were
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A Nottingham Legend in Profile: Alan Sillitoe - Nottingham A Nottingham Legend in Profile: Alan Sillitoe I am a writer and teacher, out and about in the world but with Nottingham never far from my heart. Published December 28th 2014 A look at the life and work of a Notts literary hero Few writers � indeed, few people at all � are as intrinsic to Nottingham's soul and identity as Alan Sillitoe. Associated with the "Angry Young Men" group of writers at an early stage in his career, Sillitoe spent the rest of his life railing against such restrictive and glib pigeonholing of his work. Alan Sillitoe, pictured in 2009 Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928, and both the city and his upbringing would be major influences on his later creative works. The young Sillitoe spent his early years drifting from one disenfranchised area of Nottingham to another as his father struggled to support Sillitoe's mother and younger sister, an unstable beginning which led to Sillitoe dropping out of school aged 14 to find work. Too young for service in World War II (Sillitoe qualified as a pilot only a month before the surrender of Japan) Sillitoe did his national service in post war Malaya, and it was on returning to England that his future as a writer began to map itself out before him. Nottingham's train station in the 1950s, photo by Ben Brookbank large image It was while recuperating from a bout of TB at an RAF hospital that Sillitoe � by now in his early 20s � began to devour up fiction and philosophy. He read everything � from classics to modern fiction, from Hobbes to contemporary thinkers such as Wittgenstein � and it's tempting to see this phase of his life as catalytical to his development as a writer. Leaving Nottingham While Sillitoe developed a love of books, the books returned the favour and brought him a love of his own. It was while browsing in a Nottingham bookshop in 1952 that Sillitoe met 19-year-old Ruth Fainlight, who would later become Sillitoe's wife and the mother of his son and adopted daughter. First edition copy of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Born in New York City in 1931, Fainlight was already writing poetry by time she met Alan Sillitoe in the English Midlands. The pair � now at a loose end thanks to Sillitoe's discharge from the armed forces � decided to leave the UK for the Mediterranean, in order to pursue writing with more gusto. The couple flitted from Southern France and into Spain, where they met the poet Robert Graves � a writer who would mentor the young up-and-comers. Sillitoe may have left Nottingham behind in a physical sense, but his background always remained close to his heart. Despite working in the Mediterranean sun and being no doubt a little star-struck by the reputation of the poet Graves, Sillitoe began to hone the character of Arthur Seaton, a young man in Nottingham whose experiences and outlook mirrored those of the young writer and of those he had grown up with. Literary Career It was on returning to England in the late fifties that the character of Arthur Seaton truly began to take on a life of its own. By now, Sillitoe had written the early drafts of his breakthrough novel, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, a book charting the experiences of a young working class male in post-war Nottingham, and with Seaton as its primary character. The novel's title reflects the cycle of hedonistic escapism followed by the crushing hangover of daily-life that would be familiar to thousands of young men in Nottingham at that time. However, the book goes deeper than this, exploring the place of the individual worker in the twin systems of capitalism and socialism. These themes would be manifested in Sillitoe's later left-leaning politics, which saw him denounce western capitalist structures and Soviet human rights abuses in equal measure. Sillitoe followed his debut with the story-collection, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in 1959. Both of these works were made into successful films and cemented Sillitoe's position at the heart of Nottingham's literary soul. And
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Andrew Flintoff Biography from Biogs.com clear Andrew Flintoff was born on 6 December 1977 in Preston. Flintoff was first nicknamed Freddie by John Stanworth, the captain of Lancashire's second XI, when he was a teenager because his name was similar to Fred Flinstone. Andrew Flintoff hardly played cricket at his school, Ribbleton Hall High school, but played alongside his father and elder brother at Harris Park, and then joined St Anne's and batted number three in the year they won the league. At 16, Andrew Flintoff was snapped up by David Lloyd, then Lancashire's coach. His first class debut came against Hampshire in August 1995. It was not good. He scored 7 and a duck and he dropped 5 catches! The right-handed all-rounder made his test debut on 23 July 1998 against South Africa at Nottingham. But in spite of his natural talent Andrew Flintoff's cricketing career took a while to take off. He was overweight and unfit. Dropped from the England team in 2001 he determined to get into shape and dropped about two stone to around 16.5 stone. Flintoff used the services of former Great Britain rugby league international Steve Hampson to help him improve his fitness. It worked and by 2003 Flintoff was justifying his reputation as a big-hitter and a dangerous bowler. But it was in 2004 that Andrew Flintoff really motored. He was named Man of the Series in England's 4-0 whitewash of the West Indies in the summer (the home leg), and was voted Player of the Year by the Professional Cricketers' Association in September 2004. Flintoff was also on stunning form in the one day internationals and was made ICC's One-Day Player of the Year in 2004. He had notched up 551 runs at the amazing average of 78.71 in one-day internationals and also took 12 wickets at an average of 20.50. In April 2005, Andrew Flintoff playing his first Championship match in nearly two years due to injury and test duties. In the first innings for Lancashire against Worcestershire he scored a duck, but an 83 which included 4 sixes signalled that Flintoff was regaining form and fitness. In the second test of the 2005 Ashes series, Andrew Flintoff came up with an incredible performance in England's nail-biting victory over Australia. Man of the match, Flintoff scored an exciting 73 in England's meagre second innings total of 182 and then helped whittle out Australia with 4-79. England went on to win the 2005 Ashes and Flintoff was named as man of the series. Freddie was made BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 2005. Andrew Flintoff was also named as Wisden's world's number one player in 2005. Andrew Flintoff said: "I watched the Ashes as a kid and to be involved in it and play a major role in an England victory has been unbelievable". Flintoff and his wife Rachael have a daughter Holly and live in Knutsford, Cheshire. In March 2006 they had a son, Corey, whilst Flintoff was in India captaining England - a role he took on when Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick were unavailable for selection. Flintoff guided England to a tied series 1-1. Freddie Flintoff came seventh in The Independent's list of Britain's happiest people. In September 2006, despite some worries over his fitness after his ankle injury, Andrew Flintoff was named as England's captain for the Ashes in Australia in the winter. The Australians won the Ashes back and worse was to follow for Flintoff when he was sacked as vice-captain in the World Cup in March 2007 after reports that he fell off a pedalo after drinking heavily in the early hours of the morning after England's first match defeat to New Zealand. Later in 2007, injury kept Andrew Flintoff out of the Tests against West Indies and, in October 2007, it was revealed that Andrew Flintoff is unlikely to play for England until summer 2008 after another ankle operation. In July 2008, Andrew Flintoff was named in the 12-man squad for England's second Test against South Africa. It was 18 months since his last Test appearance. Nevertheless, Flintoff started the 2009 Ashes series , near to full fitness. On 15 July 2009, Andrew Flintoff announced that he w
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays - Stephen Hawking, Stephen W. Hawking - Google Books Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays 8 Reviews https://books.google.com/books/about/Black_Holes_and_Baby_Universes_and_Other.html?id=gTLGnTZabBQC Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal million-copy hardcover best-seller A "Brief History Of Time". Bantam is proud to present the paperback edition of Dr. Hawking's first new book since that event, a collection of fascinating and illuminating essays, and a remarkable interview broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day, 1992. These fourteen pieces reveal Hawking variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and-always-the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Hawking's wit, directness of style, and absence of pomp characterize all of them, whether he is remembering his first experience at nursery school; calling for adequate education in science that will enable the public to play its part in making informed decisions on matters such as nuclear disarmament; exploring the origins or the future of the universe; or reflecting on the history of "A Brief History Of Time. Black Holes And Baby Universes" is an important work from one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. "[Hawking] sprinkles his explanations with a wry sense of humor and a keen awareness that the sciences today delve not only into the far reaches of the cosmos, but into the Inner philosophical world as well".- "New York Times Book Review" From inside the book What people are saying - Write a review User ratings
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Doctor Who Classic Series Companions / Characters - TV Tropes Played by: Carole Ann Ford (1963�64, 1983, 1993) "Oh, grandfather!" The Doctor's granddaughter. When the series began, she attended Coal Hill School in London as a student for a few months in 1963, posing as a human with a fake human name. She's Constantly Curious and extremely sweet. Returns much later, as an adult, to help out the first five incarnations of her grandfather all at the same time. Bound and Gagged : In "The Keys of Marinus", in Episode 6. The Bus Came Back : While Susan has certainly been on a Long Bus Trip , she did return for one adventure in 1983. To this date, Carole Ann Ford is still playing Susan in the Big Finish Doctor Who audios, both in First Doctor stories and as a companion to the Eighth Doctor. Bus Crash : The Doctor stated he was the Last of His Kind as early as "The End of the World". In the later episodes "The Empty Child", "Fear Her" and "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor reminisces about having had children once, and confirms that he considers every last Time Lord dead. Possibly subverted if the reason the Doctor thought he was the Last of His Kind is because Susan was on Gallifrey at the end of the Time War. If that's the case, now that it's been revealed that the Doctor managed to save Gallifrey in a frozen moment in time rather than destroying it it's possible that Susan's still alive. The Cameo : She's very briefly seen, from the back, in a flashback in "The Name of the Doctor". Cheerful Child : She has a tendency to act younger than her apparent age, probably because she is extremely young by Time Lord standards, and can't resist a giggle even at the most inappropriate times. For example, she laughs at the way one of her Dalek captors says her name in " The Daleks ". Cuddle Bug : Loves to cling to people, especially Barbara and her grandfather. Cute Clumsy Girl : One infamous moment has her accidentally dropping a bridge on top of the TARDIS and twisting her ankle in the process. Depending on the Writer : Susan had originally been intended as a Creepy Good Action Girl with Psychic Powers but was ReTooled into a "normal girl" after the unaired pilot. The result of this is that her character fluctuates wildly between scripts: in "An Unearthly Child" she is a nice girl who wishes she was normal but shows a little Nightmare Fetishist behaviour ("I like walking through the dark. It's mysterious.") and physically attacks a massive, armed caveman to save her friends; in "The Daleks" she is a Kiddie Kid who displays exaggerated fear about walking through the dark and the few times she's allowed to speak it's to make stupid suggestions ("First we all lie down and pretend to be dead..."); in "The Edge of Destruction" she drifts around in a long dress, babbles about creatures inside her and threatens to shred Ian with a pair of surgical scissors; in "Marco Polo" she is a Totally Radical sixties teen who thinks everything is "gear"; in "The Keys of Marinus" she is a Distressed Damsel ; in "The Aztecs" she has nothing to do; in "The Sensorites" she has a fight with her grandfather and saves the day with her telepathic powers; and then in "The Reign of Terror" she refuses to attempt to escape from a prison when she and Barbara are due to be guillotined because she's scared of the rats and then develops a fever for plot convenience. It's such a horrible mess you can tell the writers were relieved to start again with a blank slate when she got replaced with Suspiciously Similar Substitute Vicki. Pstandard Psychic Pstance : In "The Sensorites." Psychic Powers : She's very gifted in telepathy, much more so than her grandfather. Put on a Bus : Done at the end of the serial " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " where the Doctor leaves her behind so she can marry a nice young resistance fighter and have some stability in her life . She would have stayed with her grandfather out of a sense of obligation if he hadn't. She returns in "The Five Doctors". Riddle for the Ages : Susan's real (Gallifreyan) name. According to the short story, Roses, it i
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PICTURE GALLERY: The Princess Royal unveils affordable homes in Kent village - News - Kent News PICTURE GALLERY: The Princess Royal unveils affordable homes in Kent village 10:48 03 March 2016 HRH The Princess Royal visiting Iden Green affordable housing development. All pictures: Paul Bennett Archant Princess Anne - who attended nearby Benenden School as a child - braved the weather to officially unveil the development Email this article to a friend To send a link to this page you must be logged in. Usurv Email this article to a friend To send a link to this page you must be logged in. 0 1 / 7 The Princess Royal gave the royal seal of approval to a new affordable housing development in Kent this week. She visited Vyvyan Cottages in Iden Green, near Cranbrook, on Wednesday to see for herself the new homes - which are in addition to six built back in 1994. The homes have been achieved through a community led partnership between the English Rural Housing Association - set up to bring affordable homes for local people in rural villages - Benenden Parish Council, the Harmsworth Memorial Trust and Tunbridge Wells Borough Council; the project has also benefitted from the support of the Kent Rural Housing Enabler, which provides support and advice to parish councils. The Princess Royal met local residents and viewed one of the affordable homes, before officially opening the new homes on the development. Princess Anne, the Queen’s daughter, is no stranger to the area. She attended the plush Benenden School as a child in the 1960s. The land for the housing development was made available by the parish council, having been gifted to them by the current Viscount Rothermere at the same time he made land available for the initial six homes. The development is named in tribute to the current Viscount Rothermere’s two uncles who died during the First World War. The affordable homes have been made available at a lower than market rent and planning restrictions ensure that local households with a connection to the village have priority to live in them. Adrian Maunders, chief executive of the English Rural Housing Association, said: “The visit will help to promote the benefits that small projects of affordable rural homes can bring to villages like Iden Green. “We were especially pleased the Princess Royal is able to visit one of our developments in Kent, where we have a successful track record of working with parish and district councils across the county to provide well designed affordable homes in partnership with and for the benefit of local communities.”
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William Wordsworth in Cumbria – Visit Cumbria 1770 – 1779 William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in a fine Georgian house in Cockermouth , now called Wordsworth House . His father John was estate agent to Sir James Lowther, who owned the house. William has an elder brother Richard, a younger sister Dorothy and two younger brothers John and Christopher. His childhood was spent largely in Cockermouth and Penrith , his mother’s home town. William and Dorothy and his future wife Mary Hutchinson attended infant school in Penrith between 1776 and 1777. William’s mother died in Penrith when he was 8. His father died when he was 13, and is buried in the churchyard of All Saints Cockermouth. All Saints church rooms is on the site of the Cockermouth school that William attended as a boy. Hawkshead – Ann Tyson’s Cottage 1779 – 1787 From 1779 until 1787 William attended the Grammar School in Hawkshead , lodging with Ann Tyson initially, then with his brothers. At Hawkshead William thrived – receiving encouragement from the headmaster to read and write poetry. During these years he made many visits to the countryside, gaining inspiration as the powers of nature exercised their influence. He then went to St John’s College Cambridge, where he was not a notable student, but inevitably matured in thought and sophistication. In 1795 he received a bequest of £900 which gave him the means to pursue a literary career. In 1795 the Wordsworths stayed in a cottage in Dorset, where they met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. In the years ahead a close relationship developed between William, Dorothy and Coleridge. William and Coleridge then undertook a tour of the Lake District, starting at Temple Sowerby, and finishing at Wasdale Head, via Grasmere. At Grasmere they saw Dove Cottage, then an empty Inn called the Dove and Olive Branch. 1799 – 1808 In December 1799 William and Dorothy moved into Dove Cottage , in Grasmere . Dorothy was William’s secretary, as William dictated his poetry. In 1802 William married his childhood companion Mary Hutchinson, and the first three of their five children were born. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey moved in to Greta Hall in Keswick . Southey, who was poet laureate from 1813 – 1843, lived there for forty years. 1813 – 1850 In 1813 they moved to Rydal Mount , where William and Mary stayed until their deaths in 1850 and 1859. While living here, William bought the Rash field, next to St Mary’s Church, originally to build a house. The house never materialised. It is now called Dora’s Field , and has a splendid display of daffodils. Whilst at Rydal Mount William became Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland, and had an office in Church St, Ambleside . In 1820 he published his ‘Guide through the District of the Lakes’. In 1842 he became the Poet Laureate, and resigned his office as Stamp Distributor. He helped to choose the site of St Mary’s Church , built just below Rydal Mount, and where he was church warden from 1833 to 1834. The grave of William Wordsworth at Grasmere Church. In 1850 William caught a cold on a country walk, and he died on 23 April, St George’s day, 80 years after his birth. He and Mary who died 9 years later have a simple tombstone in the churchyard of St Oswald’s Church in Grasmere, now one of the most visited literary shrines in the world.
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History - 1990s - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official Site by IBM READ MORE 1990: A record for Navratilova On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Martina Navratilova produced a near-flawless performance to win her ninth Wimbledon singles title, a record that will take some topping in today's day and age. Competing against fellow American Zina Garrison, Navratilova served and volleyed her way around Centre Court in emphatic fashion, dropping just five games as she took the title 6-1, 6-4. The 33-year-old Navratilova won six consecutive championships from 1982 to 1987 but was made to wait before surpassing Helen Wills Moody's record of eight titles, losing the previous two years in the final to Steffi Graf. But, with Graf disposed of by Garrison in the semi-finals, Navratilova got there eventually, straddling the net to acknowledge her beaten opponent and then, her courtside courtesies complete, sinking down on her knees for an instant of silent communion with the tennis court she loves best. "There were no glitches this time; everything came up nines," she said. "This tops it all, absolutely, because I've worked so hard." 1990: Boris Becker v Stefan Edberg The most defining aspect of the rivalry between Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg was the three successive Wimbledon finals they contested between 1988 and 1990. Having split the titles in '88 and '89, their 1990 encounter was undoubtedly the most riveting. Edberg, who had been routed by Boris the year before, swept ahead, crunching through the first two sets 6-2, 6-2. But, as was his wont, Becker rallied in typical fashion to win the next two sets 6-3, 6-3, and send the match into a fifth. Becker broke Edberg early in the fifth set, on course for a fourth Wimbledon title, and setting up the possibility of being the first Wimbledon champion to win the last three sets in a five-set match since Henri Cochetin 1927. But, it was not to be. Edberg regained the break and then broke Becker in the ninth game of the set with a topspin lob winner, eventually serving it out for his second Wimbledon title. The Swede went on to win the US Open in 1991 and 1992. 1991: Steffi Graf v Gabriela Sabatini One of SW19's greatest champions arrived at Wimbledon in 1991 having suffered rather a seesaw period, registering one of the worst defeats of her career against Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the French Open semi-finals, losing her first 6-0 set since 1984. But, as is so often the case, the green grass of the All England Club gave the formerly indomitable German a boost, powering her way to the final. Coming up against friend and rival Gabriela Sabatini, the odds on form were in the Argentine's favour, having beaten Graf in four tournaments in the spring. But Graf was always capable of something special at Wimbledon, and so it proved, the German rallying back from dropping the second set, and holding her nerve to win an epic Centre Court final 6-4 3-6 8-6, the longest final for 15 years. 1991: Middle Sunday One of the wettest first weeks in the tournament's history - just 52 out of about 240 matches were completed by Thursday evening - prompted the decision to stage play on the traditional day off, the Middle Sunday. Gabriela Sabatini and Andrea Strnadova emerged from their dressing room on to Centre Court for their third-round noon showdown. They were greeted by a packed stadium, a seemingly unending roar and enough Mexican waves to fill an ocean. The spectators had raced from the gates for prime, £10-a-head unreserved seats. They had formed part of a queue snaking almost two miles that produced an attendance of 24,894. On No.1 Court, John McEnroe, a three-time champion, did not disappoint his adoring fans with a victory against Frenchman Jean-Philippe Fleurian, while victories for eventual Swedish semi-finalist Stefan Edberg and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario warmed up the effervescent crowd on the main court for the top of the bill: Jimmy Connors. Despite thriving on the atmosphere, Connors was eventually upstaged by fellow American Derrick Rostango, but the atmosphere overtook the results that d
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Wimbledon Top 10: Youngest Champions - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official Site by IBM Wimbledon Top 10: Youngest Champions By Mark Hodgkinson Does it seem as if players are getting younger? Wimbledon.com looks at the top 10 youngest champions. 1. Boris Becker was 17 years old when he won the 1985 Championships, becoming the youngest ever winner of the gentlemen's singles title. "What I remember most from winning Wimbledon at 17 was that people suddenly looked at me differently – they thought I was from planet Mars. They thought I had done something I wasn't supposed to do, something that shouldn't have been possible. But I did it. And then I did it at 18, just to make the point." 2. Before Becker, the youngest men's champion was Wilfred Baddeley, who was 19 when he won the title in 1881 (the Englishman won a couple more titles, in 1892 and 1895). 3. Martina Hingis was just 13 years old when she won the junior Wimbledon title at the 1994 Championships, so becoming the youngest champion of that competition (her first Grand Slam victory had come the season before when, at the age of 12, she won the junior French Open to become the youngest player to ever win a junior Grand Slam title). 4. Dennis Ralston, an American, is the youngest ever men's doubles champion – he was 17 when he won in 1960, alongside Mexico's Rafael Osuna. In 1966, he would reach a Wimbledon singles final, losing to Manuel Santana. 5. Lottie Dod, who was known as 'The Little Wonder', and who dressed in a long white dress and black woolen stockings, was 15 years and 285 days old when she won the ladies' singles title in 1887. She remains the youngest ladies’ singles champion. 6. Martina Hingis is the youngest ever women's doubles champion – she was 15 years and 282 days old when she won in 1996, with Helena Sukova as her partner. She is also the youngest winner of any senior title at the All England Club – Lottie Dod was three days older when she won the ladies' singles title in 1887. 7. Martina Hingis is the youngest women's singles champion of the modern era, winning the 1997 title when she was just 16. As the New York Times observed on the day that the Little Swiss Miss beat Jana Novotna: "With the smile of a cheerleader and the appetite of a shark, Hingis is the epitome of a new wave of tennis teenagers with no qualms about preying on the older generation". 8. Australia’s Rod Laver is the youngest ever man to win the mixed doubles title – he was 20 in 1959. He played with American Darlene Hard. 9. Serena Williams was 16 when she won the 1998 mixed tournament, making her the youngest ever woman to hold the title. Her partner, Max Mirnyi, had apparently been too shy to approach her himself, so it had been his father who had set up the partnership. 10. When a 20-year-old Bjorn Borg won the 1976 Wimbledon Championships, he became the youngest men's champion of the 20th century (but he didn't hold that record for long, as it was just nine years later that Boris Becker won the tournament at the age of just 17). Follow the latest news and scores from Wimbledon 2013 on Wimbledon.com or download the official iPad, iPhone and Android apps
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What is the hardest natural substance known? | Flexiguru What is the hardest natural substance known? Class 10th Chemistry Mahesh Kumar The hardest natural substance is diamond which is an allotrope of carbon. It has superlative physical qualities which originated from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms. The carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centred cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Kamal Sharma Diamond. It's carbon packed extremely tightly together, which makes it pretty much unbreakable. This is also part of the reason why diamonds are so highly valued no one wants their diamond ring to fall to the ground and shatter into a million pieces. Diamond is currently thought to be the hardest natural material on Earth, having a hardness of ten out of ten on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Diamond is made up of carbon atoms which share strong covalent bonds (where electrons are shared between atoms) and are equally spaced in a lattice arrangement. These atoms cannot move, which is what makes diamonds so hard.
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Do I Know This ? Do I Know This ? Updated May 17, 2013, 12:23 AM Have you ever wondered who's got the most number of top singles in U.K ? Have you ever wondered which company is the world's top Global Brand ? Have you ever wondered which country has got the most or the highest number of Netizens ? Use template Amazing Facts 100 amazing & unknown facts! # Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. # The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. # The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. # Ants never sleep! # When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. # Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. # An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. # “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. # Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years. # Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. # Butterflies taste with their feet. # A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. # It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. # Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. # Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. # No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. # Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” # Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. # Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. # The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. # The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. # The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. # The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. # The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. # Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. # TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. # You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. # Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton. # Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. # The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle. # A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why! # The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles. # Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. # Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. # There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” # If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. # Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. # The original name for butterfly was flutterby. # By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. # Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed. # Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. # Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”. # The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. # Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. # The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.” # All Polar bears are left-handed. # In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. # “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” # Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family. # Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. # The only 15 letter word
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Which 17 year old New Zealander won the 2014 Grammy for Song of the Year with 'Royals'?
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Grammy Awards 2014: Lorde, 17, beats Pink, Katy Perry and Bruno Mars to song of the year in shock victory at her first Grammys | Daily Mail Online Next Oh my Lorde! Newcomer, 17, beats Pink, Katy Perry and Bruno Mars to song of the year in shock victory at her first Grammys The New Zealander picks up gongs for Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year for her smash hit Royals Misses out on two more as Record of the Year goes to Daft Punk for Get Lucky and Bruno Mars wins Best pop vocal album for Unorthodox Jukebox
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2004 Academy Awards® Winners and History Shrek 2 (2004) Actor: JAMIE FOXX in "Ray," Don Cheadle in "Hotel Rwanda," Johnny Depp in "Finding Neverland," Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Aviator," Clint Eastwood in "Million Dollar Baby" Actress: HILARY SWANK in "Million Dollar Baby," Annette Bening in "Being Julia," Catalina Sandino Moreno in "Maria Full of Grace," Imelda Staunton in "Vera Drake," Kate Winslet in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Supporting Actor: MORGAN FREEMAN in "Million Dollar Baby," Alan Alda in "The Aviator," Thomas Haden Church in "Sideways," Jamie Foxx in "Collateral," Clive Owen in "Closer" Supporting Actress: CATE BLANCHETT in "The Aviator," Laura Linney in "Kinsey," Virginia Madsen in "Sideways," Sophie Okonedo in "Hotel Rwanda," Natalie Portman in "Closer" Director: CLINT EASTWOOD for "Million Dollar Baby," Taylor Hackford for "Ray," Mike Leigh for "Vera Drake," Alexander Payne for "Sideways," Martin Scorsese for "The Aviator" This year's Best Picture nominees had tearjerker themes, including obsessive-compulsive mental disorder, euthanasia, heroin addiction, and other similar downbeat themes. Three of the Best Picture nominees were biopics and based on real people: The Aviator (an epic about reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes), Finding Neverland (a whimsical tale about the creation of Peter Pan by Scottish playwright James M. Barrie), and Ray (a biography of blind musician Ray Charles). The other two were intimate character studies: Million Dollar Baby (a tearjerking drama about an ex-boxer who reluctantly trains a waitress (Hilary Swank) to become a professional boxer), and Sideways (a light, ensemble comedy, quirky romance, and character study about the adventures of two middle-aged, emotionally-constricted buddies in California's wine country for a week of wine-tasting). The final tally of nominations and wins for each Best Picture nominee came down to an almost-even split in Oscar wins for Million Dollar Baby and The Aviator, with the former taking the top honors, although The Aviator had more total Oscars: Million Dollar Baby (with 7 nominations, with three of the nominations going to director/producer/star Eastwood, resulting in 4 wins including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor) - the two performance wins marked the second year in a row that an Eastwood picture won two of the four acting Oscars (Tim Robbins and Sean Penn won acting awards for Mystic River (2003)) - in six of the last ten years, the Best Picture winners had a central character who died at the end The Aviator (with 11 nominations and 5 wins, including Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography) - this marked only the third time in 21 years that the film with the most nominations did not win Best Picture Ray (with 6 nominations and two wins for Best Actor and Best Sound Mixing) Finding Neverland (with 7 nominations and only one win for Best Original Score) Sideways (with 5 nominations and only one win for Best Adapted Screenplay - for director Alexander Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor, from a book by first-time novelist Rex Pickett) Unlike recent years 2003, 1997, and 1996, no one film dom
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What colour is named after a battle fought in Italy in 1859?
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magenta - definition of magenta in English | Oxford Dictionaries Definition of magenta in English: magenta noun 1[mass noun] A light mauvish-crimson which is one of the primary subtractive colours, complementary to green: ‘bright pink double flowers each lined in dark magenta’ [as modifier] ‘a short magenta dress’ More example sentences ‘As an aside, a mixture of cyan, magenta and yellow should produce black, but in reality a touch of black is needed to get it.’ ‘The women wore long magenta dresses embroidered with huge black circles; the men were in black suits, except for one - a clownish individual.’ ‘I got four pastel pencils in magenta, imperial purple, dark cornflower and a brighter blue and made some light sketches in these improbable colours.’ ‘The magenta, blue, and green lights fell across her gray eyes and brown hair in beautiful patterns, illuminating them with color.’ ‘When the bureau tested bills with more intense colors, like purple and magenta, focus groups thought they looked fake.’ ‘The dancers are in flat slippers, the costumes are in bold autumnal colours of magenta, orange and dark yellow, and the girls have their hair loose.’ ‘These A5 sized cards are based on the eight main colours of the spectrum - magenta, violet, blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, red.’ ‘A sleeveless, short robe of magenta with a short turned up collar of a slightly darker shade added a little more color and variety.’ ‘Most photoprinters are actually inkjet printers that offer six-colour printing by adding light cyan and light magenta to the usual cyan, magenta, yellow and black.’ ‘The colours are either rich jewel tones or warm earthy hues, and include: magenta, purple, red, gold, emerald, olive, espresso, chocolate and charcoal grey.’ ‘On the screen, tall thin models with dark tans paraded back and forth in shimmering orange and magenta gowns.’ ‘Painted on top of each are geometric shapes that range from dark green to magenta to off-white.’ ‘Two dragons, a bold magenta and a cooler green, pursued each others’ tails in wheels around my head.’ ‘Fake furs are presented in an especially trendy style - in fashionable colours from magenta to lime green and cyan blue.’ ‘The negatives are then exposed successively on film coated with sensitized pigmented gelatin - Cyan, magenta, yellow and black.’ ‘Full of silky, pillows, a futon sat against one of the pale, pastel purple walls while her low-lying bed covered with sheets tie dyed in green, gray, purple, magenta.’ ‘Fabrics and colours are luxuriously decadent: red felt, magenta georgette, misty grey mohair, powdery blue sheepskin and sequinned fleece knits.’ ‘She flipped her poncho onto her shoulders and let the aqua and magenta wool envelope her.’ ‘The positions of magenta, sepia, lanceolate, and short were also adjusted to reflect this change in the map.’ ‘It has a long flowering period, producing magenta pink blooms with dark centres right through the summer.’ Synonyms
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Italian Flag: What the Colors Mean & A Little History – Italy Travel Guide in About Italy tagged About Italy / history / italian history by Jessica As a schoolkid in the United States, I distinctly remember learning precisely what all the symbolism of the U.S. flag meant – the stripes, the stars, and the colors. But for some reason, it didn’t occur to me until recently that there was probably similar meaning behind the design and the colors of the Italian flag. So, like a schoolkid once again, I did my homework – and here’s my report. (Plus a shiny apple for the teacher, just cuz I’m that kind of teacher’s pet.) Italian Flag of Today The current Italian flag consists of three equal vertical bands of color – green, white, and red – with the green being the one on the hoist side. This kind of flag is known as a “tricolor” design, the same kind of design the French flag and Irish flag have. In Italian the flag is known as Il Tricolore (tree|koh|LOHR|eh) because of this, in much the same way that the American flag is commonly known as the “stars and stripes.” The modern flag of Italy wasn’t made the country’s official flag until 1948, but the three colors in the flag have been in use since the late 1700s representing the various city-states and kingdoms that made up the country we know as Italy today. What do the colors on the Italian flag mean? Unfortunately, the answer to this question isn’t as simple as you’d want it to be. There are poetic meanings assigned to the colors of Italy’s flag, but they were only associated with the flag after the fact – the flag wasn’t given its colors with those meanings in mind. You’ll read that the colors represent hope (green), faith (white), and charity (red); or that the green is for the hills, the white is for the mountains, and the red for the bloody wars for independence. Rather than poetry, however, it’s the historical merging of governments that we have to thank for the meanings behind the three colors of the Italy flag. As you’ll read below, the first tricolor flag used the colors green, white, and red in order to incorporate the flags and uniforms of regional governments. The flag of Milan, a white flag with a red cross on it, was the flag of the city’s patron saint (St. Ambrose). The red and white colors were combined with the green color of a regional military uniform in a flag to represent a republic in northern Italy, and the rest – as they say – is history. History of the Italian Flag The first use of a green/white/red tricolor design for a flag in what is now Italy was in 1796 when it represented a republic in the north. The red and white came from the flag of Milan, and the green from the color of the region’s military. Within a year, that republic had merged with another – and the tricolor design would be abandoned and re-adopted over the years – but the three colors used would remain. Looking over all of the flags that have flown over Italy is a bit like looking at a quilt. From the early tricolor of the late 1790s to the square-and-diamond designs of the Napoleonic era, to the re-emergence of the tricolor bands (with ever-changing coats of arms of the whoever was in power in the center) after the fall of Napoleon – the flags of Italy tell the story of the country’s chaotic history. All you need to know about Italian history is that the country wasn’t unified until 1861 (and even then it was only done begrudgingly) and didn’t become a republic until 1946, and then it becomes easy to understand why the flags seem so unstable. It’s because the country was unstable! DOWNLOAD OUR TRAVEL GUIDES
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What degrees temperature is the same in Centigrade/Celsius as it is in Fahrenheit?
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Celsius, Centigrade and Fahrenheit Celsius, Centigrade and Fahrenheit What is the difference between Celsius, Centigrade and Fahrenheit? What is Celsius? °C This is the most common temperature scale in the world and the simplest to understand. Put simply, 0°C is the freezing point of water and 100°C is the boiling point of water. Centigrade is an old fashioned name for Celsius. You can abbreviate it to °C. The scale is named after Swedish scientist Anders Celsius (1701-1744). What is Fahrenheit? °F Fahrenheit is still in everyday use in the USA and preferred by older people in the UK. In Fahrenheit the freezing point of water is 32°F and the boiling point is 212°F. You can abbreviate it to °F. The scale is named after its originator Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736). Centigrade is the old fashioned name for Celsius. The name Centigrade was derived from the latin - meaning hundred degrees. When Anders Celsius created his original scale in 1742 he inexplicably chose 0° for the boiling point and 100° for the freezing point. One year later Frenchman Jean Pierre Cristin proposed an inverted version of the scale (freezing point 0°, boiling point 100°). He named it Centigrade. In 1948, by international agreement, Cristin's adapted scale became known as Celsius to honour the Swedish Scientist. What is the difference between them? Celsius, Centigrade & Fahrenheit are all temperature scales. All thermometer temperatures can be expressed in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Both scales have the same value at -40°: -40°C = -40°F To convert between Celsius or Fahrenheit you can use the following equations: °C = °F - 32 x (5/9) °F = °C / (5/9) + 32
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Free Flashcards about GK 6 Which horse was involved in the 1913 incident that killed Emily Davison? Anmer What is the meaning of "discursive"? digressing from subject to subject What was the German 'Jugendstil' known as in Britain and the USA? Art Nouveau The artists Odilon Redon and Fernand Khnopff were most closely associated with which artistic movement? Symbolism What nationality was artist Fernand Khnopff? Belgian What is the meaning of 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc'? "After which, therefore because of which" In which year did BBC Radio 2, in the guise of the BBC Light Programme, start broadcasting? 1945 What radio programme used the signature tune "At The Sign Of The Swinging Cymbal" by Bryan Fahey? Pick of The Pops Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain, was which Roman writer's father-in-law? Tacitus Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain, was recalled in disgrace by which Emperor? Domitian Which Iron Age tribe had a capital at Emain Macha in Ulster? Ulaid Who had a 1955 Number 1 with "Softly, Softly"? Ruby Murray Who had UK hits with "Be My Love" and "Because You're Mine"? Mario Lanza Who took "Rose Marie" to No 1 spot in the UK IN 1954? Slim Whitman In 1955 Jimmy Young had a No 1 single with "The Man From..." - where? Laramie Which singer was the indirect cause of 1944's Columbus Day Riot? Frank Sinatra In which year did "Rock Around The Clock" hit No 1 in both the UK and the US? 1955 Both "boogie-woogie" and "rock and roll" supposedly got their names from what? Euphemisms for sex Who coined the term "Rhythm and Blues"? Jerry Wexler Which Cleveland DJ is usually credited with coining the term "rock n roll" to apply to the music of that style? Alan Freed Which band were originally called "The Rambling Yodeller And The Sandmen"? Bill Haley & The Comets Who had a 1950s hit with "Be-Bop-A Lula"? Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps Which chemical elements occupy positions 89-103 on the Periodic Table? Actinides What name is given to a 3D co-ordinate system with three planes, x, y, and Z? Cartesian What are the names given to the three sides of a right-angled triangle? Hypotenuse, Base, Altitude If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is sinθ equal to? a/c If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is cosθ equal to? b/c If theta represents the angle opposite the altitude in a right angled triangle, a is the altitude, b the base and c is the hypotenuse, what is tanθ equal to? a/b (or sinθ/cosθ) What is the meaning of sin(squared)θ? sinθsinθ An object that has both magnitude and direction in space Which letters are traditionally used for the three base vectors? i, j, k Who had a 1962 Number 1 with "Wonderful Land"? The Shadows Which artistic group was founded in 1911 by Kandinsky and Marc? Der Blaue Reiter Artist Franz Marc was born in wRhich country? Germany Who painted "Luxe, Calme et Volupte"? Matisse Who is generally held to be the originator of the Suprematist art movement? Malevich The artists Boccioni, Carra and Severeni, all Italians, belonged to which movement? Futurism What was the real name of The Big Bopper, who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly? JP Richardson What was the stage name of the singer Rosemary Brown? Dana Which country singer got to No. 1 in the UK with "Coward Of The County"? Kenny Rogers Who composed "The Stars And Stripes Forever"? John Phillip Sousa Who composed the waltz "Tales From The Vienna Woods"? Johann Strauss Robert-Francois Damiens attempted to assassinate (and failed, although he did wound) which king? Louis XV of France When was the Seven Years' War? 1756-63 Whose final work was 1804's "Opus Postumum"? Kant The Pregolya River, which features in Euler's 'Seven Bridges'problem, runs through which city? Kaliningrad Who wrote 1848's "The Principles Of Political Economy"? John Stuart Mill What is defined as "the composite of an organism's observable traits"? Phenotype The Japanese word 'hara',
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Kirk Douglas supplemented his acting earnings in his early years as what type of professional sportsman?
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Movie Star Actor Legends: 1940-1950 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City on December 25, 1899 and died in 1957. After having experienced some measure of success on Broadway during the late 1920's, he was brought out to Hollywood, a conventional, good looking and reasonably competant actor. But he failed to click in a number of mainly second-rate pictures and returned to the theatre to find that good parts there were also few and far between. Finally he got his big break in the theatre, when in 1935 he landed the part of the gangster, Duke Mantee, in 'The Petrified Forest and was cast in the film version. Best known films: The African Queen (1951), Academy Awards winner for Best Actor The Caine Mutiny (1954), Academy Award nomination Sabrina (1954) John Garfield, whose real name is Julius Garfinkle, was born in New York City, on March 3, 1913 and died in 1952. After studying at drama school, he spent some time bumming around the country before he joined the Group Theatre and made his name on the Broadway stage, most notably in 'Golden Boy' in 1937. He arrived at Warner Bros. the following year, where his down to earth qualities were first seen in "Four Daughters", which earned him his first Oscar nomination, but the studios failed to star him in roles he deserved. In 1941, he proved he could hold his own when he starred with Edward G. Robinson in "Sea Wolf". His difficulties during the last few years of his life led to a premature heart attack at the age of 39, which was no doubt brought on by the activities of the House UnAmerican Activies Committee. He was one of the saddest and most tragic victims of the HUAC witch hunt. Best known films: To Have and Have Not (1944) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Academy Award nomimation He Ran All the Way (1951) Cary Grant, whose real name is Archibald Alexander Leach, was born in Bristol, England on January 18, 1904 and died in 1986. Coming from a broken home, he ran away at 14 to join a travelling troupe of young comedians who played in vaudeville houses all over England. He worked hard to perfect his acrobatic and pantomine skills and was selected for a US tour in 1920. Staying on in New York, he graduated to operetta during the late 20s then headed west to California late in 1931 and ended up signing a 5 year contract with Paramount shortly before his 28th birthday. His first movies were in "Hot Saturday" (1932), with Mae West in "I'm No Angel" and "She Done Him Wrong" both in 1933. By 1937, the screwball comedy had become established in Hollywood. This popular new type of movie provided a natural opportunity for him with his special blend of spontaneous vitality and charm. He and Constance Bennett made a pair of lively and sophisticated ghosts in "Topper", followed imediatly by "The Awful Truth", his first major success as a comedy star. Best known films: Charade (1963) Gene Kelly, whose real name is Eugene Curran Kelly, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. on August 23, 1912, and died in 1996. He had danced in his childhood, became a dance instructor (after taking an Economics degree at the University of Pittsburg), and danced on Broadway. He had already choreographed "Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe" and the successful Broadway musical "Best Foot Foward" and had starred in Rodgers and Hart's "Pal Joey", before he was invited to Hollywood at the age of 30 by David O. Selznick. He played an egotistical dancer in "For Me and My Gal
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My Questions - Documents Documents Share My Questions Embed <iframe src="http://docslide.us/embed/my-questions.html" width="750" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://docslide.us/documents/my-questions.html" title="My Questions" target="_blank">My Questions</a></div> size(px) Download My Questions Transcript Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? What is the tallest and thickest type of grass? What was the surname of the family who employed Julie Andrews' character in 'The Sound Of Music'? Which nation has won the Eurovision Song Contest more than any other? What is the most common gas in the air we breathe? Which three different actors played Batman in the movies between 1989 and 1997? What colour is Bart's skateboard in the introduction? The theme tune to which TV show starts with the line "Stick a pony in me pocket"? Which soap opera is set in the fictional county of Borsetshire? Who did Sue Barker replace as host of the BBC quiz show "A Question Of Sport"? Which "Generation Game" presenter was famous for his catchphrase "Shut That Door"? "No Mean City" by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running Scottish TV detective show? Anthony, Barbara, Dave, Denise, Jim and Norma make up which famous family on British TV? Which part did Deforest Kelley play in the TV series Star Trek? True or False In space it is impossible to cry? Famous sitcom actor Kelsey Grammar provides the voice for for a character in which famous cartoon TV Series The largest ever picnic for a childs toy was held in Dublin in 1995 where 33,573 of the toys were there . What was the toy ? Which American state comes first alphabetically? In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull? Which country has the airline KLM? The sinking of which famous German battleship was portrayed in the title of a 1960 film? What organisation is also known as "La Cosa Nostra"? What was the Titanic’s first port of call after it left Southampton? Which mountain overshadows Fort William in scotland ? What was the name of the 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose identity is erased? A penguin called Wheezy was a character in which film ? Who played Vince in the 1980s TV series "Just Good Friends"? In which 1994 film did Whoopi Goldberg provide the voice of a hyena called Shenzi? What is the only venomous snake in Britain? How many pieces are there in a standard set of dominoes? James Earl Ray was responsible for who's death in 1968? In which city in England is the National Railway Museum? In the music world, which group sacked Simon Fuller in 1997? Which Roman God is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? What was the challanging method of catching a fly asked of Daniel in the film "The Karate Kid"? Actor Richard Kiel is best known for playing which character in two bond films ? Which is the odd one out, Comet, Dixon, Cupid, Vixen? Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? What product did Coke invented in 1982? Which Japanese word, also used in the English language, means "empty orchestra"? On which date does Halloween fall? Oscar is the first name of which of the famous songwriting duo Rogers and Hammerstein? 24 Bamboo Von Trappe Ireland Nitrogen Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney Green Only Fools And Horses The Archers David Coleman Larry Grayson Taggart The Royle Family Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy True (there is no gravity, so tears cannot flow) The Simpsons Teddy Bear Alabama Minotaur The Netherlands The Bismark The Mafia Cherbourg Ben Nevis The Net Toy Story 2 Paul Nicholas "The Lion King" The Adder 28 Martin Luther King's York Manager of the Spice Girls Cupid Using chopsticks to do it Jaws (in two James Bond films) Dixon - the others are Santa's reindeer Mercury Diet Coke Karaoke October 31st Hammerstein On 11th February 1990, which fam
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turnip-shaped - definition and meaning turnip-shaped from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Shaped like a turnip; napiform. from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. adj. shaped in the form of a turnip Etymologies Sorry, no etymologies found. Examples Model stills are ubiquitous; little turnip-shaped things built of copper and mounted onto a varnished plank with miniature dollhouse campfires under their boilers. The New Dr. Price Cookbook As an awn from a bearded head of barley will win its disputed way up one's sleeve, and gain a point in advance despite all effort to stop or expel it, so did every resolution, every reflection, counteract the very purpose it was summoned to oppose, and to my sorrow I would taste the drastic, turnip-shaped corm wherever opportunity occurred.
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What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was th - Pastebin.com In what country can one find 40 species of lemurs? A: Madagascar. RAW Paste Data What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? Tabasco What year was the first motor race held that was classed as Formula 1? 1950 In the wild west, how was Henry McCarty better known? Billy The Kid How many stories did each of the World Trade Towers have? 110 What is the name of the cafe in Coronation Street? Roy's Rolls According to the BBC how many rooms are there in Buckingham Palace? 775 What is the busiest single-runway airport in the world? London Gatwick By number of films made, which country has the largest film industry? India Who lit the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? Muhammad Ali On what day of the year is St George's day held? 23rd of April The scientific unit lumen is used in the measurement of what? Light Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover vehicle? Apollo 15 Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? Stephenie Meyer What is the capital of India? New Delhi Who wrote the poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat'? Edward Lear Which country had a secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute? Haiti In which city is the European Parliament based? Strasbourg Gala, Jonagold and Pink Lady are varieties of which fruit? Apple Which organ of the body is affected by Bright's Disease? Kidney What is the boiling point of water in Kelvin? 373 K What was the 1st human invention that broke the sound barrier? The whip What name was given to the Samurai code of honour? Bushido What colour is the bullseye on a standard dartboard? Red What song does the main character wake up to every morning in Groundhog Day? I Got You Babe What is the only Central American country in which baseball, not soccer, is the people's favourite sport? Nicaragua What is the largest fresh water lake in North America? Lake Superior Which South American country was named after the Italian city of Venice? Venezuela How many rounds are there in an olympic boxing match? 4 The highest temperature ever recorded outside in the shade was recorded in Azizah, in Africa. In which country is this city located? Libya Which Hasbro `action figure` got its name from a Robert Mitchum film? G.I. Joe In which country is the highest mountain in South America? Argentina How many emirates make up the United Arab Emirates? 7 If you were putting numbers on new changing room lockers to be numbered from 1 to 100, how many times would you use the number 9? 20 Which famous group performed the first ever song on Top Of The Pops in 1964? The Rolling Stones Who wrote the novel Revolutionary Road, which was made into a successful feature film? Richard Yates Which supermodel is seen pole dancing in the White Stripes video for the song `I Just Don`t Know What To Do With Myself`? Kate Moss Which band has released albums titled `Word Gets Around`, `Just Enough Education To Perform` and `Pull The Pin`? Stereophonics In the Adrian Mole Diaries, what is the surname of his girlfriend? Braiwaithe Charlotte Edwards led England`s women to World Cup glory in which sport in March 2009? Cricket What is sake made from? Rice Affenpinscher, Keeshond and Leonberger are all types of what? Dog Who won the 2009 Rugby World Sevens Cup? Wales Who is the only player to win a Champion`s League medal, the Premiership and the FA Cup, and to be relegated from the Premiership without going on to play in the Championship? Kanu With which club did David Beckham make his football league debut? Preston North End Who is the host of the TV show Q.I.? Stephen Fry Anyone Can Fall In Love was a chart hit set to the theme tune of which TV show? EastEnders Who is the only character to appear in the first ever Coronation Street who is still in the show at 2009? Ken Barlow The film `Black Hawk Down` was loosely based on a true incident that took place in 1993 in which country? Somalia What word does the bird constantly repeat in Edgar Allan Poe`s classic poem `The Raven`? Nevermore In the board game `Risk`, what c
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Learn About the History of Polyester By Mary Bellis Updated August 13, 2016. Polyester is a synthetic fiber derived from coal, air, water and petroleum. Developed in a 20th-century laboratory, polyester fibers are formed from a chemical reaction between an acid and alcohol. In this reaction, two or more molecules combine to make a large molecule whose structure repeats throughout its length. Polyester fibers can form very iong molecules that are very stable and strong. Whinfield and Dickson British chemists John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson, employees of the Calico Printer's Association of Manchester, patented "polyethylene terephthalate" (also called PET or PETE) in 1941, after advancing the early research of Wallace Carothers . Whinfield and Dickson saw that Carothers's research had not investigated the polyester formed from ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid. Polyethylene terephthalate is the basis of synthetic fibers such as polyester, dacron and terylene. Whinfield and Dickson along with inventors W.K. Birtwhistle and C.G. Ritchiethey also created the first polyester fiber called Terylene in 1941 (first manufactured by Imperial Chemical Industries or ICI). The second polyester fiber was Dupont's Dacron. Dupont According to Dupont , "In the late 1920s, DuPont was in direct competition with Britain’s recently formed Imperial Chemical Industries. DuPont and ICI agreed in October 1929 to share information about patents and research developments. In 1952, the companies’ alliance was dissolved... The polymer that became polyester has roots in the 1929 writings of Wallace Carothers. However, DuPont chose to concentrate on the more promising nylon research. When DuPont resumed its polyester research, ICI had patented Terylene polyester, to which DuPont purchased the U.S. rights in 1945 for further development. In 1950, a pilot plant at the Seaford, Delaware, facility produced Dacron [polyester] fiber with modified nylon technology." Dupont's polyester research lead to a whole range of trademarked products, one example is Mylar (1952), an extraordinarily strong polyester (PET) film that grew out of the development of Dacron in the early 1950s. Polyesters are made from chemical substances found mainly in petroluem and are manufactured in fibers, films, and plastics. DuPont Teijin Films According to Dupont Teijin Films, "Plain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or polyester is most commonly associated with a material from which cloth and high-performance clothing are produced (e.g., DuPont Dacron® polyester fiber). Increasingly over the last 10 years, PET has gained acceptance as a material of choice for beverage bottles... PETG, also known as glycolised polyester, is used in the production of cards. Polyester film (PETF) is a semi-crystalline film used in many applications such as videotape, high-quality packaging, professional photographic printing, X-ray film, floppy disks, etc. " DuPont Teijin Films (founded January 1, 2000) is a leading supplier of PET and PEN polyester films whose brand names incude: Mylar ®, Melinex ®, and Teijin ® Tetoron ® PET polyester film, Teonex ® PEN polyester film, and Cronar ® polyester photographic base film. Naming an invention actually involves developing at least two names. One name is the generic name. The other name is the brand name or trademark. For example, Mylar ® and Teijin ® are brand names; polyester film or polyethylene terephthalate are the generic or product names.
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1. What is made using soda, lime and silica? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. What is made using soda, lime and silica? 2. What type of material is produced in a ginnery? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. What type of material is produced in a ginnery? 3. Who has written a series of letters entitled `Dear Fatty` in the form of an autobiography? 4. Who did Ted Turner, the media tycoon, marry in 1991? 5. What is the common name for epistaxis? 6. Who played Jane opposite Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan in 1932? 7. Which three letters did SOS as a Morse mayday signal? 8. Who created Wikipedia on the World Wide Web? 9. What was the breed of Columbo’s dog? 10. Which song contains the line “Spare him his life from this monstrosity”? 1. Glass; 2. Cotton; 3. Dawn French; 4. Jane Fonda; 5. Nose bleed; 6. Maureen O`Sullivan in Tarzan The Ape Man; 7. CQD - CQ was a general call to all ships and D signalled Distress; 8. Jimmy Wales; 9. Basset hound; 10. Bohemian Rhapsody Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent
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Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at media in new song | Reuters Mon Oct 10, 2011 | 5:48 PM EDT Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at media in new song Singer Hank Williams Jr. points into the crowd at a campaign rally with U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in Columbus, Ohio October 31, 2008. Reuters/Brian Snyder By Tim Ghianni | NASHVILLE, Tenn NASHVILLE, Tenn Country singer Hank Williams Jr., whose theme song was pulled from "Monday Night Football" after he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, lashed out at the media on Monday with a topical song called "Keep the Change." The track, which borrows its title and certain themes from another song released by Williams' daughter, Holly, in 2009, was offered as a free download on his website. Williams sparked an uproar when he appeared on the Fox News Channel show "Fox & Friends" on October 3 and said Obama's pairing with Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner in a June golf summit was "like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu." He also referred to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as "the enemy." That day, ESPN publicly rebuked Williams and dropped his "All My Rowdy Friends" song as the opening theme for its weekly "Monday Night Football" broadcast. He subsequently issued a statement saying he was sorry for anyone who took offense, but the Disney-owned sports channel and Williams later said they were parting company after an association of more than 20 years. Williams had introduced "MNF" since 1991 on both ABC and ESPN. In his new song about the controversy, Williams took aim at both ESPN and Fox News. "So 'Fox & Friends' want to put me down/Ask for my opinion/Twist it all around/Well two can play that gotcha game," he sings on the track. Williams, a longtime supporter of Republican causes, also sings that the United States is becoming "socialist" and takes a dig at Obama's 2008 campaign theme of "change." "I'll keep my freedom, I'll keep my guns/Try to keep my money and my religion too ... Keep the government out of my business/ and y'all can keep the change," he sings. The song ends with the 62-year-old Williams, nicknamed Bocephus by his country music legend father, urging fans to join him in a boycott. "Yeah you can keep 'Fox & Friends' and ESPN out of your homes too. 'Cause Bocephus and all his rowdy friends and his song is out of there," sings Williams, who is selling "Hank Jr. for President" T-shirts on his website. Fox News declined to comment on the song, and a representative from ESPN could not be reached for comment. The new Williams track borrows its title from a song called "Keep the Change," which released by his daughter, Holly Williams, in 2009. While Holly Williams did not write the song, her version gained solid radio play with lyrics that present a more subtle but still biting critique of the Obama administration. Hank Williams Jr. is slated to hit the TV talk show circuit on Tuesday, including appearances on the ABC daytime program "The View" and the conservative Fox News show "Hannity." (Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Steve Gorman) ADVERTISEMENT
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The Rod Stewart Picture Pages I Don't Want to Talk About It Background: “Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.” Rod Stewart British singer and songwriter Rod Stewart began his music career with the groups Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions, The Hoochie Coochie Men, Shotgun Express, The Jeff Beck Group and Faces before raising to fame as a soloist thanks to the 1971 platinum album “Every Picture Tells a Story,” which was a No. 1 album in the United Kingdom and United States. He continued to produce hit albums throughout the 1970s with “Never A Dull Moment” (1972), “Smiler” (1974), “Atlantic Crossing” (1975), “A Night On The Town” (1976) and “Blondes Have More Fun” (1978), which became his last U.S. chart topping release in 26 years. Stewart enjoyed varied success during 1980s and 1990s and experienced a rebirth in the 2000s by singing pop standards from the “Great American Songbook.” He won his first Grammy Award for “Stardust: The Great American Songbook 3” (2004), his third album of Pop standards. The album also marked his first U.S. No. 1 hit release after “Blondes Have More Fun.” He had another chart topper with “Still The Same... Great Rock Classics Of Our Time” (2006). During his long tenure in the industry, Stewart has produced a number of hit singles, including “Maggie May,” ”Reason to Believe” (1971), “You Wear It Well” (1972), “Sailing” (1975), “Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)” (1976), “I Don't Want to Talk About It,” “The First Cut Is the Deepest” (1977), “Do Ya Think I'm Sexy” (1978) and “Baby Jane” (1983). In the music industry since 1964, Steward was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 11, 2005, for his contribution to music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and the U.K. Music Hall of Fame in 2006. He was also awarded CBE in 2007. Rod the Mod Childhood and Family: Roderick David Stewart, professionally known as Rod Stewart, was born on January 10, 1945, in Highgate, London, England, to a Scottish father, Robert Joseph Stewart, and an English mother, Elsie Stewart. His father was a master builder and after he retired ran a news agent shop. The Stewart family lived over the shop. The youngest of five siblings, Rod has two brothers (Bob and Don) and two sisters (Mary and Peggy). All of his siblings were born while the family lived in Scotland years before they moved to Highgate. Rod was educated at Highgate Primary School and the William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School in Hornsey. Growing up in a family of soccer lovers, he became an avid fan of Arsenal F.C. and excelled in the sport. He served as the captain of the soccer team at his school and also played for Middlesex Schoolboys. It was his family who introduced him to music when they became a fan of singer Al Jolson. Rod developed a love for rock and roll after he listened to Little Richard's hit “The Girl Can't Help It” (1956) and attended a concert of Bill Haley & His Comets. He got his first guitar at age 14 and joined his first group a year later. Rod quit school at age 15 and worked as a silk screen printer. At the urging of his father, he pursued professional soccer and became an apprentice with the Brentford F.C., in 1961. He soon grew bored, decided to leave the team and turned his attention toward music. On April 6, 1979, Rod married actress and former model Alana Hamilton Stewart (born Alana Kaye Collins on May 18, 1945), the ex-wife of actor George Hamilton. They welcomed a daughter named Kimberly Stewart on August 21, 1979, and a son, Sean Stewart, on September 1, 1980, before divorcing in 1980. He then married actress/model Rachel Hunter (born on September 9, 1969) on December 15, 1990. The couple has two children, Renée Stewart (born on June 1, 1992) and Liam McAlister Stewart (born on September 4, 1994). Rod and his second wife became estranged in 1999 and divorced on November 2, 2006. He married model Penny Lancaster (born on March 15, 1971) on June 16, 2007. They have one son together, Alastair Wallace Ste
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【bevameter】什么意思_英语bevameter的翻译_音标_读音_用法_例句_在线翻译_有道词典 three plate bevameter 三平板贝克仪 Bevameter A bevameter is a device used in terramechanics to measure the mechanical properties of soil.Bevameter technique was developed to
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Sabine Grunwald Soil Classification Classification of natural phenomena like soils is typically done for the following purposes: Organize knowledge about the subject to enable investigation and communication to be both logical and comprehensive (structure/organization for scientific/technical development). Provide a framework for establishing relationships among soils and their environment that leads to advancement of theoretical and experimental aspects of soil and related science (academic focus). Establish groupings of soils for which useful and reliable interpretations can be made (utilitarian focus). For example: optimal use(s), hazard/limitation/remediation assessment, potential productivity, framework for technology transfer/information dissemination. There are two different classification approaches, i.e., technical vs. natural classification. Technical classifications are designed for specific applied purposes (e.g., soil engineering classifications, based largely on physical properties), whereas natural classifications attempt to organize the divisions of soils from a more holistic appraisal of soil attributes. The general principles of natural soil classification systems are: A natural system of classification should express general or universal relationships that exist in nature. One should be able to understand, remember, generalize, or predict from information obtained. The scheme should be based on characteristics or attributes of things classified as related to their genesis. It should place similar things together on the basis of their properties. It is technically impossible to use all of the properties of soils to classify them. Judgment based on existing knowledge must be used to determine which properties are most important. Historical Perspective One of the earliest land evaluation systems that incorporated a soil classification was established during the Vao dynasty (2357-2261 B.C.) in China. Soils were graded into nine classes, based on their productivity. It has been suggested that property taxes were based on the size of the individual land holding and soil productivity. In former times (< 1600 A.C.), soil was solely considered as a medium for plant growth. Knowledge of soil behavior and crop growth was passed from generation to generation gained by observation. For example, in the Middle Ages it was well know that manure applied to soils improved crop growth. For instance, the 'Plaggen cultivation' was practiced for a long time in Europe, which left 'Plaggen soils': The top of grassland was peeled off and used as litter in the stables. This material mixed with manure was applied to arable land to improve crop production. In 1840, the German chemist Justus von Liebig initiated a revolution in soil science and agriculture. He proved that plants assimilate mineral nutrients from the soil and proposed the use of mineral fertilizers to fortify deficient soils. Crop production was increased tremendously using mineral fertilizers. Another effect was the shift from extensive to intensive techniques in agriculture, which influenced soils. Thaer (1853) published a classification that combined texture as a primary subdivision with further subdivisions based on agricultural suitability and productivity. Several classifications based largely on geologic origin of soil material were also proposed in the 19th century (Fallou, 1862; Richtofen, 1886). From the 1660s onwards, various members of The Royal Society of London proposed schemes of soil classification that incorporated elements of a natural or scientific approach in their criteria. From this period on, the disciplines of agricultural chemistry (with a strong
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Reviews of fiction books "Wuthering Heights" "After Rain" by William Trevor Trevor was born (in 1928) and brought up in rural Ireland but has lived in Devon, England since the 1950s. Although he has written novels, he is best known for his short stories and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. "After Rain" is a collection of 12 stories published in 1996. Trevor has a quiet, understated style and often writes about rather domestic situations but frequently with an underlying air of menace. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho Coelho is a Brazilian writer whose work has been translated into 55 languages and who has sold almost 43 million books world-wide (including over 21 million copies of "The Alchemist"), but this is the first material of his that I have read. I was looking for a short novel that I could read in a day off work and this fitted the bill. It is a simple tale - mystical, spiritual, almost religous - about a young Andalusian shepherd called Santiago who seeks an unidentified treasure on a journey that takes him to a crystal shop in Tangiers and an oasis in the Saharan desert. Leavened with uplifting aphorisms, the central message of the work is that, if you have the courage to seek your treasure, along the way you will discover many things, not least about yourself, and may come to discover that the treasure is in fact much closer to home than you thought. "The Almond" by Nedjma "Nedjma", a pseudonym which means "star", is a Moroccan woman in her forties who is convinced that she has to remain anonymous, otherwise she would be stoned in the streets. This is because she has written an erotic novel about the sexual awakening of a Muslim woman that is apparently around 40% autobiographical and otherwise based on the experiences of dozens of Muslim women that she knows. It is a work that could not have been published in the Arab world and so it originally came out in France where it was a literary phenomenon. Rights have now been sold in 17 countries. The title refers to a woman's sexual genitalia and this is a remarkably explicit and erotic work, but it is also one full of anger, as it tells the tale of Badra, a Moroccan girl from a small village who is forced into a marriage at the age of just 17 to a local notary of 40. Eventually fleeing to the city of Tangiers, she discovers passion and pain with a sophisticated doctor called Driss whom she describes as at once "my master and my torturer". In the preface, the author writes: "Through these lines, in which sperm and prayer are joined ... my ambition is to give back to the women of my blood the power of speech confiscated by their fathers, brothers and husbands." Ultimately, therefore, this is a powerful political statement. Link: feature on author and novel click here "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman First published in 2000, "The Amber Spyglass" is the third and final part of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy and, as the longest, it runs to almost 550 pages - making the trilogy as a whole a formidable 1,300 pages. This concluding volume is not simply the most extensive; it is the most complex, moving frequently between half a dozen different universes, several of them - notably the world of the dead - being new to the storyline. Lyra and Will are still central to the tale, many earlier characters return, and there are all kinds of new life forms, including the tiny Gallivespians and the wheeled mulefa. The alethiometer and the subtle knife are still very much in use, but now a third device - the eponymous spyglass - is deployed to see the strange phenomenon of dust which is defined as "only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself". As well as being the lengthiest and most complicated, "The Amber Spyglass" is the most ambitous of the three novels with huge themes and the most direct references to religion. At the beginning, we are told that the Authority or God is not the creator but 'simply' the first of the angels whose regent is the angel Metatron. Towards the en
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Indian Motorcycle History Custom Search Indian Motorcycle History The "Indian Motocycle Co." was founded as the Hendee Manufacturing Company by George M. Hendee and Carl Oscar Hedström. Both Hendee and Hedström were former bicycle racers who teamed up to produce a motorcycle with a 1.75 bhp, single cylinder engine in Hendee's home town of Springfield. The bike was successful and sales increased dramatically during the next decade. 1901, Prototype and two production units successfully designed, built and tested. Work began on these in previous years. 1902, First Indian motorcycles, featuring innovative belt-drives and streamlined styling, sold to public. 1903 Indian co-founder and chief engineer Oscar Hedstrom sets world motorcycle speed record (56mph). In 1904, the so-called diamond framed Indian Single, whose engine was built by the Aurora Firm in Illinois, was made available in the deep red color that would become Indian's trademark. By now, the production was up to over 500 bikes annually and would rise to its best ever 32,000 in 1913. In 1907, Indian built its first V-twin, and in following years made a strong showing in racing and record-breaking. One of the firm's most famous riders was Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, who set many long-distance records. In 1914, he rode an Indian across America, from San Diego to New York, in a record 11 days, 12 hours and ten minutes. Baker's mount in subsequent years was the Powerplus, a side-valve V-Twin, which was introduced in 1916. Its 61ci (1000 cc), 42 degree V-twin engine was more powerful and quieter than previous designs, giving a top speed of 60 mph (96 km/h). The Powerplus was highly successful, both as a roadster and as the basis for racing bikes. It remained in production with few changes until 1924. Competition success played a big part in Indian's rapid growth and spurred technical innovation, as well. One of the American firm's best early results came in the Isle of Man TT in 1911, when Indian riders Godfrey, Franklin and Moorehouse finished first, second and third. Indian star Jake De Rosier set several speed records both in America and at Brooklands in England, and won an estimated 900 races on dirt and board track racing. He left Indian for Excelsior and died in 1913, aged 33, of injuries sustained in a board track race crash with Charles "Fearless" Balke, who later became Indian's top rider.
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Belgian National Anthem - "La Brabançonne" (FR/DE/NL/EN) - YouTube Belgian National Anthem - "La Brabançonne" (FR/DE/NL/EN) 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 Dec 18, 2011 National Anthem of Belgium - "La Brabançonne" (The Song of Brabant) Includes lyrics in French, German, Dutch and English. Category
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Index-a This Week's Puzzles So You Think You Know Soccer A soccer goal is what dimensions, yards wide and feet high: 8x7; 7x8; 8x8 or 9x8? According to FIFA World Cup rules which flag must be displayed inside each match stadium besides those of FIFA/Fair Play, and the two competing nations? Approximately how many million people play regular organized football in the world (at the early 2000s): 5; 25; 65; or 250? The word soccer derives from: Sock; Association; Kosher; or Socrates? What is not required by the rules of soccer: Goal net; Penalty spot; Specified ball pressure; or Shin guards? The 2014 World Cup Finals allocated European and African teams respectively how many places: 3 and 9; 4 and 10; 5 and 13; or 6 and 15? What city/club football rules, which spread widely in the late 1800s, introduced heading, corners, throw-ins, changing ends, and the goal crossbar: Sheffield; Paris; Milan; or Berlin? FIFA's 2014 World Cup Finals/Qualifying rules dictate a match squad of how many players: 18; 23; 26; or 30? In the 2010 World Cup Final, Jo'bulani was the: Winner's national anthem; Winning goalscorer; Ball; or Trumpet-like horn blown by fans? The minimum rest-period between two games for any team at the 2014 World Cup is how many hours: 24; 36; 48; or 72? Soccer rules award what after an 'own goal' directly from a throw-in: Goal; Penalty; Corner; or Drop-ball? The headquarters of FIFA are in Brussels; London; Zurich, or Oslo? Who has made the World Cup footballs since 1970: Adidas; Puma; Umbro; or Nike? The World Cup Qualifiying matches between El Salvador v Honduras in 1969 coincided with what mutual event: Independence; Earthquake; Drought; or War? The first ever �100,000 (or above) football transfer, in 1961, was: Bobby Moore; Pele; Dennis Law; or Eusebio? A white ball was first used in a World Cup in: 1930; 1950; 1966; or 1982? The centre circle of a soccer pitch is used only at kick-offs/re-starts, and in which other game feature? Matthias Sammer, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo, and Luis Figo won what between 1990-2002: European Cup; World Cup; Golden Boot; or European Footballer of the Year? The first, second and third placed teams at the 2014 World Cup receive how many medals: 20; 30; 40 or 50? Soccer has been an Olympic event since: 1900; 1964; 1992; or 2002? PAGE 6
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What is Kibbutz? | Kibbutz Program Center Kibbutz Program Center About Kibbutz WHAT IS KIBBUTZ? Kibbutz means group in Hebrew. It is a modest name for something unique: a voluntary democratic community where people live and work together on a non-competitive basis. Its aim is to generate an economically and socially independent society founded on principles of communal ownership of property, social justice, and equality. The first kibbutzim (plural of kibbutz) were organized by idealistic young Zionists who came to Palestine in the beginning of the 20th Century. Their dream was not just to settle the land it, but to build a whole new kind of society. Despite many hardships, they succeeded in creating a social system and a way of life which has played a crucial role in the development of the State of Israel both culturally and politically. Over the years the kibbutzim have multiplied, prospered, and adapted themselves to changing realities. Today some 270 kibbutzim, varying in size from 80 to over 2,000 people, are scattered throughout Israel. With a total populace of around 120,000 they represent about 2.8 percent of Israel’s population. In the early days of the kibbutz movement, all kibbutzim were based on a foundation of agriculture. These days, however, the economies of kibbutzim cannot be sustained by agriculture alone. Most kibbutzim have branched out into industry to increase their productivity. Kibbutz factories manufacture a wide variety of products from electronics, furniture, household appliances and plastics to farm machinery and irrigation systems. Most kibbutz members work in some section of the kibbutz economy: orchards, factory, dairy, fishponds, or in one of its maintenance units. Routine jobs such as dining room duties are rotated among members. When too few members are available for a particular job, outside workers may be hired and paid wages or receive room and board on the kibbutz. Visit our Kibbutz Volunteering Site WHO LIVES ON KIBBUTZ? Kibbutzim, like any other society, are made of individuals who are all different from one another. Some members of kibbutz identify strongly with the pioneer spirit that founded the kibbutz. Many others, if not pioneers themselves, are the children of those pioneers, and are now grown up and have families of their own on the kibbutz. They are called “sabras,” or people who were born in Israel. (An interesting etymology that will give you a sense of Israeli character: “sabra” literally refers to a type of cactus fruit, which is hard and prickly on the outside, yet sweet and tender on the inside). Many kibbutz members, however, will not fit this stereotypical image. Lots of kibbutzniks will look more or less like people from your hometown and in fact may even come from a place like your hometown. Many members of kibbutz are “olim” (immigrants) from foreign countries such as the United States, Australia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Russia or around Europe. Hebrew may not be their native language, but they all speak Hebrew, as it is the primary language spoken in Israel. Some members of kibbutz are very old. Some of them were true pioneers in the early days of the founding of the state. Try to meet someone who was a founding member of the kibbutz where you are staying, and ask them to tell you stories about the early days of the kibbutz. It?s a great way to practice your Hebrew and learn some Israeli history at the same time! Another significant group living on the kibbutz are the participants. What distinguishes a participant from a “chaver” (full member) of the kibbutz? First, the participant lives on the kibbutz temporarily, while members stay for the long haul. Second, members have voting privileges which give them say in the issues of the kibbutz life; participants do not take part in that. Finally, members are eligible for a full use of all facilities on the kibbutz, while participants may not have access to certain facilities such as a ceramics studio or member’s moadon (clubhouse). As a participant, remember that you are a guest in the home of the kibbutzniks. Beca
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Zionist Leaders Zionist Leaders Home » Zionist Leaders Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) is the father of modern Zionism. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary on May 2, 1860 and was raised in a Jewish home, but after his Bar Mitzvah he moved steadily away from Jewish practice. Herzl became a novelist and successful journalist and felt that Jews could thrive in cosmopolitan Europe. But his opinion radically changed when Herzl was assigned to cover the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French Army accused of treason. Herzl witnessed the anti-Semitism that seethed just under the surface of the society he had deemed so enlightened. In 1896 Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) where he argued that the only solution for the Jewish people was the establishment of a sovereign Jewish state. In 1897 Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, which created the World Zionist Organization, the driving force behind Israel’s establishment. To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in April 2010, Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament): “In world history and in the history of our people, there are very few cases in which one can point out a certain man who almost single-handedly saved his people from extinction. Benjamin Zeev Herzl was one.” Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was born on October 18, 1880, in the city of Odessa, Russia. . Jabotinsky is best known as one of the founders of Revisionist Zionism. In 1920, Jabotinsky formally split from the mainstream Zionist organization and established the Revisionist movement and its youth arm, Betar. He advocated the importance of Jewish self-defense, not just as a means to ensure physical security, but as a necessary source for Jewish confidence and pride. Together with Josef Trumpledor, he established the Zion Mule Corps, a Jewish fighting unit in World War I. As conditions in Europe worsened, Jabotinsky was at the forefront of creating underground armed resistance groups in Palestine to fight the British and smuggle European Jews to safety in Palestine. Ahad Ha’am (1856-1927) Born Asher Ginsberg in Russia, he is best known by his pen name Ahad Ha’am which means “one of the people” in Hebrew. Ha’am is regarded as the founder of Cultural Zionism. He envisioned Palestine as a spiritual center for Jews – a hub whose spiritual and creative energy would radiate to Jews throughout the world. He thought that the political solution proposed by the Zionist organization was impractical because not all Jews would or could move to a Jewish national home in the Land of Israel. Ahad Ha’am, in contrast to other Zionist leaders, advocated for a “Jewish State, not merely a state of Jews.” Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was the first President of the State of Israel. He was born in a small Russian town and trained as a biochemist. Weizmann became involved with the Zionist cause in its early days while living in England. A total pragmatist, he championed a Zionism that created a Jewish homeland through political and diplomatic avenues alongside Jewish settlement in Palestine. He championed Zionist activity in the Diaspora as a means to bring the Jewish state to life. Weizmann played a key role in convincing the British to issue the Balfour Declaration in 1917, officially expressing support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. He also become the founder of the first Israeli research institute known today as the Weizmann Institute of Science. David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. He was born in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, as David Grün. From his earliest years, he was an avid Zionist and moved to Palestine as a young man where he took the Hebrew name of Ben-Gurion and eventually became the leader of the Jewish Yishuv (Jewish residents in pre-state Israel). On May 14, 1948, Ben-Gurion declared Israel a sovereign Jewish state. The new country was immediately attacked by its Arab neighbors, but Ben-Gurion against all odds, led Israel to victory in the War of Independence. As the Prime
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Coventry Street | Monopoly Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Houses cost £150 each Hotel, £150 plus 4 Houses If a player owns ALL the lots of any Color-Group, the rent is Doubled on Unimproved Lots in that group. Coventry Street is a yellow property in the UK version of the classic Monopoly boardgame. It is named after a street in London.
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How have Monopoly's London streets changed in the game's 75 years? | Life and style | The Guardian Board games How have Monopoly's London streets changed in the game's 75 years? Armed with a Monopoly board and dice, Michael Hann and historian Jerry White roll their way around the modern capital Monopoly . . . When the game was launched Angel was a slum. You won't get a house for 50 quid there these days. Photograph: Alamy Tuesday 28 December 2010 03.00 EST First published on Tuesday 28 December 2010 03.00 EST Share on Messenger Close We are standing at Go – the Guardian's reception desk – with £200 to spend, and the capital is ready to unfold before us. My companion in perambulation is London historian Jerry White, and he is preparing to roll the dice to determine the first stop on our journey around the Monopoly board. He shakes, he throws – and it's a three. We are off to Whitechapel Road. It's 75 years since Parker Brothers , the Massachusetts-based games company, published Monopoly, the property speculation board game that has become one of the enduring staples of toy shops the world over. That first edition used the New Jersey resort of Atlantic City to supply its street names, as the US edition still does, but the game crossed the oceans almost immediately. The first foreign edition was the British game, with London streets, followed swiftly by versions in France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, before it spread around the world. What White and I plan to do is roll our way round the board to discover how some of the areas of the London Monopoly board have changed in the intervening three-quarters of a century. Strictly speaking, we're cheating. The Leeds firm Waddingtons didn't publish Monopoly over here until 1936. But Victor Watson, Waddington's general manager, got his first copy on a Friday in December 1935, and by the Monday he'd signed a deal with Parker Brothers to license the game for the UK. More to the point, perhaps, Monopoly is celebrating its 75th anniversary around the world this year – and who are we to poop the party? Our traverse of London is an unconscious echo of how the locations were decided, though I don't discover this until a few days later, in an exchange of emails with Philip E Orbanes, a former executive at Parker Brothers who is also the chronicler of the game's history. "To decide on its street names, [Watson] and his secretary travelled to London and spent a day canvassing the city to pick street names that corresponded in relative worth to the increasing values as one goes round the board," Orbanes writes to me. "Apparently, they did their job well. To this day, I meet people who are convinced the game originated in London ." White and I take a cab to the Royal London Hospital, on Whitechapel Road. We head east, along the blue properties of the board, from Euston Road (originally an 18th-century London bypass), on to unlovely Pentonville Road, past the Angel – a slum when the game was launched, and now the southern border of fashionable Islington. You won't get a house for 50 quid around here these days: the website ourproperty.co.uk lists the least expensive road in the Angel area as Gopsall Street, with the average price of a property being £125,286, and there are no gorgeous period terraces here. We pass through Shoreditch and Hoxton, where the influx of artists and creative types ratcheted neglected areas into fashionability, and I wonder if there were equivalents in interwar London. "I think that's a pretty recent phenomenon," White tells me. "You would have had artists clustering in areas of low rent but there would be no sense of fashionable legacy from that. You get some sense of legacy from the movement of the bohemians into Notting Hill in the 60s, or artists moving to Hackney and London Fields in the 70s." The only bohemian area 75 years ago, he reckons, would have been Soho. There's a buzz on Whitechapel Road in the middle of the morning with the street market in full swing, food and brightly coloured clothes and cloths pi
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After featuring in the Wallace and Gromit film The Curse of the Were Rabbit the sales of which cheese increased by 500%?
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8 Cracking Facts About Wallace & Gromit (and an exhibit you have to check out!) | Mental Floss 8 Cracking Facts About Wallace & Gromit (and an exhibit you have to check out!) Image credit: Like us on Facebook Wallace and Gromit are national heroes in the U.K. The cheery, if absent-minded inventor/baker/pest control expert and his faithful Dostoyevsky-reading canine companion have starred in some of the most fun and inventive adventures in stop-motion ever committed to film. And now, British fans of the Plasticine pair will get the chance to wander around a life-size version of their 62 West Wallaby Street home, at the London Science Museum's latest exhibition, Wallace & Gromit present A World of Cracking Ideas. Drawing its inspiration from Wallace's amusing inventions, the exhibit is designed to introduce kids (and kid-like adults) to the creative process around inventions and ideas. It's the result of a partnership between Aardman Animation, the studios behind Wallace and Gromit, and Britain's Intellectual Property Office, so in addition such Wallace-inspired inventions as the karaoke shower, it also includes somewhat heady information on intellectual property rights. The exhibit opens on March 28 and runs through November 1 (the link contains one of the most time-consuming games to cross my desktop since TextTwist). In the spirit of inspiration, we decided to compile a list of a few facts about Britain's favorite stop-motion adventurers. Here a few things you might not know about Wallace and Gromit: 1. Wallace and Gromit Save Dairy Wallace's influence over Britain is significant "“ at least when it comes to cheese. As a tastemaker, his preferences have been credited with saving several kinds of cheese of extinction. The makers of Wallace's particular favorite, Wensleydale cheese, were struggling throughout the 1990s, but when Wallace and Gromit's popularity skyrocketed, so did sales of the cheese . Wensleydale now offers a cheese in a Wallace and Gromit packaging, further cementing the relationship between the characters and the cheese. The Daily Mail reports that when Curse of the Were-Rabbit featured Stinking Bishop cheese, sales of the famously smelly cheese rose 500 percent. 2. The Truth about Cats and Dogs Nick Park has said that neither character was exactly based on anyone he knew, although the ever-cheerful Wallace had often been compared to his father and the much put-upon Gromit compared to Park himself. Park has also said that Wallace and Gromit's adventures are a bit of a pastiche, inspired by other films and genres, including Hitchcock and Laurel and Hardy films, as well as a real-life Lancashire, Britain 1950s, "˜60s, and "˜70s aesthetic. And one more thing: Gromit was originally going to be a cat. 3. Honing his skills with a Sledgehammer One thing few people know is that when Park was a newcomer to Aardman Animation, he worked on Peter Gabriel's memorable "Sledgehammer" video. 4. They're Animated like Kong All of the Wallace and Gromit movies use the same technique that brought King Kong to life in the 1933 film "“ stop-motion models made of Plasticine. Animators at Aardman Animations, however, use a special blend of the modeling clay nicknamed "Aard-mix" that's slightly more resilient. Liquid and fur are the hardest to animate, say animators at Aardman. 5. The Queen Likes It! The Queen and Prince Charles are fans of Wallace and Gromit, awarding creator Nick Park a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 1997 for his contributions to the film industry. At a dinner celebrating the nomination, the Queen reportedly asked to be sat next to Park. And although Park is very honored by the CBE, he may be more proud of his gold Blue Peter badge, an award given out by the long-running British children's show and an honor he actually shares with Queen Elizabeth II and JK Rowling. 6. Tail Wagging Takes a Very Long Time Each character moves 12 times a second to achieve that life-like animation. Animator Merlin Crossingham, talking to the Daily Mail, explained, "If Gromit is wagging his tail enthusiastically for 3
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General Knowledge Quiz - By Zarbo84 The fictional character John Clayton is better known by what name? La Paz is the administrative capital of which South American country? Actor Charles Buchinsky was better known by what name? The medical condition ‘aphonia’ is the inability to do what? In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the king of which Island? Who played the title role in the 1953 film ‘The Glenn Miller Story’? A third wedding anniversary is traditionally represented by which material? In the Bible, what sign did God give Noah that the earth would not be flooded again? In August 2011 NASA announced that photographic evidence had been captured of possible liquid water of which planet in our solar system? The restored tomb of which dramatist was unveiled in Paris in November 2011, after being ruined by lipstick smears left by thousands of kisses? What was the name of the hurricane which hit the East Coast of America in August 2011? On 11th March 2011 a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of which country? Convict George Joseph Smith was known as the ‘Brides in the ‘what’ murderer’? In the human body, Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis is commonly known by what name? A peregrine is what type of bird? What is the name of the highly toxic protein obtained from the pressed seeds of the castor oil plant? Which British pop musician/actor was actress Sadie Frost’s first husband? British singer Gaynor Hopkins is better known by what name? Who played Ron Kovic in the 1989 film ‘Born on the Fourth of July’? Ben Gurion International Airport is in which country? Which basketball star is kidnapped by cartoon characters in the 1996 film ‘Space Jam’? In the tv series The A Team, what does B.A. stand for in the name B.A. Baracus? In medicine, metritis is the inflammation of which part of the body? In which year was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in the USA? In the human body, where is the atrium? The OK Corral is in which US town? In Greek mythology, Amphitrite, queen of the sea, was the wife of which god? Which British boxer bought one of the original ‘Only Fools and Horses’ Reliant Robins in 2004? Actor Roy Harold Scherer was better known by what name? Anna Gordy was the first wife of which late soul singer? Who played Heinrich Himmler in the 1976 film ‘The Eagle Has Landed’? Which is the fastest rotating planet in our solar system? Which country was invaded by Iraq in 1990? Cobalt, Cyan and Cerulean are shades of which colour? In 1936, Joseph Bowers was the first inmate to attempt an escape from which prison? In the 18th Century, the British Royal Navy ordered limes and lemons to be carried on board ships as a remedy for which disease? In which US state were the 1692 Witch Trials held? Question Who was the father of English monarch Edward VI? Vermicide is a substance used for killing which creatures? Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs were two elderly residents in which UK tv sitcom? Who was US actor Mickey Rooney’s first wife? The resort town of Sliema is on which Mediterranean island? In the Bible, what is the Decalogue more commonly known as? In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the god of what? Which real-life couple starred in the 1994 remake of the film ‘The Getaway’? American 1940′s murder victim Elizabeth Short was known by what posthumous nickname? British monarch Henry VIII married which of his wives in 1540? In February 1983 which US writer choked to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops? Which US gangster was released from Alcatraz prison in November 1939? Who built the Roman wall which divided England and Scotland? In the human body, the hallux is more commonly known by what name? The liqueur Maraschino is flavoured with which fruit? Which famous US outlaw shot the cashier of a savings bank in Gallatin Missouri in 1869? Kathmandu is the capital of which country? TAP is the chief airline of which European country? In November 2002, which member of the British royal family was convicted and fined for violating the Dangerous Dogs Act? Tommy Lee plays which instrument in the band Motley Crue? The Wang River i
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discrete mathematics - Calculate number of small cubes making up large cube given number in outermost layer - Mathematics Stack Exchange Calculate number of small cubes making up large cube given number in outermost layer up vote 5 down vote favorite 3 I have a large cube made up of many smaller cubes. Each face of the cube is identical, and all of the smaller cubes are identical. I need to calculate the number of small cubes that make up the large cube. Just to make it clear, the cube is solid (made up of little cubes all the way through). The only value I have to work this out from is the number of small cubes that make up the outermost layer. This number is $100,614,152$. What is the simplest way to calculate the total number of small cubes making up the large cube? Is this homework? – Jonathan Christensen Dec 6 '12 at 21:32 No, it's for a blog article I am writing – eskimo Dec 6 '12 at 21:34 2 I presume this question is as a matter of Curiosity? :-) – Steven Stadnicki Dec 6 '12 at 21:57 answered Dec 6 '12 at 21:37 user4594 1 Not quite: it would be $(x+1)^3 - (x-1)^3 = 100,614,152$. Edit: the answer has been corrected. – Jonathan Christensen Dec 6 '12 at 21:38 1 up vote 6 down vote Let $x$ be the number of small cubes along each edge of the large cube. Then each face of the large cube contains $x^2$ small cubes. $6x^2$ isn't the total number of cubes around the outside, though, because we're double-counting the cubes along each of the edges, so we need to subtract off $12x$. Then we aren't counting the cubes at the corners (we counted them three times--once in each face--and subtracted them three times), so we need to add back on 8. So we have $$6x^2 -12x + 8 = 100,614,152.$$ Now this is just a simple quadratic. Combine the terms on one side and use the quadratic formula (or Wolfram Alpha ) to find that $x = 4096$. up vote 2 down vote If one big cube is divided into $n$ times smaller cubes, then there are $n^3$ cubes. Taking avay the outer layer, we are left with $(n-2)^3$ cubes. The difference is $$ n^3-(n-2)^3= n^3-(n^3-6n^2+12n-8)=6n^2-12n+8$$ and this shall equal $N=100614152$. Therefore, a good approximation for $n$ is given by $$n=\\sqrt {\\frac N 6}\\approx 4095.0004$$ However, $n=4095$ leads to $6n^2-12n+8=100565018$, not quite your expected result. But with $n=4096$, the result is correct: $6n^2-12n+8=100614152$. Note that trying to compute the solution of $$6n^2-12n+(8- 100614152)$$ would not have been easy due to rounding errors. Rounding errors, pfft. You can do that computation using an exact representation, like cyclotomic numbers – Ben Millwood Dec 6 '12 at 21:43 Secondinng Ben's comment, I'm not sure what rounding errors you're expecting; this isn't an equation with large amounts of cancellation since $b^2\\not\\approx 4ac$, so just dividing through by 6 to get $n^2-2n-16769024=0$ and then using the standard quadratic formula is fine. You have to take the square root of the eight-digit number 67076100 but that's essentially a trivial matter. – Steven Stadnicki Dec 6 '12 at 23:41 You are right, I didn't even try it and had in min that the other solution might be $\\approx0$, while of course it is $\\approx -n$. – Hagen von Eitzen Dec 7 '12 at 16:21 up vote 1 down vote Let the size of the small cube be $1 \\times 1 \\times 1$ and size of the larger cube be $n \\times n \\times n$. The number of smaller cubes on the outer surface is given by $$\\underbrace{2n^2}_{\\text{Cover two opposite sides}} + \\underbrace{2n(n-2)}_{\\text{Cover next pair of opposite sides}} + \\underbrace{2(n-2)^2}_{\\text{Cover the remaining pair of opposite sides}}$$ answered Dec 6 '12 at 21:40 user17762 the total count of cubes increases as more and more cubes are added around an existing cube. each "level" is defined as completing the addition of an entire layer of concentric cubes that surround the previous level. level 0 is no cubes at all level 1 is ONE cube level 2 surrounds level 1 with 8 more, 9 total cubes in each of 3 planes, total = 27 level 3 surr the 9 in l-2 /w 16 more, total 25 cubes in each of 5
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"Masterminds" - Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), December 27, 2014 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt 1. Which actor starred as detective Magnum PI? 2. Which town in Cornwall has become famous for the number of artists who are based there because of its light? 3. Which Manx rider won five stages in the 2010 tour de France? 4. Which comedian created the characters Stavros, Tory Boy and Loadsamoney? 5. Which famous TV chef played football for Glasgow Rangers FC? 6. In the Thunderbirds TV series, which son piloted Thunderbird Two and dressed in yellow? 7. In the TV series Diagnoses Murder, who plays Dr Mark Sloan? 8. Where is the Royal Regatta held each year on the River Thames? 9. Who was the captain of the 2010 European Ryder cup team? 10. Who won 18 this year's Strictly Come Dancing final? 11. What was the name of her partner? 12. What is the capital city of Spain? 13. What is a Samoyed? 14. How many inches make a yard? 15. Which tree grows the tallest? 16. Where is Angel Falls? 17. What was once known as a love apple? 23 18. What is Cher's real name? 19. What was the name of Lou Reed's band? 20. Who invented the lightning conductor? 21. Where in England according to Bram Stoker did Dracula first set ashore? 22. Which TV detective had a secretary called Miss Lemon? 23. In which film does British rock star David Bowie star as a goblin king? 24. How was entertainer Nicolai Poliakoff better known? 25. True or False: the Kingdom of Bahrain is an island nation? … 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
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1967: The First Three Singles - Pink Floyd | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic 1967: The First Three Singles AllMusic Rating google+ AllMusic Review by Andy Kellman 1967: The First Three Singles compiles exactly what it advertises. While four of the six songs can be found on the far more substantial (and indispensable) Relics compilation and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn , the EP does provide a service by making "Apples and Oranges" and "Candy and a Currant Bun" available to those who didn't purchase the Shine On box set. (The box contained a bonus disc entitled "The Early Singles," which essentially functions as a hybrid of this EP and Relics without including everything offered by both.) The big question is why this particular disc doesn't bother to include the fourth and fifth singles, released a year later. After all, it would have made for a more serviceable release, making "Point Me at the Sky" and "It Would Be So Nice" available to non- Shine On owners. Not only that, but after 1968 the band didn't release another single for an entire decade. Outside of the nit picking, "Apples and Oranges" and "Candy and a Currant Bun" are worth the budget price for those who love the Syd Barrett era of the band, just as loopy and melodic as anything on Piper . The chipper "Candy and a Currant Bun," the B-side to "Arnold Layne," was originally titled "Let's Roll Another One" until the BBC made it clear that they wouldn't play a song with that title. A song about dope smoking, the band opted to make the title relatively innocuous. "Apples and Oranges" was the third A-side (following the great success of "See Emily Play"), viewed accurately by the band to be a fine song marred by bad production. Track Listing
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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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Dec 13, 1953 saw the birth of Ben Bernanke, Harvard grad with a PhD from MIT. What position does he hold, and rather poorly at that?
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Home - Economics Books: A Core Collection - UF Business Library at University of Florida Economics Books: A Core Collection Economics Books: A Core Collection: Home A core collection of books on all aspects of economics "Ideas shape the course of history." – John Maynard Keynes ISBN: 9781412961424.1412961424. 2 vols., Sage. Publication Date: 2010 Interest in economics is at an all-time high. Among the challenges facing the nation is an economy with rapidly rising unemployment, failures of major businesses and industries, and continued dependence on oil with its wildly fluctuating price. Americans are debating the proper role of the government in company bailouts, the effectiveness of tax cuts versus increased government spending to stimulate the economy, and potential effects of deflation. Economists have dealt with such questions for generations, but they have taken on new meaning and significance. Tackling these questions and encompassing analysis of traditional economic theory and topics as well as those that economists have only more recently addressed, 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook is intended to meet the needs of several types of readers. The Academic Scribblers by By William Breit and Roger L. Ransom Call Number: HB87 .B72 1998 (Library West) ISBN: 0691059861.Thirdedition,PrincetonUniversityPress,282p.$19.75 Publication Date: 1998 The Academic Scribblers offers a thoughtful and highly literate summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of twelve major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. In a very real sense, this book picks up where Robert Heilbroner's classic The Wordly Philosophers leaves off. Whereas Heilbroner begins with Smith and ends with Joseph Schumpeter, Breit and Ransom bring the story of modern American and British economic theory up to the 1980s. The Academic Scribblers is an elegant summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into a happy engagement with the "dismal science" of economics. Call Number: HB103.S6 P455 2010 (Library West) ISBN: 9780300169270.Yale,345p.$32.50 Publication Date: 2010 Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas—that of the “invisible hand” of the market and that “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest” have become iconic. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This book shows the extent to which The Wealth of Nations and Smith’s other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand “Science of Man,” one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment and which was only half complete on Smith’s death in 1790. Nick Phillipson reconstructs Smith’s intellectual ancestry and shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smith’s ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend, the other titan of the age, David Hume. Call Number: BF575.F14 H37 2011 (Library West) ISBN: 9780374100964.Farrar,StrausandGiroux,309p.$27.00 Publication Date: 2011 Outlines a counterintuitive approach to changing the world by assessing its failures, drawing on myriad disciplines to argue that complex challenges must be met through adaptive trial-and-error practices that do not depend on expert opinions or ready-made solutions Call Number: HC106.5 .G32 1998eb e-book (netLibrary) ISBN: 0618094679.40thanniversary,HoughtonMifflin, 276p. Publication Date: 1998 'A compelling challenge to conventional thought' - "New York Times". In this newly updated edition of his classic text o
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Index-a Don't Forget To Hit <ESC> before going to a different page. Let's play a game of 30 questions. No, not that old standard of 20 questions, but one with an extra 10 questions added in and one that uses numeric answers (from 1 to 30). If you get stumped, go on to the next one. Perhaps the answer you need will be one of those left over when you complete all the questions you're sure of. Each answer is a number. The answers are the numbers 1-30. Each number appears only once. (Obviously) the questions are not in the right order.. 1. Aside from an extra 385 yards, how many miles is a marathon race? 2. If 27 solid cubes are formed into one big 3x3x3 cube how many individual cubes, at most, are visible from any single angle? 3. In the movie Spinal Tap what number is: "Well, it is one louder.."? 4. 'Via Dolorosa' is the (how many) Stations of the Cross, the Christian ritual tracing the key stages of the death of Jesus, beginning with his condemnation and ending with his being laid in the tomb? 5. How many dots are on a (standard 1-6) die? 6. The Russian 'Crimea Highway' trunk road from Moscow to the Crimea in Ukraine is the M (what)? 7. What number, between two hyphens, is used by journalists, etc., to mark the end of a newspaper or broadcast story? 8. How many unique dominoes are in a standard 'double six' set? 9. What number turned on its side (rotated 90 degrees) is the symbol for infinity? 10. The Marvel Comics superhero team led by Mr Fantastic was the Fanstastic (what)? 11. What is the larger number of the binary system? 12. Japanese haiku poems loosely comprise how many syllables? 13. The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are respectively (what number)-and-half degrees north and south of the Equator? 14. What number is Hurricane on the Beaufort Scale? 15. Greek deka, and Latin decem, are what number? 16. Conventionally how many books are in the Bible's New Testament? 17. How many legs (or arms) are most usually on a starfish? 18. A lunar month is an average (how many) days plus 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds? 19. 'Roaring' refers to what pluralised number in describing a 1900s decade of western world prosperity? 20. Traditionally what number of years anniversary is symbolized by silver? 21. What is generally stated to be the number of major joints in the human body? 22. What number is the French coded slang 'vingt-deux!', which warns that police are coming? 23. What is the only number that equals twice the sum of its digits (digit means numerical symbol)? 24. The early/mid-1900s American vaudeville comedy act was called the (how many) Stooges? 25. Any line of three numbers in the 'magic square' (a 3 x 3 grid of the numbers 1-9) adds up to what? 26. What is the international SPI resin/polymer identification coding system number (typically shown within a recycling triangle symbol) for polystyrene? 27. Traditionally the diameter of the 45rpm gramophone record is (how many) inches? 28. Pure gold is (how many)-carat? 29. The expression 'On cloud (what)' refers to being blissfully happy? 30. Each player begins with (how many) pieces in a game of chess? Daniel David "Danny" Kirwan (born 13 May 1950) is a British musician whose greatest success came with his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972. Kirwan's first recorded work with the band was on the huge instrumental hit single "Albatross". Green later stated that, "I would never have done "Albatross" if it wasn't for Danny. I would never have had a number one hit record." The B-side of the single was Kirwan's first published tune, the instrumental "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues". This was an old clarinet piece, written by Joe Venuti and Adrian Rollini, and recorded by the Joe Venuti / Eddie Lang Blue Five in 1933. Kirwan had adapted the piece for himself and Green to play on
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Glossary | MPA Glossary Search Type any part of the glossary term's name, and select it from the autocompletion list. Click one of the letters above to advance the page to terms beginning with that letter. " "Like" Users of Facebook can "like" status updates, comments, photos, and links posted by their Facebook friends and other users, as well as adverts, by clicking a link at the bottom of the post or content. This makes the content appears in their friends' News feeds. Facebook says "Liking" is intended to "Give positive feedback and connect with things you care about". This was formerly known as become a “Fan” of a page. .MP3 A computer file format that compresses audio files by a factor of 12 from a .wav file. 2 Finger Swipe A touch screen keyboarding technique that lets users swipe or scroll through content with two fingers for faster speed. 2D Barcode A more advanced version of the traditional UPC barcode designed to work with common camera phones (representing 80% of new phones sold in the US). With a 2D barcode application on the phone, a user can “scan” a barcode and link to a specific mobile website, save an event to the phones calendar, dial customer service, and more. 2G 2G (or 2-G) is short for second-generation wireless telephone technology. Second generation 2G cellular telecom networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991.[1] Three primary benefits of 2G networks over their predecessors were that phone conversations were digitally encrypted; 2G systems were significantly more efficient on the spectrum allowing for far greater mobile phone penetration levels; and 2G introduced data services for mobile, starting with SMS text messages. 404 Error 404 error is a common website error message that indicates a webpage cannot be found. It may be produced when a user clicks an outdated (or "broken") link or when a URL is typed incorrectly in a Web browser's address field. Some websites display custom 404 error pages, which may look similar to other pages on the site. Other websites simply display the Web server's default error message text, which typically begins with "Not Found." 4G Forth generation data networking. Also a marketing term used by Sprint for WiMax, T-Mobile for HSPA+, and AT&T for HSPA+. Think of this as super-fast broadband Internet (cable/fiber). (See HSPA, HSPA+, LTE) Abandonment Pop Up A pop up that appears when a transaction is interrupted prior to completion, and which attempts to "rescue" the transaction with an offer for a product. See also "Exit Pop up" or "Rescue Pop up" ABC The Audit Bureau of Circulations is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, with member service offices in New York and Toronto. As of September 1, 2002, ABC has 4,322 members, including 787 consumer titles, 257 business and farm publications, 1,326 newspapers, 1,334 advertisers and ad agencies, and 492 associate members. (Also see Audit Bureau and BPA International.) Abort When a Web server does not successfully transfer a unit of content or ad to a browser. This is usually caused by a user hitting the stop button, the ESC key, or clicking on another link prior to the completion of a download. Accelerometer A device that detects acceleration and tilt. Built using MEMS technology, accelerometers detect impact and deploy automobile airbags as well as retract the hard disk's read/write heads when a laptop is dropped. Digital cameras employ them in their image stabilization circuits. They are used in washing machines to detect excessive vibration and in pedometers for more accurate distance measurement. They also enable a handheld display to be switched between portrait and landscape modes when the unit is turned. Activity Audit Independent verification of measured activity for a specified time period. Some of the key metrics validated are ad impressions, page impressions, clicks, total visits and unique users. An activity audit results in a report verifying the metrics. Formerly known as a count audit. Ac
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What value points is the brown ball in a game of snooker?
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How many points are the snooker balls worth? | Reference.com How many points are the snooker balls worth? A: Quick Answer Each color ball in snooker is worth a different number of points with the highest value ball being the black ball, which is worth seven points. The red ball is worth one point, yellow is worth two points, green is worth three points, brown is worth four points, blue is worth five points and pink is worth six points. Full Answer In the game of snooker the red balls must be hit into a pocket first. Once a red ball has been potted, the player has the opportunity to try and pot a colored ball of their choice. If they are successful, they can then pot another red ball followed by another color. Once all the red balls are potted in the pockets, the players must then try and pot the colored balls in order of their value, from lowest to highest.
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History of Snooker including how snooker was invented, how snooker was named and how snooker has developed over the years History of Snooker Below is what we understand to be the 'History of Snooker'. Snooker compared to Billiards is a relatively new game that has fast become one of the nations most popular spectator and participation sports. Find out more below about how it was first invented and the unexpected way the name 'Snooker' was given it's name. Billiards which snooker derived from was thought to be played as early as the 1340's, with Louis XI of France owning a billiard table in the 1470's. The term 'snooker' was given to the game by Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain in 1875 whilst serving in the Army. In the Officers' Mess at Jubbulpore in India, gambling games such as pyramids, life pool and black pool were popular, with fifteen reds and a black used in the latter. To these were added yellow, green and pink, with blue and brown introduced some years later. One afternoon Chamberlain's Devonshire regiment was visited by an young officer who had been trained at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. This officer explained that a first-year cadet at the Academy was referred to as a 'snooker'. Later, when one of the players failed to hole a coloured ball, Chamberlain shouted to him: 'Why, you're a regular snooker.' He then pointed out the meaning and that they were all 'snookers' at the game. The name was adopted for the game itself. Chamberlain himself joined the Central India Horse in 1876, taking the game with him. After being wounded in the Afghan War, he moved to Ooatacamund and the game became the speciality of the 'Ooty Club', with rules being posted in the billiards room. John Roberts (Junior), who was then Billiards Champion, visited India in 1885, met Chamberlain at dinner with the Maharajah of Cooch Behar and enquired about the rules of snooker. He then introduced the game into England, although it was many years before it became widely played there. Manufacturers of billiards equipment, however, soon realised the commercial possibilities of snooker, and by the end of the 1800's the game had developed as had the tables into as we know them today. The biggest individual contribution to snooker came from Joe Davis and his brother Fred who dominated the game for over 50 years between them and were instrumental in the games transition from a grand aristocratic game to a working class pastime. Joe won 15 consecutive world championships and Fred won 8 world championships. There was only a handful of decent players but the standard was relatively low the highest break in 1922 being 33, Joe's game developed to a point where he made a 147 maximum break which was recognized in 1957, and was obviously way ahead of his time in terms of skills and techniques. Fred was younger than Joe by 12 years and was unlucky not to have had his name highlighted in snooker history like his brothers. Fred came very close to beating J
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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE is internationally known as what?
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Adele | Adele Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born in Tottenham , North London , England , to Penny Adkins , an English teenager, Adele as a little girl. and Mark Evans , a Welshman, on May 5, 1988. Evans walked out when Adele was young, leaving her 20-year-old mother to raise her single-handedly, for which Adele has still not forgiven him. She has a younger half-brother on her father's side named Cameron . She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. Adele has cited the Spice Girls as a major influence in regard to her love and passion for music, stating that "they made me what I am today." Adele impersonated the Spice Girls at dinner parties as a young girl. To make her look like English R&B and urban contemporary singer Gabrielle , her mother made an eye patch with sequins, which Adele later said was embarrassing. At the age of nine, Adele and her mother, a furniture-maker and adult learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton . Despite this move, she remains an ardent fan of her hometown Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur . Two years later, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton , and then to neighbouring district West Norwood , in south London. West Norwood is the subject for Adele's first record, " Hometown Glory ," written when she was 16. After moving to south London, she became interested in R&B artists such as Aaliyah , Destiny's Child , and Mary J. Blige . Adele says that one of the most defining moments in her life was when she watched P!nk perform at the Brixton Academy. "It was the M!ssundaztood record, so I was about 13 or 14. I had never heard, being in the room, someone sing like that live [...] I remember sort of feeling like I was in a wind tunnel, her voice just hitting me. It was incredible." Aged 14, Adele discovered Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald by accident as she stumbled on the artists' CDs in the jazz section of her local music store and was struck by their appearance on the album covers. Adele states she "started listening to Etta James every night for an hour", and in the process was getting "to know my own voice." Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J . Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent even though at the time she was more interested in going into A&R and hoped to launch other people's careers Career 2006-07: Career beginnings Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com. She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend who posted it on MySpace where it became very successful and led to a phone call from music label XL Recordings . She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records , and she took her friend and future guitarist, Ben Thomas , with her to the meeting. Nick Huggett at XL recommended Adkins to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management and in June 2006 Dickins became her official representative. September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2006. Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate 's song, " My Yvonne ," for his debut album , and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss , who would go on to produce the majority of her debut album 19, as well as two songs from 21. Adele's breakthrough song, " Hometown Glory ," was released in October 2007. Adele supported Will Young at the 2007 MENCAP Little Noise Sessions, a charity concert at London's Union Chapel. 2008-09: 19 and commercial success In 2008, Adele was the headliner and performed an acoustic set; she was supported by Damien Rice . She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critic
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Arthur Askey - The Bee Song / Chirrup (1938) - YouTube Arthur Askey - The Bee Song / Chirrup (1938) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 24, 2012 Arthur's most famous song, The Bee Song, was also his first commercial record. Arthur Bowden Askey CBE (6 June 1900 -- 16 November 1982) was a prominent English comedian and actor. Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed, his improvising, and his use of catchphrases, as parodied by the Arthur Atkinson character in The Fast Show. His catchphrases included "Hello playmates!", "I thank you all" (pronounced "Ay-Thang-Yaw'll"), and "Before your very eyes". He was known as "Big-Hearted Arthur". Askey was born at 29 Moses Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, the eldest child and only son of Samuel Askey (d.1958), secretary of the firm Sugar Products of Liverpool, and his wife, Betsy Bowden (d.1949), of Knutsford, Cheshire. Six months after his birth the family moved to 90 Rosslyn Street, Liverpool. Askey was educated at St. Michael's Council School (1905--11) and the Liverpool Institute for Boys (1911--16), where he was known for winning an egg and spoon race at a school sports day. He was very small at 5' 2" (1.58 m), with a breezy, smiling personality, and wore distinctive horn-rimmed glasses. He served in the armed forces in World War I and performed in army entertainments. After working as a clerk for Liverpool Corporation, Education Department, he was in a touring concert party and the music halls, but he rose to stardom in 1938 through his role in the first regular radio comedy series, Band Waggon on the BBC. Band Waggon began as a variety show, but had been unsuccessful until Askey and his partner, Richard Murdoch, took on a larger role in the writing. In the early 1930s, Askey appeared on an early form of BBC television — the spinning disc invented by John Logie Baird that scanned vertically and had only thirty lines. Askey had to be heavily made up for his face to be recognisable at such low resolution. When television became electronic, with 405 horizontal lines, Askey was a regular performer in variety shows. During World War II, Askey starred in several Gainsborough Pictures comedy films, including Band Waggon (1940), based on the radio show; Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940); The Ghost Train (1941); I Thank You (1941); Back Room Boy (1942); King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942); Miss London Ltd. (1943) and Bees in Paradise (1944); as well as the popular West End musical Follow the Girls. When television arrived, he made the transition well. His first TV series was Before Your Very Eyes! (1952), named after his catchphrase. In 1957, writers Sid Colin and Talbot Rothwell revived the Band Waggon format for Living It Up, a series that reunited Askey and Murdoch after 18 years. He also made many stage appearances as a pantomime dame. He continued to appear frequently on television in the 1970s, notably as a panellist on the ITV talent show New Faces, where his usually sympathetic comments would offset the harsher judgments of fellow judges Tony Hatch and Mickie Most. He also appeared on the comedy panel game Joker's Wild. His last film was Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978), starring Debbie Ash. Soon afterwards, he was forced to give up performing, and had both legs amputated owing to circulatory problems. Anthea, his daughter by his marriage to Elizabeth May Swash (m. 1925, d. 1974), was also an actress and often starred with him. For many years, he was an active member of the Savage Club (a London gentlemen's club). He was awarded the OBE in 1969 and the CBE in 1981. Askey carried on working until just before he was hospitalised in July 1982. Poor circulation resulted in gangrene which led to him having both legs amputated and he died in London's St Thomas's Hospital on 16 November 1982. Askey is buried in Putney Val
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The Chinese Zodiac, 12 Zodiac Animals, Find Your Zodiac Sign The Chinese animal zodiac, or shengxiao (/shnng-sshyaoww/ ‘born resembling’), is a repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year being represented by an animal and its reputed attributes. Traditionally these zodiac animals were used to date the years. The 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac In order, the 12 animals are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. What Your Chinese Zodiac Animal Sign Is Your Chinese Zodiac sign is derived from your birth year, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. See the years of each animal below or use the calculator on the right to determine your own sign. Rat: 2008, 1996, 1984, 1972, 1960 Ox: 2009, 1997, 1985, 1973, 1961 Tiger: 2010, 1998, 1986, 1974, 1962 Rabbit: 2011, 1999, 1987, 1975, 1963 Dragon: 2012, 2000, 1988, 1976, 1964 Snake: 2013, 2001, 1989, 1977, 1965 Horse: 2014, 2002, 1990, 1978, 1966 Goat: 2015, 2003, 1991, 1979, 1967 Monkey: 2016, 2004, 1992, 1980, 1968 Rooster: 2017 , 2005, 1993, 1981, 1969 Dog: 2018, 2006, 1994, 1982, 1970 Pig: 2019, 2007, 1995, 1983, 1971 Find Your Chinese Zodiac Sign Choose your date of birth and find out about your Chinese zodiac sign. You are a: Love: Health: Those born in January and February take care: Chinese (Lunar) New Year moves between 21 January and February 20. If you were born in January or February, check whether your birth date falls before or after Chinese New Year to know what your Chinese zodiac year is. Chinese Zodiac Love Compatibility — Is He/She Right for You? People born in a certain animal year are believed to have attributes of that animal, which could either help or hinder a relationship. An important use of Chinese Zodiac is to determine if two people are compatible, in a romantic relationship or any kind of relationship. In ancient times people were faithful to Chinese Zodiac compatibility and often referred to it before a romantic relationship began. Even nowadays some people still refer to it. Take our online test on the right and find how suitable you and your partner are. See our Chinese Zodiac Love Compatibility Charts Chinese Zodiac Love Compatibility Test Is she/he compatible with you? Take the test and see... Boy's Name: Date of Birth: It’s BAD LUCK When Your Zodiac Year Comes Around! As the Chinese zodiac recurs every 12 years, your animal year will come around when you are 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, etc. According to ancient Chinese superstition, in your birth sign year, he will offend the God of Age, and will have bad luck during that year. The best way to avoid bad luck during this year is by wearing something red given by an elder (relative), such as socks, a neck cord, underwear, a waistband, a bracelet, or an anklet. Read more on How to be Lucky in Your Zodiac Year . Chinese Zodiac Years Have Two Different Starts! There are two dates a Chinese zodiac year could be said to start on, and neither is January 1! China traditionally uses two calendars: the solar calendar and the lunar calendar. The traditional solar calendar has 24 fifteen-day solar terms, and the first, called ‘Start of Spring’, falls on February 4 (or 5). The lunar calendar has 12 or 13 months and starts on Chinese New Year, which is somewhere in the period January 21 to February 20. Most Chinese people use lunar New Year as the start of the zodiac year. But for fortune telling and astrology, people believe ‘Start of Spring’ is the beginning of the zodiac year. Chinese Zodiac Origins — Why 12 Animals The 12 animals were chosen deliberately, after many revisions. The zodiac animals are either closely related to ancient Chinese people’s daily lives, or have lucky meanings. The ox, horse, goat, rooster, pig, and dog are six of the main domestic animals raised by Chinese people. The other six animals: rat, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, and monkey are all loved by the Chinese people. Why the 12 Zodiac Animals Are in That Order The 12 Chinese Zodiac animals are in a fixed order according to Chinese Yin and Yang Theory and perceived attributes. The yin or the
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1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. If Mercury is 1, and Venus is 2, what is 6? 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4? 3. If Alpha is 1, and Beta is 2, what is 6? 4. If Tony Blackburn won in 2002, Phil Tuffnell won in 2003, and Kerry Katona won in 2004, who won in 2007? 5. If David Lloyd George is 1, Andrew Bonal Law is 2, and Stanley Baldwin is 3, who is 4? 6. If Liverpool won in 2006, and Chelsea won in 2007, who won in 2008? 7. How many pints does a 10- gallon hat hold? 8. Who was murdered by Fitzurse, de Tracy, de Morville and Le Breton? 9. Who presents Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer? 10. From what ancient activity does the word ‘crestfallen’ come? 11. What non-mechanical sport achieves the highest speeds? 12. What major city is on an island in the St Lawrence river? 13. Who succeeded Alf Ramsey to become caretaker manger for the English national football team in 1974? 14. What did Britain’s roads first acquire in 1914? 15. Which former Liverpool player held the record for the fastest hat-trick, scoring 3 goals in less than 5 minutes? 16. Myleen Klass (pictured) now presents 10 Years Younger on Channel 4, but what was the name of the pop band that gave her success in 2001? 17. Who was the presenter of Out Of Town in the 1960s who went on to appear on the children’s TV programme How? 18. Whose autobiography is called Dear Fatty? 19. Who were Tom and Barbara’s neighbours in The Good Life? 20. In Cockney rhyming slang what are your ‘Daisy Roots’? 21. What is the surname of the twin brothers who compiled the Guinness Book of Records together between 1955 and 1975? 22. Which actor played Columbo? 23. Does the Bactrian camel have one hump, or two? 24. Where is the world's largest four-faced chiming clock? 25. Concerned about the impact of uncontrolled development and industrialisation, what National Charity was founded in 1895 by three Victorian philanthropists, Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley? 26. What famous make of motorcycle was Lawrence of Arabia riding when he was tragically killed in Dorset in 1936? 27. What colour of flag should a ship fly to show it is in quarantine? 28. Purple Brittlegill, Velvet Shank and Orange Milkcap are three types of what? 29. What is the name of the flats where the Trotters lived in Only Fools And Horses? 30. In computing, what does the abbreviation USB stand for? ANSWERS: 1. Saturn; 2. Tom Baker (Doctor Who actors); 3. Zeta; 4. Christopher Biggins. (I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Joe Pasquale 04, Carol Thatcher 05, Matt Willis 06, and Joe Swash 08); 5. Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Ministers post WW1); 6. Portsmouth (FA Cup); 7. 6; 8. Thomas Becket; 9. Kirstie Allsopp; 10. Cockfighting; 11. Sky-diving; 12. Montreal; 13. Joe Mercer; 14. White Lines; 15. Robbie Fowler; 16. Hearsay; 17. Jack Hargreaves; 18. Dawn French; 19. Margo and Jerry Leadbetter; 20. Boots; 21. McWhirter (Ross and Norris); 22. Peter Falk; 23. Two; 24. The Clock Tower on the Palace of Westminster in London (Big Ben is the nickname for the bell); 25. The National Trust; 26. Brough Superior; 27. Yellow; 28. Fungi; 29. Nelson Mandela House; 30. Universal Serial Bus Like us on Facebook
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Which city is also known as 'The Big Apple'?
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Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"? This is by far the most frequently asked question—and the most hotly debated—to reach our New York History Hotline. There are actually several answers (nothing about New York City is simple, after all). All are explained below, with the last word going, appropriately enough, to SNYCH’s own Joe Zito, one of this burg’s finest purveyors of high-quality urban history. A veteran both of New York City’s inimitable press corps and its police department, Joe—happily for us—is able to provide authoritative first-hand testimony on this topic. Read on! Various accounts have traced the “Big Apple” expression to Depression-Era sidewalk apple vendors, a Harlem night club, and a popular 1930s dance known as the “Big Apple.” One fanciful version even linked the name with a notorious 19th- century procuress! In fact, it was the jazz musicians of the 1930s and ‘40s who put the phrase into more or less general circulation. If a jazzman circa 1940 told you he had a gig in the “Big Apple,” you knew he had an engagement to play in the most coveted venue of all, Manhattan, where the audience was the biggest, hippest, and most appreciative in the country. The older generation of jazzmen specifically credit Fletcher Henderson, one of the greatest of the early Big Band leaders and arrangers, with popularizing it, but such things are probably impossible to document. Be that as it may, the ultimate source actually was not the jazz world, but the racetrack. As Damon Runyon (among many others) cheerfully pointed out, New York in those days offered a betting man a lot of places to go broke. There were no fewer than four major tracks nearby, and it required no fewer than three racing journals to cover such a lively scene—The Daily Racing Form (which still survives on newsstands today) and The Running Horse and The New York Morning Telegraph (which do not)—and the ultimate credit for marrying New York to its durable catchphrase goes to columnist John J. FitzGerald, who wrote for the Telegraph for over 20 years. Joe Zito, who joined the paper as a young man some 70-plus years ago, recently reminisced about Jack Fitzgerald and his times. In FitzGerald’s honor (and due largely to the strenuous efforts of attorney-etymologist Barry Popick, who, like the columnist, immigrated to NYC from upstate New York) a street sign reading “Big Apple Corner” was installed at Broadway and West 54th Street in 1997, near the hotel where FitzGerald died in poverty in 1963—although a location near the old Telegraph office might arguably have been a happier spot for it. Despite its turf-related origins, by the 1930s and ’40s, the phrase had become firmly linked to the city’s jazz scene. “Big Apple” was the name both of a popular night club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem and a jitterbug-style group dance that originated in the South, became a huge phenomenon at Harlem’s great Savoy Ballroom and rapidly spread across the country. (Neat cultural footnote: the great African-American cinema pioneer Oscar Micheaux liked to use the Big Apple as a venue for occasional screenings of his latest feature film or documentary.) A film short called The Big Apple came out in 1938, with an all- Black cast featuring Herbert “Whitey” White’s Lindy Hoppers, Harlem’s top ballroom dancers in the Swing Era. In a book published the same year, bandleader Cab Calloway used the phrase "Big Apple" to mean "the big town, the main stem, Harlem." Anyone who loved the city would have readily agreed with Jack FitzGerald: “There's only one Big Apple. That's New York." The term had grown stale and was in fact generally forgotten by the 1970s. Then Charles Gillett, head of the New York Convention & Visitors Bureau, got the idea of reviving it. The agency was desperately trying to attract tourists to the town Mayor John Lindsay had dubbed “Fun City,” but which had become better-known for its blackouts, strikes, street crime and occasional riots. What could be a more wholesome symbol of renewal than a plump red apple? The city's industrial-strength “
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Round 3 Jeopardy Template What is the Ford Mustang? This still-popular muscle car was launched late in 1964, what is it? 100 What is the Syndy Opera House? In 1973, which famous building with a roof resembling sails opened after 16 years of construction? 100 What are young urban professionals? The word “yuppie” was popularized in the 80s; what does it represent? 100 Which figure skater was accused of breaking a competitor’s kneecaps before the 1994 Olympics? 100 What is Denver, Co? What city did Barack Obama formally accept the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election in 2008? 200 What is Mister Ed? Picked up by CBS in 1961, what famous TV show had a vocal equine as its star? 200 Who was Jimi Hendrix? What American singer-songwriter, who is considered by many to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, died in 1970? 200 What Soviet leader replaced Chernenko in 1985? 200 What food chain uses this slogan: “Think outside the bun”? 200 What is Katrina? In 2005, what hurricane devastated the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastal regions, and flooded approximately 80% of the city of New Orleans? 300 Name the Organization created to fight for important women’s issues? 300 What was the name of NASA's first space shuttle that was unveiled in 1976? 300 Who is Sally Ride? The Space Shuttle Challenger took the first woman into space in 1983, what was her name? 300 What is the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame? What famous museum opened in 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio? 300 Who is Charles Manson? Wedding plans were announced in 2014 for a 26 year-old Illinois woman and which 80 year-old incarcerated mass murderer? 400 What famous property, purchased in 1965, was once a swamp land in Osceola County, California? 400 What is Three Mile Island? In 1979, a nuclear accident happened at what Pennsylvania power plant? 400 In 1984, which restaurant chain featured this line in their commercial, “Where’s the beef?” 400 Who was the youngest singer to win a Grammy in 1997? 400 What is ALS (Lou Gerhig's Disease)? In 2014, the Ice Water Bucket challenge was established for what charity? 500 Who is Sirhan Sirhan? The 1960s were a decade of high-profile assassinations (President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) Name the assassin who is still alive. 500 What is In Vitro Fertilization? In 1978, the first test tube baby was born following what procedure? 500 Who was Jim Thorpe? Which Olympic athlete had his gold medals reinstated in the decathlon and the pentathlon, 30 years after his death? 500 What is Yellow Pages? In the 90s, which company used this phrase for their slogan "Let your fingers do the walking"? 500 Who is Psy?
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In which long-running comic series did the eponymous hero experience two dream sequences where he married each of his girlfriends, Veronica and Betty?
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Betty and Veronica | All The Tropes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia All The Tropes Wiki She wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers —Taylor Swift, "You Belong With Me" One of the most common types of Love Triangle , named after characters from Archie Comics , wherein the main character ("Archie") is caught between two love interests with drastically different personalities. "Betty" is the sweet, reliable , everyday Girl Next Door type (if done wrong, this can mean: 'kinda dull'), whilst "Veronica" is more alluring, exotic and edgy, but has a more 'troublesome' or 'dangerous' personality (which could translate to 'a bit mean'). This translates to their physical appearances; "Betty" will usually be more plain (or at least as close as Hollywood gets ), whilst "Veronica" will be Ms. Fanservice in all her glory. As a rule, one will be blond and the other dark or red haired. The usual dynamic is that "Betty", often the hero's best friend, is herself deeply in love with "Archie" (who might see them as Just Friends or being Like Brother and Sister , hence his obliviousness to her feelings ), whilst "Veronica" is the sultry Ms. Unattainable who, despite attracting the hero's attention, barely notices his existence. "Betty" will want the hero to be happy and thus suppress her own desire to help the hero in his quest to win over "Veronica". Another possibility is that "Archie" and "Betty" are already in a relationship, but then "Veronica" starts batting her eyelashes, causing friction between the couple. Historically, "Betty" is the parents' choice , and "Veronica" rejected . If the two love interests are male instead of female, they are often characterized as the kind-hearted, polite Nice Guy and the hunky 'Bad Boy' . It's not unusual for the main character to fall for the prince-like good guy who's probably rich but not in touch emotionally, and only later fall for the Tall, Dark and Handsome romantic rebel. Whom the hero will end up with varies according to media, story, and values of the time period and culture where the story was made. Traditionally, "Betty" stood a better chance because she conformed to more 'acceptable' moral norms, whilst choosing "Veronica" would only lead the poor sap into ruin . Usually, the hero would spend the story chasing "Veronica" only to realize that "Betty" was The One -- complete with a convenient 'appreciate what you've got' or True Beauty Is on the Inside Aesop. However, as attitudes to what is 'appropriate' sexual conduct have liberalized, it's more accepted for "Veronica" to have a chance at winning a happy ending too. Movies have traditionally favoured "Betty", but video games, comics and TV shows (especially long runners) have played this trope for all it's worth. Comfortable and safe, Betty does not shake up your world. Picking Betty means you are happy with your life options and don't want to change things too much. Veronica is completely different from what you are used to. Veronica opens your mind to new possibilities and changes your world. Choosing Veronica suggests you are dissatisfied with the options life has given you and you want something else (even if you don't know what the "else" is). In case this wasn't complicated enough, sometimes a Third Option Love Interest makes their presence known to shake things up even further. Do be aware that fans like to exaggerate potential relationships; Shipping would not exist without it. As a result there are likely to be multiple instances of an Official Couple (vindicated by Word of God ) that has some sort of Fanon -based "romantic rival" mirroring this trope. Even shows without such romantic entanglements in-universe can inspire Betty/Veronica debates amongst the Fandom ; hence, Mary Ann/Ginger , Bailey/Jennifer , Janet/Chrissy , Velma/Daphne , etc. Named for the two female leads of Archie Comics , which made this plot famous ( although it's far older than that ). Examples of Betty and Veronica include: Contents Edit Macross in all its incarnations is a king of this trope, because it is actually b
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My Questions - Documents Documents Share My Questions Embed <iframe src="http://docslide.us/embed/my-questions.html" width="750" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://docslide.us/documents/my-questions.html" title="My Questions" target="_blank">My Questions</a></div> size(px) Download My Questions Transcript Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? What is the tallest and thickest type of grass? What was the surname of the family who employed Julie Andrews' character in 'The Sound Of Music'? Which nation has won the Eurovision Song Contest more than any other? What is the most common gas in the air we breathe? Which three different actors played Batman in the movies between 1989 and 1997? What colour is Bart's skateboard in the introduction? The theme tune to which TV show starts with the line "Stick a pony in me pocket"? Which soap opera is set in the fictional county of Borsetshire? Who did Sue Barker replace as host of the BBC quiz show "A Question Of Sport"? Which "Generation Game" presenter was famous for his catchphrase "Shut That Door"? "No Mean City" by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running Scottish TV detective show? Anthony, Barbara, Dave, Denise, Jim and Norma make up which famous family on British TV? Which part did Deforest Kelley play in the TV series Star Trek? True or False In space it is impossible to cry? Famous sitcom actor Kelsey Grammar provides the voice for for a character in which famous cartoon TV Series The largest ever picnic for a childs toy was held in Dublin in 1995 where 33,573 of the toys were there . What was the toy ? Which American state comes first alphabetically? In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull? Which country has the airline KLM? The sinking of which famous German battleship was portrayed in the title of a 1960 film? What organisation is also known as "La Cosa Nostra"? What was the Titanic’s first port of call after it left Southampton? Which mountain overshadows Fort William in scotland ? What was the name of the 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose identity is erased? A penguin called Wheezy was a character in which film ? Who played Vince in the 1980s TV series "Just Good Friends"? In which 1994 film did Whoopi Goldberg provide the voice of a hyena called Shenzi? What is the only venomous snake in Britain? How many pieces are there in a standard set of dominoes? James Earl Ray was responsible for who's death in 1968? In which city in England is the National Railway Museum? In the music world, which group sacked Simon Fuller in 1997? Which Roman God is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? What was the challanging method of catching a fly asked of Daniel in the film "The Karate Kid"? Actor Richard Kiel is best known for playing which character in two bond films ? Which is the odd one out, Comet, Dixon, Cupid, Vixen? Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? What product did Coke invented in 1982? Which Japanese word, also used in the English language, means "empty orchestra"? On which date does Halloween fall? Oscar is the first name of which of the famous songwriting duo Rogers and Hammerstein? 24 Bamboo Von Trappe Ireland Nitrogen Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney Green Only Fools And Horses The Archers David Coleman Larry Grayson Taggart The Royle Family Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy True (there is no gravity, so tears cannot flow) The Simpsons Teddy Bear Alabama Minotaur The Netherlands The Bismark The Mafia Cherbourg Ben Nevis The Net Toy Story 2 Paul Nicholas "The Lion King" The Adder 28 Martin Luther King's York Manager of the Spice Girls Cupid Using chopsticks to do it Jaws (in two James Bond films) Dixon - the others are Santa's reindeer Mercury Diet Coke Karaoke October 31st Hammerstein On 11th February 1990, which fam
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Bigfoot, a supposedly large, hairy, bipedal humanoid which lives in forests in the Northwest of North America, is also known as what?
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Bigfoot - The Dark Side of the NET The Dark Side of the NET Jenny Chau Leave a comment The Bigfoot, also known as the Sasquatch, is one of the most well-known cryptic in history. It is an ape-like hominid creature that reputedly lives in the forests of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Numerous eyewitnesses claim that the Bigfoot is large, hairy, bipedal humanoid covered in fur. They stand approximately 6 to 10 feet tall and weighs 500 pounds. While most scientists discount the existence of such a creature, many cryptozoologists and eyewitnesses stand by their beliefs based on purported evidence of footprints, photographs, and video footages. Those who allegedly encountered the Bigfoot claims that they emit strong and unpleasant odor. Their feet is supposedly as large as 24 inches long and 8 inches wide. Some casts of footprints alleging to belong to the Bigfoot shows that they have up to six toes. Some tracks show that they have two toes. Proponents of Bigfoot claims that it is a harmless, omnivorous creature that exists nocturnally. Source:
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Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: October 2015 Macclesfield Pub Quiz League 1st round of the cup 27th October Questions compiled by the Plough Horntails and the Robin Hood. 1. What is the capital of the US State of Kansas? A. Topeka 2. What is the capital of the US State of Connecticut? A. Hartford 3. Which Shipping Area lies between Wight and Plymouth A. Portland? 4. Which Shipping Area lies between South East Iceland and Fair Isle A. Faeroes? 5. Name the castle in Kent which was the home of the Boleyn family when their daughter Anne married Henry VIII. A. Hever Castle 6. Monticello in the US state of Virginia was the home of which of their Presidents? A. Thomas Jefferson 7. Which actress played Elizabeth Bennet to Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy in the TV production of Pride & Prejudice? A. Jennifer Ehle 8. Which actor played Inspector George Gently? A. Martin Shaw 9. Neville Norway was the real name of which 20th C novelist? A. Nevil Shute 10. David Ivor Davies was the real name of which 20th C composer and entertainer? A. Ivor Novello 11. In which city was the composer Frederick Delius born in 1862? A.Bradford 12. What was the title of the first novel in Terry Prachett's Discworld series? A.The colour of magic 13. What military rank was held by James Bond? A.Commander, Royal Navy. 14. Who was the artistic director for the London 2012 Olympic Opening ceremony? A.Danny Boyle. 15. What is the capital of Namibia? A.Windhoek 16. Who founded the Bauhaus school of architecture and design in Germany in 1919? A.Walter Gropius. 17. Which British playwright wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"? A.Tom Stoppard 18. Who in 1932 became the first female to fly non-stop across the Atlantic single-handed? A.Amelia Earhart 19. Which was the first country to host a FIFA World Cup tournament for a second time? A.Mexico (1970 & 1986). 20. Which author wrote the novels "Blott on the Landscape" and "Porterhouse Blue"? A Tom Sharpe. 21. In which castle was Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned and later executed? A Fotheringay. 22. Which obstacle to navigation does the Welland Canal bypass? A Niagara Falls 23. Mountain, Grevys and Plains are the three subspecies of which animal? A Zebra. 24. In Shakespeare’s plays who are Valentine and Proteus? A The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 25. On which river does the city of Hereford stand? A Wye 26. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, what was the name of the computer that gave 42 as the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? A Deep Thought 27. Whose official country residence is Dorneywood, Buckinghamshire? A Chancellor of the Exchequer. 28. What is the name for a line on a map connecting points of equal underwater depth? A Isobath 29. From which plant are vanilla pods obtained? A.Orchid, specifically the Vanilla Orchid. 30. Who wrote the book “The Interpretation of Dreams”? A.Sigmund Freud. 31. Near which city are the villages of Bevendean, Saltdean and Roedean? A.Brighton & Hove (accept Brighton) 32. In which county are the villages of Melmerby, Langwathby and Glassonby ? A.Cumbria 33. Where is Narita airport? A.Tokyo 34. Which city is served by airports called Tegel and Schoenefeld? A.Berlin 35. What was the name given to the 8-engine aircraft designed & owned by Howard Hughes in the 1940’s? A.The Spruce Goose 36. Who referred to the English as a ‘Nation of Shopkeepers’? A.Napoleon Bonaparte 37. Which state in the USA has the words ‘THE FIRST STATE’ on its car number plates? A.Delaware …. It was the first state to recognise the US constitution 38. Which state in the USA has the words ‘FIRST IN FLIGHT STATE’ on its car number plates? A.North Carolina ... it was where the Wright Brothers were working. 39. Playing (Played) in the 2015 Rugby Union world cup, which team has the nickname of ‘The Cherry Blossoms’? A.Japan 40. Also playing in the 2015 Rugby Union world cup, what is the nickname of Canada? A.`The Canucks` 41. What is the name given to the top vertebra of the spinal column? A.Atlas. ( also accept C1 vertebra or top Cervical) 42. Which car company used the words ‘Hand
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Roman Numerals Chart 1-100 | Roman-Numerals.org Learn all about Roman Numerals! Roman Numerals Chart 1-100 Here is a chart of what each Roman Numeral stands for. The system is based on seven different symbols. These symbols can be used to write any number from 1 to 3,999! Below are the numbers for 1-100. 1
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Index-a Don't Forget To Hit <ESC> before going to a different page. Let's play a game of 30 questions. No, not that old standard of 20 questions, but one with an extra 10 questions added in and one that uses numeric answers (from 1 to 30). If you get stumped, go on to the next one. Perhaps the answer you need will be one of those left over when you complete all the questions you're sure of. Each answer is a number. The answers are the numbers 1-30. Each number appears only once. (Obviously) the questions are not in the right order.. 1. Aside from an extra 385 yards, how many miles is a marathon race? 2. If 27 solid cubes are formed into one big 3x3x3 cube how many individual cubes, at most, are visible from any single angle? 3. In the movie Spinal Tap what number is: "Well, it is one louder.."? 4. 'Via Dolorosa' is the (how many) Stations of the Cross, the Christian ritual tracing the key stages of the death of Jesus, beginning with his condemnation and ending with his being laid in the tomb? 5. How many dots are on a (standard 1-6) die? 6. The Russian 'Crimea Highway' trunk road from Moscow to the Crimea in Ukraine is the M (what)? 7. What number, between two hyphens, is used by journalists, etc., to mark the end of a newspaper or broadcast story? 8. How many unique dominoes are in a standard 'double six' set? 9. What number turned on its side (rotated 90 degrees) is the symbol for infinity? 10. The Marvel Comics superhero team led by Mr Fantastic was the Fanstastic (what)? 11. What is the larger number of the binary system? 12. Japanese haiku poems loosely comprise how many syllables? 13. The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are respectively (what number)-and-half degrees north and south of the Equator? 14. What number is Hurricane on the Beaufort Scale? 15. Greek deka, and Latin decem, are what number? 16. Conventionally how many books are in the Bible's New Testament? 17. How many legs (or arms) are most usually on a starfish? 18. A lunar month is an average (how many) days plus 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds? 19. 'Roaring' refers to what pluralised number in describing a 1900s decade of western world prosperity? 20. Traditionally what number of years anniversary is symbolized by silver? 21. What is generally stated to be the number of major joints in the human body? 22. What number is the French coded slang 'vingt-deux!', which warns that police are coming? 23. What is the only number that equals twice the sum of its digits (digit means numerical symbol)? 24. The early/mid-1900s American vaudeville comedy act was called the (how many) Stooges? 25. Any line of three numbers in the 'magic square' (a 3 x 3 grid of the numbers 1-9) adds up to what? 26. What is the international SPI resin/polymer identification coding system number (typically shown within a recycling triangle symbol) for polystyrene? 27. Traditionally the diameter of the 45rpm gramophone record is (how many) inches? 28. Pure gold is (how many)-carat? 29. The expression 'On cloud (what)' refers to being blissfully happy? 30. Each player begins with (how many) pieces in a game of chess? Daniel David "Danny" Kirwan (born 13 May 1950) is a British musician whose greatest success came with his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972. Kirwan's first recorded work with the band was on the huge instrumental hit single "Albatross". Green later stated that, "I would never have done "Albatross" if it wasn't for Danny. I would never have had a number one hit record." The B-side of the single was Kirwan's first published tune, the instrumental "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues". This was an old clarinet piece, written by Joe Venuti and Adrian Rollini, and recorded by the Joe Venuti / Eddie Lang Blue Five in 1933. Kirwan had adapted the piece for himself and Green to play on
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What hurricane struck New Orleans in 2005?
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Hurricane Katrina - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com Google Hurricane Katrina: Before the Storm The tropical depression that became Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and meteorologists were soon able to warn people in the Gulf Coast states that a major storm was on its way. By August 28, evacuations were underway across the region. That day, the National Weather Service predicted that after the storm hit, “most of the [Gulf Coast] area will be uninhabitable for weeks…perhaps longer.” Did You Know? During the past century, hurricanes have flooded New Orleans six times: in 1915, 1940, 1947, 1965, 1969 and 2005. New Orleans was at particular risk. Though about half the city actually lies above sea level, its average elevation is about six feet below sea level–and it is completely surrounded by water. Over the course of the 20th century, the Army Corps of Engineers had built a system of levees and seawalls to keep the city from flooding. The levees along the Mississippi River were strong and sturdy, but the ones built to hold back Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne and the waterlogged swamps and marshes to the city’s east and west were much less reliable. Before the storm, officials worried that surge could overtop some levees and cause short-term flooding, but no one predicted levees might collapse below design height. Neighborhoods that sat below sea level, many of which housed the city’s poorest and most vulnerable people, were at great risk of flooding. The day before Katrina hit, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued the city’s first-ever mandatory evacuation order. He also declared that the Superdome, a stadium located on relatively high ground near downtown, would serve as a “shelter of last resort” for people who could not leave the city. (For example, some 112,000 of New Orleans’ nearly 500,000 people did not have access to a car.) By nightfall, almost 80 percent of the city’s population had evacuated. Some 10,000 had sought shelter in the Superdome, while tens of thousands of others chose to wait out the storm at home. Hurricane Katrina: Storm and Flooding By the time Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans early in the morning on Monday, August 29, it had already been raining heavily for hours. When the storm surge (as high as 9 meters in some places) arrived, it overwhelmed many of the city’s unstable levees and drainage canals. Water seeped through the soil underneath some levees and swept others away altogether. By 9 a.m., low-lying places like St. Bernard Parish and the Ninth Ward were under so much water that people had to scramble to attics and rooftops for safety. Eventually, nearly 80 percent of the city was under some quantity of water. Hurricane Katrina: The Aftermath Many people acted heroically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Coast Guard, for instance, rescued some 34,000 people in New Orleans alone, and many ordinary citizens commandeered boats, offered food and shelter, and did whatever else they could to help their neighbors. Yet the government–particularly the federal government–seemed unprepared for the disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took days to establish operations in New Orleans, and even then did not seem to have a sound plan of action. Officials, even including President George W. Bush , seemed unaware of just how bad things were in New Orleans and elsewhere: how many people were stranded or missing; how many homes and businesses had been damaged; how much food, water and aid was needed. Katrina had left in her wake what one reporter called a “total disaster zone” where people were “getting absolutely desperate.” (For one thing, many had nowhere to go. At the Superdome in New Orleans, where supplies had been limited to begin with, officials accepted 15,000 more refugees from the storm on Monday before locking the doors. City leaders had no real plan for anyone else. Tens of thousands of people desperate for food, water and shelter broke into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center complex, but they found nothing there but chaos. Meanwhile, i
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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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"Complete the line from Kipling's poem A Smugglers Song, ""Five and twenty ponies, trotting through the dark, Brandy for the Parson .........."""
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Kipling and History Kipling and History references' [December 16th 2007] Nothing could be more sweeping in scope than the title of this essay. Kipling was a public man and an intensely public writer; the phrase, 'Kipling and History', might cover the greater part of his work and life, and might be expected to include an assessment of his significance in the history of the British people and the British Empire. Nothing so comprehensive will be attempted here. The topic broached (itself big enough, in all conscience) is simply Kipling's approach, as a writer, to the past, and especially to the English past as presented in Puck of Pook's Hill and its sequel, Rewards and Fairies, and it is examined strictly through the eyes of a professional historian. My aim is solely to be ancillary to literary criticism of the kind to be found in, for example, Donald Mackenzie's essay, "Kipling and Northernness", in the June 2007 edition of the Kipling Journal. (1) Kipling's achievement was intensely individual, yet we cannot properly understood it without accepting that it was also shaped by his times. In few eras has history been taken more seriously, by more intelligent people, than it was in Victorian Britain, whether we mean by 'history' the events of the past, the record of those events, the evolution of human societies, or the investigation and discussion of events, records and evolution by great historians. This preoccupation with history began with the Romantics, Walter Scott being in this respect much the most influential of them, but it was reinforced by countless other stimuli. It was a European-wide phenomenon, as such names as Marx, Hegel, Ranke, Tolstoy, Dumas and Tocqueville (among many others) sufficiently demonstrate, but for present purposes it will be enough to glance merely at the British background (although Kipling's deep acquaintance with France and French literature is not irrelevant). In Britain, then, historical consciousness was largely coloured by such factors as awareness that Britain (the Victorians always said `England') had become the greatest power in the world; and that the British Empire was the largest in history; and the belief that this greatness was both caused and validated by the evolution of British law, British freedom, and British Protestantism. The British were intensely nationalistic, and looked to history to vindicate their nationalism by providing suitable myths (King John signing Magna Carta at Runnymede, for instance; the House of Commons defying King Charles when he tried to arrest the Five Members; Queen Elizabeth rallying her troops at Tilbury). At the same time, antiquarianism was giving way to professional and scientific historical writing and investigation; and the great debate over evolution meant that some of the best minds of the age were beginning to look to history for help in investigations (such as that into the Industrial Revolution and its consequences) more searching than had ever been attempted before. In the late nineteenth century, when Kipling was young, history was one of the most exciting of all the arts and sciences. It will be evident to all readers of the Puck books that this was the intellectual world in which Kipling worked, but it does not explain his inspired imaginative response, which was an essential part of his genius, almost as much as his instinct to convey his responses in memorable words and inventions. So successful was he in this undertaking that he compels his readers' imagination in their turn. His vision of the past, as he realized it on paper, still becomes ours as we read and surrender to his spell. It is an achievement which must be praised, even by envious academic historians. But his purposes were not theirs. When he turned to the past, in verse or in prose, he always made sure that he was adequately informed for the job: one might say, well-information which stimulated his writing, as when his settlement at Burwash, in the Sussex Weald, stimulated the Puck stories: Just beyond the west fringe of our land, in a little valley running from Nowh
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French Honey - David Lebovitz French Honey 167 comments - 01.21.2013 I had to put a moratorium on jam-making this year because I realized I had enough jam to last a normal person, who doesn’t have a French partner, at least ten years. (I’m not naming any names, but one Frenchman in particular can go through half a jar at one breakfast alone.) But one thing I can’t make is honey, in spite of the fact that I am certainly capable of giving a nasty sting every once in a while. It wasn’t until I moved to France that I fell in love with the stuff. When I led tours, I’d bring guests to honey shops and people would just kind of look around – or look over me, perhaps wondering when we were getting to the chocolate – as I started to explain fabulous wonders of French honey. And am not sure how convincing I was, but since I have a captive audience here (don’t touch that mouse!), as well as a cabinet-full of the stuff, I decided that as I started to clean out my honey larder, I’d also come clean about my love for the stuff. Various honeys are said to have various properties. I don’t sit down to breakfast and think about all the polyhydroxy phenols and bioflavonoids, or how my body is going through phagocytosis or endocytosis while I eat my toast and sip my orange juice and wonder how the heck I’m going to make it through another day. (And I have nothing against polyhydroxy pheols or phagocytosis, it’s just that they’re not popular topics at my breakfast table.) On the whole, I eat pretty healthy stuff and am not one to think about the health benefits of food. I don’t need justification, ie: antioxidants, to eat chocolate. I just eat it – and thinking that you’re going to get healthy from eating cheesecake because you put a tablet of vitamin C in it is kind of ridiculous, if you ask me. So geez, just eat! My philosophy is to eat a variety of things, avoid too many packaged foods, and always choose butter over margarine. (And wine over soda.) So when someone tells me that a particular honey may be good for my urinary tract, it’s kind of the last thing (or place) I like to think about when eating. I’d rather think about how good it tastes. However before I step down off my soapbox, honey is a good, healthy, pure food, and adding a generous spoonful to your diet every once in a while will make you a happier person. At least it does in my case. The French love honey and give it a lot more respect than most of us do in the states. It’s sold by variety, where it’s cultivated, the terroir, by producer, and if it’s crystallized or not. Because it was recently revealed that a great deal of honey is mislabeled , or worse, adulterated , one has to look at labels. Fabriqué en France or Recolté en France (Made in France, or Harvested in France) are different from Elaboré en France or Transformé en France (Processed in France) – and not just on honey, but on other food products. I once bought what I thought was honey at a Middle Eastern market and when I got home, and have my glasses, I looked at the label carefully and saw that it was glucose aromatisé (flavored) with honey. The one on the left, up above, is one I get from a favorite apicultrice who is at the Marché des Producteurs that takes place annually in Paris, and her honey is the first thing I pick up. Ok, I lied. It’s the first booth I go to, but I do the rest of my shopping, then stop back there just before leaving because the amount of honey that I buy isn’t all that light. And the other jar is from a trip to the Jura , which I haven’t opened, but I loved the dark color and since I have a crush on that region, I like having a souvenir in my kitchen of my last trip there. Oddly the two things in France that you’re practically expected to taste before you buy them are wine and honey. Not in stores, per say, but at the outdoor markets or food fairs; if someone has either, there are usually tastes on offer. (I was once at a wine expo and bought a bottle of wine without tasting it. The seller was rather shocked, “Don’t you want to taste it first?” he asked, before ringing me up – I was so
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Get your Country out of my Happy Meal!: Liberty cabbage, Freedom fries and other Product Renamings | Mental Floss Get your Country out of my Happy Meal!: Liberty cabbage, Freedom fries and other Product Renamings Image credit: Like us on Facebook Political battles can dictate what we call our food and friends, and even what games we play. During WWI, sauerkraut was popularly rebranded Liberty Cabbage. When anti-French sentiments began to build a few years ago, "French Fries" were rechristened "Freedom Fries." (Nevermind that Thomas Jefferson may have been the one to first rave about the delicious side item in the U.S.). And while most patriotic terms fade, places like Berlin, Iowa, and Germantown, Nebraska, have ended up permanently renamed. Here are a few other examples of reactionary vocab rebranding efforts from all over the globe. 1. Food THE KIWI: The iconic fruit of New Zealand was originally known as a Chinese Gooseberry. When the country exported the fruits to the US starting in the 1950s, marketers referred to them as a melonettes to avoid evoking the Cold War conflict between China and the US. The name was later changed again to Kiwifruit came to avoid tariffs on melons and berries and to honor the country's national bird, the Kiwi. KIWI LOAVES: In 1998, New Zealand bakers were irritated by threats of French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean. So they took matters into their own hands by renaming French bread as Kiwi bread. The action received little attention compared to the Freedom fry movement here in the states. FRENCH VANILLA: Of course, now that the Star Spangled Ice Cream company has renamed its ice cream from "I Hate the French Vanilla" to "Air Force "˜Plane' Vanilla," the recent anti-French sentiments may have left US kitchens, for now. ROSES OF MUHAMMAD: After the 2006 controversy over Danish cartoons depicting Muslims, the Iranian Confectioner's Union changed the names of Danish pastries to "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad." 2. Drinks BOURBON: To wash down the sweet taste of independence, Americans began drinking Bourbon—a Whisky first brewed in the US in 1789. Rev. Elijah Craig rebuked the UK origins of the drink, naming it after Bourbon County, Kentucky. MECCA COLA: In 2002, Muslims asserted their beverage independence too. A Muslim-run company introduced Mecca Cola as an alternative to Coca Cola. The manufacturers imitated the Coca Cola flavor and packaged it with a red label and white script. Arab boycotts of American brands boosted the cola's sales. 3. Games CARDS TAKE A HIT: In 1917, the city of Syracuse made a statement against WWI by banning a card game . They prohibited Pinochle because of game's German origins (it came from the game "Binokel"). 21: American Black Jack has roots in Europe, but went through a few name changes before settling on that name. First, it was a popular French casino game in the 1700s called "Vingt-et-Un" ("Twenty One"). The British liked to play it too, but with the French and Indian War going on, they decided to rename it "Pontoon." Animals 4. GERMAN DOGS: Your furry four-footer is man's best friend. But that love might be conditional if the breed's name evokes a particular enemy country. Instead of German Shepherds and Dachsunds, owners in countries around the world doted on their Alsatians and Liberty Pups. 5. Illness EVEN OUR SICKNESS GETS A NAME CHANGE? During WWI, a Massachusetts doctor decided to combat the German invaders, specifically German Measles. The new "Liberty Measles" had all the same symptoms, plus a little extra patriotism. Newspapers used the new term for decades. 6. Education HOW KINDERGARTEN ALMOST GOT CHANGED: New Jersey teacher Katherine T. Cassell published an article "Wartime German at Junior High" in the 1945 German Quarterly . She wrote about her students' experience in the classroom and the anti-German frenzy taking place in the public. Her students learned military-related German words that year, and started dropping "ersatz" into conversations. Students discussed public calls for banning German words, boycotting German music
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Welcome to the real Royston Vasey - You'll never leave | The Independent Media Welcome to the real Royston Vasey - You'll never leave Home of simpletons, sadists, fetishists, xenophobes, thugs, psychopaths, nudists, nosebleeders, kidnappers, toad worshippers, mass-murderers (and other well-adjusted residents of a typical small town in the north of England) by Brian Viner Thursday 17 February 2000 00:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online The number 397 bus - destination Hyde - rattles along Station Road, Hadfield, followed, from a ramshackle Manchester Evening News hoarding, by the eyes of Harold Shipman. Here, it seems, is conclusive proof that fact is far grislier and more macabre than fiction. But in Hadfield, a north Derbyshire village sprawled across a Pennine valley, fact and fiction have collided with a terrible crash. For Hadfield doubles as Royston Vasey, put firmly on the map by BBC2's The League of Gentlemen, and populated by an extraordinary assortment of weirdos. The fictional locals are so weird that when a freak show came to town, it quickly scarpered, out-freaked by such characters as Hilary Briss, the apparently cannibalistic butcher. Yet according to some, Royston Vasey is but a pale shadow of Hadfield. The number 397 bus - destination Hyde - rattles along Station Road, Hadfield, followed, from a ramshackle Manchester Evening News hoarding, by the eyes of Harold Shipman. Here, it seems, is conclusive proof that fact is far grislier and more macabre than fiction. But in Hadfield, a north Derbyshire village sprawled across a Pennine valley, fact and fiction have collided with a terrible crash. For Hadfield doubles as Royston Vasey, put firmly on the map by BBC2's The League of Gentlemen, and populated by an extraordinary assortment of weirdos. The fictional locals are so weird that when a freak show came to town, it quickly scarpered, out-freaked by such characters as Hilary Briss, the apparently cannibalistic butcher. Yet according to some, Royston Vasey is but a pale shadow of Hadfield. "If you put the cast in the street next to the locals, and I'm not ruling myself out, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart," says Barbara Hollingworth, plain-speaking, chain-smoking, twinkle-eyed owner of the village haberdashery. "There was a man outside the post office the other day and his nose turned up all on its own. He didn't need Sellotape. And on the day the TV crew changed the sign above Mettrick the butcher's to H Briss, a woman popped her head round my door and said, 'Barbara, has Mettrick sold 'is shop?' I said, 'No, it's for the filming', and she said, 'Oh.' The next day they'd moved the sign, and the same woman came in and said, 'I see Mettrick's bought 'is shop back.' So, you see, they don't need to write scripts. They just need to sit in the back of my shop for a morning." William Hall, a clothing salesman visiting Hadfield on business, overhears this, and recalls with a chuckle that he once stopped to ask directions to Hadfield and was advised to continue on the same road for a mile "then 'turn right by the black and white cow', as if the cow was a permanent flipping fixture". Mr Hall lives near Holmfirth, the location, 15 miles away, for the venerable BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine, and now home to the likes of Summer Wine Taxis, Summer Wine Car Hire, Compo's Cafe, even the Wrinkled Stocking Cafe. The association has been milked beyond reason, Mr Hall believes, and warns Hadfield traders not to make the same mistakes. Of course, the nation is unlikely to embrace Tubbs and Edward, mad porcine proprietors of Royston Vasey's Local Shop, quite as it has Nora Batty. And yet The League of Gentlemen - the second series of which concludes tomorrow - already has a following devoted enough to make the pilgrimage to Royston Vasey. A coach party from Nottingham University recently descended on the Mason's Arms, which conveniently doubles on the telly as the Mason's Arms ("I think they would have changed the name, but it's on the windows," explains landlady Linda Grogan, happily). And fans have come f
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Do you know...? Do you know...? 1. Over which country did Pan Am flight 103 crash in December 88? 2. Who sang about his Prerogative in the 1980s? 3. Which all-girl group had 80s No 1s with Walk Like An Egyptian and Eternal Flame? 4. Which sitcom, premiered in 1988, featured Dr. Harry Weston? 5. The 1980 Olympics were boycotted because of the USSR's invasion of which country? 6. What kind of Boys had an 80s No 1 with West End Girls? 7. Anwar Sadat was President of which country when he died in 1981? 8. What kind of disaster claimed some 100,000 lives in Armenia in 1988? 9. Where in the Ukraine was there a nuclear explosion in 1986? 10. Which President of the Philippines was deposed in 1986? 11. The increasing scarcity of elephants and rhinos led to a 1989 ban on which substance? I'll post the answers on Friday..... shockhazard Over which country did Pan Am flight 103 crash in December 88? A: Scotland. Who sang about his Prerogative in the 1980s? A: Bobby Brown. Which all-girl group had 80s No 1s with Walk Like An Egyptian and Eternal Flame? A: Bangles. Which sitcom, premiered in 1988, featured Dr. Harry Weston? A: Empty Nest. The 1980 Olympics were boycotted because of the USSR's invasion of which country? A: Afghanistan. What kind of Boys had an 80s No 1 with West End Girls? A: Pet Shop Boys. Anwar Sadat was President of which country when he died in 1981? A: Egypt. What kind of disaster claimed some 100,000 lives in Armenia in 1988? A: Earthquake. Where in the Ukraine was there a nuclear explosion in 1986? A: Chernobyl. Which President of the Philippines was deposed in 1986? A: Marcos. The increasing scarcity of elephants and rhinos led to a 1989 ban on which substance? A: Ivory. Where ever you go, there you are.
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Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata | Science | The Guardian Mystery bird: black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata This gorgeous Chinese mystery bird got its genus name from a Greek legend Thursday 9 June 2011 19.10 EDT First published on Thursday 9 June 2011 19.10 EDT Share on Messenger Close Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata (protonym, Alcedo pileata), also known as the Miyako kingfisher, photographed at Hong Kong , Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Image: Marie Louise Ng , 9 October 2010 [ velociraptorize ]. Nikon D3S 500mm/F4 Question: This gorgeous Chinese mystery bird possesses several characters that unite all the members of this genus, and it possesses one character that sets it apart from its congeners. Can you name any of these characters? Response: This is a black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata, a species whose genus name was derived from a Greek myth about a woman named Alcyone. Daughter of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, she was married to Ceyx, the king of Thessaly. One day, news reached her that Ceyx had drowned at sea, so in despair, Alcyone threw herself into the sea to join him in his watery grave. But instead of drowning, the winds carried her to her spouse. Ovid transcribed this myth as follows: The Gods their shapes to winter-birds translate, But both obnoxious to their former fate. Their conjugal affection still is ty'd, And still the mournful race is multiply'd: They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd, Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest: A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind, Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind; Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease, And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. ~ Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book the Eleventh . It was thought that kingfishers were the birds described by this myth. Further, it was thought that kingfishers could calm the sea for the seven days before and seven days after the winter solstice so they could nest on the sea's surface. For this reason, "Halcyon days" refer to peace or calm. Kingfishers are all classified into the family Halcyonidae. The Halcyon kingfishers, or tree kingfishers, tend to be large birds with heavy bills. They are found in a variety of habitats, although woodlands are preferred by most species. (If you enjoyed that story about Alcyone, then you might be interested to know that the river kingfishers are placed into the genus Ceyx.) All kingfishers are "sit and wait" predators that pounce on their prey, which consists of small ground animals including large insects, rodents, snakes, and frogs, but some will also prey on fish. Contrary to mythology (and their name), most kingfisher species are not closely tied to water. However, black-capped kingfishers are different from their congeners because they occur in mangroves, where they mainly pounce on fish. You are invited to review all of the daily mystery birds by going to their dedicated graphic index page. If you have bird images, video or mp3 files that you'd like to share with a large and (mostly) appreciative international audience here at The Guardian, feel free to contact me to learn more. .
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Paul F. Zweifel Paul F. Zweifel PROGRAM NOTES FOR GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SHOW Opera Roanoke, April 26, 1998 This afternoon we are presenting excerpts from two of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular operettas, Patience and H.M.S. Pinafore. In the first of these, Patience, the village milkmaid, is loved by the poet Reginald Bunthorne, who is in turn loved by twenty lovesick maidens. The maidens are, however, loved by the members of the 35th Dragoon Guards, led by Col. Calverly. Eventually everybody finds a mate except for Bunthorne (which is rather strange since the subtitle of the operetta is Bunthornes's Bride). Patience actually contains more direct contemporary satire than any other of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Its target was the aesthetic movement which flourished in Britain between 1870 and the mid-1880's, and introduced the new religion of beauty as a reaction against the ugliness of the Victorian age. The principal male cast members are parodies of Victorian poets. Reginald Bunthorne, the Fleshly Poet, is a thinly-disguised portrait of Oscar Wilde, while it is believed that Archibald Grosvenor, the Idyllic Poet, represents Algernon Swineburne. Certainly, the aesthetic movement was more affected than most, and lent itself naturally to ridicule and satire. In 1878, Oscar Wilde, who personified more than any other person the excesses of aestheticism, arrived in London from Oxford, clutching his sacred lily, waxing enthusiastic about blue and white china and the paintings of the pre-Raphaelites and describing Henry Irving's legs as "distinctly precious." Shortly after, Wilde made a lecture tour of the United States, always walking to the podium dressed in aesthetic, velvety clothes and clutching a lily in his hand. This tour, of course, was promoted by Rupert D'Oyly Carte, the Gilbert and Sullivan impresario, as a promotion for the operetta's upcoming tour in the U.S. Gilbert's original sketch for Patience involved two curates (assistant pastors of the Church of England); this sketch actually was published as a Bab Ballad entitled "The Rival Curates." Being persuaded that this subject matter might be considered offensive by the Victorian public, Gilbert changed the protagonists to poets. A vestige of the original version remains in the first act finale, when Bunthorne proposes to raffle himself off "in aid of a deserving charity." Patience had its premiere on April 23, 1881, and was an instant success. Among the eight numbers which were encored that night were the lovely madrigal "I hear the soft note;" the duet "Prithee pretty maiden;" and other numbers which are on this afternoon's agenda. H.M.S. Pinafore or The Lass that Loved a Sailor has a plot more akin to that of the typical Italian Opera. The soprano, Josephine (Captain Corcoran's daughter) and the tenor, Ralph Rackstraw (a sailor on the Captain's ship) are in love and want to get married. Three baritones--the Captain, Sir Joseph (the Ruler of the Queens Navee) and the hideously ugly sailor Dick Deadeye--do their worst to prevent the match. But omnia vincit amor, with a little help from the bumboat woman, Little Buttercup. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth opera, and their first great success. It opened on May 25, 1878, and ran for a total of 571 performances. Early on in its run , it seemed that Pinafore might be a flop. But Sullivan conducted some of the music at the summer promenade concerts at the Royal Opera House, whereupon the public took to Pinafore's tuneful melodies and immediately started coming to hear it at the Opera Comique. The character of Sir Joseph Porter was drawn from W.H. Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty in Disraeli's government. Smith had been appointed to his Admiralty post with no previous naval experience whatsoever. Ever thereafter he was, to his great discomfiture, universally known as "Pinafore Smith." "When I was a lad" was even played by a Royal Marine band when Smith went down to launch a ship at Devonport, even though the Port Admiral had given strict orders that no music from Pinafore was to be perf
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. - Martin Luther King, Jr. at Lifehack Quotes Read more quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. × Customize & Share You can add your own message to the quote and share it with your friends! It's fast and easy.
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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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Smashwords – View book Subject: Describe your issue Have a question not already answered in the links at left or on our main FAQ page ? Ask it above. The Cross of Love By Barbara Cartland This book is no longer published. For other books by Barbara Cartland, view Barbara Cartland's Smashwords author profile page . It's possible you may find an newer edition of this book there. Alternatively, if you don't find an another version, the author profile page may provides links to the author's web site and social media. You could try contacting the author there and ask them to return the book to Smashwords. For other books published by M-y Books, view M-y Books's Smashwords publisher profile page . It's possible you may find an newer edition of this book there. Alternatively, if you don't find an another version, the publisher profile page may provides links to the publisher's web site and social media. You could try contacting the publisher there and ask them to return the book to Smashwords. FOR FASTER ANSWERS, CHECK THESE LINKS BEFORE YOU EMAIL US: Authors/Publishers
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The Moving Finger | Agatha Christie Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The book takes its name from verse 51 of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. The poem, in turn, refers to Belshazzar's feast as related in the Book of Daniel, where the expression the writing on the wall originated. Plot summary Edit Jerry and Joanna Burton, brother and sister from London society, take a country house in idyllic Lymstock so that Jerry can rest from injuries received in a wartime plane crash. They are just getting to know the town's strange cast of characters when an anonymous letter arrives, rudely accusing the two of being lovers, not siblings. They quickly discover that these letters have been recently circulating around town, indiscriminate and completely inaccurate. Things flare up when Mrs Symmington, the wife of the local solicitor, commits suicide upon receiving a letter stating that her second child was born out of wedlock. Her body is discovered with the letter, a glass containing potassium cyanide and a torn suicide note which reads "I can't go on". An inquest is held and the verdict of suicide is brought in. The police begin to search for the anonymous letter writer. The Burtons' maid, Partridge, receives a call from the Symmington's maidservant, Agnes, who seems distraught over something. Partridge asks Agnes over to tea the next afternoon, but Agnes never arrives, and her body is discovered in the under-stairs cupboard the next day by Mr Symmington's step-daughter, Megan. Scotland Yard sends an investigator, who comes to the conclusion that the letter-writer/murderer is a middle-aged woman who must be one of the prominent citizens of Lymstock. Progress is slow until the vicar's wife calls up an expert of her own, Miss Marple . Jerry Burton gives Miss Marple some vital clues by telling her of the contents of his dreams and his disconnected thoughts. There is a break in the case when the Symmingtons' beautiful young governess, Elsie Holland, receives an anonymous letter typed on the same typewriter, proven to have been used to create envelopes for all the previous letters. The village doctor's sister, Aimée Griffith, is arrested, since she was seen typing the letter and delivering it. SPOILER ALERT! DON'T READ AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS! On the way to London for a visit to his doctor, Jerry takes Megan along with him to London where he buys her some new clothes to make her look presentable. He begins to realize he has fallen in love with her. When they return to Lymstock, Jerry asks Megan to marry him, and she refuses. As a result, Jerry goes to Mr Symmington to ask for his permission and to inform him of her refusal. Symmington, who is eager to have Megan off his hands, tells Jerry he will speak with her. Later that evening, Megan goes to her step-father's office and tries to blackmail him by implying she has proof of his guilt in the murders. He coolly pays her off, but later, when she is asleep, he tries to murder her by putting her head in the gas oven. He is immediately stopped by Jerry and the police, who were lying in wait. It is revealed that Miss Marple wished to prove Mr Symmington's guilt and that Megan was brave enough to assist her. Symmington had written all the letters as a cover-up for killing his wife. He had used phrases from a similar incident, done by a school-girl, which fooled the police into thinking that a woman had been the letter-writer. Miss Marple notes that it could not have been a woman who wrote the letters because none of the accusations was true and a typical middle-aged woman in a village Lymstock would have known of real scandals, whereas a man, especially a professional man like Symmington, would be uninterested in gossip. He murdered his wife by the use of cyanide and then planted the letter and a fake suicide note to disguise the crime. He committed the murders because he wished to marry Elsie
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For which Rugby Union club does Owen Farrell play?
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In the spotlight - Owen Farrell - Rugby World TAGS: Rugby World Owen For Colleen Farrell there is such a thing as too much rugby. She obviously knew what she was letting herself in for when she married Andy Farrell, the former Great Britain rugby league star and eight-time England centre in the union code. But with son Owen now the bright young thing of English rugby, talk of the oval ball can become tiresome. “I still live at home so I talk to my dad a lot,” says Owen Farrell, 20. “We watch every game on TV, too, and my mum gets fed up with us constantly talking about rugby. She always comes to watch us play and loves it, but at times she wants to talk about something else.” Unfortunately for Colleen, family conversations look likely to be dominated by rugby for some time to come as Owen’s career continues to move to higher levels. When injuries saw a teenage Farrell parachuted into the Saracens No 10 shirt last year, little was expected, but he took to top-flight rugby like Pat Sharp to Bushtucker Trials in I’m A Celebrity… The goalkicking responsibility didn’t phase him and he excelled throughout the season, his boot providing 17 points in the 22-18 Aviva Premiership final win over Leicester. He has continued in much the same vein this season, even if he’s more often playing in the centre, with new signing Charlie Hodgson lining up at fly-half. Farrell insists that he doesn’t mind where he plays and is just enjoying the chance to learn from his more experienced team-mates. “I got an opportunity last season because of injury and I had to learn quickly,” he says. “Having great players around you and good coaches helps you through it. Wherever I fit in to contribute to the team, I’m concentrating on playing well. I’m still learning and looking at what I need to improve and work on. I learn from playing in the Premiership and I learn off the players around me too. “It’s great being involved in this team and playing with these players. I talk to players at the club like Charlie Hodgson, Brad Barritt and Neil de Kock about rugby all the time. It’s great to play inside and outside players like that. Charlie’s a fantastic player and he’s got a wealth of experience, so to tap into that is brilliant for me.” Farrell is a confident person and has no qualms about asking for advice, saying: “I’ve always been interested in asking questions.” He’s not quite so keen on answering questions about his prospective rise into the England team. The clamour for him to be included in his country’s RBS 6 Nations squad has been growing in recent months but the man himself won’t be drawn on the topic. Proud moment: Owen Farrell with dad Andy at Twickenham “I’m just going to try to keep getting better as a player and do my best to contribute to this Saracens team,” says Farrell. “I’m just going to focus on the match ahead and contributing to that. I’m going to keep working hard, keep improving as a player and playing for Saracens, and if anything comes from that it will be a bonus. “I’m the kind of person who likes to live in the now. I try to be the best I can be today and tomorrow I’ll be the best I can be then.” The best he is right now, with his combination of accurate goalkicking, fluid passing, strong running and hard tackling, is good enough to play for England. So while he is doing his upmost to avoid the hype, he seems destined to follow in his father’s footsteps sooner rather than later – and should, in fact, enjoy more success in the union code. Dad Andy made his rugby league debut for Great Britain aged 18 and was the youngest-ever captain of the side three years later, but he didn’t have the same flourishing career when he crossed codes as a player, though he has impressed as a coach for Saracens. If Farrell junior, who insists it’s not a problem working with his dad every day as it’s all he’s ever known in a professional rugby environment, does make the step up to Test level this season, he’s sure to approach it in the same cool and collected manner with which he deals with crucial kicks at goal. He often looks like the calmest pers
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The Most Capped XV Currently in World Rugby | In The Loose Contact Us The Most Capped XV Currently in World Rugby With Brian O’Driscoll set to become the most capped player in World rugby next weekend as he runs out in Dublin for his 140th cap. Below are the 14 men who would run out alongside him if we were to name a most capped side still playing in world rugby. 15 – Mils Muliaina – 100 Caps (New Zealand) With 165 test points to his name Muliaina has been a key component in one of the most successful rugby teams of all time. Although he has now fallen down the pecking order for the All Blacks he is now running out for double Super Rugby champions the Chiefs. 14 – Mirco Bergamasco – 89 Caps (Italy) With his brother Mauro not even making this side despite his 98 caps for Italy, Mirco still has plenty of time to add to his current 89 caps for Italy. Despite not being the biggest of players in the current age of giants in rugby, Mirco Bergamasco has been a resilient servant for his national side. 13 – Brian O’Driscoll – 139 Caps (Ireland) O’Driscoll is set to become the most capped rugby player of all time next weekend when he steps out at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin for Ireland. The epitome of the modern centre, O’Driscoll has been a constant in the Ireland side over the last 15 years, and although he may have lost a yard of pace, he has more than compensated with other areas of his game. 12 – Jean de Villiers – 96 Caps (South Africa) The only back to captain a side currently in the top 7 of the IRB World Ranking’s, de Villiers has been the cornerstone of the current Springbok side as a raft of young players have been brought in around him. 11 – Bryan Habana – 95 Caps (South Africa) The Springbok flyer may now be plying his trade in France at club level but at just 30 years of age there is still plenty of time for Habana to reach and surpass a century of caps. The most capped winger of all time is David Campese with 101 so it’s easy to see Habana surpassing that number very soon. 10 – Dan Carter – 100 Caps (New Zealand) The model professional, Dan Carter has established himself at the premier fly-half in World Rugby. Although injuries have limited his appearances for both club and country in recent years, at just 31 he still has plenty of time to build his record of most test points. 9 – Peter Stringer – 98 Caps (Ireland) At 36 most players would be hanging up their boots and looking for a cushy job in the commentary box, not Peter Stringer though. He is still going incredibly well at Bath this year and looks like he could have years in him yet. 1 – Tony Woodcock – 107 Caps (New Zealand) The All Black has been a monster in the scrum for New Zealand over the last 12 years and still has plenty to offer. It’s not easy earning so many caps in a side constantly producin top quality talent so Woodcock has achieved something pretty special. 2 – Keven Mealamu – 110 Caps (New Zealand) The All Blacks hooker may have had to rotate with Andrew Hore in the number 2 jersey over the years but this has no doubt added to his durability. An impressive 60 test points for the All Blacks highlights just one area of his game. 3 – Martin Castrogiovanni – 104 Caps (Italy) Castro as he has become known has been the cornerstone of an impressive Italian scrum for the last 12 years and at just 32 potentially has plenty more test caps in him. Italy are going to really struggle to replace him after he finally decides to hang up his boots. 4 – Victor Matfield – 110 Caps (South Africa) Matfield was part of a second row combination that helped to develop the modern partnership that we see in most international sides today. Despite having previously retired he is now back playing for the Bulls and will no doubt be hoping for a return to the international scene. 5 – Donncha O’Callaghan – 94 Caps (Ireland) Despite regular competition in the Irish second row, O’Callaghan has continued to be a major presence in the Irish boiler room and no doubt will be hoping to add to his tally of 94 caps. 6 – George Smith – 110 Caps (Australia) George Smith may have spent s
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How is Beethoven's 'Symphony Number 3 in E Flat Major', better known?
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 : NPR Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 Audio will be available later today. June 7, 200610:10 AM ET Hear an Interview with Conductor Christoph Eschenbach Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5456722/5456736" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> 'Sinfonia Eroica' Premiered April 1805 Published 1806 in Vienna Beethoven's Third Symphony is regarded as a turning point in musical history, and it marks the beginning of his career's second period. Beethoven's ideas for the "Eroica" began during his tumultuous "Heiligenstadt Testament" period, but he waited until May 1803 to focus his efforts. He originally titled the piece "Bonaparte" out of admiration for Napoleon, but when Napoleon declared himself emperor in 1804, Beethoven gave the piece its current name. It was dedicated instead to Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz, a patron, and it was at his palace that the "Eroica" was first performed in August 1804. The "Eroica" was long, technically challenging and aimed at more than entertainment — components that initially confused critics. After a few years, they began to see value beyond the aesthetic. Notes on Beethoven's Third Symphony June 7, 20062:39 PM ET Christopher H. Gibbs The "Eroica" Symphony represents a turning point not only in Beethoven's career, but also in the history of music, a stature shared by few other works, such as Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. The "Eroica" raises fascinating issues: the personal circumstances of its genesis at a crucial juncture in Beethoven's life; its relationship to the political events of the day, specifically to Napoleon; and the ways in which audiences of his time first received what many found to be a "horribly long" and "most difficult" piece of music. It is striking that early listeners and critics, those writing during the initial 10 years or so of the work's existence, did not talk about the issues most discussed today: the Symphony's relation to Beethoven's life or to Napoleon. They viewed the "Eroica" more as a bizarre but original composition, more sublime than beautiful. Its unprecedented length, technical challenges, and uncompromising aesthetic stance seemed to aim beyond entertainment, forcing Beethoven's contemporaries to rethink what a symphony should be and do. A Personal Turning Point: The Heiligenstadt Testament In 1801 Beethoven first began to divulge to close friends the deterioration in his hearing. The next summer, at the suggestion of his doctor, he moved to the suburb of Heiligenstadt to escape the heat and hassles of Vienna. It was there, in early fall 1802, that he penned the remarkable "Heiligenstadt Testament," addressed to his brothers, in which he poured out his heart: O you men who think or say that I am hostile, peevish, or misanthropic, how greatly you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause that makes me seem so to you. From childhood on, my heart and soul were full of tender feelings of goodwill, and I was always inclined to accomplish great deeds. But just think, for six years now I have had an incurable condition, made worse by incompetent doctors, from year to year deceived with hopes of getting better, finally forced to face the prospect of a lasting infirmity (whose cure will perhaps take years or even be impossible). Beethoven could not bear the indignity of asking people to "speak louder, shout, for I am deaf," and felt he must retreat from society. He even contemplated suicide: "A little more and I would have ended my life. Only my art held me back. It seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt was within me." The Heiligenstadt Testament has exerted a tremendous influence on posterity's view of Beethoven. (It quickly became well known, published within months of his death in
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Some Great Symphonies You Should Know - The Horn The Horn Religious Music(Choral) Some Great Symphonies You Should Know The symphony is a musical form of enormous diversity. Composers started writing them frequently around the middle of the 18th century, and have continued to produce them to the present day. The term comes from the Greek meaning "To sound together", and long ago, what we now call tge overtures to operas were "Sinfonias ". A typical opera overture of nearly 300 years ago would start with an orchestral introduction, typicall in three parts, fast, slow and fast. Then composewrs started writing music like this as independent music to be heard at concerts. Thus the symphony as we know it was born. To this day, overtures to a variety of operas, such as those of Wagner and Verdi (19th century) are often heard as openers to concerts. The first great symphonies were written by Haydn and Mozart, circa the last half of the 18th century. Haydn wrote 104 of them in his long career ! There are 41 numbered ones by Mozart, and several ones which are not numbered. Beethoven revolutionized the symphony, writing ones of unprecendented length and complexity, culminating with the monumental 9th, with its famous "Ode to Joy " with chorus and four vocal soloists. A symphony can last under fifteen minutes, and the great Austrian composer Gustav Mahler who wrote nine, with an unfinished tenth, wrote symphonies that last from about an hour to 90 minutes, also using voices in four of them. Try the famous "Unfin ished "symphony, no 8, by Franz Scubert, (1797- 1828 ). Schubert completed only two of the usual four movememts. No one knows why, but there has been a great deal of speculation. We will probably never know. But it's a great piece. Then try his 9th and last symphony, known as the"Great", to distinguish it from an earlier symphony he wrote in the same key which is much shorter. Then you might try two of the five symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn (1809- 1847 ). The third is called the "Scottish", as it is an evocation of the composer's visit to that country, and is full of local color. The fourth, known as the "Italian", is also the result a a trip to that country, and ends with a lively Italian dance called the "Saltarello". Robert Scumann (1810- 1856 ), wrote four beautiful ones, the first called the "Spring" symphony, an evocation of that pleasant season, and the third called the Rhenish", based upon Schumann's stay in the German Rhineland. Johannes Brahms, (1833- 1897 ), wrote four gorgeous symph onies that are staples of the repertoire. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky of Russia wrote six. Only the last three are played often for some reason, but they are all worth hearing. They are very Russian, chock full of great melodies and very intense. The Frenchman Camille Saint- Saens (1835 - 1921 ), wrote five, but only the numbered third is played with any frequency. It is a spectacular work called the"Organ " symphony, as it features a prominent part for that instrument, which is very unusual. The Czech Antonin Dvorak (1841- 1904 ), wrote nine, but only the last three are performed very often, although you can occaisionally hear the earlier ones at a concert. All are delightful and very Czech, with marvelous tunes. The most famous is the 9th, called"From the New World", as it was written during the three years the composer spent in America. Dvorak became very interested in the music of African-Americans, including spiritua
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Antananarivo, capital city of Madagascar All... Antananarivo, capital city of Madagascar Nearly every corner of Antananarivo seems to bustle with activity. Motorcycles whiz down the crowded streets, slicing through a sea of bodies and cars, stalls sell fruit, flowers, bamboo, cell phones and even live animals on the sides of thoroughfares and locals gather in green spaces to share the day's gossip and host impromptu music sessions. The Madagascan capital is one of the most lively in all of Africa, and visitors are treated with rich historical, architectural and cultural sites all over the hillside city. Manjakamiadana Palace is the city's crowning glory. From its perch on top of Antananarivo hill, the palace provides some of the best panoramic views of the capital and is definitely worth the hike. The complex once housed Madagascar's ruling families, but the interior was largely destroyed by a fire in 1995, shortly after becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site. Reconstruction is underway, but in the meantime, visitors can still view the exteriors of the stone buildings. The palace tops the city's upper boroughs, known for their historic buildings and luxury residences. The Andohalo neighborhood is especially delightful for exploring on foot. Wander along the narrow streets boarded by lush flower-beds and leafy trees until you reach the square, dominated by the country's oldest school and largest Catholic church. The House of Jean Laborde, the once-exiled Prime Minister, also borders the square. Built in 1862, the building is a stunning example of French colonial architecture and today houses the radio studios of the Alliance Francaise. The Prime Minister's Palace is just a short walk away. Built in 1872, the palace has since served as a court, military housing, the Academy of the Arts and the offices of both the president and prime minister. Today, it showcases a handful of artifacts that were rescued from the fire that destroyed the Manjakamiadana Palace. The nearby hilly district of Rova contains more of the capital's gems, including the Temple of Ampahamarinana, a memorial to the Christian martyrs killed there in 1849, the mid-19th century Temple of Ambohipotsy and the Ambohimanga Anglican Church. The downtown district is the heart of Antananarivo, and the Avenue de l'IndÈpendance is its main artery. The shopping mile is framed by charming 1930's buildings that now house a variety of eclectic boutiques and shops. The new City Hall stands in the middle, flanked by gardens, fountains and sculptures dedicated to Madagascar's leaders and heroes. Madagascar is known for its pristine nature, and visitors to the capital can get a taste of it at Tsimbazaza Park. Located on the hilly southwest corner of the city, the park is home to some of the country's greatest cultural and natural treasures. The Museum of Paleontology has an extraordinary collection of Malagasy butterflies, dinosaur fossils and skeletons that date back to the quaternary period, and the Museum of Ethnology introduces visitors to local life and history through everyday objects like traditional amulets, stone mortars, protective spell beads, tools and other artifacts. The park also contains an arboretum and a zoo that houses a variety of reptiles, birds and lemurs. Antananarivo Geographical Location Antananarivo is the largest city of the island Madagascar. It is located slightly east of Madagascar’s center. The population of Antananarivo is approximately 1,404,000. Antananarivo Language The official languages of Madagascar are Malagasy and French. English is still not widely spoken across the population. Antananarivo Predominant Religion 41% Christian 7% Muslim The population is mainly divided between those who practice the traditional religion of ancestor worship and those who practice Christianity. Antananarivo Currency The Malagasy Ariary is the official currency of Madagascar. Antananarivo Climate Due to Antananarivo’s high altitude it enjoys a comparatively mild climate although the average temperature still falls between 27-35C (81-95F) throughout the yea
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Geo Chp 6/7 at Kean University - StudyBlue StudyBlue Africa is one of only two continents containing a cluster of e Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift? b disease that spreads worldwide is known as a c The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is c West africa showed a high degree of regional complementarity between E Before independence the modern state of The congo was a colony of D Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence C Not a british colony prior to its independence D The last country to give up its African colonies was E Following countries not located in Southern Africa B The great river of Africa is the A A unique aspect of Madagascar is that B People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called B The Boer War took place B South Africa contains significant untapped petroleum reserves False The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by B Home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites have been expelled by govt backed squatters seeking their land C The now independent politial entity that once was a German colony was names South West Africa is known as A following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa? C The capital of The Congo is D The largest city in terms of population in Sub-Saharan Africa B The two groups who fought one another in the Rwandan civil war are the: D The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is D The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is: B following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa? A Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa? A Nigeria's old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people known as the B The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is A The first West African state to gain its independence, formerly called the Gold Coast, is: A This West African country borders Liberia, is a former French colony, and built a Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro to rival St. Peter's in Rome: A of the following countries was established by former American slaves E A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a _____ market D Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone? C Which of the following countries is not located in The African Transition Zone E Most countries in the African Transition Zone have a _____ population in the north and a _____ population in the south B Which of the following does not lie within the presently delimited country of Somalia: D Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa E This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab el Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea E of the following is not included in the North Africa/Southwest Asia realm A North Africa/Southwest Asia is referred to the following except E _____ is the name for the land between the rivers. B 4) Hydraulic civilization theory holds that B Which of the following is not an Old World culture hearth? D Which area was least influenced by the spread of Islam C What is the difference between expansion diffusion and relocation diffusion A Shi'ite Muslims constitute the great majority of the population of: E The dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia is: B The empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I was the A Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer E The North Africa/Southwest Asia realm contains about _____ percent of the world's oil reserves. D Egypt's largest city, Cairo, is located on the shore of Lake Nasser in Upper Egypt incorrect D The city of _____ is located at the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile, and serves as the capital of _____. A The Aswan High Dam is located on the: B Egypt's peasant farmers are known as the B Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta B The upstream country that could control the flow of th
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‘Martes’ is Spanish for which day of the week?
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Grammar Grammar Google Ads block to desktop version (300×600) Days of the Week The written lesson is below. Links to quizzes, tests, etc. are to the left. In Spanish-speaking countries, the week begins on Monday. lunes Notice that the days of the week are not capitalized. lunes The days of the week are all masculine. el lunes el sábado el domingo When used with the days of the week, the definite article has the special meaning “on.” No trabajo el lunes. I don’t work on Monday. No trabajo los martes. I don’t work on Tuesdays. Hay una fiesta el miércoles. There is a party on Wednesday. Hay muchas fiestas los viernes. There are many parties on Fridays. Days of the week ending in -s do not change form in the plural. Only the article changes. el lunes el domingo los domingos Use the verb ser to express the day. You will soon learn more about this verb. For now, simply realize that the word “es” is a conjugation of that verb, and is the correct verb in this use. ¿Qué día es hoy? Mañana es martes. Tomorrow is Tuesday. Notice that the following actions do not occur in the present, but rather in the near future. Salimos el lunes. Mañana es domingo. Tomorrow is Sunday. In Spanish, the present tense of the indicative is sometimes used to express the near future. English does this too. Salimos el lunes.
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1. What is the name of the hit show based on the songs of Abba? - Liverpool Echo News 1. What is the name of the hit show based on the songs of Abba? 2. Which “G” is the name of the Italian astronomer who improved the telescope so much as to discover that there were craters on the moon? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. Which “G” is the name of the Italian astronomer who improved the telescope so much as to discover that there were craters on the moon? 3. For which series of films were the actors Kenneth Williams and Sid James best known? 4. What is the name given to the largest bee in a hive? 5. Which alternative word for the Devil is a Hebrew word with translates as “Lord Of The Flies”? 6. On which TV island might you have found actor Ricardo Montalban? 7. Mozart’s opera, which was a continuation of The Barber Of Seville, was called The Marriage Of . . . who? 8. What is the nearest planet to the Sun? 9. What was the name of the road sweeper played by Roger Lloyd-Pack in Only Fools And Horses? 10. What connects the answers above? 11. What was the nickname of the first Spice Girl to go solo? 12. Which of the following events did Carl Lewis not win a gold medal for at the 1984 Olympics? Long Jump, 400m or 100m relay? 13. Which two actors were nominated for best actor awards at the Oscars in 1991, both for playing wheelchair-bound characters? 14. How is Eldrick Woods better known? 15. Who did Iain Duncan Smith beat in September, 2001, to become the leader of the Conservative Party? 16. Who was the main villain in the cartoon Wacky Races? 17. When the band Hear‘say formed, who was the oldest member at 24? 18. What is the name of the third book of the Bible? 19. What was advertised with Eva Herzagovia using the slogan “hello boys”? 20. Which model gave birth to her daughter, Lola, in September, 2002? 21. “All children, except one, grow up” is the opening line from which famous story? 22. How are Fizz, Milo, Jake and Bella better known collectively? 23. What number on the Beaufort Scale represents a hurricane? 24. In which film did Jodie Foster play a character called Tallulah? 25. What is pathophobia the fear of? 26. What was the title of the TV show Bonanza changed to? 27. What mountain range is the natural habitat of the llama? 28. What nationality was scientist Marie Curie? 29. Who played the title role in the TV series Worzel Gummidge? 30. Which toy was originally called the Pluto Platter when it was first introduced in 1957? 1. Mama Mia; 2. Galileo; 3. Carry On; 4. Queen; 5. Beelzebub; 6. Fantasy; 7. Figaro; 8. Mercury; 9. Trigger; 10. The song Bohemian Rhapsody; 11. Ginger Spice; 12. 400m; 13. Tom Cruise (for Born On The Fourth Of July) and Daniel Day-Lewis (for My Left Foot); 14. Tiger Woods; 15. Ken Clarke; 16. Dick Dastardly; 17. Kym Marsh; 18. Leviticus; 19. The Wonderbra; 20. Kate Moss; 21. Peter Pan; 22. The Tweenies; 23. 12; 24. Bugsy Malone; 25. Illness; 26. Ponderosa; 27. Andes; 28. Polish; 29. Jon Pertwee; 30. Frisbee Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent
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"Who formed the band called ""The Tin Machine"", that ran from 1988 to 1992, primarily to play for the ""Glass Spider"" world tour?"
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Tin Machine | MúsicaDigital.com Tin Machine rock hard rock alternative alternative rock david bowie Tin Machine was a hard rock band formed in 1988, famous for being fronted by singer David Bowie. The group recorded two studio albums and a live album before dissolving in 1992, when Bowie returned to his solo career. The group was generally reviled, often receiving scathing critical reviews. David Bowie’s Never Let Me Down album (already a move into slightly "harder" rock territory) and subsequent "Glass Spider Tour" had been savaged by critics, and the singer was aware of his low stock. Eager to return to making music for himself rather than the mainstream audience he had acquired following the Let's Dance album, Bowie began collaborating with Reeves Gabrels (who pushed the singer to rediscover his experimental side and went on to work closely with Bowie for much of the next decade) and multi-instrumentalist Erdal Kizilcay on new material in 1988. The first fruits of this came with a new version of Bowie’s 1979 song "Look Back in Anger", performed at the "Intruders At The Palace" benefit concert on 1 July 1988. They then began to plan a concept album based on Steven Berkoff's play East as a Bowie solo album, but this idea was scrapped. Bowie and Gabrels began working with producer Tim Palmer on new material. Bowie then recruited brothers Hunt Sales and Tony Sales (the sons of comedian Soupy Sales) as a rhythm section. Bowie had worked with them on Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life album and ran into them at a party in Los Angeles around this time. The Sales brothers moved the tone of the sessions in Nassau away from art-rock and more towards hard rock, and Bowie looked to one of his favorite bands at the time, Pixies, for inspiration. The Sales brothers heckled Bowie into greater spontaneity, with most songs recorded in one take, and lyrics left unpolished, thus giving the band a ragged, punk rock edge similar to the Pixies. The group chose the name Tin Machine after one of the songs they had written (Gabrels would later credit the Sales brothers with this choice). The group set up allowed Bowie a certain level of anonymity, much needed after his 1980s overexposure, and he was happy to let the rest of the band (notably Hunt Sales) take the lead in interviews. The band’s self-titled first album (Tin Machine) produced mixed but generally positive reviews on release in May 1989, picking up favorable comparisons with Bowie’s three more recent solo albums. However, many critics were scornful of Bowie’s latest attempt to reinvent himself as a bearded band-member. Commercially, the album initially sold well, reaching #3 in the UK charts, but sales quickly tailed off. The band undertook a low-key tour in small venues between 14 June and 3 July 1989, before further recording sessions in Sydney, Australia. During these sessions Tin Machine contributed to a surfing compilation album called Beyond the Beach, with a new instrumental song titled "Needles on the Beach. The group then went on hiatus while Bowie conducted his solo "Sound+Vision Tour." In December 1990, Bowie split from EMI. Both parties stated that the split was amicable, although it is believed EMI refused to release another Tin Machine album in an exasperated attempt to secure another album similar to Let's Dance. In March 1991, the group signed to Victory Music, a new label launched by JVC and distributed worldwide by London Records and Polygram, and recorded more new material. This was combined with tracks from the Sydney sessions to form Tin Machine II album. This time the commercial success was even more fleeting, and Bowie was already tired of being shackled to a group set-up. From 5 October 1991 to 17 February 1992, the group undertook a larger tour, known as the "It's My Life Tour". The band was joined on this tour by guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, who would go on to play with Bowie's friend Iggy Pop. Tracks from this tour were released on the July 1992 album Tin Machine Live - Oy Vey, Baby. Shortly afterwards, Bowie returned to solo recording with his single “Real
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A Decade in the Life of Thompson Twins A Decade in the Life of Thompson Twins Joe Leeway, Alannah Currie, Tom Bailey (1983) In 1977, aspiring classical pianist Tom Bailey (b. 6.18.57, Halifax, Yorkshire), joined forces with guitarists Peter Dodd and John Roog and drummer Chris Bell to form a band called Thompson Twins (after a pair of identical detectives in the cartoon Tin Tin.) Moving to London in 1978, the quartet diligently played the club scene for two years. By the time the 1980s rolled around, they were ready to take their shot at the singles charts. In time, percussionists Joe Leeway (b. 11.15.57, London) and Alannah Currie (b. 9.20.59, Auckland, New Zealand) would join Bailey, while Dodd, Roog and Bell would leave the band. When, in the mid-Eighties, the Thompson Twins became an international success it consisted of the trio of Bailey, Currie and Leeway. The band, according to Currie, strove to "make something completely different . . . using technology." At the time, many purists scoffed at the nation that "good" music could be made with machines. The Thompson Twins proved the skeptics wrong -- and became the leading purveyors of synth-pop. They were innovative, mixing dance, pop, reggae and dance elements with experimental sounds to produce a string of distinctive hit singles that were not only commercially successful but were also critically acclaimed. Daring to be different not only in their music but also in appearance, they became heroes to disaffected youth in the process. May 1980 Thompson Twin's first single, "Squares And Triangles" is released on its own independent label (Dirty Discs). November 1980 Independent label Latent releases "She's In Love With Mystery," which tops UK independent chart. Tom Bailey begins dating Alannah Currie. February 1981 The band signs with Arista Records in the UK. June 1981 The band's debut album, A Product Of..., is recorded. March 1982 Set climbs to UK#48, while the single "In The Name Of Love" soars to #1 on the US dance chart. The album is released as In The Name Of Love in the US, and stalls at US#148. April 1982 Bell, Dodd, Roog and bassist Matthew Seligman are fired, leaving the Thompson Twins consisting of the trio of Bailey, Currie and former roadie Joe Leeway. October 1982 "Lies" peaks at UK#67, and will reach US#30 in March of the following year; supported by Tears for Fears, the band embarks on an extensive UK tour. January 1983 "Love On Your Side" makes it to UK#9. In a few months it will climb to #45 on the US singles chart. March 1983 Quick Step & Side Kick peaks at UK#2. Released as Side Kicks in the US, it will spend 25 weeks on the album chart, reaching the #34 spot. April 1983 Currie's vocals are featured for the first time on the single "We Are Detective," which hits UK#7. November 1983 "Hold Me Now" climbs to UK#4. Six months later, it peaks at US #3. February 1984 "Doctor Doctor" soars to UK#3. Into The Gap hits the top spot on the UK album chart and stay there for three weeks; it will spend over a year on the US chart, peaking at #10. In October it will be certified platinum by the RIAA. March 1984 "You Take Me Up" makes it to UK#2. It will stall at US#44 in October. July 1984 As the band begins a world tour, "Doctor Doctor" reaches US#11. November 1984 "Lay Your Hands On Me" climbs to UK#13. It will take a year for the single to reach its #6 high mark on the US chart. March 1985 After two years of touring, and hard at work on a new album, Tom Bailey falls sick from exhaustion. American producer Niles Rodgers comes aboard to help finish the album. July 1985 With Bailey recovered, Thompson Twins performs with Madonna at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia. August 1985 The anti-drug song "Don't Mess With Doctor Dream" peaks at UK#15. September 1985 Here's To Future Days soars to UK#5. In November it will be certified gold by the RIAA. It's first single, "King For A Day," reaches UK#22. February 1986 Here's To Future Days climbs to US#20, while the single "King For A Day" will hit US#8 in March. September 1986 "Nothing In Common," title track
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Liturgical Year : Activities : Martinmas Traditions | Catholic Culture Martin of Tours; Veterans Day (USA) Seasons (0) St. Martin of Tours is another large harvest day, particularly tied in with the harvest of grapes in France. His feast is also known as "Martinmas." Recipes included is haggis and almond horseshoe cakes. DIRECTIONS Now that we have eaten fish for St. Peter and mutton for St. Bartholomew and pig for St. Michael, it might be well to finish with the other remaining fall harvest feasts. Three more days were set aside in November for completing the winter work of preparing provisions of meat and drink. Each day was placed under the care and patronage of a very masculine and saintly gentleman. St. Martin's Day on November 11 was celebrated from north to south and back again. Few saints have been so popular. He was patron of the world. From the ice-bound coves of north Scotland to the vine-covered slopes of south Sicily, St. Martin was beloved by all. First he was patron of vine-growers, vintners and tavern-keepers, so his day was the day of wine harvest. If you have ever made wine and watched the beautiful purple juice turn to milky ferment, you wonder if it would not have been wiser to just make grape juice. Slowly the rising bubbles and the falling dregs clarify the keg. But you must wait until St. Martin's day to taste your new wine. St. Martin had shared his cloak with a drunkard and thus recognized Christ in one of "these least" ones. In remembrance of his charity, share your new wine with your neighbors and have a holiday; but remember this and every day is the day to "taste" the new wine, not to "guzzle" it. Since St. Martin was generous to the beggar, this is also the feast day of beggars. For this reason, the children of Estonia beg goodies from door to door. Our American children would delight in the apples, cookies and nuts which the Estonian housewife gives her little beggars, but how many of our "finicky" young fry would rejoice in receiving a turnip? Yet this is the most-prized donation. When we read this story of a far-away land to our family, they were strangely silent. We who live in a climate blessed with warm days in the mid of winter have to stop to even imagine whole months of zero weather. Our roads are open and each one leads to a store or market where garden fresh vegetables seem to grow on the counters. Our cellars have a freezer—a miracle box, where fresh fruits and vegetables are frozen and yet not blackened. If turnips were your only winter vegetable, and a scarce one at that, you would be grateful to have a turnip in your beggar's sack. We noticed that Ann ate her "hated" sweet potatoes without a word on the following day. Mary cleaned her plate of customary scraps. We all said our thanksgiving after meals with more devotion. St. Martin's Day was, you remember, the feast after the great winter killing. All the special products of the slaughter were used as feast day specials. The large animals like oxen and cows were not killed until cold weather, so Martinmas was a great meat-eating time. There was once a legend that St. Martin was martyred by being cut up and eaten in the form of an ox. As a result, whole oxen were roasted for a community feast after every one had helped with the butchering. Cooperation and neighborliness was a necessity. As the old cantankerous farmer declared, "I can't afford to quarrel with my neighbors, I need them too often." One ox was often killed for St. Martin and the meat given to his poor. Pudding was the first dish which gathered the by-products of butchering and made of them a gourmet's delight. It fell about the Martinmas time, And a gay time it was then O That our gudewife had puddings to make, And she boiled them in the pan O. There were blood puddings and suet puddings and black puddings and white puddings. All sorts of meal was used as the base, from the simple oatmeal used in Scotland to a meal called Viljandikama in Estonia. This latter included as many as fifteen kinds of grain and dried vegetables ground together. I have a suspicion tha
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Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans Album Lyrics | LyricsHall Album lyrics Bruno Mars Release date: October 2010 Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Bruno Mars. It was released by Atlantic and Elektra Records on October 4, 2010. Mars' writing and production team The Smeezingtons were credited with writing all songs and serve as the album's executive producers. Doo-Wops & Hooligans debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and in the top ten in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Its title refers to doo-wop music and was chosen to reflect simplicity, as well as appeal to both males and females. The usage of a wide variety of influences was noted by critics, with musical comparisons made to Michael Jackson and Jason Mraz. Many praised the songs' catchy nature, as well as their carefree lyrics. Two digital singles—"Liquor Store Blues" featuring Damian Marley and "Grenade" —were released to promote the album. Lead single "Just the Way You Are" was released on July 19, 2010 and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks, going on to become an international top ten hit. "Grenade" was later announced as the second single, and has charted in the top twenty in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the US. A US headlining tour accompanies the album, which started in November 2010, and is planned to run through the end of the year. After the release of Mars' debut extended play, It's Better If You Don't Understand, the release of Doo-Wops & Hooligans was announced on August 25, 2010. Speaking to MTV News, Mars said the EP gave a "nice effect of what's in store" for the album. The album cover was officially released on August 30, 2010. The official track list was revealed by Atlantic Records on September 9, 2010. Three of the four songs from It's Better If You Don't Understand are included on the album. On the title of the album, Mars said, "I'm a big fan of doo-wop music. ... That's what you call your girl, your "doo-wop." ... On this album, I have records that women are going to relate to and men are going to relate to. So doo-wops are for the girls, and hooligans are for the guys." In addition, he told 4Music, "It explains the two sides of me. Doo-wop is a special form of music I grew up on. It's straight to the point, very simple. I have songs like that. ... I have that simple, romantic side of me but I'm also just a young, regular dude and that's like the hooligan side!" Doo-Wops & Hooligans saw its premiere on MySpace on September 24 and was released to digital retailers on October 4, then to stores on October 5, 2010. A deluxe edition was released that includes two more tracks: a remix of "Just the Way You Are" featuring Lupe Fiasco and "Somewhere in Brooklyn", originally from It's Better If You Don't Understand. The deluxe edition also includes the music videos of "Just the Way You Are" and "The Other Side". In the United States, Doo-Wops & Hooligans debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 for the week of October 13, 2010, selling 55,000 copies. The album debuted the same week on the Canadian Albums Chart at number six. The next week, the album dropped to number twelve in the U.S., with sales of 27,000. The album peaked at number five in New Zealand, number seven in Australia, number twenty-nine in Ireland, and number seventy-nine in the UK.
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Westminster Abbey is dedicated to which Saint?
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UK - London - Westminster: Westminster Abbey - North entra… | Flickr Wally Gobetz By: Wally Gobetz UK - London - Westminster: Westminster Abbey - North entrance The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral (and indeed often considered one). It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. Legend has it that a shrine was first founded in 616 on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island) after a fisherman on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter. In the 960s or early 970s Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar planted a community of Benedictine monks here. The stone Abbey was built around 1045–1050 by King Edward the Confessor, who had selected the site for his burial, and was consecrated on December 28, 1065, immediately before the Confessor's funeral. It was the site of the last Saxon coronation of his successor King Harold. The Abbot and learned monks, with close proximity to the Palace of Westminster became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings, but none were buried there until Henry III rebuilt it in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to honour Edward the Confessor and as setting for his own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The work continued between 1245-1517 and was largely finished by the architect Henry Yevele in the reign of King Richard II. Henry VII added a Perpendicular style chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary in 1503 (known as the Henry VII Chapel ). Henry VIII had assumed direct royal control in 1539 and granted the Abbey cathedral status by charter in 1540, simultaneously issuing letters patent establishing the diocese of Westminster and sparing it from dissolution. Westminster was a cathedral only until 1550. The expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul" may arise from this period when money meant for the Abbey, which was dedicated to St Peter, was diverted to the treasury of St Paul's Cathedral. The Abbey was restored to the Benedictines under the Catholic Queen Mary, but they were again ejected under Queen Elizabeth I in 1559. In 1579, Elizabeth re-established Westminster as a "Royal Peculiar" — a church responsible directly to the sovereign, rather than to a diocesan bishop — and made it the Collegiate Church of St Peter. It suffered damage during the turbulent 1640s, when it was attacked by Puritan iconoclasts, but was again protected by its close ties to the state during the Commonwealth period. The abbey's two western towers were built between 1722 and 1745 by Nicholas Hawksmoor, constructed from Portland stone to an early example of a Gothic Revival design. Further rebuilding and restoration occurred in the 19th century under Sir George Gilbert Scott. Until the 19th century, Westminster was the third seat of learning in England, after Oxford and Cambridge. It was here that the first third of the King James Bible Old Testament and the last half of the New Testament were translated. The New English Bible was also put together here in the 20th century. Since the coronations in 1066 of both King Harold and William the Conqueror, all English and British monarchs (except Lady Jane Grey, although it is highly debatable whether she was, either in theory or practice, the Queen of England; and Edward V and Edward VIII, who did not have coronations) have been crowned in the Abbey. St Edward's Chair, the throne on which British sovereigns are seated at the moment of coronation, is housed within the Abbey; from 1296 to 1996 the chair also housed the Stone of Scone upon which the kings of Scotland are crowned, but pending another coronation the Stone is now kept in Scotland. According to H.V. Morton's "In Search of London," a ghostly monk is said to appear in the Abbey on the eve of a coronation. The book states that the monk was last seen prior to the coronation of George VI in 1937. (The book was published in 1951; it is unknown if the mon
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Macclesfield Pub Quiz League: 12th February–the questions Macclesfield Pub Quiz League SET BY THE LAMB SHANKS Vetted by the Plough Horntails and Ox-Fford ART AND LITERATURE 1 Which poet versified about a “dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smokestack” in the poem Cargoes? (John Masefield) 2 Which modern Poet Laureate was commemorated with a memorial stone in Westminster Abbey in December 2011? (Ted Hughes) 3 Octarine (the colour of magic) is the eighth colour of the spectrum on which world? (The Discworld – as written about by Terry Pratchett) 4 Who (or what) complained “Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't”? (Marvin, the paranoid android, in Douglas Adam’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) 5 What musical instrument of the woodwind family is an aerophone , or reedless wind instrument producing its sound from the flow of air across an opening? (Flute, or piccolo) 6 Who sculpted the version of the Three Graces statue commissioned by John Russell, the 6th Duke of Bedford that is now on display alternately in the National Gallery of Scotland and the Victoria and Albert Museum? (Antonio Canova) 7 Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are two of the main works of which poet? (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 8 Pablo Picasso created which painting in response to the bombing of a Basque town by warplanes from Germany and Italy in 1937. What is the name of the painting? (Guernica) 9 Who are the Samuel Becket characters Vladimir and Estragon waiting for? (Godot – in the play waiting for Godot) 10 The ‘trio’ to March No. 1 in D of the Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches is better known as the music to which song? (Land of Hope and Glory) ‘ELF N’SAFETY (Most questions are taken from the health and safety test labourers on a construction site have to pass. They are mostly Health and Safety related, but the odd one does mention “Elf” as well) 1 Fire extinguishers can contain one of four substances – water, powder, foam and what? (Carbon dioxide – CO2 – accept also Halon or wet chemicals) 2 Which part of your body is most likely to be injured if you lift heavy loads? (Your back) 3 Name one of the two animals that carry Weil’s Disease, also known as Leptospirosis, in their urine? (Rats or Cows) 4 The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act is the primary piece of legislation regulating workplace health, safety and welfare within the United Kingdom. In which decade was it passed into law? (1970s - 1974 ) 5 What is sort of creature is Dobbie in the Harry Potter books and films? (A House Elf – full name required) 6 If someone is injured at work who should record it in the accident book? (The injured person or someone acting for them) 7 Which colour identifies the ‘live’ wire in a modern (new) 240 volt electricity supply? (Brown) 8 Which 1960s car (sister to the Wolseley Hornet) was also a ‘mini with a boot’? (Riley Elf - full make and model required) 9 How are legionella bacteria passed on to humans? (Through fine water droplets such as sprays or mists) 10 What is the early sign of noise damaging your hearing? (Temporary deafness) GEOGRAPHY 1 What is the name of the village near Dorchester, built at the instigation of Prince Charles as a response against “modernist” architectural design? (Poundbury) 2 Which member of the Commonwealth is formed of ten Provinces and three Territories? (Canada) 3 In which range of Irish mountains does the River Liffey rise? (Wicklow Mountains) 4 What is the capital of Burkina Faso? (Ouagadougou) 5 In which English county is most of the Forest of Dean? (Gloucestershire) 6 What colour is a Geography pie in Trivial Pursuits? (Blue) 7 Cape York is the northernmost point of which Commonwealth country? (Australia) 8 Which African country was called Nyasaland until 1964? (Malawi) 9 What country is Budejowice in (pronounced boo day yo vit ze)? (The Czech Republic – it is also known as Budweis) 10 The River Hafren flows out of Wales near Crew Green in Shropshire. What is it called in English? (River Severn) HISTORY 1 What
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What word can mean a colour, or a type of rocket?
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Color | Define Color at Dictionary.com color noun 1. the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue. 2. the natural appearance of the skin, especially of the face; complexion: She has a lovely color. 3. The wind and sun had given color to the sailor's face. 4. His remarks brought the color to her face. 5. vivid or distinctive quality, as of a literary work: Melville's description of a whaling voyage is full of color. 6. details in description, customs, speech, habits, etc., of a place or period: The novel takes place in New Orleans and contains much local color. 7. something that is used for coloring; pigment; paint; tint; dye. 8. background information, as anecdotes about players or competitors or analyses of plays, strategy, or performance, given by a sportscaster to heighten interest in a sportscast. 9. colors. any distinctive color or combination or pattern of colors, especially of a badge, ribbon, uniform, or the like, worn or displayed as a symbol of or to identify allegiance to, membership in, or sponsorship by a school, group, or organization. nature, viewpoint, or attitude; character; personality: His behavior in a crisis revealed his true colors. a flag, ensign, etc., particularly the national flag. U.S. Navy. the ceremony of hoisting the national flag at 8 a.m. and of lowering it at sunset. 10. skin complexion of a particular people or ethnic group, especially when other than white: a person of color; people of color; a man of color; alumni of color; children of color. 11. outward appearance or aspect; guise or show: It was a lie, but it had the color of the truth. 12. She did it under the color of doing a good deed. 13. Painting. the general use or effect of the pigments in a picture. 14. to give or apply color to; tinge; paint; dye: She colored her hair dark red. 23. to cause to appear different from the reality: In order to influence the jury, he colored his account of what had happened. 24. to give a special character or distinguishing quality to: His personal feelings color his writing. verb (used without object) to take on or change color: The ocean colored at dawn. 26. He colored when confronted with the incriminating evidence. Idioms call to the colors, to summon for service in the armed forces: Thousands are being called to the colors. 28. to blush as from embarrassment. to turn pale, as from fear: When he saw the size of his opponent, he changed color. 29.
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Planetary Names: Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) Planetary Names: Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers Home Named Mercurius by the Romans because it appears to move so swiftly. Discoverer Venus Roman name for the goddess of love. This planet was considered to be the brightest and most beautiful planet or star in the heavens. Other civilizations have named it for their god or goddess of love/war. Discoverer Earth The name Earth comes from the Indo-European base 'er,'which produced the Germanic noun 'ertho,' and ultimately German 'erde,' Dutch 'aarde,' Scandinavian 'jord,' and English 'earth.' Related forms include Greek 'eraze,' meaning 'on the ground,' and Welsh 'erw,' meaning 'a piece of land.' Earth I (Moon) Every civilization has had a name for the satellite of Earth that is known, in English, as the Moon. The Moon is known as Luna in Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as Lune in French, as Mond in German, and as Selene in Greek. Martian System The names of the moons of Mars and the English translations of the names were specifically proposed by their discoverer, Asaph Hall, and as such, they have been accepted and retained under the current IAU nomenclature. Body Discoverer Mars Named by the Romans for their god of war because of its red, bloodlike color. Other civilizations also named this planet from this attribute; for example, the Egyptians named it "Her Desher," meaning "the red one." Mars I (Phobos) Inner satellite of Mars. Named for one of the horses that drew Mars' chariot; also called an "attendant" or "son" of Mars, according to chapter 15, line 119 of Homer's "Iliad." This Greek word means "flight." August 17, 1877 A. Hall Mars II (Deimos) This outer Martian satellite was named for one of the horses that drew Mars' chariot; also called an "attendant" or "son" of Mars, according to chapter 15, line 119 of Homer's "Iliad." Deimos means "fear" in Greek. August 11, 1877 Selected Asteroids (of the Main Belt) and their Satellites Body Named for the Greek god of love. August 13, 1898 Named for a resort on the Crimean Peninsula. July 30, 1916 G. Neujmin (243) Ida Named for a nymph who raised the infant Zeus. Ida is also the name of a mountain on the island of Crete, the location of the cave where Zeus was reared. September 29, 1884 J. Palisa (243) Ida I (Dactyl) Named for a group of mythological beings who lived on Mount Ida, where the infant Zeus was hidden and raised (according to some accounts) by the nymph Ida. August 28, 1993 Galileo imaging and infrared science teams. (253) Mathilde The name was suggested by a staff member of the Paris Observatory who first computed an orbit for Mathilde. The name is thought to honor the wife of the vice director of the Paris Observatory at that time. November 12, 1885 J. Palisa (22) Kalliope I (Linus) Satellite of (22) Kalliope. In various accounts of Greek mythology, Linus is considered to be the son of the Muse Kalliope and the inventor of melody and rhythm. August 29 and September 2, 2001 Mauna Kea J.-L. Margot, M.E. Brown, W.J. Merline, F. Menard, L. Close, C. Dumas, C.R. Chapman, and D.C. Slater (45) Eugenia I (Petit-Prince) Satellite of (45) Eugenia. The Little Prince, Napolean-Eugene-Louis-Jean-Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879), was the son of Eugenia de Montijo de Guzm\\'an and Napoleon III. November 1, 1998 Mauna Kea W.J. Merline, L. Close, C. Dumas, C.R. Chapman, F. Roddier, F. Menard, D.C. Slater, G. Duvert, C. Shelton, and T. Morgan Jovian System Satellites in the Jovian system are named for Zeus/Jupiter's lovers and descendants. Names of outer satellites with a prograde orbit generally end with the letter "a" (although an "o" ending has been reserved for some unusual cases), and names of satellites with a retrograde orbit end with an "e." Body Discoverer Jupiter The largest and most massive of the planets was named Zeus by the Greeks and Jupiter by the Romans; he was the most important deity in both pantheons. Jupiter I (Io) Io, the daughter
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Che Guevara was among the revolutionaries who invaded which country with the intention of overthrowing its US-backed dictator in December 1956?
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Che Guevara, Freedom Fighter | WritersCafe.org | The Online Writing Community Che Guevara, Freedom Fighter A Story by The Archangel Gabriel Che Guevara, Freedom Fighter The Recent Addition of a Che Guevara Statue to Rosario, Argentina ANAGRAM EVIDENCE: Che Guevara, Freedom Fighter - 'I am the rugged, arch-foe fever.' While Ernesto "Che" Guevara remains the most famous export of this sleepy city, his legacy here (Rosario, Argentina) has long been a low-key one. Except for a handful of businesses named in his honor, few markers alert visitors that the revolutionary leader was born here exactly 80 years ago before becoming one of the most mythic figures of the 20th century. That changed Saturday when civic leaders inaugurated the first official monument honoring the revolutionary leader in Argentina , ending decades of government silence about the controversial figure. A 13-foot-high bronze statue unveiled before hundreds of cheering admirers depicts the beret-wearing Guevara standing defiantly while facing toward Santa Clara , Cuba , where another statue of Guevara faces toward Argentina . Much of Guevara's family, including three of his children, attended the ceremony along with other veterans of the Cuban Revolution who fought beside Guevara. http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080614/wl_mcclatchy/2966747 Recently, the small city of Rosario, Argentina had its tender South American slumber interrupted by the addition of a statue of the famous freedom fighter whose controversy originates from this destination. A city of roughly 1.2 million inhabitants, Rosario is the third most important city in Argentina. Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located 300 km (187 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 945,000 residents as of the 2005 census. It has been the third most important city in Argentina since the end of the 19th century because of the growing and important metropolitan area, a large urban department and for being the most important export centre in the country. It also retains the classical and ancient architecture in some residences, houses and public buildings. It is the third largest city in Argentina in terms of area and population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario Over the years, Che Guevara grew into the most famous and perhaps the most controversial figure to arise out of Rosario. Some people consider him to be a ruthless butcher, and some people believe that he was an inspirational revolutionary leader. The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Juan Menendez , a self-described Marxist-Leninist activist, said he came to Rosario Saturday to help "rescue" Guevara's legacy from over-commercialism and to remind people of what Guevara fought for. Menendez spoke while holding a giant red banner adorned with the famous image of Guevara created by photographer Alberto Korda. "We need to remember Guevara as a figure in the fight against injustice," the 18-year-old said. "People have emptied the content of Che and just used his image, and we're trying to revive his message." Teacher Mirtha del Valle , who was at the front of the crowd, said many Argentines have forgotten about Guevara, even as the rest of the world debates his legacy. She blamed a succession of military and center-right governments who she said had suppressed the history. "The governments have made sure that people don't know about Che," del Valle said. "In fact, we know less about him than anyone else in Latin America." http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080614/wl_mcclatchy/2966747 If you study guerilla warfare or the Cuban Marxist movement, you have almost certainly heard of Che. However, for those teenie-boppers born after his ascension to world fame, I am including a short tribute to his life, death, and eternal legacy. The Life of Che Guevara In 1948, Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. While still a student in 1951, Guevara took a year off from his medical studies to embark on a tri
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United States Relations with Russia: The Cold War United States Relations with Russia: The Cold War 1945-1949 1945-1946: Creation of Eastern European People's Republics Between November 1945 and December 1946, a number of the coalition governments established in the Eastern European countries occupied by Soviet troops during the war transformed into Communist "People's Republics" with strong ties to the Soviet Union. These included Yugoslavia (November 1945); Albania (January 1946); and Bulgaria (December 1946). The United States and Britain considered this an abrogation of agreements made at the Yalta Conference. February 1946: George Kennan's Long Telegram and the Policy of Containment On February 22, 1946, George F. Kennan, the Charg� d'Affaires at the Moscow Embassy, sent a long telegram to the Department of State detailing his concerns about Soviet expansionism. Kennan argued that the United States would never be able to cooperate successfully with the Soviets, because they saw the West as an enemy and would engage in a protracted battle to limit Western power and increase Soviet domination. Kennan argued that the United States should lead the West in "containing" the Soviets by exerting counterforce at various geographical and political points of conflict. Kennan published a public version of this argument in the July 1947 issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. Kennan's articulations of the policy of containment had a major influence on American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. March 1946: Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech During a speech at Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, visiting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill proclaimed that Europe was divided by an "Iron Curtain" as the nations of Eastern Europe fell increasingly under Soviet control. Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia all fell under Communist control by early 1948. Spring 1946: Soviet Troops in Iran Responding to Iranian requests to the United Nations, on March 5, 1946, the United States sent a note to Moscow protesting the retention of Soviet troops in Iran, where Stalin wanted to establish Soviet influence. On April 3, the Soviet Union announced that its troops would leave by May 6. March 1947: Truman Doctrine The Soviets aimed also to establish influence over Turkey and Greece in an effort to seek access to the Mediterranean. President Truman delivered a speech before Congress on March 12, 1947, asking for $400 million to provide assistance for Greece and Turkey in the hopes of bolstering pro-Western governments there. In this speech, he enunciated the Truman Doctrine that would serve to justify the U.S. Cold War policy of containment. This doctrine described the U.S. policy of supporting free peoples who resisted subjugation from armed minorities or outside pressures. June 1947: U.S. Efforts to Control Atomic Energy In June 1947, the United States submitted proposals, know as the Baruch Plan, for the creation of an International Atomic Energy Development Authority to control all phases of the development and use of atomic energy. The United States offered to destroy its atomic weapons after international control and inspection became effective. The Soviet Union rejected the proposal. June 5, 1947: Marshall's Offer of Economic Assistance In a speech given at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall offered U.S. assistance for the postwar economic rehabilitation of all European nations, including those that had adopted Communist governments. The Soviet Union denounced the Marshall Plan, saying it would infringe upon European sovereignty. Western European nations accepted Marshall's offer, while the Eastern European states followed Moscow's lead. 1948-1949: Berlin Airlift In the summer of 1948, the Soviet Union cut off access to the Western sectors of Berlin, situated in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. The Western powers organized a massive airlift to supply West Berlin, and organized a counter-blockade of the Soviet zone. On May 12, 1949, the Soviets lifted their blocka
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What did Hitler call his planned invasion of Britain?
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BBC - History - Hitler plans the invasion of Britain (pictures, video, facts & news) Hitler plans the invasion of Britain Hitler plans the invasion of Britain July 1940 After the invasion and defeat of France in June 1940, Hitler turned his attention to the invasion of Britain, the last country in Western Europe to stand against him. Photo: Hitler giving his 'Last Appeal to Reason' speech to the German Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, 19 July 1940. (akg-images/Ullstein Bild) Features in: Public reaction to the imminent invasion of Britain Public reaction to the imminent invasion of Britain Frank Scrivener and Bill Pertwee remember how England's southern coast became like a fortress in preparation for the anticipated German invasion. German scepticism about the planned invasion of Britain German naval officers describe their scepticism about the likely success of the planned invasion of Britain. History was part of Churchill's life A.J.P. Taylor describes how Churchill often turned to historical precedents. The credibility of Hitler's speeches Simon Sebag Montefiore explains why Hitler's speeches were so convincing. The historian Simon Sebag Montefiore assesses Hitler's oratorical skills and explains why his rhetoric could have convinced the German people he had 'good' intentions. Ed Murrow Describes the Dunkirk Evacuation Ed Murrow describes the evacuation of Dunkirk. Ed Murrow, the American broadcast journalist, describes the evacuation of Dunkirk, the effect on the British population, and preparations to defend against a German invasion. More information about: Hitler plans the invasion of Britain "Eliminate the English motherland" Following six weeks of fighting in May and June, France yielded to the Nazi invasion. After the French armistice was signed on 22 June, Britain was the only country resisting Germany. Hitler did not particularly wish to invade Britain; after the fall of France, he assumed the British would simply surrender. Hitler was therefore surprised when Britain did not surrender. On 16 July, he issued 'Directive Number 16'. This authorised detailed preparations for an invasion landing in Britain, codenamed Operation Sealion. It stated: "The aim of this operation is to eliminate the English motherland as a base from which war against Germany can be continued, and, if this should become unavoidable, to occupy it to the full extent". Defeat the RAF, then invade Initially, Directive 16 envisaged a landing along the southern coast of England, from Lyme Regis in Dorset to Ramsgate in Kent. The German navy would contain the Royal Navy in the North Sea and the Mediterranean, and would sweep the English Channel for mines. Most significantly, the German military leadership agreed that the Luftwaffe must defeat the RAF before the invasion could take place, so that it could not attack the German forces from the air as they were transported across the Channel. German forces planned to begin the air attack on 5 August. They set no specific date for the invasion, as it was dependent on the success of the air battle. However Hitler wanted all preparations to be completed by mid-August. As the Germans now controlled the entire coastline of the North Sea and France, the Luftwaffe were within easy striking distance of most of Britain. Hermann Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe, drew up plans to destroy RAF Fighter Command in just four days. Arrest political leaders, writers and journalists Other preparations for the invasion included locating all available sea and river craft in Germany and training troops in amphibious landings. The Nazis also set out how the occupying German authorities in Britain would be organised. Amongst other tasks they planned to arrest key people who could pose a threat to their regime. The SS’s "Black Book" contained a list of targets, including Churchill and other political leaders, and writers and journalists such as Noel Coward, H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster. Whilst the Germans savoured their victory over France and began detailing their preparations for the
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The last invasion of Britain by the French at Fishguard By Ben Johnson | Comments The annals of history record the name of Hastings as the site of the last invasion of mainland Britain by Norman forces in 1066 . True, this was the last successful invasion. However, little is reported about the French invasion of Fishguard, which took place in southwest Wales in 1797, nor of the brave resistance offered by Jemima Nicholas, also known as "Jemima Fawr" (Jemima the Great), who single-handedly captured twelve of the invading soldiers. In 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte was busy conquering in central Europe. In his absence the newly formed French revolutionary government, the Directory, appears to have devised a 'cunning plan' that involved the poor country folk of Britain rallying to the support of their French liberators. Obviously the Directory had recently taken delivery of some newly liberated Brandy! The French invasion force comprising some 1400 troops set sail from Camaret on February 18th, 1797. The man entrusted by the Directory to implement their 'cunning plan' was an Irish-American septuagenarian, Colonel William Tate. As Napoleon had apparently reserved the cream of the Republican army for duties elsewhere in Europe, Colonel Tate's force comprised a ragtag collection of soldiers including many newly released jailbirds. Tate's orders were to land near Bristol, England's second largest city and destroy it, then to cross over into Wales and march north onto Chester and Liverpool . From the outset however all did not proceed as detailed in the 'cunning plan'. Wind conditions made it impossible for the four French warships to land anywhere near Bristol, so Tate moved to 'cunning plan' B, and set a course for Cardigan Bay in southwest Wales. On Wednesday February 22nd, the French warships sailed into Fishguard Bay to be greeted by canon fire from the local fort. Unbeknown to the French, the cannon was being fired as an alarm to the local townsfolk. Nervously the ships withdrew and sailed on until they reached a small sandy beach near the village of Llanwnda. Men, arms and gunpowder were unloaded and by 2 am on the morning of Thursday February 23rd, the last invasion of Britain was completed. The ships returned to France with a special despatch being sent to the Directory in Paris informing them of the successful landing. Upon landing, the French invasion force appear to have run out of enthusiasm for the 'cunning plan'. Perhaps as a result of years of prison rations, they seem to have been more interested in the rich food and wine the locals had recently removed from a grounded Portuguese ship. After a looting spree, many of the invaders were too drunk to fight and within two days, the invasion had collapsed: Tate's force surrendered to a local militia force led by Lord Cawdor on February 25th 1797. Strange that the surrender agreement drawn up by Tate's officers referred to the British coming at them "with troops of the line to the number of several thousand." No such troops were anywhere near Fishguard, however hundreds, perhaps thousands of local Welsh women dressed in their traditional scarlet tunics and tall black felt hats had come to witness any fighting between the French and the local men of the militia. Is it possible that at a distance, and after a glass or two, those women could have been mistaken for British army Redcoats? During their two days on British soil the French soldiers must have shaken in their boots at mention of name of "Jemima Fawr" (Jemima the Great). The 47-year-old Jemima Nicholas was the wife of a Fishguard cobbler. When she heard of the invasion, she marched out to Llanwnda, pitchfork in hand, and rounded up twelve Frenchmen. She ‘persuaded’ them to accompany her back into town, where she locked them inside St Mary’s Church and promptly left to look for some more! Men of Harlech meet your match! Tweet If you enjoyed this article, you might also like... The Hanging of the Hartlepool Monkey - Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century, a shipwrecked monkey was h
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Who played the title role in the 2015 film Macbeth?
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Macbeth (2015) - 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 With Prime Video WATCH NOW Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. Director: "No Small Parts" IMDb Exclusive: 'Edge of Seventeen' Star Hailee Steinfeld Hailee Steinfeld has received critical acclaim for her role in the coming-of-age comedy The Edge of Seventeen . What other roles has she played over the years? Don't miss our live coverage of the Golden Globes beginning at 4 p.m. PST on Jan. 8 in our Golden Globes section. a list of 41 titles created 02 Jan 2015 a list of 45 titles created 07 Apr 2015 a list of 30 titles created 07 Nov 2015 a list of 27 titles created 02 Jan 2016 a list of 38 titles created 10 months ago Search for " Macbeth " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 2 wins & 19 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. All hail Macbeth that shall be king See more » Genres: Rated R for strong violence and brief sexuality | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 11 December 2015 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Michael Fassbender and Sean Harris have previously starred together in Wedding Belles (2007) and Prometheus (2012). After Macbeth, they also co-starred in Trespass Against Us (2016). See more » Goofs When Macbeth placed the dagger on the young warrior's chest, he places the dead man's hand on top of the blade. In the next shot, the dead man's hand is rested on his chest - below the knife. See more » Quotes (Sydney, Australia) – See all my reviews The world of William Shakespeare can be a tricky road to navigate, especially if you are not educated in his tediously difficult language that arrogantly lies in waiting, sprawled across the pages of his many plays. If you are neither a Thespian or English Literature Graduate (which I am clearly not), you will struggle to understand the famous playwrights narrative. It just might be easier to learn French or German at the local community college than it is to painfully study what Shakespeare is actually trying to say. I have seen just a handful of the Elizabethan era writers work; the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar and the very puzzling comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Each time I came away scratching my head, my feeble brain trying its best to piece together the events that had actually taken place. Through all the confusion, I still found myself enjoying the fragments of dialogue and story that made sense to me. This is why I was drawn to another of Shakespeare's great tragedies, even though I knew I would be sitting through nearly two hours of theatre without the use of subtitles. Macbeth is a well known story of ambition, murder, rage and tyranny but what I was looking for in Justin Kurzel's interpretation was a connection that an uneducated sloth like myself could get from a tale that had four hundred years of retelling. I wanted to feel the characters emotions and I wanted to visualise their world. I wanted to be able to identify Macbeth's tragic blind ambition and lust for power. More importantly, I wanted a tangible belief in the story being presented to me. Kurzel knows his audience well because he has directed one of the greatest Shakespearean plays ever put onto film. The brutal and bloody world that Kurzel has visioned, creates an authentic and powerful atmosphere that never deserts the viewer, allowing the
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1955 Academy Awards® Winners and History The Rose Tattoo (1955) Actor: ERNEST BORGNINE in "Marty" , James Cagney in "Love Me or Leave Me", James Dean in "East of Eden" , Frank Sinatra in "The Man With the Golden Arm", Spencer Tracy in "Bad Day at Black Rock" Actress: ANNA MAGNANI in "The Rose Tattoo", Susan Hayward in "I'll Cry Tomorrow", Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime", Jennifer Jones in "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing", Eleanor Parker in "Interrupted Melody" Supporting Actor: "Rebel Without a Cause" , Arthur O'Connell in "Picnic" Supporting Actress: JO VAN FLEET in "East of Eden" , Betsy Blair in "Marty" , Peggy Lee in "Pete Kelly's Blues", Marisa Pavan in "The Rose Tattoo", Natalie Wood in "Rebel Without a Cause" Director: DELBERT MANN for "Marty" , Elia Kazan for "East of Eden" , David Lean for "Summertime", Joshua Logan for "Picnic", John Sturges for "Bad Day at Black Rock" This year's ceremony (on March 21, 1956) was overshadowed by the tragic death of young star James Dean about 6 months earlier on September 30, 1955. Dean had only three films to his credit - and all were honored in some way at this year's or in the next year's ceremony [Dean was the first to be nominated post-humously]: East of Eden - 4 nominations (Dean was nominated as Best Actor), with one win, Best Supporting Actress (Jo Van Fleet) Rebel Without a Cause - 3 nominations with no wins; supporting nominations for Dean's co-stars Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo Giant (1956) - 10 nominations (Dean was nominated as Best Actor), with one win, Best Director (George Stevens) 1955 was a major turning point and milestone in Oscar history, since United Artist's came up with an unpretentious, anti-Hollywood type of winner - a simple, touching and pedestrian film about a painfully lonely, homely butcher/common man who falls in love. Marty , an unassuming, inexpensive black and white comedy/drama film from producers Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht, was a first-time feature of director Delbert Mann from a script by Paddy Chayefsky. [The first and only other time UA had won a Best Picture Oscar was in 1940 for Rebecca (1940) . In the decade of the 60s, UA would win more Best Picture Oscars than any other organization.] The "sleeper" hit in the 'year of the independents,' was nominated in eight categories and won in four major categories (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Screenplay for Paddy Chayefsky). It was the first Best Picture Oscar winner to also win the prestigious top prize honor (known as the Palme d'Or at the time) at the Cannes Film Festival (Best Picture-winner The Lost Weekend (1945) won the Grand Prix award earlier), but brought weak box-office profits. The film had originally been a small-screen TV play (with star Rod Steiger) that aired in 1953. On the bigger screen, the ninety-one minute film also had the distinction of being the shortest Best Picture winner in awards history. [The next shortest Best Picture winner was Annie Hall (1977) .] It was the first Best Picture winner based on a play written for and previously produced for television, that was transferred to the big scr
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Which is the lowest card used in the game of Bezique?
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How to Play Bezique | HowStuffWorks How to Play Bezique NEXT PAGENEXT Bezique, the forerunner of the card game Pinochle, was invented in the early 1800s in Sweden. By the 1850s, it was a hit all across Europe, and it soon arrived in America. It's still widely enjoyed in Britain. Over the years there have been many exciting variations of Bezique. In this article, you will. learn how to play classic Bezique, Rubicon Bezique, and Chinese Bezique. Let's get started with traditional Bezique: Number of players: Two Card Term Glossary Here's a quick reference for some of the card language you will find in this article. Follow suit: To play a card of the suit led. Lead: To play the first card to a trick. Marriage: A meld consisting of the king and queen. Meld: A combination of cards with scoring value, generally three or more cards in sequence in one suit or all of the same rank; also, to show or play such a combination. Stock: The undealt cards available for future use. Table: The playing area; also, to lay down a meld on the playing area. Trick: A round of cards played, one from each player's hand. Trump: A suit designated to be higher ranking than any other suit; any card in that suit. Also, to play a trump card on a trick. Upcard: The first card turned up after a deal, often to begin play or initiate a discard pile. For a complete listing of card terminology, click here . Object: To score points by melding and by taking tricks containing aces and 10s (brisques). The cards: Two sets of 32 cards, consisting of aces through 7s, are shuffled together into one 64-card deck. Cards rank -- from high to low -- A-10-K-Q-J-9-8-7. To play: Deal eight cards to each player, in groups of three, two, and three, and then turn up a card. This "upcard" will designate which suit will be trump. Place that card face up and so that it is slightly sticking out from under the draw pile. If the trump upcard is a 7, dealer scores 10 points immediately. Nondealer starts play by leading any card. At this stage of play, and as long as there remain cards to draw, you are not obliged to follow suit; you may play any of your cards. The highest trump in a trick wins it, or, if there is no trump card, the highest card of the suit led wins it. When two identical cards contend for the same trick (for example, two 10s), the first one played wins the trick. The winner of each trick scores 10 points for each ace or 10 (also called a "brisque") it contains, and may also table one meld. (You may tally the 10 points for a 7 of trumps along with a meld, and if you table the first 7 of trumps you may also trade it for the trump upcard.) Tally all points when you meld as you score them (see "Melds in Bezique" table below). Tally brisques at the end of the hand. Both players take a new card from the stock, with the winner of the previous trick drawing first and then leading to the next trick. Melded cards stay on the table until the stock is used up, but you may still play them on tricks. A card you meld one time can be used again, but only in a different meld and only with a winning trick. For example: Q melds with K in a marriage and can also meld later for 60 points with Q-- Q. But it can't meld with a second K -- a completely new pair is needed to score the second marriage. When only the upcard and one draw card remain, the upcard goes to the trick-loser. Put your remaining melded cards back in your hand, with the winner of the previous trick taking the last draw card and leading to the next trick. In the play of the final eight cards, each player must follow suit and also must win a trick whenever possible. Whoever wins the final trick scores an extra 10 points. ©2006 Publications International, Ltd. lead, though it gives opponent the chance to win a brisque. Instead, you could try either J, but as a card of lower rank, it is a more likely loser. Scoring: The first player to accumulate 1,000 points -- or any other agreed-upon sum -- wins. Tips: The play in Bezique has 32 tricks, in which your opponent will try to trump any ace or 10 you lead. Therefore, you sho
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Blackjack Glossary Blackjack glossary Blackjack terms, meaning of words: Terminology, Jargon, Slang, Vocabulary. A 21+3 - Blackjack and 3-card Poker at the same time. 21+3 is a European-style Blackjack game with a high paying 3-card side bet similar to the very popular Pairs Plus bet in the Three Card Poker game. No special poker skill is required. Anchor - Last taken sit to the dealer's right. B Banker - In a card game, dealer or the players who books the action of the other bettors at the table. Bankroll - The total amount of money you have the intention of gambling with. Basic Strategy - In blackjack, the set of plays that you should make to maximize your advantage. Blackjack - Total of 21 on your initial two-card hand. Burn Cards - Remove cards from the top of the deck and place them in the discard tray after a shuffle and cut. Break - Exceeding the hand total of 21. Bust - same as Break, exceeding the hand total of 21. C Camouflage - Anything a skilled gambler does to conceal their activities from the casino. Camouflage can include mixing in playing and betting behavior that mimics typical gamblers, or using disguises, appearing to be drunk, or any number of other possible ploys intended to throw the casino's scrutiny off. Card Counting - Recording (in memory) played cards (usually high cards) so as to establish a conditional probability advantage on the remaining cards against the dealer. Card Sharp - A person who is an expert at cards. Charlie or Five Card Charlie - A blackjack rule variation where if you get 5 cards without busting, you win that hand. CSM - Continuous Shuffling Machines, introduced by casinos as an anti card counters in Blackjack. Cut - To split the deck of cards before they are dealt. Cut Card - Colored faceless plastic card used to cut the cards after the shuffle. D Deal - To give out the cards during a hand. Discard Tray - A tray on the dealer�s right side that holds all the cards that have been played or discarded. Double Down - You can double your initial bet following the initial two-card deal, but you can hit one card only (you must take one additional card). To do this the player turns over his/her first two cards and places an equal bet alongside the original bet. This a good bet if the player is in a strong situation and when the dealer's card is weak. Most casinos will allow you to double down on any two cards. Some casinos will also let you double down after splitting and some will limit your doubling down to hands that total ten or eleven. Draw - (Also Hit.) Call a card or adding a new card to your current hand. Double Down (Doubling Down) - Double your initial bet following the initial two-card deal, but you can hit one card only. In blackjack, it is the players option to double their original bet in exchange for receiving only one more card. To do this the player turns over their first two cards and places an equal bet alongside the original bet. E Early Surrender - Surrender allowed before the dealer checks for blackjack. Even Money - Cashing in your bet immediately at a 1:1 payout ratio when you are dealt a natural blackjack and the dealer's showing card is an Ace. F Face Cards - Jacks, Queens and Kings. Face Down Game - Your first card is placed face up while the second one is placed face down. Face Up Game - Both your cards are placed face up. First Base - First taken seat to dealer's left - where the first card is dealt. Five Card Charlie - A blackjack rule variation where if you get 5 cards without busting, you win that hand. H Hard Hand - (Also Hard Total.) A hand without an Ace, or with an Ace valued at 1 is said to be Hard in that it can only be given one value, unlike a 'Soft' hand. Heads Up or Heads On - A head to head play with the dealer - no other players are involved. Hit - (Also Draw) Call a card or adding a new card to your current hand. The card received is also called a hit. Hole Card - In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and hold �em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player. I Insurance - Side bet up to half the initial bet agains
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"Who played Esmeralda, to Charles Laughton's Quasimodo, in the 1939 version of the film, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame""?"
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - 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 Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ) Not Rated | In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 35 titles created 02 Mar 2011 a list of 41 titles created 14 Mar 2011 a list of 22 titles created 27 Jan 2013 a list of 44 titles created 30 Jan 2013 a list of 44 titles created 5 months ago Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) 7.9/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 2 Oscars. See more awards » Videos The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo. Director: Jean Delannoy In fifteenth century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen. Director: Wallace Worsley In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land. Director: George Stevens A disfigured man is feared and tormented by the townspeople of Notre Dame, but he has a sensitive nature of which few are aware. Director: Michael Tuchner An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. Directors: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn The Hunchback (TV Movie 1997) Drama | Horror | Romance Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her. Director: Peter Medak Edit Storyline King Louis XI is a wise and old king and Frollo is the Chief Justice. Frollo gazes on the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, in the church during Fool's Day and sends Quasimodo to catch her. Quasimodo, with the girl, is captured by Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, who frees the girl. The courts sentence Quasimodo to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. Later, at a party of nobles, Esmeralda again meets both Frollo, who is bewitched by her, and Phoebus. When Phoebus is stabbed to death, Esmeralda is accused of the murder, convicted by the court and sentenced to hang. Clopin, King of the Beggars; Gringoire, Esmeralda's husband; and Quasimodo, the bellringer, all try different ways to save her from the gallows. Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com> BIG beyond words!...Wondrous beyond belief!...Magnificent beyond compare! (Title lobby card). See more » Genres: 29 December 1939 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Victor Hugo's Immortal Classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame See more » Filming Locations: (Turner library print) (copyright length) Sound Mix: Did You Know? Trivia RKO's original trailer shows Charles Laughton almost entirely from the back, except for a rapid, blurred shot of his face when he is revealed to the crowd at the Feast of Fools. The scene where Quasimodo talks to Esmeralda ("I'm not a man and I'm not a beast . . . ") is re-edited so the viewer can only see Maureen O'Hara 's face and the back of Laughton's head. Captions at the end read: "See the Storming of Notre Dame . . . See the Face of the Hunchback". See more » Goofs Quasimodo's misplaced eye never moves or blinks, belying the fact that it is a prosthetic. See more » Quotes Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : Ohh, you asked me why I saved you. I tried to carry you off, and the next day, you gave me a drink of water, and a little pity. Notre Dame's Celebrated Bell Ringer 30 August 2006 | by bkoganbing (Buffalo, New York) – See all my re
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Round One Jeopardy Template The name of Dr. Sieuss's egg-hatching elephant 100 Well-known Tasmanian-born leading lady who launched her entertainment career under the name of Queenie O'Brien. 100 What is the kitchen? Room in the average American home that is the scene of the greatest number of arguments. 100 The distance between bases on a little league baseball field. 100 The part of the brain that regulates physiological stability. 200 Clark Kent's high school sweetheart 200 Yves Montand was born in this country. 200 What is Truth or Consequences? Current name of the town that was formerly Hot Springs, New Mexico, that was re-named in 1960 by its citizens in honor of a popular radio show. 200 First sport in which women were invited to compete at the Olympics. 200 What is Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, with 823 words Novel containing the longest sentence in literature 300 What are George and Michael? Brummel was George Geste was Michael The real names of Beau Brummel and Beau Geste. 300 What are Patience and Fortitude? (Names were given by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.) Names of the two landmark stone lions sitting in front of the New York Public Libaray at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City. 300 What is bicycle moto x (cross)? In cross-country bike racing, what the initials BMX stand for. 300 What are hiccups? DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Term for a series of uncontrollable intakes of air caused by sudden spasms of the diaphragm. 400 What is The Little Engine That Could? Famous book that begins: "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff." 400 Who is Peter Lorre? Famous actor who prepared for a career in psychiatry - studying and working with pioneer psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler - before he turned to performing. 400 What are six months? Time - in months - the average American motorist spends during his lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green. 400 Who is Jackie Robinson? (He later gained national fame playing professional baseball.) In 1939, the famous American athlete who starred on UCLA's undefeated football team and was the top scorer in the Pacific Coast Conference for basketball. 400 What is the retina?
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“Ben-Hur” 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Debuts On Blu-Ray & DVD September 27 - WarnerBros.com - The Studio - News PRINT “Ben-Hur” 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Debuts On Blu-Ray & DVD September 27 (June 20, 2011 – Burbank, CA) – “Ben-Hur” – William Wyler’s unforgettable epic spectacle, starring Charlton Heston, that won a record-setting 11 Academy Awards (1959) including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor and Best Director -- will make a dazzling debut on Blu-ray September 27 as “Ben-Hur 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition” from Warner Home Video. An inspiration to generations of filmmakers with its legendary scale and scope, “50 years later filmmakers and film experts are still in awe of the film,” says “Ben-Hur” documentarian Gary Leva. People like Ridley Scott, Ernest Dickerson, and others told Leva how Wyler’s film inspired them to emulate the filmmaker years later. Even with today's technology, they still aren't sure how some of the scenes were able to be put on film. Scott, who directed Gladiator, said his arena was one-sixth the size of the one where Ben-Hur had his famous chariot race. The gigantic oval, with incredible statues and architecture, took more than a year to build. For this release, “Ben-Hur” has undergone a $1 million restoration -- frame by frame from an 8k scan of the original 65 mm camera negative, making this the highest resolution restoration ever completed by Warner Bros. studio. “We have been working on this extensive restoration for several years, hoping we could be ready with a 2009 release for the actual 50th. The meticulous process took longer than expected, but our primary goal was to deliver the finest quality presentation possible, and we have succeeded in doing just that,” said Jeff Baker, WHV’s Executive Vice President and General Manager, Theatrical Catalog. “Ben-Hur” has been on moratorium for the past year. Now limited and numbered, each set contains more than four hours of extras including an all-new hi-def feature length documentary hosted by son Fraser Heston; a reproduction of Heston's diary during filming; and an exclusive hardbound photo book. “The restoration is almost trumped by some newly-uncovered Heston family home movies, shot in Italy during production, that reveal unique behind-the-scenes activity. Believed to be the only footage of its kind in existence, this marks something truly historic and unprecedented. And we are thrilled to be able to incorporate it into the documentary made by Laurent Bouzereau and Charlton Heston’s son, Fraser. The documentary will be obtainable only with this release.” Baker believes fans also will be enthralled with Heston’s diary, which “reflects his thoughts and feelings on many of the days before, during, and immediately after the film’s physical production. “The diary is a replica of the original,” Baker said. “We did not transpose Chuck’s words onto a clean white piece of paper. The natural fading of the pages, and any mistakes, are all seen as they are in the original diary. The concept is to preserve the authenticity. It’s a remarkable, collectible keepsake. No other disc release in history has included a personal diary of an actor, let alone an Oscar-winning legend, sharing this type of personal information.” Baker said that while under his watch Warner has produced several other Ultimate Collector’s Editions of classic movies. “This physical package in terms of aesthetics, historical content, and originality is the new gold standard for not only Warner, but for all studios. No one can forget seeing ‘Ben-Hur’ in a theater for the first time. And now, a half-century later, it looks the best it ever has on Blu-ray in this pristine high-definition film restoration, perfect for holiday gift giving.” The “Ben-Hur” 50th Anniversary UCE will be available for $64.99 SRP (Three-Disc Blu-ray), $49.92 SRP (Five-Disc DVD set) and $20.97 SRP (2-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition DVD). Order due date for all is August 23, 2011. After attending an early screening, Fraser Heston noted in a letter to Baker
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Movie Star Actor Legends: 1940-1950 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City on December 25, 1899 and died in 1957. After having experienced some measure of success on Broadway during the late 1920's, he was brought out to Hollywood, a conventional, good looking and reasonably competant actor. But he failed to click in a number of mainly second-rate pictures and returned to the theatre to find that good parts there were also few and far between. Finally he got his big break in the theatre, when in 1935 he landed the part of the gangster, Duke Mantee, in 'The Petrified Forest and was cast in the film version. Best known films: The African Queen (1951), Academy Awards winner for Best Actor The Caine Mutiny (1954), Academy Award nomination Sabrina (1954) John Garfield, whose real name is Julius Garfinkle, was born in New York City, on March 3, 1913 and died in 1952. After studying at drama school, he spent some time bumming around the country before he joined the Group Theatre and made his name on the Broadway stage, most notably in 'Golden Boy' in 1937. He arrived at Warner Bros. the following year, where his down to earth qualities were first seen in "Four Daughters", which earned him his first Oscar nomination, but the studios failed to star him in roles he deserved. In 1941, he proved he could hold his own when he starred with Edward G. Robinson in "Sea Wolf". His difficulties during the last few years of his life led to a premature heart attack at the age of 39, which was no doubt brought on by the activities of the House UnAmerican Activies Committee. He was one of the saddest and most tragic victims of the HUAC witch hunt. Best known films: To Have and Have Not (1944) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Academy Award nomimation He Ran All the Way (1951) Cary Grant, whose real name is Archibald Alexander Leach, was born in Bristol, England on January 18, 1904 and died in 1986. Coming from a broken home, he ran away at 14 to join a travelling troupe of young comedians who played in vaudeville houses all over England. He worked hard to perfect his acrobatic and pantomine skills and was selected for a US tour in 1920. Staying on in New York, he graduated to operetta during the late 20s then headed west to California late in 1931 and ended up signing a 5 year contract with Paramount shortly before his 28th birthday. His first movies were in "Hot Saturday" (1932), with Mae West in "I'm No Angel" and "She Done Him Wrong" both in 1933. By 1937, the screwball comedy had become established in Hollywood. This popular new type of movie provided a natural opportunity for him with his special blend of spontaneous vitality and charm. He and Constance Bennett made a pair of lively and sophisticated ghosts in "Topper", followed imediatly by "The Awful Truth", his first major success as a comedy star. Best known films: Charade (1963) Gene Kelly, whose real name is Eugene Curran Kelly, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. on August 23, 1912, and died in 1996. He had danced in his childhood, became a dance instructor (after taking an Economics degree at the University of Pittsburg), and danced on Broadway. He had already choreographed "Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe" and the successful Broadway musical "Best Foot Foward" and had starred in Rodgers and Hart's "Pal Joey", before he was invited to Hollywood at the age of 30 by David O. Selznick. He played an egotistical dancer in "For Me and My Gal
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Which famous artist designed the Chupa Chups logo?
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Salvador Dalí's Real Masterpiece: The Logo For Chupa Chups Lollipops | Co.Design | business + design Salvador Dalí's Real Masterpiece: The Logo For Chupa Chups Lollipops Working at a cafe table for an hour, Salvador Dalí managed to design a logo that’s sold billions. Recent posts Follow The Life Of Plastic In Photos, From The Factory To The Ocean This Company Is Challenging Apple's Design Empire With A $129 Computer William Gibson's "Neuromancer" Gets A Cover Made With--What Else?--Code Everything Is Awful So Let's All Escape To This Treehouse For Grown-Ups Belinda Lanks 03.08.12 9:22 AM Salvador Dalí, the wacky surrealist known for his signature pointy mustache and painting melting clocks, was also graphic designer behind the classic Chupa Chups—an enduringly sweet, bright rendition of a daisy. The Catalan lollipop made its first appearance in 1958, when the company founder Enric Bernat hatched the idea of placing a bonbon on a stick. He called the product "GOL," imagining the candy as a soccer ball and the open mouth a net. It didn’t go over well. So Bernat hired an ad agency that renamed his product "Chupa Chups" (from the Spanish chupar, meaning "to suck"). All that was left was the branding. In 1969 , Bernat complained about what he had while having coffee with his artist friend—none other than Salvador Dalí. You need a logo?! According to lore , the painter went to work immediately, doodling for an hour on newspapers that were laying around. Dalí's version masterfully integrated the wordmark into the daisy design, and has hardly changed since. And Phaidon points us to one subtle, extremely smart feature of the design: Acutely aware of presentation, Dalí insisted that his design be placed on top of the lolly, rather than the side, so that it could always be viewed intact. It’s proved to be one of the most enduring pieces of branding ever and one that’s still used today, four billion sales later. What would induce the famous artist to take on such a project? Dinero. The guy rarely turned it down, causing surrealist poet André Breton to nickname him "Avida Dollars"—an anagram of Dalí's name that roughly translates to "eager for cash." [Image: p4nc0np4n ] Never miss a story.
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Scarfe, Gerald Scarfe, Gerald > Billedkunstnere > Scarfe, Gerald Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI, (born 1 June 1936 in St John's Wood, London) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. His most famous work was for rock group Pink Floyd, particularly on the The Wall album (1979) and movie (1982), and his work as the production designer on the Disney animated feature, Hercules. After briefly working in advertising, a profession he grew to dislike intensely, Scarfe's early caricatures of public figures were published in satirical magazine Private Eye throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In the mid 1960s he took a job at the Daily Mail following a Dutch auction for his services with the Daily Express. His decision to work for the Daily Mail led to his estrangement from fellow cartoonist Ralph Steadman, alongside whom he had studied art at East Ham Technical College. Soon after, Steadman was commissioned to illustrate Scarfe and produced an image that was half saint and half Superman, but with a disconnected heart. Scarfe spent just a year working for the Daily Mail, during which time he was sent to provide illustrations from the Vietnam War. Scarfe was approached to work with Pink Floyd after Roger Waters and Nick Mason both saw his animated BBC film A Long Drawn Out Trip. Scarfe's first work for the band was a set of animated short clips used on the 1977 "In The Flesh" tour, including a full-length music video for the song "Welcome to the Machine". He also drew the cover illustration for their 1979 album The Wall, and in 1982 worked on the film version of The Wall, although he and Waters fell out with director Alan Parker during the latter stages of editing. As well as the artwork, Scarfe contributed 15 minutes worth of elaborate animation to the film, including a sequence depicting the German bombing campaign over England during World War II, set to the song "Goodbye Blue Sky". He was also involved in the theatrical adaptation, including The Wall Concert in Berlin, where his animations were projected on a vast scale. He continued to work with Roger Waters when the latter left Pink Floyd, creating the graphics and animation for Waters' solo album The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (1984) and its supporting tour. Scarfe's collaboration with Waters is a celebrated one in rock history and in August 2008, was marked by the release of a signed limited-edition eight-print series, "Scarfe On The Wall", which contains a monograph book (with an extended new interview with Scarfe) signed by Roger Waters as part of the collection. Scarfe was approached to work on the 1997 Disney film Hercules by Ron Clements and John Musker, long time fans who had risen to prominence within Disney following the success of The Little Mermaid. Scarfe worked as a conceptual character artist, designing almost all of the characters and then supervising the 900 Disney artists charged with adapting his designs for the film. On 22 November 2005 the United Kingdom's Press Gazette named its 40 most influential journalists, and included Scarfe alongside just two other cartoonists, Carl Giles, and Matt Pritchett. Scarfe was awarded 'Cartoonist of the Year' at the British Press Awards 2006. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. Comicart.dk is proud to present selected art by this fine British artist. Galleri Comicart.dk - Trepkasgade 5 - 2100 K�benhavn � (tor 12-18, fre 12-19, l�r 11-15) Tlf. +45 24 21 48 13 (Peter Hartung) - E-mail: info@comicart.dk - CVR-nummer: 27599982
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What is the Capital of Samoa? - Capital-of.com Dates of religious and Civil holidays around the world. www.when-is.com Capital of Samoa The Capital City of Samoa (officially named Independent State of Samoa) is the city of Apia. The population of Apia in the year 2001 was 38,800. Samoa is an English speaking country in the Pasific Ocean. Additional Information
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The Capital | Ghana The Capital The Capital Accra, capital and largest city of Ghana, southeastern Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea. Accra is an important commercial, manufacturing, and communications center. It is the site of an international airport and a focus of the country's railroad system, including a link to nearby Tema, which since 1962 has served as the city's deepwater port. Industries include vehicle and appliance assembly, petroleum refining, and the manufacture of foodstuffs, textiles, metal and wood products, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. A sprawling city, Accra presents a varied appearance, with buildings of modern, colonial, and traditional African architecture. Of note here are the 17th-century Christiansborg Castle, now the residence of the chief of state, and the National Museum (1957). Several research and technical institutes are located in Accra, and the University of Ghana (1948) is in the nearby town of Legon. The site of what is now Accra was occupied by villages of the Ga, the local people, when the Portuguese first visited here in the late 15th century. During the 17th century the Portuguese were forced to withdraw by the Dutch, who, along with the Danes and the English, founded rival trading posts, which became the settlements of Ussher Town, Christiansborg, and James Town, respectively. In the 19th century Britain purchased Dutch and Danish rights in the area, and in 1876 Christiansborg was made the capital of the Gold Coast Colony. The three separate towns grew and gradually coalesced to form the city of Accra. Much of the modern city's layout was planned in the 1920s, and since then growth has been rapid. Accra remained the capital city, when in 1957 the Gold Coast Colony became the independent state of Ghana.
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In humans, ‘Traumatic auricular haematoma’ is the medical term for which sporting injuty?
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Auricular Hematoma Drainage: Overview, Indications, Contraindications Auricular Hematoma Drainage Author: Inna Leybell, MD; Chief Editor: Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBA more... Share Overview Overview Auricular hematoma, shown below, is a complication that results from direct trauma to the anterior auricle and is a common facial injury in wrestlers. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] Shearing forces to the anterior auricle can lead to separation of the anterior auricular perichondrium from the underlying, tightly adherent cartilage. This may lead to tearing of the perichondrial blood vessels and subsequent hematoma formation. Auricular hematoma. View Media Gallery The torn perichondrial vessels compromise the viability of the avascular underlying cartilage. Interestingly, the presence of a subperichondrial hematoma has been found to stimulate new and often asymmetric cartilage to form. [ 4 ] This deformity, which is often referred to as cauliflower ear or wrestler’s ear (shown in the image below), is often considered a badge of honor among wrestlers and rugby players. [ 5 ] Cauliflower ear. The goal of treatment is to completely evacuate subperichondrial blood and to prevent its reaccumulation. The mechanism of hematoma drainage has been debated. To date, no randomized controlled trials have addressed this issue. [ 6 ] Relevant Anatomy The auricle and external acoustic meatus (or external auditory canal) compose the external ear. The external ear functions to collect and amplify sound, which then gets transmitted to the middle ear. The asymmetric shape of the external auricle introduces delays in the path of sound that assist in sound localization. The arterial supply of the auricle is composed of the posterior auricular artery, the anterior auricular branch of the superficial temporal artery, and the occipital artery, which also contributes. Veins accompany the corresponding named arteries. For more information about the relevant anatomy, see Ear Anatomy . Next: See the list below: Tender anterior auricular swelling after trauma, which deforms the normal anatomy of the pinna Presentation within 7 days after trauma (After 7 days, the formation of granulation tissue may complicate the procedure. At that point, patients should be referred to a specialist.) Previous The procedure is contraindicated in the following cases: Hematomas that are older than 7 days Recurrent or chronic hematomas (In such cases, open surgical debridement by a specialist is indicated because the hematoma, granulation tissue, or both can be located within the cartilage instead of in the subperichondrial space.) Previous Anesthesia See the list below: Local anesthesia with lidocaine 1% with or without epinephrine can be infiltrated directly into the area to be incised. Many authors advocate the use of the lidocaine without the presence of a vasoconstrictive agent such as epinephrine. However, some literature supports the safety of vasoconstrictive agents in areas such as the nose or pinna. Alternatively, an auricular block can be performed. For more information, see Ear Anesthesia . Previous Syringe, 3 mL, with a 23- or 27-gauge (ga) needle for anesthesia Syringe, 10 mL, with a 18- or 20-ga needle (if performing needle aspiration) Lidocaine 1% (with or without epinephrine) Scalpel, No. 15 Irrigation set-up (syringe, normal saline) Compression dressing materials Simple compression dressing, as shown in the image below: dry cotton, Vaseline gauze, 4 x 4 plain gauze, secondary dressing wrap (eg, Kling), scissors Supplies needed to make a simple compression dressing. Specialized compression dressing (to be made in a specialist's office; not described here): dental rolls (or cotton bolsters, silicone splints, or plaster mold), nylon or Prolene suture on straight needle Previous Place patient in the lateral decubitus position on the unaffected side. Previous Preparation See the list below: Cleanse the skin with povidone iodine, ChloraPrep (chlorhexidine gluconate 2% and isopropyl alcohol 70%), or another cleanser. Anesthetize the area with lidocaine 1% or perform an auricular block.
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Index-a This Week's Puzzles So You Think You Know Soccer A soccer goal is what dimensions, yards wide and feet high: 8x7; 7x8; 8x8 or 9x8? According to FIFA World Cup rules which flag must be displayed inside each match stadium besides those of FIFA/Fair Play, and the two competing nations? Approximately how many million people play regular organized football in the world (at the early 2000s): 5; 25; 65; or 250? The word soccer derives from: Sock; Association; Kosher; or Socrates? What is not required by the rules of soccer: Goal net; Penalty spot; Specified ball pressure; or Shin guards? The 2014 World Cup Finals allocated European and African teams respectively how many places: 3 and 9; 4 and 10; 5 and 13; or 6 and 15? What city/club football rules, which spread widely in the late 1800s, introduced heading, corners, throw-ins, changing ends, and the goal crossbar: Sheffield; Paris; Milan; or Berlin? FIFA's 2014 World Cup Finals/Qualifying rules dictate a match squad of how many players: 18; 23; 26; or 30? In the 2010 World Cup Final, Jo'bulani was the: Winner's national anthem; Winning goalscorer; Ball; or Trumpet-like horn blown by fans? The minimum rest-period between two games for any team at the 2014 World Cup is how many hours: 24; 36; 48; or 72? Soccer rules award what after an 'own goal' directly from a throw-in: Goal; Penalty; Corner; or Drop-ball? The headquarters of FIFA are in Brussels; London; Zurich, or Oslo? Who has made the World Cup footballs since 1970: Adidas; Puma; Umbro; or Nike? The World Cup Qualifiying matches between El Salvador v Honduras in 1969 coincided with what mutual event: Independence; Earthquake; Drought; or War? The first ever �100,000 (or above) football transfer, in 1961, was: Bobby Moore; Pele; Dennis Law; or Eusebio? A white ball was first used in a World Cup in: 1930; 1950; 1966; or 1982? The centre circle of a soccer pitch is used only at kick-offs/re-starts, and in which other game feature? Matthias Sammer, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo, and Luis Figo won what between 1990-2002: European Cup; World Cup; Golden Boot; or European Footballer of the Year? The first, second and third placed teams at the 2014 World Cup receive how many medals: 20; 30; 40 or 50? Soccer has been an Olympic event since: 1900; 1964; 1992; or 2002? PAGE 6
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Powerful Women Warriors (1500 BCE - 1500 CE) Powerful Women Warriors (1500 BCE - 1500 CE) Queens & Women Warriors of Africa Top Surnames [ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/20/ten-medieval-warrior-women/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_warfare_and_the_military_in_the_ancient_era Female warrior deities], whose origins predate historical records, are present in most early cultures. However, the following list is assembled from sources emerging with the fragmentary beginning of written records until the 16th century. Japanese and and Chinese women warriors were legendary. While the tradition of Arab Bedouin and North African Berber women warriors (p197) goes back millennia, records indicate that there were also female knights , eg. there was a military order of knighthood bestowed on women In 1261 approved by Pope Alexander IV---however, the order was later suppressed by Sixtus V in 1558. 17th century BCE 1600's BCE - Ahhotep I fought the Hyskos. She was buried with military medals symbolizing her valor in battle. 16th century BCE 1500's BCE - Medea, Μήδεια, მედეა , in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason. 13th century BCE 1200's BCE - Lady Fu Hao consort of the Chinese emperor Wu Ding, led 3,000 men into battle during the Shang Dynasty. Fu Hao had entered the royal household by marriage and took advantage of the semi-matriarchal slave society to rise through the ranks. Fu Hao is known to modern scholars mainly from inscriptions on Shang Dynasty oracle bone artifacts unearthed at Yinxu. In these inscriptions she is shown to have led numerous military campaigns. She was the most powerful military leader of her time. This highly unusual status is confirmed by the many weapons, including great battle-axes, unearthed from her tomb. 1200s BCE - Deborah, Judge of Israel , traveled with Barak, who led her army, on a military campaign in Qedesh, according to Judges 4:6‑10. 1200s BCE - Jael assassinated Sisera, a retreating general who was the enemy of the Israelites, according to Judges 5:23-27. 1200-1000 BCE roughly - The Rigveda (RV 1 and RV 10) mentions a female warrior named Vishpala, who lost a leg in battle, had an iron prosthesis made, and returned to warfare. 11th century BCE 1000s BC - According the legendary history of Britain, Queen Gwendolen fought her husband, Locrinus, in battle for the throne of Britain. She defeated him and became the monarch. 9th century BCE Late 9th century BCE-8th century BCE - Shammuramat (Semiramis) ruled the Assyrian Empire. She is believed to have been the inspiration for the legendary warrior queen Semiramis. 800s BCE - According the legendary history of Britain, Queen Cordelia , on whom the character in Shakespeare's King Lear is based, battled her nephews for control of her kingdom, personally fighting in battle. 8th century BCE 740 BCE - Approximate time of the reign of Zabibe, an Arabian queen who led armies. 720 BCE - Approximate time of the reign of Samsi, an Arabian queen who may have been the successor of Zabibe. She revolted against Tiglath-Pileser III. 6th century BCE 6th century BCE through 4th century BCE - Women are buried with weapons as well as jewelry on the Kazakhstan-Russia border at roughly this time. 530 BCE - Historian Herodotus, recorded that queen Tomyris of the Massagetae fought and defeated Cyrus the Great. 510 BCE - Greek poet, Telesilla, defended the city of Argos by rallying women to battle with war songs. 506 BCE - Cloelia, a Roman girl who was given as a hostage to the Etruscans, escaped her captors and led several others to safety. 5th century BCE 5th century BCE - The Lady of Yue trained the soldiers of the army of King Goujian of Yue. 5th century BCE - Greek historian, Herodotus, described the Amazons. 480 BCE - Artemisia I of Caria, Queen of Halicarnassus, participated in the Battle of Salamis. 480 BCE - Greek diver, Hydna , and her father sabotaged enemy ships before a critical battle, thus causing the Greeks to win. 460 BCE - 370 BCE - Approx
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GIRL READING A LETTER BY AN OPEN WINDOW by Johannes Vermeer Apr 22, Giuseppe Torelli, composer (Concert Grossi op 8), is born in Italy. literature Moliere was anointed with the patronage of King Louis XIV. Molière left behind a body of work which not only changed the face of French classical comedy, but has gone on to influence the work of other dramatists the world over. The greatest of his plays include The School for Husbands (1661), The School for Wives (1662), The Misanthrope (1666), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666), Tartuffe (1664,1667,1669), The Miser (1668), and The Imaginary Invalid (1673). science & philosophy Amsterdam naturalist Jan Swammerdam, 21, gives the first description of red blood cells. He will complete his medical studies in 1667 but devote himself to studying insects, tadpoles, frogs, and mammals rather than practicing medicine. history Sep 3, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the New Commonwealth, i.e. ruler over England’s Puritan parliament, dies at age 59. Richard Cromwell succeeded his father as English Lord Protector. It has been estimated that there were about 650 to 750 painters working in the Netherlands in 1650s or about one for each 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants, in Delft one out of every 500. By comparison, the number of painters in Renaissance Italy was about one every 330, in a population of some 9 million. Most Dutch painters came from middle-class families since painting generally did not offer sufficient status to attract the wealthy and the poor could rarely afford the training. As their status and social ambition rose, some Dutch artists assumed the manners, and dress, of their wealthy clients. Vermeer himself appears to have made serious efforts to cast himself as a gentleman/artist. When Vermeer turned his attention to the domestic interior motif, he entered into a highly competitive niche market already dominated by a few exceptional artists such as Gerrit ter Borch, Frans van Mieris and Gerrit Dou. These painters specialized in themes of upper-class domestic interiors, now grouped togehter with a host of other subjects under the term �genre.� Their work displays an truly astonishing level of detai,l at times near microscopic, and required enormous number of work hours making them affordable for a select few. Dou is reported to have sold some works for more than 1,000 guilders or roughly the equivalent of the venerated great Italian Masters. A modest Dutch house could be had for less. Before the 1650s, few rooms in the typical middle-class Dutch house had specialized functions. Beds, for example, were placed in halls, kitchens or wherever they could fit. But when rooms did assume a particular use, it was often reflected in the paintings chosen to decorate them—domestic scenes or religious images were selected more often for private areas of the house while landscapes or city views were shown in public areas. Typical Dutch homes were generally far more cluttered and not as well-lit as the pristine environments that appear in Vermeer's compositions. The image of the famous 17th-century doll house created by Petronella Dunois very likely affords a more accurate idea of the furniture arrangement and density of a true Dutch well-to-do home. Although exceptionally few Dutch domestic envirnoments have survived, a few doll's houses made in Amsterdam in the second half of the 17th century are regarded as an inexhaustible source of information about the furnishing of grand merchant's houses in the heyday of the Dutch Republic. One such doll-house was commissioned by Petronella Oortsman (1656-1718), who as a wealthy widow married the silk merchant Johannes Brandt in 1686. She started assembling her doll's house shortly after marriage. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam estimates that Petronella Oortman spent twenty to thirty thousand guilders on her model house, the price of a real house along one of Amsterdam's most sought-after canal locations at that time. It took nearly 20 years to build. Merry Company at a Table Hendrick van der Burch 55 x 69 cm. Private collection Historians of
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Although made by a variety of manufacturers, what is the name of the appliances sold by Sears?
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Appliances - Sears Appliances learn more Applies to Kenmore, Kenmore Elite, and Kenmore Pro appliances. Must purchase both a wall oven and a cooktop to receive discount. Applies to items Sold by Sears. Excludes accessories, closeouts/clearance, Unilateral Pricing Policy (UPP) and everyday great price items. These discounts are calculated on purchase price of items less discounts and coupons, not including tax, installation or delivery. On all appliances: Colors, connectors, ice maker hook-up and installation extra. Excludes online only items. Discount seen in cart. Offer ends 01/21/17 see details On qualifying Sears Card Purchases In-store offer may vary. Applies only to items Sold by Sears. Not combinable with in-store Sears card offers. Savings range 5%–35%. Advertised savings are valid in-store only. Hot Buy pricing online may vary. Whirlpool, LG, GE, GE Profile, GE Cafe, Frigidaire, Electrolux, Bosch and Samsung appliances limited to 10% off. Excludes Jenn-Air, Dacor, floor care, sewing machines, countertop microwaves, air conditioners, air cleaners, fans, heaters, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, floorcare accessories, home appliance closeouts, clearance, Smart Buys, Unilateral Pricing Policy (UPP) and Everyday Great Price items. These discounts are calculated on purchase price of items less discounts and coupons, not including tax, installation or delivery. On all appliances: Colors, connectors, ice-maker hookup and installation extra. Free standard local delivery on appliance orders over $399. Applies to items sold by Sears. In store offer may vary. Discount shown at checkout. Standard delivery includes delivery within the local delivery area and delivery not requiring additional services or time. Retail value of standard local delivery is $69.99. Customer pays a charge for non-standard delivery. Local areas and non-standard delivery charges vary. Excludes accessories, built-in refrigeration, compact refrigerators, water filtration, floor care, sewing machines, heaters, humidifiers, fans and air cleaners. Offer not valid on orders placed from Sears Hometown, Outlet, Hardware or Appliance Showroom store kiosks. Finance Offer No interest if paid in full within 12 months when you use a qualifying Sears card on all Appliance items over $499 through 01/21/2017. Interest will be charged to your account from the purchase date if the purchase balance is not paid in full within the 12 months or if you make a late payment. Minimum payments required. Items sold by Sears only. hide details IMPORTANT SPECIAL FINANCING/DEFERRED INTEREST DETAILS (when offered); Interest will be charged to your account from the purchase date if the purchase balance is not paid in full within the promotional period or if you make a late payment. Minimum payments required. With credit approval, for qualifying purchases made on a Sears card (Sears Commercial One® accounts excluded) Sears Home Improvement AccountSM valid on installed sales only. Offer is only valid for consumer accounts in good standing; is subject to change without notice; see store for details. May not be combined with any other promotional offer. Find the best home appliances with the latest technology at Sears Whether you're moving into a new home or you've lived in your house for years, you need top-notch appliances to help keep your household running smoothly. From refrigerators and electric ranges to washer and dryer bundles, Sears has the best home appliances to help make everyday tasks easier so you have more time to do the things you love. No matter if you have a lot of fresh ingredients to store or simply need a place to keep your beverages cold and your microwave dinners frozen, find a refrigerator that's perfect for your lifestyle. From basic refrigerators to high-end kitchen appliances, choose from a wide selection of models, including French door, side-by-side and top-freezer options. You'll also discover an impressive variety of single, double and convection ranges as well as electric and gas cooktops, so if you're just learning to boil water or you prepare mult
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1. What is the name of the hit show based on the songs of Abba? - Liverpool Echo News 1. What is the name of the hit show based on the songs of Abba? 2. Which “G” is the name of the Italian astronomer who improved the telescope so much as to discover that there were craters on the moon? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. Which “G” is the name of the Italian astronomer who improved the telescope so much as to discover that there were craters on the moon? 3. For which series of films were the actors Kenneth Williams and Sid James best known? 4. What is the name given to the largest bee in a hive? 5. Which alternative word for the Devil is a Hebrew word with translates as “Lord Of The Flies”? 6. On which TV island might you have found actor Ricardo Montalban? 7. Mozart’s opera, which was a continuation of The Barber Of Seville, was called The Marriage Of . . . who? 8. What is the nearest planet to the Sun? 9. What was the name of the road sweeper played by Roger Lloyd-Pack in Only Fools And Horses? 10. What connects the answers above? 11. What was the nickname of the first Spice Girl to go solo? 12. Which of the following events did Carl Lewis not win a gold medal for at the 1984 Olympics? Long Jump, 400m or 100m relay? 13. Which two actors were nominated for best actor awards at the Oscars in 1991, both for playing wheelchair-bound characters? 14. How is Eldrick Woods better known? 15. Who did Iain Duncan Smith beat in September, 2001, to become the leader of the Conservative Party? 16. Who was the main villain in the cartoon Wacky Races? 17. When the band Hear‘say formed, who was the oldest member at 24? 18. What is the name of the third book of the Bible? 19. What was advertised with Eva Herzagovia using the slogan “hello boys”? 20. Which model gave birth to her daughter, Lola, in September, 2002? 21. “All children, except one, grow up” is the opening line from which famous story? 22. How are Fizz, Milo, Jake and Bella better known collectively? 23. What number on the Beaufort Scale represents a hurricane? 24. In which film did Jodie Foster play a character called Tallulah? 25. What is pathophobia the fear of? 26. What was the title of the TV show Bonanza changed to? 27. What mountain range is the natural habitat of the llama? 28. What nationality was scientist Marie Curie? 29. Who played the title role in the TV series Worzel Gummidge? 30. Which toy was originally called the Pluto Platter when it was first introduced in 1957? 1. Mama Mia; 2. Galileo; 3. Carry On; 4. Queen; 5. Beelzebub; 6. Fantasy; 7. Figaro; 8. Mercury; 9. Trigger; 10. The song Bohemian Rhapsody; 11. Ginger Spice; 12. 400m; 13. Tom Cruise (for Born On The Fourth Of July) and Daniel Day-Lewis (for My Left Foot); 14. Tiger Woods; 15. Ken Clarke; 16. Dick Dastardly; 17. Kym Marsh; 18. Leviticus; 19. The Wonderbra; 20. Kate Moss; 21. Peter Pan; 22. The Tweenies; 23. 12; 24. Bugsy Malone; 25. Illness; 26. Ponderosa; 27. Andes; 28. Polish; 29. Jon Pertwee; 30. Frisbee Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent
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Body language is also known as (What?), derived from Greek, meaning motion?
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Body Language - guide to reading body language signals in management, training, courtship, flirting and other communications and relationships tree swing cartoons (new versions) body language how to read body language signs and gestures - non-verbal communications - male and female, for work, social, dating, and mating relationships Body Language is a significant aspect of modern communications and relationships. Body Language is therefore very relevant to management and leadership, and to all aspects of work and business where communications can be seen and physically observed among people. Body language is also very relevant to relationships outside of work, for example in dating and mating, and in families and parenting. Communication includes listening. In terms of observable body language, non-verbal (non-spoken) signals are being exchanged whether these signals are accompanied by spoken words or not. Body language goes both ways: Your own body language reveals your feelings and meanings to others. Other people's body language reveals their feelings and meanings to you. The sending and receiving of body language signals happens on conscious and unconscious levels. Body language, and more technically the study of body language, is also known as kinesics (pronounced 'kineesicks'), which is derived from the Greek word kinesis, meaning motion. See also the free Body Language Quiz , which can be used to test/reinforce the learning offered in this article. (N.B. US and UK-English spellings, e.g., 'ize' and 'ise' are used in this page to allow for different searching preferences. Please feel free to change these according to your local requirements when using these materials.) body language - basics and introduction Body language is a powerful concept which successful people tend to understand well. So can you. The study and theory of body language has become popular in recent years because psychologists have been able to understand what we 'say' through our bodily gestures and facial expressions, so as to translate our body language, revealing its underlying feelings and attitudes. Body Language is also referred to as 'non-verbal communications', and less commonly 'non-vocal communications'. The term 'non-verbal communications' tends to be used in a wider sense, and all these terms are somewhat vague. For the purposes of this article, the terms 'body language' and 'non-verbal communications' are broadly interchangeable. This guide also takes the view that body language/non-verbal communications is the study of how people communicate face-to-face aside from the spoken words themselves, and in this respect the treatment of the subject here is broader than typical body language guides limited merely to body positions and gestures. If you carry out any serious analysis or discussion you should clarify the terminology in your own way to suit your purposes. For example: Does body language include facial expression and eye movement? - Usually, yes. What about breathing and perspiration? - This depends on your definition of body language. And while tone and pitch of voice are part of verbal signals, are these part of body language too? - Not n
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Greek/Latin Roots Acoelomate [Greek a-, without; + Greek coel, cavity] animals �Angiosperms� [Greek angos, vessel; + Greek sperma, seed] Autotrophic [Greek autos, self; + Greek trophe, from trephein, to nourish] Coelomate (sometimes Eucoelomate) [Greek eu-, good, (= true); + Greek coel, cavity] Deuterostomes [Greek deuteros, second; + Greek stoma, mouth] Eukaryotic [Greek eu, good, well (= true); + Greek karyo, nut] �Gymnosperms� [Greek gymnos, naked; + Greek sperma, seed] Heterotrophic [Greek heteros, other; + Greek trophe, from trephein, to nourish] Photosynthetic [Greek photo-, from phos, light; + Greek synthesis, to put together] Prokaryotic [Greek pro-, before; + Greek karyo, nut] Protostomes [Greek protos, first; + Greek stoma, mouth] Pseudocoelomate [Greek pseudo-, false; + Greek coel, cavity] animals Classification of organisms Consistent with Mader, 6th edition, Biology Laboratory Manual. Kingdom Monera [Greek moneres, solitary, from monos, single, alone] Subkingdom Archaebacteria [Greek archae-, ancient; + Greek bakterion, diminutive of baktron, rod] Subkingdom Eubacteria [Greek eu-, good, well(= true); + Greek bakterion, diminutive of baktron, rod] Phylum Cyanobacteria [Greek kyanos, dark blue] Heterotrophic [Greek heteros, other; + Greek trophe, from trephein, to nourish] bacteria bacillus [diminutive of Latin baculum, rod] spirillum [diminutive of Latin spira, coil] coccus [from Greek kokkos, grain, seed] The other four Kingdoms are Eukaryotic [Greek eu-, good, well (= true); + Greek karyon, nut] Kingdom Protista [Greek protista, neuter pl. of protistos, the very first, superlative of protos, first] Protists resembling animals = �Protozoa� [Greek proto-, first; + Greek zoion, zoon, living being, animal] Phylum Sarcodina [Greek sarkodes, fleshy, from sarx, sark-, flesh] Phylum Ciliophora [Latin cilium, lower eyelid (= eyelash); + Greek -phoros, bearing, from pherein, to carry] Phylum Zoomastigophora [Greek zoion, zoon, living being, animal; + Greek mastig-, whip; + Greek -phoros, bearing, from pherein, to carry] Phylum Sporozoa [Greek spora, seed; + Greek zoion, zoon, living being, animal] Protists resembling plants = �Algae� [Latin alga, seaweed] Phylum Chlorophyta [Greek khloros, green; + Greek phyton, plant] Phylum Phaeophyta [Greek phaeo-, dusky; + Greek phyton, plant] Phylum Chrysophyta [Greek khrysos, gold, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew harus; + Greek phyton, plant] Phylum Dinoflagella [Greek dino-, terrible or whirling; + Latin flagellum, whip] Phylum Euglenophyta [Greek eu-, good, (= true); + Greek glene, eyeball; + Greek phyton, plant] Phylum Rhodophyta [Greek rhodon, rose (= red); + Greek phyton, plant] Protists resembling fungi = �Slime Molds� Phylum Gymnomycota [Greek gymno-, naked; + New Latin -mycetes, from Greek mukes, muket-, fungus] Kingdom Animalia [Latin animale, neuter of animalis, living, from anima, soul] Phylum Porifera [Latin porus, passage, pore; + Latin -fera, bearing, from ferre, to carry] Phylum Cnidaria [Latin cnide, nettle; + Latin -arius, of or related to] Class Hydrozoa [Greek Hydra, a many-headed water serpent; + Greek zoion, zoon, living being, animal] Class Scyphozoa [Greek skyphos, cup; + Greek zoion, zoon, living being, animal] Class Anthozoa [Greek anthos, flower; + Greek zoion, zoon, living being, animal] Phylum Ctenophora [Greek cten-, comb; + Greek -phoros, bearing, from pherein, to carry] Phylum Platyhelminthes [Greek platy-, flat; + Greek helminth, worm] Class Turbellaria [Latin turbella, bustle, turmoil (from the motion of their cilia in the water)] Class Trematoda [Greek trema-, hole, perforation; + Greek oda, Like, a resemblance] Class Cestoda [Latin cestus, belt; + Greek oda, Like, a resemblance] Phylum Nematoda [Greek nema, thread; + Greek oda, Like, a resemblance] Phylum Rotifera [Latin rota, wheel; + Latin -fera, bearing, from ferre, to carry] Protostomes [Greek protos, first; + Greek stoma, mouth] Phylum Mollusca [Latin molluscus, thin-shelled, from mollis, soft] Class Bivalvia [Latin bis, bi-,
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Sheffield United Mascot - Captain Blade - 3D Model Skinning Test - YouTube Sheffield United Mascot - Captain Blade - 3D Model Skinning Test 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 Jan 13, 2011 This is my first attempt at skinning a 3D character I have been asked to create for Sheffield United Football Club. As you can see it still needs a fair amount of work, and some better blending between the verts in some areas, but seems to be a good start. It is being created for an animation which will feature Captain Blade scoring a goal, and is intended for display on the big screen at Bramall Lane whenever SUFC score! Category
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FA Cup Opta Stats: Tottenham v Cheltenham (and all S-Z ties) : Opta : UK & Ireland Football UK & Ireland Football Free Bet The FA Cup is the only major trophy that Harry Redknapp has lifted Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon, Tottenham, Watford and West Brom are the hosts scrutinised by Opta in their final instalment of FA Cup facts... Sheffield United v Salisbury The sides have never met in any competition. The Blades have reached six FA Cup finals, winning four of them. Sheffield United have only lost one of their last 13 FA Cup games against non-league opponents, losing 0-3 in a replay at Altrincham in November 1981. Salisbury are making their first appearance in the FA Cup third round. Sheffield United have only lost one of their last eight FA Cup games at Bramall Lane. Sheffield Wednesday v West Ham The Owls have been knocked out in the third round on seven of the last eight occasions that they have reached this stage. Sheffield Wednesday have progressed on all three occasions that they have met the Hammers in the FA Cup. The Owls have won their last three FA Cup matches at home. West Ham have won their last 10 FA Cup games against sides from a lower division, firing in 29 goals in the process. West Ham have made it to the fourth round on nine of the last 11 occasions that they have reached the FA Cup third round. Swindon v Wigan Swindon have twice reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, losing one step before the final in both 1910 and 1912. The Robins have already overcome higher ranked opposition twice (Huddersfield and Colchester) to reach the third round this season. Wigan have only lost two of their last 12 FA Cup games against lower ranked sides, though one of them was an embarrassing 0-1 defeat to non-league Canvey Island. Wigan have never won at the County Ground in five attempts, losing two and drawing three. Five of the Latics' last seven goals against Swindon have occurred in the second half. Tottenham v Cheltenham Tottenham have never played Cheltenham. Spurs have appeared in nine FA Cup finals, triumphing on eight occasions. Tottenham have only suffered defeat to lower league opposition once in twenty matches - against Leicester (2-3) in 2006. Spurs have lost once in their last 13 FA Cup ties at White Hart Lane. Cheltenham progressed past the third round twice before, making it to the fifth round in 2002 and the fourth round in 2006. Cheltenham have faced higher league opposition nine times in the last ten years, progressing on three occasions. Cheltenham have already scored five goals in this year's competition, conceding two. Watford v Bradford The Bantams have failed to win at Vicarage Road in 11 attempts (in all competitions). Bradford will hope to take the game to a replay secure in the knowledge they have beaten Watford seven consecutive times on home soil. Watford's fourth round defeat to Brighton last season was their first to lower league opposition since Birmingham in 1999. Watford have scored four or more goals in two of their last five FA Cup ties, although they have also shipped three or more in three of those five matches. Bradford's most successful FA Cup run came in 1911 when they won the competition, beating Newcastle 1-0 in a replay. The Bantams have tasted defeat in eight of their last 11 FA Cup matches away from home. Bradford have met higher league opposition six times in the last 10 years, winning two and losing four. West Brom v Cardiff West Brom have won the FA Cup five times, with their most recent win coming in 1968, beating Everton 1-0 after extra-time. West Brom have exited the competition to lower league opposition twice in the last three years. Cardiff are unbeaten in their previous three visits to the Hawthorns in all competitions, winning twice and netting a total of nine goals. City midfielder Peter Whittingham has scored in consecutive games against the Baggies. Cardiff have forced higher league opposition to a replay in six of their last eleven FA Cup matches against them.
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What is the main ingredient of tofu?
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What is tofu made of | Delicious Tofu What is tofu made of The short answer is: tofu is made of soy! Actually it is not made of soy but of soy milk. Soy is the main ingredient in tofu. Other ingredients needed when making tofu are coagulant and water. This process is similar to cheese making. Image via Wikipedia How is Tofu Made Tofu is made by coagulating soy milk with salts such as calcium sulphate and pressing the resulting curds. First, whole Soybeans are soaked in water and then ground down with water, the resulting liquid after straining is what makes soy milk. The soy milk is then heated up and coagulated. The common coagulates are calcium sulfate, magnesium chloride and nigari. Less coagulant produces softer tofu, more of it produces harder tofu. Once the majority of the milk is coagulated, the curded mixture is poured into a cheese cloth lined mold and allowed to sit in a block. After several minutes (when the tofu becomes firmer) it is stored in small packages and filled with water. Health Benefits of Tofu The soy protein and isoflavones in tofu are considered a powerful cholesterol fighters. Tofu has high amounts of the trace mineral selenium which is very important for the proper functioning of the antioxidant system. The isoflavones in tofu act as a form of estrogen in the body, and have been shown to be very helpful in alleviating the side effects associated with menopause. As a good source of iron, tofu helps in the process of energy production. Tofu is packed with protein which contain all essential amino acids. It is perfect alternative to meat. In fact it is even better, it has less fat and less calories than meat. That is all about it. It is that simple. Check it out since tofu is great alternative to meat. If all your previous attempts of eating tofu didn't end well then the preparation was not good. Tofu is very simple food to cook with. But there are some crucial tips for making food that tastes delicious. Before cooking you should always remove all existing water out of it. Tofu is like a sponge and it is usually filled with water. To make it able to absorb other flavors you have to remove water out. You can do this by pressing it or dry frying. When you successfully removed as much water as possible then tofu is ready to became a delicious meal. Check out this tips for how to cook tofu .
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Search Indian Restaurants in any part of the World Search Indian Restaurants in any part of the World Find Indian Restaurant by Name by City Please tell Indian Restaurant that you found them on IndianDinner.com Spicey Restaurants USA Indian cuisine is a subtle taste. Flavours are as varied as climate and as exotic as the people of India. Fragrant spices, pungent and warm spices, are delicately blended in meticulous proportions to create each dish which will have its own distinctive flavour from spices which have to prepared afresh. The blending and preparation of spices is a centuries old craft to Indian cuisine Aniseed (Suwa) is the fruit or seed from the flowering plant, Pimpinella anisum. The seeds are used whole or crushed as a flavoring in various foods, from baked goods and sweets to liquours Asafoetida (Hing) or asafoetid (Devil's Dung) is the dried latex (oleo-gum-resin) exuded from the living rhizome, rootstock or taproot of an umbelliferous plant of varied species. A popular spice in foods and medicines. Basil (Tulsi) is obtained from a small, erect, glabrous, profusely branched herb, indigenous to India. It forms part of the 'sweet' herbs. Basil is a member of the mint family. Basil is popular worldwide because of its rich aroma, attractive fragrance and superb blending properties when used in seasonings. Bay Leaf (Tejpata) these fragrant leaves with pointed ends are used in their dried form. These are used in curries and rice preparations. The leaves are first browned in oil first to increase the aroma. Black Salt (Kala Namak-Sanchal) Slightly pungent smell in the salt comes from the presence of the sulphate. This salt is used as a final garnish by sprinkling on the fresh fruits and vegetables, salads and fried savories. The salt comes in the form of different hued crystals and are ground to a powder before used for culinary purposes Cardamom Small (Elaichi) often dubbed as the "grains of paradise" is a pungent, aromatic herb. It is the dried ripe fruit (capsules of cardamom plant) often referred as the Queen of Spices because of its very pleasant aroma and taste. Cardamom Large (Elaichi) Large cardamom is the dried fruit of a perennial herbaceous plant. It's quality characteristics are different from that of small cardamom. The fruit is 4 to 6 times size of small cardamom. Carom Powder-Oragano (Ajwain) it has a strong, pungent odor and flavor similar to pepper and anise. They contain thymol oil, which gives a taste reminiscent of thyme. it is used in lentil dishes, vegetable parathas, pakoras and meat dishes. . Chillies (Mirchi) India's most important contribution to the world of spices. An annual plant, chilli comes in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, colours and in different degrees of pungency. Cinnamon (Dalchini) is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods. Clove (Lavang) are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. They have a numbing effect on mouth tissues. The flower buds are at first of a pale color and gradually become green, after which they develop into a bright red. Coriander (Dhanya) The name `coriander' is based on the Greek work `kopis' which means `bug'. Coriander requires full exposure to sunlight but with less heat and medium-to-heavy loamy soil, good drainage and well-distributed moisture. Cumin (Zeera) Though native to Egypt and the Mediterranean, cumin is now mostly produced in India. Dill Seeds (Suwa) are dried fruit of the herb of parsley family. Seeds are oval-shaped, soft and fluffy, has a pungent and aromatic. Seeds are use to treat colic or gas in children. Dill is useful addition to cough, cold and flu remedies. Fennel (Saunf) Ancient Indians used fennel as a condiment and culinary spice. In Greece, it was a symbol of success. In Rome, the young fennel shoots were used as food. Pliny considered it good for improved vision. Fenugreek (Methi) The ripe, dried fruit of a quick-growing annual leguminous herb, fenugreek has a strong, pleasa
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BBC - Radio 1 - News Contact us How do you decide what goes on air? We start with a daily 0815 editorial meeting to discuss the day's news so far plus what's in the "diary" - a list of court cases and events in Parliament. Reporters and staff suggest ideas - and the editors decide what to cover. It's often your opinion that makes the final difference; strong emails, texts or online reaction to a story make us more likely to do it. Why is your style so different from the rest of BBC news? Because that's the way you like it. We've done a great deal of research into exactly what you want from Newsbeat. You tell us you want a good digest of the issues that matter to you. You're after complex stories explained well. Entertainment news and sport play a big part on Radio 1 News because that's what our listeners are into. Some people say the BBC is 'dumbing down' stories - what do you say to that? We aim to give clear explanations of complex issues, in modern English. We don't like tabloid language or clichés. We avoid jargon and use slang sparingly. Our extensive research shows listeners appreciate this approach and style. Where do you find contributors? Our reporters have impressive contacts which they've built up over time. Our planning team also have a fantastic database of contributors and we develop this all the time. Do the reporters really go to where they say they are, or is it just sound effects? We never fake it. Absolutely we are on location - we like our reporters to be out "in the field" every day. The best way to get the truth of what's happening is often to get to the scene and talk to the people who experienced the event. We've recently been to Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, Poland, Ibiza, Jamaica and Crete. We have permanent reporters in LA, New York, Leeds and Manchester and a satellite vehicle so we can broadcast from anywhere in the UK. Who is responsible for what goes out, and who takes the blame if you broadcast something that isn't correct? The editor takes the blame if anything goes wrong because he is ultimately responsible for everything on Newsbeat. We do check what we broadcast several times before it goes on air. Do you take work experience people? If you'd like work experience at Newsbeat or anywhere at the BBC visit BBC Jobs . Know a lot about the area you are applying to - and be willing and enthusiastic if you get the chance to do it. How can I suggest an idea for Newsbeat? You're very welcome to email us at newsbeat@bbc.co.uk What is a typical day like in the Newsbeat office? It's a long day and very tough. Reporters are usually up at around 6am so they can read papers, get a good knowledge of the day's news and do background reading and research before they arrive in the office at 8am. After the editorial meeting they're on the road or train to stories around the country. They have to supply short pieces for hourly news summaries in between doing interviews, scripting their piece, producing it, having it checked by the duty editor and then sent back for broadcast via satellite, radio car or mobile phone file transfer. They have to provide longer pieces for Newsbeat at 1245 and 1745 and for our sister station 1Xtra. If the story is ongoing they'll stay with it overnight and for several days on end if necessary... otherwise it's travelling back to base which may make their working days 12 or 15 hours long. Do the entertainment reporters actually get to go to premieres and parties? Yes they do! Most nights in fact..... Are the presenters friends with the DJs? Yes - there are lots of strong friendships across all levels of staff at Radio 1 - including between DJs and news presenters. Further information
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BBC Signature Tunes Home Page Signature Tunes Housewives' Choice was a record request programme broadcast on the Light Programme every weekday morning from 1946 until the arrival of Radios 1 and 2 in 1967. It had a different presenter each week, and the signature tune was In Party Mood by Jack Strachey. A programme called Children's Choice ran from 1952, following the Housewive's Choice format. Children's Favourites replaced it two years later. Until 1965 it was presented by Derek McCulloch, known from Children's Hour as Uncle Mac. The Reithian spirit prevailed and the programme included not just records made for children, or pop, but light classical pieces and even hymns. The signature tune was Puffin' Billy. The launch of Radios 1 & 2 saw the programme, now called Junior Choice, broadcast on both channels with a new sig tune and more pop content. The programme ran until 1982. Family Favourites was a record request programme which linked families in the UK with members of the armed forces serving in Germany and elsewhere. As Two-Way Family Favourites it brought together London and Cologne but later it included more distant (and non-military) links including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Hong Kong. The signature tune was With a Song in My Heart. Related page Trevor Hill recalls the origins of Family Favourites and the choice of the signature tune. Down Your Way ran from 1946 to 1992, introduced by Horse Guards, Whitehall from the London Lankmarks Suite by Haydn Wood. The programme visited a different location each week, interviewing residents and playing their choice of music. It was hosted by Stewart MacPherson (1946-1950), Richard Dimbleby (1950-1955), Franklin Engelmann (1955-1972), Brian Johnston (1955-1987) and then by a different host each week. The music of Eric Coates was often used. By the Sleepy Lagoon still is, with added seagulls. Desert Island Discs began in 1942 and can claim to be the longest running factual programme on radio. It was devised by Roy Plomley, who presented the programme for 43 years. Michael Parkinson took over in 1985 following Plomley's death. Sue Lawley followed in 1988 and Kirsty Young in 2006. Plomley himself was the castaway on two occasions, the interviewers being Leslie Perowne and Eamonn Andrews. Another Coates piece, Calling All Workers, introduced Music While You Work which began in June 1940. It was intended to improve morale in wartime factories and thus increase productivity. It continued after the war up until 1967 when the Light Programme ended. With two editions a day, the programme was usually live, though some were recorded in later years. It featured dance orchestras, brass and military bands, light orchestras and small instumental groups. Music Magazine was co-edited by Julian Herbage and his wife Anna Instone. Presented by him (from 1952) and produced by her, the programme ran from 1944 to 1973. Julian had joined the BBC in 1927 and Anna became head of gramophone programmes. The tune used was Schubert's An die musik ("To music"). Originally broadcast from the 1930s to the 1960s Paul Temple was a detective series. The signature tune was Coronation Scot by Vivian Ellis. Paul and his wife Steve were played by several actors over the years but probably the best known voices were those of Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury. Some of the stories have been remade in the 21st century with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson in the lead roles. Devil's Galop by Charles Williams was the sig of Dick Barton - Special Agent which began in 1946 at 1845 on the Light Programme. The serial followed the adventures of ex-Commando Captain Richard Barton MC and his sidekicks Jock Anderson and Snowy White. They solved various crimes, escaped from all sorts of scrapes and often saved the nation from disaster, each evening
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In sport who are the Black Caps?
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Black Caps expecting improved Zimbabwe in 2nd Test Black Caps expecting improved Zimbabwe in 2nd Test Pin it Share New Zealand bowler Trent Boult (C) celebrates a wicket with his teammates during the fourth day of the first test match in a series of two tests between New Zealand and hosts Zimbabwe at Queens Sports Club, in Bulawayo July 31 2016 (AFP Photo/Jekesai Njikizana) More Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - New Zealand expect to come up against greater resistance from both their opponents and the conditions when they take on Zimbabwe in the second and final Test at Queens Sports Club on Saturday. The Black Caps handed Zimbabwe a sound thrashing in the first Test, beating them by an innings and 117 runs inside four days on a placid surface that offered little to the bowlers. However, the tourists expect Zimbabwe to be an improved side from the one that was playing their first Test in almost two years, and are also anticipating a pitch with even less life in it. "We know this game will be tougher," wicketkeeper-batsman BJ Watling, who scored a century in the first Test, said on Friday. "The surface looks slower and drier. "We've got to improve in little areas, because Zimbabwe will be a tougher task." While New Zealand's seamers did the job in the first game, taking 16 of the 20 wickets, that could change as the venue hosts its second straight Test match in as many weeks. "The spinners will come into it more," predicted Watling. "I thought they bowled reasonably well with little reward (in the first Test)." Left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner and leg-spinner Ish Sodhi were both picked for the first Test, and Watling confirmed that New Zealand would field an unchanged XI on Saturday. Captain Kane Williamson and fast bowler Tim Southee will both play their 50th Test matches. Zimbabwe are expected to try and replicate their opponent's team balance, having called off-spinner John Nyumbu into their squad. Nyumbu will provide some much-needed support to leg-spinner Graeme Cremer, who toiled through 53 overs in New Zealand's innings in the opening match. Further changes are expected, with Tino Mawoyo set to replace Hamilton Masakadza in the top order after the veteran picked up a back injury, and wicketkeeper-batsman Peter Moor likely to debut as Regis Chakabva continues to battle tonsillitis. The hosts will seek greater stability in their top order after collapsing to 36 for four and 17 for four in the first Test, but Mawoyo expects them to be much improved now that the batsmen have a game under their belts. "The good thing is that we have had one game already," he said. "The guys have had a good look at how they got out and have done some work. "Realistically, to come out and say we're going to win the next Test would not be honest. If we can go out there and improve on the things we have spoken about, we are going forward." The first day's play could see a peaceful demonstration against President Robert Mugabe’s government by Zimbabwean citizens, after a protest movement known as #This Flag urged supporters to rise to their feet in the 36th over and sing the national anthem. The number signifies the 36 years that Mugabe has been in power in Zimbabwe, and also "the number of years we have been silent", according to #This Flag leader Pastor Evan Mawarire. Reblog
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All Blacks : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics New Zealand national rugby league team Did you know ... New Zealand rugby player Andy Dalton suffered an injury that kept him from captaining the All Blacks side that went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup ? New Zealand rugby union footballer Ali Williams did not start playing until he was aged 17, but earned three international caps before he was 22? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "All Black" redirects here. For the song, see All Black (song) . New Zealand Australia 3 - 22 New Zealand (15 August 1903) Largest win New Zealand 145 - 17 Japan (4 June 1995) Worst defeat Australia 28 - 7 New Zealand (28 August 1999) World Cup Appearances 6 (First in 1987 ) Best result Champions, 1987 The New Zealand national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, is the representative side of New Zealand in rugby union . Rugby union is regarded as the country's national sport . [3] New Zealand has a winning record against every international rugby team they have played, including the British and Irish Lions . New Zealand competes annually with Australia (the Wallabies) and South Africa (the Springboks) in the Tri-Nations Series , and have been Tri-Nations champions nine times in the tournament's 13-year history. New Zealand also holds the Bledisloe Cup , which they currently contest annually with Australia and which includes Tri-Nations games between the countries. They have three times completed a Grand Slam (in 1978, 2005 and 2008) of the four Home Nations . New Zealand are the number one ranked team in the IRB World Rankings [4] and were named the International Rugby Board (IRB) Team of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2008. [5] Fourteen former All Blacks have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame , one into the IRB Hall of Fame . The team first competed in 1884 against Cumberland County, New South Wales, and played their first Test match in 1903, a victory against Australia . This was followed by a tour of the northern hemisphere in 1905. The team's early uniforms consisted of a black jersey with a silver fern and white knickerbockers. By their 1905 tour New Zealand were wearing all black, except for the silver fern, and their All Black name dates from this time. New Zealand traditionally perform a haka ( Māori war dance) before each match. Traditionally, the haka performed is Te Rauparaha's Ka Mate , though since 2005, Kapa o Pango , a modified version of the 1924 All Blacks haka, Kia Whaka-ngawari, has occasionally been performed. Contents Introduction of rugby to New Zealand The team that toured New South Wales, Australia in 1884. Rugby Football was introduced to New Zealand by Charles Monro in the late 1860s; Monro discovered the sport while completing his studies at Christ's College, Finchley , England. [6] The first game in New Zealand took place in May 1870 in Nelson between the Nelson club and Nelson College. The first union, Canterbury , was formed in 1879. [7] In 1882, New Zealand's first internationals were played when the Southern Rugby Union (later the New South Wales Rugby Union ) toured the country. The tourists played Auckland provincial clubs twice, Wellington twice and once each against Canterbury, Otago and West Coast, North Island , winning four games and losing three. Two years later the first New Zealand team to go overseas toured New South Wales; New Zealand played and won eight games. [8] The first tour by a British team took place in 1888 when a British Isles team toured Australia and New Zealand, but no Test matches were played. The players were drawn mainly from England and the Scottish Borders , although there were representatives from all four home unions.[citation needed] International competition begins The Original All Blacks , 1905 The year 1892 saw the formation of the New Zealand Rugby Foot
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Location and Contacts | University of Warwick Park and Ride Visiting the University Our university is located in the heart of England, 3 miles (5 kilometres) from the centre of Coventry, on the border with Warwickshire. We're really proud of the environment in which our campus is set - this is a great place to live, work, research and study. Why not come and see it for yourself? Directions
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Heart of England tourism - Historic attractions and accommodation Home > Where > England > Heart of England Heart of England - Heritage Travel Guide Historic Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Warwickshire Explore They call it the 'Heart' of England for good reason! Find historic places to visit and stay, explore Shakespeare's Startford-upon-Avon and some of the finest stately homes in England, such as Waddesdon Manor and Cliveden House. From the historic cities of Warwick with its superb medioeval castle, to Bedford and its links with native son John Bunyan, history is never far away. Major Heart of England Historic Attractions Top Heritage-Rated
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Books of the Bible - New and Old Testament Books Of The Bible Forgot password Password Assistance Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Email address New Testament The Old Testament (also known as the Jewish Tanakh) is the first 39 books in most Christian Bibles. The name stands for the original promise with God (to the descendants of Abraham in particular) prior to the coming of Jesus Christ in the New Testament (or the new promise). The Old Testament contains the creation of the universe, the history of the patriarchs, the exodus from Egypt, the formation of Israel as a nation, the subsequent decline and fall of the nation, the Prophets (who spoke for God), and the Wisdom Books. Leviticus Leviticus receives its name from the Septuagint (the pre-Christian Greek translation of the Old Testament) and means "concerning the Levites" (the priests of Israel). It serves as a manual of regulations enabling the holy King to set up his earthly throne among the people of his kingdom. It explains how they are to be his holy people and to worship him in a holy manner. Judges The book of Judges depicts the life of Israel in the Promised Land—from the death of Joshua to the rise of the monarchy. It tells of urgent appeals to God in times of crisis and apostasy, moving the Lord to raise up leaders (judges) through whom He throws off foreign oppressors and restores the land to peace. Ruth The book of Ruth has been called one of the best examples of short narrative ever written. It presents an account of the remnant of true faith and piety in the period of the judges through the fall and restoration of Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth (an ancestor of King David and Jesus). 2 Samuel After the failure of King Saul, 2 Samuel depicts David as a true (though imperfect) representative of the ideal theocratic king. Under David's rule the Lord caused the nation to prosper, to defeat its enemies, and to realize the fulfillment of His promises. 1 Kings 1 Kings continues the account of the monarchy in Israel and God's involvement through the prophets. After David, his son Solomon ascends the throne of a united kingdom, but this unity only lasts during his reign. The book explores how each subsequent king in Israel and Judah answers God's call—or, as often happens, fails to listen.
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The Pentateuch -- the first five books of the Bible The Hebrew Scriptures a.k.a. Old Testament Who wrote the Pentateuch, a.k.a. the Five Books of Moses? Sponsored link. The five books of Moses are a.k.a. The Pentateuch, the Books of the Law, the Law, and the Torah Conflicting quotations: "...despite all the arguments made against Mosaic authorship/editorship, the traditional view [that Moses wrote the Pentateuch] is still as critically tenable as any of the others." J.D. Douglas et al. 1 "..there is hardly a biblical scholar in the world actively working on the [authorship] problem who would claim that the Five Books of Moses were written by Moses." R.E. Friedman. 2 "...it has long been recognized that...[Moses] cannot have been the author, and that the Pentateuch is in fact anonymous." D.J.A. Clines. 3 Biblical Terms: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are sometimes referred to as: the "Five Books of Moses," because the writings themselves identify the author as Moses, or the "Pentateuch," a Greek term meaning "pente (5) teuchos (volumes)," or the "Books of the Law", or the "Torah" (a Hebrew word meaning "instruction") These books were originally written as a single unbroken scroll. Sometime before the 2nd Century BCE , it was divided into the 5 books that we see today. What does the Bible itself say about authorship of the Pentateuch? There are about two dozen verses in the Hebrew Scriptures and one dozen in the Christian Scriptures which state or strongly imply that Moses was the author. Consider the following passages from the New Living Translation (NLT): Passages in the Pentateuch itself: Exodus 17:14 "Then the Lord instructed Moses, 'Write this down as a permanent record...'" Exodus 24:4 "Then Moses carefully wrote down all the Lord's instructions." Exodus 34:27 "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Write down all these instructions, for they represents the terms of my covenant with you and with Israel.'" Leviticus 1:1 "The Lord called to Moses from the Tabernacle and said to him, 'Give the following instructions to the Israelites...'" Leviticus 6:8 "Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Give Aaron and his sons the following instructions...'" Deuteronomy 31:9 "So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests." Deuteronomy 31:24-26 "When Moses had finished writing down this entire body of law in a book..." Passages elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures: Joshua 1:7-8 "...Obey all the laws Moses gave you." Joshua 8:31-34 "He followed the instructions that Moses the Lord's servant had written in the Book of the Law..." Joshua 22:5 "...obey all the commands and the laws that Moses gave to you." 2 Chronicles 34:14 "...Hilkiah the high priest...found the book of the Law of the Lord as it had been given through Moses." Passages in the Gospels which show that Jesus and John the Baptizer believed Moses to be the author: Matthew 19:7-8 "...why did Moses say a man could merely write an official letter of divorce and send her away?", they asked. Jesus replied, 'Moses permitted divorce...'" Matthew 22:24 "Moses said, 'If a man dies without children...'" Mark 7:10 "For instance, Moses gave you this law from God..." Mark 12:24 "...haven't you ever read about this in the writings of Moses, in the story of the burning bush..." Luke 24:44 "...I told you that everything written about me by Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must all come true." John 1:17 "For the law was given through Moses..." John 5:46 "But if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me because he wrote about me. And since you don't believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?" John 7:23 "...do it, so as not to break the law of Moses..." Passages elsewhere in the Christian Scriptures: Acts 26:22 "...I teach nothing except what the prophets and Moses said would happen..." Romans 10:5 "For Moses wrote..." But nowhere in the Bible is it specifically stated that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch. Even if one believes in the inerrancy of the Bible, a case can be made that he authored only parts of the Torah, and that other writers added
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bearskin (hat) - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby Busby (disambiguation) a kind of military headdress, made of fur, derived from that traditionally worn by Hussars. Busby may also refer to: Adam Busby, (b. 1948), Scottish terrorist | Allen Busby (1900-1988), U.S. politician | Brian Busby (b. 1962), Canadian literary... (37 of 300 words, 34 definitions)
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Passable Literature Trivia Quiz In which book would you find a Heffalump? Which detective had a landlady called Mrs. Hudson? Who wrote the Booker Prize winning novel The Life of Pi? Which of Alexandre Dumas' 'Three Musketeers' real identity is Comte de la Fère? In which language did Vladimir Nabokov write Lolita? Which 1949 novel begins 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen?' How many lines are there in a sonnet? Don Diego de la Vega is the secret identity of which hero? In which novel does an alien invasion commence in Woking, England? In the title of a Shakespeare play, who are Valentine and Proteus? In which George Bernard Shaw play are Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle central characters? Which fictional Count's real name is Edmond Dantès? What was the name of Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's novel? Which poet wrote the Canterbury Tales? Who was Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased partner in 'A Christmas Carol?' Question Who created the fictional town of Middlemarch? In which novel would you find the exceedingly strong drink called the 'Pan-galactic Gargle Blaster?' In which Jane Austen novel do the Bennet family appear? Who is the title hobbit in 'The Hobbit?' Which author used the pseudonyms Isaac Bickerstaffe and Lemuel Gulliver among others? What is the name of the sequel to John Milton's 'Paradise Lost?' In which novel does the character Major Major Major Major appear? Who went on a circumnavigation of the world from the Reform Club as the result of a bet? Which Ray Bradbury novel opens 'It was a pleasure to burn?' Which novel was subtitled 'The Modern Prometheus?' Who wrote the short story 'I, Robot' in 1950? In the Harry Potter novels, as whom did Tom Riddle become infamous? Which novel takes place in the Year of Our Ford 632? Who taught children to fly using 'lovely thoughts' and fairy dust? Which John Steinbeck novel centers on the characters George and Lennie? Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? How are the sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy collectively known? Which mythological figure 'Shrugged' in the title of an Ayn Rand novel? How many syllables are there in a haiku? 'Workers of the world, unite!' is the last line of which work? What real-life Soviet organisation is James Bond's nemesis in the early novels? In which fictional country is the castle of Zenda to be found? Who is the chief protagonist in John Buchan's The 39 Steps? How is David John Cornwell better known? What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot? At what age do Adrian Mole's diaries start? Who lived the last few years of his life in Paris under the pseudonym 'Sebastian Melmoth'? Who created Noddy?
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Who played the title role in the 1985 film ‘Red Sonja’?
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Red Sonja (1985) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A vengeful woman sets out to retrieve a magic orb from an evil queen whom she vows vengeance upon after the evil queen slain her family and her loyal warriors raped her. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 48 titles created 31 May 2012 a list of 32 titles created 23 May 2014 a list of 21 titles created 14 Nov 2014 a list of 33 titles created 16 Nov 2015 a list of 24 titles created 8 months ago Search for " Red Sonja " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards » Photos Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess. Director: Richard Fleischer A barbarian warrior sets off to avenge his parents and his tribe whom were slain by an evil sorcerer and his henchmen when he was a boy. Director: John Milius A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them. Director: John Irvin A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country. Director: Walter Hill At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him. Director: Peter Hyams A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons. Director: Chuck Russell A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show. Director: Paul Michael Glaser A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is a short small-time crook. Director: Ivan Reitman A retired elite Black Ops Commando launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter . Director: Mark L. Lester After his family is killed by a terrorist act, a firefighter goes in search of the one responsible. Director: Andrew Davis Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world. Director: Roger Spottiswoode With the help of a magic ticket, a young film fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action film character. Director: John McTiernan Edit Storyline The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She attacks and kills the keepers of a powerful talisman just before it is destroyed. Gedren then uses the power of the talisman in her raid of the city Hablac. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren. The talisman's master Kalidor follows to protect her. Of course they fall in love - however Red Sonja's power bases on the oath to never give herself to any man... Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Heroes of their time. For all time. See more » Genres: 3 July 1985 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brigitte Nielsen had an affair during filming. See more » Goofs When Red Sonja and Falkon fight the bandits that captured Prince Tarn, Falkon hits a downed bandit with his bone club and part of the club breaks off upon impact. When he appears on screen again a moment later, the club is undamaged. See more » Quotes Mildly entertaining if not taken too seriously 12 June 2004 | by ColonelFaulkner Have just seen this film for the first time after purchasing it on DVD It comes across as a cheap attempt to cash in on the two Conan movies. Unfortunately, this film didn't appear to have the same budget as the Conan films and hence some of the sets and effects aren't as flash and some scenes see
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2005 Academy Awards® Winners and History (WALLACE & GROMIT IN) THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (2005, UK) Howl's Moving Castle (2004, Jp.) (Tim Burton's) Corpse Bride (2005) Actor: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN in "Capote," Terrence Howard in "Hustle & Flow," Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain," Joaquin Phoenix in "Walk the Line," David Strathairn in "Good Night, and Good Luck." Actress: REESE WITHERSPOON in "Walk the Line," Judi Dench in "Mrs. Henderson Presents," Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica," Keira Knightley in "Pride & Prejudice," Charlize Theron in "North Country" Supporting Actor: GEORGE CLOONEY in "Syriana," Matt Dillon in "Crash," Paul Giamatti in "Cinderella Man," Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain," William Hurt in "A History of Violence" Supporting Actress: RACHEL WEISZ in "The Constant Gardener," Amy Adams in "Junebug," Catherine Keener in "Capote," Frances McDormand in "North Country," Michelle Williams in "Brokeback Mountain" Director: ANG LEE for "Brokeback Mountain," George Clooney for "Good Night, and Good Luck.," Paul Haggis for "Crash," Bennett Miller for "Capote," Steven Spielberg for "Munich" The Academy Award honorees for this year, for the most part, continued the trend away from big-budget, mega-blockbusters and aimed at smaller independent efforts. Four of the five Best Picture nominees were independently financed, including the winner Crash. In recent memory, the last time this happened was in 1996, when four of the five top nominees (The English Patient, Fargo , Secrets & Lies, Shine - and Jerry Maguire) were independent productions. Many of the themes of the nominees were focused on sociopolitical issues (corporate corruption), provocative socially-relevant ideas (racial tension and terrorism), and intimate personal themes (gay and transgender). There was a perceived backlash against flashy, "popcorn" Best Picture nominees/winners, such as Gladiator (2000), Chicago (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) in this decade. Mega-budget box-office blockbusters that received minimal nominations included: Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong (with only 4 technical nominations, and three wins: Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing) director Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (with 3 technical nominations and one win for Best Makeup), an adaptation of C. S. Lewis' second book in Narnia series about good and evil in a magical land Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller remake War of the Worlds (with 3 technical nominations) the adaptation of best-seller J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (with only 1 nomination, Best Art Direction) - the fourth Harry Potter film in five years Christopher Nolan's comic-book superhero film Batman Begins (with 1 nomination, Best Cinematography) George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (with 1 nomination, Best Makeup) Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with 1 nomination, Best Costume Design) The five low-budget Best Picture nominees fairly evenly split the major nominations - no film received more than 8 nominations. This was also the first time since 1947 that no picture won more than 3 Oscars. They were all modest in
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Which 15th-century navigator discovered the sea route from Europe to India by the Cape of Good Hope?
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Intro (English) to the Resolutions of Cape of Good Hope / History of the Cape of Good Hope of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope History of the Cape of Good Hope A Portuguese discovers the sea route from Europe to India In August 1486 the Portuguese navigator, Bartholomeu Dias, set sail from the Tagus River at Lisbon with his fleet of two small vessels and a cargo ship. The objective of his journey was to sail round the southern point of Africa in order find a seaway and a trade route to India . At Angra Pequena (now Lüderitzbucht , Namibia ) he erected a cross. Then a tremendous storm forced his ships off course and he and his crew did not reach land until they entered the bay, which is known today as Mossel Bay . It was then that Dias realised that they had already passed the tip of Africa and had actually discovered the sea route to the East. The indigenous Khoi pastoralists fled when they saw the ships entering the bay. On the island of St. Croix near Algoa Bay he also erected a cross and probably kept on sailing until they reached the Fish River in the present Eastern Cape . There the small fleet had to turn back because of insufficient supplies on board. On his return voyage Dias, elated by the realisation of having discovered the sea route to India , changed the name Cabo Tormentoso ‘cape of storms’ to Cabo da boa Esperanza ‘cape of good hope’. Portugal continued the expansion of its Indian empire and Portuguese fleets to the East regularly passed the Cape . In 1498 Vasco da Gama named the above-mentioned bay where Dias landed Aguada de Sâo Bras ‘fountain-head of St. Blaize’. On his voyage to India (1501-1502) Joâo de Nova and his fleet also visited the bay and in his turn he named it Golfo dos Vaqueiros ‘bay of herdsmen’. He also built a small chapel, the first Christian structure erected in South Africa . De Nova continued his journey and reached Rio de la Goa ‘river of the lake’, the place that was named in 1544 by Lourenço Marques after himself. In 1503 one of the three squadrons belonging to this fleet was under the command of Antonio de Saldanha who made a navigational error and eventually reached the bay now known as Table Bay . In March 1510 the Portuguese viceroy Francisco d’ Almeida who had just established Portuguese authority in the Indian Ocean, and a number of his high-ranking officers were killed in Table Bay during a skirmish with a group of Khoi. The inhospitable coastline of Southern Africa was the most important reason why the Portuguese rulers were not interested in occupying this country.
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Artist s015 Oil Painting Museum s015 Simon Marmion (born c. 1425 at Amiens, France, died 24 or 25 December 1489, Valenciennes) was a French or Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy of Burgundy in the Southern Netherlands. Like many painters of his era, Marmion came from a family of artists, and both his father, Jean, and his brother Mille were painters. Marmion is recorded as working at Amiens between 1449 to 1454, and then at Valenciennes from 1458 until his death. He was patronized by Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy from 1454 when he was one of several artists called to Lille to work on the decorations for the Feast of the Pheasant. He was employed by several members of the ducal family, including Charles the Bold and Margaret of York. He was called "the prince of illuminators" by a near contemporary. Three years after his death his widow, Jeanne de Quaroube, married his pupil, the painter Jan Provoost, who on her death inherited the considerable Marmion estate. Although best known for his illuminated manuscripts, Marmion also produced portraits and other paintings, altarpieces, and decorative work. A famous double-sided altarpiece with several Scenes from the life of St Bertin is in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (with two sections in the National Gallery (London). There is a Mass of Saint Gregory in Toronto, and a Lamentation of Christ in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,three works in Philadelphia, and several others elsewhere. Stylistically he lies between his French and Flemish contemporaries, with a Flemish innovation in composition and landscape. His perspective is usually technically sound, but the proportions of his figures are often awkward, and their poses rather stiff. Simon Mathurin Lantara (24 March 1729 - 22 December 1778) was a French landscape painter. He was born at Oncy. His father was a weaver, and he himself began life as a herdboy; but, having attracted the notice of Gille de Reumont, a son of his master, he was placed under a painter at Versailles. Endowed with great facility and real talent, his powers found ready recognition; but he found the constraint of a regular life and the society of educated people unbearably tiresome; and as long as the proceeds of the last sale lasted he lived careless of the future in the company of obscure workmen. Rich amateurs more than once attracted him to their houses, only to find that in ease and high living Lantara could produce nothing. He died in Paris in 1778. His works, now much prized, are not numerous; the Louvre has one landscape, Morning, signed and dated 1761. Émile Bernard, Joseph Vernet, and others are said to have added figures to his landscapes and sea-pieces. Engravings after Lantara will be found in the works of Lebas, Piquenot, Duret, Mouchy and others. In 1809 a comedy called Lantara, or the Painter in the Pothouse, was brought out at the Vaudeville with great success. Simon Pietersz Verelst (1644, The Hague - 1710, London), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to the RKD he was the son of Pieter Harmensz Verelst and became a pupil in the Confrerie Pictura at the same time as his brother Herman in 1663. In 1668 he moved to London and called himself "the God of Flowers", but is known for portraits as well as flower and fruit still life paintings. Simon Ushakov 1626 - 1686) was a leading Russian graphic artist of the late 17th-century. Together with Fyodor Zubov and Fyodor Rozhnov, he is associated with the comprehensive reform of the Russian Orthodox Church undertaken by Patriarch Nikon. We know almost nothing about the early years of Simon Ushakov. His birth date is deduced from his inscription on one of the icons: In the year 7166 painted this icon Simon Ushakov son, being 32 years of age. At 22 he became a paid artist of the Silver Chamber, affiliated with the Armory Prikaz. The bright, fresh colours and exquisite, curving lines of his proto-baroque icons caught the eye of Patriarch Nikon, who
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Yvette Williams, Mary Rand, Willye White and Kathy McMillan are all medal winners in which Olympic sport?
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Olympics Women's Long Jump Winners - List of Gold, Silver & Bronze Medalists at Olympic Games Olympics » Women Athletics » Women's Long Jump Women's Long Jump Long Jump for Women has been part of the Olympics since the 1948 London Summer Games. Thereafter, the event has been part of every Olympic schedule. Rules and Regulations The International Association of Athletics Federations or the IAAF specifies the rules and regulations for all track and field events in the Olympics including the long jump. Distance covered in the jump is measured from the take off line to the point of landing. The athletes should not touch the ground after the take-off line and before the landing area. If an athlete violates this rule, she is disqualified. The breadth of the landing area usually differs between 2.75 meter and 3 meter. The landing area of the athletes should be filled with soft damp sand. The International Association of Athletics Federations or the IAAF has the final say on the design of the take-off board and the material used. The IAAF sets the distance between the take-off line and the end of the landing area. The distance should not be less than 10 meter. Running Technique Also called broad jump, the event of long jump is the part of athletics competitions. The athletes jump at the take off point and try to reach as far as possible. The landing area is filled with ground gravel or sand so that the athletes might not get hurt. In the event of long jump, speed is the key. The athletes run down the runaway coated with rubber and jump as far as they can off of a wooden board into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand. Top Performers Marion Jones, Yelena Khlopotnova, Tatyana Lebedeva, Inessa Kravets, Yelena Belevskaya, Tatyana Kotova, Anisoara Stanciu, Heike Drechsler, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Galina Chistyakova, Tatyana Kolpakova, Angela Voigt, Heide Rosendahl, Viorica Viscopoleanu, Mary Rand, Vera Krepkina, Elzbieta Krzesinska. Women's Long Jump Winners at Olympics Year
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Liz McColgan Liz McColgan 24 May 1964 Athlete Elizabeth ("Liz") McColgan (née Lynch) MBE is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. Born Elizabeth Lynch, she grew up in the Whitfield area of Dundee and was a pupil of St Saviour's RC High School. She joined her local athletics club, the Hawkhill Harriers, at age 12 at the advice of her PE teacher Phil Cairns. Coached by Harry Bennett, she soon discovered a talent for distance running and won her first UK titles at the age of 18. Following Bennett's death, McColgan self-coached herself in preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986. At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, McColgan took the gold medal in the 10,000 metres, finishing nearly 12 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor and giving the host country its only gold medal in Athletics. This was followed by a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. McColgan was the 1986 NCAA National Champion in the mile run representing the Alabama Crimson Tide in the American collegiate Indoor Track and Field national Championships and was the school's record-holder for the mile run. McColgan won silver in the 3,000 metres at the World Indoor Championships in 1989. She became the only Scot to successfully defended a Commonwealth title at the 1990 games in Auckland, New Zealand, when she took the gold for the 10,000 metres again, as well as taking bronze at the 3,000 metres. In August 1991, she won gold in the 10,000 metres at the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. In November of that year at the New York City Marathon, her first marathon, she won with a time of 2:27.23, beating the record for a debut marathon by three minutes. In 1992, she won the inaugural World Half Marathon Championships, where she also helped the British team claim the silver medal in the team competition. Later that year, she won the Tokyo International Women's Marathon. In 1996, she won theLondon Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 27 minutes and 54 seconds. McColgan retired from competing in August 2001 when she fractured a bone in her foot while training for selection for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. However she returned in 2004 to win the Scottish Indoor Championships 3000 metres (in 9:31). In 2007, she ran the London Marathon, finishing 25th in 2:50:38. She also completed the 2010 New York Marathon in 3:10:54. In 1987 she married Northern Irish athlete Peter McColgan; they have five children. The eldest, Eilish, won the 2004 British cross country championships in her age-group, was ranked top in Scotland over 800 metres and 1500 metres in her age-group and competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 3000 metres steeplechase. The couple separated in November 2010. On 18 January 2014, McColgan was married to John Nuttall. In December 1991, McColgan appeared on This Is Your Life and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1992 and inducted to the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. To make your own nomination download the nomination form here
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Which annual world championship is held at Coxheath Kent?
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Kent World Custard Pie Championship Kent World Custard Pie Championship Coxheath, Kent outisde the Village Hall When: A Summer Sunday, usually in May or June Time: From noon For over 40 years the villagers of Coxheath in Kent have organised an annual custard-pie throwing competition, though sometimes the event has been held at alternative venues. Teams of four stand 8 feet apart and hurl their pies at the opposition in heats, with points awarded for accuracy of aim and deducted for misses. The judges also award extra points for technique and costumes. Real custard isn’t the right consistency and the stickier substitute used is a secret formula so don’t eat it just in case… Helpful Hints The date and location of this event are a little variable, though Coxheath is recognised as the home of custard pie throwing. It’s often held in May or June but because of all the Jubilee and Olympics related events, in 2012 it was held on Saturday 22nd September at the Stile Bridge Pub on Staplehurst Road in Marden and celebrity duo Rory McGrath and Will Mellor took part. In 2017 it will be on Saturday 3rd June. Click here for the event website: http://www.worldcustardpiechampionship.co.uk/ Click here to find out more : https://www.facebook.com/worldcustardpiechampionship/
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Sports Sports With which sport would you most associate the commentator Ted Lowe? The 'Green Jacket' is presented to the winner of which sporting event? From what bridge does the Oxford/Cambridge boat race start? In which Olympics did Steve Redgrave win his first Olympic gold medal? In what sport do players take long and short corners? By what name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known? For half a mark each, give the nationality and the team (2003) of Fernando Alonso, the youngest-ever grand prix winner? What is the 'perfect score' in a game of Ten Pin Bowling? Which current premier league football team had an obsolete nickname of the Glaziers? What is the name of the new Leicester Football club stadium? What is the highest-achieveable break in snooker?
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What beverage was originally flavored with sassafras?
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‘Pop’ Culture: Patent Medicines Become Soda Drinks - CSI Skeptic Authors Steven Salzberg and Joe Nickell to Receive Balles Prize in Critical Thinking June 14, 2013 Forbes columnist Steven Salzberg and author-investigator Joe Nickell will each be awarded the 2012 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, to be presented by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry at the CFI Summit in October. ‘Pop’ Culture: Patent Medicines Become Soda Drinks Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.1, January/February 2011 Mineral water, including naturally carbonated water, has long been promoted as a curative for various ailments. The soda fountains of yesteryear-a particularly American phenomenon-were in drug stores for a reason. Introduced in pharmacies at the end of the eighteenth century and increasing in the 1830s, they were an effective means of dispensing medications: adding a small amount of flavoring along with some seltzer (effervescent water) made medicine more palatable (New Orleans, n.d.; Mariani 1994, 291). As part of my studies of snake oil and other cure-alls (Nickell 1998, 2005, 2006)-which ranged over several years and included collecting antique bottles and ephemera and visiting such sites as the Coca-Cola museum-I was struck by the fact that several famous soft drinks had originated as patent medicines, which in turn had their origin in herbal and other folk remedies (see figure 1). Pharmacists claimed the added ingredients “made medicines taste so good, people wanted them, whether they needed them or not, and that's how soft drinks evolved” (New Orleans, n.d.). Figure 1 Advent of Soda ‘Pop' Mineral water, including naturally carbonated water (figure 2), has long been promoted as a curative for various ailments. As early as the beginning of the sixteenth century, scientists tried to duplicate nature's carbonation process. It fell to Dr. Joseph Priestley (discoverer of oxygen) to advance the first practical process in 1772, thus helping to launch the soda-water industry. In time, flavored soda waters caught on. Figure 2 Some early soda bottles, such as those for English ginger ale, had rounded bottoms, so they could not be stood upright. This prevented their corks from drying out and shrinking, which kept the gas pressure from causing them to “pop.”1 Later “pop” bottles had patented stoppers (again, see figure 2), including the familiar one from 1891 still used today, called the crown cork (a crimped metal cap with a cork liner) (Munsey 1970, 101–10). Root Beer and Sarsaparilla Two plant roots particularly, sarsaparilla and sassafras (figure 1), were early recognized for their potent flavor and presumed medicinal properties. In 1830, in his treatise on medical botany, Constantine Rafinesque described the American sassafras tree (an aromatic member of the laurel family) and its qualities, noting that “Indians use a strong decoction to purge and clear the body in the spring.” Sassafras has long been used as a tea and “home-remedy spring tonic and blood purifier” (Rafinesque 1830). (I dug the root as a boy in Kentucky, seemingly coming by my interest naturally: my great, great grandparents, Harry and Martha Murphy, were Appalachian herbalists and folk doctors.) Sassafras was an original, major ingredient in many recipes for root beer, which was brewed in the eighteenth century as a mildly alcoholic beverage. Reportedly, in 1870 an unknown pharmacist created a formula that he billed as a cure-all and offered to the public. However, it was not actually marketed until Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires produced a liquid concentrate in small bottles (see figure 3), introducing it at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. By 1893 the Hires family was selling bottled versions of their carbonated drink, thus securing a place in soft drink history (“History” 2010; “Root beer” 2010). One slogan was “Join Health and Cheer/Drink Hires Rootbeer [sic]” (Munsey 1970, 274). Figure 3 Ironically, in time, root beer's healthfulness was seriously questioned after safrol (a substance in s
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Sazerac Company How the Sazerac Cocktail Came to Be In 1838, Antoine Amedie Peychaud, owner of a New Orleans apothecary, treated his friends to brandy toddies of his own recipe, including his "Peychaud's Bitters," made from a secret family recipe. The toddies were made using a double-ended egg cup as a measuring cup or jigger, then known as a "coquetier" (pronounced "ko-k-tay"), from which the word "cocktail" was derived. Thus, the world's first cocktail was born! By 1850, the Sazerac Cocktail, made with Sazerac French brandy and Peychaud's Bitters, was immensely popular, and became the first "branded" cocktail. In 1873, the recipe for the Sazerac Cocktail was altered to replace the French brandy with American Rye whiskey, and a dash of absinthe was added. In 1933, the Sazerac Cocktail was bottled and marketed by the Sazerac Company of New Orleans. That same year, "Herbsaint," a pastis, was made according to a French recipe; "Herbsaint" was so named for the New Orleans term for wormwood - "Herb Sainte." In 1940, the Official Sazerac Cocktail recipe was modified to use Herbsaint as the absinthe. Finally, in 2000, the Official Sazerac Cocktail recipe was modified to use Sazerac Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey. The Official Sazerac Cocktail
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Which of the New Testament gospels is not synoptic?
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Synoptic Gospels - Life, Hope & Truth Synoptic Gospels by Richard Thompson What are the synoptic Gospels? Of what value are they in the account of the life of Jesus Christ? How do they help us know and believe our Savior? Students of the Bible are well aware that there are four Gospels. Those four Gospels — Matthew , Mark , Luke and John —each provide different information about the life of Jesus Christ. Interestingly, three of the accounts are similar in their presentation; and one, the Gospel of John, is quite different from the other three. Do the four Gospels contradict one another in their accounts of Jesus’ life? After all, four men wrote about Jesus , His teachings, His actions and His life on earth. It is important to know not only if they are accurate, but if they provide any help for human beings in the 21st century. What are the synoptic Gospels? The word synoptic is defined as “taking a common view: used chiefly in reference to the first three Gospels” (Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, 1991). Merrill C. Tenney wrote the following regarding the synoptic Gospels: “Between the first three Gospels, however, there is a closer interrelation in content and manner of expression. They have consequently been called the Synoptic Gospels, from the Greek, syn, together, and optanomai, to see, since they take a common view of the life of Christ” (New Testament Survey, 1961, p. 133). The three Gospels that “take a common view” of Christ’s life are Matthew, Mark and Luke. Each writer affords us a special look into the life and teachings of Christ in a different way. One may provide one detail, and another may provide a detail that adds to the account so that the Bible student is able to receive additional insights. These insights give a more complete picture of what Christ was teaching or give details of an event that help us have greater understanding of the heart and mind of Christ. The synoptic Gospels do not contradict one another, but all three together provide a more complete account of Jesus’ life. The more information a Bible student is provided about Jesus, the more one has to understand and incorporate into one’s life. Additional information regarding the synoptic Gospels According to The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, “There is overlapping between the first three and the fourth gospels, especially in the passion story, but only about nine per cent of the material in the Synoptics coincides with material in the fourth. The coincidence of material as among the Synoptics is much higher. Approximately ninety-one per cent of Mark is paralleled in one of the other two gospels or in both. The same thing can be said of about fifty per cent of Matthew and about forty-one per cent of Luke” (1962, article “Synoptic Problem,” p. 492). The truth of God’s inspired Word Although three different men wrote the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, and there are certain differences in what they wrote, there is a very important underlying law that governs the Bible . It is the most special Book ever written, and it is essential that every serious Bible student believe in how the Bible was written. There are no “conflicts” among the accounts in the synoptic Gospels and the book of John because God inspired them all. All apparent conflicts can be explained when one carefully considers the content and purpose of each writer. We read in Paul’s second letter to Timothy: “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17, New Revised Standard Version). With that statement, the apostle Paul says that all Scripture in the Bible—the synoptic Gospels included—is needed for the spiritual growth and fulfillment of life’s purpose of anyone who “belongs to God.” Therefore, for about 2,000 years the synoptic Gospels have played a very important role in adding to the understanding of Jesus Christ and the part He should play in the lives of human beings. The
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Books of the Bible - New and Old Testament Books Of The Bible Forgot password Password Assistance Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Email address New Testament The Old Testament (also known as the Jewish Tanakh) is the first 39 books in most Christian Bibles. The name stands for the original promise with God (to the descendants of Abraham in particular) prior to the coming of Jesus Christ in the New Testament (or the new promise). The Old Testament contains the creation of the universe, the history of the patriarchs, the exodus from Egypt, the formation of Israel as a nation, the subsequent decline and fall of the nation, the Prophets (who spoke for God), and the Wisdom Books. Leviticus Leviticus receives its name from the Septuagint (the pre-Christian Greek translation of the Old Testament) and means "concerning the Levites" (the priests of Israel). It serves as a manual of regulations enabling the holy King to set up his earthly throne among the people of his kingdom. It explains how they are to be his holy people and to worship him in a holy manner. Judges The book of Judges depicts the life of Israel in the Promised Land—from the death of Joshua to the rise of the monarchy. It tells of urgent appeals to God in times of crisis and apostasy, moving the Lord to raise up leaders (judges) through whom He throws off foreign oppressors and restores the land to peace. Ruth The book of Ruth has been called one of the best examples of short narrative ever written. It presents an account of the remnant of true faith and piety in the period of the judges through the fall and restoration of Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth (an ancestor of King David and Jesus). 2 Samuel After the failure of King Saul, 2 Samuel depicts David as a true (though imperfect) representative of the ideal theocratic king. Under David's rule the Lord caused the nation to prosper, to defeat its enemies, and to realize the fulfillment of His promises. 1 Kings 1 Kings continues the account of the monarchy in Israel and God's involvement through the prophets. After David, his son Solomon ascends the throne of a united kingdom, but this unity only lasts during his reign. The book explores how each subsequent king in Israel and Judah answers God's call—or, as often happens, fails to listen.
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What was the name of the children’s television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, which followed the adventures of Father Stanley Unwin?
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Cult Programmes: Gerry Anderson's Title Sequences (TV ARK ON LINE MUSEUM) Menu | A-K | L-Z | ITC | Anderson | Doctor Who | Sherlock Holmes | Quatermass Gerry Anderson became famous during the 1960s as the creator and producer of a range of futuristic television shows. Many involved the use of models, miniature sets and specially-modified marionettes, a process known as "Supermarionation". His production company A.P. Films - later known as Century 21 - made its first series for Granada in 1957, The Adventures of Twizzle. Another series, Four Feather Falls, followed in 1959. But it was Anderson's partnership with Sir Lew Grade of ATV and ITC that brought his best-remembered productions to ITV over the following decade. Century 21 Ident 1968 The ident which prefaced Gerry Anderson's productions, following the change of production company name from A.P.Films to Century 21 in the mid-1960s. We present a selection of Anderson's productions below, in alphabetical order, which include series made for Granada and LWT as well as ATV/ITC. Thanks to Mark McMillan for capturing the images and video clips seen on this page. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 1967 Mankind comes under threat from the Mysterons in this marionette-based series (32 episodes: 29/09/1967 to 14/05/1968). Captain Scarlet, whose real name is Paul Metcalfe, is one of the few humans able to resist their charms. An agent of Earth defence service Spectrum, he was once killed by the Mysterons before being replaced by a duplicate under their control. But the duplicate fell several hundred feet from a tower, and the shock allowed Metcalfe's true personality to reassert itself. His new body had the power to sense nearby Mysterons, and also to re-create itself with "retro-metabolism" should he ever be injured or killed. No-one ever explained why this happened to him, but it didn't matter because it was a thrilling series for children and adults alike! Fireball XL5 1962 An early example of the 'Supermarionation' marionettes, this series was created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. It ran to 39 episodes (28/10/62 - 27/10/63) and was graced with both an opening and closing theme song; the latter, Fireball, was written by Barry Gray and sung by Don Spencer and became a minor hit in the UK. Voices were provided by Paul Maxwell, David Graham, John Bluthal, also Gerry and Sylvia Anderson themselves. Joe 90 1968 Gerry begat Joe 90 in 1968, a nine year-old who studied the brain patterns of professionals to become a secret agent and steal hardware from behind the Iron Curtain. Len Jones voiced him in 30 episodes (29/09/68 to 20/04/69) with Rupert Davies as his dad, Professor Ian McLaine. The Protectors 1971 The Protectors comprised 52 half-hour episodes of thrill-based action (29/09/72 - 15/03/74). It was Gerry's second TV series to use live actors instead of marionettes - the first being The Secret Service - and it's the only one made outside the genres of fantasy and science fiction. Anderson claims Sir Lew Grade gave him the idea in brief, but left it to him to develop it. Everything centred on three affluent private detectives from an organisation called The Protectors: Harry Rule (Robert Vaughn), Contessa Caroline di Contini (Nyree Dawn Porter) and Paul Buchet (Tony Anholt). The very catchy theme tune, "Avenues And Alleyways", was a minor UK hit for Tony Christie. The Secret Service 1969 Set in the present-day, The Secret Service was the first Anderson series to make use of live action footage, albeit in long shots of the characters. Supermarionated puppets were still used for close-ups. The series followed the adventures of Father Stanley Unwin, a priest who moonlights as a secret agent for an organization called B.I.S.H.O.P. (British Intelligence Service Headquarters, Operation Priest). The voice and occasional physical actions of Father Stanley were performed by a British actor and comedian of the same name. Stanley Unwin was best known for speaking a gobbledegook language of his own invention, "Unwinese", which made him popular on chat shows. The gimmick was used in the se
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Dennis Waterman - TV Celebrities - ShareTV Dennis Waterman Dennis Waterman's Main TV Roles Show BIOGRAPHY: Early life Waterman was born in Clapham, London, and his career began in childhood. In 1961, at the age of 13, he played the part of Winthrop Paroo in the Adelphi Theatre production of The Music Man. A year later, he starred as William Brown in the BBC TV series William based on the Just William books of Richmal Crompton. He trained at the Corona Theatre School in Kew. West London and training productions included playing Sandy in Noel Coward's Hay Fever. Career 1960s Waterman was a series regular in the 1962 CBS comedy Fair Exchange, playing teenage son Neville Finch. He had a major role in the 1968 film Up The Junction and appeared in the BBC television series Colditz as a young Gestapo officer. 1970s In the early 1970s, he played the brother of a victim of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) in the Hammer film production Scars of Dracula (1970), and the boyfriend of Susan George in Fright (1971).He started to build a name for himself with regular appearances on the BBC's Play for Today series, most notably in the Dennis Potter dramas Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972) and Joe's Ark (1974).Both were directed by Alan Bridges. He became well known and something of a pin-up as DS George Carter in The Sweeney, during the 1970s. As well as starring in Minder, he sang the theme song, "I Could Be So Good For You", which was a top three UK hit in 1980 and a top 10 hit in Australia,and was written by his then-wife Patricia Waterman with Gerard Kenny. Waterman also recorded a song with George Cole "What Are We Gonna Get For 'Er Indoors". In 1976, Waterman released his first album titled "Downwind of Angels", arranged and produced by Brian Bennett. 1980s In 1981, Waterman starred in a television film made by Tyne Tees Television entitled The World Cup: A Captain's Tale. It was the true story of West Auckland F.C., a part-time side who won the 'first' World Cup, known as the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy. Waterman played the part of Bob Jones , the Club Captain. It cost £1.5 million to make and shooting took place in the North East and in Turin in Italy. Scenes were shot in Durham pit villages and in Ashington where goal posts and a grandstand were erected in a public park with a colliery headframe in the background. Local players took part, donning long pants and high sided boots of the day, and even suffering "short back and sides" haircuts. The production has several comedy sequences, including a meeting of the club committee and a meeting of the Football Association Council when the suggestion of an English team participating in the new competition received a luke-warm and cynical response from the members. In 1982, Waterman starred in an often overlooked musical, Windy City. A relatively short lived production, it also featured such names as Anton Rodgers, Diane Langton, Victor Spinetti and Amanda Redman, with whom Waterman also had an 18 month affair during the lifetime of the musical and later went on to star with in the TV series New Tricks. 1990s onwards Waterman also sang the theme tunes to three more programmes in which he appeared: the comedy drama Stay Lucky with Jan Francis (Yorkshire Television/ITV 1989), sitcom On the Up (BBC 1990) and crime drama New Tricks (Wall to Wall television for BBC, 2003). Waterman recited excerpts from the journal of Walter H. Thompson for the UK history series Churchill's Bodyguard. He appeared on stage as Alfred P. Doolittle in the 2001 London revival of My Fair Lady and narrated the reality-format television programme, Bad Lads Army. Personal life He was married to Penny Dixon (1967–1976); actress Patricia Maynard (1977–1987), and finally to the actress Rula Lenska (1987–1998).He had two daughters by his second wife,one of whom, Hannah Waterman,is now an actor and played Laura Beale in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders from 2000 until 2004. Hannah also has appeared in New Tricks. She appears as the character Emily, a young policewoman who believes Gerry Standing (played by Dennis Waterman) t
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In which city could you visit the Anne Frank House?
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Anne Frank House | I amsterdam Anne Frank House Anne Frank House Anne Frank is one of Amsterdam’s most well known former residents. The Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam is where she lived in hiding with her family for more than two years during World War II. Now converted into a museum it contains a sobering exhibition about the persecution of the Jews during the war, as well as discrimination in general. In hiding The doorway to the annex was concealed behind a specially constructed moveable bookcase. On 4 August 1944, their hiding place was betrayed. The people in hiding were deported to various concentration camps. Only Otto Frank survived the war. Anne’s diary from the period was published and became a bestseller worldwide. Exhibition of Anne Frank The rooms at the Anne Frank House still portray the atmosphere of the period spent in hiding. Historical documents, photographs, film images and original objects that belonged to those in hiding and those who assisted them help illustrate the events that took place. Anne’s original diary and other notebooks are also on display in the museum. Anne’s Amsterdam The Anne Frank House has also released a mobile app that encourages you to take to the streets and learn about wartime Amsterdam, Anne’s childhood and her friends and family.
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And when did you last see your father? - Google Arts & Culture And when did you last see your father? William Frederick Yeames1878 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool This scene is set in a Royalist manor house during the English Civil War . A young boy is being questioned as to the whereabouts of his father. His mother and sisters listen anxiously, fearful that he may inadvertently betray his father. The innocence of the boy - which adds to the tension and drama of the scene is suggested by his blonde hair, tiny stature and the pretty blue suit that he is wearing. Yeames was apparently given the idea for this painting when a nephew of “innocent and truthful disposition” was staying at his house. The painting became enormously popular with the public owing to its vivid portrayal of a dramatic story. Read more Date Created: 1878 tag / style: William Frederick Yeames ; Royalist; Civil War; Father; children; soldiers; history; narrative; St John's Wood Clique Physical Dimensions: w2515 x h1310 cm (without frame) Artist biographical information: William Frederick Yeames was a member of the St John's Wood Clique. This group of artists painted historical and narrative paintings which, although popular with the public, were never critically acclaimed. Yeames and his contemporaries struggled to get work shown at the Royal Academy because of this. Neither did they lead bohemian lifestyles like many other artists of the time. Yeames lived comfortably in a large house in St John's Wood, London. He enjoyed playing tennis in the private courts of other clique members. He also holidayed at Hever Castle, home of Anne Boleyn - second wife of Henry VIII and mother to Queen Elizabeth I. The castle's Tudor architecture was used as a backdrop for many of his paintings. Additional artwork information: To take a closer look at this painting and the story behind it please follow this link to our online feature: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/andwhendidyoulastseeyourfather/
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In the human body, Skeletal, Smooth and Cardiac are all types of what?
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BBC Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Muscles Layer Skeletal muscle: Produces movement, maintains posture, stabilises joints and generates heat Smooth muscle: Found in the walls of hollow organs Cardiac muscle: Exists only in your heart Three types of muscle You've got around 650 muscles in your body, and they make up roughly half of your bodyweight. These muscles can be divided into three different groups: skeletal, smooth and cardiac. All of these muscles can stretch and contract, but they perform very different functions. Skeletal muscle The tissue most commonly thought of as muscle is skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscles cover your skeleton, giving your body its shape. They are attached to your skeleton by strong, springy tendons or are directly connected to rough patches of bone. Skeletal muscles are under voluntary control, which means you consciously control what they do. Just about all body movement, from walking to nodding your head, is caused by skeletal muscle contraction. Your skeletal muscles function almost continuously to maintain your posture, making one tiny adjustment after another to keep your body upright. Skeletal muscle is also important for holding your bones in the correct position and prevents your joints from dislocating. Some skeletal muscles in your face are directly attached to your skin. The slightest contraction of one of these muscles changes your facial expression. Skeletal muscle generates heat as a by-product of muscle activity. This heat is vital for maintaining your normal body temperature. Smooth Muscle Smooth muscle is found in the walls of hollow organs like your intestines and stomach. They work automatically without you being aware of them. Smooth muscles are involved in many 'housekeeping' functions of the body. The muscular walls of your intestines contract to push food through your body. Muscles in your bladder wall contract to expel urine from your body. Smooth muscles in a woman's uterus (or womb) help to push babies out of the body during childbirth. The pupillary sphincter muscle in your eye is a smooth muscle that shrinks the size of your pupil. Cardiac Muscle Your heart is made of cardiac muscle. This type of muscle only exists in your heart. Unlike other types of muscle, cardiac muscle never gets tired. It works automatically and constantly without ever pausing to rest. Cardiac muscle contracts to squeeze blood out of your heart, and relaxes to fill your heart with blood.
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Do I Know This ? Do I Know This ? Updated May 17, 2013, 12:23 AM Have you ever wondered who's got the most number of top singles in U.K ? Have you ever wondered which company is the world's top Global Brand ? Have you ever wondered which country has got the most or the highest number of Netizens ? Use template Amazing Facts 100 amazing & unknown facts! # Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. # The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. # The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. # Ants never sleep! # When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. # Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. # An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. # “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. # Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years. # Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. # Butterflies taste with their feet. # A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. # It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. # Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. # Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. # No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. # Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” # Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. # Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. # The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. # The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. # The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. # The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. # The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. # Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. # TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. # You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. # Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton. # Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. # The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle. # A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why! # The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles. # Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. # Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. # There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” # If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. # Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. # The original name for butterfly was flutterby. # By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. # Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed. # Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. # Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”. # The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. # Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. # The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.” # All Polar bears are left-handed. # In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. # “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” # Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family. # Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. # The only 15 letter word
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10 Insurgents Meet a Hellfire Missile | Military.com 86 | Login or Join to Rate 10 Insurgents Meet a Hellfire Missile Posted Mar 07, 2011 by Member 26835147 Apache gunship engages 10 insurgents with a Hellfire missle in Iraq. Category: Operations , Air Strikes More About: 63 | Posted Mar 05, 2009 Add your comment 3 | Posted 1 week ago PREV NEXT 272 | Posted Apr 14, 2011 Advertisement Advertisement Disclaimer/Caution: Much of this content is graphic in nature, showing unfiltered media from the global war on terror and other conflicts. To the best of Military.com's knowledge, the images, videos, and content featured on "Shock & Awe" pages are in the public domain or declassified materials. In some cases, we cannot guarantee the veracity of the images or video. If you believe that material in this section is classified or invalid, please contact Military.com technical support . If you have a copyright concern, please review our Digital Millennium Copyright Act page . Military.com Network:
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Goa used to be a colony of which nation Portugal 87 What does a - IT - 402 View Full Document Goa used to be a colony of which nation Portugal 87 What does a galactophagist drink Milk 88 What did God create on the fifth day (both) Sea creatures and birds 89 Where was Bob Dylan born Duluth Minnesota 90 In the 18th century what would a pencil be Brush 91 Agrippa poisoned her husband/uncle who was he Claudius 92 Who was the mother of Castor and Pollux Helen of Troy 93 What are the snaffle Pelham and Weymouth Horse bits 94 Walter Koenig played which part in the Star Trek series Ensign Chekov 95 Who had a hit with Devil Woman Cliff Richard 96 What were the first false teeth made from Ivory 97 The jealous Athena turned who into a spider Arachne 98 What was the first Carry On film Carry on Sergeant 99 Who was the female lead in The Shootist Lauren Bacall 100 What is a dzo Cow Yak cross Page 9 This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version. View Full Document 10000 general knowledge questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro No Questions Quiz 5 Answers 1 Hypermetropic people are what Long Sighted 2 Which leader lives in the Potola Dalai Lama 3 What wood was the cross supposed to be made of Mistletoe 4 Joseph Levitch became famous as who Jerry Lewis 5 If you planted a bandarilla what are you doing Bullfighting 6 What was the first Pink Floyd album Piper at the gates of dawn 7 in which city was the first public opera house opened Venice 8 In what Elvis film did he play a double role Kissing Cousins 9 The Aphrodite of Melos has a more famous name - what Venus de Milo 10 Which country invented the concentration camp Britain - Boer war 11 John Huston scored a hit with his first film - what? Maltese falcon 12 Stan laurel, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner what in common 8 marriages 13 What real person has been played most often in films Napoleon Bonaparte 14 Scotopic people can do what See in the dark 15 What is the most critical thing keeping bananas fresh transport Temperature not below 13 C 55F 16 What is the name of the Paris stock exchange Bourse 17 Whose music featured in The Clockwork Orange Beethoven 18 What was the Troggs most famous hit Wild Thing 19 In Japan what colour car is reserved for the royal family only Maroon 20 What city has Kogoshima as its airport Tokyo 21 What was gangsters George Nelsons nickname Baby Face 22 Whose first wife was actress Jayne Wyman Ronald Regan 23 In MASH what is Radars favourite drink Grape Knee High 24 What do you give on the third wedding anniversary Leather 25 What is a baby whale called Calf 26 In which film did the Rolls Royce have the number plate AU1 Goldfinger 27 Vladamere Ashkenazy plays what musical instrument Piano 28 With which organ does a snake hear Tongue 29 On what is the Mona Lisa painted Wood 30 What is the second most common international crime Art theft 31 Count de Grisly was the first to perform what trick in 1799 Saw woman in half 32 Who wrote Les Miserable Victor Hugo 33 Which bird turns it head upside down to eat Flamingo 34 The colossus of Rhodes was a statue of who Apollo 35 Who rode a horse called Bucephalus Alexander the Great 36 To which London club did Mycroft Holmes belong Diogones 37 This is the end of the preview. Sign up to access the rest of the document. TERM Kenyatta University IT 402 - Spring 2015 1 2 3 4 5 Sampling In Research What is research? According Webster (1985), to researc HYPO.docx
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The style of singing known as Fado comes from which European country?
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FADO Music & Fado Restaurants in Lisbon, Portugal Save time and money: Get FREE or reduced admission to most of Lisbon's attractions and ride the city's metro, buses, and trams for FREE with the Lisboa Card » FADO Lisbon's soulful sound Portugal has a diverse musical culture - from the French Provençal strain in the folk music of the north of the country, to Fado, the country's national musical treasure. There are two basic styles of Fado: Lisbon and Coimbra. In Lisbon it is always sung by a solo performer, while in Coimbra it is often performed by groups of male university students. They are accompanied by two guitarists, one playing the melody on a twelve-stringed Portuguese guitar (descendant of the English guitar introduced into Portugal by the British community in Porto in the 19th century), and the other supplying the rhythm on the six-stringed viola. The intensely melancholic songs are usually about love, woes, and pains, or express sadness and longing for things that were lost or that were never accomplished, but in Coimbra, it also occasionally contains humor and political undertones. Even musical experts cannot agree on the true origin of Fado. Although the word comes from the Latin fatum, meaning fate, some believe its drawn-out laments is a legacy of the Moorish occupation. Others say it developed from an African dance in Brazil, and according to another theory, the melancholy character of the music evolved from Portuguese seafarers who sang of home during their long absenses at sea. It emerged as a bohemian art form in Lisbon's working-class districts of Alfama and Mouraria in the late 18th century, and gradually moved up-market. It became popular with the singer Maria Severa, who died at the age of 26 and later became the subject of Portugal's first sound movie in 1931. To this day, female performers wear a black shawl in her memory and her life story has been the influence of several Fado songs, poems, novels, and plays. But it was Amalia Rodrigues in the 20th century who made Fado known beyond Portugal, performing all over Europe, Japan, South America, and even in the United States, in New York's "La Vie en Rose" in the 1950s. She's been credited with defining the style of the music, and when she died in 1999, the government declared three days of national mourning and awarded her a state funeral. As a national icon, she is buried in Lisbon's National Pantheon . Her CD "The Art of Amalia" is one of the best introductions to Fado. For contemporary recordings, the best choices are Mariza's "Fado em Mim," "Transparente", and "Fado Curvo". Mariza is a multiple Grammy nominee and has won the Best European Act at the BBC World Music Awards. She is considered the new "Queen of Fado." In 2007 she went on a world tour that included a well-publicized concert in Los Angeles' Walt Disney Hall (with a stage designed by Frank Gehry just for her concert), and an appearance on the David Letterman Show (see the video below). When visiting Lisbon, spending a night at a "casa de Fado" or Fado restaurant is an essential experience. There are many in the Bairro Alto district, but the most authentic are found in Alfama . Apart from perhaps the Café Luso, our advice is to skip those in Bairro Alto. They cater specifically to tourists and are therefore overpriced, with mediocre food, and filled with tour groups. But in Alfama we can recommend the Casa de Linhares and Pateo de Alfama Fado houses.
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Venetian gondoliers upset by tourists ice cream jingle O Sole Mio request | Daily Mail Online comments Anger: Gondoliers in Venice are fed up with tourists requesting O Sole Mio - the song made used in the Cornetto ice cream adverts Venice's famous gondoliers are up in arms over requests from tourists to continually sing ice cream jingle 'O Sole Mio' instead of being serenaded with local melodies. According to the Association of Venice Gondola Rowers, visitors to the famous lagoon city ask for the classic song - made famous by the 1980's classic Just one Cornetto ad - more than anything else. A romantic ride along the picturesque canals of the northern Italian city can cost as much as £100 for half an hour - so for that price tourists would be expected to get whatever song they ask for. However Venice city councillor Alberto Mazzonetto, who is also a member of the ultra nationalist anti immigration Northern League party, said: 'Most of the songs sung by gondoliers come from southern Italy. 'This is detrimental to tourists as it presents a distorted image of the city of Venice as some kind of new Disneyland, which has little to do with the place. 'I'm not blaming the gondoliers it's not their fault but the instead I blame the Gondola Authority - they get 600,000 Euro a year from the council and they do have the power to do something. 'They can tell gondoliers what to wear and what not to wear - for instance they are not allowed to wear trainers and there is a disciplinary code so they could tell them to sing more Venetian songs. 'It is an insult to our heritage and a real punch to the stomach to have Venetian gondoliers singing songs from southern Italy.' Tradition: Lines of gondolas on the canals of Venice. A Venetian councillor has said gondoliers sing too many songs from southern Italy The Northern League also has a dislike of southern Italy as well as immigrants. Mr Mazzonetto added that he had heard reports that some gondoliers had been refusing to sing songs from southern Italy but pointed out that at the end of the day the customer was paying so if they insisted there was nothing that could be done. However singer-songwriter Nino D'Angelo, who is from Naples, defended the southern Italian songs and said: 'O Sole Mio is a famous Neapolitan song that's known all over the world. 'It's one of the most beautiful songs and I don't believe anyone has forced gondoliers to sing it. 'On the contrary, I think tourists request it - it's not just a Neapolitan song but a world anthem.' Aldo Reato, president of the Association of Venice Gondola Rowers , said: 'We try to open and close the gondola ride with a Venetian song but the problem is tourists only know O Sole Mio. They don't know any others.'
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